1944

This should be the last time we announce promotions for Claude Schuchter until he reaches 65 and goes chairman. However, Claude is now president of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company in Buffalo. And he's gone in in grand style. The fifteen-million Mattco building designed by Minora Yamasaki is well under way and will, together with its lavish president's office, be ready for occupancy in January of 1967. Kindly Bob Colwell sent me an article from the Herald Tribune about this architecturally exciting new building, of which he had heard first hand from Claude when he and Miriam were in Buffalo last May for a convention. At least now you know where to get a check cashed when you're in town.

Bob Colwell, like Claude, can't say "no" when asked to be a director, a trustee, a committee chairman, etc. But he stretched the string too far in '65 when he accepted the presidency of the Westchester County Association of Insurance Agents (258 agencies; and the next week agreed to be rear commodore of the Echo Bay Yacht Club in New Rochelle. As everything piled up, sleep hours were reduced, the domestic tranquility was endangered, something had to go; being business-like, it was the yacht club. Last fall the Colwells moved into a great house in the lovely Beechmont Lake area of New Rochelle, just a few blocks away from BuckyBrandt. The Buck is on Ted Colwell's Dartmouth interviewing committee. I'm sure all of us would go with the type of young man BucKy would propose, but that would be whitewash in Hanover these days.

In addition to watching the football game at Haivard with the Moose Mussers (.who look and are great) the Bob Colwells keep in touch with the l Charlie Martuses whose major claim to fame is expertness in getting their youngsters into the best colleges and working eldest daughter, Sandy, into a ranking, headline-grabbing tennis star.

Here's an interesting tidbit about growing older. back in '40 Don Burnham and TedColwell roomed together. Both had lovely daughters who grew to college age. The Burnhams and the Colwells thought Middlebury would be a nice institution, and without foreknowledge of either family, the gins are next door in the same dorm.

Speaking about college-hunting, I recently had a pleasant phone conversation with Pinky Corroon who told of his travails in helping his daughter, Rosemary, a tremendous girl, pick the right school. He called, primarily, to refute Buffy Crawford Hills' 3 A.M. phone call to me insisting that Pinky was a great host on Sunday after the Yale game. The truth is that after Pinky had made elaborate preparations the Hills never showed up.

Our treasurer, Bill McElnea, gets more news with his request for class dues than I do. For example: Johnny Morse, our greatest speed skater, reports that as sales manager of F. H. Ross and Company he's got his posh office in the new Pan Am Building, loves the east, has a home in Mountainside, N. J., and that he, Muriel and the four kids (two boys, two girls) are loving every minute of it. Also, that nice George Pert, after fifteen years with Dan River Mills, took a turn in direction and decided to join "Guideposts," an interfaith magazine. George is director of Leadership Development, aimed at getting both the clergy and the laity more practically adjusted- to the requirements of modern society. (This is personal, but I can't think of a guy in our class who could handle this almost impossible job better than George.)

That was a good picture of Phil Penberthy in the New York Times when they announced his election as vice president of Consolidated Cigar Corp. He got there through "Muriel" so please remember when you pick one up - sometime.

A guy who was a "frogman" even before the word was invented (a WW II underwater demolition expert) and forgot it after the war to go into the school book publishing business, was just named president and chief executive of Barnes, Noble, Inc., the largest wholesale and retail dealer in textbooks in the U.S.A., obviously, Warren Sully Sullivan. Through the ranks, Sully was vice president of John Wiley Sons, chairman and president of the Macmillan Company, director and vice president of Collier Cromwell and Macmillan, Inc.

The Betas from Cincinnati are promotionally oriented to golf. Jim Briggs, as you know, is backing a new course in the area. Last week, West Shell masterminded a million-dollar deal involving the sale of a nine-hole course for a real estate development and the transfer of its membership to a semi-private 18-hole course as their own private club, a transaction that leaves everybody happy. Even Wes!

The cover of Time, December 10 was of General Johnson and the feature article about him by Time's renowned war correspondent, John Mulliken. In the "Letter from the Publisher" they reviewed John's background as a heroic medal-winning officer of World War II which gave him the acumen for his great journalistic coverage of assignments in the Hungarian Revolution, the Lebanon and Suez crises, the Congo, and the Vietnam war. He has been Time's Pentagon correspondent since 1963. There was a good picture of him in that issue.

I imagine all of you easterners are having a good skiing year. John Eaton has been out every weekend. One of his great slope companions is Tommy Dorsey's son, who to the chagrin of the Blueduck (our greatest crooner) has absolutely no interest in music.

I've got more news, but I'm writing this long hand on a plane and by counting words think I've exceeded space. Possibly next month will be more interesting.

Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O. 45150

Treasurer, 65 Prospect St., Stamford, Conn. 06902