1949
Just blew in from the Windy City with a pinch of news about some of our illustrious. Only wish that it were also possible to sneak into a phone booth around the corner from you and you, and then we'd really have it made. Only trouble is that the boss doesn't trust me out on the road by myself after reading "The Adventurers," so I resign myself to an occasional trip usually to a remote area where nothing thrives except cactus and chameleons.
Gene Howard was testing his scratch handicap at the "Sun and Fun" golf tournament in Tucson. I spoke with his mother and was given some information relative to his career which was most interesting. Our quarterback is one of the principals of the Waylite Company of Chicago, makers among other things of concrete blocks for the building trade. The firm has just set up an operation in Spain where pumice, one of the prime ingredients, is plentiful.
Dick O'Riley is now living at 4 Briar Lane, Glencoe, Ill., and draws his paycheck from the Chicago Tribune same as Cal Titus back East. He is Business Manager of Educational Services. In this job, he directs copies of the paper to the school children around Chicago and is heavily involved in their current events programs. Latest edition for Mary and Dick is lames born in July 1966, their fifth. Dick promises to keep me abreast of all Chicago '49 news which sounds good to me. He informed me in his first assignment that sausage king Bill Jones recently had a boy after two girls and that Don Mose is comptroller of S. N. Nielsen Company, a large general building contractor that doesn't mess with anything less than big post offices and skyscrapers.
On my getaway day from Chicago' which was only a few hours before the nightmarish tornado, I phoned lawyer Dean Cameron who is now a partner in the Schiff, Hardin, etc., law firm specializing in Federal taxation. He had previously been tax court advisor in the nation's capital. Dean is bold to say that none of that red hair of his is as yet receding and in the great tradition he is pounding away at New Trier High School in the hopes of keeping the much run pipe line full to Dartmouth.
Upon my return home, there was a letter waiting for me from Alan Hodges of Lexington, Mass. He was recently promoted to Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve. Having come up through the ranks, he has had a 23-year haul to make this grade. He is attached to the Group Commander Staff at the Naval Reserve Training Center in Boston which controls the training of some 32 Reserve units. His daughter Linda is enrolled at Colby Junior for the fall and Alan frankly admits to a bit of nostalgic influence in the decision. Hardly seems possible that our own kids are about to begin the Colby-Dartmouth run.
The spring of the year is obviously news time as we seem to be hearing more from and about you. Eugene Miller has just been named Sales Manager of the Mount Pleasant Publishing Corporation in the Pennsylvania town by the same name. The corporation publishes three local newspapers. Having had fourteen years' experience with the J. C. Penney operation, he decided to pack it in when they promoted him to a bigger job involving a move to the New York office. Rather imagine he couldn't fight the change of scenery, and I am sure there are lots of us harried commuters who can hardly blame him.
Nort Rogers has left Pearl River in Rockland County, N. Y., for better banking hours in Meriden, Conn., where he has been named a vice president of the Home National Bank and Trust Company. That is, he is up there but the family doesn't move until school is over in June and dad has his Master's degree from Fairleigh Dickenson back in New Jersey. How he manages the commute to classes is a bit obscure.
Attorney Joseph Gawrys of Little Neck, Va., will be a candidate for one of two seats in the Virginia House of Delegates Democratic primary in July. He was reactivated in the Naval Aviation Reserve as late as 1961 during the Berlin crisis and became a law firm partner shortly after his release.
Fred Tilden has taken a position with the Venus Pen and Pencil Company Limited of London. He and Barbara with their two sons and daughter Cynthia left from Lynnfield, Mass., the early part of the year and should be well settled in old Blightie by now.
Einar Grell reports in from Deer Park out on Long Island to tell us that since graduation he has devoted himself to the educational world. With a Master's and Doctorate in his pocket from Columbia he has become Director of Science of the growing Half Hollow Hills school district also part-time teaching at Adelphi College. He has had numerous pure research grants in marine biology, and the entire family of seven loves the good life near the water and spends their leisure time on their privately leased island on Long Island Sound.
I'm on a siesta fiesta until the next issue in October but that doesn't mean to stop the letters, so while you are enjoying that great summer scratch out a dockside note to your old pal. And while you are roughing out big plans for the fall don't fail to include the class fall weekend in Hanover on October 14-15 to coincide with the Penn game. It's a great show.
Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N.J. 07078
Class Agent, 62 Highland Ave., Roslyn, N. Y. 11576
