1943
Secretary, 414 Rosedale Drive Pottstown, Pa.
Class Agent, 315 Central Park West New York 25, N.Y.
By using direct mail this month (and including stamped return envelopes), I have much to report from many quarters long silent.... Bob Garvie moved to Wilmington, Del., in January, where he now is the district sales manager for the Plastics Division, Monsanto Chemical Co. Bob's territory covers the southeastern United States from Scranton to Miami and from Mobile north. With luck hell be in Miami in the summer and Scranton in the winter. A fourteen-year veteran with Monsanto, Bob shares with wife Liz the energies of 'three growing boys, Bobby twelve, Skip eight, and Graham two and a half, while pondering the prospect of having these three boys in college for a continuous twelve years. A sobering thought.
At the President's dinner welcoming John Sloan Dickey to Philadelphia, your class was represented by Chick Webb, Binnie Tower, and me. A terrible rainy night it was but the good fellowship was warm! Chick hobbled about with a leg damaged in a skiing accident but managed to sound off to fellow townsman Tower on the Huntington Valley political situation, where Chick has had several sessions with the town fathers on one matter or another. I promised not to say anything about Binnie other than he looked in wonderful health — by far the handsomest and leanest man at the party.
Joan Adams writes from Labadie, Mo., that Sparky and she just moved into their twenty-acre farm about one hour from St. Louis. Sounds like real country living with fishing pond, beagles, cattle, etc. Sparky works for Olin Mathieson in its packaging division along with Doug LeResche. Doug has a bright freshman son at Dartmouth. Is he the first son of '43? The Adams' daughter, Diane, a high school sophomore, is vice president of her class and a bright girl - like her mother.
Thanks, Miles Lasser, for your note. Can't decipher whether you call yourself a "semi-community filler type" or a "semi-community pillar type." In any case, I get the picture and understand how things are in Jamestown. Occasionally, we used to visit the Westfield, N.Y., area on Lake Erie - one of the loveliest places in the world, especially in summer.
Last October, George Tillson was transferred to the Bucks County district of the Bell Telephone Co. (around here known as The Bell) as District Manager, although the Tillsons didn't move to their new home in Yardley until February. Takes some looking to find accommodations for four children ranging from fourteen to two and a half. George had lived in Upper Darby, another Philadelphia suburb, but the brutal trip across the city was too much. Bucks County is most attractive and features homes of many prominent people in the theater and arts, including James Michener, an early predecessor of mine on the Hill School faculty. I'll look for George at this '43 reunion we'll be having in Pottstown come late May or early June. I've got to clear the Sunday with Binnie Tower!
John Muchemore sends his permanent address: 255 Kuupua St., Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. That address is tough for an Irishman like me.... This past September his children entered their sixth school in three years. Tired of the Arctic and the Dewline, this past June John joined Belt, Lemmon, and Lo, a group of five individual firms of architects and engineers with a world-wide business. John coordinates the work of the five offices and keeps it moving on schedule. For three weeks last summer he traveled the Orient, visiting Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, and Vietnam with the possibility of opening an area office for military design work. John sees Rollie Higgins occasionally and Merrill McLane '42, a U.S. Marine private of the rear ranks long before any of us joined the service. Merrill was a great mountain climber and the best roast beef carver the Rood Club ever had.
Tom McManus beams from a recent Wake-field paper. I think he still uses a cut taken in his Exeter days. Now the Ford king of eastern Essex County, Tom was a good man around that first sack and a philosopher of note in Prof. Gramlich's class.... Received a cute Polaroid snapshot of Hazel and Dick Bugbee dancing at the Dartmouth Club of Bergen County spring dance, courtesy of Gilbert Sykes. Dick, an official, of A.D.T. Co., a national fire and theft protection company, looks as though he was posing for one of those TV sixty-second commercials.
Here's a beautiful name and a terrific place for living ... Palos Verdes.... That's the California residence of George Beaton - a skin diving and surfing paradise - far from the freeways and the throughways — in the news when the Greek freighter "Dominator" went aground just off its shore. Visitors to the site of the wreck have sorely disturbed local peace, with one resident, according to George, bitterly complaining she had found fourteen strangers swimming in her pool. At Hughes Aircraft George has the title of Manager of Reliability and Quality Control for the Airborne Weapons Laboratory and Assistant Manager of the Products Assurance Department. All of which translated means that when something goes wrong, call George. How inviting Palos Verdes sounds .. . just to sit there and sip their favorite drink — "Dominator on the rocks."
George Munroe suggests the ill winds of his associate class agent's refusals might do me some good. At least we know that BooneAtkinson is probably the busiest man in Longmeadow, Mass., as president of a hospital, chairman of the Eastern States Exposition, tax assessor, and assorted other roles. Small wonder he has declined other duties.
... And Frank Sherwood can't bug you for that big gift this year because he is in Turkey on a special government mission for ICA until May 1. That info, thoughtfully comes from his wife.... From Canton, Ohio, we learn that Herb Shaffner is actively operating the Gibbs Manufacturing Co., a 75-year-old woodworking organization. The product must be toys, since Herb had two weeks at the New York toy show. Herb mentions ChuckLongfield and Hank Kidder, who is chief administrative officer of the Aultman Hospital in Cleveland.
Yesterday, I was in New York City representing Berman Leasing Co. with several other company officials at a luncheon with the New York Security Analysts. I certainly expected to see at least one '43 in the group. Not a one appeared. And so it goes.
Check these address changes....
Edwin J. Adams Jr., Highway M, Labadie, Mo. ... Arthur Brockway Jr., Systems Engineer, The Bendix Corp., Bendix Radio Division, East Joppa Road, Towson 4, Md., home address: 20 Dublin Drive, Lutherville, Md.... Robert F. Ehinger, 1 Colony Drive, Summit, N. J.... Robert S. Garvie, Monsanto Chemical Co., Plastics Division, 2005 Concord Pike, Wilmington, Del., home address: 21 Baynard Blvd., Welshire, Wilmington 3, Del.... Bruce W. Jones, Room 705, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.... William Lothman 3rd, c/o R. H. Kremer, 307 Park Road, Webster Groves 19, Mo. ... Earl K. Russell, 702 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif....C. Jordan Thorn, 2417 N. E. 37th St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. . . . George F Tillson, 54 Bedford Place, Yardley, Penna.... Horace E. Rockwell, 201 Fern St., West Hartford 7, Conn.
Mike Diaz '43 (1) and Jim Underwood '43 (r) entertained a friend in Caracas, Venezuela. Mike is vice president of the Grace Lines, and Jim is vice president of William Underwood Co., which recently opened a food processing plant in Venezuela.
