1950

September just slipped by. Nothing spectacular happened. The football season waited until the last day before starting. By that time almost every other team in the country, including several non-Ivy rivals, had several games under their belts. Summer was reluctant to leave.

For some of you, however, the month was probably hectic. Labor Day signals the beginning of the countdown for getting progeny off to college. Practice perfects the process, but the first time seems to be filled with excess activity. Then comes the final day and the last farewells, given with a strange mixture of anxiety and pride. How different that moment from the one so filled with our anticipation as we headed for Hanover in 1946.

Everyone knows about the Oscars awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but few realize that the Academy also is a film archive, has the world's leading film research library, and gives scholarships and grants. As director of special projects Phil Chamberlin's job is to expand the Academy's cultural activities. One aspect of his position relates to the annual award for the best foreign film. Ensuring the right selection requires a degree of travel abroad. Then there was Cannes during May for the international film festival. In line with his background and duties Phil has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles International Film Exposition.

Phil's long letter relates numerous interesting film experiments. One was the presentation of a 1922 silent film at Grauman's Chinese Theater with a live 25-piece orchestra playing a score written for the film's original premiere. Von Sternberg's "The Docks of New York" was accompanied by a five-piece jazz combo improvising a 1928 jazz score. Phil apologizes for slanting his news toward film buffs, but he attributes his enthusiasm to the Nugget as well as to the outstanding work performed at Dartmouth by Blair Watson.

If you are handy with a saw, hammer, or screwdriver, head out to East Lansing where Andy McClary moved into an old house last spring. He and Jane have some wiring; painting, plumbing, and general patchwork for any adept do-it-yourself fixer uppers. Attending to such chores detracts from Andy's normal vocation as a professor in the department of natural sciences at Michigan State. He enjoys the idyllic life viewing it from the ivory tower except when the warm weather prompts normally docile young men into strange behavior. The distortion of mating rites into riots is distracting. In closing Andy commented that thoughts of Vassar, Janie's college, for their two daughters are now shifting.

Kansas City has the Chiefs and a Crown. In many cities today hardly anything is up-to-date. But KC is trying to retain the image projected in "Oklahoma." The revitalization of 25 blocks into the new Crown Center rivals Rockefeller Center in scope and vision. The center violates all the rules: it contains residential units for the central city; it offers open space, lawns, and water instead of asphalt and concrete; it mixes space for working, shopping, living, and playing; it is entirely financed by private capital. A Nebraskan who came to the city in 1910, Joyce Hall, envisioned the center. His son Don Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, enlarged the dream and is now bringing it to fruition as a model for other central cities.

Meanwhile Bruce Parker and his partner in Lincoln Boston have started construction of a multi-phase, multi-unit apartment Complex in Natick, Mass. The initial phase consists of 16 buildings with 354 apartments scheduled for occupancy late in 1972. The project includes a clubhouse, tennis courts, and a swimming pool, another step towards the integration of recreational space into living areas.

For about a year he tried insurance. Then he succumbed to the excitement of the brokerage business. Now Jim Hutton is managing partner of W. E. Hutton & Co. He served his apprenticeship in Cincinnati before migrating back to Wall Street. You are as likely to find him on the Atlantic. His avocation is sailing. Nantucket is a favored haven for Jim and Ginny and their three children. For ten years he was a member of the U. S. Tuna Team and its captain once. This summer he participated in both the Bermuda and trans-Atlantic races on "Duende," a 43-foot Herreschoff design. During his brief stints on land Jim sees JimCollins frequently in Chicago and many other '50-ites in and around New York.

Tidbits here and there: the controller for Osterman's Inc., a retail jeweler in Toledo, is Milt Diemer. The regional group manager for Provident Mutual Life, CharlieHart, has been ensconced in Atlanta with his wife, five children, two horses, and a dog. Jim Birney, ex-administration assistant to the bishop of western New York, has become rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Kenmore, N. Y. MattCooney, who lists his occupations as professor of English at Salem State and longshoreman in Gloucester, ran for another school committee term this spring. He had served for six years, as chairman for three. Four by Frank Gilroy are encapsulated in "Present Tense," a set of one acters.

The Vermont small businessman of the year: Rod Stinehour of Stinehour Press. Dan Featherston was the defense attorney in a recent murder trial in Boston. HughMcKenna Lynch was awarded a Ph.D. by the faculty of arts and sciences of the Johns Hopkins University. Hugh's specialty was not listed. Dick Vaughn, president of Northwest Bancorporation, was elected a director. The June meeting of the GOP women of Berkshire County, Mass.. heard a talk on "Europe versus America" by TomO'Connell. Next month's suspense list: Per-Jan Ranhoff, John (Sandy) Marson, and Court Cross.

Another mini-reunion weekend is around the corner. Last year fall was late and hardly a color stirred out of the verdant hills. This year the weekend is late and the best of the foliage season may have passed. Reports are dire. On the gridiron Princeton is the foe. Hopefully the Big Green will play with more spirit against the supposedly weak tiger than they did against Penn last year. Next month's column will tell.

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