1944
We like writing these little class notes, we really do, with all of their insignificance and banality and then, hopefully, some nice things, and touches, we hope, of affection. Most of all affection.
Where do you put sorrow? At the end, the beginning, somewhere in the middle? I don't know, but I can't help put at the beginning this month's touch of sorrow, the death December 26 at a ticket counter in Paris of Cy Thompson, Rank-Xerox representative for Benelux and Scandinavia, stationed out of London, husband of Phyllis, father of newly married Chris and Noel '74. The family had gone as a group from London HQ to a family rendezous in Paris at Cy's sister's, and the Thompsons were returning Boxing Day to London. Cy went to check the tickets and fell over dead of a heart attack. Personal and class sympathies to Phyllis and the boys.
It has been a terrible season for '44 departures. In the last seven months: Bill Brewster, Don McCreery, Fran Murphy, Paul Carroll (all doctors), Ted Reynolds, and now Cy Thompson.
A good note from Phil Puchner, engineer and ski instructor in Ketchum. Idaho, and father of Chris ’75. “Elected to the Ketchum City Council this fall on record of three years on planning and zoning commissions. Lines are drawn between expansionists, preservationists, and slow growers. It will be a fight for us slow growers, from both sides."
Hard to keep educator Art Kiendl out of the limelight: cited in a recent Michigan publication as one of the "action people" in that state (he's president of the Cranbrook Educational Community) along with a plethora of other VIPs.
In December we noted that Werner Milts was a professor of government at Beloit College and that led me to check on the two other '44 Mills boys (if not Mills Brothers). Dave Mills, out in Shaker Heights, is still vice president, sales, of The Mills Company, a family affair which manufacturers building materials. He's on the road most of the time, he says, but occasionally gets to buckle on a ski or swing the mashie niblick - he wouldn't reveal his golf handicap.
Nor surprisingly, Dave recently had lunch in Houston with another builder. Jim Towson, who is president of the Interior Construction Co., which specializes in gypsum board and acoustical materials.
Then, stockbroker Fred Mills tells us that he made the switch from Dominick & Dominick to W.E. Hutton back in November, 1970, the same time Ralph Bogan went that route. The Millses try to vacation in a different place every year - Aspen, the Caribbean, Mexico, et al. Son Fred III is working for the Chicago Tribune before returning to Dennison College; Melissa is a freshman at Connecticut College for Women; and Chris is a sophomore at New Trier High.
The Millses see Wendall Clark from time-to-time (he is v.p. of Samuel Harris Co. in Northbrook, Ill., machine manufacturers), and are yearly guests at Jack Stephenson's cottage in northern Michigan. Jack is v.p. at Columbus Auto Parts in. of all places, Columbus - Ohio.
Fred also said that Bogan had spent the Christmas holidays at his Vail condominium and would give you one guess as to whom he had shared toasts with New Year's Eve: who else but our latest Veep, Gerry Ford!
Another fellow who keeps wearing out suitcases is Ben Jones, president of Monarch Life Insurance in Springfield, Mass. He, too, logs a couple of million miles each year, criss-crossing the U.S. and related land masses. Son Doug was recently appointed assistant business administrator at the Utica State Hospital; daughter Susan, fresh out of Smith, is looking Florida over: and Nancy, 19, is at Baypath Jr. College in Longmeadow.
Ben tells of seeing John Billington, v.p.-marketing for the Woolrich Woolen Mills in Pa., check book in hand. Seems both of John's daughters, Katherine and Lucinda, were married this past year and he is still paying the bills.
If some of our troops spend most of their time on the road, Dick Kanter spends most of his on the telephone. He joined Ajax Electric Motor Corp. last fall and sells the company's motors, compressors, transformers, generators, etc. from his home base in Rochester, N.Y. to customers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Wife Ann is an assistant buyer in a women's specialty shop, while son Lloyd is a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rick is a high school sophomore with a heavy interest in things audio visual.
Orthopaedic surgeon Jim Locke in Utica is the busy half of a two-man partnership and says he'd be more than happy to have a couple of others join in so that the work-load could be lessened some. He escapes to Florida for a respite every spring with wife Elizabeth and sons Bill. 11, and Peter, 7, and also gets in seasonal dabs of hunting, fishing and cross-country skiing.
In Hanover in December was public health Dr. Bob Lindsay as a member of Dartmouth's Native American Visiting Committee, a group of alumni organized to advise and assist Indian students at the College (he has worked on a Navajo reservation and served as associate director of the Indian Health Service); and in Washington he changed HEW public health hats. He is now in the office of Regional Operations, which coordinates and trouble- shoots among HEW's ten regional offices around the country. Married son John is in finance in San Diego; married daughter Jo-Ann lives in Silver Springs; married daughter Christine was just married and is a senior at the U. of Maryland; Kathy is a sophomore at Lenoir-Rhyne College; and Susan, 15, is in high school.
If any of you saw in December a determined-looking Datsun stationwagon moving along steadily between California and North Carolina and containing two adults, a boy, two dogs and 34 footlockers it was undoubtedly the MalcolmMcLouds - Boog, Lydia, Pablo, Lassie and Bob Son of Battle. After a 10-year stint as West Coast sales manager for J. H. Day Co. (mfgr. mixing and food processing equipment), Boog was moved back east to Charlotte to continue more of the same in that area. Brings him nearer his mother in Scarsdale and sister in NY City, and Lydia nearer her parents in Greenville, S.C. They escaped from Cuba several years ago.
If you ail had your heads screwed on right you were glued to the Tube in December to watch Jay McMullen's CBS documentary "The Corporation," which he wrote, directed, produced and appeared in.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419
