1934
Recent silence from this corner is attributable only in part to the indolence associated (in my case) with mental and physical decline. The real reason is a career switch.some months back from TV soaping to editorial/public relations work for Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, which has led to frequent interludes of round-the-clock toil and travel. Having been contemned through the years as (1) a bleeding heart and (2) rolling stone, I'm glad to have locked into a cause worth, in my view, considerable bleeding and rolling. Your secretary is better organized now, though, so there will be no further lacunae in this ongoing '34 report.
Leading off this time is an item on non-rolling stone Dick Gould of Berkeley Heights, N.J., GAF Corporation's manager of purchasing for chemicals, honored by his company in December for 35 years of continuous service. Dick received a diamond-studded gold tie clasp as a token of GAF appreciation - while Laurie Herman collected the Chamber President's Plaque October 19 for his "dedicated service" to the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce. Tom Cass, executive v.p. of Container Corporation of America, was designated group executive vice president October 18, with responsibilities including CCA's pulprbased paperboard mills and shipping container fabricating operations - but nary a tie-clasp or plaque for all those fine words.
Some of us do move around, or course - TedGregory, for one, who shifted from Quinnipiac College after 11 years of service (including five as development director) to a post as administrative assistant at the Branford Hall School of Business - in New Haven, we believe. Another peripatetic is photographic journalist Bud Yallalee, who writes from Orange Park, Fla., under date of February 4 that he's "now awaiting camper repairs; then back to Sanibel for more shell pics, Ocala and an article on racehorses, then St. Augustine. Upcoming articles: Outer Banks (Carolina), Asitigio Island, and kayak whitewater racing at Hanover third weekend in April; then back to Maine. Concentrating on color pics to cut out darkroom work. Camper grows more and more like sardine box, but great means to the greatest end! Glad to see wanderlusters BillAdams, Ed Moore, and now George Collins joining in."
A move of another kind is reported, thanks to Alan Hewitt, veteran theatrical publicist SolJacobson:
A.E.H. '34 suggests I shoot along my recent matrimonial news [Sol wrote January 22]. My wife, Barbara Scott, died last April. On January 1, I was wed to Barbara Saul Sprogell, Bennington '37, my first wife's cousin. We've known each other about 40 years. And we will live in New Hope, Pa., and New York. We were married, with a Friends' service at the home of her parents, Maurice Bower Saul, in Rose Valley, Pa.., with our respective families present. Barbara has four children from her first marriage to the late Harry Sprogell, a Philadelphia attorney. I have two from my marriage. Total grandchildren? Two from Barbara's side, four and 7/8ths from mine.
Just as Sol has hung in there as a publicist virtually all his post-college life, so has Hewitt pursued his acting career since his 1934' debut in summer stock. And here's what the New York Post's Richard Watts had to say about him November 18:
The other evening at an opening I ran into an actor named Alan Hewitt, whom I hadn't encountered for years, and immediately I recalled "Love's Old Sweet Song," a lovely play by William Saroyan that the author kindly dedicated to me. In it, he [A.E.H.] portrayed a Time salesman who was trying to persuade a hillbilly to become a subscriber. To do so, he reeled off to the old fellow's amazed delight the names of all the editors that then appeared in the magazine's masthead. It may not seem hilarious as I tell it, but I assure you it was one of the funniest scenes in my memory as the actor sounded off with magnificent bravura gusto.
And with flawless accuracy. Alan tells me he checked with Bill Scherman, then a Luceite, to make sure of the pronunciation of each editor's name.
A retiring gentlemen is Bob Wilmot, retiring after 38 years with Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and from the position of assistant general manager of sales which he has held since 1963. Bob joined the corporation in 1934 and, except for World War II service as a Navy lieutenant, has been with Bethlehem since then. A member of the American Iron and Steele Institute, he served for a year on the construction analysis staff of the Defense Production Administration in Washington. The official release includes no retirement particulars. Bob?
Recent promotions include Gardner Brown's, named president in November of the Bostonbased Multibank Financial Corporation, the Massachusetts bank holding company formerly known as Shorebank, Inc. Gardner had been serving as chief executive of the First National Bank of Berkshire County, a Multibank affiliate. FritzHuston, recently retired after 32 years with Mesta Machine Company, is serving as secretary of the Crafton-Ingram (Pa.) Rotary Club while "getting involved in real estate."
We regret to report the passing of Henry R.Kraszewski, M.D. of New Britain, Conn., November 27, and of Henry R. Rose of Natick, Mass., December 10. Previously unreported here were the loss of Frank Wardwell, during the summer of 1970; and of Robert M. Lindstrom of Cleveland last July 4. To their families and friends within the Dartmouth fellowship and far beyond. the Class extends its deepest sympathies.
To close on a different note, we pass along this word from Charley Strauss of Stamford, Conn.: "With three brothers, a godfather, and a father all being Dartmouth alumni (including brother Glenn this coming June), my daughter Vail Elizabeth decided that a perilous state of green overkill had been reached. So she picked herself a Wisconsin man [Joel Ely Somerville of Green Bay], But she couldn't get away from Dartmouth after all, so she's being married April 21 on the family estate of Carl Vail."
See you, if not sooner, at the Jerry Lewis Telethon Labor Day.
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