1930
If names make the news, we should be able to do pretty well this month because a number of address changes have also revealed the latest working habits of several classmates.
Argos Georgopulo is with Ebasco Overseas Corporation in Athens; Bob Duiilap, a partner in the investment firm of Dunlap & Dunlap in Cincinnati; John Cooper, project engineer with Holmes & Narver Inc. in Los Angeles; Maurie Chait, vice president of Royal Travel Service in Harrisburg; JohnTelling, district manager of Pennsylvania Bradford Appliance Corporation; Al Ritchie of the N. Y. State Division of Employment living in Liverpool; George Lord, general surgeon at Henrietta D. Goodall Hospital in Alfred, Me.; Rad Kilbourne of Du Pont in Wilmington. Also Sam Hutchins, executive vice president of Vermont Bank & Trust Company in Brattleboro, Doug Humphries, free-lance writer out of East Quogue, N. Y., and Tom Kedian, proprietor of Ked Realty in Watertown, Mass.
A somewhat more extensive report comes from Kelsea Moore. Their older daughter Mary was married in June and is living in Denmark where her husband is teaching at the University of Aarhus. Younger daughter Betty is working with the Westchester County Public Health Department after graduating from Mt. Holyoke and adding nursing training at Columbia. Son Hugh is a sophomore at Monmouth College in Illinois.
Bill Putnam writes that he walks "two miles before breakfast every morning in the smug conviction that this will magically ward off hardening of the arteries, gout, and falling of the hair. I'm still practicing medicine, seeing more patients than anyone ought to. I'm not president of anything now, but as consolation I am on a half dozen boards of trustees where I can indulge my fantasies of being some kind of big shot."
In New York, Ranny Hobbs has been appointed president of the Cowles Education Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cowles Communications, Inc. Ranny has an extensive background in college, technical and other textbook publishing, and at the time of his appointment he was the president and treasurer of Hobbs, Dorman and Company. Previously he had been an officer and director of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., and of Rinehart and Company.
Pete Callaway has been elected president of the Harvard Business School Association. He recalls that more than twenty of our class graduated from the B school in 1932. Captain Bill Harrison, U. S. Naval Dental Clinic, Box 64 FPO, New York suggests an out-of-country assignment.
Billy Moore of Harris Moore and Associates in Dallas says "Things are going well for me in the insurance business and I believe we have the largest firm in the Southwest, handling such accounts as Texas Instruments. Dresser Industries, L.T.V., General Portland Cement, among many others and it is very interesting. I don't work too hard because we have such a wonderful group of people it is necessary only for me to cheer them on."
Norm Watson has travelled the country over working principally for hotels and restaurants and is now in Seattle. He has three children and four grandchildren all of whom live in Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The Venezuelan trip is shaping up nicely and at the first of October there were thirty definitely signed to go and another twenty about to say yes. Earl Seldon has done a great job of arrangements and to him and host Bob Bottome our thanks go. I hope that Milt Mclnnes, who has agreed to serve as newsletter editor until 1970, will shortly be able to publish a complete list of those going to Caracas.
Snub and Mary Poehler have bought a retirement home in Moody, Me., and have moved from their home in Lexington to an apartment in Woburn. Gene and SallyMagenau will be in Rochester a fourth year where Gene is resident architect for the $55 million new campus of Rochester Institute of Technology. Their son Roger is working for his M.B.A. at Tuck School.
Harry Casler is now Defense Affairs Advisor for the U.S. Information Agency in Washington. Gladys and Dick Parker spent three months in London this summer. Dick "was working on papyri in the British Museum and also seeing the third volume of a study on Egyptian Astronomical Texts through the press. Our daughter, Beatrice, who just graduated from Indiana University, accompanied us to London and then went on to visit friends in Zambia."
Herb Mandeville is living in Hemet, Calif. Although his health has not been good. Herb enjoys life in a mobile home park with many recreational facilities. Tiny Tasker lives in Sun City, about twenty miles away. Fred Tobey also can be addressed at a trailer park, Box 58, Apache Junction, Ariz. Bob Kohn has sold his furniture business in Denver as a result of poor health and expects to spend most of his time in warmer climates and at sea level.
I know that Charlie Widmayer will be pleased to have you send back promptly the questionnaire for our 40th reunion report which he is editing.
Thursday, December 12, will be 1930 Day in New York City, and the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, is the location. The Class Executive Committee will meet that afternoon at 3, to be followed by cocktails and dinner for all '30 men and wives of the New York area plus those who can arrange to be in town for the occasion. Bud French, our hard-working Class Agent, will be honored at the dinner. Mark the date and plan to enjoy this big follow-up to the successful October gathering in Woodstock.
Secretary, 56 Jennys Lane Barrington, R. I. 02806
Treasurer, 6 Emerson Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181
Bequest Chairman,
