1935
Three items for the column this month come to mind right away, with the peculiar feeling that they should in some manner be related. I think I will just let you all take it from here.
The number one item involves a new office boy who took a $4,000 coffee break. Unlike Uncle Reg Bankart, the new office boy was not an oldtimer at Compton Advertising in New York. He had worked for the sion to stop for coffee on a trip to the bank to get Reg's payroll. It turned out to be, according to the World Telegram & Sun, "one of the longest and most expensive coffee breaks in history." He hasn't been seen since.
If he's still running, he should get some useful advice from Harry Knott, whose attractive and speedy daughters Sandy and Sue have been breaking all the women's track records that they could lay their feet upon. Harry has recently moved his advertising business (H-K Promotions) to St. Louis. Encouraged by the success of his own girls, Harry has been working hard for the development of women's track, which has been sadly neglected in this country. In the short space of a few years, his remarkable daughters have taken the United States women's outdoor record in the 880, the 440 and in the indoor 880. In the process they have proved, as Harry says, "that women athletes don't have to be Amazons or dopes." Sue is described in a feature article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as an honor student who plays the French horn and likes boys. She ought to like that office boy. She's probably the only one who could catch him.
Both girls represented the United States in the International Games last summer and are almost sure to be members of the American Olympic Team for the Tokyo Games in '64. When not trying to catch up with his daughters, Harry is general manager of a national advertising organization dealing particularly in redemption certificate incentive programs for retail outlets and food manufacturers. He has two other younger daughters, a boy of 12, and a wife Beverly who still holds the campus high jump record set more than thirty years ago at New Britain (Conn.) State College. Ha! The secret is out. It wasn't Harry's incentive program at all.
Item number three. It is a matter of some gratification to announce that James S. Holden, a member of our Class, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It is not clear that this necessarily means that he has been running too. Jim has been Associate Justice since 1956, and if you are not familiar with this fact it only proves that you have not been in Montpelier, Vt., recently. The prestige is considerable. but it is a little disturbing to find that the salary received by the chief justice is $12,100, and for those of you who can vote in Vermont I think you should do something about this.
Those are the three items in question. I have received, however, from the College, the brochure about the Dartmouth Summer Term with its glamorous pictures of the female invasion of Hanover Plain. Since this is a running column, you may conjure up the second line of "Dartmouth's in Town Again." But thinking of those middle-west speedsters you might be interested in the plight of two young men who enrolled at Mercy College in Detroit recently and found that they were the only male students on the campus with 950 girls.
As far as I remember, Sam Milesky lost his enthusiasm for track after his freshman year, so his recent activities cannot follow the leitmotif of this month's column. He did write me from Madison, Wis., how- ever, after Russ Wilson's death. Sam says his work is "constantly taking me into new fields. In addition to supervising schools for the deaf and visually handicapped, I find myself enmeshed in teacher training, recruitment, social work (child care and placement), rehabilitation, new methods of reproducing large print text books, exploring new methods of teaching the deaf. .. . It's all engrossing though not quite what I trained for." Sam's older daughter is a junior at the University of Wisconsin preparing for social work and his younger one Barb is a junior in high school "busily engaged in being the prettiest cheer leader of the century." Sam may not have trained for this work but he has been one of the outstanding leaders in his field for many years.
Running into the Dartmouth Club the other day, for lunch, I found myself sitting near four voluble fellows who were discussing organic intermediaries. The one nearest turned out to be Charlie French, sales manager of the Pfister Chemical Co. The others were from Yale, Holy Cross, and Villanova, so you can see the Dartmouth Club has become quite cosmopolitan. At the next table were Hobe Griffin's brother Budge, Class of '44, and his sister Michelin, who had just returned from overseas where her husband is in business in the Far East. A lot of confusion with Charlie, since his father Charlie was '06 and there is another Charlie, Class of '24 who, of all things, makes paper boxes.
To turn to the Hanover scene for a min- ute the local political situation has been clarified by combining the old Board of Selectmen with the Precinct Commissioners into a new five-man Board of Selectmen. Among those elected to this important town and "own responsibility is Don Cameron. The Hanover Gazette recently carried the following article about another Cameron, herewith quoted in its entirety: "David Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cameron of 8 Brewster Road, found an unusual job for this past summer by doing market research in France. David is a senior at Williams College."
The merger news about Art Allyn's firm (A. C. Allyn & Co.) with Francis I. duPont you have gleaned from the Tear Bag. You also know, I guess, that Ed Mitchell is back in New York, having been appointed assistant to the president of Texaco after a long foreign tour which included Chicago. Just to keep my end up. however, you should know that Herb Shuttleworth's company (Mohasco) is in the news again through acquisition of Futorian-Stratford, a Chicago manufacturer of upholstered furniture. Mohasco, incidentally, is now the world's leading manufacturer of carpets. Herb himself was also recently elected to the board of trustees of the Albany Medical College. Got to run along now.
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