1932

Our congratulations on behalf of the Class, who bask this month in his reflected glory, to Tom Curtis. We are pleased to give you the text of the 50-word essay by his secretary, Miss LaVerne Kruggel, that brought him his boss-of-the-year award:

He helps people gain scholarships and better jobs. He believes in secretaries and brings forth their best abilities. He serves the government and private sector unselfishly, brilliantly. Dynamic, uplifting American, executive, educator, lawyer, economist, speaker, writer, philanthropist, man of ideas and action, he is the boss for all seasons!

And congratulations to Paul Dunn, who has been appointed vice president and general manager of one of our favorite railroads, the Mount Washington Railway Company. Paul was chief mechanical officer of the Boston and Maine Railroad until his retirement last October. His new job renews an old association - during 1935-37 he was on loan from the B. & M. as superintendent of maintenance and operations for the Mt. Washington Cog Railway.

Max Heavenrich, distinguished citizen of Saginaw, Mich., political scientist, and longtime president of Heavenrich's (specialty clothing store), gives a useful report:

Still part of what my children call "The Establishment," although I soften their suspicions by explaining that I am "boring from within." After 7 years on Detroit Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (a la John Sheldon), I'm looking at the other side of the coin as a director of Second National Bank of Saginaw. Still covering much of Michigan for Boy Scouts of America as a Regional Committee member. Still in rag business (retailing) with son pushing me aside fast. Still waiting for Indians to take back Dartmouth. Still having fun with three grandchildren, although Grandma says I should quit acting like a college kid!

Dr. Ben Read postcards from Atlanta: "Your plea about the 5¢ touched my heart. I imagine we are all about in the same boat... too old to work and too young to retire (also too poor)." Ben and Ethel's chief pleasure is going to a nearby lake and "goofing off" on their 50-foot houseboat. They took a Mediterranean cruise last fall, and were planning to make EXPO 70 in April. "The only really cheerful thing in the world and global situation," says Ben, "is that maybe L-Dopa will do as alleged."

In New York City Harry Harper has been elected Senior Vice President of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. In his new position he will be responsible for operations within Dun & Bradstreet's business information division. He had been vice president in charge of the division's general reporting and service department. He began his career with Dun & Bradstreet as a city reporter and by 1945 had reached the position of regional service manager. He continued to climb upward and was elected a vice president in 1965.

We are indebted to Whip Walser for having clipped and forwarded from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's annual report a picture of John C. and Morry Hubbard, of Hubbard, Westervelt, & Mottelay, Inc. - now a part of M/L/P/F/&S — inspecting a new Broadway Department Store in Phoenix.

The peripatetic Whip was just back from a Central American trip, with this travel tip of the month: "At Belize, British Honduras, visited at Ambergris Key - 40 miles to the east. Fly out to this Key in a small plane — life is still very primitive there and the fishing and skin diving excellent. Lived at small hotel on beach for ten U.S. dollars a day with three meals - all the lobster, snapper, yellow tail, grouper, rock fish you can eat - good sailing. Didn't put shoes on for five days!" Sounds like Whip's best find since, if we recall aright, he and Dick Cleaves discovered Acapulco in the early '30's. Whip has decided he's not quite ready for early retirement. He and Adeline and daughter Lisa will be hack at Alumni College this summer.

A Sunday Times Book Review article looking back on 50 years of the Yale Younger Poet series speaks of Reuel Denney among those so honored who have honorably kept the poetic fires burning. Reuel's "The Connecticut River and .Other Poems," the series volume in 1939, still rewards a browsing. Just a few weeks ago we had cause to send a photocopy of "McSorley's Bar" to a friend when that noble establishment's century long, men-only tradition was under attack from a New York City councilwoman. If this poem ("Mac had a place to drink and talk downtown/Where only men were welcome, or grown boys ...") is not by now in the anthologies, so much the worse for the anthologists, we say. Like the mahogany of Mac's bar those final lines have aged well.

"... And sorrow that rendezvoused in here Flowed like a stellar scheme whose dying ions Cascade toward night, when orders somewhere else Gather the suns like a summer's dandelions."

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