1944

Our class politicians are unseemingly quiet this year. Whit Wells has again been named as Cheshire County chairman for John Pillsbury's bid for the New Hampshire governorship. When he isn't stumping, Whit spends his time conducting the operations of the Monadnock Fuel Oil Company of Keene. Paul Kern who operates a real estate investment company in Orchard Lake, Mich., has obviously become indignant about some Michigan goings on and for the first time has tossed his hat in the ring. For what office and what party I don't know. Just hope he wins.

Last month I mentioned briefly that PhilPenberthy had joined the Consolidated Cigar Corp. I've since received a very complimentary article about Phil in the U.S. Tobacco Journal. Obviously as senior v.p. of the agency handling the Muriel Cigar brand he did too good a job.

Bill Cary was recently elected principal of the Nantucket, Mass., elementary schools. Bill, who got his A.B. at Dartmouth and Master's at the University of Massachusetts, has had an interesting and varied background in schools throughout the state. Have I mentioned that Don Campbell is now back in Hanover, an associate professor of History at Dartmouth and dedicated to seeing that the sons of '44s not only get a good background but good grades? In our foreign department, Don Hinkley and family are now safely settled in Rome from whence Don will direct Pepsi's European operations. Phil Puehner is temporarily making his home in Dacca, East Pakistan and George Cummings is in Puerto Rico managing the El Conquistador Hotel where VIP privileges and rates await the elite of '44. Hanover's own Dick Morse and family are currently making their home in New Delhi, India.

And of course in the military we've got overseas residents with Col. Fred Hickey APO-ing out of San Francisco and Col.Nick Manitsas out of New York. Elsewhere Commander John Craighead is doctoring at Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Commander BobGifford in Charleston, S. C.; and Lt. JohnnyMorse keeping close to the Pentagon, making his home in Silver Spring, Md.

With our less pugnacious doctors, DonMcCreery has settled in Greeley, Colo., and Frank Murphy in Ft. Lauderdale. Jim McClintock has picked Denver as a good medical town; Dr. Ward Weimar goes for Brightwaters, N. Y. I suppose you know that you don't call Frank Ebaugh "Doctor" any more; it's now Dean Ebaugh if you're around Boston U.

KVP Sutherland Paper Co. has announced that Homer Bogart from Kalamazoo, Mich., has been appointed to the post of sales manager for printing papers. Homer first joined the KVP sales department five years ago, bringing with him a decade of experience in sales engineering. Before heading out for Kalamazoo in the late '40s Homer taught and coached in preparatory school. Our source at the Michigan paper company reports that Homer was coaching the firm's basketball team several years back.

For those of you at reunion who were asking where Dave Templeton was, he's making his home in the rubber city of Akron. Malcolm McLoud appears to have joined the horde of migrants who feel that the West Coast is the place to live and the Bay Area is the place on the West Coast. His old cohort John Eaton just moved into a luxury thing on Manhattan's East River and assures me that this is "the," the really "the," place to live. The only more impressive thing, I understand, is Jack Grimm's New York apartment which requires a super-abundance of "the's" to describe. The only hitch is that Jack spends too much time working to enjoy it.

In the field of commerce Walter Olin is out in Littleford, Colo., representing Wells Rutherford of Denver; Roger Clark is coordinator for the Atlas Film Corp. in Chicago; Bob Williamson is legal-eagling it for Harris Intertype Corp. of Cleveland; BillHirons is now with the International Department of DuPont working out of the home office in Wilmington; realtor BillPaine is with the Wasserman Development Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.; and JeremyHodscn is in Washington with the A.I.D. as chief, program operations for the Far East.

I recognize that it is considered "out" to impose on a friend, and "really out" when you don't pay for it, but for you who turn only to your brokers for advice in the gas and oil industries, here's a tip: forget your broker, call Teeny Riggs in Tulsa. At 2 a.m. on June 20, 1964, I heard what would move, what was mired, and what would skid. I laughed, watched, waited, watched and now suggest that the class reassign his nom-deplume from "Teeny" to "Nostradomus." If he followed his own advice we can have an expense-paid reunion at his ranch next June.

Gene Wilkin '45 (r), vice president ofGannett Broadcasting Services in Maine,receives replica of Freedom Bell fromWest Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Genewas inspecting Radio Free Europe sites.

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