1933
If the kick-off, pre-Thirtieth Combined Reunion of '32, '33, and '34 tent-gathering at the Harvard game can be used as a guide to attendance and enthusiasm at the Hanover doings on Monday, June 17 to Wednesday, June 19 next spring, we should break all records. A rough head count indicated that 175 Indians, squaws, and papooses were there. 28 of those were youthful-appearing (thanks to the necessity of hats). '33 heads of family: Harv Bloomberg, Stan Colla, ArtConnelly, Connie Corcoran, Bill Dewey (our Reunion chairman and father of this idea for Harvard and Princeton), Sam Gass, HalHackett, Ed Halligan, Harry Hardy, CliffJohnson, Whit Kimball, Bill King, ArchieLade, Bill McCombs, Bill Madden, JackManchester, Tom Maskilieson, John Meek,Bob Mitchell, Irv Prince, Rip Ripley, JohnScanlon, Ev Shineman, Sid Stoneman, JohnThompson, Van VanDeusen and Nick Xanthaky (whom '34 also claims). We may have missed some - our apologies - and some from a distance may have missed because of the threatening weather on Friday and the fact that the game was on TV. Bill King and Bill Madden took justifiable pride in the quarterbacking of their sons who might have made the score even larger had it not been for the vagaries of the winds that made passing dangerous. One of the clan, pleased with our 50-yard-line seats, remarked, "If you live long enough, you get good seats."
John Meek appeared with a bevy of beauties and we had momentary fears for the college funds until we realized that he had his daughter, Sally, and some of her WeHesley friends in tow. We didn't garner much news but did learn from Whit Kimball, who sat behind us with his wife, Ginny, and kept us well posted on the finer points of this modern game, that he is now with Cambosco Scientific Company in the scientific apparatus and supply business. We heard of the coming nuptials of one of Bill Dewey's daughters but didn't get a chance to get the details. Harv Bloomberg exemplified the '33 spirit by appearing with his whole family including son, Jeff, complete with broken leg, cast and crutches. Let's keep that spirit up for June.
Al Terry, vice president and general manager of the Outlet Company in Hartford, has been elected chairman of the Retail Trade Bureau of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce. He was with Macy's until joining his present organization in Bridgeport in 1937. In 1952, Al became a partner and assumed his present post in 1958. He and Jeanette live in West Hartford. They have a daughter, Linda, and two sons, Charles '65 and Donald.
Hank Smith regretfully advised us that he and Helen could only be with us at Harvard in their thoughts but were planning on making Princeton. He wrote on United Nations Day just as the Cuban situation was coming to a boil. Like all of us, he was gravely concerned and wrote in a most serious vein. It is his opinion that "without too much facesaving room in which to maneuver, the only possible solution is world-wide total disarmament. Since the fantastic has become commonplace, the fantastic thought of total disarmament is now possible." He advocates that we do two things, "Pray and get the message around where it will be heard in the councils of the world" and makes it specific to us as individuals rather than to just "wring our hands in impotent anguish. ..." "We might as well go the whole way on what each of us knows must sometime be done if this world is not to become a dead and desolated planet." Those are the common-sense words of our class chairman. Let's follow his lead and take action, individually, in whatever way we can.
"King's Parents Both Athletes" was the heading on a feature story in the local press on Bill and Sue King. It told about Sue as Olympic figure skater and national title holder in the Thirties; Bill as swimmer, diver, and javelin thrower and their daughter, Mrs. Suzanne Hunt, as U. S. diving champion. It indicated that young Billy attained his passing ability, starting at age ten, under the tutelage of his dad, in a game they called "throw the ball over the house." They stood on opposite sides of the house and threw a football to each other. It counted a point for getting it over the house, including the chimney. We suspect that Bill Sr. could still compete today if he lived in a ranch house without chimney.
Thanks to Bill Scherman '34, we have an article written by Paine Knickerbocker, drama critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, for one of our more intellectual national publications in which he gives a very able panoramic view of the theatre on the West Coast. We hope you fellows all read EdHolmes's nostalgic feature story, "The Camel," on page 11 of the November issue of this top-ranking ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Another writer in the clan is S. Heagan Bayles, author of "The Power of Intersensory Selling," recently published for the firm of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell and Bayles.
Athletically, we have two more proud fathers - Jim Petrie and Johnny Donovan. Bruce Petrie was elected captain of freshman soccer. Johnny's namesake is following in his dad's footsteps by playing halfback on the freshman football team.
Bill McCombs, after 29 years with the Patterson-Sargent Co. (paints), subsidiary of H. K. Porter Co., Inc., has branched out for himself as a manufacturers' agent, representing, among others, The Sherwin-Williams Co. in basically the same domestic and Latin American areas as he covered for his former employer. He says, "The children's income looks awfully good at the moment but I feel that I will be able to discontinue smoking O.P.s in another sixty days." Anybody want to buy any paint?
New addresses furnished us: Prof. Weldon A. Brown, 804 South Main St., Blacksburg, Va.; Robert E. Burns, 3145 Canfield Ave., Los Angeles 34, Calif., and Davidson E. Cook, 4117 Great Oak Road, Rockville, Md.
Sid Stoneman hasn't authorized this plug but we know he'll appreciate your getting your Alumni Fund gifts in early since this is reunion year and he will have less time in which to work. Every '33er within striking distance of Boston should make a special effort this reunion year to attend the annual Boston Alumni Dinner at the Harvard Club on Thursday, 31 January. It's stag with President Dickey, a student representative and the Injunaires comprising the program which we are promised will conclude by 9:30 P.M. The Wigwam opens at 5:30.
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