1932
With the issuance of Bulletin No. 3 from our indefatigable Reunion Committee it seems that nothing is left to be said about the great occasion of June 17-19 except to express the hope of seeing all of you there, with family in tow if possible. It will also be interesting to see whether those callow youths of '33 and '34 have weathered the years as gracefully as we elders.
Chuck Adkins, who as president of Briarcliff College has alumnae fund worries of his own, is nevertheless serving again this year as one of Bob Reinhardt's dedicated Agents for the Class of '32. His personal letter of appeal to Alex Christie was rewarded with not only an immediate generous donation but also a most cordial and interesting reply which Chuck thought should be shared at least in part with the Class. Alex says in his letter that the older he gets and the more he sees of the educational process, the more he becomes sold on the privately endowed and privately supported colleges and universities. His daughter was graduated from Wellesley and his son from M.I.T. and now after five years in business is sacrificing time and money to take the two-year Harvard Business School course. Alex reflects that this kind of background is hard to beat and he is more than willing to do his part to help support Dartmouth, which embodies all that he admires most in educational institutions.
Alex has been with Sears Roebuck in Colombia, S. A., for the past four years, heading up the buying organization for a sixstore operation there. Nearly all the merchandise they sell is made or assembled locally and, as he says, it is not difficult to imagine how interesting, challenging and frustrating this experience in an underdeveloped country has been. After a long hard pull he feels that they are at least a respectable, though small, representative of the great Sears organization and are doing their part in a very practical way to help develop this Latin American country economically and socially. Those of you who would like to hear more details can get them first hand at our Thirtieth, which Alex and Helen are planning to attend.
Elly and Margaret Jump with their three children were back east last year for their first real visit here in almost twenty years. Their 10,000-mile tour beginning at Portland, Ore., took them as far south as Williamsburg, Va., and as far east as Portland, Me., where Leyton, age 13, spent a week at the Boy Scout camp while the rest of the family were visiting in Connecticut and New Hampshire. The return trip was topped off with a five-day canoe trip out of Ely, Minn., and a long train trip on the Canadian Pacific.
Leyton is in 8th grade, Janet in 7th, and Connie is a high school junior. Elly, as you may recall, holds a D.M.D. from Harvard, also a Ph.D. from Chicago, and is professor of Anatomy at the University of Oregon Dental School. Both he and Margaret remain active in the work of the American Friends Service Committee and daughter Connie is serving this year as clerk of the Junior Pacific Yearly Meeting (Young Friends).
Mike Cardozo dropped us a hasty note saying that he had accepted the invitation to become executive director of the Association of American Law Schools, a position created at the annual meeting of the Association in December, 1962. The new office will be located in Washington, so Mike says he will be joining in the return trek already started by Marks and McGowan. He will move the family to Washington during the coming summer, but unfortunately can give us no definite address as yet.
A few days before receiving this note your correspondent spotted Mike's handsome mug in the N. Y. Times under the leader, "Law Association Gets Head." The accompanying article provided the information that the new executive director graduated in 1935 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After practicing law in New York for three years he joined the Securities and Exchange Commission staff. He has also served as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General and in the Foreign Economic Administration and the State Department. He is currently professor of law at Cornell University.
Dick Leach has been named to the new position of executive director of programming of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He will arrange for special programs in the various theatres and halls when they are not in use by the Center's constituent organizations. When the resident companies are on tour or vacation, the Center will be host to music, drama and dance companies from all over the world.
Ed Judd has been named president-elect of the Central Surgical Association, an organization founded in 1940 to stimulate advances in surgery and to study surgical problems. The Association is limited to about 350 members, each of whom must have been certified by the American Board of Surgery, Inc., or one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Scotland, Canada, or Australed
was a fellow in surgery in the Mayo Foundation from 1937 to 1940 and an as sistant Clinic surgeon in 1941 and 1942. He has been head of a section of general surgery in the Mayo Clinic since 1942. Ed also is professor of surgery in the Mayo Founda- tion Graduate School, University of Min- nesota.
Don McPhail has been appointed vice president, sales, for Dragon Cement and Standard Lime and Cement Divisions of Martin Marietta. Dragon Cement has mills in Thomaston, Me., and Northampton, Pa.; Standard Lime and Cement operates a mill in Martinsburg, W. Va„ and the joint headquarters office is in Baltimore. These three mills supply a major portion of the Portland cement shipped into the Northeast and Middle Atlantic sections of the country.
Bob Newfang has been elected president of Canfield Paper Co. in New York, succeeding Charles E. Canfield who becomes chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Both these two top officers have spent their entire business careers with the company founded by their fathers, James A. Canfield and Carl A. Newfang, in 1906.
Adios amigos.
Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.
Class Agent, 95 Browning Rd., Short Hills, N. J.
