1931
Howie Mason gets the cigar for winning the "Who is Fred Metzdorf?" contest. Howie writes: "I worked for several years at the old Campus Cafe when it was operated by Fred Metzdorf and George Gitsis." Right, Howie. So did Doug Morris, and I, among other '31ers. Howie also advises he has been Superintendent of Schools in Portland, Conn., since 1959, is a grandfather five times, and lives a very interesting life.
Vance Dickerman is busy in San Diego tearing down the old Barcelona Hotel and erecting the new Balboa Park Plaza. JimSwift says it sounds as if Vance were running the whole bit — razing, building, and managing the new operation.
It's nice to hear of someone winding up on Easy Street. Dick Denby has this address, in Nantucket, Mass., for his new real estate office, he having retired from Uniroyal.
Russ Beckwith is doing some high-class head-hunting as V.P. and Director of the Foertsch and Beckwith Inc. Organization - among others, he is looking for a college v.p. He says, "Use top talent to find top talent." Very succinct.
Last year Ralph Wardle's trip was Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. Early next year he hopes for a sabbatical, three months in Cambridge University, then two on the continent and two more in England. His daughter Ruth was married last fall; his son Nicholas entering U. Penn now.
Peanuts Winslow and the "Argo" shadowed the first sailing of the replica "America" from Boothbay Harbor, Me. Another note states Captain Eliot Winslow, commander of a Coast Guard cutter in World War II which captured four Nazi submarines in 1945, had on one of his cruises this summer a wartime German sailor who participated in the launching ceremonies of the German guided missile destroyer "Lutjens" at Bath, Me., this summer. Another clipping received here says that Peanuts and the "Argo" took 50 German guests present at the "Lutjens" launching from Bath on a cruise to Boothbay and return. Peanuts overlooks no bets.
John Ewers, Director at the Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institute, has written a book entitled "Artists of the Old West" (Doubleday & Co.), selecting over 200 illustrations including thirty pages in full color to accompany his text.
Another author, Bob Alcorn, was the guest speaker at an invitation reception given by the Friends of the Avon (Conn.) Library. As you remember, Bob has written several volumes of tales of the OSS, and has recently been commissioned to do a history of Suffield, Conn., his home town.
From someone anonymous I received a publication entitled "The Crow's Nest," published by the Seamen's Church Institute of Philadelphia, Jim McElroy, Director and Chaplain. Listen to these statistics of accomplishment: "visited 1580 ships whose crews totaled 75,953. Delivered on board 38,650 books, 111,692 mags and 2,750 ditty bags; provided 32,950 lodgings, 7,498 meals, 256 articles of clothing and 50 jobs; made 271 hospital visits involving 581 seamen; provided 51 entertainments attended by 2,075 seamen; held 8,382 personal interviews; conducted 108 religious services and 5 funerals." This kind of a record makes my skin tingle with excitement.
Mori Klein writes in June that he's studying Spanish at the University of Seville; was to continue through the summer with other courses, then back to Proctor Academy in Andover, N. H., to teach Spanish.
Ken Sampson's boy Thomas received the Army Commendation Medal.
Jack Reno writes "Alice and I spent a month in South America recently, hitting Rio on the way down and returning via Buenos Aires, Lima, Cuzco and Macchu Picchu." Macchu Picchu?
Travelling to Louisville, Ky.; this summer, Jack Benson encountered Joe and JaneGathright, who were hosts for the Kentucky Trust Company for a steamboat trip up the Ohio River. Johnny got taken in with my straight-faced remark about BobOelman a few months ago. I guess I'd better watch that stuff.
John Boermeester writes that Dave andAlice Loveland were bound for Hawaii in May. Ernie Moore forwards a postal from Dutch and Doris Holland, who took in Jamaica. Trudy and I were seen in London, Cornwall, Stratford, Wales, and Scotland in July. So much for travel notes.
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York named Don Stoddard as a senior vice president. Charlie Nims has been elevated to chairman of the board of the Manchester Savings Bank (N. H.). We know you all will be sorry to hear that RalphHunter's wife Ann passed away this summer after a long illness.
Hart Gilchrist split away from his former legal associates and now hangs a solo shingle over his office in Denver, Colo.
Please note if you did not read it elsewhere - Gay Freeman is now a member of the Alumni Council, until 1970.
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