1924
Writing for a month ahead gets confusing, especially as I'm trying to keep a sense of timing despite the fact that: (1) I've just put in the mail with Butts Lamson's Class Letter details about the Princeton-game reunion (and coupon for reservations) for October; and (2) am writing this for May reading when it's only barely April (tennis courts and baseball field are clear of snow and water and usable the earliest I can recall) and just starting my final term of teaching before I retire; and just heard from KeithDrake who is adding his name to Alumni College this summer and had a request I could take care of promptly. Now I think I'm on target for current events.
So saying, I go back 41 years to vol. 1 #2 of "The 24 Hour Notice" - April 1925; "Price - Your Reply." Perhaps this will add a few to the few I do have (increasingly more, thank you) in reply to the birthday cards. The names are familiar but the first jobs then held correlate with later work only slightly. But there are some who started and stayed on: Tiipper, with Street & Co., real estate; Wally Lord, advertising for Converse; Spud Spaulding in advertising, but not yet his own firm; some changes: Dinny Bent with Filenes; Win Nazro with United Fruit Co. in Honduras; and many going on in graduate school: Gene Wood shifted from Columbia University to Univ. of Strousburg; Ted Lamb (blond?) at Christ's College. Cambridge University, Stan Lyon at Harvard Law, Ralph Roberts at Harvard Business School; Fred at Harvard La... those are a few that caught my eye. It makes exciting reading, and you can borrow my copy when and if you come this way.
Frank Harrington, in addition to all he does for Dartmouth as a trustee, has been elected Chairman of the Boards of Directors of the Mass. Protective Association Inc., and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company of Worcester, Mass., with whom he has been affiliated since 1945 and recently as their President - now succeeded by Frank L. Harrington Ir. '50. We read this loud and clear, and add a personal wah-hoo-wah. . . . Brad Walker acknowledges the birthday card (and glad Marie did bake him a cake) with the news that he is "still several years away from retirement." His position is that of senior vice-president, Interpublic Group of Companies; but writing on McCann-Erickson, Inc. stationery and living with many other advertising men in.Conn. (Stamfrd). I looked at my personal ledger and found the last entry was very different and long ago; also that he started in advertising in 1927 with Campbell-Ewald Co. in Detroit. Inasmuch as he was born in the 19th century older than most of us, I'm impressed that he is still gung-ho.... Doug Craig, who right now is doing so much for the Class and Dartmouth, has retired but his Class Agent job will go on and get better and better I'm sure his many regional helpers know what a good leader his is. Metropolitan Life has lost a mighty good VP, or will come June.... Regrets from Lee Ramsdell that this year he won't even apply for Bonnie Oaks accommodations, even with his son John nearby at Tuck, for each year his agency business is at rush peak in the fall. But his plans to be in Hanover late May sound very good, and we hope to see all three - Louise, Lee, and son John.
As I am working to rework my file for Memorial Books and interest (or lack of it) by classmates' widows, news comes of the passing of one more for whom I shall include in this or a subsequent issue our formal obituary: Alan Honigsberg. We send our sympathy to his wife and daughter and to two sisters and a brother.
Jerry Glauber, as of first of the year, became associated with a men's hat concern ... with address just a bit further along North Charles Street in Baltimore. He had been with E. Sondheimer Co. of Sond heimer, La., since 1950; manufacturers of Southern hardwood lumber. Sounds like retirement and a new job, Jerry. Yes? Looking back, I note that he started with this family business (Sondheimer is his mother's maiden name), went into the hat business between 1929-193 9 at least; was in the hotel business in New York in 1942 and at St. Moritz, 1945. Thanks for bringing us up-to-date, Jerry.
Another move and retirement: Bob Macaulay, who has been kind in keeping in touch with me from place to place, has been a film specialist with the State Department and the USIA for the past 16 years. His Park Row, N. Y., address ties him to his new work as a private film producer. Bob taught here at Dartmouth for a year before University of Chicago for graduate work in political science. His future developed during World War II when he was a volunteer with the Canadian Black Watch and then the American Army Signal Corps as a film producer and with their orientation program in Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea before State Department took over in 1949. During the past 11 years he has really been around: Thailand, Libya, Mexico, and India. Two films won Edinburgh exhibition awards: "Thai Buddhist Customs" and "Thailand's Heritage"; other documentaries also won prizes. He gave the memorial film on Kennedy its widest distribution ("Years of Lightning," "Day of Drums") when in India.
Miscellaneous news: Butts and HarriettLamson found St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten all they hoped for relaxation, sun, and new sights.... Mike Branch is one of our loyal regional helpers with the Fund; last year he got his classmates-to-see together for cocktails and came up all roses; we hope to find space for the pictures another time, but too little space this issue.... Charlie Boss joins the retired ranks, from Broad Street Sales, of Boston. Investments still as he joins Eaton & Howard... retired two days, that is.... Very happy indeed to meet the former Ann Davis, wife of Ken. She remarried in May 1964, to Floyd Willey who runs a motel in which I stayed when on business in Manchester, N. H.; the motel is an aside to his real estate business. Ann looks pretty as ever; works in Concord with the Secretary of State. I'm sure many will want to know her address; care of Uptown Motel, 22 Brooks Street, Manchester, N. H. We hope both will join us at subsequent alumni affairs, as they also plan to do. ... Don Coyle (Feb. issue of Finance) was written up and included the information we
published of his promotion to be executive vice-president of the International Division of Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.... Paul Synnott retired from Time... will have the story in the June issue as I need more space.
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