1923
In 1944 Al Taylor resigned from the John B. Varick Company, N. H.'s leading hardware concern, and went back to his first love, the insurance business. Two years ago he sold this agency to Charles Gordon and has been working for him, not too hard, ever since. Al and Doris are now making plans to fill in the next few years in traveling.
After a long silence extending back to 1940, Jerry Werner comes to light with the following news:
Perhaps you never heard from me because the most interesting bit of news I had to offer was the addition of the Zip Code number which is 93921.
Otherwise we remain in our most congenial rut except on those unfortunate occasions when we get addledbrained and climb out of it. We just returned from a month in London by way of our birthplace and the scenes of our childhood, New York City. The latter is now simply something dreamed up by Hitchcock to give kiddies nightmares.
I have been retired for some years and we have done considerable sightseeing. We got to Hanover in 1961 after not seeing it since the thirties. We were delighted to see it not changed for the worse as so much of the world seems, at least to our age bracket which knew a more gracious time.
Our son has turned us into grandparents six times. There is something he is trying to prove. I believe I get the message but I am far too old to be a grandfather to such an explosion.
After 19 years of renting our Carmel hovel, we bought it last year. Of course, we wore it out thoroughly in that time. It is the first time we have owned a home in 42 years of married life. I am waiting to feel the joys of owning one's piece of land, etc., that I have read about all these years of blissful renting but there seems to be some delay in transmission. We took this giant step after observing the good fellowship and love-thy-neighbor atmosphere that some of our peers have subjected themselves to by entering these retirement colonies that have spawned all over the territory.
This rambling reply should curb your curiosity about your silent classmate.
Phil Wagner retired on November 30 from Western Electric Company. With the exception of several years during World War II he spent the entire period, 1923-1965, in the comptroller's office, in statistical and accounting work. In recent years Phil has been assigned accounting method problems. Phil and Gertrude have five grandchildren, four of whom are in South Carolina, the other in North Carolina. So the highway between Teaneck, N. J., and the Carolinas will be traveled on continuously by the Wagners.
George and Ruth Ann Whiteside drove their trusty G.P. 2700 miles last summer. First from Vero Beach, Fla., to visit their son Watson, then to daughter Betsey Ann (Bradford '48 and Stanford '50), the Parker Pen Company in Jonesville where George spent 24 years, on to see brother George in Hinsdale where the Whitesides lived 32 years and then to visit daughter Deborah in Hudson, Ohio.
On August 8 they sailed on the maiden voyage of the Italian liner "Raffaello" to Naples. From there they toured Europe quite thoroughly for two months missing only Germany and Spain. On October 24 George and Ruth celebrated their 40th.
Charlie Zimmerman's reputation as an after-dinner speaker continues to grow. Hardly a week goes by that Charlie is not called upon to make a speech in some part of the U.S.A. This past fall he spoke on "Mental Health in the World of Work" at a Connecticut Social Welfare Conference. On another occasion he was a featured speaker at the dinner and presentation ceremony of the Boston Chapter, Chartered Life Underwriters of the American College of Underwriters. He is Chairman of the Board.
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