1921
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Jim Smead has a daughter unique among 1921 offspring. He is proud of her, and she is proud of him too. Here's what has happened. After 35 years of surgery Jim has closed his office and is tackling a new job. He is now Director of Medical Education and Research of the Springfield Hospital. At one time he officiated as Surgeon-in-Chief and President of the Staff. Captain in the Naval Medical Corps in World War 11, he served as Commander of the Navy Hospital, Cherbourg, France. Jim's daughter, Moppy, now in her second year at Cornell, a candidate for a Master's, works on the thyroids and adrenals of bats. To insure an adequate supply, she penetrates caves and abandoned mines with flashlights and nets bats by the hundreds.
Six grandsons and four granddaughters: total, ten grandchildren. Phil Noyes has been nominated as Grandfather Supreme of 1921, that philogynous and philoprogenitive class, the envy of 1920 and 1922. The tenth is Sandra May Church, born December 31, to Phil's only daughter, Elizabeth.
The greatest joy in i960 for Tracy Higgins came when his second son, Tracy Jr., handicapped by cerebral palsy affecting his speech, secured a good paying position with the Ideal Precision Meter Company of Brooklyn. Now a qualified member of the AFL, he lives on his own, master of his fate, at the Central Y. During three years of intensive coaching and another of practice in a sheltered workship, patience and hard work enabled Tracy Jr. to rise heroically above his disability just before his 28th birthday. And Tracy the son had cause to rejoice about Tracy the father and the high honor shown him in January. At a Higgins plant luncheon the Sales Force gave him a Longines Admiralty gold wrist watch appropriately inscribed for his 60th birthday. Flis joy was touched with sorrow, however, for his Chicago associate and friend, Jim Bradley, who had been with Tracy since 1938, died of a heart attack that hit him Christmas Eve. Only 58, Jim himself was to have made the presentation.
What do you do when you have a cold? Try the Campbell Cure. Hilt and Mildred Campbell took off more than a week before Christmas and returned more than a week after it. Days they soaked up sun on the sun-drenched desert in summery Phoenix, and nights they snoozed between smooth silken sheets on Simmons softness at the Camel Back Inn. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is composed of men with sunny dispositions who tell what the desert sun can do shining on northern coughs.
Such talk may arouse to eloquence Kent McKinley and Alan Catterall, newly elected Vice President of the Ivy League Club, Sarasota, Fla., which now has some 250 members. Herm McMillan too is a Florida enthusiast, and he is basking in you know what there right now.
Henry Palmer roots for the sunlight of Palm Springs. Owner of The Jamaica, an apartment hotel with a heated pool, he came down with a bad case of shingles last summer. Not until January could he do physical work without shooting pains. You had better refer respectfully to shingles as Herpes Zoster; it loves to inflict its agonies on the irreverent.
Though Merrill and Dorothy Shoup know Arizona, Florida, and California, one of their three hobbies prevents them from swearing allegiance to any one state. Their first hobby, travel, has led them on a cruise to Tahiti, Auckland, Sydney, Samoa, and Honolulu. The second is their daughters. A while back, Merrill escorted Nancy, now a senior at Saint Mary's Hall, to Morocco where he was a delegate to the International Sugar Conference and later to Honolulu and Mexico City. Mary is now Mrs. Gibson Gardner. Her two sons, one three and the other one, are the third Shoup hobby.
Bart Bartholomew of Minneapolis cannot be said to be uninterested in his daughter Sue, musician, actress, and intellectual. Indeed when he switched on CBS recently, there she was holding forth on Africa, which she had visited last summer, and he was thrilled.
And then there is the Mayo daughter, Phyllis, who is also an intellectual interested in the stage, TV, radio work and who indeed worked for CBS for a time. Amazingly mobile, Phyllis spent Christmas with Bob and Polly for the first time since 1952. On from California, she brought along a young man to introduce to her parents. He said, "I want to marry your daughter in June." Recovered nicely from a coronary unconnected with this statement, Polly is enjoying life at a slower tempo, and she and Bob are looking forward to their new home at Oyster Harbors into which they will move this Spring.
Besides the active role Em Corbin plays in the business office of the New Britain General Hospital, he, versatile actor, plays two others. Though he does well on the Little Theatre stage, he confines himself by preference to small parts and concentrates on production. He also helps Olive learn her lines. In addition, as deacon in the First Church Congregational and as Chairman of the Men's Activity Committee, he has been busy with the new church under construction. He enjoyed his preliminary study of modern church architecture. Buzzing about the country, Olive and Em follow with parental excitement the theatrical career of their son Albert, a Syracuse drama major and a former Pacific Seabee. With the Stratford (Conn.) American Shakespeare Festival Touring Co., he has traveled as far west as San Francisco with a part in "A Midsummer's Night Dream." Later he acted with the Toledo Summer Festival Theatre. What next? Why, Broadway of course.
Jack Graydon, incapable of turning down all the flattering offers made him by civic organizations, has become Director of the Canadian Market Research Society, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oakville (Canada) Memorial Hospital, and Director of the United Appeal of Oakville.
Ralph Steiner, advertising photographer, newspaper editor, and maker of documentary films, has turned his versatile hand to something new. His present position is Account Executive in Ruder and Finn, Inc., public relations, New York City.
Bake Baker and his wife Sally, cheerful and healthy, continue to peg away at their jobs — he at Pratt and Whitney and she at social work. For fun they play bridge and pinochle and visit their daughter Barbara, now Mrs. Richard F. Ide, also of West Hartford, mother of a daughter, Brenda, born October 8.
That expert in North African, Italian. Okinawan, and Japanese marketing, Bob Wilson, is back from the Far East and is now at 2820-27th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. His wife Nelly is at present in Holly-wood.
If you see El Harper looking slant-eyed in New York, it may be because he has picked up a Korean cast of countenance. In Seoul he has been doing some industrial manage- ment work for the U. S. Operations Missions to Korea.
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