1928

After 34 years in the cordage industry, Art Holden retired December 31 as a partner of R.L. Pritchard & Co., importers and brokers of fibres and burlap. Several farewell dinners were given to pay tribute to "Arch," as he has been known since college. He is building a home in Port Angelus, Wash., on the Olympic Peninsula, for his future residence. It adjoins Olympic National Forest and the spot was selected because he and Grace will have their choice of saltwater fishing for salmon, cod, or halibut or freshwater fishing in the streams and lakes which abound in the area. They will also be reasonably near their cabin on Takla Lake in north central British Columbia. Sometime this month Art will bid farewell to New York, turn in his gold key to The Gaslight, and fly West.

Amby McLaughlin has been named executive vice president of two Littleton, N.H., firms, Jubilee Food Supply, Inc., and Saranac Refrigerated Warehouse, Inc., and of Refrigerated Warehouse, Inc., in Rutland, Vt.

Don Chapman was sworn in February 19 as Exhibit Manager, Office of International Trade Promotion of the Department of Commerce. He leaves March 20 for Barcelona, Spain, and will be there until August 1, when he moves to Dusseldorf. He is enthused over his new job, which will take him all over the world for ten months out of the year, with five months to a country. Peggy and their four children will join him summers until the children are all in college, then Peggy will be free to go with him. Don retired as a Sears, Roebuck store manager last year and got a Master's degree in Business Administration from N.Y.U.

Win Taylor says he wonders if he is retired or not. His day-to-day relationship with J. Walter Thompson ended two years ago, but since then he has been consultant to the English Ford operation in the U.S. He prepares the advertising they do in this country. His daughter Nancy is married to J.H. Jaffer Jr., who works for Esso, and has three little girls. Daughter Carol is with the Audubon Society. Win Jr. graduated from Rollins College, put in his two years with the Army, and is now with Chemiere New York in New York City.

Larry Martin is in the Massachusetts General Hospital with some form of a heart upset. Just two months ago we reported that he had been named chief executive officer of the National Shawmut Bank, serving as both chairman of the board and president.

Charlie Crosby, New York investment counselor, is a trustee of Marlboro College in Vermont. Last summer he was in Japan, India, and up in Kashmir to live on a houseboat. and flew back from Greece. He sees the Dana Condons often - says their daughter Jane is studying in Europe this winter.

"Thayer School professor Bill Kimball is on a six-month assignment as Consultant to Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, and the Area Redevelopment Administration.

Herb and Mimi Sensenig leave Hanover on March 23 on sabbatical leave. They are flying to Lima, Peru, for three weeks for a long-planned visit to Machu Picchu, site of an ancient Inca city on a mountain near Cuzco. Then they will fly to Rio, Rome, and on to Vienna, where they will study for two months, returning to Hanover in July. There was some earnest talk of our accompanying them as far as Machu Picchu, but we couldn't get away from the office at this time.

Harry Jewett is working with Craig Haines' son at Electric Boat Co. at Groton, Conn. .. . Bill and Gertrude Heep spent two weeks with Court and Jane Keller on Key Biscay in Florida in January. Elizabeth Heep was married to Bill Hufnagel of Bronxville last June 23 with Burding, Keller, Treanor and Weser attending. Bill graduated from Williams and is now attending law school.

Jack and Margaret Sugden's daughter Ann is to be married April 20 to Paul C. Plankey of Bristol, N.H. Ann graduated from the Katharine Gibbs School and Paul from St. Michael's College.

Jim Fassett, Orlando orange grower, says he took a fierce beating on this year's fruit but his trees came through better than most. ... The governor of Massachusetts has appointed Dick Sullivan trustee of the Chelsea Soldiers' Home.

Mutt Jennings, vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, was the speaker at the Maine Bankers Association meeting in Bangor, February 12. His topic was "The Shoe Industry in Maine."

This winter the Dartmouth hockey team members have been wearing green woolen hats off the ice which have been knitted by Pearl Phelan, mother of the team captain.

Annual spring outing for '28ers and wives, May 24 at St. Andrew's Golf Club, Hastingson-Hudson. Save the date - details later.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

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