1941
Perhaps the biggest frustration that a "reporter" can experience is to have a much thought-about headline go up in smoke. My heart sunk when I awoke early on Saturday, November 3, took a look out the window and realized that my hopes of beginning this installment with "Just returned from New Haven with my powder horn full" were about to be shattered. Maybe I will be called a turncoat but the ferocity of the weather dissuaded me from making my annual pilgrimage to the Yale Bowl. Thus for the first time since I have had the pleasure of being your class secretary, I am compelled to scrap the accustomed habit of reserving the month of December for re- porting on the current activities of '41'ers encountered in portal 1. At least SnuffySmith was among the small contingent of braves on hand to witness the Herculean feats of a great Big Green eleven.
Unlike the large number of football "greats" who tend to fade into oblivion after leaving the college campus, our special contribution to the annals of Big Green gridiron history continues to capture the headlines. Lou Young recently formed a new company known as "Young & Goff," with offices in the Western Saving Fund Building, Philadelphia. Lou's new company will provide services to financial institutions located in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey, which will include site evaluation and selection, work flow and space allocation, remodeling, branch bank development, interior design, and installation of interior fixtures. For the past thirteen years he has been associated with architectural and engineering firms specializing in the field of bank design.
Another one of our juggernauts is still putting to good use natural abilities inherited from his illustrious father and valuable pointers learned from "Red" Blaik. WernerNeudorf is coach of the football and track teams at Foster High School in Seattle, Wash. He also heads the physical education department at the school. Unfortunately all is not "peaches and cream" with all of our classmates. For those beset with misfortune things always seem to come in bunches. "Neudy" and his family have had their share for a long time to come. His first child died of leukemia at the age of 5. Then followed the ordeal of a very serious operation on his wife, the death of his mother-in-law several years ago. and the recent passing of his father, preceded by two years of blindness and ending a lifelong career of renown in physical education. For many years Werner's father was responsible for the physical condition of Harvard's football and basketball teams, track squads and crews. To top all this off, Werner was incapacitated for four months by a serious back injury sustained in a 35-foot fall from a scaffold. Despite all of this, I have never seen such spunk and fortitude as was evidenced in a letter that Werner recently wrote to Stu Steffey. Nor have I ever heard of a more sincere expression of loyalty to Dartmouth than in this following quote from Neudy's letter - "Believe you me, I love Dartmouth and think the world of my alma mater even though we are 3,000 miles apart."
This seems to be the month for the education field to draw top billing. On September 1 Malcolm Scott assumed his new duties as Assistant Director of Admissions at the University of Florida; in which role his chief responsibility will be Admissions to the Graduate Schools. He left his post of Admissions Counselor at Rollins College in beautiful Winter Park, where he has spent the past nine years, to assume this new assignment. Prior to entering the education field Malcolm spent four years as a field engineer with a Cleveland firm. Before going to Rollins he served three years as Director of Admissions and an instructor at Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Way out west in our other sunshine state Bill Belding of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., was recently added to the Palos Verdes Advisory Board of Marymount College. Bill has been associated with the Broadway-Hale Stores for the past ten years and he is now manager of one of its stores. He is also a member of the executive board of the Torrence, Calif., Chamber of Commerce. In Palos Verdes, where he has lived for the past seven years, Bill has been an energetic participant in various school district activities.
Everywhere we turn 1962 seems to have been a banner year for most of our classmates. Last time I heard about Bill Cashel it was through the good offices of his wife, Marie. Now it is via the headlines announcing his appointment to the newly created post.of general manager of Diamond State Telephone Company. Bill started with the telephone industry as a student engineer in Philadelphia in 1946, since which time he has held various managerial posts. He is also a director of his company, a member of the Greater Wilmington Development Council, the Delaware Safety Council, the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Wilmington General Hospital.
Did you ever hear of the YPO? I didn't, not until I read the latest release on Bob Lawrence, founder of Robert Lawrence Productions ten years ago. It stands for the Young Presidents' Organization, an organization of men and women who have become presidents of million-dollar companies before reaching forty. Bob is the newlyelected vice chairman of its Metropolitan New York Chapter.
Just about this time last year Walt Kuhn of Indianapolis succeeded his father as president of Guarantee Auto Stores, Inc., a midwestern chain with which Walt has been associated since 1940. He started in the automotive business in 1939 as a mechanic's helper in a local garage, where his job consisted primarily of cleaning out oil pans. He spent the following summer in Guarantee Auto's warehouse. After fifteen months of selling, he became a store manager and eventually went to the home office, where he was responsible for merchandising, sales promotion and personnel work. During the year 1955-56 he served as the 8th president of the industry's Second Generation Club. Walt is currently president of Automotive Associates, a member of the Board of Cordovan Associates and Hook Drugs, an Indianapolis-based drug chain.
So much for 1962! "Old Time is still aflying." Every current year seems to flee by more rapidly than the previous one. Already another Christmas is upon us. THUS my very best wishes to one and all for a Very Joyous Noel and Happy Holiday Season.
Secretary, 84-39 126 th St. Kew Gardens 15, N.Y.
Treasurer, Room 2820 525 Wm. Penn Place, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
