1943
Just about anything I could write about Bus Mosbacher would be anticlimax. He's made practically every paper, radio, and TV broadcast this past month. I heard him praised in a Miami motel and a Chicago hotel, read his feats in the Atlanta Journal, and received at least twenty letters from classmates and alumni with newspaper clippings from everywhere. Bus really made it and big with his sterling victory in the Weatherly. America's Cup will rest where it is, thanks to his crew and him.
Chuck Feeney's San Francisco Giants played the cliffhanger in their final game with the Dodgers, proving that a team that won't be beaten, etc. . . . I'll play the odds, pick the Giants . . . because Mary Margaret and husband are such nice people.
Gerald E. Peterson, assistant vice president, Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis, is the new head of the bank's Consumer Credit division. After W. War II duty in the AAF and a brief tour with IBM, Gerry joined Boatmen's in 1948. He is a member of the Missouri Banking Association Committee on Installment Credit and is a past president of the Installment Bankers Association of St. Louis.
Thanks, Don Reich, for sending your annual bill for membership in one of America's select groups, Dartmouth 1943. Money is forthcoming. . . . Incidentally did I tell you last spring that Don Reich is now a vice president, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn? Don was appointed secretary of the company in 1954, and during his career with Mergenthaler has been director of planning and administrative assistant to the president.
Several issues back we featured GeorgeVan Petten and family in native Japanese dress looking for the road to Tokyo. After three years in Japan, Van found the right road and is now based at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., as Chief of Surgery. Grace, Van and their boys leisurely motored across the U.S. this summer and observed that while the U.S.A. is an expensive place to live, we still get a lot for our money. Amen.
Norman Johnson has managed a career in Consolidated Edison, New York City, and the New York Air National Guard as well. Pete just made Lt. Colonel in a tour that included the Korean conflict with its 106th Bombardment Wing. . . . Many classmates are still active in the military reserve for many reasons, not the least being devoted patriotism.
Not many can touch Miles Lasser's community activity in Jamestown, N. Y. A certified public accountant, Miles has an important post in this year's Community Chest-Red Cross drive, and in the past has actively participated in the Chamber of Commerce, YMCA, Jamestown Community College, and the James Prendergast Free Library. In 1957 the Jaycees named him Jamestown's Man of the Year in accepting and successfully fulfilling his civic responsibility. Gloria and he have three children.
Versatile . . . that's Harold Lindley. He owns and operates Nantucket's famous Ships Inn and is president of Foam Plastics, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. In a teacher shortage this year Harold commenced teaching sixth grade in the Nantucket school system. The Lindley family consists of three boys and one girl. Harold is intrigued with the moulding and fabrication of polyurethanes into insulation, commercial packaging, air ducts, etc., and has a yen to sell his inn and concentrate on plastics. Running an inn on Nantucket sounds like something right out of Robert Louis Stevenson. Any takers?
"Sound management, adequate sales education, and excellent customer service are the most important ingredients for the profitable operation of any wholesale enterprise," says Bill Davies, president, Davies Supply Co., Chicago, in a recent trade paper. Might I comment not only a wholesale enterprise but any business which wishes to survive. Bill has been quite active in industry activities and lives in Lake Forest with his wife Barbara and three children.
New residents of Ft. Wayne, Ind., are John M. Jenkins, wife Mary and their four children, including Robert Mecklin Jenkins, their latest acquisition. John is sales manager for the Royal Lace division, Standard Packaging, Inc. and occasionally has seen Larry Noble in New York City when Larry has come up from Puerto Rico.
Looking forward to a Hanover weekend on October 19. Don't expect to see Kelly Coffin now established with Aetna Life in Atlanta. Kelly will be producing "The Clanging Bells" soon and will need to hear from you. This class is on the move and we're doing things. Let's hear about them . . . and you.
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