1927
Probably we shouldn't mention it, but the weekend of May 15 is coming up in a couple of days and brings with it the greatest compensation for your long-suffering scribe. To be more specific, about two days hence BrotherCummings will arrive in Boston, and we will get into the old chariot, praying that it will hold together until we get over those winding, rolling roads to Hanover. The occasion—the annual meetings of Class Agents, Treasurers, Secretaries and Twenty-fifth Reunion Gift Chairmen. It ought to be just about perfect up in that country now. Meetings, sure, but they give you a little time off. Enough to see that Yale baseball game, or play a round of golf, maybe. At any rate, you're in Hanover and that's what counts. Hope Georgie Howell willbe there and in fact we wish you all could be.
A fine long letter from Don Megathlin readsas follows:
I am coming out of long hibernation to give you a few news scoops for whatever they may be worth. Having only just caught up on the ALUMNI MACJAZWE of three months ago, I was amazed to find that I was employed by the Telephone Company again. (Eds. note: If inaccurate reporting will always break a ten-year hibernation you too may soon be amazed to read about yourself and what you are doing in this column.) Since 1943, I have been with Kendall Mills, Cotton Textile Finishing, in Walpole, Mass., Charlie Gibson's former company, only Charlie was working in South Carolina. I am doing Market Research which to the uninitiated includes such things as new product evaluation, getting consumer opinions, outlines of salesmen's territories, methods of digging out prospects for products, studies in distribution, etc.
"Last year we bought a little white Cape Cod house in Walpole, so you are now not the only country squire in the class. One sprout now in the sixth grade is finding that, skiing is more fun than eating and the hill in back of the house with all the other kids in the neighborhood has sometimes looked like the golf course on a winter Sunday afternoon. To any who come traveling this way a cordial invitation is extended to make us a visit Harry Benson, who lives in another part of town also works in the same office and I see him every few days. Incidentally, he is just as good at the piano as he ever was. I also saw him traveling on snowshoes this winter, like a veteran from Alaska.
I am enclosing a clipping from Printers' Ink of February 27 1948, anent Richard BishopMather s recent address to the Erie-Niagara County Bankers Association. Apparently Printers' Ink editors thought very highly of the speaker's remarks. Years ago on Glee Club trips, Dick and I bunked together and I remember a very enjoyable visit at his home. Maybe you could stir your imagination to start a collection of Wah-Hoo-Wah's for classmates m the news such as for Dick Mather's talk, Uick Lougee s article in a recent issue of Time etc. Incidentally, did you know that Dick Lougee's boy, Gerry, suffered a very serious brain concussion, having been struck by an automobile, and that he was m the hospital for several months. You will be glad to know that he is now back home much improved, but still in for a long siege of recuperation.
"Now back to hibernation for another ten years.
We had indirectly heard of Gerry Lougee's most unfortunate accident, and are extremely happy to learn that he is on the road to recovery.
Don also mentions having lunch with PatPartridge at a meeting of the American Management Association in New York.
From the aforementioned Printers' Ink, we quote the following interesting introduction:
'ln a short editorial like this, we couldn't begin to do justice to Richard Bishop Mather's recent address to the Erie-Niagara County Bankers Assn., Buffalo, N. Y. Mr Mather, president of the Buffalo Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Assn., spoke on How to Sell Banks and Banking to the Public Though no banker, he has qualified himself to speak on the subject through study of banks and banking methods throughout the nation "
Our thanks to Nick Nichols for the following report of the New York Alumni Banquet held at the Hotel Commodore, April 14:
"We were fortunate in that Tom Hession had a suite of rooms for the preliminaries, that that room included a piano, and that Nat Morey was in town from Buffalo. As you can imagine, we got off addition to the above and myself, the following were present: Rudy Preuss, JackShaw Norm Swift, Jack McQuade. Joe Russakof,Stu Ensinger, Al Lagacy, Don O'Hara, Art Keleher, Joe Creamer, Gene Sullivan, Paul PiersonJack Greener, Don McCall, Roy Dreher, Ed Marston, Bill St. Amant, Prank Cloran, Sam WormserHerb Rubin, Van Ingham, and Tom Gillespie. In spite of the good turn-out, we did not win the loving cup."
Bill St. Amant is living at the Dartmouth Club in New York.
The New York Herald Tribune of April 6, carried a very good picture of Jack Thee's over the following story:
John D Thees Jr., for the past three years in charge of department store advertising for TheNew York He,raid Tribune, has been appointed retail advertising manager, it was announced yesterday by Robert F. Buggein, advertising director of the paper He succeeds Emerson T. Dye, who will henceforth concentrate on department-store advertising in the same department.
Mr. Thees came to The Herald Tribune in 1945, after serving for three years with the advertising staff of The World Telegram, prior to which time he was with The Daily News for thirteen years. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1927 and lives in New Rochelle with his wife and two children."
George Friede, Portland, Oregon, attorney, is a candidate for delegate to the Democratic national convention from the state at large. A recent issue of The Portland Journal carlied his picture with an article listing his convention aims. We trust we will not be called a dirty republican, anti-new dealer and an isolationist if we don't relist them here. George is a former president of the Jackson Club of Oregon and president of the Young Democrats of Multnomah County.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mix and family were guests at the Hanover Inn during February. Neal Dowe was also a guest at the Inn in April.
We have a new address for Frank George at 4 Park St., Concord, New Hampshire. Does this mean that he has moved his law practice from Dover to Concord? Asher Margolies now lives on Loudon Street, in Norwalk, Conn. Latest address for Dick Mooney is 1214 43rd St., Des Moines, lowa. Hope he lights somewhere long enough to let us know how he is and what he is doing.
A new address for Bill Satterfield at Pleasant Hill Rd., Owens Mills, Maryland. We assume that means he has left his work at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Plant of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Evan Wilder is working in Chicago. AlByrne is a Major in the Air Force with the Air Materiel Command and is now stationed in Dayton, Ohio. Joe Hill lives in West Nyack, New York.
Dick Swartzbaugh is still practicing law in Toledo, Ohio, with offices at 1304 Toledo Trust Building. Hank Vietor is still living in Minneapolis, where he works for one of the large oil companies.
Len Dunn has recently moved to Catonsville, Maryland. Major Charlie Townsend of the U. S. Air Force is stationed at Presidio of Monterey, California, and his address is: Box 204, South Laguna, California.
Don't forget that this is the last month for the Alumni Fund. George Howell and his hard-working corps of assistants have spent many long hours trying to give our class the best record ever. If you haven't already done so, send that contribution now!
NAMED BANK VICE-PRESIDENT: J. Brougham Wallace Jr. '28 has been appointed a vice-presi-dent of Guaranty Trust Company of New York. He is associated with the banking department group that covers New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass. Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman^ Box 101, Westfield, N. J. Class Agent,120 S. LaSalle St., Rm. 1845, Chicago, III.
