1938

We come to the end of a month that will be remembered for the postal workers' strike, the air traffic control slow down and your secretary's solo auto trip to Florida and return.

Passing through Georgia and the Carolinas I was impressed by the vastness of the Union Camp Corporation's wood pulp Plants, and going through the accumulated wail on my return I found a New York Times article on that very same company and its president, Alexander Calder Jr. The story was of the recent move of the company's headquarters from Manhattan's Woolworth Building to the New Jersey countryside. It seems that the 108-year-old company which made its mark as a manufacturer of paper bags has gone on to become one of the nation's largest manufacturers of forest products. The huge installation which I noted at Savannah is the nation's largest pulp and paper plant. The company has 1.65 million acres of timberlands in the Southeast and is entering into allied fields of chemicals, plastics, and building materials. Mention is made of the president's Dartmouth background and wartime experiences in the Navy. These notes in a recent issue reported Calder's appointment as an overseer of Tuck School.

Also making the news is Walter Averill, the historian of the Hudson Valley. Under a February dateline the "Poughkeepsie Journal" announced that the Dutchess County Historical Society had arranged for its vice-president, Averill, to give an illustrated talk to the society and the public on "Shun Piking in the Hudson River Valley." It is assumed that "shun piking" is a contrived verb meaning to tour the country by remote roads rather than turnpikes. Walt is a former chairman of the Poughkeepsie Planning Board and is a member of the New York State Revolutionary War Bicentennial Committee by appointment of Governor Rockefeller. Walt is innkeeper of Nelson House in Poughkeepsie.

Other innkeepers in the class include JimBriggs of Spring Meadow Farm, Damariscotta, Me., and Yokichi Fujiyama of Tokyo, Japan. In the related business of restaurateur we have Seymour Ellis of New York City and George H. Payne of Omaha.

In the matter of business and professions which was touched in last month's notes, there are seventeen bankers in the class, of whom Ben Ames Williams is distinguished for being president of Old Colony Trust Company of Boston and Fred Piderit, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, must be mentioned as the father of eleven.

Next month's Class Officers' Meeting in Hanover should produce some news of classmates and their activities.

Secretary, 64 Cormack Court Babylon, N. Y. 11702

Class Agent, 15 Damon Rd., Holden, Mass. 01520