1943
"So that's who you are!" exclaimed Letitia Ewing, wife of Jim Ewing, mother of Jim Jr. 14, Letitia 11, Pat 10, and Elizabeth 7, from their Possum Hollow Road, Wallingford, Pa., home one Sunday when I phoned. "You're the man who writes the green sheets!" "Not so," I countered. "That's Kelley Coffin. He's from Georgia and is much more relaxed in his column than I can be. I've got to have facts, M'am." And facts she gave me about Jim, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and researches. His hobby is sailing on the Mogathy River near Chesapeake Bay. The Ewings recently acquired a new home on the borderline of Rose Valley and Wallingford, Pa. Like many of us, Jim faces the college problem for his son and wonders whether the boy will be up to the Dartmouth standards. The groundwork is laid back in the grammar school if ever you can convince these children.
Ethel Mallory sounded like a nice gal on the phone. Besides, Paul Mallory was busy playing basketball with the neighborhood boys and couldn't be disturbed. Paul is sales manager, container division, Anchor Hocking Corp. and operates from the PSFS Building in Philadelphia. He also is partner in Devon Lanes, well-known Mainline bowling establishment. After five years in the Army, Paul joined Anchor Hocking and was recalled to duty during Korea. The Mallorys live in St. Davids, Pa., on the Mainline and their family includes Paul D. 16, Wright 13, and Christopher 10.
Peggy Dorkey informed me that CharlieDorkey was playing golf on the Sabbath in a conversation held around noon and said Charlie was not due to return for an hour and a half. Charlie is still doing battle in Philly every day in his textile manufacturing business. Peggy will relay the info to her husband (one of our good assistant class agents) that I shall contribute to the Alumni Fund and that he shouldn't panic and telephone if I don't send in my gift until June. Peggy allowed the Alumni Fund is a great thing and that each classmate should really live it up and give it up this year to this very best of colleges. On this matter we agreed, and I asked her not to be too hard on Charlie returning from his Sunday exercise.
At the other fringe of Philadelphia I found Binney Tower preparing for a church meeting featuring a speech by Senator Joe Clark of Pennsylvania. Shirley and Binney have actively developed a Unitarian church group in the Willow Grove area. He reported that Martin (Killer) Kane, the Tetley Tea librettist, owns two homes in Stamford, Conn., having purchased a new home before selling the old. That predicament I've experienced. Binney also spoke highly of Charlie Webb's achievements in several business endeavors. Bill Leo made his annual Princeton weekend pilgrimage to the Tower home, joining the Kanes and Barlows.
You know, I'm really convinced nobody reads this column. Try these for size. If you get ten for ten, you're really with it. From previous columns (with answers below): 1. The first class grandfather. 2. Manufactures beauty shop and barber shop equipment. 3. This earl lives in Orange, heads a machine tool company. 4. Signs himself The Writer. 5. Big hotel man and real estate developer in the northwest. 6. A co-inventor of pneumatic handling equipment. 7. Active barrister in Sir Walter's old town. 8. Really scared the New Haven Democrats. 9. Settled a long-standing debt with the British. 10. Sells clothes to pretty women.
From the press . . . Art Brown resigned as pastor of Bethany Congregational Church, Montpelier, Vt., in April to complete unfinished work on his Columbia doctorate. Having completed all preliminary work. Art felt compelled to give his full attention to the thesis with a deadline of Sept. 1. ... BillSweeney becomes the largest Ford Agency in Franklin County, Mass., by combining his Turners Falls agency with another dealership in Greenfield. I guess Tom McManus and he account for most of the Ford sales in New England, if you believe what you read. .. . Frank Hartmann postcards from London on a swirlwind European tour. Saw the Berlin wall and Northern Ireland, which really isn't as nice as Southern Ireland. ... Warren Taylor, noted thoracic surgeon, appeared on Springfield, Mass., TV demonstrating the pump oxygenator - a remarkable machine used in heart surgery. ... DickLivingston authors "A Single Stall Holds It All" in the O-DY News, illustrating to yachting enthusiasts how he stores his Mobjack boat Bristol fashion in a one-stall garage. Great reading for garage owners whose accumulation of boats, lawn mowers, seashells, Indian corn, and such sentiment keeps the car outside.
Chester Solez, staff physician in cardiology at the Bath, N.Y., Veterans Center, has been promoted to the grade of chief in the VA's department of medicine and surgery. This is the highest advancement of staff physicians in the VA other than in the executive or director's fields. Chester is a native New Yorker, took his M.D. at Harvard, interned at St. Elizabeth's, Washington, with further training at the VA hospitals at Batavia and Buffalo and the Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo. Chester resides with his wife and two children in Avoca.
Answers to the quiz: 1. Rad Hibben 2. John Paidar 3. Earl Harris 4. Eddie O'Brien5. Roy Watson 6. Ray Schroth 7. ThomasF. Ellis 8. Henry F. Townshend Jr. 9. JoeKoci 10. Dick Proctor.
Have you written that note to Jerry VonWedel at the Veterans Hospital in San Juan, P.R.?
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