1935
Recent news from Hanover, it seems to me, takes precedence over class news — of which there is not much at the moment anyway. If you are up on college affairs you know that there are plans to put in a new computing machine, a GE 235, for student and faculty use in developing the techniques of this modern age. It is said that 75 per cent of all students will have "quick and easy access" to this computer system, which will be equipped with sixteen teletype remotes scattered around the campus for fast and even simultaneous service. "A problem with a few thousand steps will be answered in seconds." Reminds me of the encounter with an auditor the other day whose two step addition I questioned. He unlimbered an adding machine to check his total, no teletype connection being available. Proved me wrong, too. I couldn't read his figures.
But imagine the frustration of taking a math exam knowing that the computer could give 100 answers to your problem in seconds; the temptation to bug the computer for a particularly stiff exam in theoretical economics. Think of the problems of the computer crew, operating with sixteen teletypes clattering in their ears, knowing that GIGO was the order of the day: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Fritz Hormel has got a pretty good computer set-up going for the Alumni Fund around the New York area, which is in full swing under the general class leadership of Bus Latimer. Fritz has the job as first regional agent. He has established a cooperative team system which will greatly lessen the burden on the individual assistant agents. I missed the Fund meeting in New York last week but there was quite a turn-out of thirty-fivers including Jim Boldt, who is in charge of the Singer Sewing Machine exhibit for the World's Fair; BobBoehm, whose legal practice in real estate matters takes him all over the city; Richter, Saunders, Luria, Rapf, Brush, Fisher, Hall Colton, Sherwood, and Ritchie. Bankart was at the head table, along with President Dickey and other notables. Hormel was impressed by the President's relaxed attitude and the increasing elevation of his forehead which gives him, full face, a remarkable resemblance to Ernest Martin Hopkins.
Hall Colton I keep running into all the time at various paper meetings, the last being TAPPI during Paper Week here in New York. He has a very interesting job in Industrial Engineering for the Continental Can Company.
Just in case you wondered, the "Ralph" Bonner referred to last month is properly Bob Bonner. Don't know where the Ralph came from. We have another Bonner, too, last heard from in Torrington, Conn., but he's Bill. Another Woubleyou Woubleyou, in fact.
And speaking of Bankart (which I have difficulty in avoiding) I discovered him the other day dining at the Dartmouth Club with a young and winsome damsel. He spoke right up, though. Claimed it was his daughter. It now appears that this must have been something of a special lunch for not two days later I discovered in the public prints that Mr. and Mrs. Henry ReginaldBankart announced the engagement of their daughter, Beverly, to Robert J. Sbrilli of Highland Park, N. J. Sic transit Beverly
Less common is to find the old man himself getting married but according to the Washington Post (Beebe's rag) this has just happened to Charlie Sewall, Capt. USNR, who married Jean Otilia, Lt. Cmdr. USN, on January 11 in Silver Spring, Md. Charlie is Assistant Chief of Staff in the First Naval District in Boston.
In the excitement of getting Mills and Naramore off to Panama last month I forgot to mention that Doc has become one of the new proprietors of Stonehenge, a well- known Ridgefield, Conn., hostelry. Just tell them you know the boss. ... These doctors need civilian help. Bill Harwick, for example, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kahler Corporation of Rochester, Minn., and the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis. He was just re-elected secretary of the Board of Governors of Mayo Clinic where he has been since 1938 with responsibilities in the field of general and medical administration of the clinic.
Minneapolis was, as you know, Shelleyand Bobb Chaney's home town until BBD&O shunted him to New York not long ago. Bobb became an adopted Gothamite with great speed and it has been hard to keep up with him. Typical is the junket made a few weeks ago at the invitation of Al and Minnie Dodd to the Patriots' Ball sponsored by the Freedom Foundation in Philadelphia where the annual award was made this year to Col. John Glenn. Bobb danced with Ann Glenn, which is sort of like being a satellite to a satellite. Marianne (Minnie) Dodd is executive secretary to Dr. Kenneth Wells of the Freedom Foundation as well as being the mother of four Dodd daughters and one son. Al still fights the battle of the casualty department of the Travelers Insurance Company.
The big news, however, is that Bobb has decided to switch jobs and move to Toronto, Canada, where he will be the managing director of Young and Rubicam's big Canadian operation. He just couldn't stand the warm winters in New Canaan. But I have a sneaking suspicion he'll be back in New York one of these days. Good luck, Bobb.
The news of the New Hampshire primary should be historic by the time you read this but you should know that Paul Cummings, editor and publisher of the 115-year-old Peterborough Transcript, has been concerned about the quandary that New Hampshire voters found in their choice of a Republican nominee. Paul filed as an uncommitted delegate since he believed that New Hampshire voters have no single choice for the nomination. As a home town weekly newspaper editor, he should know.
John Gregory is a glutton for punishment. He has just announced his candidacy for a second three-year term to the Wayland, Mass., School Committee. "If re-elected," Mr. Gregory stated, "I will continue to work for superior education for all of Wayland's children within the town's ability to pay." He swiped our Middle School principal, Bruce McGill, to become principal of his high school not long ago so his name is mud around here.
I hate to close on a sad note but immediate mention should be made of the death of Howard Ransom and Guil Richmond, to whose surviving wives the sympathy of the class is extended. Notices will appear next month.
John Foley '34 and granddaughter Carole.
New Hampshire's U.S. Senator Thomas Mclntyre '37 (r) visits with Profs. CudworthFlint (I) and Henry Williams at Hanover Co-operative Society meeting he addressed.
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