1940
If this is short it is simply because I'm trying to beat two deadlines at once — and somehow the penalties of keeping Uncle Sam waiting for his income tax seem more stringent than the penalties of keeping Uncle ALUMNI MAG waiting for his copy.
Now that spring is more than a sometime thing it is hard to remember back to those winter vacations taken to escape the icy masts but several I've heard about were so monumental that I'd like to report on them in case you want to start early plans for next vear. For instance, Bud and Louise Hewitt flew to Yucatan Vla ami where they toured the Mayan rums at Chichen Itza and Uxmal before beachcombing on cozumel Island, and then winging on to Mexico city for a breather and finishing up the time at Tazco and Acapulco Imagine hitting so many fascinating places all on one trip' Bud has made reservations with me for a room next October at the Occom Inn for the Princeton game - there are still two or three left if you move fast and want to see the Big Green put another Tiger in a tank.
Other lucky vacationers were Scotty and Loomie Rogers who rented Maison Disbro, the St. Croix house built by Diz and Brownie, along with Karl and Ginny Bruch and Lew and Janet Chipman for two weeks of golf, rum swizzles, skin diving, rum swizzles, beach picnics, rum swizzles, sight seeing, rum swizzles, and nightclubbmg for a few rum swizzles. That trio followed Beezie and Ruth Smallwood into the same Shangri-La and just after the owners them selves had vacated. It sounds like those beds never got rid of a Forty body all season. These goings-on were reported by Scotty last month and also by Bob Austin this month who was writing from the seasoned viewpoint of a native. Bob and June sent a picture of the guest house they own and operate in Frederiksted, called Liberty Hall, and a mighty attractive place it is, too (rates on request). Luckily the Austins see most of the winter tourists from the Class who make St. Croix a port of call - before they journey north to New Hampshire to open up the summer resort they own and operate near Webster. Bob wrote that Fred Eaton had a golfing trip to Puerto Rico last fall and came over to St. Croix to say hello before heading back to those ten Sears Roebuck stores in Venezuela of which he is president. Fred told Bob, and maybe you saw it in Time also, that each of his stores is manned around the clock by a couple of guards in a roof top turret, each with a machine gun. That's a budget item not many of you stateside merchants have to worry about!
Speaking of merchants, Johnny O'Shea has been in the thick of planning for the Laconia of tomorrow, but must have missed the crucial meeting when they voted to grass over the main street and tear, down his store which was in the way of the mall. Maybe after 102 years he felt he needed a new store, and that's exactly what he is getting - a brand new, sparkling, modern version from which to do department store business for another century.
Another merchandising man in our class is Iver Olson who has been elected vice president for market research of the National Footwear Manufacturers Association. His responsibilities for marketing and economic research activities include development of standard computer programs directly related to the marketing management problems of the smaller member firms. Ive is chairman of the Mayor's Committee for Civic Improvement and Treasurer of the Babe Ruth League in Larchmont.
Several interesting and newsworthy promotions have found their way into the various newspapers, and, the clipping service being as it is if the article mentions your alma mater, soon afterwards to my desk. So just remember to give the copy writer the name of Dartmouth and you won't have to write the news about yourself at all. That is how I learned that Bob Rodday had been advanced by American Enka to a corporate vice presidency as the head of the Brand Rex Wire and Cable division. Also, that StetWhitcher has been named manager of the loan department at the First National Bank of Boston; and that Paul Dyer was made assistant superintendent of the home office claim department of the Employers Group of Insurance Companies; and that Ben Bacon was elected a director of the Second Na- tional Bank of New Haven. The clipping service came up with yet another Connecticut bank director this month when the Bridgeport Savings and Loan announced that Bill Sides was now on their board. He is plant manager of the specialty wire division of National Distillers and Chemical.
Bill Harriman wrote of the tragic death of his wife Ann last August in mid-Atlantic while she and their two daughters were returning to their home in Tripoli from a vacation in this country. Even though belatedly, I know the sympathy of the Class goes out to Bill in his loss. Besides the two girls, 8 and 7, at home with him, number one son is a senior at Texas A&M and his second boy is a sophomore at the University of the Pacific. Bill expects to move back to Somalia in June where he will be exploration manager of Sinclair Somal Corporation, looking for the first commercial oil in East Africa.
Circle the 29th of May on your TV calendar so you can watch a Kennedy documentary which Jack Fitzgerald has been working on with NBC. A nice and welcome letter from Harry Hoyt confirmed the news that he is moving back east after ten years in Michigan. The reason is a big step up the Metropolitan Life ladder where he was just made vice-president — group staff. Congratulations, Harry! His oldest daughter, Holly, is married, Jack is a junior at Western Michigan, and Linda is a freshman at Michigan University. The Hoyts hoped to be able to ski this winter with the Jim Sullivans at Big Jim's favorite ski trails but were going to have to overcome six years of inertia to get back on the boards. Harry recently had lunch with Don Fox before he left Detroit to take up those new duties in the Big City.
Well, that's it for another month. Dont forget to keep in touch so we can all get together right here next month.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755
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