1937

This month's news of '37 is brief. Either your secretary is going to have to get out around the country more, or you people who read this are going to have to send in more items of interest to the class.

Doug Cochran, who wrote in the Twenty Five Year Book that he was "just a country boy and becoming a Texan." just might turn out to be a very handy person to know. Doug has joined Quality Courts Motels, Inc. as reservations manager, and with his wife and four children will make his home in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he will be responsible for coordinating reservations received from more than 500 Quality Motels in the United States and Canada.

Warren Crumbine's boy Peter, Class of '60, was married recently in Woodside, Calif.

Bill Timbers has become chief judge of the Federal District courts in Connecticut; the post goes to the senior jurist on the federal bench in the state. In New Hampshire the Governor has appointed J. WillcoxBrown as State United Nations Day chairman.

When Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson flew into Manchester, N. H., recently to address a dinner meeting of the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers, they were escorted by Senator and Mrs. Tom McIntyre. Quite frankly, it was a thrill for your secretary, and we think it would have been for you, to hear the President of the United States praise our classmate as "effective, hard-working and conscientious" in the job he is doing in the Senate.

The New York Daily News carried a feature not long ago on a member of '37 who left Hanover before completing his four years. Bill Parenteau is top man of the 76 air traffic specialists who man the towers at Kennedy International Airport, and shepherd the 1,000, or more planes coming in and out each day. How did he get this job, which he describes as "supervisor of orderly confusion?" As Sidney Fields told it in the Daily News story:

"In his senior year at Dartmouth he told his father he would rather work than study. So his father sent him to the oil fields where for three years he was a roustabout and doodlebugger, the guy who sets off the dynamite when searching for oil. In 1941 he went to work for an airline. As what? 'In those days you sold tickets, hauled baggage, and listened to all complaints. For relief I'd visit the tower. It was interesting. I began studying so I could get my air specialist's license.' He got it in 1942, worked in a few towers around the country. In 1946 he was sent to LaGuardia and two years later was tower boss. He came to Kennedy in 1960."

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