1939
If every man who reads this column would decide today that he would do his level best by his College in the Alumni Fund this month, the Class would immediately take its rightful place among its contemporaries. Our Class gave the new scoreboard at the stadium in Hanover. We have initiated an annual Fall Reunion Program with excellent attendance last year and firm plans for this coming fall. We have started a Class Scholarship Fund. We have elected a live wire for our next Reunion Chairman in Moose Wyman. Our class dues are all in order, thanks to Al Tishman. Our secretary is making a valiant effort, before he retires, to mention every man in the Class in this column, and with your continued cooperation our goal will be reached. Now all that remains to be done is for each man to chip in with some solid help for the Alumni Fund. We nominate Joe Batchelder as the best Class Agent. He has an efficient system, all the information is on cards, a lot of organizational work has been done, and it's now up to us. Remember that with our new Class Challenge Program, every dollar by which you increase your gift to the Alumni Fund this year will be matched by Joe's key group of volunteers. It may bust some national bank somewhere, but let's give her a try. You will be helping your College, your Class, your friends, and in a very real sense, yourself.
A fascinating letter from Lew Joel has arrived on these shores from Poona, India. Lew, you know, was selected as one of the 35 top U.S. educators to help the school system over there. A common curriculum is presented the schools and must be taught and learned in at least four Indian dialects — in the same building. Average per pupil expenditure is about 52 cents. There may be 50 pupils in a room with crude wooden benches and very little paper, a scarce and very expensive item. Primary school children sit on a stone floor with slates and limited amount of chalk bits. "These teachers," writes Lew, "work with so very little in rewards, plus an added handicap of illiteracy among parents." Lew has made visits to thousand-year-old villages where no one from the U.S. has ever been. He reports respect for all animal and bird life - monkeys everywhere in the rural areas and no one notices them - like our squirrels. Of course there are the millions of people, little electricity, hot sun and dust in 90 degree temperatures, and the amazement of children when they are told about our four seasons and weather changes. It's great to hear that Lew received a warm welcome "with small bands, flower garlands, and grasping of our hands everywhere."
We were saddened to read of the passing of Dake Horn's wife Edith. The sympathy of the Class goes to Dakin and to his daughters Susan and Jean, who live at 4 Hickory Lane in Darien, Conn.
Sam Thurm, currently advertising vice president, has been appointed to the management committee of Lever Brothers Co. Moose Taylor has been named chairman of the executive committee of Scurry-Rainbow Oil Ltd., a Calgary-based company engaged in the exploration for oil, gas, and minerals in northern Canada. Moose is president of Westhoma Oil Co. and a director of International Minerals and Chemical Corp., Placer Development Ltd., and the Union Pacific Railroad.
Our Bozo Noland and J. Clifford Miller Jr. won the hunter pace of Deep Run Hunt, March 17, in Goochland County, Va. The pair toured the fifteen-mile, 29-jump course in one hour, twenty minutes and 27 seconds as compared with the predetermined "ideal" time of 1:21.
We had a good note from Andy Anderson from East Lansing, Mich. He left the Jack Tar chain in 1964 and has since been operating the Inn America, an 82-room motor hotel. He has been president of the Michigan Tourist Council and a "legislative agent" for them. An active pilot and father of three daughters, Andy says he has the most tolerant wife in the world.
Boston's United Shoe Machinery Corporation has appointed Dick Hobbs a vice president and general counsel for the United States. Dick joined the company in 1947 in the research division and transferred to the law department in 1955. Three years ago he was made assistant general counsel of USM. Other organizations to benefit from his talents include the American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Boston Patent Law Association, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Walter Swan is living on Lufkin Point Road in Essex, Mass. Dick Wei! is getting his mail at 870 U.N. Plaza in New York City. Bob Bryant is off again as a foreign service attache at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo. Joe Batchelder has himself a beautiful vacation house at 830 SW Cypress Way in Boca Raton, Fla. Bill Cockley has moved to 22710 Napa St. in Canoga Park, Calif., and John Wood has finally settled down at 8101 Whittier Blvd. in Bethesda, Md. The address list of our entire Class was brought up to date on March 14.
The wedding we announced in the February issue was correctly Petie Heflin Gibson and our Phil Wentworth, and not Phil's son, also Phil. We apologize for our goof. Phil had been a widower since 1966 and is a manufacturer's representative for King Leathers, Marhill, Najarda Pearls, and Bond Street Jewel Boxes. Petie and he have just returned from a wedding trip to Florida, where they played lots of golf, and they are now enlarging a house on Anthony Wayne Road in New Vernon, N. J., so it can accommodate their combined families. Between them they have seven children and two grandchildren. Phil's oldest daughter Marjorie lives in Charlotte, N. C„ and has two children. Son Phil graduated from Trinity in Texas last June, is in the Army, and hopes to be married in June if Uncle Sam hasn't sent him out before then. Daughter Missy is a sophomore at William Woods College, Fulton, Mo. Daughters Molly and Martha are finishing their school years at Webster Groves High School in Missouri before joining their dad and stepmother in New Jersey. Phil's bride has two sons. Gibby graduated from Wesleyan in 1966, has completed his Master's at Columbia, is married to a Colby gal, and is working for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. until he reports to Newport for a three-year hitch with the N.R.O.T.C. Petie's other son, Bob, is a sophomore at Lehigh. Since moving to New Jersey, Phil has talked to P. C. Thomas,Bob Bailey, and Bill Borsdorff, and now he's looking forward to some Dartmouth football games.
Ev Woodman, president of Colby Junior College, is the newly elected vice president of the American Association of Junior Colleges. Betting in New London is that he will move up to the presidency of this association of 758 colleges for the group's 50th anniversary year in 1970. Our old roomie Fred Upton sent us a copy of Ev's remarks to some petitioners who opposed a visit to Colby by Dick Gregory. Most commendably, Ev refused. We think his prose is great stuff and his reasoning logical.
Our Dr. Allan Friedlich addressed "the cardiac grand rounds" at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., early this year. Al's topic was "Indications for Valve Replacements and Complications of Valve Replacements," and we shall leave for someone else the further discussion of very old cardiac replacements in that community.
Jules L. Klein Advertising, Inc., Springfield, Mass., recently announced the addition of Bob Richman to their copy department. Rich has authored many award-winning ads in competitions, one of which received the Direct Mail Advertising Association's annual award as one of the nation's ten best.
And Moreau Brown, administrator of the educational support program of G.E. and the G.E. Foundation in Ossining, has been elected to the board of directors of the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America.
The Alumni Fund needs your help.
Secretary, Box 38, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
Class Agent, The Batchelder Co. 502 E. War Memorial Dr., Peoria, III. 61614
