1943

This is written while looking out my hotel window over the broad Atlantic. The short, rocky New Hampshire shoreline somehow remains unspoiled, and my family enjoys this annual return to Rye Beach. Called Bob Pelren to come down for some Rye on the Rocks. Ann and he are getting those twins off to college this fall and promise to visit us in Pennsylvania.

Hardly a day passes without mention of that dashing skipper Bus Mosbacher and his exploits with the “Weatherly” in the Amer- ica’s Cup trials. Fact is that J.F.K., Jackie, and Caroline have been sharing Time and Life with him, including pictures, and his record at the helm lives up to the praise. Time even made a terrible pun about him with a caption it was time to take the Bus (when the race committee chose “Weath- erly”). Were I the Aussies racing this for- midable opponent, I’d head for down under.

It’s my sad duty to relay news of Cory-don Taylor’s death. (His obituary appears elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue ) Cut down in the prime of life by cancer. Corky had waged a long and valiant fight. His widow, Brenda, told me there were many memorial gifts sent by friends to the Amer- ican Cancer Society. We are saddened by his loss.

A native Clevelander and active member of the Dartmouth Club there, Charlie Long-field has been ap- pointed assistant sales manager for Republic Steel Corporation’s Cleveland district sales office. He joined the Republic sales staff in Cleveland in 1955 as a salesman specializ- ing in stainless steel, and in 1959 he was named a full-line sales- man. A World War II Marine veteran, he was recalled for duty in the Korean conflict. He lives with his wife and daughter in Shaker Heights.

’43’s good showing in last year’s Alumni Fund earns praise for George Munroe and his excellent team of aggressive agents. Par- ticularly pleasing to me was the inclusion of several names long missing from the donors though one in particular failed to show. He knows who he is, and 111 be after him next year.

Thanks to Abe Winslow ’2O for the clip- ping on Jim Adams, who manages the Pen- insula Homes Cos., Redwood City, Calif., and is one of the Peninsula’s most active realtors. ... Thanks to the Class of 1912 and its editor, Conrad E. Snow, for sending me its monumental Fifty Year Book fas- cinating material. This group like ours had their careers interrupted by the first war and then scattered world-wide to pursue all kinds of lives. Sobering thought: what will we be putting in our fifty-year book and whose labor of love will it be? Thirty years pass quickly.

Talented Relly Raffman, associate profes- sor of Music at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., received an ovation when he con- ducted the first performance of his “Jubilate Deo” for chorus, brass, and organ at the 12th Annual College Choral Festival held in Burlington, Vt., in May. The work, mark- ing Relly as one of America’s most promis- ing composers, was commissioned by the Festival.

Up the ladder. . . . Harvey Daniels, ap- pointed vice-president of The First National Bank, Minneapolis, is a well-known financial analyst and has been with the bank since 1946. .. . John Robinson of Upper Mont- clair, N. J., is now executive vice-president, Medical-Surgical Plan of New Jersey (Blue Shield). John started with the Hospital Serv- ice Plan of New Jersey (Blue Cross) in 1947 and transferred to Blue Shield ten years later. Married to the former Helen Haines, they have daughters Carol and Ann. .. .

John Danhof, one of our few career rail- road men, completes move #2O for the New York Central System (eleven states and Canada since 1946) in his new position as Division Superintendent of Grand Central Terminal and Hudson Division at New York. John and Shirley live with daughters Kathy five and Judy three at Valhalla, N. Y. John should be convenient to our midtown New York classmates who belong to the Dartmouth Club at the Hotel Commodore. Saw Bud Hall there at lunch recently. Nice place.

Smed Ward has taken another jump up- ward in Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation’s Isotron department which will mean jump- ing wife Alice and four children from Ber- nardsville, N. J., to the Philadelphia area. Smed, who has been northeast district sales manager for Isotron, has been promoted to sales manager-Isotron Refrigerants with headquarters in Pennsalt’s Philadelphia of- fices. He went with Pennsalt in 1957 from a sales position with Gulf Oil, also in the Quaker City.

Doug Perry has practically been running two pediatric practices in Bristol, Conn., while awaiting the arrival of a new associate. The Perry family includes three boys and a girl with the oldest boy, David, attending Lenox School in Lenox, Mass. . . . Doc Fiel-ding has the making of a best seller in his new book, “The Childbirth Challenge: Com- mon Sense Versus Natural Methods” pub- lished by Viking Press. It was excerpted in the June McCall’s as “The Medical Case Against Natural Childbirth.” . . . Ted Hop-per, residing in Cranford, N. J., works with FMC Corp. in their Princeton Research Center. Esther and Ted are raising Laura Lee 13, Martha 11, and Brad 9, in the gen- eral confusion of Little League, Cub Scouts, PTA, and other youthful divertissements. . . . Bill Woythaler reports that life at the Sum- mit (N. J., that is) is fine and that while life in the computing business is sometimes hec- tic, it is an interesting way for a mathemati- cian to make a living. Works for Curtiss Division, Curtiss-Wright Corp. and reminds us that Charles (Bud) Clark and Robert(Red) Krumm live in the vicinity. . . . HerbHarrigan has made the full circle re- turned to the same county as his birth (I think) by moving to Hatboro, Pa. 161 Crooked Billet Road. Pray, Herb, what is a crooked billet? A carry-over from Philadel- phia politics?

Political note. . . . Bill Seidman has been named the 1962 Republican nominee for the State Auditor General’s post in Michigan. Bill was handpicked by George Romney against strong competition (including an al- legation that there might have been some Democratic past in hi ml. If elected, he will be the first CPA to hold this finance post since 1944. Well-known in the Grand Rap- ids area, Bill was instrumental in the devel- opment of Grand Valley State College in western Michigan. Most political analysts think Bill’s choice will greatly strengthen the Romney campaign, which is causing considerable national interest.

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