1949
Secretary, Dept. 90 Eastman Kodak Co. A & OD 400 Plymouth Ave. N Rochester 4, N. Y.
Class Agent, Suite 228, 420 Lexington Ave. New York 17, N. Y.
This column isn't ready to set the records for length and depth which I predicted last month. The squad of assistant type secretari es is still milling around trying to get their bearings, but mark my word if not next month, the one after, this column will take up half the MAGAZINE. We are going to offer extra brownie points for a news item about people who have dropped off the edge of the earth. Like Dick Kamm, last heard of sculpting in Rome three or four years ago ...twelve points for Dick. Tom Huggins brings one half point. Pete New one quarter point. (This is not meant to disparage the name of these two men; quite the opposite: if it weren't for their valiant kind I would be out of business.)
In other words, as long as we are going to be gathered under this banner of the Class of 1949, your Leaders feel that we are going to accomplish the minimum civilities of getting acquainted with the bare minimum of each others' vital statistics. Or else. Or else there will be a new Secretary, and he would have the same assignment as I do ... so give up and cooperate.
Seriously, though, I got a look at the alumni magazines of myriad of colleges my wife has been associated with, and I'm prepared to assert, aver, and asseverate, that we can have a 1949 news column with more in it than the news covering that college's entire thirty years of classes.
We will be announcing in these columns the names of the coy ones, the silent ones, the far-off wanderers, the illiterate ones for turning in undercover reports on whom you will receive the greatest credit.
Tim Rooney, our animal pathologist representative on the faculty of the University of Kentucky, has issued a clarion call for dead horse bodies. Send them to him at the University, I believe, but if necessary I suppose you could drop them off at home. Seems he is involved in a long-term research project under the auspices of the Grayson Foundation, a group which is active in support of such veterinary matters. The U of K is right in the heart of the Kentucky Grass country, so there should be lots of stiffs for our man to work on.
Harry Randall has made it to the rank of bank director. Shows how old we are getting when our men begin to get these august jobs. Harry's bank is the Hillsdale National in Park Ridge, N. J. There is a list of civic type accomplishments following Harry's name long enough to stretch from here to Westwood where the Randalls, Harry, Katherine, and their four bratlings, live. Such as: president of the Borough Council of Westwood; past president of the Westwood Chamber of Commerce; past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association, Assistant County Counsel, really it does go on for pages.
Jack McCurdy, here in my back yard, writes, "I'm leaving Rochester May i to operate a wood products factory in Groton, Vt., specializing in modern primitive coffee tables. Will probably live in Burlington. As you can guess, my attraction to the college locale in part prompts this move."
A very impressive picture of John Gallup accompanies an announcement of his promotion in the Strathmore Paper Co. to the rank of Manager of Product Planning and Marketing Research. So send to John your paper thoughts. John made his way to this eminence by way of department stores and advertising. He is Secretary of the Western Mass. Chapter of the American Marketing Association and vestryman of his church. The list of his past accomplishments in Rotary, Scouts, Y, Community Chest and the like is lengthy. John and Paula live in West Springfield, Mass., with three children.
Ted Baumann has become Assistant Treasurer of the New Rochelle (N. Y.) Agency Inc. A chartered property and casualty underwriter, Ted has been with several different agencies during his twelve years in the insurance business. Ted and Carol also have three children. (What percentage of '49s will end up with three children? I say 50%. We'll have a pool in a decade or so.) Ted is big in his church, the Scouts and various other civic enterprises. Let's face the fact that '49s seem to run their communities. Well, they were educated to it.
Another of our group who is bouncing up the title ladder every other issue of this column is Bob Reed. His latest bump is to Assistant Division General Manager of the Tidewater Oil Co.
There are two possibilities: one that I read the letter from Quent Kopp wherein he remarked of having been elected President of the Barristers Club of San Francisco (an organization of 825 members of the Bar Association at the youthful age of 36 or youthfuller) and wherein he also remarked that he has had his own law office for a couple years n0w,... read this letter and publish the contents; or, second, I did read this letter and was so struck by the contents that I just thought I had published it. At any rate, when you take your overdue trip to the city which is supposed to be the most beautiful in the world, and get into legal trouble, Kopp will lead the 825 young barristers to your rescue.
Ballard, who went to the funeral on Washington's birthday, sent us news of the death of our classmate, John Moore.
