1925

Notes from Ford Whelden and the editor of this publication and football ticket applications remind us we are in the twilight phase of summer and will soon plunge into the bustling activity of the academic year. The first event of importance from the class viewpoint is the meeting of the executive committee in Crosby Hall, Friday evening, October 13, the night before the Brown game. Any member of the class who is in Hanover at that time will be welcome to the meeting. Ford and Gertie have graciously extended an invitation for cocktails at their home in Norwich after the game and before journeying to the New Montshire Restaurant in West Lebanon for dinner.

An unusual event occurred early this summer when Don Lawson was married to Miss E. Olivia Pearson of West Bridgewater, Mass. The bride, a graduate of Upsala College with graduate study at Radcliffe College, is a speech teacher and guidance counselor at West Bridgewater High School. The happy couple will reside in Quincy following a brief wedding trip to New York and a more lengthy trip to Sea Island, Ga..

Dr. Henry B. Crawford, associate clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, along with Mrs. Crawford and daughter Sally, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, has gone to India to be senior lecturer in orthopedics at the University of Lucknow during the coming year. Sally will take her junior year at the Isabella Thoburn Women's College of the University of Lucknow. Before leaving Rochester the family enjoyed two exciting experiences. The first was the marriage of daughter Elizabeth MacAdam and John Francis Gilwee of Saint Albans, Vt. The other was the marriage of their son, James Winfield, to Miss Linda Lovett in Glendale, Ohio.

A word from Roger Johnson of Richmond, Va., emphasizes the passing of time upon realizing that his son, Roger Jr. '51 assistant professor at Georgia Tech (teaching math), returned to Hanover in June for his tenth reunion. Roger has two other children. a married daughter, and a boy in the Army - also four grandchildren. Obviously we have reached the stage in life where the activities of our grandchildren (the word "our" is of an editorial nature!) will become more predominant in the news of the future.

A news clipping on the Annapolis-Newport yacht race under the caption "Navy's Racing Yacht Caught With Etiquette Drooping" exposed the skipper of the schooner "Freedom" as having been guilty of a breach of etiquette by crossing the starting line with its ensign flying at the stern. Said skipper was none other than our Alden (Hap) Hefler, a civilian faculty member at the U. S. Naval Academy and a veteran of ocean racing. Hap was observed at the wheel "bare above the waist except for one of those huge straw hats which tourists to the tropics love so well."

Brad Kingman has been elected to serve as vice president of the New Hampshire Savings Banks Association. Lloyd Brace was honored this spring with a degree of Doctor of Laws at Northeastern University. C. Wilder Smith has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Labor and Industry for the State of Maine. Carl served as State Director for the Farmers Home Administration of the U. S. Department of Agriculture prior to being called to Washington to serve as assistant to the administrator in charge of insured loans. Charlie Moore, in his capacity as vice president - public relations, Ford Motor Company, and a trustee of the Ford Motor Company Fund, had the honor of presenting to the College last lune a check for $25,000, which was one of ten grants made this year by the Fund. Charlie incidentally has been elected Chairman of the National Automobile Show Committee of the Automobile Manufacturers Association.

A double Wah Hoo Wah is in order for Hal Rider, one of Connecticut's best known bankers. He was honored last May by the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut as an outstanding alumnus. The club's citation indicated a life of many accomplishments, to which was added in July the announcement that he had been elected to the boards of directors of the Phoenix Insurance Company and the Connecticut Fire Insurance Co. Hal has been president and a director of the Fairfield County Trust Co. since 1946.

Other activities include the chairmanship of the Land and Water Resources - Transportation and Markets Committee of the Governor's Committee for Economics Planning and Development. He also holds several directorships, is a member of the legislative committee of the Connecticut Bankers Association, and a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association.

Florence Perkins, widow of Perk whom we lost last year, reported to Larry Leavitt that son, Don '53, was married to "a very lovely Pennsylvanian." Florence is happily employed as a secretary at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf where she enjoys her association "with about 100 children and their fifteen very congenial teachers, and it is very rewarding." MarshallNewton had a son (Marshall) graduate from Hanover this June and has another son (Jeff) entering this fall. Andy Foster's son, Dave, recently returned from Army service in Korea and is entering a school for study for the ministry. He got interested in an orphanage while in Korea and "people in this area," writes Larry Leavitt "got so steamed up over helping too that quite a number sent clothes and money. A very attractive lad." Bill Thompson has been elected Treasurer of National College Program, Inc. of New York, an organization engaged in the development of banking programs for education. Bill will be located in Boston.

Sumner Poorvu's daughter, Linda May, was reported to have become engaged to Mr. Martin Meyers of Brookline, Harvard '55. Linda May is a graduate of Dana Hall School and an alumna of Russell Sage College.

Jack Per-Lee, a vice president of Lord and Taylor, retired September 1. Jack who was with the store fifteen years, will return in 1962 to head a special research project on the markets of the Far East for Lord and Taylor and other stores of the Associated Dry Goods Corporation.

As these notes were being concluded, Walter J. Tower Jr. Union '53 called on the writer to convey the regards of his dad, Tippy. The "boy" is the enterprising part owner of a new and flourishing Boston printing outfit, the Nimrod Press.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St. Waltham 54, Mass.

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