1940

It is the season to start up anew after a long, quiet summer of backyard barbeques and julep-sippin' and lazy days on the beach. Ha! If your town is anything like mine, Hanover that is, the frenzy of a summertime matches the involvements of any other season and more visitors make the scene besides. But the pace of a summer in a resort-center such as Hanover is exhilarating and the fare served up in the orchestra pit and on the stage of Hopkins Center is pretty exciting stuff. I'm sure you have read the glowing copy in the national press about the activities in the Center so I can only urge you to join the satisfied throngs who have helped to transform us from a sleepy village into "the crossroads of culture in the Upper Valley."

Just the same I hope that your summer did include lots of lazy days on the beach and backyard fun and hours on the hammock perusing the "Time Well Spent" that Dick Bowman, Johnny Newman, Ben Bacon, Jim Scott and others fashioned for our enjoyment last June. It is a marvel of detail and the reading makes for many happy hours. We, as a class, owe these gentlemen our grateful thanks for providing us with the timeless document of inspired imagination.

Maybe those of you who were here in June noticed that big Bill Mercer seemed even bigger than usual. There was a reason - he had just been advanced several rungs up the AT&T ladder to the lofty pinnacle of vice president - marketing of that sprawling company which is the teenagers' best friend. Maybe Bill can do something about your telephone digits if they are too difficult to remember, like say including 1940 in the sequence. He has been with one company or another in the system ever since 1947 when he joined forces with Western Electric. He earned a Master's degree from MIT on a Sloan Fellowship in 1956 and is now a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Sloan Fellows. Bill and Mona, parents of four sons, two of whom are Dartmouth boys, live in Darien from whence he makes the big trek into lower Broadway.

Job changes and advancements have liberally sprinkled my shoe box the past few months. One involves another classmate in the communications empire, Julian Hartwell, who was recently appointed Northeast divisional traffic superintendent in Massachusetts for the New England Telephone Company. Julian has been solving traffic problems and labor relations snarls for them since 1947 when he stopped being a Navy lieutenant. He keeps tabs on his brood of three from home base in West Acton.

Morrie Karwood is now the assistant agency secretary, agency contract department, of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Springfield. He has been with the same company ever since getting his sheepskin from Tuck School in 1941.

Kendall Newbert, another Tuck alumnus, has recently joined forces with Sprague and Carleton as their controller. He sees to the administration of all accounting and financial control functions of that furniture concern and its affiliated companies. He has had 25 years' experience in such fields with three different companies and two teen-age daughters to test his methods on. Ken, and Betty live at 30 Three Ponds Road in Wayland, Mass.

Teaching Business Administration in a new location this fall is Sid Phillips who has an appointment to Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. In earlier years he was on the faculty at Northwestern and Syracuse and has authored numerous articles and textbooks.

A leader in a new field is always newsworthy, and especially so when he is one of our class. Dwight Meader is manager of the Business Effectiveness Consultant Service for General Electric Corp. He tries to increase manager efficiency because "the boss is usually the trouble if there is inefficiency among the employees." There, doesn't that make you feel responsible! The program that Dwight has perfected is to work first with top level management and then go down the organizational echelons in successive programs of 7 to 50 managers at a time. He helps these managers to discover for themselves how to stimulate his highly skilled employees, to build up his perception and to break down his barriers to communication. That sounds like a program we all could profit by.

Charlie and Ann Haskill came through Hanover the middle of July and we had a chance to catch up on each other's news. They had not been able to make the reunion because of the impending birth of their fifth grandchild! Without making an exhaustive search, that must cop the class prize for the most grandchildren. Anyone able to better it?

When we were down in Maine the end of August we had a chance to see Jim andFaith Kuhns who were vacationing on an island nearby our cottage. Jim has been involved in negotiations for selling the family company in Dayton. He, too, missed our reunion.

The annual fall reunion will be as usual during the first home Ivy League game - this year it's Penn on October 9. There will be a cocktail party at the MacMillen abode following the game, then on to dinner together so check in at 5 North Balch Street when you reach town to get the latest particulars.

The column needs more news about more people - reunions are too far apart. I promise to print only what you want me to - unless I get nothing and have to use my imagination. Keep in touch and see you next month.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301