1934
With football coming into its own again, both at the Mets/Jets Shea Stadium in New York and at Memorial Field in Hanover, it seems appropriate to nominate Fran Ford as Scout of the Year. For why? For spotting the New York Times item of February 19 that led off with "John B. Torinus, secretary of the Green Bay Packer Corporation, said today . .
It develops, you see, that Secretary Torinus is in truth our John, and that he's been a member of the Packer board since 1949, and secretary of the corporation since 1953, during which time he had had "the pleasant experience of seeing the team survive the doldrums of the early 1950's and win three consecutive national championships." Pleasant or no, however, football has been only one of J.B.'s many experiences. Let him tell it like it is:
After 28 years with the "Green Bay PressGazette" and a position of executive editor, I became editor of "The Post-Crescent" in Appleton, Wis. in 1962. At that time our corporation, of which I am vice-president, began an expansion program. We now publish two daily and two weekly newspapers and operate four television and four radio stations, plus owning an insurance company and a communications engineering firm, the latter two in Milwaukee.
I have continued participation in community affairs in Appleton, served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, and organized the United Fund and served as its president the first two years. From a Dartmouth point of view have served as class agent for the Alumni Fund for Wisconsin and on an enrollment team and am currently active in the ABC program here, Appleton and Lawrence University having joined this program in 1968.
On the personal side, John and his wife Louise have six children, four of them married. His three eldest sons, including Tom '60, are working with J.B. in the Post Corporation.
Another scout doing good work this year is Art Moebias, way out there in Aurora, O. He spotted a three-quarter-page ad in the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" of May 28 that was headed "Numismatically speaking ... Leon Lindheim is a rare one" and which went on to say:
Each Sunday his popular syndicated column "Coin Wise" keeps area coin enthusiasts abreast of hobby happenings and at the same time provides historical information on numismatics. Senior vice president and director of the Continental Bank of Cleveland, Lindheim is considered one of America's most eminent coin collectors as well as a distinguished lecturer and author. He wrote the fascinating guidebook, "Facts & Fictions About Coins."
Cleveland, Leon reports, has apparently become a hotbed of '34 bankers. "BobPalmer is a v.p. at Central National Bank of Cleveland [Leon wrote on June 24], managing a branch office half a block from our main office, where I am located, and BobLindstrom is a senior v.p. at National City Bank of Cleveland, just up the street. In fact within the month Bob L. and I had lunch to discuss a numismatic matter." (In this space next month: a mini-course on coin collecting by Numismatist Lindheim.)
No slouch either at scouting or classnotes writing, Ernie Barcella spotted a memorable fact in the May 26 "Washington Report" published by the United States Chamber of Commerce: that Dr. M. (Moe)L. Frankel, president and director of the Joint Council on Economic Education, was spearheading a nationwide drive "to help develop public understanding and action to control inflation." Moe and other members of the Joint Council, along with representatives of The Advertising Council and of the National Chamber Foundation, met at the White House, May 15, with President Nixon and his top economic advisors to launch this "voluntary action program" which will include a multimillion-dollar public service advertising campaign.
Ernie also confirmed last month's report about his expectant daughter, Andrea (Mrs. Bruce Kelleher). On the very day that Moe was chatting with Richard M., Andrea presented the Barcellas with their third grandson, "a red-headed, blue-eyed Irishman named Michael Lawrence Kelleher."
Even Ernie, however, must yield as rapporteur-en-chef to Bill Emerson (already gearing up for the 1970 Alumni Fund campaign after his last, unprecedentedly successful effort). Herewith a capsule version of Bill's last-week-in-June news-notes to me:
Graduating from college: Thar and Henrietta Frasers daughter, Anne (Skidmore); Mel and Lois Gunst's son, Bob; Merrill andJeanne Heald's daughter, Judy (Wisconsin); and Art and Margaret Noble's son, Arthur D. Jr. Summertime trippers to Europe: Hankand Barbara Allen; John and DorothyPoole; and Fred and Margery Wolf. Summertime weddings: Charlie and EleanorArmes' daughter, Carol, to unidentified lucky fella (details, please); Charlie andFlorence Levesque's daughter, Kitty (ditto).
The Emerson Report continues. Medical news: Dick Hayes, seriously ill in 1968, is now "in good health ... looking forward to his annual fishing expedition in Labrador"; Dave Hill has recovered from major surgery and "now reports his plumbing in greatly improved condition"; Hank Brown and Dick Benedict were somewhat ailing — but here's hoping now, some four months later, they're well on the road back; and AceMiller "had a cataract operation this spring and will have the other in November. Recovery from the first has been excellent. His major worry now is what it will do to his golf handicap."
Back now to my own news sources: Ed Davis, plant engineer at New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) in Cambridge, Mass., made the cover, in full color, of the February '69 "Material Handling Engineering," "the magazine of material management and flow." Al Jacobson was appointed division account executive in the woolen and worsted division of J. P. Stevens & Company, New York. And Bob Rod-man of Newton, Mass., who headed the 1968-69 Massachusetts Bay United Fund campaign, will serve as Attorney Key Gifts Chairman in this year's effort.
Add wedding bells: thanks to a charming note from Rita, we're able to report that her and the late Walt Keady's son Tom '69 espoused Lorraine Gagnon in Nashua, N. H. on June 28. (In attendance was Tom's uncle Dick '44; best man and two ushers were Tom's classmates.) And Bob and AugustaGoodman announced the marriage of their elder daughter, Lynn, to James Edward Rouse in Virginia Beach, Va. on September 13.
Social and tennis notes: Dined September 3 with Jerry and Sarah Danzig. Guest of honor was Dr. Frank Lepreau, up from Haiti for a medical conference in New York on tuberculosis (still a major health problem for his Schweitzer Hospital patients). Late in September, Sarah won the U.S. Senior mixed doubles title in Seattle, Wash.
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