1944
I hope the ALUMNI MAGAZINE can reprint the cover of MPM Magazine when it featured Arnie Palmer's good friend HardieCaldwell. Aside from being a good golfer, Hardie has done a tremendous job with Modern Maid, Inc. (formerly Tennessee Stove Works). The article deals with the breakthrough that Hardie and his engineers effected when they brought out the first self-cleaning gas oven. While electric ovens have been made "self-cleaning," there were great problems with gas in getting the oven up to 975° F. It looks as though Hardie and his Modern Maid company are on the threshold of their best year ever.
Stan Weld, Secretary of 1912, was kind enough to send in a reprint from the "Massachusetts Physician" of an article that Dr. Frank Ebaugh, Dean of the Boston University Medical School, wrote on the new curriculum they have introduced. Frank, who went through college and med school in less than six years during World War II, has long felt that the eight-year requirement is archaic. So, starting in '6l, he introduced a six-year combined Liberal Arts-Medical Program. The results are now in and by every test, Frank's progressive ideas have been fully justified.
I also received a very welcome letter from Mrs. Bud Raymond who writes: "I am a wife of a '40 graduate who happens to be good friends with one of your classmates, Steve Rothermel. I have listened to him gripe for the past several years that there is never any news of the '44 men from the Chicago area. We have suggested that maybe he might write the class secretary and give with the news but to no avail! I am taking it upon myself to give you some info on Steve so that some month he may see his name in print in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
"He has been married to the same gal - Beth - for some 20 years. They have four beautiful and talented daughters - Lee (frosh at University of Kansas), Nancy (junior at New Trier High School), Betsy (frosh at New Trier), and Mary (7th grader). Steve and Beth are world travelers and what one doesn't think up, the other one does. They ski in Aspen every spring with the beautiful and talented daughters and have done so for about 12 years. They have a pool table in their basement which defies all description and it is open house for all teenagers and the "older folks of '44," but you had better be good as Steve is rather like Minnesota Fats.
"The other side of Steve is that he is a vp of Dovenmuehle Inc. Mortgage. He plays tennis, golf, is a good carpenter, cook, and "sporty dresser," - 'nuff on your classmate and on our friend."
On June 1, Ben Jones will take over as president of the Monarch Life Insurance Company of Spring-field, Mass., following election to that position in March. Ben, the company's fifth president, has had an outstanding insurance career since he began with Monarch in New York in 1947. In 1950 he became the first man ever to sell more than $1 million of life insurance for the company in one year. During his climb up the executive ladder, Ben has contributed to many other organizations and is currently vice president of the Community Council of Greater Springfield and a director and finance chairman of the Springfield Theatre Arts Association, to name a few.
Joe Goldstein was one of three professors promoted to chairs in the Yale Law School. These three recently figured in the charges of a disgruntled professor who was constantly being passed over. Joe had been active in the examination of the relation of criminal law to individual rights.
The Berkshire Country Day School community was stunned when Don Oaks announced that he was leaving after ten years as its principal. One of the teachers lamented, "The last time I cried was when they shot Gary Cooper in the back at the end of 'The Plainsman.'" Apparently Don brought the school through a fantastic growth period and achieved for it a nationwide reputation as an innovated school with a top faculty. Don will now bring his talents to Simon Rock, a girls' school in Great Burlington, as its provost.
Art Saul is up for re-election to the Board of Selectmen in Arlington, Mass., and should be a shoo-in.
Bob Hyde, technical director of forestry for St. Regis Paper, no sooner moved into New Canaan than he was tapped by the nature center and garden center as their primary speaker. Diplomat Bill Turpin has also taken to the speaking circuit and has recently given several addresses on the tie between East and West.
In Chicago, Don Sheridan was recently invited into membership in the American Association of Real Estate Counselors. This makes him one of 333 individuals in the United States entitled to the designation C.R.E. (Counselors of Real Estate). Don is a director and president of the Building Managers Association in Chicago. Don's firm is leasing agent for the big Prudential Building and the United of America Building. His two most recent projects include the Connecticut Mutual Life Building in Chicago's Loop and the wonderful new office building in the Oak Brook complex.
Phil W. Brown has been appointed general manager of Wilcox-Crittendon, division of North and Judd, replacing Mr. Morris who moved up to president and chairman of the board.
The board of directors of D'Arcy Advertising Co. recently elected five senior vice presidents, one of whom is talented HaydonRitchie.
Penn Frost recently joined Becton, Dickinson in New Jersey as "Athletic Sales Manager." Sounds like a good job, giving him a lot of time for marketing research of college athletic departments. From his catbird seat, he predicts a good season on the gridiron for Dartmouth in '68. So you'd better start firming up your plans for the Princeton weekend in October.
In what little spare time he has, DonHinkley has taken up aviating and should get his ticket any day now. Cohort BillPortman recently got his. Ted Brush has been named territory manager for West Point Pepperell's Cabin Crafts line. Ted makes his home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Tom Close is making his home in Norwich, Vt., and works in West Lebanon with Blaktop, Inc. Ed Fitzgerald is with Foertsch, Beckwith and Ready in New York.
I hope you're keeping in mind the 25th Reunion in June '69. If you come up with any clever ideas, remember to get in touch with chairman John E. Morse, 241 Robin Hood Road, Mountainside, N. J. 07092.
Howie Sawyer '45 (l) is congratulated onhis promotion to colonel, MC, USAR.An anesthesiologist at Maine MedicalCenter, he also serves in that capacity atthe 1125th U.S. Army Hospital.
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