1933

The indomitable Rideout (George M. that is) is again in the news in a feature article in the Boston Herald. This time as President of the Gravity Research Foundation at New Boston, N. H. George is quoted as saying, "We decided not to establish a laboratory to investigate gravity and its possible control but instead, on the advice of Karl Compton of M.I.T., put together this place to keep the thought before people and stimulate their ideas. How close we are to a solution on gravity is an open question. There is no answer, but the man who is behind it (Roger Babson) has foresight and courage - courage enough to risk his name and fortune." What won't this guy do next!

And there was also in a feature spread in the Boston Herald Magazine - Danton W. Sawyer, President of the Castle Hill Foundation which sponsors "evenings of romance and music in the Italian garden of the Crane Estate in Ipswich." He is pictured with Professor Woodworth of Harvard's Department of Music, the Hon. William Phillips, former Ambassador, and Colonel J. Perry Smith, the business manager.

The American Surgical Trade Association Journal had an article in its July issue showing pictures of a fire that completely demolished Howard Schuemann's Schuemann-Jones Company store and warehouse on June 6 - a $1,000,000 loss. Within a week through the cooperation of suppliers and with the hard work of all employees and some of their families, they were back in business at a temporary location.

The Baltimore and Ohio recently announced Ned Lord's appointment as director of marketing research. Before joining the B & O operation this past June, Ned was manager of field and market research for the commercial research department of the Traffic Executive Association-Eastern Railroads. Ned will be working in Baltimore. After graduate study and work in publishing sales Ned began his career in railroading in 1940 with the New Haven as a traffic analyst. He went airborne with the Air Transport Command, rising from private to major in doing so; worked for a large trucking firm in New York City and the Brown Company, producers of pulp and paper, as coordinator of transportation before joining TEA in 1957. Ned joined the Page Worthingtons for a rainy cookout early in August when he was house hunting.

The Nashua, N. H., Telegraph pictures Harold and Pauline Hackett cutting their 25th anniversary cake and another picture shows Harold (assistant postmaster) selling a block of stamps to the Mayor in the new Nashua Post Office.

Jim Woods' dad, Carl (Dartmouth '04) died on August 26. He was a very active and loyal alumnus and will be greatly missed. The Class extends its sympathies to Jim and his family.

Max Field, executive V.P. of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, appears with Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine on the cover of the magazine Leather & Shoes and again in the Worcester, Mass., Telegram — in both places concerned with import quotas for foreign shoe manufacturers to protect New England industry. Sid Stoneman tells me Lyman Wakefield's picture appears in the August issue of Town and Country in an article on Minneapolis. He says Lyman "looks awfully young." That's more than can be said for the rest of us.

Manny Sprague, president of "Tools for Freedom Foundation," is pictured at a ceremony at which J.F.K. is speaking on the occasion of the shipment of 62 tons of machinery being sent to the Philippines. The purpose of the Foundation is to place used and outdated American machinery, equipment, and inventory with qualified technical and vocational schools in the developing free world countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia. These machines are used for training students. The resulting skills help build underdeveloped economies. 68 schools have been furnished some equipment and 4000 students have been given training opportunities in countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Venezuela, and the Philippines. Hundreds of additional schools have requested help in 51 countries. Any machine tools, welding and woodworking equipment, electronic and science apparatus or printing equipment would be considered for export in this program. Manny would, I'm sure, be glad to hear from any of you who might help in any way (including cash!). Write him at 345 E. 47th St., New York 17, N. Y. Announcement was made in August of Manny's being given responsibility for AMF's Advanced Products Group - the division of the company concerned with defense and atomic energy programs in the U.S. and around the world. Congratulations!

Newsweek's July 1 issue reports Pete Hart had a close call when he and some top Saudi Arabian officials were flying a Saudi Airlines transport near the Yemen border and were fired on by Saudi gunners. Fortunately their aim wasn't good enough to bring the plane down, but those aboard felt and heard the shells explode.

Ted Purcell, S.J., recently completed a year as William Jewett Tucker Visiting Lecturer at Dartmouth and reports his experiences in the April issue of American, the National Catholic Weekly Review. I wish I had the space to summarize his "personal reflections on a problem common to secular and Catholic campuses." Ted says, "I doubt if ten per cent of Dartmouth students ever take a course in which ethics or conscience is systematically treated. Is Dartmouth turning out young men who are adequately equipped volitionally and intellectually to deal with conscience? I hope so, but I wonder." Something to think about!

A lovely wedding picture of Bill Lang's daughter, Marjorie Ann, appeared in Suburban Life (a magazine about the goings on in our part of New Jersey). She was married on August 4 to David M. Smith of Atlanta. She is an alumna of Smith and her husband is in his third year at Emory University Medical School. Jeff Davis's daughter, Barbara, was married the week after Reunion (that's why Jeff and Bea weren't with us) to David L. Delano. Barby is teaching in Melrose, Mass., and Wes Beattie promised to watch over them. David is a graduate of Babson's and is with Home Savings in Boston.

Bob Fox won't tell you in his newsletter, so I will, that his daughter Bobbie graduated this year from Centenary (Hackettstown, N. J.) and is now in Miami at Eastern Airlines Stewardess School. Bob says "Fly Eastern." Their oldest daughter, Susanne graduated in '59 from Bradford Junior, then spent a year in Paris. She is now back in France hoping to study mime under Marcel Marceau. She has acted in New York offBroadway., in the Village and once on TV.

Newspaper-reading classmates in the Boston area will find this old news, but those outside of Beantown should share in the news that Ferrie Hull has been appointed director of research in the research and engineering department of Baird-Atomic, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. In this capacity he will manage the new research group which will embark on an intensified, coordinated program in electro-optics, including optical masers. Ferrie, the author of some 25 scientific publications and a member of many scientific societies, has been associated with the physics department of Sylvania Electric since gaining his Ph.D. from Yale in 1938.

Page Worthington reports that Charlieand Doris Shafer are new grandparents. Congratulations! And that Joe Searing was re-elected treasurer of the Baltimore Alumni Club.

Our worthy treasurer, Geo. Farrand was re-elected assistant treasurer of the Financial Executives Institute.

Remember Ed Thurber, the guy who was always going to be a bachelor? It was previously reported, although you may have forgotten, that he and Mary Jan Bush were married in 1960 and now they have two children and one on the way (it may be here by the time this is printed). There's a good man for you.

Secretary, 303 Roanoke Rd., Westfield, N. J.

Treasurer, Young & Rubicam, Inc. 285 Madison Ave., New York 17, N. Y.