1936
It is with the deepest regret that we record the passing of Myron Clark, who died February 26 after an illness of three weeks. Further information is given in the In Memoriam section written by Norm Allen, Mike's sophomore roommate. To his wife Clara and family the Class extends its deepest sympathy.
Quite by accident we spotted Bob Keller a couple of weeks ago in the Statler Office Building in Boston, just south of a phone booth from which he was emerging with a determined but prosperous air. Bob is president of his own plywood processing and wholesaling business in Manchester, N. H., and reported plenty of activity therein ... not so much that he couldn't sneak off, with the help of the scheduled airlines, for a three-week vacation in old Mexico; in fact the boy gets around generally, having also recently run into Roe Thompson, in, of all places, Montreal. . .. According to spies at the Hanover Inn, fisherman-author Dan Holland stepped out of his favorite stream in Quechee longenough to put up a couple of days at that noted hostelry. We never fail to get a boot out of recalling during undergraduate days how 01' Dan would settle his nerves just before an hour exam by getting out the waders and a good rod and heading for a brook just to cast, catch 'em and throw 'em back—claimed it relaxed him. Might not be a bad formula to-day for some of us who continue the fruitless chase of ulcers and the elusive buck!
Our old roommate has a shingle hanging in front of his place of business which reads: "Rum, Gin, Cyder, Buscuit, Tobacco, HorseBaiting—R. Treadway, Prop."... which, of course, somewhat inadequately describes operations at the Publick House in Sturbridge, Mass. You can't laugh off the fact that the guy knows the hotel business, though, when you realize that Dick copped the contract for the conversion and subsequent management of Arden House, 40-year-old, 96-room mansion on top of a mountain, given by W. Averill Harriman to Columbia University to serve as home for the recently established American Assembly. The Assembly, as you may know, is a project to which Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia's president, contributes his active leadership. Dick, at this writing, is flipping his wig making sure that the first American Assembly, slated for May 21-26 goes off without a hitch since there and then will meet the top brains in the nation to discuss the relationship of the U. S. to Western Europe. Yes, add the conference quarters and living facilities for 100 Assembly participants to the mounting list of personal responsibilities of the smooth working president of Treadway Inns.
While in Springfield, Mass., this week, we attended the Springfield Sales Managers' Cub meeting as a guest of Al Gibney, active and enthusiastic leader in the movement... to our great surprise and pleasure we found AndySchmidt also a member in good standing; sat next to Andy through the supper session where we couldn't help comment that the Schmidt frame was. beginning to give a bit under the strain of three square beers per diem to which Andy only countered with the phrase that he was happy as the proverbial mallard with his pedal in the mire and that things were fine at the Hamden Savings Bank where he manages the Personal Loan Department.
Sloppy filing, to which we must confess on more occasions than one, results in a delay in passing on good news despite our best intentions. We refer particularly to Bill Niss' happy announcement that he and Abby selected a new sister Sarah Hall on 15 February for young Bobby. We hope the opportunity will present itself soon to take Bill up on his invite to look in on him when next we get up into the potato country where he is Comptroller of the Bath Iron Works, currently turning out among other things, destroyers for the Navy.... Bob Ingersoll, balding joint specialist and surgeon among the bones admits to a continued active interest in the art of selfdefense. Pursuing same at a local fight emporium, Doc reports running into Nashua's Harry Coronis and son Lewis at the MurphyRindone go. . . . Another fight enthusiast, caught in the act, is Ben Moyer, Media Manager of the Ruthrauf and Ryan Advertising Agency in New York City; we spotted the photo appearing in this month's column in the April 23 issue of Advertising Age, to whom we are indebted for permission to reprint.
When last heard from Art Toan was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, with Price-Waterhouse; however, a recent address change supplied us by the College indicates Art is back in the U.S.A. again with a Leonia, N. J„ address....
What's the scoop, Art? ... When the little red flag is up on a box on RFD i out of Silver Springs, Md., you know there's mail for DeanWorcester, physicist with the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D. C.... Late word from the north country has popular physician and southern gentleman Jesse Gait still ministering to the ailments of the fortunate populace of the Dover, N. H., area.
While it's several years now since Ted Olson hung up the spikes and glove, the old fireballer is back in organized ball—this time as a manager... of the Quincy team in the Midget League now getting under way in Massachusetts in great style. Ted tells us the idea is fostered by the two big leagues and a leading national rubber company; youngsters 8-12 make up the teams and players in this age range are "bought" following the managers' observations of their performance in "spring training." Each manager gets something like 3600 points with which to bid for material from the pool. The local teams are actually underwritten expense-wise by local merchants and Ted's team is the financial responsibility of the Granite Trust Company. Eighteen games constitute the regular season and play-offs follow between the various leagues of which 32 have been franchised in Massachusetts. Sounds like a swell way for a guy to contribute his time to the kids coming up. . . . Appleton-Century's New England educational representative, Cy Greene, reports he's still making the circuit of the colleges and schools in these parts, which leaves to his good wife, on occasion, the problem of straightening out any argumentations arising among Russell, eight, Barbara, four, and Margaret, two, when he's away from the Greene homestead in Rockland, Mass.
Just a word on the Alumni Fund .. . only this year, many of us have taken a square look at our own records and found that while our past performance has been consistent it has at the same time been under-nourished as to quantity based on our real ability to contribute. Hats off to Pete Fitzherbert and his swell gang of assistants for putting the focus on the problem and the finger on us when we may have slipped against what should be par for the course of a class after 15 years out.
FOLLOWING THE FIGHT: Ben Moyer '36 (I) takes in the Golden Gloves Eastern Championships with fellow executives from the Ruthrauf and Ryan advertising agency, New York.
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