1943

The elms of Lyme rang as our executive committee met on October 14 to discuss matters of moment. Present were GlennBehringer, Varanm Mead, Kelly Coffin, BobDrumm, Bud Hall, Mike Frothingham,George Munroe and Bus Mosbacher. One sad note was the parting of Gordon Craven, mine host, and the class, it being mutually understood that we'd better find another rendezvous elsewhere. We just haven't given Craven enough "patronage over the years, and sentimentally attached or not to the Lyme Inn and its lovely town, we have asked Paul Young to discover another place.

Farmer Mead retires as newsletter editor with his final issue to be in your hands soon. Replacing him will be Kelly Coffin, an old Sanborn House man who remembers the four o'clock teas. Kelly has agreed to assume this difficult job despite the demands of his new position. To Farmer Mead our thanks for his good effort. A most cooperative fellow.

Henry Townshend, once more proving that when New Haven needs a good man it turns to Dartmouth, gave Mayor Lee, the incumbent, a run for his money. My agent tells me that Hank, loser by 4,000 votes in a solid Democratic city, made the best showing in years and virtually assured himself of a bright Republican future. His achievement, tantamount to a Republican coming within 100,000 votes of a Democrat in Philadelphia, resulted from a long apprentice- ship in New Haven politics. Between politics and business, Henry and wife Doris have raised Sharon, Cynthia, Charles, Nancy, and Timmy.

More and more '43s are active in politics. .. . Bill Glovsky ran for alderman-at-large in Newton in addition to a very busy community service. .. . John Kimball, lawyer partner in Boston's Hale and Dorr, was appointed to serve as town moderator in Topsfield.

Ed Lider, whose colorful career includes Naval Aviation, Harvard Law School, and for the past eleven years the Nathan Yamin Theatrical Enterprises, has opened modern bowling alleys in Dartmouth (where else?), Mass., near New Bedford in addition to several others he recently opened. As a Navy pilot Ed garnered four DFC's, fourteen Air Medals and a Unit Citation - nice haul for a guy who had trouble finding his way back to the White River Junction airport.

Thought Jim Olsen lived in Bradford Woods, Pa., but found his beaming face in the "Attleboro Sun" when the American Sisalkraft Co. division of St. Regis Paper Co. announced his appointment as new manager of metal packaging sales. Jim has spent several years in the aluminum and steel packaging field and now he'll sell the sizzle. . . . Ted Hopper, formerly of Socony Paint Products, now joins Food Machinery and Chemical Corp., in its Princeton research and development laboratories. Shows what a chemistry major will do: end up in Princeton.

Al Crowley, fifteen years veteran with the New England Tel. and Tel. Co., moves from Lowell to Brockton as southeastern division traffic personnel supervisor. An attorney, Al graduated from Boston College Law School, and if my records are correct, his wife Anne and he have Michael and Christine moving with them.

Haven't seen the Boston papers for a follow-up, but the pre-season articles gave Johnny Krol chances for a successful season with his Waltham High football team. In his second year in this fast high school league, John had the benefit of spring football for the first time plus several veteran holdovers. Johnny was a College Hall alumnus, rooming with Moose Kearney, and that was a combination to make Earl Blaik head for West Point.

While in New Britain, Conn., today, I had a few moments with John Pritchard, credit manager of the tremendous Stanley Works, who was quite surprised to see a wandering classmate. Our company pilot and I were returning to Pottstown in a single-engined plane and were racing to beat the sun. Anne Pritchard used to send me news for the column but haven't heard from her recently. The Pritchards will make the Cornell game at Hanover this year.

Frank Williams, president of The Rockmount Motor Co. in Rockville, Md., brings us up to date:

Married for some thirteen years to Marianne "Sissy" Jeffries, Agnes Scott '47, and originally from Thomasville, Ga. Have three children - girl, boy, girl — in the 7th, 4th and 3rd grades respectively. Admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1948, but have had little to do with the law since my father's death brought me back into the automobile business as owner and president of the Rockmount Motor Company, one of the sixteen Chevrolet dealerships in the Metropolitan Washington area. This makes for a somewhat hectic and harassed life on occasion, but probably not noticeably more so than for most of us. Gave up golf in a fit of outraged pride about ten years ago and have confined most of my outdoor activities to sailing ever since. My wife urges a return to golf on the theory that cursing carries farther over water. About the only '43 I see often is Harry Semmes, who lives nearby. Have been back in Hanover only once since I left for the Army in the spring of 1942 - which is regrettable. I had not realized how long it was until I wrote it down here. I told Semmes not long ago that most of the students in Hanover now weren't born when we were there. I think this shook him worse than it did me.

And it shook me too!

Closing shots. .. . Kev Kenny forsook Connecticut politics long enough to attend a New York Dartmouth meeting along with George Munroe and Bus Mosbacher. Our class was the youngest hearing the college's ideas on 25th Memorial Fund giving....

Congratulations to Al Eisenman, for his second term election as president American Institute of Graphic- Arts. Al directs the graphic arts department, Yale School of Art and Architecture. ... What was I saying about Dartmouth men in New Haven?

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.

Treasurer, 159 Willow St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.