1940

This is a good month to turn the column over to various classmates to tell their own stories in their own words. If more of you would let me know what's going on with yourselves, your families or your professional or business careers this monthly space would be of even greater interest to us all.

Bill Rearden brings us up-to-date from his lofty office in the Penn Center skyscraper in Philadelphia, where he's executive vice-president of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, a management consultant firm, with "I was sorry to have missed our 30th Reunion, but assure you it was unavoidable as I had to attend a directors and stockholders meeting of our Canadian subsidiary. My work keeps me very busy and it seems incredible to me that upon coming to work here right after the war we had only one office and are now located as follows: Atlanta, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York (2 offices), Philadelphia (2 offices), San Francisco, Toronto, Canada, Wiesbaden, Germany. My dossier hasn't changed much except for additional grandchildren and my stable now consists of two Ferraris and a Maserati."

From Wisconsin State University, College of Business and Economics, Sid Phillips writes "My family and I moved from Andover, Mass., to my present address (1902 Liberty Lane, Janesville, Wis.). Last February I accepted a new position as professor of Management here at Whitewater. Since I have been an associate prof, for several years - seven to be exact - their offer was much appreciated. So far the work has been both interesting and challenging. Among other things I will be setting up and teaching a new three-course sequence in Production Management. My daughter, Patricia, goes to high school here, while my younger son, Scott, is in junior high. Carl, our oldest, is a sophomore at Dartmouth, but this term he took an assignment at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama along with three other Dartmouth students. He is acting as an undergraduate teaching assistant in some six hours of laboratory work, as well as taking three courses. He will return full time to Hanover after Christmas."

Chuck Haskell writes from Dayton where he is a manufacturers representative: "Sorry we couldn't have made the 30th, but having just taken a month off to visit our daughter in Germany, I just had to stay here and tend the store. My wife and I were in Cleveland several weeks ago and stopped by to see Lee Bassett and family. All were fine and looking as young as ever. While there, we called Greek Mahoney in Indianpolis only to get him away from his annual chore of putting up the storm windows. I remember one time years ago of stopping in to see Jack and Helen Maynard at their home in Red Hook, N.Y., only to be put to work doing the same thing. Won't someone sell these good people the self storing type? Just kidding. Not much news from around the Dayton area. Our three daughters are now married. As of last June, we have six wonderful grandchildren and Ann and I are reaping all the joys of "grand-parenthood. Baby-sitting is minimal with only one daughter being in Dayton."

From Malvern, Pa., where he lives in contented retirement, Carp Batchelder writes "Thought you might be interested to know that I have acquired Louisenhoj Castle in St. Thomas, V.I. and intend to be there from January to June of each year and then return up here for the other six months. The Castle was begun in 1740 for Queen Louise of Denmark to visit. It was completed finally in 1935 and I am still doing some more with it. Am planning to have the 'Pennsylvania Ballet' down this winter to perform. I'm still a director of the darn thing. It may be about time for me to bow out and have someone younger bring in some new ideas!"

Now that you have found that other guys in the class can be loquacious and that we really have something to say to each other, why not take pen in hand and write your news-starved secretary about the goings on in your own bailiwick!

A number of you have heard from ArtOstrander with regard to his reorganizing the assistant class agents set-up for this spring's Alumni Fund Drive. Having been through this myself the past four years you can be of great help to Art and the class if you don't turn him down on his request for working assistants. He and I have discussed his great plans and I hope that those of you to whom he has written, join him on his team.

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