1945

Well here it is again, the Christmas Season, and all that last minute shopping to do. Hope you people are better planners than I am. I always wait for the last moment and then usually find that the stores are out of the particular items I want. Wait 'til next year!

On the first of this month, your Executive Committee met in Hanover for its annual fall meeting. Inasmuch as these notes are conceived some time before the first, you will have to wait until next month's effort to find out what transpired. We expect to have a good turn-out, as always, and purposely pick a non-football weekend so that our work can be accomplished without unnecessary distraction. And while I'm on both subjects, Christmas and Class, have you played Santa Claus to Treasurer Barney Oldfield as yet? He's got the door to the treasury open and is waiting your $5.00 dues check. This facet of class business, as you well know, is the one that plagues us the most. A few more dues payors would alleviate our problem immensely.

The Checkerboard Service Magazine of the Purina Co. was recently cited for a high award in the professional industrial publications field. In competition with 587 publications, including such outstanding magazines as the Monsanto Magazine, Chevrolet's Friends Magazine, and others, Checkerboard Service was picked among the top 36. It is particularly noteworthy that Checkerboard Service was the only agricultural publication to win a top prize. The editor of said magazine is Bruce K. Symonds. Congratulations from the entire Class.

BOXING THE COMPASS: Dr. James F.Dickson, formerly of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Systems Analysis at the Drexel Institute of Technology, is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So noted, Jim, but what are you doing in particular at M.I.T.? The Westport, Conn., Town Crier announces the appointment of Fred Kuehm as Chairman of the special gifts Committee of the 1961 United Youth Fund drive. Fred, an account executive with Shields and Co., New York investment banking firm, is a Harvard Business School graduate and also serves as President of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Charlie Baker resides in Englewood, Colo., but works in Denver as Manager of the Franklin Life Insurance Co. And HenryBarker is Insurance Claims Supervisor for the Home Insurance Co. in Knoxville, Tenn. Back East in Hempstead, N. Y., Bill Brindley serves as Assistant Vice-President, Credit and Loan Administration, of the Meadowbrook National Bank. Heading towards Hanover is Ossie Falling, who has left Waltham in the fair state of Massachusetts and now works in Public Relations and Advertising for the Amoskeag Savings Bank in Manchester, N. H. Massachusetts still has a few 45's, however, yours truly is one and so is Emmett Fallon, President of North Coast Sales Co. of Needham and resident of Duxbury. In Cambridge you'll find Casper Wooldredge, Assistant Purchasing Agent for the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. I went right by there every day for six weeks this summer and the place fairly hums with activity. John McCauley is a Marketing Representative for DuPont in their Polychemicals Department in Wilmington, Del. A correction in last month's column is in order to keep the record straight. Paul Pillsbury informs me that his doctorate was received from the University of Michigan while he is now with the Department of English at Eastern Michigan. Paul pointed out that the error was understandable for there are more than a couple of universities in Michigan with the name of the state. All is now in order.

The firm of Peterson, Howell and Heather, Inc., in Baltimore, has announced that StubWebster, a vice president of the firm, is now director of the newly created business development department responsible for opening up new business opportunities. Stub has spent the past twelve years with the company, which provides fleet management, consulting and leasing services for over 66,000 company cars and other vehicles in the U. S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. A former president of the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore, he manages to find time for alumni affairs in his area. Stub and Nancy live in Lutherville, Md.

That's all there is for this month and don't forget your New Year's Resolutions to send me news of your comings and goings, promotions, additions, etc. Some cards in the class records are pretty bare. You must have some information that needs recording.

Secretary, Middlesex School Concord, Mass.

Treasurer, Route 2, Box 291, Elyria, Ohio