1923
Carl Gray's picture appeared in the 35th annual report of United Elastic Corporation. He is president of Graham Manufacturing Company, now a division of Omark Industries, Portland, Ore. Carl, a consultant for Omark, still skis.
Jim Young modestly reports that when a Barre, Vt., organization gets hard up for a president or director, they pick on him. As a result, Jim is president of the school board, a director of Red Cross, Boy Scout Council, Public Library, president of the Vermont Association for Mental Health, Inc., as well as Vermont Association of Social Welfare, Inc. In his spare time, he is a statistical analyst of the Motor Vehicle Department. Jim's main project in 1963 was to see that the Barre taxpayers got their money's worth in the building of their new high school.
Your secretary is passing on to Irish Flamgan a clipping from the New York Times of November 3, 1963, for future publication in Skiddoo. The Times depicts Joe Pollard as a "quiet modest man in Hanover, N. H., who wears a grey felt hat, carries a black satchel, walks with a slight limp, and has seen every Dartmouth varsity football practice since 1934 — he has seen the last 275 games, the longest viewing record in the nation." Dr. Pollard enjoyed seeing Blaik's teams rise to national significance and end the famous "Yale Jinx," the fifth-down game with Cornell, in 1940. This game, says Joe, was the "most outstanding" game he had seen. In the Times interview, Joe compared the military bearing, directness and forcefulness of Blaik, with the thoroughness and tireless effort of Blackman - when the football season ends, Joe takes over hockey, basketball, swimming, and track. Next summer the Pollards retire to their farm in Maine. The Pollards have a new grandchild in Sitka, Alaska, the third child, second daughter, of Charles and Lisbeth.
Alden B. Waugh spent but one semester in Hanover, but is very proud of his Dartmouth and '23 connections. The Waughs moved from Pittsfield to Cleveland in 1925, where Alden is expeditor of National Carbon Company, a division of Union Carbide Corporation.
Paul Morgan was a member of a panel discussion on conventional loans and income-producing properties at the fall meet- ing of the Mutual Savings Bank of Massachusetts. Paul has become an outstanding specialist in sales-leases-mortgages, appraisals, and real estate counselling. He is presently president of the Society of Industrial Realtors. In October, Paul was in Montreal, participating in a joint conference with Canadian industrialists.
Ed Fairbanks is now happily fully recovered from his heart attack of a few years ago. He is treasurer of the Westboro State Hospital, a director of the First National Bank, and a trustee of the Westboro Savings Bank. Last August, Ed and Ruth's son, Albert, was married to a Chambers-burg, Pa., girl.
William A. (Al) Warren, who has served since 1930 on the staff of the Co-operative Bank, Division of the Massachusetts State Banking Department, has been appointed manager of a branch of the Sandwich Cooperative Bank, which is being established in Buzzards Bay to serve the Bourne and Wareham area. Al served with the U.S. Army in World War II, and retired with the rank of a major. Al and Ruth will move to the area of Sandwich.
William C. (Cub) Strong's name has been missing from this column since 1953. Cub received his legal education at Yale Law School, being awarded his LL.B. degree in 1925. He served as judge of the Greenwich Town Court from 1939-41. Since 1950, he has been a member of the State Bar Examining Committee. He has served as president of the Greenwich Bar Association. He was recently elected a director of the Green-wich Savings and Loan Association. Cub is the senior partner of the law firm of Hirschberg, Pettingill, and Strong. He is a director of the Greenwich Water Company, which is controlled by American Water Works.
Gerald Riley, President of the Manufacturers National Bank of Bristol County, presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the opening of a branch bank in Attleboro Falls last September. Jerry has long been a leading figure in North Attleboro's civic and business life. For 25 years, he ran the Attleboro-Plainville Coal and Oil Company. He was elected a director of Manufacturers Bank in 1942, became clerk in 1947, and president in 1949. He is a director or trustee of practically every institution of the city, plus being treasurer of the Attleboro Sun Publishing Company. Jerry's bank is a member of the Bay State Corporation family, a bank holding company, which your secretary's Merrimack Valley National . Batik will join, if the stockholders so vote.
Preston (Buck) Pennell is retired from the Congregational Ministry, and is very happily located with his wife, Ruth, almost on the north shore of Lake Cobossecontee, a bit off from the main highway from Augusta to Winthrop. The Pennells purchased this place four years ago.
Tru Metzel, our '23 Bequest and Estate Planning Program Chairman, reports as follows:
"1—49 men have made provision, six of whom have died: Joe Pick, Wid Bertsch, Heinie Bourne, Al Emerson, Colin Stewart, and Johnny Foster. 2 - By 1955, three years after the Program started, we had a list of 19 men who had made provision and so advised us. Additional names have come in as follows: 1955, six; 1956, four; 1957, one; 1958, none; 1959, one; 1960, seven; 1961, four; 1962, three; 1963, four.
"3 - The 43 men who are 'in' comprise about 8½% of the living grads and nongrads. This is about the same percentage as other contemporary classes, except that 1925 has about 20% in the fold. 4 - Our 43 donors have used insurance, living trusts, outright bequests and contingent provisions to carry out their wishes and their known benefactions run from a number of modest proportions in the $1000 to $10.000 area to a group of five and six figure provisions. 5 — At our 40th reunion last June the class formally adopted a resolution committing the class to increasing the number of benefactors by 45 men before 1968, our 45th reunion. 6 - Annually in the fall your class bequest chairman authors a classwide mailing to outline our progress and ask for support. In addition, about 100 specific appeals go to men who have told us in the past they hope or plan to take action, and to a group of the largest contributors to the Alumni Fund. This annual coverage has been the total effort up to now."
Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.
Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.
