1940

The Big Green football fortunes are still soaring at this writing, and it appears as though the winning chips will be racked up in Tigertown before you read this. Having seen the Good Guys come through in the fourth period at Yale, I can only attest that we've got a team of great heart - how they battled back to take that one! As usual, a large array of classmates turned out for this classic between the Greeners and the Yalies, and those I saw included Dick Warner, Bill Martin, Eddie Miller, Bert Blake, John Willson, Bill Wrightson, Chal Carothers, Ben Bacon, Larry Durgin, Fred Porter, Bill Bumsted, and Hugh Dryfoos. The MacMillens were one of four visiting couples wined and dined in style and taste by Ginaand Diz de Sieyes at a tailgate luncheon beside the Yale Bowl. It was good to be with Ruth and Beezie Small wood, Lois and JackMoody, and John English and his fiancee, Mary Dora Sexton. After December 1 and their Thanksgiving wedding John and Mary will be at home at 5212 Wilson Lane, Bethesda, Md. She's a great addition to the Class distaff group.

In case you want to bring your Christmas card list up-to-date you may want to know that Phil Dostal is now at 2333 Eastridge, #3, Menlo Park, Calif.; Johnny Peacock is at 4732 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis, Ind.; Bob Draper can be addressed at 2733 Meadowwood Drive. Toledo, Ohio; Ted Gates has stayed in Chevy Chase, Md., but is now hanging his hat at 4609 Drummond Avenue; and that Ray Helm can be found at 143 Drake Road in Somerset, N. J., from whence he commutes to New York City to be general purchasing agent for the Ruberoid Company.

My faithful correspondent from the mid- west, Jack McDonald, reported in this month with the news that he has switched rather than fight - not that his former employer was pugilistic but the new alliance gives him a chance to cover South and Mid America for Variety Store Merchandiser, which keeps him still in the business publications field. Jack kindly sent along a clipping about Art Mountrey's election as a senior vice president of Compton Advertising. I wish more of you were as diligent about sending along news items on classmates as old Jack is — it surely helps! Maybe because he still has bachelor digs he can accumulate these welcome nuggets for me. Keep it up, Jack.

Well in advance of the Christmas trade, Bill Hutchinson was named alcoholic sales supervisor of Life Magazine. He and Mary have returned to Wilton, Conn., after a year or so in Darien and can be contacted at 4 Telva Road. This gives him a few more minutes to finish that martini on the evening commuters' train.

Another commuter in the opposite direction from the Big City —to the wilds of New Jersey — is Bill Wrightson, who was recently appointed chairman of the design committee for the Monmouth Museum. Bill will make sure that this becomes a real cultural center of visual arts, science, and nature for the residents of his area, and his experience on the building committee of the new Newark Academy will stand him in good stead. Bill's activities are numerous vice president of the board of trustees of Newark Academy, board of managers of the Bonnie Brae Farm for Boys, and a trustee of the East Orange General Hospital.

Harry Midgley had to have a new and special post created for his banking talents, and in recognition of his outstanding service to the Worcester County National Bank he was recently elected executive vice president. For the past twenty years with them he has enjoyed a steady rise through the myriad vice presidential ranks until he was appointed senior vice president in 1964. His time outside of banking hours seems to have been well spent in the interests of his home town where he is vice president of the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Worcester Country Club, the Worcester Dartmouth Club, Financial Public Relations Association, and the Worcester Club. Any questions where he lives?

Jean and Keith Benson spent three October weeks on an inspection tour of Lisbon and Munich installations for Radio Free Europe. They were also in West Berlin as guests of the Air Force, and a final leg of the trip included a sortie down to Vienna.

After many years with Big Steel in Pittsburgh, Lamie Kerins has moved to 3401 Traylor Drive, Bon Air, Va. 23235 and new duties as director, industrial engineering, for Reynolds Metals Company. Carl James has also recently taken up new duties - with Joseph Distel and Company, managing general agents, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Don Stuart, Chief of the Department of Computer Service for the Army Map Service in Washington, has been elected to the executive board of the Honeywell 800/1800 Users Association. It's not at all what you're thinking, but an international body of users of the large-scale Honeywell computer systems, which Don will help manage and form policy for, and plan semi-annual meetings for them, among other things. Being a charter member of the four-year-old group and in charge of all data processing for the Army Map Service makes this a logical recognition of Don's time and talent.

Another classmate in the Washington area is Colonel George Sheldon who now shines his army brass at RFD #2, Box 267, Fallston, Md., when he is not reporting for duty at Fort Holabird. He has just returned after thirteen months in Korea.

Charlie Power has recently returned from a busman's holiday - instead of planning trips for other people who come to his travel agency, he and Jane went around the world on their own. They attended a convention in Hong Kong where he thinks he saw Bill Bumsted but couldn't catch up to him. From there it was on to Thailand, Egypt, Jerusalem, Lebanon, and London before heading home to fill all the customers in on the broadening aspects of travel. Nice work if you can get it!

THE PRESIDENT'S CORNER

Because so many class presidents do not seem to have a ready forum from which to reach their class I am starting a policy of turning over what space Scotty Rogers needs to address himself to you on an informal basis. Knowing his hectic, crowded schedule it probably won't be on a regular basis - and it may come to me undecipherable on match cases written while on bumpy airplanes - but here is the first edition of Paraprex:

Have an entry for the most humbling story of the season: Was flying from the West Coast in late October and read in the paper about World Series payoff; after all shares were shown, at the very bottom of the Twins' listing was this little teaser: "C. Wonson $250." Now, I knew Hal Wonson lived in Minneapolis, that he had a son at Dartmouth, that he was a baseball fiend in days gone by, and that he - as we — was 147 or 148 years old (had to be). So, I couldn't stand it any longer, and I phoned the Chief upon arrival in Minneapolis that evening. "Chief," I said, "was that C. Wonson in the Twins' series split any relation to you?" The Chief - with great delight - retorted, "That was me." I asked, "What in the hell did you do to earn $250 with the Twins?" And he replied, "I pitched batting practice for the Twins all summer." And then, to grind it in a bit, the Chief says, "Scotty, call me next trip for I'm on my way out of the house to play in my touch football league." My God, this has to be the most physically fit guy in the class!!! Any challengers?

That really empties the shoe box. I dislike this month-to-month existence, and hope the Thanksgiving season will prompt everyone to throw a few crumbs of news my way for the next column. Happy holidays to you and yours, and blessings throughout 1966.

Trustee and Mrs. Thomas Braden '40 and children at the Santa Barbara Biltmore.

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

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