1939
Your correspondent is just back from a pleasant ten days in Harbour Island, an out island of the Bahamas, all flabby and bronzed, and not at all "up" for a Magazine deadline. But there's no alternative. We might mention that we ran into four couples from Hanover, N. H., all vacationing independently at the same "spa", which may be a clue to how those from the chilled North Country stand the climate year round. One of the couples was none other than James Conant, erstwhile Harvard prexy, and wife who it seems takes an annual residence on Occum Ridge from May to October, and, for a died-in-the-wool John Harvard had many pleasant things to say about our small College.
But talking about college presidents, the North Country press has been filled with the resignation of Dr. Everett M. Woodman who is stepping down this June from the top spot at Colby Junior College.
Ev has put in ten years and apparently feels that his work is done because, "the college is going ahead successfully with capable faculty, a full enrollment of impressive young women, good programs and purposeful plans." Woody has had a star-studded career since graduation, starting with the earning of his doctorate from Boston University in 1948. He was cultural affairs officer of the U. S. Information Agency in Madras, India just previous to taking on his present post at Colby. He served in New Delhi, for four years as director of the educational exchange program for the U. S. Embassy and vice president of the American International School.
He was also a Ford Foundation consultant to India's Ministry of Education. In 1959 he was an educational consultant in East Africa where Colby Junior College, in partnership with Crossroads Africa, Inc. operates a 10-week summer secretarial training course in Narobi. Kenya. He was a Fulbright lecturer at the Universities of Lyon and Strasbourg in France, and a U.S. Department of State leader specialist in Frankfurt, Germany. While at Colby, he has been president of the American Association of Junior Colleges and for four years a member of the Commission for Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. He is presently a consultant to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers Field Service Program, a director of the New Hampshire Educational Broadcasting Council, vice president of the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs and a member of the Alumni Council of Philips Exeter Academy. If the Wah-Hoo-Wahs hadn't fallen into such disrepute, we would recommend one for our busy boy, Woody, on the eve of the conclusion of another busy chapter of his life's work.
Also from New Hampshire comes news that Georgie Hanna's daughter Katie, a freshman at Mount Holyoke, has been selected by the Muskie people to be on his slate of New Hampshire candidates for delegate to the National Convention. George says that if Katie is elected in the March 7 primary, she will be the youngest delegate in the history of the country.
Word comes from Hank Conkle that his tiny world in Cahiers, N. C., is growing by leaps. When he settled in years ago, in 1946, there were six telephones. Now there are hundreds. Sapphire Valley alone is building one hundred condominiums this winter, Lake Toxaway already has oyer a hundred homes constructed. A large insurance company is making plans for further development of over 5,000 homes, and almost overnight the year-round population of the sleepy little unspoiled area is expected to peak out at some 15,000 residents.
Maurice Coston, M.D., over Framingham way has been elected to membership in the New England Surgical Society. Maury is president of the medical staff at Framingham Union Hospital, a past president of the Middlesex West District Medical Society, a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, AMA, American Board of Surgery and the Boston Surgical Society.
Bill Bachman has been reelected to a second term of the American Automobile Association at the AAA's annual meeting in New York last September. Bill is senior vice president of D'Arcy-MacManus-Intermarco, Inc., advertisers of note.
John Gillingham was appointed Director of Employee Relations for the Singer Company this past November. Joining Singer in 1961, John had served as Manager of Industrial Relations for the Diehl Division, and in 1968 was named to the same position in the Industrial Product's Division's newly-formed Integrated Mechanized Systems Organization.
Bob Richman has been appointed Creative Coordinator for Marketing Motivators Inc. of Hartford, Conn., and as such will provide copywriting and counseling services for industrial and consumer clients, as well as be active in new business solicitation.
Jerry Beatty has added yet another title to his list of books with the recent publication of "Double Take," reviewed in the February issue of this Magazine. Columnist, cartoon editor, author of children's books, he has written such scintillating titles as "The Girls We Leave Behind," "1 O'clock in the Button Factory," and "Show Me the Way to Go Home," the last being an expose of the evils of suburban commuting. This is no longer a problem for him, however, since the Beatty's live on an island off Maquoit, Mass.
Gordie McCoun was designated as manager of travel trade relations within the United States Travel Service Marketing Division by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tourism this past December. He will serve as the liason between USTS and the travel trade including airlines and industry associations. You will remember that Gordie has a long background with PAN AGRA, having spent much of his life in South America.
John Horn was designated husband to Mrs. Ralph S. Stafford on January 22 in a ceremony held in Darien, Conn. John lost his first wife through death some time ago, and Mrs. Stafford is the widow of a former executive of Continental Can. John is an executive with Lord & Taylor, New York.
Phil Keller made a move in the town of North Andover, Mass., and can now be reached at 240 Marbleridge Rd., zip 01810.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to dreams of Harbour Island and the process of watching my newly-gained tan disappear.
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