1937

We thank all of you excellent people who sent us Christmas cards and special thanks to those who added news. With the proliferation of photo-copiers we note a marked increase in the number of family newsletters being included.

In hand a most interesting letter from Don Sieburg, heading says Northeast Color Corporation, New London, N. H. He's the envy of all us city-bound commuters, who, 20 years ago broke away from his RCA plant manager's job in New Jersey to establish a series of business ventures in the home of Colby Junior College. Starting with a farm he and Doris raised purebred Hereford beef cattle, then chickens and eggs (2000), then TV where they installed the first and subsequently 300 more, a gift shop (Colby Book Store). Finally he put his photography hobby to work. Six years of Colby class pictures led into the colored post card distribution game selling 65 million before selling that business. They even bought the College Inn which they made into the Sun Dart Motor Lodge. Boating and marine photography now occupy full time. In the past two years he and Doris have had photographic assignments anywhere along the east coast to the Bahamas, wherever boating exists. They keep their 35-foot sail boat in Jacksonville and use a 24-foot cabin cruiser for their work. Son Don plans to join the business once quit of the Navy (photographer's mate) and since their color laboratory is home on the farm... but why go on, we're turning green. Congratulations, and where do we apply?

Fran Evans, director of health insurance for Prudential, checks in from the home office in Newark and this requires an unedited quote. "Had practically a '37 reunion recently. Occasion - a Bon Voyage get-together for Bandy Dwinell and his wife Peg leaving on their annual cruise. His Honor the Mayor, Sheldon Wagner, and charming wife Janet hosted the affair at their home. Banker Carl Noyes and his wife Taffy made the trip from Manchester, N. H., far more easily than my wife Florence and I found our way back across the river to New Jersey in the wee hours of the morning. Two days later, more of the same with a very fit and youthful appearing Bill Greenwood at an insurance convention in Chicago. What is there about meeting '37 classmates that makes milk and bed seem so attractive for the next few days! Dad and Dotter weekends also gave me the opportunity to again see Henry Pierce at Hood College and Claude Clark at Mount Holyoke College. These boys must have had dancing lessons!" (Secretary's note: That's good reporting. Try not to frighten him, men, but maybe we can snare him for a guest editor's spot.)

Thanks to Abe Winslow '20, secretary emeritus, we received a page from the society section of the "Oakland Tribune" showing pictures of a christening party for an $18,000 ketch. Members of the Oakland Repertory Theatre Guild chose the opening night of the Northern California Boat Show to give an unusual fund raising event for the "guild's scholarship fund. Distinguished in black tie and evening gown we see Kayand Tudor Wall, friends of the owner, who presented the christening champagne. Our initial reading gave us the impression the Walls had supplied bubbly for 200 people which would be enough to float the boat from dry dock to wet dock.

We thought Don Miller had been spending an inordinate amount of time abroad and here's the answer. "Scientific American" is building their international circulation by publishing in the languages of foreign lands with Italy the first trial. Their initial issue sold out at 15,000, a leap from 2300 previously. Don was instrumental in setting it up and they are now talking with publishers in France and Japan so further expansion should entitle Don to full jet-set discounts in the air.

The American University, Washington, D. C., tells us that Dick Rush, noted art and antiques authority, was a recent guest speaker at a luncheon sponsored by their faculty women's club. His subject: How collectors can both beautify their homes and at the same time be making sound investments. Well known for his book, "Art as an Investment," now termed a classic, he has added "Antiques as an Investment." Dick joined AU's faculty in 1957 and is now director of the finance program of their business school. Another speaking engagement was filled last November by Bud Butterworth at an annual book-author luncheon sponsored by the Simsbury (Conn.) YWCA. Bud has derived much acclaim as author of the children's book "The Enormous Egg" and "The Trouble with Jenny's Ear" published in 1960.

We have recently been besieged with ad- dress changes for Stu Naramore, west coast, east coast, and nowhere in the middle. A card indicated his dad had been seriously ill in Bridgeport last fall causing part of the geographical turn-over, but now we see he married Mrs. Boydston Glidden in Van Nuys and the latest is Apt. C, 1415-5th Street, Glendale, Calif. More later, he says.

Al and Sherry Bryant seem far away in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but report most interestingly on their life in a foreign land. The way that family jets back and forth, however, it sounds more like a commuting arrangement. We recall our son's graduation from Tuck a year ago when the Bryants had just moved to their current home. We had just posted a letter to them saying we would miss them in Hanover as their son was graduating too. First people we run into at the big luncheon? You guessed it, fresh in from Brazil, just couldn't stay away. Sherry tells of the local shopping center all lit up for Christmas, flowers blooming in profusion in their garden, problems of procuring servicemen for home repairs, and of giving a party for 30 people. Al says she's become quite proficient now in speaking Portuguese (not Spanish, Katie) and can hold her own hiring help. Also, the Sao Paulo version of Hong Kong flu abounds. Bob Ewing called them recently but mutual problems of timing kept them temporarily apart. And incidentally, our Chicago-based son met Tim Bryant and new bride at that graduation and have become good friends out there.

We have more Christmas letters for next time but we need more news than that. Anyone got any ideas?

Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Treasurer, 11 East 74th St., New York, N. Y. 10021

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