1954
If you're still suffering from spring fever and daylight savings time blues, try a dose of winter news. It may not cure you, but at least it will keep your minds off the vernal malady for a little while.
This was a winter which George Haskins will remember with mixed emotions. He, Barbara and their two sons were snowbound in their Webster, N. Y., home for almost three days. Ordinarily this situation would not have been cause for too much alarm, but Barbara was expecting momentarily. Fortunately conditions improved by February 10, when daughter Kimberly Beth arrived safely and healthily. George is with the Eastman Savings & Loan Association of Rochester and was recently named as a senior residential appraiser by the Society of Real Estate Appraisers.
Most assuredly Tom Corcoran will look back on this winter in a more kindly light. Although busily preparing for next season's opening of his Waterville Valley (N. H.) ski area, Tom found time to engage in some skiing competition. For an "old timer" he did quite well, too. Tom was awarded the Alexander H. Bright Trophy for winning the 30th running of the Hochgebirge race held at Franconia. In the North American Alpine Championships held in March also at Franconia, Tom placed second in the special giant slalom event and came in third in the combined Alpine honors. Tom's comment on this feat, "I even surprised myself. Maybe I'm ready for a comeback."
For Ralph Destino this past season ended happily, too. On February 19, he was presented by wife Aurora with a little bambino, Ralph Destino III. Ralph has further cause to celebrate since he recently obtained the exclusive U.S. franchise to manufacture and sell men's jewelry under the Christian Dior name. This will supplement the already popular Destino line of men's jewelry.
Luria Brothers & Co., Inc. have proudly announced that they have "lured" Sonny Silmore into their corporate midst. He has joined up with the Non-Ferrous and Alloy Division of the company and will be located in the division headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa. Former Air Force officer-pilot, He was formerly with Ajax Metal Division of the Kramer Co. and before that, the Hassett Mining Co. of Burnsville, N. C.
Dick Trowbridge gained further acclaim this winter as he was selected for inclusion in the 1966 edition of the Outstanding Young Men of America. This annual publication is a biographical compilation of approximately 10,000 young men between the ages of 21 and 36 of outstanding rank throughout the country. Dick was Norwalk, Conn.'s "Young Man of the Year" in 1964. He was nominated for inclusion in this publication by the Norwalk Junior Chamber of Commerce in which he's been quite active. Further east along the Connecticut shore in the town of Madison lives Harry Robinson and his flourishing family of wife Carol, sons Happy, 7, and Lawrence, 3, and daughter, Elizabeth, 4½. Harry works for W. H. Milroy & Co., an engineering and construction equipment sales firm. He reports that he enjoys his job very much even though he's the only non-Yalie in the company. Harry must get a lot of rough assignments during the football season.
From Boston comes news of two classmates making further upward strides in the insurance world. Frank Carey has been named a director of agencies by The Employers' Life Insurance Company of America. Frank joined Employers' Life five years ago as an agency assistant and prior to his recent promotion served as assistant director of agencies. He is a Certified Life Under writer. Dick Brace has joined the law division of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company where he will handle policy and real estate matters. After his hitch in the army, Dick signed on with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a traffic manager and attended evening classes at Suffolk Law School. Then he joined the Boston law firm of Sherburne, Powers and Needham where he remained until his recent appointment to New England Life. Dick, wife Jane and Richard Jr. reside in Natick.
If the Braces and the many other '54's in the Greater Boston area were tuned into radio station WLYN-AM-FM on February 27, they would have heard the familiar voice of Dan McCarthy on the program "Northeastern Faculty Talks." Dan, director of the Graduate School of Business at Northeastern University, discussed the topic of graduate business school programs. Fortunately for Dan and Peggy's three children, his radio debut did not conflict with Batman.
Even though McCalls, Saturday Review and the other publications of the McCall Corp. do not print the exploits of Batman and our other comic art heroes, the corporation has been doing well. Contributing to this success is Paul Miller who has been promoted by McCall from director of purchasing to vice president.
Bill Dutton has been appointed vice president and regional sales manager of the D. H. Overmyer Ware house Company's Northeast region. For the past six years, prior to joining the Overmyer organization, Bill was district sales manager for Scott Paper Co. His new ter- ritory extends from Richmond, Va., in the South to Boston and the upstate New York cities. Bill and his family live in Maplewood, N. J.
Although all the classmates reported in this column should long remember the past winter, it isn't likely that anyone will remember it better than Lee Huff. On December 28, 1965, Lee abandoned our vastly depleted bachelor ranks and married Marasri Shareonvit. The ceremony took place at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C.
'55's head agent Randolph J. Hayes ofStamford, Conn., at a Fund meeting.
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