1942

As the new class officers and executive committee members assume their "additional duties," the most significant development on the organizational front is the announcement that Bob Strasenburgh, fellow Rochesterian, has accepted the 25-Year-Giving Chairmanship. The Class is fortunate in having Bob's capable and enthusiastic leadership for the Class Memorial Fund program. Let us all cooperate with him and insure the success of this project, so vital to the College.

From Los Angeles comes word of JackOlson's promotion to senior buyer for Norris -Thermador Corporation which produces automobile wheels, cookware, plumbingware and defense items. In 1957 Jack received his MBA degree from the University of Southern California. Doug Starrett, director and executive vice president of L. S. Starrett Co., Athol, Mass., has been elected an executive committee member of the American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers Association, Inc.-, in their annual meeting in May at Atlantic City, N. J. Over 400 manufacturers make up this association. EdMillikin left the Chevrolet-Pontiac agency in Middlebury, Vt., to become treasurer and a board member of the Fellows Gear Shaper Co. in Springfield, Vt. This was also in May, which appears to have been a very pleasant month for our Class. To chronicle Ed's moves around the business world would require more space than allowed here, but all the time he has been going up, and it is great to hear of this latest success of my old math major comrade. Ed, his wife and four children should be settled in their new surroundings by now.

Hal Harlow Jr., associate professor and director of the center for YMCA studies at Springfield College, received his doctorate in education this summer from the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Conn. His dissertation was on the study of racial integration in the YMCA. Harry Bond, pro- fessor of English, has been awarded one of four College Faculty Fellowships for the coming academic year. He plans to work in England on a critical biography of Edward Gibbon, author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." These are the first appointments under the new program that allows members of the teaching faculty a full, uninterrupted year to devote solely to research or other scholarly and creative activities. This is a signal honor for Harry.

Dick Baldwin passes along the exciting news that Don Meads has been selected as Vice President of Finance for Investors Diversified Services, Inc., in Minneapolis, effective September 1. Only last May he was appointed vice president in the investment department of New York Life. He will resign this to accept the challenging new position of directing investment activities of one of the largest investment companies in the country. You fellows with idle capital can now invest with confidence in any of Investors mutual funds.

Dr. Preston Reynolds has been appointed Chief of Medicine at St. Clare's Hospital, Schenectady, N. Y., thereby adding to the impressive record of '42s in the field of medicine. He also is holder of responsible positions at two other hospitals in that area. Preston graduated from Tufts College Medical School. This summer also marked the installation of Dr. Earl Poe Jr. as president of the Rotary Club of St. Louis. Earl practices dentistry in that city.

Airline Capt. Al Bisson, now residing in England, was mentioned in Ed Sullivan's Little Old New York column of July 20. Al had flown Ed's party into Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.

Bob Hill, obviously enjoying himself at a GOP Women's Club meeting in May at Nashua, N. H. (judging from the picture in the Nashua Telegraph), took time to warn that new Castros loom in South America. At that time he demonstrated his insight into Latin American political matters by predicting that Brazil might be the next trouble spot. Bob is a much-sought afterdinner speaker, for obvious reasons. He addressed the N. H. State Nurses Associa tion, also in May.

Dick Baldwin - who turned this office over to me with a complete set of instructions, so much encouragement that he has me worried, and enough news items to last through the next issue - has been relaxing in the Poconos. Says he needs the rest to recover from that terrific Twentieth weekend (Mary Gene and Bob Schoonmaker reported the important details to me) and the pressures of secretarying the Class these recent years. The Class certainly appreciates the great jobs Dick and the other officers have done over the too many years since commencement. Certainly the record speaks well of them and of the Class. I am convinced that even greater accomplishments for '42 lie ahead.

Our group seems to have its share of nomads - there have been address changes on 25 men in the last two months. At this rate every '42 will move once in the next four years. The secretary will require an additional clerk to keep track of these. Please settle down! Amongst those rovers are Major Russ Greer and family who have departed from the Deep South for Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. Russ is base veterinarian, and this sounds like a pretty lush assignment. In a recent letter Russ indicated he is about ready to retire from the military and take up private small animal practice - a challenge which he feels he must accept. Leo Caproni is back on the mailing list after a temporary absence due to address difficulties. He is in Dallas, Texas, apparently in the motor court business. That's a bit out of my territory, but perhaps some of you can drop in on Leo in your travels. Other address changes will be passed along by Dick Lippman, our holdover Newsletter Editor, who has been hounding me for free class stationery.

Reflecting on the foregoing initial effort, I am reminded of difficulties encountered in English I and 11. Once in a while Prof. Hewett Joyce would grade a paper B- in the hope of encouraging me to greater writing effectiveness, but when the gentlemanly C came up at the term's end both he and I realized his ruse was in vain. The secretary welcomes news items from and about '42 members. This offers a fine opportunity to strengthen acquaintanceships which have lapsed with passing years. With your assistance, perhaps this column, like many pleasant things in this life, will improve with age.

Secretary, 154 Washington Ave. Rochester 17, N. Y.

Treasurer, 18 Ridge Rd., Concord, N. H.