1921
A little on the oblique, two 1921 fathers will soon figure in international news: HalBraman and Cliff Corbet. Hal’s son-in-law, Cdr. L. S. Smith Jr., USN, is going to become Co-Commanding Officer of the new submarine, the “Daniel Webster,” skipper of the gold crew in full command when at sea. With a range of more than 5,000 miles, twice that of our present nuclear subs, it can hit any target in the world. Old subs were horribly crowded. In the spacious quarters of the new, officers and men, deep down in oceans for 60 to 70 days at a time, may read good books and listen to classical records in off-duty hours. Smitty goes down; Barry Corbet ’58, son of Cliff Corbet, goes up. Invited to join the 1963 U. S. expedition to the Himalayas, he had a two-weeks’ shakedown on Mt. Rainier last month and heads for Asia next year. He must leave his understanding wife Muffy, their young son, and their 17-unit, newly refurbished motel with 1500 feet of sun deck in Jack- son, Wyo.
Miraculously, John Sater ’sl, who for the Office of Naval Research runs the Ice Floe Station, Arlis 11, 750 miles northwest of Barrow, Alaska, was able to fly home in June to comfort his father, Ken Safer. Ken was suffering from the brutal shock of hearing at 3:15 a.m. over the long-distance telephone that his younger son, David, who in apparently perfect health had just com- pleted his junior year at the University of Colorado, not only had been found dead in his room but also that his body had lain there for two and a half days undiscovered. It was a completely unexpected coronary thrombosis.
Despite the loss of his right eye six years ago after two unsuccessful operations for a detached retina, Pick Ankeny continues to play better than respectable golf, and GeneLeonard presses hard the man who played for the varsity for four years.
Here is news to interest Pick and Gene, Connie Keyes and Ray Mallary, Bud Reich-art and Phez Taylor. That handsome Psi U, George Beaudoux, President of Boulevard Sprinklers, Inc. of Whittier, Calif., has never felt better and has no thought of retiring. His older son Robert was killed, aged 22, at Iwo lima in 1945. George Doc still to us —lost his wife in 1956. He married Louise, July 28, 1961 in Sun City, Ariz.
“No more. Never again,” says the ex- mayor of Tiffin, 0., who has served no fewer than five times. Allan Kernan, now devoting himself to the Senecan County Building and Loan Company, has his little joke. He says that he is slowing down.
After 45 years of smoking Walt Lunde-gren has had to quit. A heart attack con- fined him to the hospital from June 15 to July 10. It was tough quitting. Now back at work able to do anything appropriate for a man of his age, Walt hopes to fly with Mary to visit Betty and Ottar in Iceland next summer.
Norm Carver recently visited in New- foundland his son Bob, trained as a jet pilot but now co-pilot of a flying tanker. Norm, a crack golfer, wanted to have an- other crack at the Hanover course, but the rains descended.
The Cleveland Foundation of which Ell-wood Fisher is Chairman in 1961 dis- tributed nearly $2,000,000 and increased its endowment by nearly $11,000,000 to bring its total book endowment to more than $41,000,000 though of course the market value is much greater.
Shortly before Frank and Barbara Liver-more sailed from New York on the “Car- onia” for a North-Cape cruise to visit 23 ports, Allen and Alice Brailey left Brookline and Newton Highlands for their first Ber- muda visit. With Joan in Huntington, L. 1., and Allen Jr. on the banks of the Missis- sippi, they expect to do considerable travel- ing.
Bob Wilson recently got front-page pub- licity in Okinawa when in a three-day trial he successfully defended an American part- ner of a local real estate firm in charges implicating him in an alleged scheme to de- fraud U. S. service men.
The first half of 1962 was miserable for Ed and Molly Luedke. A particularly violent flu attack after an accident involving broken ribs laid Molly low and kept her below par until the middle of June, but the summer restored , her, and you will see her at the football weekend with Ed, that volatile vice president of International Breweries.
Here is a news item to interest MikeDoran and Jim Wicker, Burt Chapman and Alex Youngerman, Tom Cleveland and Howie Ransom. With a license in New Hampshire BUI Fowler has become a real estate broker. Recently he sold a large house to Ogden Nash. Bill mans a trident sailboat, much enjoyed by Dick ’54 and Posey Piane Fowler on vacation. Just right for two per- sons in bathing suits, more seaworthy than the sailfish, it might be something for Boband Dottie Burroughs on their trout pond free of otters.
That potential football star, Lee Tebbets, in Hanover 1959-60, a transfer at Wabash before entering the Marine Corps for duty until 1965, spent some of his leave with Kandy and Lib Childs after he finished boot training at Parris Island.
What does a large and important Pack- ard dealer do when Packard folds? GordonShepherd solved his problem with eclat and distinction. Formerly President of the Hill Motor Sales Company (Packards), he is now President of Shepherd Foreign Cars, Inc. (Mercedes Benz) in Oak Park, 111.
Paul Poehler ’3O, Assistant Superintend- ent of Lexington Public Schools, knows a good man when he sees one, and he does not forget. Phil Noyes taught him French and Spanish in Cushing Academy 1924-26, along with Bette Davis. Recently in the Marion area Paul visited the New Regional High School and Phil’s classes and found that time had only mellowed him. An offer for Lexington Senior High was forthcoming with salary and assignments so attractive that Phil could not afford to say no.
John Hancock has again honored JackGarfein. In a recent company monthly mag- azine, circulation 8,000, his photograph ap- peared with laudatory comments. For 15 consecutive years Jack has received this award, the National Quality, as a salesman in the Golden Gate Agency in San Fran- cisco.
In our freshman year Jack in 52 Wheeler and Ralph Pendleton in 53, on top of the world, felt great. Ralph and Jack, who had not seen each other since 1919, a lapse of 43 years, had a reunion in San Francisco this summer, and their wives had a chance to listen to chat about Wheeler and 1921.
Henry Palmer, visiting in the East, took in Boston, New York, Stamford, Cape Cod, Jersey, St. Louis, and Hanover. Henry drove the whole way to and from California, 8,- 500 miles, but Mary with a limited vaca- tion had to rely partially on planes. Secre- tary to a bank president in Pasadena, she enjoys the work. Retired, Henry enjoys the leisure.
Although in the process of gradual retire- ment, Dud Robinson, still traveling widely for Torrington, put in a couple of weeks in Ohio. He and Helen, now fully recovered from her past illness, winter in Florida.
Now working for Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Nelson Smith, jaunty after a successful minor operation, vacationed with Terry in New Hampshire and in California where he looked up GuyWallick.
Chuck Allen has answered yet another call and after four years in Salem has gone to his ninth Methodist Church, in Chelsea. . . . Bill Codding, who misses Abe Weld at the Dartmouth Club, continues as a text- book salesman on a free-lance basis. .. . On June 17, Father’s Day, Chick Stiles began a paternal strut just as if he, not Bob, Martha’s husband, were the father of a seven-pound infant Randall Robert Stiles. What could one expect? It was Kellie’s and Chick’s first grandson.
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