1950
March may have crept in like a lamb, but, full of retribution, the Winter of '77 was still reluctant to abdicate. She simply waited a few weeks before unleashing her final furies: deep cold, high winds, torrential rains and floods, and snow. The forsythia bloomed prematurely in a lulling warmth only to bow their yellow bells beneath the chilling snows of early spring.
But spring is come, and solicitations from the North Country abound. The voice of Head Agent Joel Leavitt is heard in the land.
Five successful years as a member of the San Francisco sales staff led to Bill Kane's promotion to associate manager of that office by Newsweek. Before joining the magazine in 1966, Bill had been associate media director for N.W. Ayer in Philadelphia. His move to the city of the golden gate came in 1972. Bill and Peg have a brood of five tucked away in Piedmont up in the hills across the bay.
The news from Omaha is that Roger Gaylord has been named vice prexy by Bozell & Jacobs, an advertising public relations agency Roger started his career in the advertising trade with Proctor & Gamble. He then moved to McCannEriskson and Erwin Wasey before becoming associate media director for Foote, Cone & Belding in Los Angeles in the '60s. He joined B & J as director of media in mid-1972. Roger and Chris live in Bellevue, about 25 miles down the Missouri from Omaha, with their two daughters.
He caught a little of the America's Cup fever in 1974 when he was part of the group that backed Intrepid's great challenge to defend the cup in the waters off Newport, R.I. Now he is hooked. This year Fritz Jewett is a backer of Enterprise, the latest work of art in twelvemeter sailing ships by this country's foremost naval architect, Olin Stephens. Trials pitting Enterprise against Independence will run through the summer. The winner will race in defense of the cup in September.
The C. R. Gibson Company, publisher of memory books, raised the ante and promoted Tony Poltrack to senior vice president of administration and finance. Fresh out of Tuck, Tony joined Price Waterhouse to serve his apprenticeship in New York. After brief stays with the YMCA of greater New York and with Olivetti Research in New Canaan, he joined the publishing firm in the Connecticut countryside in 1961. Tony still lives in his old home town, Stamford, with Arlene and their three sons.
Jim Burnham's roots are firmly set in Paris now that his own business specializing in office buildings is stretching toward its 15th year. He retains a continuing emotional attachment to the North Country. The evidence is his home in Paris, which is close to the Bois de Boulogne, and his vacation home, an excursion in reverse, in northern Vermont. Jim's son is an M.I.T. senior; his daughter tried Brown for a while before returning to France to complete her studies.
Tidbits here and there: Cul Modisette is heading north of the Arctic Circle this summer to run the Altana River' in Alaska. Found in Lima, Peru: Fred Ashworth. It is a long trek from San Lorenzo Village in the Philippines, but John Woodward finally arrived in Westchester after a five-year rest in Los Angeles. After a stint with Oterbourg, Steindier. Houston & Rosen, Austin Tobin has joined the investment house of Delthis Hanover in New York. John Kelly deserted Bergen County, N.J., for Fairfax, Va. Following the migrating birds. John Field and John Williams headed for the warmer climes of Florida in Coral Gables and North Palm Beach, respectively. Noting that every kid he knows either wants to go to Denver, is there, or has just come back, Charlie Abbe speculates that the average age in that Rocky Mountain city can average no more than 22. Last September Sandy and Madge Marson red England and Scotland by car and are already planning a return trip
Parton Keese, writing in the Times on "Stowe Has a Motto: Making Green from White," elated that, "Residents like to tell of a woman who mentioned to a farmer that there seemed to be some peculiar people about. 'Don't worry,' he said, 'most of them will be gone by the end of March.'"
Where, oh where, are: some who stayed in New England's backyard - Bruce Keating or Don Ryan in Massachusetts, and Charlie "Red"Bailey, Stu Kay, or Bill Foster in Connecticut.
And from one' a delated note of sadness: Joseph E. Simone Jr. (Cdr, USNR, ret.) collapsed suddenly and died in his home in April 1976.
Another month has passed and the same message holds: spring will come, and the lilacs. Patience. And peace.
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