1930
No use procrastinating longer, the usual batch of notes received by Hank Embree in his dues collecting effort has not arrived, and the events we would like to talk about won't happen until the next installment is due; nevertheless we will try to keep this more than mildly interesting.
Dean Wiggin became a grandfather for at least the fourth time on September 12 when his son, who is resident surgeon at University Hospital, Cleveland, became the father of a daughter, Susan. This no doubt augmented the fervor of Dean's statement to the press ten days later upon being named president of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention. The long-respected parliamentarian, who is also serving as president of the State's Constitutional Convention and is a former speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, was quoted "I intend to devote my full energy toward keeping New Hampshire's elected representatives 100 per cent Republican on November 6, and I urge all Republicans throughout the state to join together today to insure a Republican victory."
Fred Scribner, former Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, has been elected a director of Atlas General Industries, Inc. He is presently general counsel of the Republican National Committee and served as chairman of the 1962 Maine party convention. In Illinois, we find that Bob McClory is the Republican nominee for Congress from the new 12th District of Illinois, after having served as an Illinois state senator for several years.
Yic Borella has been appointed by President Dickey to the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn, on which he served previously from the Board's establishment in 1951 to 1956, and then again from 1958 to 1961.
On May 29, while driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike, Gordon Shattuck suffered a heart attack, but managed to stop his car before losing consciousness. He was rushed to the Framingham hospital, and about a week later was transferred to Springfield Hospital. He was not able to attend the graduations of his son Arthur from Brown University or his daughter Mary Anne from the McDuffie School, Springfield. Certainly all of us hope that he has regained his health sufficiently by now to resume an active schedule.
Jack Rich, who is president of New England Gas and Electric Association and a trustee of Mount Holyoke, is serving as a director of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce for the year to September 1963. He is also a director of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Palm Beach Company, and the Algonquin Gas Transmission Company.
Once or twice a month we run into KirtMeyer on the New Haven, who mentioned he had seen Milt Shultz in New York in the latter part of the summer, adding only that Milt had severed his association as director of admissions of a junior college in Reading. Kirt and Mildred had been to Europe during the summer, in the course of his work at Macy's. He has been so many times that he says one of the few advantages of such trips is the opportunity to get away from the telephone.
Harrison Dunning '60, son of HarryDunning was married September 1 to Miss Jo Burr Frederickson in Birmingham, Mich. The young couple will live in Boston where Harrison is attending Harvard Law School and Mrs. Dunning will continue work for a master's degree in political science from Boston University.
Then there was the story in the Times about the student group busking all summer in Paris, with Gil Low '6l, son of Ev Low, as its guitarist. You might not know what busking is without a look through the archaic words in Webster's compendium, so to save you the trouble, the definition most closely approximating this effort is, to quote Noah, "To go about offering goods or entertainment in public houses." To elucidate, this group of Americans studying in Europe had been serenading sidewalk cafe patrons in various sections of Paris, to while away the summer months, and incidentally to provide read, wine, and the rent, before the resumption of fall classes. Gil, as you know, is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Here is a late summer clipping about Fred Schmidt, son of Fred Schmidt, having placed second in the 200-meter butterfly event of a men's invitational swimming meet held in Portage Park, Chicago. And just yesterday, Michael Horn, son of Fran Horn, led Harvard to victory in the first official Ivy League sailing championship on the Charles River Basin, giving Harvard the first leg on a trophy donated by Bus Mosbacher '43, skipper of the America's Cup defender, Weatherly.
Sam Stayman was married on September 21 to Mrs. Josephine Lewis Wacht of New York, formerly of Tulsa. Sam, one of the most prominent persons in the contract bridge world had never seen his bride play bridge and was quoted as believing that she plays "country club bridge." Congratulations to you two, and best wishes for many vulnerable grand slams.
Some weeks after the late lamented stock market decline Hughie Johnson, a mutual funds expert, was quoted "Mutual fund shareholders recognize that a corrective operation in the market was needed and that it has been performed successfully. (We know several individuals who don't think it was so wonderfully successful!) Fund shareholders know that they will participate fully in the long-term growth pattern of the economy and the rising securities values representative thereof." So what is the market waiting for?
Some months ago we wrote that Dr. Joe Placak had left Cleveland to live near Asheville where he had owned vacation property for many years. Now it is learned that he has become the director of an Executive Fitness Program conducted at the Try on (N. C.) Medical Associates to provide group medical testing for executives of corporations in a less hurried environment than prevails in similar services available in large cities. Joe has been medical director of several large companies in Cleveland, but has had something of this nature in his plans for some years. He has several hobbies which can be pursued more easily in North Carolina, including a greenhouse for botanical experiments, a radio transmitting and receiving facility, and he is also an acknowledged student on Mark Twain's writings.
"George Washington High School in New York City is one of the largest in the country. It has a student population nearly twice that of Dartmouth College, and nearly fifty different nationalities are represented. Henry Hillson is the principal of this school and is doing a grand job in this tremendous responsibility, utilizing the assistance of six deans and eleven counselors. With an educational philosophy of making a high school program flexible and seeing to it that each student has work to fit his capabilities, together with adequate controls, remarkable individual and group achievements have been attained from the student body, which operates on four shifts, and where the IQ's range from 60 to 170, with students coming from homes in all walks of life. Henry is recognized as one of the finest educators in American secondary schools.
Now it is timely to enter a plea to hear from some of you who have been quiet for a number of years. Since taking on this assignment in 1960 we have had something to say about barely one-third of our class membership, and while it is a good thing to have frequent news of many classmates, possibly some of you find it monotonous to read about more or less the same men month after month. For instance, how many years is it since this column held anything about Clint Ahern, or Horace Drew, or EdFrost, or Dan McKenna, or Dick Squire, or a hundred others? Pretty soon it is planned to write to some of the non-communicative group, asking for anything they can report, sending each one a stamped return envelope so that there will be no excuse for not putting something in writing to your secretary. Any one who will contribute enough for even one paragraph will be appreciated as a real collaborator.
Dick Parker '30, chairmen of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University, deciphering Egyptian cuneiformtexts, from the 7th century B.C., foundin Thebes. Brown University Press recently published another of his books.
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