1929

Seventy-two has come and gone and Seventy-three has begun. In spite of two three-day holiday successive weekends the February notes are still waiting for attention. In the words of the Prayer Book "we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done things we ought not to have done,"—celebrating 40th anniversaries, hosting and visiting with grandchildren and their parents.

Class notes will be lean for this issue. The surplus relied upon by your secretary was used up in the last quarter of '72. The time has come for all '29ers to come to the aid of the empty mail sack. We thank the Haves who sent in the '72 news; appeal to the Have Nots who we hope to hear from in '73.

Bill Andres has sent in news of Herbert MortonBall's job with the New York Stock Exchange. He's retired from Johns-Manville Corporation as vice president, secretary, and general counsel and as national president of American Society of Corporate Secretaries. The news release announced by James Needham, chairman of the Stock Exchange, describes Herb's job as follows: "He had been engaged as a consultant to the NYSE's Department of Stock List; and Mr, Ball would assist the department in maintaining liaison and further improving relationships with companies whose shares are traded on the Exchange and with other organizations whose work brings them in contact with the department. Mr. Ball would work in the areas of shareholder relations, stock transfers, proxy solicitation and timely disclosure of corporate information to the investing public, among others." Herb has moved his wife and three sons from Scranton, Pa., to Bronxville, N. Y., where they now reside.

Charlie Dudley writes from Hanover a letter describing his early activity in the ski dress and equipment field with reference to White Stag's and '29s Hal Hirsch. He also states that Fran and himself have just returned from Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and Tahiti.

Hank Stein informs us that his daughter Clare Rosenfield spent three weeks with them last summer, after which she returned to Bangkok where her husband is engaged in medical practice and research. Hank says Clare has co-authored a book recently published, "Ten Lives of the Buddah" containing Siamese Temple paintings and Jakota tales and legends.

A letter from Dud Orr thanking us for sending copies of a portrait of Superior Court Justice Allen Buttrick of Lancaster, Mass., uncle of Jean Orr Eleanor Coles, and Richard Ward, presented to Worcester County Law Library and hung in Worcester County Court House.

Former Dartmouth History Professor, H. Donaldson Jordan, who was well-known to many '29ers died in Worcester on December 21, 1972. He taught at Clark University from 1931 until his retirement in 1971. He was head of the History Department and acting Dean of the College and as an ambulance driver in France in 1917, was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He told his students one night while returning home from a Department dinner he couldn't get used to driving with lights since he had had to drive without them in France.

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