1935
Where to begin? Another year has started for these class notes and, mirabile dictu, for the moment the problem is not news but organization of news. Perhaps I should begin, therefore, by sticking to local advices, for example, that Bob Ulman has moved to Chappaqua, N. Y., my home town, and to my home district in Seven Bridges to boot. I can see his name on the lists United Fund, Boy Scouts, PTA, Chappaqua Dads. .. . Fair warning, Robert! Washington was never like exurbia.
Meanwhile, Hugh Wolff has reversed the english and migrated from London to Wash- ington, where he is now with the Office of International Resources, Bureau of Eco- nomic Officers, Department of State.
Other governmental intelligence should include the appointment of Capt. Charlie Sewall as Assistant Chief of Staff for Naval Reserve and Training at Boston. Charlie is one of the few USNR’s who dropped the “R” and made the Navy his career.
Former class head agent Ted Harbaugh has been named a vice president of the Libbey glass division of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. Ted will also continue in his present job as gen- eral sales manager for Libbey. A Toledo na- tive, Ted joined Ow- ens-Illinois at Libbey’s plant in that city in 1938 and transferred to sales two years after. The war years saw Ted taking leave from Libbey to serve in both the Navy and the Marines. He was a Marine captain when he returned to the company in 1946.
In civilian pursuits there has been con- tinuity also. Lowie Haas has just completed 25 years with United Airlines, a fact I at- tribute to his charming the management with that hot clarinet. Carol, his eldest daughter, has been at Middlebury, a fresh- man last year.
Frank Wright has been bursting into pub- lic print recently as v.p. and treasurer of Aid, Inc., whose ads pushing their coin-op Westinghouse installations may have caught your eye in the Wall Street Journal. (A 22Vz<p dividend on common par value SI.OO per share caught mine.) Perhaps Frank might work out a deal with Byron Tomlin-son who, as you may remember, has been in the engineering and construction business ever since he built the Oak Hill ski tow which set the trend away from rope tows as the first bar tow in the country. Byron is at home on a big farm in Newtown, Conn., gets up to Hanover a couple times a year to attend Thayer School meetings, and in his spare time functions as president of Tomlinson and Hawley, Inc. “We do general building construction, principally for indus- try and churches. We have been and are busy, but like most other folks see a mil- lion dollars go through our books with an ever declining profit balance. Between taxes and union demands, it is a tight squeeze.”
What this deal obviously needs, therefore, is a banker. The other day I found one who approached me on the banking floor of the First National City Bank at 53rd and Park while I was cashing my pittance and ad- miring the palatial surroundings. A heavy hand descended, which I took at first as that of a suspicious bank guard, and a voice inquired “Aren’t you Bill Fitzhugh?” It was Walt Gless, v.p. of the joint, no less, who had descended from his rarified aerie to mingle with the common herd and have lunch. Walt has had an enviable career with City Bank including a stint in Liberia. He still maintains an active interest in African affairs but presently works mostly on gen- eral corporate and board of directors mat- ters at the headquarters office where I saw him. He lives in Garden City, L. 1., where his two oldest girls have just graduated from high school. Looks much the same, except that he has developed a certain crispness in manner, which may be a pro- fessional defense mechanism for bankers.
I had another chance encounter the other day on the sidewalk in front of my office. I saw Sam Stern scurrying northward under full steam. By the time I had decided it really was Sam Stern he had disappeared. Another banker who should be in the news this month is Bud Fraser. The Cleveland Press carried an article and his picture on appointment as v.p. of the Central National Bank, Cleveland, O.
Diamond Alkali Company of Cleveland has announced the elevation of Jim Hughes from senior vice pres- ident to executive vice president of that or- ganization. Jim is also a director of the com- pany. He first joined Diamond Alkali in 1955 as treasurer and was elected a senior vice president in 1960. Jim received his law degree from Yale in 1938. Before joining Alkali he had been vice president of Affiliated Gas Equipment, Inc. Jim and Elizabeth live on Pepper Pike, Ohio, and have four children. Son Jim is Dartmouth ’65.
News also percolated via the grapevine that Ty Carlisle has opened up a handsome new Carlisle-Alien store in Niles, O. He is giving Lazarus a run for his money. Inci- dentally, Ralph was just appointed a Tuck School Overseer.
On the business front there are several other items of interest. Galo Emerson has been elected a director of the National As- sociation of Retail Confectioners and seems to have extended his Putnam Pantry from Danvers, Mass., to West Palm Beach, Fla. This is a geographical arrangement which has some elements of interest.
Bion Wheeler has been promoted to Fi- nancial Secretary of the Massachusetts Mu- tual Life Insurance Company. Bion joined Mass. Life in 1934 and was appointed As- sistant Manager of the Comptroller’s Depart- ment in 1949 and made Assistant Financial Secretary in ’53. According to an article in a recent insurance magazine, he is an asso- ciate of the Life Office Management Assoc, and is credited with having attained the highest grades in the country on two of the exams. You might be interested also to know that he has the responsibility of pre- paring his company’s tax returns. Just off- hand I would think this would be quite an operation for an insurance company.
Sid Simons of Simons Hardware in Bos- ton has just been elected president of the New England Iron & Hardware Association.
Another new president is Dr. Jules Brom-berg who was elected to this office by the Radiological Society of New Jersey. This society is an organization of doctors spe- cializing in x-ray diagnosis, radiation ther- apy, and isotopes. Jule is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, is on the staff of the Martland Medical Center, New- ark Beth Israel Hospital and Bellevue Hos- pital in New York. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology, New York Univer- sity School of Medicine. In between times he is a member of the South Mountain Fig- ure Skating Club. I am glad to know that fall-out is in such good hands.
Dan Cotton, self-styled happy timberman, sailor, and salesman from Cohasset, Mass., has sent me some news from Bob Glidden, who is with International Harvester in Illi- nois. On the side, he has been very inter- ested in educational matters, serving as a member of the Board of Education and even as Special Deputy Sheriff in Batavia. “Oc- casionally we sneak off to fish and hunt. About three years or so ago took an interest in trapping and was able to secure three fine buck mink which we had tanned and made into a scarf.” I wish we could use that system in New York. Bob took an A.M. from Boston University after leaving Dart- mouth and then continued graduate work at Northwestern while teaching in the evening. Two sons, Mark and Dave, are headed for the Episcopal priesthood after graduation from Lawrence College. Dave was just grad- uated as valedictorian from high school last June with achievement scores which would make you green with envy. It’s good to hear about Bob. He has been out of touch for quite a while.
Massachusetts being currently hot in the political news, perhaps you would like to know that there is also a campaign there for Secretary of State. On the Republican ticket “to restore this year honest and sane government, and in future years to help maintain it,” is Harris Reynolds, attorney- at-law, described in the news as an ener- getic, experienced, and brilliant trial lawyer. Johnny Wallace is spearheading some Dart- mouth support for Harris and Doug Ley is acting as treasurer in an effort to mobilize some dollars for this purpose. We may get Massachusetts straightened out yet.
Secretary, Hog Hill Road Chappaqua, N. Y. Treasurer, 305 Grosse Pointe Blvd. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
