1944
Nothing footballish about these October notes. Too early. It is only September 4 as they are being written. From scatbacks to behemoths, from linebackers to tightends, the Green Hopefuls have just arrived back on campus to begin practice for that manly autumn art of precision and collision.
I called that trombonist and Barbary Coaster par excellance, Norm Simpson, in Syracuse: "How the heck are you?" "Up and about," he said, "and able to take nourishment." Hail and hearty, Norm is still in outdoor advertising and fighting "the battle of the billboards," as he put it. He maintains a balance via a wonderful old summer camp in the Adirondacks - built in 1920, 18 acres, 400 feet of lake frontage, "our refuge every weekend" - with wife Betty, and daughters Debbie, Anne, and Libbie.
Our friendly coal executive in New London, Conn., Nat "Babe" Spitz, added to his many extra-curricular activities this past year: elected chairman of the Friends of Mitchell College, and elected an official in the Nasson (Maine) College Parents Council. He is also on the advisory board of the Hartford National Bank & Trust and is co-chairman of the annual federated appeal of the Jewish Community Council of Greater New London.
Another newly chosen bank director is BobMcLaughry - the Hanover Bank and Trust Company. A realtor and appraiser, Bob has served as president of the N.H. Association of Realtors and the Vermont Multiple Listing Service. And, hoping to keep out of trouble, he is also a director of the National Association of Realtors, dean of three years on the Superior Court Condemnation Commission, nine years as Hanover selectman, five years on the Planning Board and he is a member of the board of tax assessors. He also keeps in flying trim and is active with the Civil Air Patrol.
And how can we leave banks without reporting that Dave Nutt has moved from advertising after a millenium or two to vice president, marketing and customer relations, of the United States Trust Company at 45 Wall Street, NYC. He, Grace, and the last of their kids continue to make toast and mow lawns in Scotch Plains, N.J.
If you've been the careful readers of this publication you should be, you will have read several pages earlier an Alumni Album item on marine biologist, oceanographer, ichthyologist, and shark expert, Dick Backus. With just about everyone jawing about Jaws, it is no surprise that Dick was interviewed and photographed at length in the July 15 issue of People Magazine. And if you want to know more about the subject before you go for a dip in the briny, why not pick up a copy of The Natural History ofSharks (Lippincott) which Dick co-authored this past year.
A recent Marine journal reveals that Maj. Gen. Adolph Schwenk, director of the facilities and services division, HQMC, was to become director, J-3, U.S. European Command, this past July. No further details.
If you don't subscribe to Field Trial RetrieverNews (how come you don't?), you won't have caught the fact that Ham Rowan, the American Kennel Club's director of field trials, was in Jackson Hole, Wyo., for the June 17-20 National Amateur Retriever Trials (the winner, you won't be surprised to hear, was Mister Nifty ex Don's Ginny Soo).
Whit Brown's gracious wife Leonor filled in for her busy husband: "After 25 years of family practice in Needham, Whit closed his office and has gone back to teach at the U. of Mass. Medical School, in the Family Practice program. Currently, he is in charge of curriculum and recruitment of faculty for the Residency Program. We have moved to Jamestown, R. I., where we have had a second home for many years." Nice.
For those of you at this moment tapping your cigarettes or cigars in a Ray Zrike 25th Reunion Royal Worcester Porcelain ashtray, you will want to know that Ray left Royal Wo Po last spring and is now vice president and general manager of The Kenton Collection, the wholesale division of Georg Jensen, Inc. The division is the exclusive distributor of Kosta Boda glassware, Georg Jensen, Cartier, and Mark Cross merchandise. Sounds like Ray ought to be the answer to all your early Christmas shopping problems...
Nice to get the word that Bill Seekins, a vice president with the company, has been appointed general manager of the forms division of the Courier Corporation, a national printer of forms, telephone directories, and books, in Lowell, Mass. Bill joined Courier in 1953 and has held various management positions in the forms division as director of customer engineering and most recently as manager of product development. Bill and Dorothy have three children.
Two Tuck School visiting entrepeneurs: KarlMusser, in Hanover in February to take part in a pension workshop (he's with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.), and Harry Carey, president of the Briston County Trust Co., in Seekonk, Mass., here in June to share his banking expertise.
A handful of summer marriages that have come to our notice: Ja Densmore's Jay '74; Bruce Thomson's Tommy '75; and HardwickCaldwell's Hardwick III.
Other chips off the block: Obstetrician JohnBaker's Maura '77 elected to Green Key; DickMayberry's Rick '75 was a member of the Ledyard Canoe Club's trip from Hanover to the ocean in May; and Jim Browning's Jim '78 won first and shared second prize in last spring's seventh annual Kiewit Computation Center art contest.
Sad news: Pete Bruch, Cleveland physician, died in July after a long session of cancer. An obituary to follow; and meanwhile the deepest sympathies of the Class and friends to his widow and children. Horace Blood's father, Dr. Robert O. Blood '13, Governor of N.H. from 1941 to 1945, died August 4 at 87.
That's it. Blessings.
Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755
Treasurer, 815 East Schantz Ave. Dayton, Ohio 45419
