1936
Our congratulations on their marriage go to the former Miss Kazuka Tatsumura and Raphael Hillyer who were wed recently in New York City.
To George Conklin, executive vice president of the Guardian Life Insurance Company, came recognition as guest of honor at the annual officers' dinner as he celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary with the company. Walter C. Allen Jr. has been named sales manager of Davis & Geek, Danbury, Conn., a division of American Cyanamid, and MacGregor H. Hill has been appointed secretary of the Boit, Dalton & Church insurance agency, Boston.
New Protestant co-chairman of the Westchester (N. Y.) Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews is Phil Gilbert. And Budd Schulberg, who just joined the grandfather's club, has received another unusual kudo - a piece in the Miami Herald stressing his ardent interest in prize-fighting.
From Jack Smith we have word that he believes he has moved up in Paul Guibord's contest for the world's oldest living athlete in our class "by taking the 'dive of the century' from the 30-foot platform in an exhibition at the new swimming pool at Dartmouth. ... It was indeed a memorable occasion. ... Modesty prevents my thorough analysis of either the dive or the pool."
From Art Funk the latest word is that teaching humanities at the University of Florida "is a routine affair," but we envy him the sunshine at the fag end of a rather dreary winter. Dick Spong writes that son, Stephen, goes to Dartmouth in the fall.
The word from Art Levin is that his law firm in seven years has grown from "three hardy adventurers to fifteen attorneys - working hard and thoroughly delighted. My oldest son, Ted, 17, is college hunting and I am trying, not too subtly, to steer him to Hanover."
Mac Rowell "has been actively engaged in the family building materials business since 1946. My daughter, Virginia, married James H Lothrop '57, in June 1958, and has presented Marion and me with three lovely grandsons. ... Mac Jr. attended Ithaca College and is currently working for Uncle Sam ... will soon report to West Point for duty with the U. S. Military Band stationed there. Donald, our youngest, nearly 20, is in his sophomore year at Bentley College of Accounting & Finance, Boston."
Charlie Brooks, president of the Conant Ball Co. of Gardner, Mass., was elected to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Blue Cross at that organization's annual meeting in Boston in March. He's also president of the board of trustees of Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital and the Gardner Cooperative Bank, former president of that city's Chamber of Commerce, and a former director of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers. He has three daughters: one a Wheaton graduate, another now at Connecticut College, and the youngest at Walnut Hill School in Natick.
Bounding around the country as assistant vice president for regulatory research (what in the world is that?) is Dick Holt of the A. T. & T. operation which has something to do with telephones. He is also snarled up in the enrollment and interviewing program while wife, Mona, has her hands full with volunteer work: hospital, women's club, church affairs. Daughter, Pat, Smith '62, married and living in Cambridge, Mass.; Nancy, Skidmore '64, going to Europe this summer and then into Peace Corps in South America. Son, Tom, Colorado College '67, working toward decision for after graduation.
Cutty Sark is the drink for us according to Ray Reitman, president of Reitman Industries, which, as the result of some mergers, now has five sales companies going great guns in the whisky and wine business which is "perking" in New York.
Jack Kenny, Hartford attorney, is maintaining the position "you're in good hands with Allstate." Harry Lowd, doctoring in Salem, Mass., is chief of Medical Staff at North Shore Babies and Children's Hospital, has son, Terry, at Dartmouth, and son, Robert, entering in class matriculating this fall. Ed Jacobson is sales manager for retail fabrics department of J. P. Stevens & Co. Inc., New York, daughter, Janice, at Stuart Hall, Staunton, Va. Ed writes he sees Art Toan and Shaw Carter who also live in Saddle River. From Art the word: "Much remains the same . . . partner in charge of consulting staff, Price Waterhouse. My daughter graduated last year from the University of Colorado as an art major, spent about six months in Europe and has now returned to the University for additional work; my son is a senior at Mercersburg Academy (where Bob Michelet's statue occupies a prominent spot on campus). The news, I suspect, is involvement in local affairs as a councilman (fantastically interesting and time consuming) and in foreign affairs (at least vicariously) as a director of the Foreign Policy Association."
""During the past year I have invented, patented, produced, and started to sell a form which I call a 'ski-bow' which is used to store skis so they won't warp out of shape," writes Seth Thomas. "Our oldest daughter, Penny, had a baby daughter on December 31 so Mary Jane and I are now grandparents. Our son, Seth, is in his last year at Lehigh completing a course in metallurgical engineering. Our youngest daughter, Kate, is in her first year at Colby Junior College."
Sub Harris who has been in Marblehead "for several delightful years" has a daughter at Cumberland College in Tennessee, but is planning shortly to move to Nashville "for business reasons." Dan Schwartz, assistant administrator of Montefiore Hospital in New York City, dropped a line to say he has been working along in the civil rights movement in the big city and elsewhere, also involved in a swatch of committees having to do with social problems including what to do about school drop-outs.
Bill Ferguson is the newly appointed director of purchasing for the Carborundum Co. of Niagara Falls, N. Y. In addition to his new duties he will continue to function as assistant controller in charge of corporate systems and electronic data processing functions. Bill joined the firm in 1955 as manager of the data processing branch. Before this he was controller of Fowlers, Inc. Bill and his wife and family live in nearby Ken-more, N. Y.
A busy year has been the lot of Jesse Gait who was away from his Dover, N. H., practice for six weeks with a corneal transplant to the left eye — the one injured in lab at Dartmouth. He has been chairman of the building survey committee and also of the building committee for the church, general chairman of the fund drive, also a member of the Dover School Board, active in Kiwanis as well as the Board of Health, County Medical Society and local hospital where he is chief of medicine. His wife says she doesn't see much of him because, in addition to all this Jesse, currently is helping to start a school for educable and trainable retarded children for the New Hampshire Seacoast area.
Wendell Harding, dean of Vermont College, expresses all our sentiments as he says, "Don't seem to be making much headway some days - but other days convinced I'm not losing either." Completing his fifteenth year at the Montpelier school, Wendell writes their oldest son, Jay, graduates from the University of New Hampshire this year and Larry will complete his sophomore year there in June. "Dorothy still the same fine help-mate and mother she has been since she decided to join yours truly in 1940."
Along the same line Swamp Marsh says he has "all the problems and more satisfactions than I deserve in my life and work as manufacturers' agent in Jupiter, Fla., having good time with work and golf." One of their boys is at Stetson University and the other is at Palm Beach Junior College.
Buying and distributing millions of barrels of fuel oil throughout the New England area is Gil Sykes Who is assisting wife, Ann, in rounding up other wives to work on making Reunion '66 the greatest ever from the distaff side. Son, Bob, is a junior at Westwood High, a bowler and becoming a golfer - low 80s.
It was good to have word of Wilbur Mullen, who is selling batteries in California. He and wife, Ethel, live in Garden Grove, Calif. Married daughter, Gail, has Air Force husband and 2½-year-old son; son, Mike, 19, is in his second year at Fullerton College.
From Sid Barr, busily engaged in merchandising shoes from five factories to the volume trade, news of happiness in marriage and job, also that son, Jim, is finishing second year at Columbia Law School; daughter, Jennie is a junior at Simmons College, Boston; and younger daughter, Debbie, a senior in high school. "Business generally has been good to me although we all have our moments of griping."
1937ers Roily Kent and Bill Rotch relaxafter dinner in Mexico City. The photograph was taken by Rolly's wife Belem.
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