1933

When the boss writes a three page letter and includes a slip for 500 free trading stamps, it's a command performance. So here goes with the latest on Big Chief Hank Smith to whom we are much indebted for a most newsy letter. The "first for our Class," promised by Bob Fox in his most recent Newsletter, Hank modestly declines and gives credit to Johnny Monagan of Waterbury and Bob Coulson of Waukegan in advising us that he is running for Mayor of North Tonawanda, N. Y. (of which Buffalo is a suburb), after eighteen years as a Republican committeeman. The practice of law now rates a minor second place to campaigning, so much so that Hank had to pass up our October 14 Brown game "reunion." On that day, our candidate was in an antique auto parade promoting registration and votes. We understand he's a shoo-in. In May, Hank and Helen spent some time with the Deweys in Quechee much to the benefit of the Class. He's a sly one that Hank. He came away with a contract "signed in blood" for Bill Dewey to be our Reunion Chairman in 1963. We pause here to pay tribute to Bill and Sue and the Hanover contingent for undertaking this major job again and for making our previous reunions so outstanding and enjoyable. In July, the Smiths hosted Pageand Marge Worthington en route from the Kiwanis International Convention at Toronto to which Page, as president of the Baltimore Kiwanis Club, was a delegate. In August, Hank and Helen were in Hanover where they saw the Theriaults, the Manchester, the Mecks, the Branches, the Wrights and George and Elsie Werrenrath, who were vacationing in Hanover. En route, they had stopped with the D'Arcys. Hank reports misplacing a clipping announcing Bob Niebling's appointment to a new job last spring. It hadn't come to our attention before, so, how about giving with the details, Bob? To complete the round of activities at the Smith household this year, they have an exchange student from Norway who will be attending the Park School, with Cindy, sixteen. Chana, twelve, is in eighth grade and Susan, who graduated from Ohio Wesley an last June, is now a Red Cross recreation aid at the Army Hospital in Fort Dix, N. J., after spending two months in Europe this summer. Hank closes by paying tribute to Sid Stoneman for his magnificent job on the Alumni Fund and predicts our "going over the top in '62" under Sid's leadership.

Still in the category of class officers, we are passing on to Bob Fox for possible inclusion in the Newsletter a lengthy story on Bill Dewey and his family which appeared in a textile trade journal recently. This is another story of continued family Yankee ingenuity in overcoming insurmountable odds and continuing to progress as related some time back about Frank Fuller Ripley and his family in the same woolen industry. In this case, Bill's plant was completely "liquidated" by a government flood control project and came out even stronger than before.

Congratulations go to Manny Sprague, former Speaker of the Connecticut House, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut, Counsel for the Department of Defense and Assistant Secretary of Defense. Manny has just been elected president and chief executive officer of the American Machine Foundry Overseas Corporation, a subsidiary of the American Machine and Foundry Company in which he will continue as a vice president and director.

If you did not see it in the Newsletter, a salute is due Fred Jackson, recently appointed Development Officer for the University of Rhode Island after serving as manager of publicity and promotion for the Grinnell Corporation in Providence. In his new job, he will analyze the purposes for which private support is needed by the University and be responsible for procuring the necessary funds from all possible sources. Fred, who is an avid sailor and an ardent worker in civic enterprises, will make his home with his good wife, Katherine, at the University. They have three children: Edward 8., 22; Richard 8., 19 and Nancy L„ 15.

Wayne Damon, one guy we haven't heard from for a long time, is the subject, along with his brother, George, of a feature article in a local paper about their services to the City of Leominster, Mass., as superintendents of the Water and the Streets and Sewers Departments, respectively. Wayne is observing his fifteenth anniversary as superintendent and 25th as a member of the department. In recognition, he received a plaque noting his continuous meritorious service at this fall's convention of the N. E. Water Works Association in Poland Springs, Me. Wayne went with du Pont as a control chemist upon leaving Hanover, became chief chemist and superintendent of the sewage and filtration plant in 1936 and assumed his present position in 1946. At the present time, he is president of the Massachusetts Water Works Association. His chief hobby is the water department although he continues to follow the "Boston" Braves despite their transfer to Milwaukee. Our records on Wayne's family are meagre so we're hoping he'll bring us up-to-date when he reads this.

