1946

Dear Gang - Your class executive committee and officers met all day Friday, November 3 at the new Dartmouth Club Headquarters in the Commodore Hotel in New York City to discuss our 15th Reunion scheduled for June of 1962 in Hanover. Other class matters were also given consideration. On that Saturday most of those troops made the Yale football game in New Haven. Reg and Nancy Pierce hosted a postgame party at their "estate" in Greenwich. We'll give you a complete report of the meeting proceedings in the next issue.

"MOVING UP THE LADDER"

Bob Nelson is owner of Nelson's Organ and Piano Company in Gary, Ind. He was with a family music business until 1950 and at that time started this organization. They also have a branch in Valparaiso, Ind. Among their franchised lines are Acrosonic, Baldwin, Hamilton, Howard, Winter, and Hammond. Bob is very active in community affairs as he is a director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Y.M.C.A., and is immediate past president of the Board of Directors of the Gary Symphony Orchestra. . . . Up in Fairfield, Conn., Brad Morehouse has just recently completed the chairmanship of the professional division of the 1961 Fairfield Community Chest - this is the second year in a row that Brad took on this responsibility and evidently he did an outstanding job. .. . Also in Fairfield Dr. Tom McInerney has been appointed an assistant professor of English at Fairfield University. Mac goes to Fairfield with twelve years of teaching experience at Seattle University. He received his M.A. in English from Boston College in 1948 and got his doctorate at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1959. .. . Also teaching this winter is Howie Samuel. Howie's teaching a night course in Practical Politics at the New School in New York City. Howie is assistant to the president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFLCIO - his other recent achievements are chairman of the White Plains Democratic Committee; executive committee of the Westchester County Democratic Committee and co-author of the books "Congress at Work," and "Government in America." Chuck Carroll is here in Dayton and we had lunch some time back. Chuck is in the fur business and runs a leased department at Elders one of our bigger department stores. He actually works for a New York firm which has a franchise for the department in the Dayton store. His wife is still in Providence where he was for several years on his last assignment for the company. Chuck has three boys and has been in the fur business in various parts of the country since college.

"NAMES IN THE NEWS"

Bill Graulty is still charming the gals!. . . Bill who is assistant Vice-president of the Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. in Hartford, Conn., recently spoke on "Estate Planning for Career Women" at the Pilot Club of Hartford. Bill joined the trust department of the Connecticut Bank in 1956, and is head of the legal department. After law school he practiced with Robinson, Robinson and Cole, attorneys, for five years and he is a member of the Hartford County, State and American Bar Association.... Another one of our teachers is Ralph Hersey, who is teaching at the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Banking this year. Ralph is also a trust officer with the Boston Safe Deposit Company in Boston. You can address Ralph at 58 Geraldine Drive in Norwood, Mass. ... George Hilton, our class transportation expert, recently won first prize in the first annual Clyde B. Aitchison Essay Award Contest, sponsored by the Association of Interstate Commerce Com- mission Practitioners. George's article is entitled "Experience under the Reed-Bulwinkle Act," and it was published in the ICC Practitioners' Journal of September 1961. Congrats George. ... Up in Stamford, Conn., Don Behnken has been appointed a group leader at Stamford Laboratories of the American Cyanamid Company. Don will be in charge of the mathematical analysis group of the Engineering Research Section, Physical Research Department. Don joined Cyanamid in 1959 after having received his doctorate in experimental statistics at North Carolina State. He also did some work at Yale and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Don lives in Norwalk, Conn.. . . Also with American Cyanamid is Ash Burner who is Manager of Public Relations for the Company with offices at 111 West 40th Street, New York City. Ash lives up in Westport, Conn., at 3 Lockwood Circle. . . . We have a long newsy letter from RickShambroom and the real shocker is that after all these years old Rick is going to desert the ranks of the bachelors. He writes that he and Betty Slater met at Redbook Magazine and were married on October 8. They then sailed for Europe where they're going to honeymoon for six months they've both quit their jobs and Rick says he doesn't know what they'll do when they get back and he doesn't intend to worry about it until then. Evidently they're going to tour Europe in a Mercedes-Benz for most of the trip and then do a lot of skiing. Last but not least he has recently signed a contract with Macmillan Publishing Co. to write a book on "How To Ski." It will come out some time next fall and many of you will want to pick up a copy of it. Rick, it was good to hear from you and we hope you'll bring your new bride to fifteenth reunion next June in Hanover.

"HITHER AND YON"

Rev. Sam Brown is teaching at Milo High School up in Milo, Me.. . . John Hanley is an instructor in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. . . . Joe Keckeisen is with Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago and lives in Park Ridge. Jimmy Pettit is in sales in Cincinnati and you can address him at 5001 Kugler Mill Road. . . . Thorndike Toops is a psychiatrist in San Marino, Calif., and our own Lowell Thomas Jr. has evidently lost some of the wanderlust and is doing his film producing in Anchorage, Alaska.

That's it - '46 Up

"Gus"

Secretary, New England Mut'l Life Ins. Co. 505 Third National Bldg. Dayton 2, Ohio

Treasurer, 25 Mountain Ave., Maplewood, N. J.