1940

I sincerely hope you all had a most enjoyable summer. Your scribe and spouse (believe it or not) found that New York City was truly a “fun city” in which to spend the summer—particularly with one offspring in London for the summer while the other was on a ’teen tour of fourteen of our 50 states plus Canada and Mexico! The older is now a freshman at Gettysburg (Pa.) College while the younger is a senior at high school at home.

While on the subject of education I hope it’s not too late to report the election and promotion of Ed Fritz who is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Eastern College in Baltimore to the additional honor of Academic Vice-President of the undergraduate school there. Ed’s come a long way (though he hasn’t left his home town) since he was the big man in the D.O.C. Additional academic kudos belong to George Sommers who was appointed Superintendent of the Rantoul (111.) Township High School. George has been the boss in a number of schools in New Jersey, Illinois, and Wisconsin prior to this. In June he received his doctorate in education at the Univ. of Minn. Again this is a long way to have come from the days when he received All-American honorable mention and was a member of the All-New England football team! Congratulations to you both.

An excellent profile on Bob O’Brien has crossed ye ed’s desk. Three full columns plus a picture of Bob and daughter Betsy expound on his theory of education. Bob, wife Ann and four children are constantly educating themselves at their 175-acre farm on a hilltop in Tunbridge, Vt., where they raise sheep and in the distance watch the skiers at Camel’s Hump, Pico, and Killing- ton. Formerly a member of the Vermont Board of Education he is active in various educational conferences and writes a weekly column for the Rutland Herald.

A brief note from Jack Fitzgerald advises that he stopped off in Hanover enroute to Montreal and it was strange not to see the Tanzi brothers or Fletcher, but that Prof. Herb West was still as sharp as ever. For those of you who haven’t been to Hanover Plain in recent years may I suggest you join us for our annual informal reunion over the Brown game on October 17. It’s not only fun to get together but Hanover’s changes are well worth seeing. If you haven’t already done so let Bob MacMillen know you’ll be on hand.

Promotions in the news last spring, but not recorded for the class record ’till now include the election to the Board of Directors of Societe Expansion Touristique of Switzerland of Jim McElroy Jr. along with representatives of Swissair, Swiss Railway, Swiss Post Office, etc. His two children are outstanding collegiate skiers and with that season coming upon us keep your eyes glued to the sports pages for news of both in all international matches in Europe. From the Gillette Company comes word of the promotion of George Cutter as vice- chairman of their board. He still looks sharp, feels sharp and is sharp on skis. NickXurkevich, our ad-man in Chicago with D’Arcy where he is senior V.P. and managing director, has also become execu- tive V.P. and a member of their five-man executive committee responsible for coordi- nating the operations of their main offices plus San Francisco, Cleveland, and Los Angeles plus all international activities.

Occasionally Jack McDonald’s “Indian drum” and this column duplicate an item for which we both ask your indulgence. It’s an established fact, however, that some classmates read only one or the other and hence the occasional rereading of the same news. The deadline for this column is more than a month before you receive it, so lack has a definite time advantage. I believe he has already written that Bud Czerny has been appointed chief of staff of St. Mary’s Hospital, the largest in Tucson, Ariz., but if not, you read it here! Also Bill Squier was upped to the position of Assistant Sales Manager-Administration of the sporting goods division of Converse Rubber Cos. of Malden, Mass., which is one of the leading manufacturers of athletic, sport and leisure footwear.

For the next two months we’ve got a good chance to get together at one of the football games so let’s get out there and cheer the Big Green to victory. See you, same space next month.

Secretary, 200 sth Ave. New York, N. Y. 10010 Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301