1952

I guess I oughta chide certain of yoll guys more often. If you'll remember, a couple of months ago I gave Buck Lenman hell for letting a couple of good hockey players from Wayzata escape to Yale, ft brought a prompt retort from Buck which included considerable information I was happy to get.

First, Buck told me he's recently switched jobs. He was with Du Bois Chemical and is now with Lindstrom-Dalco Corp., a local Minneapolis maintenance and supply firm. Buck says he's much happier because he now eats better and there's no chance he'll be farmed out away from the Twins.

He also recounted a rather hairy middle-of-the-night phone call from the old Rabbit, Jack Hart. Jack phoned from Florida just to say hello but Buck learned from Jack's wife, Sally, that the old sergeant had been the top group manager in the country for Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in 1965. Sure enough, a couple of days later I got a notice from Connecticut General to the effect that the Miami District Group Office under the leadership of John Standish Hart had received the Superior Achievement Award for 1965. Thanks, Carl, for the information and best wishes to both you and Conn. General's top district group manager.

From my almost neighbor and '53 counterpart Dave Florence I got more information on Bill Fisher's move to San Francisco which I reported last month: Bill's new business is North American Mortgage, a mortgage banking company which Bill and a partner are starting from scratch. With headquarters in San Francisco they also have an office in Hawaii and they will handle "the complete range of activities in this field," whatever they are.

Thanks to Mr. John J. Remsen '13, I am in the possession of a newspaper page on which there are five pictures of paintings by classmate John Riggio. Even in black and white they are more than commendable and the article that goes with them says that when seen in color "a dazzling, brittle sense of life fairly vibrates through them." The article also tells us that the prestigious Journal American artist recently devoted several pages to an examination of Jack's oils. A special bonus with the article is a picture of Jack, a dentist by profession, looking rather Van Gogh-like in his Vandyke and mustache.

From a New Haven paper comes news of the Reverend Edward Coolidge, curate of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in New Haven. Father Coolidge served as a Presbyterian minister until ordained as an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Connecticut in 1963 when he went to St. Paul's. He has been instrumental in the beginnings of "The Church Mission Association of New Haven" according to the clipping.

Up in Elmira, N. Y., Gene Cesari has been busy pursuing his career in education. Gene is now assistant professor of history at Elmira College and is at present a candidate for a doctor's degree from Penn. Subject of the clipping I received about Gene was a book review he was scheduled to give. It also stated that in addition to his teaching duties he has been assistant dean of the faculty since 1962.

I suppose no one in our class is the subject of as much printed matter as Bob Binswanger. Dr. Robert B. Binswariger, that is. If you live in Cleveland, or near it, you must see his name in print at least once a week; and if you follow this column, as I know you all do, you will know that he's executive director of the PACE Association in Cleveland. PACE is a citizens organization for the improvement of the public school system, and Bins recently told the good tax payers of Cuyahoga County that they should view federal aid to education as a pep pill and not as a tranquilizer. What he was saying, in effect, was that federal aid should serve to spur local school boards to greater action rather than giving them the feeling they could sit back and let Uncle do it. He made several other cogent observations which are recounted in the article I now have before me, and I think it might do well for all of us parents who are concerned about better education to heed some of his advice. (I leave it to you as to how you get that advice.) I also learned from the article that Bins and his wife, the former Henriette Pennypacker, of Boston, are expecting a third child, to aid young Benjamin, 5 and Joshua, 3 in jangling their harried father's nerves. Let us know when he/she arrives, Bins.

From out Chicago-way comes news of two recent business advances made by Classmates. The Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. has advanced Drew Waitley from assistant cashier to second vice president in the international banking department. Drew's been with the bank since he graduated with us in '52 and so I trust he has learned to love his work by now, Eh what, Drew?

The other Chicago appointment makes Tom Schanck the new General Sales Manager in charge of eastern division sales for Signade Coloration, Chicago. Tom, too, has been with his present employer since we graduated and he was, previous to this appointment, Sales Manager of Signade's Paslode division. He and his wife, Barbara, live in La Grange, Ill., with their daughter, Karen.

I just received a letter from our fearless leader John J. Boyle, regretting the fact that we had no executive committee meeting this winter and urging on us all great efforts in the coming Alumni Fund Drive. I pass those urgings on to you.

And now I must retire to the TV room and see how Buck Zuckerman (Buck Henry to the viewing public) got Maxwell Smart out of that'terrible predicament last "week.

Six Chicago '51's who braved a blizzardto see the video tape of the Princetonfootball game were (l to r) Al Le Clair,Bill Brooks, Ned Hoeppner, Tom Barnett,Jim Bovaird, and Bob Hopkins.

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