1941

The recent arrival of the football ticket stubs and a record cold wave which dropped the New Hampshire temperature to 36 degrees this morning have served to remind me that it’s time to start writing the column again. Some of the following items may not be fresh news, blit they have been accumulating since the May column was written.

Dick Krolick, vice president in charge of Programming for Time-Life Broadcasts, had an interesting trip last spring. It was a mission of mercy that took him and 79 others most of the way around the world with Texas billionaire Ross Perot. This was Perot’s second attempt to make contact with the estimated 1400 American prisoners being held in North Vietnam. The trip took Dick, among other places, to Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Danang, and Bien Hoa in South Viet Nam and Vientiane in Laos.

Tom Willers, who has been president of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and its subsidiary, Hooker Chemical Corp., has been elected to the new post of vice chairman of Occidental. Tom retains the presidency of Hooker.

Julie Koenig- has resigned from the post of chairman of the executive committee of PKL Companies, Inc., which, as Papert, Koenig & Lois, he helped to found ten years ago.

Presently serving as the 111 th president of the Rhode Island Medical Society is Dr.Dick Sexton, chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital.

From Colorado Springs comes word that attorney Mort McGinley has joined Realty Investment Counselors, Inc. as an investment counselor in the field of real estate syndication and group investment. In addi- tion to many activities in local bar associations, Mort has served on numerous community boards and has served as president and chairman of the board of trustees of the Rocky Mountain Rehabilita- tion Center.

Dr. Bob Rainie still finds time to keep up with his interest in music. At a concert of the Concord, N. H., Chorale, Bob and his wife Dode were the tenor and soprano, half of a quartet that was featured in one of the presentations. Also, last spring at a father- daughter weekend at Smith, where his daughter Robin is a student. Bob broke out his old trombone for a “Pop’s Parade” featuring music of the 30’s and 40’s which, no doubt, he knew by heart. In addition to his playing and singing, Bob apparently is an accomplished dancer as well. He and Robin made the semifinals of a waltz contest and the finals of a cha-cha contest. Robin is apparently carrying on the music traditions of the Rainie family, she is a member of the “Smithereens,” a 13-girl singing group at Northampton.

Chet Williams, who has been with the National Teachers Corps at Indiana State University, has been named director of the Callison Overseas Study Center of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. His work has taken him to India where he is presently located in the Shilton Hotel, St. Mark’s Rd., in Bangalore in the state of Mysore.

I’m sure many of you saw the editor’s note in a June issue of Life Magazine announcing Roy Rowan’s resignation as assistant managing editor. Roy had traveled most of the world for Life during his 22 years’ association with the magazine.

As for the Green Derby, the Class performed like most of the horses that I bet on at the local racetrack. As late as mid- June, we were still leading Group V by a comfortable margin. We faded in the home stretch, however, and in the final standing ran 4th behind ’44, '4B, and ’42 in that order. A total of 335 contributors, which is less than 65% of our potential, contributed a total $28,551, which was just over 87% of our quota. We were second only to ’42 in the percentage of contributors, but we ran sth in the percentage of quota attained. For the fund as a whole, the participation was 75.2% and the total contributed was 94.8% of quota.

I regret that I must close this first column of the new season with obituaries. Last spring belated word was received that DickJenks had died in October, 1969; BurrittHinman died May 14 in Manchester, N. H.; after a short illness, Wes Hadden passed away May 30 in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; and on June 21, Dr. Dave Bryan died in Stowe, Vt., of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

This takes care of most of the summer’s accumulation of news items. I hope some of you will forward a little news for next month’s column.

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