1925
Secretary, 225 Wyman St., Waltham 54, Mass.
Class Agent, Elm St., Norwich, Vt.
Bradford Smith Jr. has been advanced from executive vice president to president and chief administrative officer of Insurance Company of North America. Brad had experience in the agency business in Philadelphia and Montreal before joining North America in 1929. Following assignments in Newark and as manager of the Philadelphia metropolitan department, he was elected assistant secretary in 1936 and fire secretary in 1940. He became vice president in 1943 and executive vice president in 1956. He has played a leading part in developing multiple-line package policies.
Harold E. Rider, president and director of the Fairfield County Trust Company has been elected a director of The Connecticut Light and Power Company. He is also a director of the Stamford Water Company, the New England Telephone Company and Barnes Engineering Company. He became trust officer of the bank in 1932 and was elected president in 1946.
Bill Thompson, vice president of the Lowell, Mass., Five Cents Savings Bank, has been named Treasurer of National College Program, Inc. of New York, which is engaged in the development of banking programs for education. He will be affiliated with NCP's Boston office in the Statler Building. Bill in addition to his banking activities has been a director of the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corp. and a director of the Higher Education Loan Plan. Previously president of Thompson Hardware Co. in Lowell, he is past president of the New England Hardware Dealers Association, the Dartmouth Club of Lowell, the Rotary Club and the Lowell YMCA. Bill and his wife Kathleen live at 683 Andover Street, Lowell, and have two children, Cornelia and Stephen.
Ed Burns' name again appeared in the news when he was elected to serve as a director of Associated Industries of New York State. Al Sparks, writing after a trip to Florida and Jamaica, reports he is still in the insurance business, having been joined by son Jerry. Other son, Gordon, is in the service in Alaska. A note from Ed Roessler, enclosing several notes written in connection with payment of class dues, states: "Susie and I spent Christmas and New Year's in Mexico with a student, who spent a month with us a year or so ago, and his family. A wonderful time. Since then have shoveled more snow than I knew there could be."
Here are some of the aforesaid belated notes: Phil Evans reported a change of address to 1015 North 19th Avenue, Hollywood, Fla. Barrett Lyons - "Had breakfast with the Elders in Amherst one day - and got all the way home by bedtime - easily. So an early morning start would make Hanover in one day possible. Hard to believe when in 1925 it was 2½ days!"
A note from Larry Leavitt reports that "two sons of '25ers were tapped C & G - Marshall Newton and Dan Tompkins. DavidBlake is in the senior delegation.... Dot and I will be away from the 20th to the 15th of April. The last week we will be at Pink Sands in the Bahamas with the Doug Archibalds."
A note from Hanover: "Mr. Rudolph Ruzicka announces the marriage of his daughter Veronica to Mr. Alexander Laing on Wednesday, March 22, 1961, Boston, Mass. Alec is on leave from the college this term." Incidentally, Alec was the subject of what he chose to term an "apotheosis" in a recent issue of The Dartmouth under the caption "Writer, Adventurer, Dartmouth Institution." To summarize in this column his many interests and activities as described in the ar- ticle would not do justice to him as "one of our oldest, and best, and liveliest of Dartmouth institutions" as the author described him. So if anyone is interested in the complete account, he should send for a copy of The Dartmouth of that particular date.
Charlie Moore, vice president of Ford Motor Company, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Dr. John Norris, associate medical director of the Eastman Kodak Company, is a national authority on alcoholism in industry. His program at Rochester is rated the most effective alcoholic program in American industry. Among his current positions in the field of his specialty is chairman of the structure committee of Alcoholics Anonymous, chairman of the clinical advisory council of the Rochester Health Association, and 1961 president of the New York State Association of Committees on Alcoholism.
It is not unusual for Dr. Seuss' name to appear in publications of all kinds, as it should be! Apparently the recent profile in the New Yorker led to further investigation into Ted's background and soon thereafter the first of an apparent series of articles appeared in a Boston newspaper under the caption "Daffy Animals Have Made Him a Genius and $200,000 a Year - College Boy 'Least Likely to Succeed' Has It Made." Pete Blodgett, Charlie Haywood and Bob Sharp had been interviewed by the writer for material on our famous classmate's undergraduate experiences.
The following new addresses have been reported from Hanover: Horton Conrad, 2932 Maplewood Street, Lakeland, Fla.; Charlie Flint, P. O. Box 485, Columbus, Mont.; Bill Jenkins, 8 Front Street, Schenectady 5, N. Y.; and George Winger, 1012 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City 5, Mo.
In response to a request by your secretary,Pete Kelsey submitted a profile which seemedto require no editing as follows:
I am still associated with Marsh & McLennan, Incorporated, and serve as Vice-Chairman of the Board of our international insurance brokerage organization. My headquarters are in San Francisco, where I've been located since 1946. I am also President of our West Coast companies - Marsh & McLennan-Cosgrove & Company.
Since moving to San Francisco, our homehas been in Hillsborough, which is on "thePeninsula," about twenty miles south of thecity.
As to my family, my wife is the formerSuzanne ("Jack") Van Antwerp of Albany,New York, and we celebrated our thirty-firstanniversary this month.
We have two sons — Tom '54, who is presently located in New York with Chubb &Son, insurance underwriters, and Preston T.,II '58, who is in his final year at the Episcopal Seminary, Church Divinity School of thePacific, Berkeley.
My principal hobbies are rather mundane - puttering around our garden, swimming in our pool, and playing golf.
My business duties require me to do quite a bit of traveling on the West Coast and back to Chicago and New York two or three times a year, but Mrs. Kelsey and I manage to get in vacations during the year at a favorite spot of ours in Southern California - namely, Rancho Santa Fe, where we both play a lot of golf.
As to civic activities, I am not outstanding in any, but I do get called in on the usual jobs of money raising, and I also have been active in the Episcopal Church which we attend in San Mateo.
A last minute reminder for those who may be in the vicinity of Boston on May 12: The annual dinner for '25ers will be held on that date at the Motel 128, Dedham.
