1947

Even with summertime now a thing in the past, it seems necessary to bring up some of the odd duties that our public officials go through. The public official referred to is Mike Pender, Commissioner of Hempstead, L. I., Town Public Works Department. It concerns a 15-foot whale that was washed ashore on the town's beach, and, therefore, landed a whale of a rescue problem (whoops!) for our Mike. It took Mike and the town's parks maintenance crew, Coast Guard, police, and men from the Coney Island Aquarium to try to get it back in the water, to no avail however, since the whale died before they were successful. Question from Mike, "What do you do with a dead whale?"

Still with the public officials, we just learned Paul H. Guilderson, who was last announced as the Executive Director of the Upper Valley Development Council, has been named the Director of the New Hampshire Office of Industrial Development. Paul has done a considerable amount of work in the industrial area serving most recently for New Hampshire and three Vermont counties in the Lebanon-Hanover area. Before becoming involved in this pursuit, he spent over 16 years in the steel industry.

More coming up in the public eye, is the question of whether Bob Ives will run for the Massachusetts House of Representatives or not. Bob is currently the Town Moderator from Danvers and as reported earlier he voluntarily stepped aside after four terms in that office. We hope that he gets the nomination and, of course, the election.

On the subject of election, John Crow, a successful Los Angeles attorney, is serving as chairman of the Charles Manfred for Assembly, Democratic Campaign Committee. John has practiced law for the last 14 years in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife, Clara, 2418 Echo Park Avenue.

A different kind of government work but still paid from the same source, it was delightful to find a picture recently of BruceCunliffe having a reunion with our RalphWarburton, Bruce Mather, plus Bill Riley '46, bringing back memories of the mid '40's great hockey team. Bruce is now a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corp and one of those people we would like to hear from.

Joe McPartland will become Managing Editor of Electrical Construction and Maintenance, McGraw-Hill publication on November 1. Joe has been with the publication since 1950; becoming Engineering Editor in 1956, Associate Editor in 1958, and Associate Managing Editor in 1965. He is currently living at 19 Mohawk Street, Norwood, N. J., and we would appreciate it if we knew more about Joe and his family, etc.

The awarding of a Ph.D is probably the last of the educational climaxes in our lives and certainly the hardest to obtain. It is pleasing to announce that Ted Sotter, Assistant Professor of chemistry at the University of Maine in Portland, has been granted that degree by writing a thesis on "A Study of the Reaction of Sodium with Dimethylformamide." Ted has been teaching at the University of Maine at Portland since 1961. Before that he taught at Finch Junior College, New York City and was Teaching Assistant at Columbia University. His wife Mary is a graduate of Clark University where she majored in Geography. They have four children.

It is hoped that we have not lost a great piano player to the printing industry, but it looks to us by a recent article that DickLezius, president of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Firm, has been too busy to keep up with his practicing. Dick's firm is one of the largest commercial printing operations between Philadelphia and Chicago, and during the last five years has increased its sales by 20% enabling them to add over a half million dollars in new equipment. Maybe Dick will let up slightly so that he may once again be our great entertainer when next June rolls around to the reunion.

Another member of the class we would like to see at the reunion is Ed O'Rourke, who has just been named to the 32-member board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange. Ed is currently vice-president and director of Blyth & Company where he has been since 1956. Ed was formerly with Smith, Barney & Company, and Goldman, Sachs & Company.

And speaking of reunions, plans are going ahead rapidly for the biggest and best one we have ever had. Some of the members of Ed Senghas' team, plus certain hangers-on such as yours truly, plan to convene in Hanover for big meetings, important business, and a few minor things such as the Princeton game, golf, and other such pursuits. If you volunteer your services to Ed now, you can probably wangle an invitation. Will tell more in the December issue.

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