1952

By the time you read this you'll know how things came out this weekend in Hanover. I'm speaking of the Princeton game this coming Saturday. You'll have either a delighted or disappointed scribe come Saturday evening depending on the outcome. Two years ago we went up to that one and we're going again; hoping for the best.

Also hoping to see a lot of 52's so that I can give you some firsthand news on what's doing with that proud breed come December issue.

Meanwhile back here on the home front the yearly yachting series has closed out but not before one of our own made the sports section of the New York Times with feats of seamanship on Long Island Sound. Sailing out of Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Dick Nye skippered his father's boat, "Carina," a 53foot yawl, to victory in the third race of a four-race summer series for the Whitman Trophy. The race was sailed in light air with tricky tides so the skipper displayed a high degree of seamanship for his victory.

I see from my mail that Buck Zuckerman, better known to TV viewers as Buck Henry, creator (along with Mel Brooks) of the TV series "Get Smart," has taken up permanent residence in Los Angeles. Accompanying this news was an amusing write-up about Buck from the Boston Sunday Herald, amusing because it consisted, for the most part, of direct quotes from our most amusing classmate himself. An example: In speaking of his tour of duty with the U. S. Army, during which he was first trained as a helicopter mechanic then transferred to special services, Buck tells of writing a musical comedy entitled "Beyond the Moon."

"It toured Germany and England for a year," says Buck, "and became known as one of the finest musical comedies ever written by a helicopter mechanic." Would you believe one of the finer musical comedies ever written by a helicopter mechanic?

Bill Kay has been making more news, too. Bill, as you know from having followed this column so closely, is vice president, Frozen Food Division, Pepperidge Farm, Inc. He's now also a governor of the Society of Sloan Fellows. The society consists of a group of businessmen who have attended M.I.T. on a Sloan Fellowship and met the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Industrial Management.

Up in Rochester, N. Y., an insurance firm which used to be known as .Markin's Agency, Inc., has been reorganized as the Markin-Shaw Agency, Inc. and the new vice president and treasurer of the firm is LarryMarkin. The firm, founded by Larry's grandfather, has been in existence since 1910. Larry and Sheila with daughters Linda, eleven, and Amy, nine, live at 333 Pelham Road in Rochester.

Up in Worcester, Mass., Mechanics National Bank has just appointed Walt Lashar a vice president. Walt joined Mechanics National in 1965 as officer in charge of marketing activities and prior to that he was with the Hartford National Bank in Hartford, Conn.

Here in New York Herb Roth has been active on many fronts. In June he was named a partner in Amen, Weisman & Butler law firm. And it was about that time he also got very active as campaign manager for one of New York's younger councilmen, Woody Kingman. (I know because he's en- listed my services in the cause from time to time.) Herb was also active in Mayor John Lindsay's campaign last year, and who knows, some of us may be active in Herb's campaign for office one of these years.

And I guess the Old Sarge, Jack Hart, is about to move, or has moved, back to Hartford, Conn. Jack, after a distinguished career as Miami, Fla., district group sales manager, has been appointed director of group sales for the whole shootin' match at Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. You'll be hard to take now, Hart, especially since I'll probably see you at the Yale game from now on]

Down in Argentina Rabbi Marshall Meyer is not only busily tending to his duties as a rabbi, he's also editor of The Library of the Science and History of Religions of the Pardos Publishing Company. He has edited twenty volumes of the works of well-known religious authorities for Pardos. In addition he is editor of the Spanish quarterly, "Pensamientos," and has edited the first transltion since the expulsion from Spain of the Jewish prayer book in Spanish.

One marriage announcement this month, too. Hal Morse was married on September 17, to Frances Catherine Battaglia in Warwick, N. Y. The newlyweds are living in New York City.

Another member of the class is moving up in Connecticut General, too. He's Bob Adams, who's just been named regional reinsurance director for that fine firm in San Francisco. Bob has been manager of the San Francisco regional reinsurance office since its opening in 1962. He began his career with Connecticut General in 1954. He is a charter member of the Northern California Life Insurance Association and is also active in the Western Home Office Underwriters Association.

Next time there's an airline strike and you have trouble getting a flight anywhere on American Airlines (as I did this summer) you may have a friend to turn to, Marty Cunningham. Marty has just been made sales manager of the St. Louis district by that eminent air carrier, AA. After graduation Marty spent five years in the Air Force as a navigator and so it was only natural that, upon his discharge, he joined American Airlines. Since 1964 he's been head of the company's convention and group sales program. And he's a member of a lot of travel executive-type clubs. In moving to Missouri Marty leaves one of the garden spots of America, Stamford, Conn., but I'm sure he, his wife and children three have by now found an equally charming spot in which to live out there beyond the Mississippi.

One of the more interesting current assignments of any member of our Class that I've heard about is that of Dick Swicker. Dick is a TV/Film director and right now he's over in Africa doing a film documentary on that fascinating and (to us) mysterious continent. He and his crew are getting enough material for four hours of TV viewing which will run as a four-part series on ABC stations across the nation sometime next spring. They've given themselves about a year to get the footage they need. Look for the series next spring on your ABC stations everywhere!

And one last hot tip for those of you who still think you're young enough to really swing. You oughta get included in one of the parties Charlie Gilman throws in New York. Last May he flung one that was good enough to get almost half a page writeup, complete with pictures, in the New York Times. A few kegs of beer? Hah! But maybe if you guys learned how to press your suits a little and polished up your language, maybe next time....

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