1928

Larry Martin, president and chairman of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, was honored at the American Bankers Association convention in Chicago (attendance 9800) by being elected vice president of the ABA's National Bank Division. A Boston reporter says "A New Yorker until he was 12, Martin is one of a number of 'foreign born' bankers here." Larry was recruited out of Tuck School by Shawmut and stayed on.

Moving up the ladder at the First National Bank of Boston is another Tuck School lad, Mutt Jennings, who in December was elected a senior vice president and put in charge of a new division called the Commercial Banking Division.

A letter-head of the New Hampshire Society Sons of the American Revolution lists C. Murray Sawyer of Concord as treasurer and Lane Dwinell of Lebanon as a member of the Board of Managers.

After three years in Santo Domingo, ClarkBlyth has been assigned by the State Department to Mexico, where his address is: Avenida Carranza 766, San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico.

Jim Fassett is living in Coral Gables and trying to dispose of his orange grove in Orlando, an effort complicated by new roads and the coming of Disneyland. He is very appreciative of the help which Mai Beal has given his daughter Carol, a student at the University of Miami. Mai is chairman of the English Department at the University.

Not one of our 700 classmates chose the ministry, although contemporary classes have at least one man of the cloth. We may not have a minister, but at least we now have a chaplain! John Turkevich, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton and a leading authority on Soviet science, has been appointed chaplain for Eastern Orthodox students at Princeton.

Another Princeton resident, Hadley Cantril, gave a lecture on "Psychology and Scientific Inquiry" at the University of Pittsburgh recently. Hadley is chairman of the Institute for International Social Research, and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at Princeton. He has written several books including "Soviet Leaders and Mastery Over Man," and "The Politics of Despair."

Hollis Carlisle's picture appeared in the Springfield Union with other officials of the Northern Educational Service and the World Affairs Council on the occasion of the opening of their headquarters building in Springfield, Mass.

Hayward Houghton has been named an assistant vice president of the Provident Institution for Savings, Boston, New England's oldest savings bank.

Ken and Mildred Chase's daughter, Barbara, a Wellesley student, is engaged to Albert C. Schneider Jr., of St. Louis, a Harvard student.

The engagement of Susan Smith of Princeton, N. J., to J. Chandler Newton, a Dartmouth senior, son of Jim and Ruth Newton of Salem, Mass., has been announced.

On Parents' Day at Governor Dummer Academy, CaJ and Genie Billings saw Larryand1 Naomi Martin. Sam Billings is a senior and Bob Martin is a sophomore.

The only report on the Yale game weekend last fall came from Cal Billings, who saw at his neighbor's house (Warren Phinney '30) in West Hartford, the Ken Grafs,Jack Phelans, and Feet Thurston.

Sherm and Helen Baketel find retirement a delight. New Castle, N. H., seems to be just a base for trips. Last winter they went to St. Lucia, a lovely and not very touristy island in the Windward Islands of the West Indies. This summer they took a trip to Nova Scotia and the Gaspe. They saw Bud McKenney at his Theatre of the Sea at Islamorada, south of Miami, and spent a weekend with Maurice Binley in Canton, Mass.; Maurie is still with Brooks-Skinner Company in Boston, where he has been for 30 years. They also report a delightful visit with Ken Turner at Tomkins Cove, N. Y.

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Treasurer, First National Bank, Boston 6, Mass.

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