1932

A contemporary note on the American Dream, Class of '32 sector, from the lad that the late Louis Howe used to call TexasJack Keller:

Irene and I were at an East Central Section meeting of Air Pollution Control Assn. in Louisville last couple of days - and saw this on the financial page of one of America's great newspapers. Every boy dreams, when he first learns he'll never be able to solve the mystery of the base hit by using the Louisville Slugger, that some day he'll get to first base by way of the Board of Directors of Hillerich & Bradsby Co. A loud clear bugle "charge" for William H. Kendall '32. Love - John. P.S. As Snoopy might say in the last picture of the cartoon: "These little tid-bits of classmate news endear the sender to the Class Secretary."

Exactly. It is all but redundant to note that the enclosed "Courier-Journal" clip reported the election of our own Louisville and Nashville R. R. prexy Bill Kendall to the board of the folks who make that finely turned, oak-hued, brown-splotched stick of ash and happy memory.

"What is a clean-cut utilities executive like Marvin Chandler doing with a bunch of hot rodders?" asks Ralph Gray, who conducts a column on auto racing for an unidentified publication. The answer: "Well, Chandler, as head of Northern Illinois Gas Company, is the chieftain behind a gas industry drive to produce the fastest car in the world, using liquefied natural gas as a propellant. L. N. G. was to try to power a run at the world record 0f.,600.601 mph in a rocket car at Bonneville Salt Flats the week of Sept. 7." "Our prime interest," Marv was quoted, "is to develop something to show gas is in the forefront of modern technology."

Leader Howdy Pierpont brought together a congenial weekending group of your classmates in Hanover for the Holy Cross game. Pleasantly ensconced at ye old hostelry, "the Howard Johnson Motor Hotel at White River, were Bob and Olive Fendrich, Paul and June Fox, Ed Lewis, Don and Elly Marcus, Gordon and Betty MacKenzie, Wally and Pauline Modarelli, Jim and Peg North, Chuck and Betty Owsley, Johnny and Georgia Palmer, Howdy and Dorothy Pierpont, Ed and Eleanor Smith, Max and Gladys Wolff, Joe and Peg Boldt. Also joining up at the game and elsewhere — our apologies if the list is incomplete - were Art and Dobbie Allen, George and Diane Blaesi, Bob and Marion Buckley, Ben and Sally Drew, Bill and Peggy Morton, Dick and Emily Olmsted, Jim and Connie Tomlinson.

After the game the Aliens gave a fine cocktail party, and we all contributed generously to warming their charming new home that hugs the slope of Balch Hill and looks yonder to Vermont. Later most of the group gathered for dinner at the Norwich Inn, all agreeing that Howdy had done a splendid job of master-minding the weekend.

Some weekend addenda: Art and Dobbie were just returned from Norway, where they had gone for their daughter's marriage. ...Ben Drew was looking mighty fit after 11 hours spent getting in the apple harvest. ...Don Marcus has resigned from United Fruit after 22 years and become a senior associate with the Boston management consulting firm of Olner Associates. Don is a member of the executive committee of the Association of International Personnel Administrators. For a transplanted lifelong New Yorker, he is remarkably content with a Beacon Street apartment and a house on the Cape, and who will blame him? . . . BillMorton was in town for a meeting of the Athletic Council. .. . The Chuck Owsleys came the longest distance. They drove from Youngstown, stopped over at Northampton to pick up daughter Irene at Smith, and then came on to join son Michael, who is a Dartmouth junior ... the Ed Smiths have a sophomore son at Hanover . . . the consensus: let's do it again.

A piece of news that somehow escaped us till now was the appointment of EllieNoyes to the post of business manager for the Dartmouth College Athletic Council last June, at which time he retired after 25 years as head coach of track and cross country. Ellie's new responsibilities include coordination of ticket sales, and he has retained his position as assistant director of freshman athletics.

Burnham & Co., a large member of the New York Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with Gerstley, Sunstein & Co., a Philadelphia brokerage house. The latter was scheduled to become a division of Burnham on October 31, at which time William Gerstley 2d would become a general partner of Burnham.

Some of you thoughtfully write notes to Jack Pyles when paying class dues, and that's a good idea, because in time they reach us. Like Ed Marks in Lago, Nigeria: "Oh, to be in Hanover now that the leaves are beginning to turn! Hope to get back for at least one game this fall, if we can just get some kind of settlement for Nigeria's refugee problems." Sunny Foley in Stamford, Conn.: "Under control here. One son getting married in October." Joe Byram from Riverside, Conn.: "Eleanor and I had a vacation tour of the Scandinavian countries this summer which we enjoyed very much. We hired a Volvo from Hertz and drove about the countryside, so had a good opportunity to meet and see people outside of the big cities. We were impressed with the well-being of those countries and the emphasis that has been placed on subsidized public housing. However, we found that prices and especially taxes were high." Don Allen in Seneca Falls, N. Y.: "Have just moved into our new home 'far above Cayuga's waters' near Eisenhower College where I have the responsibility for development of the science and mathematics programs of this new liberal arts college." And Marv Chandler again, in Glen Ellyn, Ill.: "Have bought a condominium at Tequesta, Fla. - on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach. Strongly recommended to any retiring 1932er5."

AI Zinggeler of North Caldwell, N. J., reporting health good, family fine including two grandchildren, working hard and enjoying it, sends us a news release announcing Al's purchase of Automation Papers Company, formerly a division of Lawrence Packaging Supply Company of Newark. The company was organized by Al four years ago as a division of Lawrence, where he was vice president and division manager. We like the idea of one of us starting up and buying a company as classmates retire all around him. And computer papers makes good Marxist sense to us. We refer to the principle expounded by Groucho years ago when he and Chico had a radio program. They were all excited about a great moneymaking idea they had. "Boy!" said Chico. "It'll sell like hot cakes!" And Groucho said, "Why don't we just sell hot cakes?"

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