1926
Men of George Champion's stature are rumor prone, of course. Still I hope the one that has him taking on the Presidency of the U.S. Import-Export Bank after his forth-coming retirement as Chairman of the Board of the Chase Manhattan Bank turns out true. Meanwhile there is nothing rumorish in ent of the American College of Hospital Administrators' 1969 Executive of the Year award as I found out courtesy of Rollie Eaton's sending me a copy of A.C.H.A.'s December News Letter announcing the fact. Before coming up with the right man the selection committee had reviewed "dozens of top flight candidates; regents, deans of prominent universities with graduate schools of business and executive directors of national organizations in the fields of management, education, public administration, and government, all of whose names had been submitted by A.C.H.A. governors." The award will be presented March 7 at the College's awards luncheon during the A.C.H.A.'s 12th Congress on Administration.
One of the most intriguing pieces of mail to come my way in many a moon bore a Newport, N. H., cancelled envelope and stamp dated January 8. Inside was a blank piece of paper folded over a tiny clipping from the Claremont, N. H., Daily Eagle. The heading was "Magazine Features Two from This Area." (The Magazine is the January issue of N. H. Profiles. Anyone with an extra copy, please send to your Secretary.) The copy was "Kenneth Andler, Chairman of the Board of Directors of The First National Bank of Newport, is a real 'Yankee Banker.' Tom McCarthy explains how Andler has combined his financial career with abilities in art, writing, law, and surveying." Ken is obviously a man for all seasons and such men are too rare and too valuable to remain hidden and silent. Will the Newport clipping sender therefore please carry on or prod Ken into reporting on himself more fully.
A longer news clip from the Aurora, Ill., Beacon News reads, "A man known for his role in civic projects and associations, a native Auroran and a graduate of Dartmouth College and its Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Malcolm T.Jones, was elected president of the Aurora Foundation." Jerry is a retired vice-president of Richards-Wilcox Division of Hupp Corporation where he spent his entire business life. The paper goes on "Jones is a director of Merchants National Bank, First American Bank of Aurora, Home Building and Loan Association, and Aurora College with which he is active in its current campus completion program. Co-chairman of the Aurora Joint Hospital Fund campaign in 1965-66 and a member of the Board of Directors of Hospital Fund." We all wish Jerry well in continuing the Aurora Foundation along the path of ever more valuable service to the community and congratulate the community in its new leader for its foundation.
From Washington, D. C., comes the intelligence that Dean Chamberlain represented the United States in negotiations which culminated in the also pictured Asst. U.S. Secretary of State and Rumanian Ambassador to the U.S. signing a two-year program providing for cultural, educational and scientific exchange between the two countries.
From Hub Harwod via Ed Hanlon, those indefatigable uncoverers of '26 news, comes the intelligence from the New York Times of June 24 that "400 Friends of the A.S.P.C.A. gather at Animal Kingdom Ball." The president of the A.S.P.C.A. is none other than still another of our bankers in the Class, James H. Jenkins, of New York, Connecticut, and Bankers Trust. The proceeds of the ball are to assist the A.S.P.C.A.'s adoption service and its new program of offering alteration for the pets adopted.
Your secretary would like to hear from the others, so many of you who seem to be taking the adage "silence is a virtue" a bit too seriously. Our mail man surely is not developing back trouble carrying '26 mail into 8 Old Farm Road.
Along this train of thought here is an idea that may not be too bad. If you won't write about yourselves there must be fellows in the class you haven't heard from in ages you would like to catch up with or be caught up on. Write your class secretary who they are and why. For some of these people you may not even be able to remember the names. For example, I have always wondered who the black bearded satan was who, in the gray light of the cold morning of our picture fight lifted me off my feet by the hair of my head and dramatically asked "Who is this guy?" I know he was (for one reason or another having nothing to do with his indignity to me) separated our freshman year. I have since often tried to recall his name and wondered what became of him. On the other hand who was the angel of light, the great guy, the wonderful fellow, who first spoke up manfully in the same cold gray light and emitted the immortal sentences: "He is OK. I've seen him. He's '26"? Get the idea? Name the guy or don't name him, but state why. Either way he could come to life or light and this column could get interesting.
Wah Hoo Wah Department
To Nate Parker for assuming leadership and bringing to a successful conclusion the raising of the requisite funds for the Oberlander Memorial Lounge for visiting teams to be constructed in Alumni Gymnasium in Jim's memory.
Book Title Thought of the Month Department - (Titles taken from the 1926 Collection of Illustrated books published in New England prior to 1870) Hewlett, Samuel Mudway. The Cup and its Conqueror, or The Triumphs of Temperance, Boston, 1862.
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