1930
Our plaintive pleas for news have been heeded by several men whom we thank for having taken pen or typewriter in hand to pass along for your edification whatever hit their minds' fancy at the moment. Now first off, there is a note from Dick Barnard to say that he, as well as Frank Ryder, Pete Lillard, Hal Booma, Alex McFarland, Snub Poehler, Gil Lowery, Les Godwin, and a refugee from the bitter cold of Minnesota returning to his native state on business, Phil Troy, attended the annual Dartmouth Alumni dinner in Boston. Dick opines that this "oldest, largest, and most active" of all the alumni groups is well controlled by our class, for Les Godwin is its new president and he is the new secretary.
Likewise a letter from Jess Lichter who complains that his business has suffered the same type of profit squeeze in Mexico that many U.S. industries have experienced, but who nevertheless wrote from Acapulco where he said they had all gone for a couple weeks of building up strength for another year. Oldest daughter Kathy involved in getting into a college this fall, and Jess in some doubt that what had been offered by the English speaking schools in Mexico City had provided the necessary preparation. Their youngest daughter, aged "6, is attending a Spanish speaking school.
Bud French sent a piece from the Montclair Times reporting on Shaw Cole's election to membership in the American Institute of Consulting Engineers, an organization of men distinguished in the engineering fields. Shaw is president of Pitometer Associates, New York, with which he has been associated for many years. He has authored a number of technical papers and reports, is chairman of the Technical Program Committee of the American Water Works Association and is a registered professional engineer in eight states from New York to Texas.
Another Jersey consultant is Ted Wolf, in the field of maintenance and stores-keeping, who has assisted a number of very large industrial companies to set up more effective and cost saving controls over inventories of maintenance and stores supplies. Last fall he undertook a corollary endeavor, through conducting across the country six seminars in this subject, under the auspices of the Industrial Education Institute. Ted boasts of having joined the grandfather group and is as enthusiastic as all the others. An operation last year apparently did not slow him down, for he had hiked all over Yosemite while out west on one of his trips.
It is particularly pleasing when' a classmate, not heard from in many moons, heeds these pleas and brings us up to date as has Al Smith, a Bucks County squire, sporting the quaint home address of Penury Priory, Doylestown, Pa. He is occupied at RCA in Philadelphia "in things having to do with the marketing of electronic gear in the military must be in rugged good shape for he lives forty miles from his office, drives it every day, and considers fourteen hours his normal day's work. He says he has become an expert in the raising of Great Danes, in the management of recalcitrant septic tanks, and the art of separating unwary Cornellians from important pieces of change in connection with certain football games.
Milt Mclnnes, president of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, is among the sponsors of a Cleveland meeting of the National Railroad Conference Board to be held later this month, presenting discussions of the business outlook, the international business outlook, the N. L. R. B. and several other topics of current interest.
Bill Swartchild, who journeys to New York each December to sit on the Waldorf dais at the annual dinner of the American Ordnance Association, has been appointed to its Advisory Board for the ensuing year.
The first state-operated junior college in Rhode Island has been authorized by the Board of Trustees of State Colleges and is planned to open in the fall, with enrollment co-educational, but limited to graduates of high schools of the State. Selection of a director, faculty and curriculum has been placed in the hands of a special advisory committee appointed by Fran Horn, president of URI. The first year's courses will be general and business in nature, with appropriate year.
Ham South has been named a vice president of the National Commercial Bank & Trust Company of Albany, where he will continue in the same activity of its area development.
Many congratulations to Pete Callaway who has been named publisher of Newsweek Magazine, after a 25year career with Time and Life, where he had most recently been advertising director of Sports Illustrated, and before that, of Fortune Magazine. After Harvard Business School, he joined Conde Nast Publications in 1932, then went with Time as an advertising salesman in 1937. He was advertising director of Time International, Inc., in 1943 before going olf for service with the U.S. Navy and later the War Production Board. In 1945 he returned to Time as vice president for sales of Bryant Paper Co. (a subsidiary), then on to advertising manager and advertising director with Fortune. For Newsweek, Pete as publisher will play an important role in that magazine's long-range plans for "growth in influence, in circulation, and in advertising," according to Gibson McCabe, Newsweek president.
Carl Haffenreffer's son David has been appointed assistant to the director of Merchandising of the Narragansett Brewing Company.
SOCIETY CORNER
George Covell was married January 2 to Mrs. Donald Byers Waugh of Pelham Manor. They will live in Pittsfield, Mass., at 5 Westview Circle. George is first vice president in charge of sales at Berkshire Life Insurance Company.
Dr. and Mrs. John Hartwell Harrison announce the marriage of their daughter Cornelia to Curtis Merrill Scribner, son of Fredand Barbara Scribner, on January 26, Brookline, Mass.
Ed and Elizabeth Butterworth have announced the engagement of their daughter Barbara to Richard S. Cleary of Marblehead, with a spring wedding planned. Barbara is a graduate of Colby Junior College and the Katharine Gibbs School, while her fiance is a Harvard alumnus.
Frank and Dorothy Mitchell have announced the engagement of their daughter Nancy to Lt.jj.g.) Carl J. Cassel of Norristown, Pa., with a spring wedding planned. Nancy is a graduate of Pembroke College and her fiance is a Brown Alumnus.
Charlie McDonough has picked Thursday, April 18, as the date for the next dinner of the New York group, to be held at the Dartmouth Club. Plan on this, for the usual fall dinner meeting was omitted because of the other activities in Boston and Wallingford around the end of October. As usual the set up will be: Liquids on arrival, solids at 7. We will repeat this reminder next month.
The Alumni Fund deserves your early and substantial support.
Harold Leich '29 (l) receives the Commissioner's Award, highest honor whichcan be paid a Civil Service Commissioncareer employee, from Chairman JohnW. Macy. Leich, program planning division chairman, was cited for his work onthe Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962.
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