1923
During our last few years with the New England Telephone Company Len Morrissey, my esteemed 1922 secretarial compatriot, and I had offices across the hallway from one another. Naturally I got to know him well, but it is only recently that I fully appreciated the effort he puts into his quality reporting of 1922's activities.
In the June issue Len had some interesting statistics which I hope sometime to duplicate entirely for you. For the time being however you might be interested in the following 1923 figures: Number originally entered with the class, 698; Number who graduated, 412; Number of living graduates, 294; Number of living non-graduates, 177.
Our 471 living graduates and non-graduates designate their occupations in forty fields. Principally these are: Retired—113; Manufacturing and Manufacturers Agents •—40; Business Unclassified — 25; Law - 25; Medicine — 24; Insurance-—22; Investments — 17; Education 16; Publishing and Journalism— 16; Real Estate— 16; Mer- chants— 15; Government— 13; Banking — 13; Farming, Forestry and Ranching — 9; Contracting arid Building—8; Advertising — 8; and 25 other classifications — 86.
As you might expect we follow closely the occupational distribution of 1922 with the exception of the Manufacturing and Publishing categories where we exceed them substantially.
College and class records show 113 of our men as retired. This is undoubtedly much lower than the actual figure since a substantial number of men have not reported on their occupational status for several years. If you are one of these won't you advise the Alumni Records Office, or better still write me and I will notify them for you. You might add a little news about yourself, too!
Springfield Area Reunion: Babe Miner reports the fifteenth annual fall get together at the Longmeadow Country Club on September 28. Howie Alcorn, Herb Behan, Bill Blake, Fred Davis, George Ferguson, Bill Gates, Art Little, Doug Manson, Ernie Pope. Charlie Rice, Gus Ryan, Howie Sammis, Bert Teagle, Len Truesdell, and George Weston were there. Babe's Florence entertained Berta Alcorn, Dorothy Blake, Betty Davis, Edith Little, Jean Rice, and Rosalie Teagle at cocktails and dinner.
Win Wadleigh's wife Sylvia passed away on September 17 at Manchester, N. H. She was educated in Manchester schools and was graduated from Smith College, Class of 1924. Your secretary was one of nearly five hundred of Sylvia's friends who attended services at Brookside Congregational Church in Manchester.
Sad news also comes to us with the report of Nick Bernard's death on September 28 in Rochester, Minn. An "In Memoriam" will appear in a later issue.
The July 1966 issue of the Loomis School Bulletin brings the tardy news of Hull Maynard's retirement as Director of Admissions. Hull transferred to the University of California after our sophomore year, received his B.A. in 1923 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1925. After three years with Great Western Sugar Company in Colorado he returned east to take a position on the Loomis School faculty. He has held his present assignment since 1939. Under his guidance the Secondary School Admission Test program was established. Hull continues to serve as Executive Secretary of this now mammoth organization. Back in the forties Hull and Margaret restored a 120-year-old salt box house in Chester, Conn. They will spend their summers here and the winter months in Naples, Fla.
Carl H. Bowen, vice-president and secretary of Art Metal Inc., Jamestown, N. Y„ furniture and equipment manufacturer, has retired from active employment with the company. He continues, however, as a director, retains the title of vice-president and secretary, and will be available for special projects or studies as an independent consultant. Carl joined Art Metal in 1922, was elected a vice-president in 1954 and a director in 1957. He spent two years at Dartmouth and roomed with Jerry Werner anc Lewis Woodruff.
From Ted Caswell: "Last Thursday the Dartmouth men who are members of Brae Burn had an outing on a perfect September day. Fifteen of us played golf and I had the low score." Ted also confirms the report that Cape Cod weather this past summer has been uniformly bad, that Paul Morgan, WinTemple, Roger Billings, and Pen Whitcomb are moving freely about the area, that Sig Larmon 'l4 organized a Winano Club party featuring Loretta Young, and finally that Elwood Fisher '2l staged a similar affair in Ort Hicks' honor which produced Loretta a second time. She is sort of a contemporary of ours though, isn't she?
Ike Coulter's daughter, Janet, is married to the son of some good friends of ours here in Francestown. It was with especial regret therefore that we learned of Ike's recent illness. He has had a surgical session at New England Baptist in Boston, but is now back home and coming along fine.
Alicia Pianca, daughter of Al and Belinda Pianca, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of French and Spanish at Franklin College of Indiana where she began her teaching career in 1963.
The Gardner Akins will not be a part of the Brown game festivities. Gardner and Jean met Captain Irving Johnson in Bordeaux on September 25, stayed three weeks with him on the "Yankee," and about now are visiting the French Riviera on their own.
Secretary, Box 2, Francestown, N. H. 03043
Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass. 01106
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