1930
Sincere congratulations are in order for Harry Condon who has been elected a trustee of the giant mutual fund, the Massachusetts Investors Trust with assets over $2 billion, where he for many years has been acting as a senior industry specialist. And congratulations, too, to Bob Pratt, recently appointed assistant vice president for staff, of Southern New England Telephone Company with which he has been associated since 1936. Bob had been acting as general commercial supervisor, and at one time had been in charge of directory compilation for the Company. Our genial chairman, Charlie Rauch, has been elected senior warden at St. James Parish, Farmington, Conn.
A clipping from the Providence Journal has helped to decipher what Fran and BillieHorn wrote on a Christmas card. By the time this is in print they will have returned, with their daughters, Barbara and Betsy, from a two-month trip to Europe and Africa. During that period, while his family remained in Cairo, Fran was to join a monthlong photographic safari in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika. They were to conclude with a Mediterranean cruise and visits to Rome and London. A return to Cairo would be a pleasure for Fran for he taught there at the American University for three years after graduation.
Our esteemed editor, the dean of editors of Ivy League alumni magazines, CharlieWidmayer, was among 24 college administrators honored by the Alumni Federation of Columbia University for distinguished service to education. The occasion was the final convocation of the 50th anniversary of the Federation. Charlie was presented with a medal "for distinction of career in the organization of alumni effort, and in the resultant benefit to secondary and higher education." In reviewing past issues it was discovered that Charlie may have unwittingly helped Pete Callaway set a new record of two Wah-Hoo-Wahs, once in June 1964 and again in January this year, upon one event - his election to the board of trustees of Mount Holyoke. Or was Pete actually elected twice?
Splendid news to learn that Les Godwin made a prompt recovery from a heart attack in December, and that he and Edith took off in early February for three months of recuperation in the sun of Florida.
Two or three columns ago, I told you about Bob Barker and Joe Hancort becoming C.F.A.'s. Since then I have seen Bob's diploma, and was interested to see that one of its signers was our classmate, Lin Savage, secretary of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, and a vice-president of the New England Merchants National Bank, Boston.
In a good letter to Ed Butterworth, hopefully John Marsh looks from Tripoli, Libya to reunion in June, and to being present if Allah wills it. He and Flavia have never made a reunion and although they had a long visit in the States in 1964, their first in 14 years, they nevertheless intend another return in June.
The mid-January issue of Forbes Magazine prints a review of Scott Paper Company and its president. Harry Dunning- covering the actions taken to meet growing competition in the paper toweling and tissues field. Pictured all smiles on the front cover, one concludes that Harry considers Scott is making an effective battle to retain its preeminent position in the industry.
Mickey Emrich is resigning his executive vice presidency of Julian Collins & Co., Chicago-based firm he helped found in 1945, and has joined The Chicago Corporation as Senior Vice President. He will be responsible for the new securities firm's municipal and institutional activities. Mickey spent the fifteen years following graduation with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Harriman Ripley & Co., and Harris Hall before venturing out with the Collins organization. Presently, he's a governor of the Chicago Association of Stock Exchange Firms.
After many years working for W. T. Grant in and around Boston, Hank Wood writes that he and Jean are very happy that he has been "put out to pasture" to manage its store in the Northeast Kingdom, as they say in St. Johnsbury, Vt. They are finding living in a small friendly northern New England town very much to their liking, and are pleasantly near Hanover. In January, Don Shaskan will be presiding at the first occasion of the American Group Psychotherapy Association to meet on the Coast.
Who was Benzoni? This little mystery is presented by Chick and Helen Pooler from their retirement farm in West Redding, Conn. A retired gentleman must keep busy and among other things Chick and Helen created a rock garden, at one point uncovering what appeared to be the corner of an old Yankee gravestone, which they left as was, until last summer their children decided to dig it out of the ground. To their considerable amazement the buried object proved to be a 100-pound white marble bust of a mustachioed, goateed, wavy-haired gentleman, wearing a toga. It is inscribed on the base "G. M. Benzoni, Roma A. 1872." Attempts at local research and some inquiry in Rome have, at last reports, failed to solve the mystery of the origin of the object which has now been set up near the Poolers' swimming pool.
Advertising Age has been running a series of questions to heads of agencies and giving the verbatim answers of some 26 leaders; to the question "If you had to guess as to the total volume of advertising in the U.S. in 1970, what would your guess be?" Buck Steers is quoted as having answered "I'd guess it will be $16,894,462,398." This proved to be in the lower percentiles, for four men ventured the volume would exceed $20 billion. Buck also predicted less concern with respect to account conflicts, greater overseas expansions, and that advertising is a "growth" business. The same publication credits Pat Weaver with making significant advertising news in 1964; meeting less initial success in pay TV, but his fight nevertheless is worrying free broadcasters.
Art Olsen, professor of medicine at the Mayo Foundation Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, has been elected to the board of directors of Central Life Assurance Company of Des Moines. Art is one of the world's outstanding authorities on diseases of the chest, is chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Chest Physicians, and is either a member, officer, or fellow of half a dozen other medical societies in the same or related fields.
To the list of Dartmouth fathers appearing in the January issue add Boof Perkins' grandfather, Marshall Perkins of the Dartmouth Medical School class of 1849, who earned his M.D. a year later from Harvard Medical School.
Dick Parker felt ill rewarded for his loyalty to the Dartmouth hockey team in Providence on Feb. 3. He was cheering an attack on the Brown goal when a Big Green forward sent the puck sailing up into the balcony and hit him on the forehead. Though 12 stitches were required by the wound, there were no further complications. But the bandaged Parker grumbled: "My own College did this to me." (He has been a member of the Brown faculty since 1948 and is Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chairman of that Department.)
"On his way to Washington to attend an American Bankers Association conference and piloting his own twin-engined plane, Bill Stearns had an extremely narrow escape at Laconia airport, when trouble developed in both engines and in the landing gear. Returning to the field, the plane rolled over and was a total wreck. Bill and his passengers escaped with only scratches, but they were all saturated with gasoline, and a single spark might have touched off a conflagration before they could have gotten out. He has been flying for thirty years, has owned several planes, and has ordered a new one since the crash.
And so to the usual closing admonitions - make an early response to Art Browning's entreaties on behalf of the Alumni Fund, and another early response to EdButterworth to say that you will be back in Hanover for reunion in June. After all, there will be a lot of well known guys there you will want to see, and who will want to see you, and you can count on the affair being in line with recognition of our attained ages - when it gets to the 35th reunion, it will be noticeable that a lot fewer beer cans will be tossed out of dormitory windows, than was the case 25 years ago. Come on back to Hanover June 14-17, 1965.
Secretary, 30 Boxwood Dr. Stamford, Conn.
Treasurer, 6 Emerson Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass.