Max Field, executive vice president of the N. E. Shoe and Leather Association, continues his round of public and legislative appearances in trying to combat the major problem of shoe imports with which the United States shoe industry is faced continually. Max is busy at the moment organizing the National Shoe Fairs of America, which will combine into one show, four shoe fairs formerly run separately by his and three other shoe trade associations.

We spent a few pleasant hours in August with Dick Goldthwait at his summer home in Wolfeboro, N. H., to which he had returned earlier than expected as the result of a broken ankle sustained deep in Alaska where he had spent most of the summer on a geology field trip. As head of both the Geology Department at Ohio State and the Institute of Polar Studies, Dick is continually on the move and can be found at least once a year in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Modest as he is, we have to surmise that he is responsible for a large group of personnel engaged in world-wide geological research.

Buster Snow is now sales representative for the Sinclair Oil and Gas Co. with his home base of operation in Hanover. From his New Hampshire office he covers all six New England states and up-state New York, for the liquefied petroleum gas sales department. The Snows, Buster, Athena and son Chad, now 18, moved to Hanover from Northport, N. Y., where they had lived since 1957. We look forward to seeing them at class gatherings when the rest of us return to Hanover.

Dick Jackson, newly general counsel of the Fram Corporation and a resident of Barrington, R. I., and his daughter, Faith, spent a few days with us in Wolfeboro enroute from camp and college visitations. Mel Katz, whose job of running our fall "reunion" will be over for another year when you read this, says he's somewhat embarrassed by the fact that it requires his being in two places at once, since it's also parents' weekend at Gamma Delt, first when his son, Bill, was chairman and now with son, Bob, in the same job. We, too, are in a similar spot since it's parents' weekend at both K.U.A. and Colby Junior. We had the mixed-emotions experience of registering two youngsters in one week - first, Bob, who is starting as a sophomore at Kimball Union and then Leslie as a freshman at Colby Junior. Her first letter home advised us that Dartmouth is known by the Colby girls as "the Zoo" and all Dartmouth men as "animals." Times sure do change. It wasn't like that in our day.

Evidence of the continuance of 1933 brains to the second generation will be found on the football field this fall where Bill King Jr. '63 (son of William HavenKing) and Wilson H. Madden Jr. '64 (Bud's son) will be giving it their all at quarterback.

Now, let's see who's moved: Prof. Douglas W. Alden, Head of Dept. of Foreign Languages, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md.; Dr. Gilbert W. Beebe, 3505 Porter St., N.W., Washington 16, D. C.; Dr. Lewis Chester, Beach Tree Lane, W. Hartford, Conn.; E. David Coolidge Jr., 918 Osage Lane, Wilmette, Ill., Robert C. Goodell, U.S.I.A., Foreign Service Reception Desk, Washington 25, D. C.; George E. Hamilton, 87 Center St., Chula Vista, Calif.; Arthur B. Hull Jr., 25 Hill St., Southampton, N. Y.; Dr. DeHart Krans, 1810 Skyland Drive, Tallahassee, Fla.; Nathaniel Leonard, 37 Walbrook St., Scarsdale, N. Y.; Jack C. Loose, 65 W. Chapel Ridge Road, Pittsburgh 38, Pa.; John H. Manley, 400 Central Park West, New York 25, N. Y.; Joseph P. Searing, 811 Ridgeleigh Road, Baltimore 12, Md.; Charles L. Snow, Box 264, Hanover, N. H.; Dr. Paul C. Zamecnik, 18 Porson Rd., Cambridge, England.

Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.

Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.