1941
Although 1962 is only one month old, I will wager that many resolutions have already been scrapped. I would not be running true to form if I did not welcome the advent of the New Year with my annual appeal to one and all to resolve to make this year a little bit easier for your class secretary by keeping him posted of current happenings in family and alumni circles. The backlog of news generated by the Twentieth Reunion and the summer recess is just about depleted by now and the well is almost dry.
Several classmates contributed immeasurably to my joy during the Holiday Season by rendering detailed reports on their own current activities and on the recent accomplishments of fellow classmates. Despite the excitement of Christmas with the clan, DickPaul sat down the day after to write a newsy account of the blessings bestowed upon the Paul family during the first three months of 1961. In January Dick was promoted to Major in the Air Force. In February Peg presented him with a third daughter, raising the offspring total to five. In March Dick's flying rating was upped from senior navigator to master navigator of a combat crew in the Strategic Air Command, a well deserved promotion for a man with over one thousand hours of flying time. The tenseness of the present international situation requires him to go overseas for one month out of every four or five to stand alert. Dick is presently living in Lincoln, Neb. Because of the proximity to Omaha, he occasionally gets together with GordieRandall.
On the same day, Dr. George Simpson took time out from his busy schedule as Medical Director of the Colonial Life Insurance Company of East Orange, N. J., to forward to me a multitude of newspaper articles on the venture undertaken by BernieDoriss to show his appreciation for his special good fortune during 1961. Bernie owns a palatial home at the bottom of Mandeville Canyon in Brentwood, Calif. Although the disastrous Bel-Air-Brentwood fire in November destroyed 456 homes of Hollywood dignitaries and others in the surrounding canyons and ridges of the Santa Monica Mountain foothills, not one of Mandeville's 500 homes were lost. To show his appreciation to the firemen and policemen of Los Angeles for this miraculous feat, Bernie has undertaken the direction of a campaign in the lower section of the canyon to raise $10,000 as a gift to the Firemen's Widows and Orphan Fund and the Police Relief Association. Serving on this committee with him are such distinguished next-door neighbors as Eva Marie Saint and Dennis Day.
This may sound like heresy to stockholders of the Fifth Avenue Card shop, but in my humble opinion Christmas cards were intended to be a medium of exchanges of "hello" among far-off friends once a year and not as a reminder to the boss to remember the sender at salary-raise time. The cards most appreciated, at least by a class secretary, are the ones on which a classmate pencils a short note about his good fortunes, as Marianne and Dick Jachens and Barb and Don Lade did. Dick's card came all the way from Heidelberg, Germany, where as a Major in the Air Force, he has a one-man job at Main Army Headquarters in Europe as Liaison Officer in the Intelligence Division. Dick, Marianne, and their three children arrived in Germany in August. It took them until October to find a decent place to live because the booming Germany economy makes housing for Americans scarce and expensive. Now that they are comfortably settled they take advantage of every opportunity to tour Bavaria and other parts of Germany. Dick has run into Fred Begole in Frankfurt. The Lades wrote from Reedsville, Pa., that all is well with them and their three children and that Don is enjoying his new assignment as general sales manager of Standards Steel Works, problems and all. They took in the Pennsylvania and Columbia games last fall, where they searched in vain for familiar faces.
Julie Koenig is the proud possessor of one of the most notable success stories of 1961. His new Madison Avenue advertising agency of Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc. opened its doors in January, 1960, with billings of less than $100,000. By mid-November of last year the billings were in the neighborhood of $15,000,000. Julie is the copy writer for some of the best known of his agency's ads, such as the advertisements on behalf of Dilly Beans and Peugeot that have attracted a good deal of notice and much favorable comment.
Public speaking engagements kept several of our luminaries hopping during the latter part of 1961. In October Joe Guidrey, Manager of Sylvania Electric Products data processing center in Camillus, N. Y., addressed an area chapter of the National Association of Accountants on "Centralized Data Processing." Joe joined Sylvania in 1953 and was controller of its Chemical and Metallurgical Division when he was appointed manager of the Company's Internal Auditing Department in 1955. In October, 1957, he became controller of Sylvania Lighting Products in Salem, Mass., and was appointed to his present position in March, 1959. Joe is a member of the Controller's Institute of America, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Cost Accountants. Everett Lord-Wood of West Hartford, Conn., recently addressed the Chamber of Commerce of Greenfield, Mass., on long-range town planning. Ev is head of the West Hartford office and director of the city and regional planning division of the firm of Sterling, Lord-Wood and Suetendael. Before joining this firm, he served as city engineer and public works director of Norwich, Conn., where he was also director of the city planning commission and redevelopment agency. Lee Cone, manager of the physical plant and auxiliary enterprises for Gordon College and Divinity School, recently delivered a sermon at services conducted by the Baptist Church of Arlington, Mass. 1962 promises to be a memorable year for Lee, as he will receive his bachelor of divinity degree this year.
The final bit of 1961 news from "The Commonwealth" is to the effect that during the year Dave Chittim's position with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company required him to move from Westport, Conn., to Wellesley, Mass.
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