1931
Another summer has gone - one result is one year nearer to reunion and just imagine, the 35th coming up!
Like so many other things in life, the cost of which keeps on rising from year to year, the cost of publishing has increased considerably with the result of an appeal from the ALUMNI MAGAZINE folks with respect to the number of words we are allotted as follows, "We remind you that these word totals are not quotas to be filled by hook or by crook, but are limits to which we ask you to confine your notes. If you run short now and then, you can be sure that the space will be a gift second only to your annual contribution to the Alumni Fund."
We are all well aware of how valuable our contributions to the fund are so we have a good evaluation, therefore, of how valuable magazine space must be. This column from here on will be written accordingly and kept within limits.
Please don't take the above to mean that news from you isn't just as important as ever, 'cause it certainly is — it just means that I have to edit the material a bit more and not expound as much as I have in the past. So, please keep the news coming in.
This will begin my fourth year of writing the column. The original assignment made at the 30th reunion meeting was for me to go two years, Ernie Moore for the next two and then Bunce Clarkson to be secretary for the fifth year leading up to reunion.
I have enjoyed the job very much, as I have stated frequently in past columns, and undoubtedly will keep on liking the work if you'll just take time out once in awhile to send me anything of interest about yourself or other classmates.
Ernie keeps coming up with the darnedest bits of information, such as an old dogeared, yellowed piece of newspaper headed "Yale Booters Defeat Dartmouth by three to two." It tells about Johnnie Eagan scoring two goals in the first period. There's no date on it, but Johnnie will know, and it probably will bring back fond memories, I hope, John. Another article describes the dress, and a lovely one it must have been, worn by Dr. Charlie Sullivan's daughter, Moira, at the Colony Debutante Ball on June 7 in Boston. She will enter Wheelock College (wonder if Eleazar had anything to do with this one?) in the fall. A letter to Ernie from Ed Brummer dated June 19 states, "I have a medical check-up at Hanover tomorrow. Jack (Bean) is going up with me and we are playing golf with Red(Rolfe)." Sounds like the good life, Ed, congratulations to the three of you. Hope the check-up came out 100% in your favors. Another letter from Ed advises that, "OriHobbs is coming this weekend to talk reunion with me." As you all must remember, Ed and Peg own and operate Woodbound Inn and Lake Cottages at Jaffrey, N.H., so that's where Ori was spending the weekend. Just think how fortunate the Class is to have a fellow with Ori's capability accept the reunion chairmanship (which is the result of one of Johnnie Benson's best all-time ideas) and then to demonstrate his seriousness about the job by getting started on planning for reunion so well in advance! I personally realize Ori's abilities better than anyone because during my sixteen years distributing gas-heating appliances and during the two years I have been with Boston Gas Company I had to compete with Ori's Morton Oil Company and recently to top it off, he was elected chairman of the Better Home Heat Council which is the large and aggressive Metropolitan Boston area oil dealers' association. Incidentally, Dick Knight (Marlboro, Mass.) and Ward Thompson (Manchester, N.H.) are also very successful fuel oil businessmen - guess I'm alone in the gas business, although come to think of it Bill Waterman is in it somehow or other from a legal aspect - how about a note giving a little explanation, Bill?
I certainly slipped off the subject on Ori's oil - my point was to let you know how fortunate we are to have Ori head up reunion and to thank him for getting plans started.
Additional information from Ernie (and don't forget that I stated that he comes up with the darnedest bits of information) is the red-penciled check off name of Robert S. Oelman, chairman and president of the National Cash Register Company, as a member, amongst many other nationally prominent people, of the Congress Advisory Board of The International Management Congress to be held in New York City, September 16-20, 1963. On another program Ernie has checked off the names of four classmates who have contributed to the Harvard Business School Fund. They are Irvin M. Bettman Ir„ Robert V. Dilley, Ronald W. Findlay, Nelson C. Greenlund, and William T. Smith. How the dickens Ernie can read so darn much and pick out names in fine print continues to amaze me. Doesn't he ever stop reading, Angie?
Congratulations are in order for CliffWalker who was promoted on July 1 to vice president and comptroller of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford, Conn. Only (and that's a big only) the vice president part of Cliff's new title is new. Appointed Connecticut Mutual's first comptroller in 1960, Cliff has been instrumental in the revision of company budget systems and expansion of activities in forecasting expenditures, planning, methods, and special cost studies. He joined the actuarial department of Connecticut Mutual after graduation and transferred to the agency department in 1953 to supervise agency accounts and expenditures. Home is on Box Mountain Road in nearby Vernon, Conn.
Those of you who might not have seen Bill Benger's newsletter of June 1, Ed Studwell "disastrously crashed his plane near Newton, N.J., and although injured, walked out of the crash." Hope everything's mended by now, Ed.
Harriet and I met Bunce Clarkson at the Poland Spring House in Maine on June 21 while attending the New England Regional National Home Builders Association meeting at Poland Spring, Me. He and Eleanor had been on their island off the Maine shore since June 4 and had the island all to themselves. Bunce said all was going well.
Bill Wilson sent in a clipping about BobDilley and his political activities in Princeton, N. J. Bob will head up the Joint Committee on Municipal Operations. Bill served on the committee last year and comments, "I can assure you that Bob is taking on a very difficult, but very important, job of public service. Everyone in the community thinks he is the fellow for it." Bob was 1961 campaign chairman of the Princeton United Community Fund. Good work, Bob, and thanks, Bill.
Looks like John Benson will soon be challenging Gaylord Freeman for largest number of directorships. Johnnie is senior vice president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston.
Johnnie Chamberlin, per the Highwood, Ill., News, was running for the City Council. The paper quotes him as stating (and I love it), "Chamberlin believes that anyone who has a lot of suggestions to make about how things ought to be run should also take responsibility for doing something." This attitude, which took him to Washington before, has led him to seek office now in local government.
Football is coming soon. We'll undoubtedly meet at some of the games. I'm looking forward to it!
Secretary, 36 Shaw Drive, Wayland, Mass.
Treasurer, 96 Fair Oaks Park, Needham 92, Mass.
