1959
It's always toughest to find time to write the April column. Something else always seems to get priority when it's Salt Mines season in the Admissions Office.
It's schlump time once again. Somehow, I'm not as agile at getting from one duckboard to another and I displace a great deal more water now when I step in a puddle than I used to.
John Gerber wrote a nice letter a few weeks ago. He's currently living in London where he is working for Glendinning Associates International, a promotion and marketing consultant outfit which has its headquarters in Westport, Conn. He is serving as sales manager of the retail promotion division and expects to be there in England for two or three years. He has been able to take his family on little side trips all over Europe. When in Oslo, Norway, he has seen Einar and Betty Kloster several times. Einar has been with Philips for the last few years and expects to move to Holland shortly to take up residence in Eindhoven. John says the fact that he knows only a few small Norwegian words hasn't kept them from getting together for some good times.
Randy Malin was in town recently recruiting for American Airlines. You'd think he had brought several stewardesses, the way the Tuck School boys flocked to his door. I assume that Dave Marr is still in Saigon on his Fulbright Scholarship, but one never knows these days. Down in Hartford, Conn., Dick Watson has been promoted to associate partner in the firm of Arthur A. Watson and Company, insurance consultants. Dick has also been very active in the Hartford Dartmouth Club.
A Chattanooga newspaper recently carried a nice story on Bill Pettway. As many of you know, Bill is in the oil business down there, but he's also doing a thousand other things - officiating football and soccer games (to keep off the fat), acting as chairman of the March of Dimes Drive for the whole region, serving on a volunteer fire department. (The Fairyland Fire Department, no less. Sounds as if they don't need ladders.) Puss also succeeds in stirring up some business for our office at the local schools.
Tom and Francie Aley were in town recently for the Basektball Alumni Weekend which was engineered by Dave Gavitt. The Aleys now live in Medfield, Mass., and Tom has joined the Sylvania Electric Company as national sales manager for one of its divisions. While in town they stayed with Wayneand Para Skeen. Wayne has been selling encyclopedias and renting a number of apartments. At last word, he plans to move temporarily to Chicago shortly where he will attempt to expand sales for Profile Sportswear, a firm based in Lebanon, N. H. They'll be taking a new member of the family with them a son born this winter number one offspring named after his dad.
Speaking of Gavitt, hats should be off to the Mayor of Peterborough, as he was known to most of us, for a tremendous basketball season. Despite the record, the club pulled off some great upsets, especially against Princeton, and finished much higher in the League than anyone expected them to. Things should look even better next year, and I hope you'll all make an extra effort to get out to a game when the team comes to your area.
And now a few quickies. Owen Fiss is still with the Department of Justice down in Washington, D. C. Doug Adams is an assistant trust officer with The Bank of New York in New York City. Pete Foltz is at the Harrisburg Area Community College as an instructor of mathematics. Phil Marden is a surgeon with the U. S. Public Health Service down in Arlington, Va. Aron Wolf is a captain in the U. S. Air Force serving as a doctor at the Air Force Hospital, APO, Seattle, Wash. Charlie Decker is living down in New York City where he is an account executive for the advertising agency of Ogilvy and Mather, Inc. Harry Downing is in Chicago where he is working for Booz Allen Applied Research, Inc. George Goodwin is a sales representative for RCA down in Washington, D. C. Bob Hall is chief lab technician at the Miami Baptist Hospital in Miami, Fla. John Herriot is a senior postdoctoral fellow out at the University of Washington in Seattle. Also in education, Ralph Lindheim is teaching at the University of Toronto in the Slavic Department. An account executive, George Moser works for Fuller, Smith and Ross in New York City. CharlieSteinhacker is teaching at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and is a Master of Thompson House.
Well, that gets a lot of items covered in rather rapid fashion, but at least you know a little more now than you did when you started this column. My stockpile of news is down to nothing, but let's forget the gossip and concentrate on the Alumni Fund for now. A little effort by each of us can save Woos and his assistant agents much time and energy. Both the Third Century Fund and the Alumni Fund will accomplish more and mean more if we show a willingness and an ability to support both without slighting either one. When you really think about it, it's one of the best investments we can make; but it won't pay off if we sit back and assume that other classmates are more capable of giving!
Secretary, Canaan, N. H. 03741
Class Agent, ... 46 Alfred Dr., Pittsfield, Mass. 01201
