1939
All occupations have problems, but we think a most rewarding job would be headmaster of a boys' school. We were reminded of this when we read the list of about 33 faculty appointments announced by ArchieMallon, the astute headmaster of Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center, Vt. We note a number of feminine names on the list, so perhaps we should add, in our ignorance, that running a school with girls in it should be even more enlightening. Did you ever get your footlocker back from Okinawa, Archie?
Our leader has moved his National Educational Advertising Services lock, stock, and barrel to luxurious new offices at 360 Lexington Ave. in New York. We certainly hope President Bert was able to take his wonderfully efficient secretary with him.
Joe Batchelder's smiling face centered a group of transit advertising boys who got their photo taken for Advertising Age while some gal from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development talked them into giving a free ad in all the buses "urging urban revitalization." We noted that Joe looked suntanned and fit and was next to the girl. Now if they could get all the buses to Took as revitalized as those ad boys, the bus patrons might more happily read the ads.
Our man of the month just has to be Lew Joel, superintendent of Clinton and Killing- worth schools in Connecticut, who has been selected as one of 35 top United States edu- cators to take part in a six-week seminar in New Delhi, India, early next year. He will receive a full grant from the U.S. Office of Education for his travel, a study _of the school systems of India, and for his work in the seminar. Lew has about 2500 pupils in his schools, but we imagine the size and the problems of India's schools will make him rush home to a good thing. His boss on the school board said, "His experience will be beneficial to our school system as well as to Dr. Joel himself, and I'm delighted that the opportunity was made available to him." We remember listening to Lew play on the Barbary Coast, and we hope he can introduce the tenor sax in India and get those cats away from those odd-stringed musical horrors they play over there. Who knows? Our next reunion may well be in a minor key if Lew runs the musical background again!
Sam Thurm is in the news again. At the giant Lever Brothers Sam has been promoted from advertising vice president to consumer relations vice president responsible for advertising, marketing research, and public relations. My wife complains that all the detergents have pushed good old Lux right off the grocery shelves down here. Can you do anything about that in marketing research, Sam?
We just read that Mayor Sam Lawton of Highland Park, Ill., was honored a while back at the State of Israel bond dinner. Sam, who has long been active in civic and community life in Highland Park, was elected mayor last April without opposition. His Honor, who has served as president of the school board, city councilman, and member of the planning commission, is now a member of the Illinois Air Pollution Control Board and the executive committee of the Anti-Defamation League. Sam is doing a great job. And so is the girl on the phone at his law office, who must say, "Good morning, Altheimer, Gray, Naiburg, Strasburger, and Lawton, may I help you?"
Dr. Colin B. Holman, consultant in diagnostic roentgenology in the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and associate professor of radiology in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Rochester, was chosen president-elect of the American Society of Neuroradiology at the annual bash of that organization in New York City recently. The medicos in our class could easily carve us up at our next reunion, each man dissecting his specialty, and they just may have to.
The new assistant vice president at the Western Bank and Trust Company in West Springfield, Mass., is Toby Wing. One paper we read said Toby and his wife have lived there for sixteen years and another said 26 years. In any event, he's got a pretty good line on credit operations around Springfield.
As predicted in this column in June, BudAdler was elected that month by the company's board of directors to be president of Helene Curtis Industries. Bud has been executive vice president for a while, a director since 1963, and was previously vice president of operations. He joined Helene Curtis in good old 1939. Another Highland Park man, Bud has been president of the board of the hospital there and a vice chairman of the Community Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.
Dick Hawkins, who is the chief chemist with Bemis Brothers Bag Company in Claremont, N. H., has attended the Dartmouth Experimental College once a week. He reports that his son Rodney is working his way through the Class of 1968.
Mike Ellis had a play "What Did We Do Wrong?" open in Denver during the summer. Paul Ford '24 had the lead in it. Out drumming up business for the play, Mike walked in on Dick Shaw one day, then found Keith Anderson had an office in the same building, so surprised him, too. That night Mike looked up Steve Bradley and awakened him well after his bedtime. The result was they all went to see the play the following night. Incidentally, Mike's son Gordon has transferred from Dartmouth for a term at the University of Toulouse.
John Hess, eminent father of a Dartmouth freshman, is also the head writer on "The Secret Storm," the CBS soap opera that's on the air five days a week. The secrets of the plot will not be divulged, even to old roomies.
Dick Clark, who we reported last month moved East as regional vice president of Monsanto, found a new home at 237 Green- field Hill Rd., Fairfield, Conn. Col. Bob Hall has moved to 3 Daphne Drive in Scotia, N. Y. Shag Hatch, who was last reported in Georgia, may now be found at the Hotel Congdon in Union City, Pa. John Mitchell is living at Tide Meadows, Pleasant St., Assonet, Mass. Small towns have a fascination for Bob Schwartz, who has moved to 6 Spring St. in Williamsville, N. Y. Col. GeneWeeks is fighting the war at 107 Hines Rd., Fort Huachuca, Arizona. John Wood, father of eight children (and who can top that?) has moved to 315 Oakhurst Ave., Bluefield, W. Va.
If you all want to know the current address of a widow or parent of any deceased classmate, try writing us. We do our best to keep all addresses of relatives up to date.
We thank all hands for the clippings and letters to date, but we hope we can make the column more interesting next month after seeing all the characters who make the Fall Reunion. We have a brother-in-law who is a Penn man of the same vintage, and we wish we could get him there, too. He might make you all feel younger!
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