1933
It is the morning of Christmas Eve as this is written. The last of the Christmas mail has arrived and included clippings from Hanover, a helpful reminder that the February notes are due. Since this is the time of the year for resolutions, we're going to give Charlie Widmayer and Co. a Christmas present by being well ahead of the lanuary 5 deadline. With resolutions in mind, may we suggest that you guys and girls make it a point this year to keep our mail bags full. It is our ambition to mention each one of you in these columns before our term expires at our Thirtieth Reunion in June of 1963. We've got a long way to go and not much time, so let's hear from you all about yourselves along with any information you have on other '33ers.
Our thanks to all of you who sent Christmas cards. We'll share with you the news from those who briefed us on their current activities. We learn from Libby that BillMcCombs has been commuting between Boston and New York for a year but is now back on a more permanent basis at the Pembroke homestead. His son, Bill, is at the University of Maine; daughter June hopes to attend Colby Junior next fall, having just been accredited to the National Honor Club; Jimmy, the younger son, is a high school freshman and, at six foot plus, is already looking down on his balding and bulging pater. With Bea and Jeff Davis' card came a welcome letter bringing us upto-date on their family. Congratulations are due them on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on October 17 last. In March, their oldest daughter, Nancy Morgret, presented them with a granddaughter. In June, Shirley graduated from Vermont Junior College and Barbara from Lasell Junior. Both girls attended summer school preparing for transfer as juniors, Barby to the Eliot-Pierson School at Tufts where she is practice-teaching in kindergarten and Shirley at MacMurray for physical education teacher training. Chip, their only son, has just been elected president of his ninth grade class. Apparently Scotty and George Smith's boys, Stephen 8 and Don 7, take turns getting broken arms. This time it was Don's. George is still at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. They report that Don and ArleneMurray will be heading, in February, for a six months' stay in Spain. Leigh and JustinStanley's daughter is at Colby Junior where they hope to visit her this spring. Mil andErn Turner are definitely planning on attending Reunion in June 1963. How about the rest of you solidifying your plans now?
Helen and Hizzoner, the Mayah HankSmith, inquire about how our daughter, Les, and how we like Colby Junior. Since many of you are faced with the same choice of schools for your youngsters, Helen's question gives us the opportunity of giving you one family's experience in that direction. Both of our youngsters are extremely happy at their respective schools, Colby Junior and Kimball Union Academy, and we have been most favorably impressed with the faculties, facilities, calibre of education and interest in the youngsters as individuals at both schools. We doubt that non-New Englanders would have any difficulties in adjustment since both institutions draw students from a good many states and countries abroad. The big problem is picking the right school for the particular child. We hope that these comments will be of some help.
A welcome addition to our list of new correspondents is Jim Noonan who writes from Mahanoy City, Pa., where he reports on himself in a modest single sentence as being a field statistician with the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. Our records indicate that Jim has been with Noonan Brothers Furniture Co., a banker in Philadelphia and a statistician and accountant with the Air Force and the Signal Corps. We assume, since we have no record to the contrary, that he is still one of our few remaining bachelors. Jim is more concerned with reporting on his brother, Tom, who recently resigned as Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Workmen's Compensation Board to become General Counsel for the United Mine Workers of America, Anthracite Districts 17 and 9 with offices in Hazleton, Pa. Again, we have to resort to our records and find that Tom was with the Department of Revenue after graduation, took time out to get his LL.B. from Temple University Law School in 1940, entered private practice in 1940, served as an officer in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and returned to private practice before accepting in 1955 the position from which he has just resigned. Unlike Jim. Tom took the big step and was married to Helen Kennedy in 1946. They have a daughter, Molly 14 and a son, Thomas 11 and live in Barnesville, Pa.
In November, Bob Niebling, who had joined Lee Higginson Co. in February 1961, became a vice-president of this investment firm, a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to his new connection, he had been director of research for Model, Roland and Stone in New York. Since graduation from Tuck School, his whole career has been spent in the investment field where he has served in executive capacities with Wood, Struthers and Co., Utilities Mutual Insurance Co., Lionel D. Edie and Co., Inc., Mellon National Bank, and Prudential Insurance Co. Bob and Polly live in Short Hills, N. J., and have two children, Michael 21 and Kate 19.
John Reed has been named acting president by the board of trustees of the University of New Hampshire, effective December 1. He succeeds Dr. Eldon Johnson, recently resigned, and will serve until a permanent successor to Johnson is named. A professor of botany, John holds Master's and Doctor of Science degrees from Duke University. He has served as dean of the graduate school, special assistant to the president and dean of the College of Liberal Arts since his appointment to the UNH faculty in 1956. Prior to then he had served in both professorial and administrative capacities at Amarillo College, Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of Wyoming. In 1951-52, he served as a consultant ecologist in the Belgian Congo under the Point Four program and became secretary of the Ecological Society of America in 1954. He and Mildred live at the University in Durham and have three boys; John 23, Robert 20 and James 17. Our congratulations to brothers Noonan, Niebling and Reed.
We regret to report the death of LeeEckels on December 3 in Pittsburgh. Further details appear in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue.
Clarence Tallberg now lives at 34 Purdue, Pocatello, Idaho; Bill Shaughnessy is now with the Ford Foundation, 12-14 Broad St., Private Mail Bag 2368, Lagos, Nigeria. Let's hear about it, Bill.
Secretary, 80 Mooreland Rd. Melrose 76, Mass.
Treasurer, Young and Rubicam, Inc. 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.
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