1961

The Notes will be a tad shorter than usual this month for two good reasons. ... Numero Uno: I am currently, right this minute sitting in a friend's home in Florida (Florida? I,thought Heathcote lived in Minnesota!). Well, friends, the old job dissatisfaction-lack of challenge thing cropped up again and the wife and I is a 'going to NYC to live, work and all that good sh.. — ahh, well, all that good sugar. Rita and I decided it was bourgeois to just move to New York so we sold lots of our earthly goods, bought a camper, and have spent the last three months snooping around America to see what makes it great and what makes it grubby. We ought to wrap it up and wind up in NYC about the time you're reading this so give us a call if you need succor. The second big reason for a short column is that there ain't tons of summer news ... you guys just aren't causing enough stir out there in the Wide Wide World. Show a little innovation, will'ya?

Jack Heyde spent the summer trying to add an Okie drawl to that southern accent he had perfected during his two years in Memphis, Tenn. Reason: he's the new Oklahoma City sales representative in the Industrial and Commercial Construction Division of OwensCorning Fiberglas Corporation. Formerly he was a sales representative in the firm's Memphis branch office and was so successful that all the cotton farmers there are now trying to grow Fiberglas instead.

Here are the news. Young, suave RogMcArt is gettin' hitched in Conn, in September. The lucky young bride is Sandra Larned of Wilton and New York. Rog is working for the National Semiconductor Corp. in Danbury. Smooth Sailing to you both, you little dears. Tom Hooper got a nifty promotion by Raytheon's D. C. Heath division. Tom's living in Wellesley, Mass., with wife Martha and two strapping sons. Mike Hecht has moved up in his chosen profession ... selling more goods to more people for less money at greater profit... in short, retailing. Mike is the new VP for branch stores for a department store chain out of Bait. Rod and Betty Plimpton are letting the world know of the birth of their daughter, Laura Nadine. Good going, Plimptons. Oak Winters is the new assistant to the president of Rhode Island College in Providence. Oak was previously at a college in Paterson, N. J. Captain Curtis Low has received another combat decoration. Curt was given the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Vietnam. Curt and his wife, Marcia, are now serving in Germany.

Well, loyal and devoted readers ... that's all she wrote. ...

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