1948
Congratulations to the latest new author in our class. Insurance man Howard Hilton's first work of fiction, a most exciting and plausible spellbinder entitled The Endless Tunnel, published by Tower Books in paperback, is going on sale as this is written in November as a featured item in book stores around the nation. The locale of the story is one which many a '48 knows very well: the Callahan Tunnel under Boston harbor between downtown Boston and the island where Logan Airport is placed, a tunnel where many a horrendous traffic jam has occurred, much to the impatience and sometimes concern - if not downright fear - of the unfortunate participants. The story concerns an explosion in traffic in the tunnel and the chain-reaction ordeal of stark terror faced by the 23 people who are trapped thereby in its depths, perhaps to be entombed by a cave-in. We're told by the publisher that Howie did all the research, mostly in his spare time, and that the result is worthy of Ludlow, McCullough, etc. The price is only $2.25, so pick up a copy and let Howie know how you liked it by dropping him a note at P.O. Box 23148, Tampa, Fla. 33622.
Howie, with a background in retail-store advertising, formed his own Hilton Advertising Agency, Inc. in 1958 and has handled almost all kinds of advertising since then. One particularly interesting assignment involved the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska, a task which kept him in the 40th state for considerable periods of time while that project was developed and built. Getting back to the present, he writes about a friend and fellow resident of Tampa: "I see Dave Kadyk fairly often . . . he's doing just great and looks very fit, indeed."
Returning to Beantown, we were proud to see one of the long-time residents of the area featured in an article entitled "Technology: Support Offered to Inventors" by Peter J. Schuyten in the New York Times. The subject was Walt Cairns, vice president in charge of Arthur D. Little's inventions-management program in the international management consulting firm's head office in Cambridge. Walt's group screens high-technology inventions brought to them. If the invention meets certain standards as to proprietary value, marketability, and cost factors, A.D.L. helps the inventor commercialize and license the item in return for a share of the royalty revenue. Some of the inventions thus developed to date have been of great use to mankind, particularly the process for making synthetic penicillin. A tip of the hat, Walt, with the hope you and Mary Lane and the family still get to Franconia and the Notch when you want to.
Anyone who watches the legal profession will have noted the contributions to the practice of law and that profession's service to all of us made by Dick Donahue of Lowell. Dick got his law degree from Boston University in 1951 and has been a practicing attorney with important civic responsibilities ever since. He was special assistant to President John F. Kennedy in Washington from 1960 to 1963, has long been active in the American Bar Association, and was honored by the Massachusetts branch of the A.B.A. with its Gold Medal Award after serving as president and vice president. He has just been re-elected by A.B.A. members from his home state to represent them in the A.B.A.'s central policy-making House of Delegates and has been appointed to chair the A.B.A.'s special commission on a National Institute of Justice. Nancy and the other eleven members of the Donahue household can justly be proud of their old man.
Enjoyed talking to Walt Friend. He and Cynthia and the family live on Boston's south shore at Duxbury where many other '48s occasionally pass on their way to the Cape. Pete Betts stopped in some time ago and they had recent contact with George Michalek who with his wife is now in the import/export business. One of the Friend boys, Stephen, is now a student at Dartmouth. Walt tells the story of another son, Bruce, who last summer sat next to a young lady in the Young & Rubicam office in New York who talked every day or so over the phone with her fellow worker, Moose Concannon, an old friend of Walt's, when the latter was here in Houston.
By the time you read this we will know whether Coach Joe Yukica was able to retrieve Dartmouth's 100th season of football by winning the final games against Princeton. (How many times has that final game between the Green and Princeton decided the Ivy gridiron championship? Not likely this year. We alumni need to help Joe find more players who meet our alma mater's qualifications.
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