1933
This month's Gold Star goes to Hal Smith whose most welcome and much needed letter arrived just as we were about to sit down and try to concoct something out of this month's meagre gleanings. It came on the stationery of the First Federal. Savings and Loan Association of Waterbury, Conn., of which Hal is president. Our first thought was that it might be the forerunner of bids for savings from staid old New England banks in competition with the flood of mail from California offering all kinds of gadgets for new accounts. Actually, Hal could outdo the Californians, since he is a principal in Alcort, Incorporated, manufacturers of the famous "Sail Fish" and "Sun Fish," those terrific little sail boats that provide so much fun and are ideal for learning the principles of sailing. We've enjoyed one for the last four years and can recommend it highly. Hal says, "It was founded after the war by a couple of friends of mine in a vacant room over the mill in our family's lumber yard and has made good progress ever since." He has just been elected to the presidency of the Waterbury Hospital - 450 beds, 750 employees and an annual budget of $4,500,000 -which he has served in various capacities since 1949. Entering Hanover from Deerfield Academy, Hal participated in three sports - tennis, swimming and squash - being captain of the latter two teams in his senior year. He was also a class officer and a member of Green Key, Sphinx and the Arts as well as Phi Beta Kappa. His departure from Hanover found him immediately in the "big money" in an executive capacity with the U.S. mints at Philadelphia and New Orleans for two years. In 1935, he became connected with his present bank as secretary-treasurer and assumed the presidency in 1946 after serving four years in the Navy as a Lt. Commander. Hal is a director of the Colonial Bank and Trust Company, The United Corp., True Temper Corp. and Alcort, Inc. and has served as a board member of various local civic agencies. He and his wife, the former Elizabeth Grant Copenhaver of Charlestown, W. Va., live at 145 Woodlawn Terrace in Waterbury with their three sons and two daughters, ages seven to fourteen.
Bill Lang has received two more honors on his long string of achievements reported earlier in this column. He was appointed to the Board of Adjustment in Short Hills, N. J., where he and Elda now live with their three daughters. His appointment was described as "one of the finest selections made." Bill, currently administrative vice president and treasurer of U. S. Steel and president of U. S. Steel Homes Credit Corp., was named by President Dickey in December as a member of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School.
Don D'Arcy is offering free rooms without advance reservations to all '33ers in his new capacity as a trustee of the Hanover Inn.
A recent course announcement by the Graduate Division of Suffolk University Law School reads as follows: "Zoning, Building, Sub-Division Control and Related Problems in Municipal Law, Daniel G. Rollins, LL.B., Harvard University; practicing attorney, Rollins and Rollins, Brookline; Town Counsel, Brookline; former Mass. representative to the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers; Lecturer in Law, Suffolk University." Dan, whose wife, Myrtle, died several years ago, is the proud father of three sons: Dan Jr., who attended Boston University, and two Dartmouths; Philip '57 and Peter '63.
In case you didn't see it in the Newsletter, John Meek is president of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In Nashua recently, we ran into Hal Hackett's wife, Pauline, who reports him well and still busy pushing the mail through as assistant postmaster in Nashua. They have three daughters; one recently married to a boy in service and two still in school. We inquired about other '33ers in town and found ourselves in the office of insurance magnate, Danny Degasis. We use the word advisedly since we learned that he really has the golf bug and had taken off in mid-winter for a few rounds on Cape Cod. In case any of you Hanoverites are wondering about our name's appearance on the board in late January at the Inn, we blew into town late with the thermometer hovering around zero and made a hasty exit the next morning on the heels of a reported 35 below reading at Lebanon Airport. Thanks to the warmth of Jack Manchester's garage, we had no trouble starting our car that morning. Bill Dewey was at the Inn for an early breakfast and we caught up with him at his mill in Enfield. Saw Dotty and June Drowne the night before at dinner where they were busy entertaining visiting personnel men, up to look over this year's crop at Tuck School.
Stan Colla has been named division general manager of Mobil Oil Company for the New England States. He has been with the company in a marketing capacity ever since graduation and came to Boston in 1958 from Buffalo where he had been district manager in western New York. At Dartmouth he was a member of Dragon and majored in History. From 1942-46 he served in the Navy as a lieutenant. He and Adele (Lewis) live at 2 Ivy Circle in nearby Wellesley and have two sons: Coleman P. '58 and Thayer School '59 and Stanley A.
We have in front of us a picture of balding Max Field complete with lapel carnation. It appears in the January 21 issue of Leather and Shoes in connection with his reelection as executive vice president (that means he runs the show) of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, a post he has held since 1940. The picture accompanies his annual forecast for the U. S. shoe industry for which he predicts more imports, more stores but no increase in production for
We have good news to report about Commander Gay Milius, USNR, who has been legal officer at the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Air Station since 1959. He has been reelected president of the Tidewater Virginia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. On hand to congratulate Gay, when the election was held, was another prominent Virginia lawyer, Bill King. Bill, who is president of the Virginia State Bar Association, spoke to the Tidewater Chapter on "The Responsibilities of a Lawyer." When time allows Gay enjoys his hobby as a ham radio operator and has increased his station to one kilowatt in power.
Get your reservations in early for Brown weekend next fall. Contact Mel Katz, 201 Cedar Ave., Hewlett, N. Y.
Don't be bashful about filling in the questionnaire that Bob Fox sent with his most recent Newsletter. The need for news is urgent. Finally and most importantly, support Your Alumni Fund, early and generously. The need is obvious and a contribution from each one of us is essential. Sid Stoneman and his corps of hard-working volunteers will be ever grateful to you.
New addresses: Robert M. Cox, 300-5 th Ave., McKeesport, Penna.; H. Frank Gump III, 59 Ravensbourne Crescent, Islington, Ont., Canada; Harry J. Robinovitz, P.O. Box 573, Sommerville, N. J.; John C. Worsham Jr., 614 East Main St., Lexington, Ky.
Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.
Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
