1924
About the time this is read we'll probably be having the duckboards out and the "schlumpf" season - that used to be the mud-and-flapping-galloshes season - will be here. Last year, we had the blizzard of mid-March. We can do without it this year. We are approaching Carnival as I write, and it has been c-o-l-d out there in the middle of campus making the big statue. But the cold has been the much-discussed "dry" kind; down as low as — 26° on my back porch, and others claim lower, but warms up nicely to about +15° with a bright sun. It's been a nice winter - so far.
And of course I am just starting to get word of the cruises to warmer climes some of you are taking. Ted and Harriet Nilsen are doing the West Indies in February, for example. Then the Europe-bound Van Huycks and Lamsons, too. Dick Moyse, in London, take fair notice. And cheers for Lou and Van, Harriet and Butts. Others, I'm sure, but haven't let me in on their plans.
Jimmy Reid, power at Harcourt Brace and Company, textbook publishers, was seen at the December meeting of the New York Security Analysts, at which the HB president was the speaker. An anonymous (to you) member of a younger class recalls Jimmy and rooming with Norm Maclean and comments: "They were high-power intellectuals." And so they were, and are. Jim and I worked the Psychology Department for our major, and tried to beat the "boss" - Henry T. Moore, who hired me but left to become President of Skidmore College before I could work for and with him, to my regret — at handball. Jim was more successful than I at this; I settled to play with Abe Kalodin and others where I at least had a better chance of winning. As for Norm, he - is another of our facultas in urbe, but a different urbe: the University of Chicago—where he has been almost since graduation. He started doing "literary work" in Helena, Mont., following on his undergrad work on the Bema, Jack-o, and the Aegis. He was listed at the Faculty Exchange as a graduate student in 1929, and the Exchange is still his mailing address. We need current events news, Norm, to bring our records up to date.
The ranks of those retiring grows. The end of i960 took Cleve Pool out of the Fairfield County Trust Company's investment department—as I reported last month —in the Stamford (Conn.) area. Also, looking back. I've reported the pleasure Bob Benjamin is having as Business Manager and Comptroller at the St. Albans School in Washington, D. C. after his military career ended. Another who left the routine, in this case of advertising and marketing research, is Harry Wolfe, who finds teaching his subject fun at the University of Wisconsin. I know there are many others, and I'd be very appreciative if those of you who have retired would take a moment to write me about the fact: both for the record and for my own interests in this subject - as some of you will recall who heard my Hanover Holiday remarks at our last reunion. (One day we'll sit down and go over a point or two, Jim ... against my own retirement five years hence.)
Ed Moran, Judge of Probate Court of Norwich, Conn., has been interested in possible legislation to establish a Connecticut family-court system and has talked on this topic here and there as occasion arose. In New York, Brad Walker, is Chairman of the Board of Fletcher D. Richards, Inc. Out on the west coast, Beach (known as "Sleepy" in college, according to the file) Soule is now a "business consultant" in San Francisco. We need a lot more information to bring our records up to date; we know you have been out there all your life, Beach, that you were a "merchandise manager" in Oakland (where you were bom) as late as 1931, but then the record is very blank. Help, please - from anyone. One of the fascinations of this job as Secretary is to see those who stay put and even at the same home address for many years; another such is Nat Sawyer of Concord, N. H., who lived at the same address from 1927 through 1952, at least, and hasn't moved very far from there even yet (now on South Street). Others have frequent address changes, and we hope they and YOU will keep us posted. There are many good reasons why we sometimes need to know how to reach you, and often to your own advantage.
A seasonal retirement is also increasingly popular. For example, Joe Butler and Louise have spent the last three winters on "Hog John Bay," in Antigua, B.W.I. And to make the retirement picture more complete, he was a partner in Butler, Beadling and Co. (brokers) as far back as 1927; then a partner in Butler, Wick and Co. as of about 1939. Of course many know him now as Director of his Butler Art Institute (all addresses in Youngstown, Ohio), and as painting. We've seen some of his work in our own Carpenter Hall, here. Perhaps this 8.W.1, wintering dates from his Bermuda trip back in 1937?? Speaking of '24 artists, the Stew Eldridges are back from their tour of Italy, to see their daughter get married - both of the young-sters are artists - and to see the rich treasures of art in Italy.
Bill DuBois was elected a senior Vice-president of the Chase-Manhattan Bank, in charge of the U.S. and Canadian areas of the International Department. He joined the bank in 1927; was made a Vice-president in 1947.
I appreciate the increasing number of responses the birthday cards are bringing. And with the improved reporting to the class we get comments how much improved the ALUMNI MAGAZINE continues to become; as I write, a student who came in to my office (from my advertising class) commented that it is amazing to see it get better and better. Take a bow, Charlie and the whole staff. So thanks again for your replies.
Freshman Fathers' Weekend is February 18.Luit's son Peter is one whose dad will be here. Wally Lord? Frank Loveland? FredMaguire's son, Bob '52, is an assistant in the Russian Civilization Department here; Bob was one of Dick Morin's advisees as a freshman. Al Brown asks if Dick Morin remembers when he (Al) used to make cinnamon toast at the Hanover Inn Coffee Shop, instead of his current handling of advertising for fifteen food products for Best Foods.
Herb Kaiser's son, Herbert Jr., graduated from Harvard Law last June, and sorry to have missed him when he swung up here. Young Herb is now with Garvin, Ashley and Foster, in Seattle; is to marry a Wellesley girl in February—no data as I write. Father plays tennis the year 'round, and practices law in Monticello, Ill.
Wedding-bells note: Alex and Mary BessGibson, "lost" their son, ADG Jr., to Hannah Emily Hinman in a wedding September 3 in nearby Burlington, Vt., where the bride's mother lives. Hannah graduated from the University of Vermont last June; the bridegroom graduated from Holderness School (Plymouth, N. H.), attended the Wentworth Institute, and is back at UVM to resume his studies this fall. This department, in addition to congratulating all concerned, wishes also to comment on their good sense in spending their honeymoon in the Laurentians (above Quebec) and Maine.
Finally, a most interesting letter from George Yates, now living on Rancho Sante Fé with wife Patricia and daughter who attends school in La Jolla; son is in the Air Force in Alaska. The picture is inviting, George.
Secretary,2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 29 "Woodside Rd., Winchester, Mass.
