1935

It is my happy duty to report that news of Frank Corlett's death is, as Mark Twain once phrased it, slightly exaggerated. Frank is very much alive, but there is a great deal of mystery regarding his whereabouts and the circumstances that prompted the original report to the College that he was dead. Happily, that report is false.

Efforts to trace the earlier report led finally to the U.S. Navy, where Frank is a Commander in the Navy Reserve. A request to BuPers (the Navy Bureau of Personnel) brought no direct acknowledgement, but instead a cryptic note from Frank to the College stating "Although I am no longer active, I am not quite dead." No address, no explanation! The envelope bore only a postmark of Paramus, N. J. So the mystery deepens. This leaves us with but one thought. Will the real Frank Corlett step forward? We're all relieved to learn that you are alive, but we're eager to learn more about what you're doing, and where you are.

Our esteemed Class Chairman, Bobb Chaney, is now back in New York at the headquarters office of Young & Rubicam. Bobb had spent the past two years managing Y&R'S Toronto office, and now will be working in the agency's International Division. He and Shelley expect to move into their new home in New Canaan, Conn., about February 1.

A new directory of Alumni Officers lists several '35ers in key roles. Ed Ramsey and Fritz Beebe, of course, are on the Alumni Council. Brunswick Deutsch is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Louisiana. Dave Smith, area enrollment director for Northern California, Nevada, and Hawaii. Harry Deckert, area enrollment director for Missouri, Kansas, lowa, and Nebraska. Harry Ferries, district enrollment director for Central Canada.

George Goodman has been singularly honored by his many friends and business associates at Lawrence, Mass. George, who lives in neighboring Andover, received the Ralph B. Wilkinson Good Citizenship Award as "a man who does so much and asks nothing in return." His list of accomplishments is a mile long, and includes service to Brandeis University, Merrimack College, Lawrence General Hospital, the Central Catholic High School expansion fund, the Lawrence Council on Alcoholism, the Boy Scouts, Red Cross, and a host of other civic and religious organizations.

Chuck Gillan writes from Houston that, although there are well over 100 alumni in the Houston area, he seems to be the only '35er thereabouts. Chuck is secretary-treasurer of the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company, which operates coast-to-coast in some 13 states. He reports:

"My wife Carol and I are fortunate in having a fine family, mostly grown-up now. Eldest son, Tom, and our daughter, Greta, are both married and living here. Son 'Lex' (Charles Jr.) is a senior in college and thinking of graduate school. So, with the prospects of needing beaucoup cash for awhile, this keeps me busy each day. Living in the Central Time Zone, and working with offices on both coasts, our business day is stretched at both ends by phone."

Bill White is now Director of Guidance at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Me., where he has been located since 1963. Prior to that he taught for three years in New Jersey, following a long term of service in Arabia.

The march of progress finds Bill Ellis assigned a somewhat ironic task. Bill is president of W. H. Ellis & Sons, a marine construction firm, now demolishing the old ferry slips along the Boston Waterfront. By coincidence, it was his grandfather and the founder of the company who built the slips originally 120 years ago. Over the years, Bill's company has built or repaired a majority of the piers, wharves, or waterfront installations throughout New England.

Those who attended our informal October reunion will be interested to know that "Buzz" Blackett, whose father, Hill Blackett Jr., joined in our '35 activities, has been accepted as a freshman in the Class of 1972. This represents a break in tradition. Buzz's dad and grandfather are both Princetonians, and the grandfather, Don Laurie, was All- American Quarterback for the Tigers in 1922. Young Buzz is a skier of some accomplishment and you will be hearing a lot of him in Hanover.

Bud Lippman's son, Ted, also has been accepted in the Class of '72. Bud writes "Have been practicing medicine in Ventnor, a suburb of Atlantic City, since the war. No other '35ers in the area. Feeling well enough, considering the advancing years. Greetings to all."

Herb Ostrow reports that his older son, Sam, graduated from the college last June, and is now attending the Graduate School of Theology at the University of Chicago. His younger son, Joel, is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin and Herb writes:

"Joel tells us that, despite what we read, there are only 300 activists on the Madison campus. He is one of them. And he gets quite impatient with his mother and me for urging him to use restraint in fighting for what he thinks is right."

Herb and Rose have moved back to suburban Glencoe, after experimenting a year with apartment life in Chicago. Currently, Herb is secretary of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, and is a partner in the accounting firm of Miller, Mandell & Co.

Jack Eagan, another Chicagoan, proudly reports that his son graduated last June with honors from the Air Force Academy, and is now seeking his Master's degree at Purdue, in a course generally regarded as pre-Astronaut training. Jack himself is executive vice president of Vaughn Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of office partitions and fixtures.

A new directory of Chicago alumni lists these business activities for other classmates in the Chicago area: Guy Briggs, controller of General Motors Electro-Motive division; Frank Elliott, a doctor in private practice; Owen Fairweather, a partner in Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Attorneys; Hal Foreman, president of Willow Service truck leasing; Dwight Foster, personnel manager of Continental Illinois bank.

Bob Glidden, corporate secretary of International Harvester; Bennett Goodman, investments on LaSalle Street; Lowell Haas, special sales and planning assignment at United Air Lines; Ken Hart, marketing manager of Cheese Products at Kraft Foods; Art Holtorff, president of Leland & Kedzie Co.; Ted Huck, secretary-treasurer of Chicago Extruded Metals Co.; Val Johnson, sales for Dennison Manufacturing Co.; JackKSngery, vice president of R. R. Donnelley; Don Koehler, Western manager of Conde Nast Publications.

Harry Marchmont-Robinson, a doctor and executive director of the Illinois Academy of General Practice; Mac McNamer, division manager of Johnson & Johnson; Bob Morris, president of Ferguson-Lander Box Co.; Willie Ogg, district manager of Norton Abrasives; Ed Richardson, vice president of Oculus Contact Lens Co.; Mel Rothschild, vice president of Samual Bingham Co. and Globe Auto Leasing; Roger Sheets, vice president of Solem Machine Company in Rockford; Ed Skillin, sales for Central Envelope & Lithograph Co.; Paul Van Antwerpen, president John Rudin Publishing Co.; Jerry Wertz, insurance analyst at Continental Illinois Bank; Lyn Whitehill, director of Resin Research, Sherwin-Williams Paint Co.; Frank Wright, attorney and partner in Wright and Wright.

Won't someone send me a new directory from some other city for next month!

1935's Tom and Ginnie Lane and Fitzand Mimi Donnell atop Mt. Waialeale onKaui, Hawaii, which they explored byhelicopter during the Lanes' visit. Tomreports Fitz's business is booming andMimi active in everything from JuniorLeague to Scouts.

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