1932

You may recall that about a year ago our Class's most faithful correspondent and news-hound Adrian Walser dropped us a hot tip that Dick Cleaves had left Cochran Continental Container Corp. to join Ed Eichler in organizing a chain of roadside restaurants called Li'l Abner. The first one was built in Morton Grove, near Chicago. Now, according to a feature story in the Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal, the second restaurant in the chain will be located in that city on Lexington Road near the Grinstead Drive interchange bf the proposed Eastern Expressway.

The cabin cafe, a careful study in well constructed dilapidation, will represent an overall investment of nearly a quarter-million dollars. The entrance, with its rough-hewn log sides and sagging roof, is designed to blend into the main part of the restaurant, a long, low, ranch-style building. The interior will be furnished Dogpatch style, with such backwoods apparatus as butter chums, moonshine stills and bushel baskets converted into lighting fixtures. Waitresses and car hops will wear a decorous version of Daisy Mae's blouse and tattered and patched skirt.

Cleaves, whose home is in Louisville, is vice president and director of firms that operate the Chicago-area restaurant and the division of the business set up to license other outlets. He is president of Cleaves Co., Inc., which hopes to license more Li'l Abner restaurants in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio. Asked how he got into the business, Dick said, "I'll bet you've had a desire to run a restaurant at one time or another."

Big news from Chicago is that the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System has appointed John Sheldon a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for a three-year term. John is president of Charles A. Stevens and Co., a chain of women's apparel shops, and has also served as chairman of the State Street Council. He and wife Midge make their home in Highland Park, Ill., where they are bringing up Ted, 15, and Barbara, 13. John is a curler of note, and a few years back he competed in the national championships as a member of the Exmoor Country Club team.

Don Allen, professor of chemistry and chairman of the Division of Natural Science at State University Teachers College, New Paltz, N. Y., taught in a program for gifted high school students last summer at State University College of Education in Potsdam, N. Y. He found that bright high school students did very well in elementary physical chemistry at the college level. After the summer session he and Kay with their daughters Patricia and Barbara drove out to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.

Joe Byram vice president of Lionel D. Edie and Company, a New York firm of investment counselors and economic consultants, makes two business trips each year to Tennessee and Texas. His last visit took him by air to Nashville, Dallas, Waco, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Beaumont. He and Anne have a son 19, who is a freshman at American International College, and a daughter who is a couple of years younger. Joe says his main tie to youth is that he's still an enthusiastic skier.

Chuck Adkins in his inaugural address as president of Briarcliff College last fall suggested that the education of women, far from being less important than that of men, may actually need a good deal more of our attention. He pointed out that on the one hand we expect our young women to carry on the torch of culture, to mold future generations and to champion traditional values. However, at the same time, we decry the fact that their education and talents are wasted in their daily living.

Continuing on this point, Chuck said that today's average age for a girl to marry is twenty and that the current national average shows that a woman is only 32 when her youngest child starts to school. This means that she is left with ample time to devote to things other than her home and children. To meet this need, he said, we must give young women the kind of broad education, liberal education, that will allow them to grow in anything they undertake after this age of 32. After all, Chuck should know. Aside from his undoubted qualifications as an educator, he has four daughters of his own.

According to the Nashua, N. H., Telegraph one of last fall's winners of Community Chest awards was Dick Pike, treasurer of Pennichuck Water Works.

A note from the College tells us that Dr. Handy Auten, long one of our favorite ties to the Hanover scene, resigned on the first of this year as a member of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Hitchcock Clinic. At the time this is written his plans for the future have not been made definite.

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