1937

Since this time of the season is dubbed least news productive we must perforce yield to this phenomenon and add that due to hyperactive wool conditions (50c a pound to $1.70 in six months) we have been slightly lax in searching for new material. However, we do have a microfortune in stale news plus some recent so forgive us if you appear here as vintage spring 1972.

For instance: our far-near-midwestern newspy, Bill Falion keeps us posted on the doings of DonMcKinlay. We have a last May clipping to authenticate he's still his super-active self in that he, as chairman of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, was principal speaker at commencement exercises for the University of Northern Colorado with his topic "What Price Status." Later (November) the local paper reported the McKinlays in Japan for three weeks, stopping in San Francisco enroute home to attend seminars sponsored by the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.

For instance: on or about last spring, Carl Erdman, executive VP and treasurer of American Bank & Trust, was named officer in charge of that bank in Reading, Pa. We're more apt to think of Carl as the war ace piloting his trusty SPAD regularly up-country to our fall reunions dodging or engaging Von Richthofens all the way. As head of the trust department Carl is devoting his efforts to outside business development activities.

Last spring we dropped into the new Boston Flower Mart. That is the wholesale market supplying this area with about everything in cut flowers and plants. Lo and Behold, a hanging sign says Butler & Ullman. The man in charge told us Ullman died a few years ago and that Steve Butler is semi-retired having turned the business mostly over to his son-in-law (with advice from the old man). Their specialty is cut roses and there were literally hundreds for sale.

Will Brown is teaching at New England College in Henniker, N.H. Julian Leslie of Moose Mountain Ski Lodge fame in our time but long since known as proprietor of the Casco Bay Trading Posts in Freeport, Me., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., tells us his son (best student in the whole family) just might have a crack at Dartmouth from Fort Lauderdale High. Les spends summers running the Maine store while wifey Tata oversees the southern one. Les told us one of his fishing buddies down there is the one and only JohnHoffstetter and also that he is pleased to have our new directory so he could keep track of the increasing number of Florida-bound classmates.

The Wall Street Journal paid a small tribute to Carleton Nichols, president of Nichols & Stone in Gardner, Mass., maker of all those beautiful Dartmouth chairs Campions sells at cost (at cost?). The article had to do with the great popularity of items sold with college crests from T shirts to out-houses which, in spite of their limited sale in each college community are a volume item for a manufacturer. Nick says he wants no more new accounts as the present ones take all he can supply.

Sey Ochsner was in Hanover last fall for a couple of very enjoyable days attending a meeting of the Dean's Advisory Committee of the medical school. Says Sey, "I am a member and value the opportunity to participate and feel most honored. It is a group of about 15 graduates like me. Our class has amazing representation; John Milne, Hanover, Mike Wright from New York, and Collie MacCarty of the Mayo Clinic."

Gib Reynolds pens proudly that one of bis cohorts returned from a Hanover meeting with a gavel presented by the College to the Cape Cod Club as the Small Club of the Year. This is Gib's last year as president. Last year they got honorable mention.

We Bankarts are pleased to announce the appointment of our Tuck School son Dick as marketing manager of Lehn & Fink's Lysol Detergent product in Montvale, N.J. They are a division of Sterling Drug. He enthusiastically endorses both the company and product. Their advertising agency is S.S.D.&B. in New York, brother Reg's old outfit, and a few eyebrows came up when it got known the name of Bankart was floating around again.

We called Les Barrett on a routine news check. Says Les, "I'm just relaxing around the house and playing with grandchildren since my retirement from National Biscuit last year." We also gleaned little news from Crawf Ferguson other than he and Lois had just returned from Naples, Fla., where he and several pals (including Bus Lattimer '35) had their annual golfing holiday playing nine different courses in ten days.

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