1936
The football season offers many chances to enjoy the autumn colors, cheer the team and see old friends. The Dartmouth-Massachusetts game in Hanover was attended by many '36 rooters who later gathered at Philand Leslie McInnis' house to celebrate the victory. On hand were Brint and DorisSchorer, Dick and Madine Morton, Bob andDot Keller, Vin and Gib Wentworth, and Andy and Lois Schmidt. The Princeton weekend in Hanover was a complete sellout and for the first time in recent memory the demand was so great, our class was seated in the unreserved stands. The Mclnnises find themselves at the crossroads of many Hanover affairs. In late August at the conclusion of the Alumni College they entertained our classmates who were hitting the books - Gil and Fran Balkam, Pete and BarbaraFitzherbert, and Dick and Dorothy Allen. Several local classmates joined the group - Bern Woods from Hanover, Kitty and FredTrempe from West Lebanon, Bob and Marjorie Densmore from Lebanon, and Ann Higgins from Hanover. The Balkams were as enthusiastic as ever about the Alumni College program and claimed it a great success from the student point of view. However, the sociology professor said he would consider it an academic success if he had changed one bigot into a hyprocrite.
Gil Balkam had lunch in Manhattan recently with Allen Phipps. Al is president of Muller, Phipps Asia, Ltd., U.S. manufacturers' representatives in Asia and Africa. He is still living in Englewood, N. J., and commutes into New York. His vacations are spent at their summer home in Branford, Conn. He mentioned four grandchildren maybe there are more.
The Warner and Swasey Company of Cleveland has a new director of marketing, Bax Fullerton. This is a newly created corporate staff position in which Bax will be responsible for direction of marketing policies of all divisions and subsidiaries of Warner and Swasey and will coordinate these activities as part of the company's total marketing effort. He has been with this organization since 1942. Bob Shertz, president of Matlack, Inc., Lansdowne, Pa., has just taken on additional responsibilities. He was elected president of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association during their 38th annual meeting in Harrisburg. If you are a stockholder of Sinclair Oil, your interests will now be looked after by KenWilson who was recently elected to their board of directors. Ken is also a director of Avon Products, the Crosley Broadcasting Corp., the Dayco Corp. and the Dry Dock Savings Bank in addition to his main endeavor as chairman and chief executive officer of the Avco Corporation.
I sank into the last seat available in the fourth car of the 5:25 out of Grand Central last Thursday and found myself next to BudHorn. He was concluding a business trip and was on his way home to Old Saybrook, Conn. Bud is New York and New England representative for a Norman Connors publication, Building Construction. His daughter, Stephanie, is a senior at Simmons College and son, Granville, attends Mitchell Junior College in New London. His family loves living on the Connecticut River and enjoyed their new day sailer this summer.
Tom and Jean Parker's daughter, Nancy, spent the summer away from her Fairfield, Conn., home attending secretarial school in Boston. She will shortly return to Boston to train for the VISTA program at Northeastern University. Nancy graduated from Smith in June and was a welcome addition to our thirtieth reunion. An additional bit of news from Fairfield is the announcement of the engagement of Jan Builter, our daughter, to Jeffrey Cornell of Fairfield. Jan is a Green Mountain graduate - Jeff is with the Air Force at Homestead Air Force Base, Fla. The wedding will be in late December. John and Nancy Sawyer have their daughter, Peggy Vick, back at home in Darien. Her husband, Lt. John Vick, has been assigned to a radar tracking station in northern Luzon in the Philippines and no wives are allowed. Sarah Sawyer has taken a position with the Labor Department in Washington. She is a June graduate of Mt. Holyoke.
A not too recent letter from Brew andMarge Towne was forwarded to me by Dick Morton. Since the sale of their White Stallion Ranch in late 1965 they have been living in Tucson in an exciting house "high on a hill, built around a pool and with a view in every direction." Brew planned to be connected with the Oak Ridge project. As vice chairman of the American Atomics Corp. he will be involved in marketing long life light sources from the atomic energy process.
Perhaps you have read the New York Times column in the spring about Bill Talman and the nine-year run of Perry Mason Series on CBS-TV. After that record-breaking association the network did not renew the series. Bill played the part of Hamilton Burger, DA, and he never won a case against Perry Mason - Raymond Burr in real life. Bill has been on the Broadway stage and in movies all his adult life and you will still see him as Perry Mason is rerun on other stations - the residuals will be most helpful.
By the time this reaches print we will have been through some crucial football contests and pleasant reunions. The best promises to be after the Yale game at GeneTamburi's Tobacco Valley Inn in Windsor, Conn. There will be a full report on it next month.
Art Appleton '36 (c), U.S. Tuna Teamcaptain, displays the 513½ pound tunawhich gave the U.S. a victory early thisyear at the annual tournament in the Bahamas. Ten nations competed.
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