1925

For those of you who are starving for news after three months of silence, during which it is hoped everyone got a full measure of enjoyment from the opportunities of the summer vacation season, a few items of interest have trickled in from various sources.

Hal Rider has been elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Fairfield County Trust Co., largest commercial bank in Connecticut with resources in excess of $236 million. Hal has been with the bank since 1932 and president since 1946. The name of another of our wellknown bankers appeared in the news when Jock Brace received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College with the following citation: "Although a plainsman by birth, your New England tradition and livelihood, far from plain, is exemplified in your physical and intellectual courage, be it skiing the Headwall of Tuckerman's Ravine or implementing a complex business development worldwide in scope. Your financial acumen is attested by your many directorships, your broad capacities by your Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and your human concerns by your trusteeships of two colleges, a hospital, and several foundations. Wisely choosing the shores of Penobscot Bay as your second home, you appreciate and blend the many beauties of Maine with your joy in nature. We delight as we make you a Bowdoin son, to make you that much more a part of Maine itself. Honoris Causa, Doctor of Laws."

Still another banker, Lane Goss, has been made chairman of the board of Worcester County Institution for Savings. Lane (apparently keeping in step with Hal Rider!) served as president since 1946 and currently serves on the Research Committee of The Savings Bank Association of Massachusetts and on the Government Securities Committee of the National Association. Carl Bridenbaugh, Brown University professor and a leading American historian of the colonial period, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bill McNulty has been elected vice president of the New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Companies at Trenton, N. J., with whom he has been associated during the past 22 years. Of immediate importance to the class was the election of Frank Kennedy to serve as a member of the Alumni Council's Executive Committee.

A few weeks following the annual Boston dinner, the following letter was received from Hampton, N. H., signed by LangSpring:

It certainly was a pleasure to see you and the rest of the tribe at the class dinner. This group I dig the most! Speaking of tribes, I wish to report a new Indian for '67 - our son Francis Langdon Spring. We're delighted that he's going up to Hanover in the fall, although naturally we'll miss him here. It's the old story about not having one's cake and eating it too. (This sounds like one of those mixed metaphors about which we were warned in school, from earliest days!) For years I have been one of those of whom class secretaries complain, and with good reason ("they never tell us nothin' "); however tonight I have another item; Leslie, our first granddaughter. She lives in San Francisco, and while we have heard her (on the telephone) we have not seen her except for photographs. I shall not go into details (for fear of becoming a pest, like Fred Flintstone is about his daughter) - so just let your imagination run riot!

While on the subject of letters, we got one also from Sherm Barnett for a purpose incidental to which the following was written: "All goes well with me. I've been fighting cancer for the past few years but so far it hasn't kept me from having fun practicing law in Winnetka, Ill., under the name of Barnett, Whitman and Kauffmann. Also I was elected Township Tax Collector two years ago for a four-year term. I agreed to take the job for two reasons: First, I couldn't resist the challenge of seeing what could be done with starting out each spring with 40,000 taxpayers mad as hell at you. Second, I was intrigued by the thought of having checks aggregating around $14 million come in to me each year. I can't even do that well in the law practice."

A postcard picture of the T. S. Bremen, flagship of the North German Lloyd Line, was received early this summer from Emilyand Herb Talbot stating briefly: "We spent some time in Hamburg and then went on to Copenhagen for the World Congress of the Rehabilitation of the Disabled. This ship is very comfortable and we look forward to a good crossing."

Ford reports that early in August, Juneand Ed Dodez dropped by for a "good twohour chat on the porch." Ed said that WallyWallis had said that he should relay a bit of info to the secretary via Ford. (Wonder if Frank's office is short of paper and pen or even pencil!) While on an extended vacation, Ed and June ran into Wally and Ellie at the Hotel Nova Scotia. They were guests of Commodore Anderson of the Boston Yacht Club, aboard the schooner "Lord Jim" in Halifax for the finish of the annual Marblehead-Halifax race. Ford closed with the following item: "Our Priscilla (she calls herself by her middle name, Darden, as you may remember) is enjoying summer school at Dartmouth. Last night we had thirty boys and girls here for a steak roast. I think they all had fun. They were up at the grill singing 'til after midnight." Such is one of the joys of living in the college community.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St. Waltham 54, Mass.

Treasurer, RR. 1, Box 134, Chester, N. J.