1944
We hope our April column, going back 100 years or so to '44 in 1944, gave nostalgia its brief moment. Our inclination is for nostalgia now and then ...
... but with no hedge on the present. And that present, this month, tells us that Dick Lesser has left Larchmont, N.Y., industrial relations for still more industrial relations in Elmira, N.Y., this time, effective January 1, as director, Personnel and Industrial Relations at ITT-Grinnel, Valve Division. His progeny are a pre-vet daughter Sue at Cornell; son Jim at Colorado State; and second daughter Rosemary a sophomore at Elmira Free Academy. With kids getting off on their own, wife Jessie is dusting off her nurse's cap with an eye to reactivation.
Moving, too, has been Harry Grieger, and you've got to admit that he's done it with a lot more talent than most of us. A pox on being an industrial distributor in New Haven, Conn., he says, and he sold his business and bought himself a new 42-foot Grand Banks-Diesel Cruiser. "Virginia and I now live on it full time. Spending this winter in No. Palm Beach, having sailed down the Intercoastal Waterway last October. Plan our return trip to Connecticut in May, summering on Long Island Sound and returning to Florida when that 'slight coolness' starts to settle over New England. Under these conditions, retirement is great."
Skiers and chubbers won't be surprised to hear that Eric Barradale, always one of our class' strong entrants in snowy endeavors, and now a Brattleboro dentist, was cited this year in the newspapers for his 1963 founding of the Washington's Birthday Cross Country Ski Race. Held in Putney, Vt., the race this year attracted 1,146 entries, an all-time record. Eric's purpose in establishing the event was to "stimulate a new interest on the part of the whole family in skiing's oldest branch."
Moving from snowy Vermont to sunny Minnesota, we find that Johnny LaBounta has been promoted from Bank Americard assistant manager and operations manager to operations officer at the Marquette National Bank, an institution he joined in 1968.
In the sweet smellin' department, Revlon announces the appointment of H. "Bucky" Brandt as vice president of Ultima II Division in the Cosmetics and Fragrance Division. Bucky has been president of Scandia Tuvache for the past four years, prior to which he has served in various capacities with John Robert Powers, Lancome, Eastern Tissues, Bloomingdale's and Macy's. He is also the father of five boys: Herbert Jr., Peter, David, Dennis and Daniel. No girls.
Had a nice chat with Bob Fairbanks, editor of the Great Bend Daily Tribune (circulation 12,500) in the Kansas city of the same name (population 16,133). My atlas shows Great Bend to be just about mid-state and Bob says he gets in lots of bird hunting, fishing, and skiing - water, of course. With a mother and sister in Massachusetts, the Fairbanks get east every three-four years, and the summer of '73 will find them prowling Cape Cod dunes. Bob is also a oneman Kansas committee persuading local youngsters to go to Dartmouth.
Our Thoreau of the month is Chuck Foster who forsook the business world in New Jersey and went into business for himself, namely as the owner-operator of Timberholm Ski Lodge in Stowe, Vt. He and his wife Valerie only wish they'd made the move ten years ago. "We have individual rooms and suites," says Chuck, "and we emphasize the warmth and friendliness of the place. And you just can't beat the beauty and the quiet." They have a great chef and hope to be open all year 'round. The address: Cottage Club Road, Stowe, zip 05672, phone (802) 253-7603.
Word from overseas banker Vin Mitchell is that he remarried in November an old neighborhood girlfriend, Sylvia J. Armstrong, and is commuting from Connecticut into the Big City to Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Between them they have five children from previous marriages and are living in the house in Westport where Vin grew up.
From where else but Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Hardwick Caldwell tells us that Modern Main Kitchen appliances, of which he was president, has merged with McGraw-Edison Company, of which he also seems to be a president. And on the go: "Aside from all the domestic trips I've made, I've already been to Canada this year, spent a couple of days near Heidelberg (Germany), spent a week in Yugoslavia and two days from now I head to Puerto Rico for a two-day meeting." He also plays strong golf and terrific tennis in his spare time (between midnight and 2 a.m.?) and Lamar Agar says that the two of them usually win the Birmingham doubles tennis tournament without too much trouble.
And that, gentlemen, brings us to the final installment of the '44 "B" Football Team Follies, baseball season or not. Because it was LamarAgar who wrote to say that he and Hardwick won the Birmingham Open last year and are aiming at a repeat in '73. He, Lamar, a psychiatrist in Birmingham, has kids teaching in Atlanta, attending Vanderbilt and Hollins, and a bunch still at home and he lists as additional hobbies skiing, hunting fishing and golf.
We then turn to footballer Alex McPherson, a guard, as I remember, if there ever was one, who is corporation director of Clow Corp (water and waste handling and treatment equipment) out of Winfield, Ill. "I am still a chubber," he claims proudly.
Sam Coombs (an end?) is president of Coombs Associates, mfg. representatives in electronic components, working out of Lake Bluff, Ill. Oldest son is in "clothing"; second at Clark U.; daughter at U. of Iowa; and two still in lower schools, the youngest King, a hockey star.
Tough Red O'Conner, is just what he's always been, a private practicing neurologist in Baltimore whose number one outside activity is cruising and sailboat racing.
And finally, Crazy Legs Dick Sweet reminds us gently that he does not live in Portland, Ore., as we erroneously set it in print in the 25-year-book but rather in Portland, Conn. Dick is an orthopaedic surgeon in the Connecticut Portland and it, 'lest there be any doubt, is located slightly east of Middletown and south of Hartford.
That settled, you might well ask where Dick's daughter Sue is located. Would you believe Cornish Flat, N.H., just a stone's throw (or a snowshoe jog) down from Lovejoy Hill where the Hiers live. I'd known this handsome girl named Sue Sweet for about six months (see her at the local Country Store), but how was I to know until just recently that she was Dick's daughter?
How, indeed, was I to know that the handsome waitress in the Hanover Inn was Pam Burdge, Russ Burdge's daughter, enjoying a stint there between Pine Manor Jr. and application to other four-year colleges. And how, double-indeed, was I to know that the handsome cashier in the Hanover bookstore was Kathy Shapleigh, Jack Shapleigh's daughter, late of Wells College and Colgate.
Imagine all that: three '44 doctors' daughters ail toiling away in Hanover. It's a small round- the-girdled ...
It's Alumni Fund time. Be kind to Dartmouth and Ezz Hale - they're both nice.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
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