1933
The Boston Alumni dinner was held on February 1 and Bob Fox reports it was a great evening for 1933. Special thanks are due Sid and Miriam Stoneman for arranging for our own class suite and for being very gracious hosts. Those couples attending in addition to the Stonemans and the Foxes (Babe with a broken arm in a cast) were: the Erlandsons, Rideouts, Corcorans, Gasses, John H. Thompsons, Watsons, Kimballs, Scanlons, Lades, Maskiliesons, Hal Hencheys, and Jaquiths. The stags were: Vin Merrill, Wes Beattie, Harv Bloomberg, John Meek, Bob Mitchell, and Henry Hardy. The total was 33!! A good omen which netted us the attendance cup and the "most wives present" award. The Boston group also won the attendance cup in 1968. All of us should make a real effort to attend the other spring meetings as we welcome our new president, John Kemeny. Please keep me posted on those who attend.
Walt Douglas of Plainfield, N.J., has been presented with a plaque and citation by The Moles - a national association of construction industry leaders. According to the publication, "Compressed Air," Walt "is considered one of the country's foremost authorities in mass-transportation planning. In addition to his original planning of the billion-dollar San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System, now under construction, he has directed preparation of plans to meet travel desires in such regional areas as Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, southern New Jersey, and Allegheny County, Pittsburgh. He is currently engaged in development of a modernization program for the Long Island Railroad, including planning of a rail connection from Pennsylvania Station to J.F.K. International Airport." Walt is senior partner in the consulting engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff. Onada and Douglas.
Dunham Kirkham has retired as head of the medical-surgical clinic at Sunmount State School at Tupper Lake, N. Y. After receiving his M.D. from Yale in 1937 and serving his internship, residency and private practice, he enlisted in the Army in 1942. He was finally assigned to the Pacific Theater and served in the following areas: Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Marshall Islands. He has been awarded the Asiatic Pacific and Philippine Liberation medals. In 1958 he transferred to the Sunmount V.A. Hospital. When this was closed in 1965, he chose not to accept another transfer and accepted the post at Sunmount State School.
Herb Shea of Little Silver, N. J., has been elected a first vice president of Bankers Trust New York Corporation. He joined Bankers Trust as a messenger immediately after graduation and ten years later was made assistant treasurer. Since then he has served as assistant vice president and vice president.
It has been my privilege and pleasure to renew association with Pete Hart, president of The Middle East Institute in Washington. Bea and I met him at his sister's home in Marblehead. We then had a delightful lunch with Wes and Jan Beattie at their home in Melrose. After this we drove to Hanover for the hockey game which Princeton won unfortunately 5 to 3. At the game we had an opportunity to visit with Jackand Dottie Manchester and Jud Pierson. For the next three days Pete was a consultant here at Holderness School (Jane had been scheduled to come with him but she was unable to do so because of her mother's illness). He met with the various' history sections answering questions and speaking from his first-hand knowledge of the various problems in the Middle East. His final talk to the entire student body and faculty was especially thought-provoking.
Pete mentioned that Hank and HelenSmith were taking a short break from Hank's congressional duties to take a tour (I think it was to Mexico) arranged by the Smithsonian Institute.
Another of our Representatives, JohnMonagan, spoke to the Hartford alumni group in January. In referring to student militancy he said: "A few months in Prague or a winter in Lvov would change their understanding of the good points of our country and our way of life."
Tom Curtis '32, vice president and general counsel for Encyclopedia Britannica,has his tie adjusted by his secretary, LaVerne Kruggel, as he prepares to acceptthe 1970 Boss of the Year award of theChicago Lake Shore Secretaries Assoc.
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