1944

We start off with another apology, this one to John Bird, very much a resident of Mountain Brook, Alabama. Back in February we committed the unpardonable by saying there was only one '44 resident in Alabama - LamarAger in Birmingham. Not so, not so. John chided us gently for trying to make him a nonperson, as did Francis H. Bird '09, John's father in Cincinnati, who wrote to say that there was not only John '44 in Mountain Brook, but John T. Bird '77 on the Hanover Plain.

So there you are: an early Bird, a Mountain Brook Bird, and a Hanover Bird, all present and accounted for.

From Mountain Brook to Mountain View: Walter Burke, domiciled in Greenwich, has announced his resignation in May as director and chairman of the board of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. in Mountain View, Calif. "I'm stepping off a handful of other boards this spring," he said. "My hope is to find something a little different than the investment manager board of director activities that I have worked at for over 20 years. I am open to other business opportunities, but also the possibilities in non-profit organizations or perhaps even in government."

If you've been asking yourself what the country's Bicentennial celebration would be without Wiley Hitchcock, the answer is that it wouldn't have as much good music. Wiley is one of several prominent musicians and scholars preparing a special Bicentennial Musical Celebration packet which will be sent to 30,000 schools and colleges. Each packet will have complete arrangements for band, orchestra, and chorus, with 70 minutes of historic American music and 30 minutes of newly-commissioned contemporary works. Wiley is professor of music and director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College.

Word just in from Binghamton, N.Y. tells us that Dave Patterson, president and treasurer of Binghamton Steel and Fabricating Co., Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of the American Institute of Steel Construction, an organization representing 330 firms in the U.S.

There was no mistaking Olive and HarryColwell, (Chase Manhattan Bank), sitting there in Lou's restaurant in late February, just back from a brisk four miles of cross-country skiing. They were up vacationing and seeing their kids, Harry IV '78, and Sally, who will graduate from Dartmouth Med School in June. She must have a talent or two: there are over 3,000 applications each year for the 64 Med School openings' Another Colwell daughter, Linda, is getting her MA in child development at Cornell, while her Vet School husband helps babysit on their 6month-old-daughter.

If your subscription to Paper Age (The Voice of the Paper Industry) has run out, be sure to check the March 1974 issue in the local library for a nice long feature on the 90th anniversary of the Gilman Paper Company, of which HowardGilman has been chairman of the board since 1967. Howard's grandfather, Isaac Gilman, founded the company in Fitzdale, Vt. (later re-named Gilman) and his father ran it until his death in 1944. The company moved to St. Mary's, Ga., in 1939 and today owns in excess of 220,000 acres, all of it under scientific management. It plants, for example, at least six million seedlings every year.

It took me a couple of days to get through to John Rexford in Concord: he was busy out in the woods surveying. "I'm not much for getting into print," he said, "although I'm moved to speak up at city council meetings from time to time." John, you remember, frequently biked from Concord to Hanover as an undergraduate.

By the time you read this, Rosemary and Jack Carroon (insurance broker) will have given up country living in Rye for an apartment on East 71st St., NY City. "Kids are gone, why commute?" he said. Young Rosemary getting married in the fall; young Jack a real estate broker in N.Y.; young Meg with Time/Life; young Dick at Roanoke College; and young Tom in prep school.

A few quick' items on the younger set: DickHowe's Dave '76, one of the College's top gymnasts, broke his ankle so badly in a meet that he was not only out for the season but also lost a semester's schoolwork. Tommy Donnelly's (and the late Jim's) daughter Barbara '77 was one of the finalists for the newly established Kay Brock Award for the outstanding female member of the freshman class.

Dave Nutt's Ty '74 is in Hollywood working for the "Chico and the Man" show. And way back when we didn't call Tommy Douglas "The Wedge" for nothing; his son Paul '72 and wife have just made him the grandfather of a boy weighing in at 9 lbs. 9Vi oz.

The Newsletter has already brought out the sad news of John Megee's death from lung cancer. Our deep sympathy to his wife Jerry and their three children.

Come to Reunion June 9-11. It's that simple. Just be there.

That's it. Blessings.

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