1930

Arrival of football ticket application forms today means it is time to take the old typewriter on my knee and try to keep the accumulated news of the summer within the wordage bounds set by our good classmate, ye editor of this journal, so, without further ado, we're off:

Ed Butterworth has been planning, plotting, and plugging throughout spring and summer for our October 10 reunion in Woodstock. He promises a lively time and is predicting that 150 persons will sit down to dinner at the Woodstock Inn that evening. Possibly Charlie Widmayer will find it in his heart next month to give this chronicler a few days' grace so that I will be able to report on the reunion, rather than have it have to wait until the December issue, by which time it would be real cold turkey.

We attended commencement this year to see our son graduate, happily on schedule, and ran into quite a number of classmates and wives in Hanover for the same purpose - the Lee Sturmans, the Ned Grants, the Milt Shultzes, the Jim Clarks, the FrankRaths, the Ed Brazils, and the Lee Chilcotes. We saw the Dickersons and the Widmayers momentarily somewhere along the line, possibly it was with fried chickens in hand at the alumni luncheon in Leverone, frantically, even as we, searching for an empty chair or two in that enormous dirt-floored arena, with about 4,000 others like minded. This is a tip-off that if you are ever going to such a luncheon, get there early - the fried chickens hold out, but the seating doesn't seem to. But back to the Class of '64, other of our classmates having sons graduating were Paul Freeman, Ernie Latham, Herb Christman, and Don Hight, and we note that Shaw Cole's son, Brewster, received his degree as of '6l, after time out for three years of military service. Congratulations to all these young sons of '30, and especially to Frank Rath Jr., and Jonathan Sturman who graduated cum laude.

The big moment in this year's annual shareholders' meeting for Bausch & Lomb, Inc. (at least as far as 1930 was concerned) was the announcement that Al Marsters had been elected executive vice president and general manager of the company's Ophthalmic Division. Al joined Bausch & Lomb in 1956 after many years in the optical industry elsewhere and was elected vice president shortly after. When the company was "divisionalized" in 1962, he became general manager of the division he still heads. Al and wife Esther enjoyed a five weeks' trip to Europe recently.

Not being a Walter Lippmann or an Arthur Krock, I am going to refrain from analyzing the political news of the summer, but let it be noted that Fred Scribner and Meade Alcorn were in important posts at the Republican convention in San Francisco, and certainly all of you are well informed as to the part played by Nelson Rockefeller. Fred has been reappointed to the post of general counsel to the Republican National Committee. Eleanor French is running for Congress from the 17th district in New York City; she was one of two from New York State on the Democratic platform committee. Up in New Hampshire, Bill andMildred Putnam's son, Kendrick, is running as Democratic candidate for Grafton County Register of Deeds.

In August, a well known advertising man. Buck Steers was elected chairman, and continues as chief executive officer, of Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield, Inc. Buck was one of the founders of this agency in 1944. He is also vice chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and a director of both the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the National Outdoor Advertising Bureau. In June he had added another responsibility by his election, during its annual meeting, to a one-year term as chairman of the National Better Business Bureau.

Charlie Rauch, our redoubtable chairman, was elected to the position of executive vice president of Connecticut Savings Bank, while continuing as treasurer of the $200 million New Haven institution. Biographical notes in this announcement, supplementing those appearing in our 25-year book, show that Charlie is an instructor at the annual graduate school of savings banking held at Brown, a director of the Taxpayers Research Council, and a member of the Corporate Securities and Portfolio Management Committee of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks.

Win Stone has been appointed dean of New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has been professor of English at NYU recently, formerly was secretary of the Modern Language Association, and spent part of the last year in research in England. He is a widely recognized authority on 18th century English literature.

One of the chief lecturers at the 21st annual Life Underwriting School held at University of Connecticut in July was ManuelGlass, C.L.U., general agent in Hartford for United Life and Accident Insurance Company, speaking on and moderating a day's program devoted to "Prospecting Business Insurance." The Berkshire Life Insurance Company in July announced the resignation of George Covell, its agency vice president, whose further plans had not been divulged.

Bart McDonough has had a long career at the recently renamed John F. Kennedy Memorial Junior High School in Woburn, where he has lived all his life. He has been elected its principal effective July 1, after having served as vice principal for the past 23 years and its baseball coach for the past 29 years. Bart and Margaret have five children. He has been in the educational field all of his working years, earning his master's degree at Tufts, and in World War II spending two years in the Navy, instructing in athletics and later in aerology, emerging as a commissioned lieutenant.

Here in Stamford, the indefatigable RedGould has added golf and a new and bigger boat to his repertoire. Started playing golf last year and recently was highly pleased to have shot an 87 at Garden City. On a summer Saturday this dynamo might do all of the following: 18 holes of golf, two sets of tennis, about two hours of fishing out in the Sound, another hour or two manicuring his lawn and shrubbery, and finally officiating at a cookout. Yes, he could still pick up and carry away that 100 pound bag of WaltDresser's fertilizer he won in the raffle at our '49 reunion!

The Orange (Conn.) National Bank is a newly organized institution which induced John Coppock to leave Great Barrington and become its executive vice president. Connecticut bankers attending the ribbon cutting ceremonies were Charlie Rauch, representing his bank, and Si Chandler, executive vice president of Connecticut Bankers Association.

In alumni affairs, Harry Dunning was elected vice president of the General Association of Alumni for the ensuing year and Charlie Raymond was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Rhode Island.

Carll Buhler now has to step aside as the leader in the "last baby derby," for the Governor became the proud father of Nelson Rockefeller Jr. on May 30.

Fred and Priscilla Bowes mixed business and pleasure to have a seven weeks' European trip.

I had a good letter from George Porter who has availed himself of Pillsbury Mills' early retirement option, and has removed to Washington where he once practiced patent and trademark law, to resume in this field as a partner of Geib & Porter. He and Lois hope to hear from any Thirtymen who may be in Washington, and he lists his office at the Washington Building, 15th and G. Streets.

With all of the foregoing I have covered about half the available material, so what with running out of column space for this issue, the rest must wait to see if it can be squeezed in next month with the account of the uproar 1930 will have created in sedate Woodstock. For the same reason, the numerous notices of nuptials of children and of births of grandchildren have been sent along to Charlie Raymond to be chronicled in a forthcoming Thirtyteer.

Happy Columbus Day to you all.

Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr. Stamford, Conn.

Treasurer, 6 Emerson Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass.