1952

Another disastrous winter season is over in the north country. Disastrous in several ways. The snows hardly came at all for the skiers (I know first hand) and the winter sportsters in Hanover carried off a big horse collar in the way of championships.

A month ago or so (at my writing, not your reading) we went up to New Haven and watched the hockey team win a thriller from Yale. That night after the game at Jack Boyle's we all opined that maybe the Green could carry off another championship, until Boyle informed us his younger brother was playing for Brown this year. Thereupon we all conceded to the Bruins and time proved us right in doing so. (Brown won the league hockey title, in case you didn't know.)

Then just the last week in February we were up in the North Country again. A great treat as always, but the snow conditions weren't too good for skiing and we didn't get much time in Hanover. We had the kids over in Woodstock, Vt., learning how to break their legs on icy terrain and while there we saw old friend Tony Quimby. We were also pleasantly surprised to find Bob Roberts up at the College doing some recruiting for his Philadelphia bank and got together with him and Tony for a night of reminiscing. We were delighted to learn during the course of the evening that Bobby's now a vice president of the bank. And he also informed us that one of his first calls in that capacity was to be on Gene Teevens who was just recently transferred to Philadelphia from Springfield, Mass. Gene will be the new manager of the Philly office of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co, I imagine he'll have trouble getting his whole clan down there before the summer rolls around and school's out.

Another note from Pennsylvania came my way this past month, too. This one from Don Moore who tells me he's about to leave Pittsburgh and Price Waterhouse & Co. to become assistant comptroller of the Continental Baking Company down the shore here in Rye, N. Y. Hope we'll have a chance to welcome Don to the area before too long.

Lots of news from right around the neighborhood it seems. The first birth of the year 1965 reported for the class comes to me by phone from the neighboring town of Old Greenwich. There lives Cliff Fitzgerald and his wife, Ginny, who on January 20 enlarged their family by one boy. Young Keith Fitzgerald was number four for Cliff and Ginny, who now have achieved the perfect balance of two boys and two girls. Congratulations to the Fitzgeralds.

Then in the very next town on up the line I get some interesting news about Dr. Lloyd Fisher. It all came out in a news release about a talk Doc Fisher was to give to some women's club in Stamford, Conn. I knew Lloyd was in practice there but I didn't know he was president of the Stamford-Darien-New Canaan Heart Association. Yes, Lloyd is a heart specialist which is somewhat reassuring to know for this correspondent who is a slave to the direst form of hypochondria which strikes in the middle of the night. If you should get a call from me at, say, 3 A.M., Lloyd, I hope you will try to understand.

Only a little further away, up in Hartford, that is, Bud Spalding is now sitting in the chair of assistant secretary in the life underwriting department of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Bud lives with hiswife and four children (3 boys, 1 girl) in West Hartford. The release called him William 8., but shucks I reckon we'uns that knew him when can still call him Bud. Can't we?

You all may recall I informed you last fall that one of our own had made it pretty big in the fashion business. I refer to RonWilliams who became president of L'Aiglon Apparel, Inc. last September. I didn't know then any of the details of his appointment but a rather lengthy article from the financial pages of the august N. Y. Times now supplies the background. Ron is actually a newcomer to the fashion business, assuming the presidency of L'Aiglon from a position in the corporate finance department of Kidder, Peabody & Co., investment banking firm in New York. He'd been on the board of L'Aiglon but hadn't actually worked in the business. Ron was brought in from the outside and his object is to reverse a downward sales curve at L'Aiglon. I, for one, will be very interested to watch the progress of that particular dressmaking firm in the next three years.

Another appointment for a classmate was made by the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. They were good enough to inform me they've just appointed Harvey Kelley a life underwriter. He'll be in the office of Carr R. Purser, general agent, in New York in case any of you eager fellows are champing at the bit to load up on protection.

Our news from the armed forces this month all comes from the South. Down in Charleston, S. C., Lt. Cmdr. Fred Heath has recently taken command of the U.S.S. Chivo, a unit of Submarine Squadron Four. Fred and his wife and three children lived in Charleston already, for he was previously executive officer on another submarine.

Just a week or so ago someone asked me if I knew anything about Geoff Chapman, and I'm now in a position to say I do. According to some information recently in I find that Geoff, too, is with the armed forces down South. It's Major Chapman now and he's with the U.S. Air Force at Craig Air Force Base in Alabama. Beyond that I can tell no more.

And beyond that I cannot go this month. I'm getting toward the end of my word limit, my patience, and my information. But we'll be back at the same corner next month providing you fellows make lots of news and none of my hypochondriacal seizures turn out to be the real thing.

Secretary, 168 Riverside Ave. Riverside, Conn.

Class Agent, 2295 Chatfield Dr., Cleveland Heights, Ohio