1924

Margaret and I want to thank so many of you for Christmas cards, pictures, and family letters (Joe Burleigh has had an annual one for many years, and the Karslake tout ensemble is a joy forever ... just to mention the regulars). But thanks to all; there is no feeling of "duty" here—just joy. to have so many good friends- classmates and wives. (We managed to see several during the holidays; wish there had been even more.)

I shall have another salute to a departed classmate: Paul Lockwood; hopefully elsewhere in this issue. Stan Chittick attended the funeral in the Newtonville Methodist Church, where Paul had been very active; we are glad to have had the Class represented.

This reminds me that our years bring on aches and pains—and even more troubles. Barbara Chittick has had surgery in Boston; Tupper is still "doctoring" in Hanover; and Frank Harrington has been another surgical patient. Your recent Class Letter indicates Butts Lamson is regaining his old activities, but slowly. I'm sure there are others, regretfully. Let's turn to pleasanter topics for the New Year.

A very good letter from Red Newell, out in Hippieland (Berkeley). He glows over the football season, naturally. (Now we read Bob Blackman is leaving for Univ. of Illinois ... alas. We in Hanover will miss these good friends as well as his coaching.) Someone out there ought to get Red involved in a retirement activity. He has many talents ... as well as a nice family (Ralph, Jr. is also a banker; Emily works in San Francisco.).

Ernest (Wild Bill) Hickok has been appointed to the New Jersey State Museum Council, as of October. This is a busman's holiday for him; he is well known as a dealer-appraiser-connoisseur of Americana; has donated paintings and prints to this museum, to the Chaffee Museum (Rutland, Vt.) and others. His many memberships include those in the Antiquarian fields and the Vermont Historical Association; county and local politics; and community work (hospital, zoning, the Summit Centennial Committee). Don't forget he is a chartered life underwriter (Northwestern Mutual ... along with other classmates, of whom LeonRothschild comes to mind offhand.).

"Wylie Jones, Veteran Bakersfield College Teacher, Sets Retirement" ... so says a headline in the Bakersfield (Calif.) local paper, Nov. 7. He started teaching Economics there in 1947; after graduation, he was one to earn the first Master's degree in Business from UCLA. Among other achievements was his marriage to the former May Louise Fulton, then Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Together they wrote two books: "The Changing Competitive Structure in the Wholesale Grocery Trade (in the L.A. area, 1920-1944), and "The Nature of Competition in Gasoline Distribution at the Retail Level"—the latter especially ought to be timely reading right now in New England, at least, and deserved the award it won from the American Marketing Association.

In answer to requests as to BillBuchanan's election as a Charter Trustee, the following brief sketch may be helpful. He earned a M.A. degree in Business Administration at Harvard in 1926 and took his first position with Appleton Wire Works; he became its president and general manager in 1938, and chairman of the board in 1969. He had been a regular-term trustee since 1961 and National Chairman for the Third Century Fund after the death of Rupert Thompson '28. He has been a trustee of Lawrence University since 1938, and also the president of its board. He also holds eight other directorships.

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