1930
Well, fellows, The Governor has announced he will run for re-election in 1967 and, as it seems no one has ever announced so early before, it has caused reams of speculative editorializing. He has had his hands full this year with a mammoth budget to balance and a recalcitrant legislature to deal with. The adoption of a state-wide sales tax finally became the only means of dealing with the budget needs and at the last moment of the session it finally was passed, effective August 1. That may stop a lot of Nutmeggers from going to White Plains to do tax free shopping, for a good many years a popular type of half day excursion for people from this area.
Collectively, you must all be saving up anything of interest for announcement at reunion, for the mail bag is pretty slim this warm May evening, but a few unembellished announcements have come to hand, such as one to advise that Bill Reinhart has become counsel to the New York, Albany, and Washington comma-less law firm of Wikler Gottlieb Stewart Taylor and Long. Not an expert in the set-up of law firms, I wonder if this means that Bill is emeritus; pretty surely the firm specializes in taxes, for that has been Bill's forte for years.
Buck Downey is also about to go emeritus, has tendered his resignation as principal of the new Fairgrounds High School in Nashua, after 35 years' teaching in its school system. Although he has reached voluntary retirement age, there is local speculation that he has something definite to pursue which will be revealed after the school year is over. Ed has had a fine career in the Nashua school system and will be greatly missed.
Studying the most recent series of address changes, it was noted with interest that in one month two classmates had removed to Woodside, Calif. Reference to a motorist's atlas places this community as a San Francisco suburb. In case they might care to get together, John Fletcher is at 135 Ridgeway and Dr. Ken Grevatt is at 150 Hardwick. In West Hartford, Conn., Byronand Jean Palmer have bought a new home at 143 Fox Chase Lane. '
Buck Steers cannot make reunion because of his speechmaking commitments. As chairman of the Four A's, he must preside at its meeting on June 15 and the following day he is scheduled to speak at a meeting of the N.O.A.B. (translation, please?). Buck recently was elected the new chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and has announced that he will not be a crusading chairman, but hopes to urge that agencies be fully able to explain everything that contributes to advertising. He says "The trouble is that everybody is an expert, everybody knows all about advertising — except that few people really do."
Bud and Celie French enjoyed a five weeks' business trip West early this year, and provided this scribe with a most welcome series of notes about classmates they had spoken to or seen. More of our classmates should try to say hello to their old friends when in other sections on business or pleasure. Bud reports as follows: Heinie Swarthout is handling matters of finance for Todd in Los Angeles - he spent several years with Todd in Rochester, N. Y., then moved to LA when it became a division of Burroughs Corporation. From Medford, Ore., Bud phoned to John B. Henry who has been in the lumber industry for many years and is now retired and living in Ashland, Ore. The Frenches had dinner with Chuck and DeedeeFaye in San Francisco, who are hopeful of being able to attend reunion; to do it will require finding some business reason to stay East a full week after they have been to a convention in White Sulphur Springs, the first week in June. Bud's other contacts ended mostly in reasons why the men could not attend reunion. Jim Irwin has to be at a medical convention in New Orleans that week, Mickey Emrich is in a newly launched banking firm and needs to tend to business, Cliff Vogt expects not to be able to make it.
From Denver, where apparently Bud did not stop, comes word of the reappointment of Paul Thompson as chairman of the English department of the School of Engineering of University of Colorado, a post he has held since 1948. Ned Grant has been named to head a million dollar development program for Kent School of Englewood, Colo., his own preparatory school. Ned's attainments apparently not previously recorded include vice presidencies of Northeast Colorado National Bank, Intermountain R. E. A., and, for more than 20 years, the National Western Stock Show.
Dr. Fran Horn, safely returned from his African safari, was elected to the Board of Trustees of Nichols College of Business Administration, said to be only the third new trustee elected in 24 years.
Sam Stayman has published a new book "Do You Play Stayman?" on bridge, delving further into the uses of the bidding convention carrying his name - toward the end of the book, says the reviewer, Sam "donned his iconoclastic armor and sallied forth with a few really shattering bridge theories."
Last month's issue carried a review of a recently published book about the meaning and ways of poetry. You may well have seen this and not realized that the review, not the book, was written by John French's son Roberts '56, currently teaching English at University of Massachusetts.
In this my final column, let me tell you that it has been a pleasurable task to put together these reports for your leisure reading; I have tried to keep them from being too serious, and indeed hope that no one has taken umbrage at anything I have ground out. Thanks to Charlie Widmayer for being so lenient about my almost never having met his copy deadline, and thanks to many good correspondents who have written whenever anything came to their attention, such as Dick Bowlen, Bill Steck '31, the Dartmouth press clipping service, Al Smith, Dick Barnard, and numerous others. You may or may not see this before reunion, but either way, a final plea for your participation in the 1965 Alumni Fund, and I hope that all of us who return to Hanover for our 35th will have a truly marvelous gathering.
Harold "Mike" Sherman '29, senior vicepresident of Morgan Guaranty Trust ofNew York, receives Peddie School's citation for "outstanding achievement inhis chosen field" from Headmaster A. L.Kerr at Peddie's Centennial Assemblies.
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