1946
It's been a long time between issues of the Alumni Magazine, so some of our "news" may appear outdated, but it's still news.
Incidentally, did a summer ever seem shorter than 1973? A friend of ours is an amateur psychologist, and claims that time literally does speed up during our lives. It seems that our subconscious minds judge everything in relation to our prior experience in that area, so that to a 30-day-old child one day, being 1/30th of his total experience, is just as long as one year to a 30-year-old adult. Since the denominator of the fraction gets larger each day, the fraction gets smaller, and - well, you math majors can take it from there.
We're indebted to Bill DeStefano for preparing and forwarding the minutes of the '46 executive committee meeting held on May 18 at Harvey andDottie White's in Marion, Mass. Present were president Weld, treasurer Furber, Newsletter Editor Pierce, 30th reunion (GYHES) chairman Whitman, DeStefano, Ham Bailey, Bob Hunt,Bob Kimball, Bud Scheu and host White.
The treasurer's report included completion of arrangements for the contribution of $7,000. to Baker Memorial Library, to fund the Class Memorial Book Program, whereby each deceased classmate will be appropriately remembered by books to be selected by the librarian.
Other highlights included plans for a minireunion on Yale weekend in Hanover, at which the Class will provide beer, ice and the charcoal grill, and plans for the GTHES (Greatest Thirtieth Hanover's Ever Seen!) in June, 1975. The formal minutes conclude as follows: "A very enjoyable dinner followed, prepared by our lovely hostess Dottie White. Saturday was spent sailing on an angry Buzzards Bay. Skipper Harvey White brought us through."
Ben Moats is now president of The Economic Development Consortium, Inc., based in Cleveland. An article from the Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimitar reports Ben's activity in operation of the Brunswick Hospital, a 152-bed facility there, which was recently acquired by a group headed by Ben. It is the Mid-South's only privately-owned, fully accredited psychiatric care center. A note from Ben says "don't know how I ever ended up in the heat of the Mid-South," and concludes with a description (almost printable) of the problems of commuting between Memphis and Cleveland.
Nelson Bryant continues to salt his outdoor lore with some perceptive bits of philosophy. In a recent N.Y. Times column describing the advent of the "Power-Ski," a new water vehicle. Nelson adds: "What America needs is more canoes and rowboats and less power craft, more snowshoeing and ski touring rather than snowmobiling, more hiking and less trail bike and all-terrain vehicle riders. This attitude, I must add, has nothing to do with my being turned away from two country gas stations in the last two days because they had no fuel to sell."
A logical progression in a career of educational publishing brought Clinton Johnson late this summer to the post of director of New York University Press. The career began in 1950 after he received an M.S. from the University of Illinois and became a college traveler on the East Coast for McGraw Hill. Successive posts with that company were as editor and chief editor of the college engineering and science section. Clinton moved to NYU Press from R.R. Bowker where he was vice president and editorial director of the book division.
Jim Morse, an announcement from American Express investment Company says, has been elected to a newly-created office, that of senior vice president, portfolio management. He has been with the firm since 1956 most recently as senior vice president and head of the Investment Advisory department. Previously Jim was with White, Weld & Co. in New York and before that was a security analyst in the trust department of Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, where the Amexo subsidiary is also located.
On your next visit to Hanover, be sure to visit the new Murdough Center, linking the Tuck and Thayer Schools at the end of Tuck Drive. It includes a two-story library, computer terminal room, 358-seat auditorium, lecture halls, study lounges, faculty offices, conference rooms, etc. and some novel architectural highlights. For instance, a full-length window on the ground floor provides a view of the old bridge, and further along the same corridor a skylight enables you to kook straight up into the 150-foot pine trees overhead. As stated by the architect "a concern for the integrity of the beauty of the area dictated the need for simplicity."
Keep those cards 'n' letters rollin' in.
Rog Foster '46 with wife Merelyn at righttook the oath as a member of the StateHousing Finance Agency from the Governor of Massachusetts, Francis W. Sargent.
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Treasurer, Bear Hill Rd., Sherborn, Mass. 01770
