1947

With the Alumni Fund drive getting under way, it is a good time to review in your own minds the importance of our futures in the realm of higher education. Make this year's gift early and sufficient in size to hurt just a little bit.

One of our presidents, Alan Goldstein, was just elected a vice president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association at its 96th annual meeting recently. Al formerly served the association as a director. He is active in many areas of the shoe and leather industries including being the regional vice president of the National Footwear Manufacturers Association, New York. He is serving as the 1965 Chairman of the National Affairs Committee of the Shoe Manufacturing Industry, which is co-sponsored by the National and New England Associaions. He is also a trustee of the Association Fashion Service, which is jointly sponsored by the New England Shoe and Leather Association and the National Association of Shoe Chain Stores and is serving as chairman of the Men's Shoe Style Committee. Al resides with his wife and three .children in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline, Mass. ... although it doesn't sound as if he is home very often!

A few more tidbits on Walt Peterson, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire. You may remember that Walt was a member of the varsity basketball team during the very successful '40's but he continued his playing activities as a member of the Nashua Athletic Association Five and won the New England title.... It is predicted in the local papers that Walt may go for the Governorship of the state in 1966.

George Hardisty, now practicing law in San Francisco, gave a speech recently to the Contra Costa Christian Women's Club — entitled "An Attorney Views Tragedy and Success." George attended six different colleges and universities, graduating from the one we know best, of course....He completed graduate work at the University of San Francisco while he was stationed at Treasure Island during the Korean War.... Mrs. Hardisty is a celebrity in her own right, having a coast-to-coast program on Family Stations, Inc. and is "Margie" in the dramatic series "Secret Hideout." She has sung extensively and has been in several secular dramatic productions prior to turning over her voice and dramatic ability to religious work....

We knew that one of our boys would make it some day and I am pleased to announce that Bob Frank was nominated to the five-member Westchester Playland Commission. His duties consist of supervising the operations of Playland Amusement Park in Rye, N. Y. Since 1952, Bob has been associated in New York with the CIT Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries. He served on the Rye Mayor's committee to study and develop a Rye City marina. From '6l to '63, he served on the Rye City Planning Commission and from '62 to '64, he was Vice Chairman of the Rye Charter Revision Commission. Bob received his LL.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1950, having served in the war as a naval ensign. Married to the former Patricia Nover of New Rochelle, he is the father of two daughters, Priscilla 11 and Karen 9 and is a member of the Community Synagogue in Rye.

About a year and a half ago, we reported that Pat McLoughlin had been appointed to the East Orange Board of Edu- cation and we are pleased to note that he has been appointed to a second term, indicating that he either has done an excellent job or that it is so miserable a job no one else would take it! Knowing something about Board of Education work, most of our classmates who go in for this task know it is a thankless job - and Pat deserves our sympathy....

More on the political front! Jim O'Neill of Laconia, N.H., has just been appointed to manage the campaign of the Republican nominee for the mayoralty of that city. Jim is a graduate of Tuck and Harvard Law School. Before going into private practice he was employed in the legal departments of Westinghouse Electric Company and the Brown Company of Berlin.

Still on the same subject, Herb Wik has announced his candidacy for selectman of Shrewsbury, Mass. For five years Herb has been abrasives Sales Engineer for Chase Parker Company of Boston. He is a member of the American Society for Abrasives, Society of Carbide Engineers, Morning Star Lodge of Masons, American Legion and various Scottish Rite bodies as well as the Chairman of the 1965 Heart Fund Drive in Shrewsbury. Herb, noted for his lithe form, is married to the former Irene Park of Shrewsbury.

And finally, Ed O'Rourke has just been elected to the Board of Directors at Blyth and Company, - just recently admitted to the New York Stock Exchange.... He is presently the vice president and general manager of the National Trading Department of the Company. Ed joined Blyth in '56 and was elected vice president in 1962.

Remember, hustle those bucks to the Alumni Fund and let's get Townes Harris into the winners' circle....

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