1938

Another summer gone, and Hanover has seemingly survived the annual influx of several special groups, not to mention the now well-established co-ed summer session of the College. Hopkins Center has been teeming with life, attracting visitors from all over the North Country. Now, with the football team back as this is written, things settle down again to the usual pattern of a college town; now comes the time for the tailgate gatherings in Hanover (don't forget the Princeton plans), Cambridge, New Haven, Ithaca, etc.

The agenda for the Princeton game has been adequately covered by Dan Marshall in the Pace Setter. We are hoping, of course, for a good turn-out, and to make this sort of thing an annual affair for the corresponding home game each year.

Dan has also covered the waterfront with regard to the latest news from Hawaii, van Orsdel and Pallister, not to forget the item with regard to Brad Jenkins' latest move. Both Pallister and van Orsdel had very kindly sent me details of their whereabouts and doings, and it was good to see that adequate space was available in the Setter to do justice to them.

Hanover proved to be a magnet, as usual to draw several members of the Class. JimChandler was up for the graduation of his young hopeful and dropped in. Bob Ross came East from Pullman, Wash., as he has done for several years now. - finds Hopkins Center and the Library making a worthwhile summer for him as contrasted with the intellectually somewhat barren field of the Maine coast. He and good wife had a very pleasant soiree the other evening at the senior Leach's cottage at Lake Morey; the Fred Wagners and Phil Leaches were very much in evidence, but conspicuous by their absence were the Bob Emlens and John Scotfords. Emlen has bought a house in Lyme, not far from Wagner Woodlands headquarters, which he is fixing up as a summer abode, - and perhaps retirement too?

Phil Leach figured in the June news as a director of the J. J. Newberry chain. He is president of Leach and Garner of Attleboro, Mass., manufacturers of gold-filled materials. Phil is a director of the Attleboro Sun Publishing Company andFirstNationalBank of Attleboro, as well as chairman of the board of managers of the Sturdy Memorial Hospital. But he still makes all the home games here in Hanover from his headquarters at Lake Morey.

H. S. French, of Milwaukee, was recently elected a director of Weyenburg Shoe Manu-facturing Co. French is vice president and trust officer of the Marshall & Illsley Bank in Milwaukee. In New York City, BobSouthworth is manager of the Marine Retail operations for Mobil Oil Corp., with whom he has been for the past ten years. He reports it to be an interesting operation and one which involves travel throughout the United States. In Rockford, Ill., Bruce Olson has been named to the newly-created position of chairman and chief executive officer of Sundstrand Corp.

Riegel Textile Sales Co. announces that Whitefoord S. Mays Jr. has joined the corporation as Vice-President-Domestics of the Consumer Products Division of Johnston, S. C. Before joining Riegel, Whitey was president of Thomas Pride Mills, a division of Fulton Industries, and prior to that, he had been president of Morgan-Jones Inc. from 1956 to 1965. Whitey still lives in Connecticut.

Robb B. Kelley has been elected to be board chairman and chief executive officer of Union Mutual Insurance Co. of Providence, R. I. Robb is at present president and treasurer of Employers Mutual of Des Moines, the parent company. Robb joined Employers Mutual a year after graduation, starting in the Kansas branch. He served in branch and field supervisory posts prior to and after serving with the Army during World War 11. He was elected a director of the company in 1955 and became vice president and secretary of the company in 1960. He has served as president of Employers since 1963.

In the Great Midwest, Charley Ervin has been appointed as an assistant director of engineering for Detroit Diesel Engineering Division of General Motors. After graduation, Charley attended the Michigan College of Engineering and started as a test engineer for Detroit Diesel's experimental laboratory in 1940, later serving in military field engineering, product and application design, and project engineering. In 1956 he became chief project engineer, and in 1960 staff engineer in charge of product design. He is a member of the Engineering Society of Detroit, The Society of Automotive Engineers, and SAE fraternity.

In response to the usual form letter after a change of address, Bob Faegre reports he has just sold an old house and built a new one. "Just back from a board meeting of Boise Cascade Corp. near Portland and spent a week trout fishing in Montana on the way back." Similarly, Charley Livermore says, "No unusual change. We had six in the family when we came to Chicago and needed five bedrooms. Now we're down to three needing two. So we bought a condominium right on the lake with a great view of 'Big John,' the new John Hancock Building six miles away. The work (director of the Chicago Commission on Youth Welfare) is exciting and very worth doing, but I sometimes think ten years at it is long enough, and ten years it will be next year."

Charley Hathaway has also moved, - "to a nicer place with a bigger mortgage." He is very disturbed at Hanover happenings, with specific reference to the "Newton Episode."

A new publishing company, the Independent School Press, Inc., has just been formed which will publish textbooks by independent school educators for the national independent school market. Eventually it will expand its promotional and distributive activities to include the public school and parochial school markets. Among the individual members concerned with this publishing venture is Dr. Richard Niebling of Phillips Exeter Academy (chairman of the English Department) who will serve as chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board.

Elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue will be found the sad news of the passing of Frank Wright and George Buck. Jack Slattery was kind enough to prepare the obituary for Frank.

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