1930
Now that the Ides of March are upon us, draw a comfortable chair up to the fire and light your favorite cigar—this is the advice, or probably we should call it the motivation message, of none other than Buck Steers, the well known motivator, whose firm has taken on an assignment from the Cigar Institute of America to manage a campaign to get the young men about town to take up cigar smoking. If successful, it will make a young man feel very gauche to appear at a social gathering without his cigar. Being a nonsmoker ourself, we will only sit back and observe the results at the next New York class dinner, which Charlie McDonough (definitely not gauche) is planning for later in the spring. By next month we should be able to tell you the appointed place and date.
In the same field, we note that Pat Weaver was ill Tokyo in January, for the announcement of McCann-Erickson's affiliation with Hakuhudo, Inc., Japan's second largest advertising agency. This follows other fairly recent mergers, engineered by Pat in Australia and Hawaii, in his capacity as chairman of McCann-Erickson International.
It was good to have a letter from FrankDoherty saying that he had made a fine recovery from a kidney operation at the year end. He appreciated hearing from many classmates while hospitalized and said that he had seen Frank Leahy frequently during the illness. Hank Embree had a note from Vic Tadross to say that he had been critically ill on and off for the past two years but was still alive and now hopes to stay gainfully on his feet for a long time to come. All good wishes to these two gentlemen for better health henceforth.
We have news of several advancements by classmates in their affiliations, to wit: Arch Clark has been appointed second vice president of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. With over 25 years' service with Phoenix. Arch had previously been secretary of the Company and is in charge of the mortgage loan division. This item leads us to wonder if he will approve a mortgage loan to his own company in connection with the new fourteen-story home office building it has announced it plans to erect in downtown Hartford. Bill Fletcher has been named director of sales of the Carter's Ink Company, for which he has worked ever since graduation. and where he has steadily assumed greater responsibilities. Gordon Shattuck has been a director of the West Springfield (Mass.) Co-operative Bank since 1954; his business association is as manager of supply of the Strathmore Paper Company. JohnHolme has gone into consulting work on his own and says that this is pressure, in addition to requiring him to travel 80% of the-time. Milt McInnes, president of the Erie-Lackawanna, has been elected to the board of the Association of American Railroads.
To hand has come a brochure of the Tri-Continental Corporation in which we find a profile portrait of Fred Page, a member of the executive committee, and a vice president of this enormous mutual fund and of several associated funds. He is in charge of investment research supervision, and also finds time to serve as a partner of J. and W. Seligman and Co., as a director of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and financial consultant for Atlantic City Electric Company.
Also to hand has come a quarter page from the Hartford Courant carrying a picture of smiling Carl Jenson, its real estate editor, who was to journey to Chicago in early February to attend and report upon the Home Builders' convention. Unfortunately our source dried up at this point, and we are unable to review his reporting of developments, but if any of you fellows are thinking of building, it might be that Carl could send you reprints of his articles, or maybe a basket of literature, for he edits a big home section every "week, and is well informed.
Milt Patterson writes that he is awaiting a possible assignment in Nepal for the United Nations. We recall that in the past few years, Milt has worked for Pan-Am in Karachi and Bangkok.
For obvious reasons, political news tends to be skimpier than of yore. Red Alcorn has retired completely from the political scene after a span of 25 years during which he served in many Republican posts. Fred Scribner, erstwhile Under Secretary of the Treasury, has become general counsel for the Republican National Committee. And Nelson Rockefeller, as Governor of New York, has so many proposals in the legislative hopper that it is impossible in this space to mention many which are of quite widespread interest. One which has initiated much discussion is a proposal to grant $200 per year from state funds to each college student. Perhaps the matter affecting the greatest number in our class is his recent state budget submission which ran to an absolute record figure without proposing any tax increase. This is good news, but only of a sort, because it fails to continue the special 10% tax cut we received for i960. The engagement of his daughter, Mary Clark Rockefeller, to Ensign William Justice Strawbridge Jr., of Haverford, Penna., was announced recently.
Henry Hillson has just rendered a report upon a special educational and guidance program for raising the cultural level of children from underprivileged backgrounds which has been in progress at George Washington High School, New York, where he is principal. Eminent success has been attained over a period of four years in the discovery and development of abilities that otherwise might have been lost, with 40% more students finishing high school than before and 350% more students going on with higher education. He states that no substitute for sound educational procedures was found, and that what was accomplished was the result of hard unceasing work by teachers, counselors, and students. We recall that Henry is completely responsible for Tom Laris, brilliant captain of the cross country team, having chosen Dartmouth over many other colleges.
Lee Chilcote acted as best man at the recent wedding of his son, Ronald '57, to Miss Frances Tubby of Belmont, Mass. The young couple will live in Madrid where Ronald is attending the University and doing research in Hispanic-American studies.
Harry Dunning chaired a January panel session concerning marketing communications, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia. One of his speakers was well known to many of us, our old friend Al Frey '20, formerly of the Tuck School. And as one columnist for the World-Telegram might say, "putting one little syllable after another," Tom Dunnington has been named chairman of the parents' drive of the University of New Hampshire Fund. Both of his children are students at the University, while Tom, who is in the real estate business in Salmon Falls, N. H., is also a member of the State Senate.
Your scribe read the 1899 column in the January issue and therein discovered grist for this mill. Fred Tobey is reported to have acquired Clarkland, a large estate near Plymouth, N. H., formerly owned by George Clark '99, which Fred plans to utilize, in part to develop a modern hostelry to be named Clarkland Inn, and in part to accommodate his racing stable activities, carried on at Saratoga Springs in recent years. We also noticed that Jim Dalglish's son Tom '61 is the editor of the section The Undergraduate Chair.
The Valley News (Lebanon) carried a long article about Dr. Bill Putnam on January 11, terming him a fine example of a vanishing American, the country general practitioner. The story confirmed what many of us know, that Bill's practice is wide in scope as well as territory, that he encounters all sorts of crises and weather, and that he is also interested in many activities outside the medical profession. The Putnams' six children are all doing well, and Bill has a great deal to his credit for his accomplishments. He is another of our membership who can be said to have made a very notable contribution in life.
In a few days we expect to be off to Hanover for Freshman Fathers' Weekend, and a month from now we should be able to give you a good idea of how things are going for Al Dickerson and his present group of about 800 pea greeners. In the meantime, an early response to Art Browning's appeal for the Alumni Fund would be helpful in reducing the number of extra solicitations which must be made. Those of us who have sons benefiting from the contribution of the Fund to the maintenance of a balanced budget by the College know of its importance in the whole scheme of things.
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