1944
Sap was running in New Hampshire, but so was the tide on Long Island Sound and thus we were luckless trying to persuade Skipper John Eaton to forsake the latter for the former. Barnacle John (Blue Duck to many of his undergraduate intimates) is commodore of Character Yachts, Inc. in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and this is his season. When it's caulking-time in the boatyard, he leaves sugaring-time to us saps in the hills.
All this talk of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket seceding from the Union has Gene Zins scratching his ear. But he likes as how he'll still be paying U.S. taxes on his Edgartown second home (the "first" is in Maplewood, N.J.), whatever the off-shore rebels decide. And speaking of rebels, son Jim went to Princeton and is now a doctor; daughter Jacqueline was also a Princetonite (Princetonette?) and is now at Yale Law; and daughter Judy is at Cornell, studying and swimming up a storm.
Word has just come in over the ticker that John Hughes is trading in his oriole for a brave. He has left Harrigan Roller Co. in Baltimore to become southeastern manager of Jomac Roller Co., working out of Atlanta. Jomac manufactures industrial and printing rollers, and John will be doing some rolling himself: he's responsible for the states along the eastern seaboard from Virginia to Florida, plus Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.
Being a regular NY Times reader, it was a pleasure talking to its treasurer, Ralph Bowman, and we came away with a renewed bewonderment at human endurance and stamina. What with the Times newspaper enterprise and with all of its delvings into radio, TV, magazines, books, you-name-it, Ralph hasn't had a vacation in five years. And here we are thinking how nice it would be to have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off after a hard weekend.
Also in the Times, we snagged an eye on a March 13 headline which went: "Steakhouse's Cattle Need Not Fear About Becoming the Main Course." All about Jerry Brody, owner of Gallagher's Steak House (and the Oyster Bar and Rainbow Grill), who has bought a 280-acre farm in up-state Omi, N.Y. For the past year he's been raising prize Black Angus cattle, but not for the groaning board: he just wants to prove that Angus cattle can become a prize breed. Says he has his eye on a bull for his herd that might someday be worth several hundred thousand dollars. And, by gosh, that's a lot of bull....
A candidate for the Medicine-Man-of-the-Year Award has to be Dr. Al Cook down there on Long Island. A couple of years ago he was cited for inventing a neuropacemaker which relieved pain in multiple sclerosis victims, and now he is on the trail of the cause of that dread disease. Al has developed a study which indicates that a persistent measles infection in the small intestine may be the cause of MS.
Those Sylvania light people have consistently seen same. They recently appointed DickOstberg to the newly-created position of vice president - human resources, for the parent company, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.
From Bolivia, a line from Joaquin Aguirre, chairman of the board, Continental Foods Corp. (Panama-London-Ecuador), reveals that his latest book, Guana Maldito, is sold out and into a second printing. Our Spanish being as fluent as our Eskimo, the title comes out "Damned Seafowl Excrement."
No surprise at all, of course, to hear that Annand Bob Conroy's daughter Kim '76 has been awarded one of the prestigious Reynolds Scholarships for study in foreign countries. She will establish a canning factory in Honduras, followed by a study session on the management of cooperatives and the preparation of a manual on organizing and operating a canning factory.
No surprise, either, that Merle Hagen's son Mark has been elected president of the student senate executive board at New England College in Henniker, N.H., an honor that makes him an ex officio member of the 25-person Board of Trustees for the coming year.
Ever get bit by a monkey in Nepal? If you haven't, don't, according to Clint Gardner's wife Libby. The Gardners were jetting around the world in March gathering items for their Shopping International enterprise. During a visit to a Monkey Temple in Katmandu, Lib sat on a log to change the film in her camera. When she put the aluminum foil paper in her pocket instead of throwing it on the ground, a monkey, sitting, near by, upped and bit her on the elbow. The. docs said she'd best get home quick and start rabies shots, and that's where you'll find her today - in Norwich, Vt., taking a series of 21 rabies shots.
Out in Colorado, Dillon to be precise, WemoEpply says: "I'm renting a funky little house on the shore of Lake Dillon, with a balcony view you wouldn't believe, and altitude and air and sunshine that refreshes the soul." He sent a postcard along, and he's not kidding, the view is something.
That's it. Blessings.
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