1940

It is always good to hear from classmates too long absent from these columns and I feel as though I have hit the jackpot with two such letters this month. Maybe there are others who keep their New Year's resolutions as well as Maurice Williamson and Art Ostrander, and I will be so flattered in coming months. I hope so!

Will left Boston four years ago for New York City where he not only found a wife but just last November started in a new career field. But first things firsthis bride, Elma Louise Staley, graduated from the University of Maryland and is currently credit manager of Esquire, Inc., publishers, of Esquire and Gentlemen's Quarterly magazines. Will's new vocation didn't require such a big jump on the surface of things; yet he claims he's in a "different ballpark" after 22 years. He left publication advertising sales to join National Business Lists, Inc. as a sales representative in the New York area. So while he is still in industrial communications, he's playing from a different position. Will's oldest daughter was recently married and his second is a junior at Skidmore where she's getting in some practical experience on her business major by "running a used furniture business each fall for underclassmen. Shades of old Fletcher!" Two boys in high school are proving them selves to be big, solid, promising football linemen. Will and El have just seen Hughand Joan Dryfoos, Bob and Didi Gensel, and Ray Hotaling at a holiday party at JackMcDonald's at which time the consensus was favorable for attendance at the 30th reunion. We all hope to see you both next June and since you haven't been to a reunion in fifteen years, you'll see some changes, I'm sure!

Art's letter was equally welcome and he is expecting to make the 30th also. He too has been in the New York area for about four years working for International Tel and Tel. Art brought his son Doug to the Columbia game in Hanover last fall but the mechanics of accomplishing that and the College interview following were complicated by the fact that Doug played in his own football game in Burlingame, Calif., Friday night and could only leave the West Coast at midnight. Anybody that gung-ho deserves admission on resourcefulness alone.

It was great for the MacMillens to have the chance in early December to go to Dayton for the wedding of Jim Kuhns' daughter Kristin, and to help Jim and Faith celebrate their own 27th wedding anniversary. It was fun to see Herb and Maddie Landsman up from Cincinnati for the double celebration. Herb had just jumped into the second half century with a blast which was aided and abetted by the Ted Gates from Washington, the Al Gutmans from Philadelphia, the Jim Schayes from Boston, the Jim Kuhns from Los Angeles, and the Bob Tatgenhorsts from Cincinnati. Herb is executive vice president of Federated Department Stores in charge of economic and market research. Jim and Faith Kuhns, incidentally, are fast becoming confirmed California-ites. Jim's foundry, a part of sprawling Garrett Corp., is booming and expanding.

Creight Holden has been elected the president of the American Hotel and Motel Association, a job which will keep him on the move constantly for the next year, traveling around the United States and abroad as the innkeepers ambassador. We all know how good he is at that. Think also of the numerous new golf courses and ski hills he will be "obliged" to check out in the line of duty! It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Out in Indianapolis George Mahoney has been persuaded to lead this year's annual fund drive for the Park School, of which he is a 1936 graduate. In 1963 he succeeded his father as president of the insurance firm of Hadley-Mahoney, which was founded in 1924. His roots in the insurance business go back to his grandfather who was the first insurance agent in Columbus, Indiana, around the turn of the century. George is a past president of the Dartmouth Club of Indianapolis.

Chal Carothers has moved from the wilds of New Jersey into Big Town where he can now be located at 235 East 22nd St., New York 10010. Another new move has taken Larry Cate to Hanover, but unfortunately it's in Massachusetts instead of our state. When you're in that area, stop by at Heritage Way to see him. Alec Clark has also forsaken New Jersey and is now hanging his hat at 215 Texas Lane, Ithaca, N. Y. While Colin Campbell has left Big Town for the southern comforts of Memphis, Tenn., where he can be found in Apt. 4, 4598 W. Turtle Creek Drive.

A Boston paper recently ran a long article on Henri Rosen and his bachelor's pad which is atop a warehouse overlooking the colorful Boston harbor. The title, "His Apartment Could Hold a House," suggests the generous proportions of the place which has also seen service as a coffee warehouse and a neighborhood badminton court. The smaller room of the apartment, this one only has a 25 foot peaked ceiling, sports two blinking and absolutely tiltless pinball machines besides the ping-pong table. The twostory walls give Hank enough hanging space for his ship models, Steinberg prints, and other antiques. From the picture, it looks just slightly smaller than Leverone Field House but delightfully homey, and I'm glad to know where I can play a tiltless hi-ball machine.

Speaking of Boston, Laurie Herman was quoted recently describing some amusing anecdotes about the late Tallulah Bankhead who used to visit his Eliot Lounge when she played Boston. After twenty years' operation of the famous Beantown spa, Larry probably can regale us at reunion with stories the paper shouldn't print.

Faced with a three-hour jet trip to Puerto Rico just before the holidays, Jack Little wrote a long letter instead of bothering with all those snacks and schnapps. He and Patsy have recently built a vacation retreat on the northeast corner of Puerto Rico, a thousand feet above the blue Caribbean where the hundred-mile view only takes in trees and sea and sky. If you're thinking of luxurious privacy (there is a swimming pool) with an adventuresome tinge, contact Jack to see if it's available for hire because he is interested in offering it to classmates. In addition to his gas and oil drilling company and managing a private investment partnership, Jack has interests in two other new companies - one a mining venture currently exploring for asbestos, silver, gold, and copper in various areas, and the other a company in Puerto Rico manufacturing disposable needles for the medical and dental professions. No wonder Jack claims his business life is exciting, profitable and even, once in a while, tiring. It sounds as though he were combining several careers at once. While Patsy seems to have boundless energies too, she raises the five little Littles and has been for the past three years librarian at St. David's School in Manhattan. Last summer she and the children ran a school for 16 black childrensort of a private Head Start.

Diz was remarried on December 28 to Audrey Roes in New York City. Until after their European honeymoon when we can congratulate the lucky couple in person, we all wish him the best and extend a warm class welcome to this newest bride of the class.

Well, that's it for another month. I hope you don't consider it too late for me to extend best New Year's wishes to all of you and your families, because I do. The old shoe box is empty so I'm hoping you'll keep in touch. See you next month here.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301

Bequest Chairman,