1936

The new president and chief executive officer of Columbian Carbon Co. is EdBrooks.

George Fraser has been appointed visiting professor for the spring term at University of Michigan Law School.

Vin Wentworth's boy, Gordon, who looks just like him, recently made his first solo flight as a Navy ensign in a jet trainer while undergoing flight training at McCain Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Meridian. Miss.

In Williamsport, Pa., recently, BaxterFullerton, director of Marketing for Warner Swazey Company, spoke before the American Society of Manufacturing Engineers on the subject of machine replacement for the shop manager. Stan McCoy has been named Eastern sales supervisor of Bols-Garneau, Brown-Forman Distillery Corporation.

From Roy Coppedge comes word of the forthcoming marriage of daughter, Wendy, to Harvard man, Alfred Fanton Sanford Ill.

At the recently remodeled Ludlow House, now the library and reference rooms of the New Canaan Historical Society, the librarian and curator of collections of genealogies, Connecticut historical documents, land records and manuscripts is Mrs. Rogers Bayles.

"As with us all, things keep busy as ever." writes Bud Titcomb. "After a slow start 'tis a good winter with more snow in Vermont than elsewhere. Family all skiing now from four years old on up one junior racer and another on ski patrol. Luckily, I get to Hanover twice a month for Naval Re- serve meetings in the observatory."

Bob Button sends word from Paris "We have a musical group here called the Chamber Music Society of the Lower Seine; the pianist, myself; on the drums, a lieutenant general; the bass fiddler, an admiral; the trombonist, a French general du brigade; from time to time, an itinerant Greek buzuki player. 'Why,' you will ask. The answer is simply that when political-military matters in NATO reach an impasse, as they often do, we have to turn to some other form of harmonization and in music there are no recalcitrant allies."

From Peter Wright's wife Jeanne comes a nice note advising Pete has been a professor in social science at the University of South Florida since the doors opened in 1960. ... Five years ago he left public relations in New York City to return to Columbia for Ph.D. Research has taken the Wrights three summers in a Volkswagen to Guatemala where they lived in a tiny adobe village. The project Pete has been following is a U.S. sponsored experimental adult literacy project to see its impact on possible social changes. The Wrights expect to return on a grant that just came through. Both of their boys have just graduated from the University of South Florida.

It was good to have New Year's greetings from Von Ohmig and to have word he is settled in Tennessee after ten years in Columbus, Ga. Von is representing James Talbott, Inc., a New York factor, in the South.

After ten years on the Chatham, N.J., Board of Education Bill Artens is looking forward to some free time. His family of two boys and two girls are growing up and the eldest son is headed for Hanover in the fall. Last summer the Artens chartered a yawl to cruise in the Massachusetts area and this coming summer are planning to sail along the Maine coast. Bill is a manufacturer's agent handling machinery and equipment for the chemical and food industry, covers New Jersey.

When the postcard came in from BillHoffman he and his family had just returned from Hanover and were looking forward to attending the Alumni College sessions in August. "Semi" Soule is back at his former job as laboratory director of a surgical dressing and finishing mill.

In Ohio and western Pennsylvania Bert Ruggles is pushing hard as a food broker. "It's good that I am busy," he writes, "as I have a son in medical school and a daughter in college. Hobbywise I have switched from canoeing on the Connecticut to sailing on Lake Erie."

Walt Mosenthal, youth secretary of the New Britain, Conn., YMCA, is active in the Rotary Club with "Nox" Howard. He is also head of the interviewing committee, meeting with candidates for admission to the college. Last summer he made an eight-day canoe trip down the Connecticut with wife and son from Hanover to Chester, Conn.

Still in the metal hose building and "selling none to classmates," Bob Howland is enjoying his son. Bill's experience at Tuck School after graduating from Trinity. Other son, George, is at Buckhill.

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