1950

Don't crump on accounta the schlump, chump. Listen to some politico on a primary stump. Compare your own to the other guy's bump. Find a way to climb over the hump. Prime the pump. Get off your rump. It could be worse ... the lump might be a mump!

So with a commercial from the happiness boys to help us exist thru the gloom of another duckboard debacle, let's brighten up with a report about one of the tribe who is

WALKING THE LAST MILE

Larry Huntley and Miss Arlene Whittingham of East Rochester, Pa., are planning a summer nuptial. The prospective bride, a grad of Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C., is home eccy teacher at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf in Providence where Larry is dean for students. From 1954 to 1957 he served as pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Wilton, N. H.

FINANCIAL FOLK

Stan Frederick is another of the many guys who devote time and effort to worthy causes. Currently he's been vice chairman of the State of Washington Heart Fund. In Seattle he is manager of the Francis I. duPont Company office. He and Barb have a quartet of papooses.

Ben Ferguson has been with the National Shawmut Bank in Boston since graduation. He and Nancy see Phil See and Ed Tuck pretty regularly, Dick Ceely and "Fizz"Nichols on occasion, and their three kids incessantly. Offspring include Richard E. (1951), Douglas C. (1954), and Lauren B. (1956) as well as a tiger cat named Clinton (1963). Ferg is serving his third year as treasurer of the Medfield Lions Club.

INKADENTAL INTELLIGENTZ

A long letter from Izzie Stahl last fall sent dues to Si Morand and some interesting observations on the results of our foreign relations activities in Central and South America. Too lengthy to reproduce here, they indicate that it would be quite stimulating to chat with Iz at the Fifteenth a year hence. Sounds unlikely? Not really unless you can't make it because the Stahls will make the haul! From Guatemala that is.

Transient if fairly frequent overseas resident Bill McCallum started the current calendar with two months in Sudan and Pakistan as head of the heavy engineering estimating group at Walsh Construction. He's been everything from rod man to project engineer in the past baker's dozen years since joining Walsh after Thayer. Carolyn minds the home fires and three little Mac's, Jim (six), Bill (five), and Nancy (three) in Franklin Park, N. J.

Another constructioneer is Court Cross who's veep arid clerk for the E. J. Cross Co. in Worcester. Not quite sure whether he was or still is president-treasurer of Redding Corp., dealers in unusual cars. Either way, he and Midge ought to arrive on The Plain a year from June in some sort of classy chassis. Court was prexy of the D Club in Worcester in '62-63 and boasts a boy and two girls, Richard, Wendy, and Virginia, eleven, nine, and seven.

If you're going to be six months early or late for reunion, you might want to contact John Piane for new hickories. He's vice prez for Dartmouth Skis where he's been since 1956. He and Tinette have two daughters, Joan who's going on fourteen, and Michele, ten-and-a-half.

Lou Narva is vice president of Morton's Shoe Stores, Inc., a retail chain near Boston. Lou and Cyra are planning on the 15th though we got no commitment on the children, Ann (nine), Steve (eight) and Nancy (four).

Elsewhere around the Bay State, TomO'Connell has been named president of Berkshire Community College in He'd Been called director. ... Jim Nye is now with the Sherman Textile Co. of Worcester. ... Frank Harrington, our stal. wart and intrepid leader, breezed in and out of the Windy City in January revealing that Ed Tuck had been most effective in round ing up Mid-Centuryites for the Boston Dartmouth Club's 100th Anniversary. The list that follows gives an indication of the turnout: Bob Burrill, Jack Cobb, Frank Dickinson, Dan Featherston, Dave Heptwortk Jack Kent, Bob Kilmarx, Duncan MacLeod Jim Moore, Gordon Pinkham, Tom Ruggles, Phil See, and Andy Wilde. By the time this MAGAZINE is published we'll have had A President's Dinner here in Chicago and it will be good to report as full a list for it.

COAST-TO-COAST

A couple of California professor types have returned to the Eastern shores, one more or less permanently and the other only to depart for the Golden Gate forthwith The more recent journeyer is Dr. Galen E Jones who departed the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla last fall to become associate prof of biology at B. U. New home: South Natick The hit-and-run invader was Pete Bucklin who did consulting work in New York last summer. He and Weylene are back in Berkeley enjoying his sabbatical, writing, and anticipating some schussing at Squaw Valley. No wonder he stayed back east!

Most recent expatriate is Jim McCrum whose latest address puts him in New South Wales, Australia. Can you get further from Hanover without going into orbit?

ATTAIN AND ACCLAIM

Lcdr. W. A. Williams in, U.S.N., will be the "gold" skipper of the soon-to-be-com- missioned "USS Sam Rayburn," a nuclear- powered Polaris sub now abuilding at Newport News, Va. He and Babs have a relatively long stint in the New London area where he's been exec on the "USS John Marshall" for a year and had been navigator on the "Patrick Henry." Congrats on the command, Bill!

Hats off, too, to Bill Stone, one of three creative supervisors with Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn to be made vice president at the end of 1963. Bill joined BBDO in 1954 and worked on American Tobacco, Bristol-Myers, Du Pont, and New York Times accounts. He's super on B. F. Goodrich and Chevron, now. Bill is author of "A Guide to American Sports Car Racing," a book published in 1960. He and his wife, the former Erika Klopfer, live in New York with their two sons.

Keeping up with Jay Wilcox takes a bit of doing. In fact, in the progeny department there's no one among the 50's we know of can top his eight. A couple of you had seven children at last count so maybe two thirds of a dozen isn't an unqualified leader. Any contenders? Even more impressive, however, is Jay's sales achievement last yean a whopping six million plus dollars' ($6 000,000) worth! Since entering the Jay has booked over $30-million, become a life member (no wonder!) of the Million Dollar Roundtable and a Chartered Life Underwriter. Despite the myriad midgets and obviously heavy work load, Jay and Marion also have time for local community affairs in Short Hills, N. J.

Here comes the man with the blue pencil to get us back in line editorially. See ya after Easter. And have a happy!

Prepping for 1964 Olympics in home ofAl Karcher '51 are "candidates" (l to r):Tor Arneberg '50, Jay Urstadt '49, Karcher, and gun-toting Casey McKibben '51.

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