1936

To give some idea of who does what in our National Capital, Bill Yelverton rounded up the story for us. Pushing hard in the legal profession here is Dick O'Hare who is an associate of Tommy the Cork of New Deal fame. During the last presidential election Dick headed the group doing advance work in various states. One of his operators was Jack Kenney who did the job in Minnesota and Vermont. The O'Hare children are: Mary Catherine, at Vassar; Thomas Collins, at Dartmouth; and Christine Liles, at Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington.

Recently Frank Hight, who has been active in real estate in Bethesda, Md., for many years, moved back downtown to become vice president of the Thomas J. Fisher Co., one of the oldest and largest firms here. He is up to his ears in mortgage money. Frank Jr. is with the Riggs National Bank and daughter, Lucy, is now Mrs. Carmichael and lives in New York City.

Fred Mechlin, who says he is starving, is in the steel business with the Crucible Steel Co. Right now he is midway between Pittsburgh and New York after having been his company's representative here ever since the end of World War II. Fred hopes to get his family all together again soon in one of the three cities. Their children are DeeDee, Debbie, Fred III, Thomas, and Georgia, ranging in age from eighteen to three.

The telephone company here, which has had a large Dartmouth contingent over the years, is now being ably forwarded in its activities with the drive of Chick Thompson, vice president for personnel. One of his touchy jobs is trying to work out an amicable living relationship on the basis of equal job opportunities. When not negotiating with the union(s) he still finds time to be on the Board of Directors of the Christian Science Church and the Board of the Urban League. What with these, lots of other boards, and Taffy, Sally and Scott, he's busy.

King Dubay, like so many of us, rests his weary head in Virginia. Unlike a lot of us, he doesn't even leave the Commonwealth when he goes to work for Army Civilian Finance at the Pentagon. The Dubays have three boys, the oldest at William and Mary College.

The Census Bureau, which nobody thinks about except once every ten years, does most of the statistical work for the United States Government - that is, most of that which anyone is allowed to know about. The Bureau's Metals, Machinery, and Equipment Branch is headed by Bill Gray, who makes a sideline of being a professional on cooperative apartments since he is treasurer of one. Now and then he runs into Baxter Fullerton who is a member of the Statistics Committee of the National Machine Tool Builders' Association. Bill's daughter, Caroline, is at Heidelberg College in Ohio.

Holding the record as a traveler, so far as the Washington contingent of '36 is concerned, is Matt Marks. Although he has been with the Treasury Department since 1941, he goes on loan to other agencies whenever we get involved in various economic development plans. Such activity is concomitant to his position as a specialist in international economic matters. The Colombo Plan, AID, etc., are normal vocabulary to Matt. At home he speaks French to his Belgian wife and son, Ramon.

Mrs. Dean Worcester gave us the latest news on Dean who is leaving the Diamond Ordnance Laboratory, where he has been an electronic scientist, to run a 60-foot, three-masted schooner on charter service out of Fort Lauderdale or Miami, Fla.

In the Maryland Hunt Country, BillMinsch, assistant general counsel of the Atomic Energy Commission, is a long-established resident. Besides horses and aspiring to play polo, he deals with production contracts, raw materials, labor relations, compliance, nuclear materials, management, and a host of highly esoteric matters which are beyond the ken of most of us earth dwellers. He still finds time to be a vestryman at St. Francis Episcopal Church and oversee the raising of their two daughters, Katherine and Cynthia.

Still leading a bachelor's happy life, with a handsome Georgetown house and intimate garden, is Chapin Leinbach who leaves such idyllic existence to work at public relations for the Air Transport Association of America.

Fred Gonnerman takes on all government departments selling American industry and its capabilities to the United States Government. His oldest boy, Mike, has finished his first year in Hanover, and did extremely well. Their second boy, Tobey, is captain of his high school baseball team. Susie and Holly, the Gonnermans' two daughters, complete the family.

One of our classmates, John Bouker, who was in Washington until not too long ago, Fred tells us, now is commanding general of the Marine Corps Amphibious Training Command in San Diego, Calif.

Joe Cunningham, of The Players' fame, is still active in such pursuits in nearby Maryland. He runs the Dairy Equipment Industries Association here. Our local class agent, Dick Spong, who did a bang-up job, is with Editorial Research Reports and tries to keep us all informed on what really goes on in Washington and the World.

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