1952

It finally came, spring that is ... and the Bosox opened the season with New York in near freezing temperatures. Although the Mayor didn't throw out a snowball as I previously predicted, the spheroid chosen to launch the game and baseball season had a thin coat of ice for its covering. Skiing still prevails to the North and the Boston Bruins are all even with Les Canadiens in their seven-game quarter final series for the prized Stanley Cup.

At this time of the year in the Boston area, kids of all ages normally break out the gloves and baseball bats; however, this year the entire city is one big asphalt hockey rick ... Street hockey is definitely here to stay as long as the local team continues to play and win.

Bob Morris can add another stripe to his grey flannel sleeve following his recent election to vice president with the LaRoche, McCaffrey and McCall ad agency in New York. Bob joined the firm in 1965 and has been an account supervisor since last June. He was previously with the Marschalk Agency and , before that with Benton & Bowles. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dan the former Bourne Gafill, and twin daughters, Temple and Miranda, and there between semi-professional photographic assignments, he is constructing his own Brooklyn money tree based on brownstone redevelopment.

Continental Insurance Companies' newly established Michigan subsidiary, National- Ben Franklin Insurance Company, has on its board of directors Jon Walton, vice president of the National Bank of Detroit. Jon got an MBA from Tuck School in 1953 and started with the National Bank as an analyst trainee in 1956. Named vice president in 1964, he is now in charge of the Eastern District of the bank's United States Division. Jon and "Sis" live in Grosse Point Farms.

Via the grape-vine growing out of the Hawaiian Islands, I hear that John Grocott is knocking the cover off of the golf ball these days. You all remember that John and his fine family left the States for Hawaii a few years ago. John is presently heading-up the Merrill, Lynch, Fenner and Pierce Hawaiian operation. When are you going on tour, John? Maybe Battling BillThornton and Nails McNary could sponsor a "Cement Open" in the near future with John and myself as a team. Neutral grounds would, of course, be the Pineapple State.

Al Reich '52 (left) Deputy AssistantSecretary of State for Educational andCultural Affairs, and his brother Pete '53at Sister-City Affiliation meeting in LosAngeles. Pete is a member of thecommittee from Pasadena, one of 350U.S. cities the program links with counterparts all over the world to promoteunderstanding.

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