1943
Here we are again ensconced between 1942 and 1944 notes in your favorite magazine. We trust that all of you had a pleasant summer and were able to spend a few weeks either at the seashore or in the mountains.
The big news this month is the announcement of the 10th reunion committee. (Egads, is it almost ten years since we became safe at last in the wide, wide world?) Maury Dampier has kindly consented to be 10th reunion chairman and three others have accepted his invitations to help out. They are Bob Costello and Kelly Coffin in New York and Paul Young in Hanover. Although you may still be recuperating from your 1952 vacation, we hope that you will all give top priority to thoughts about being on the campus once again next June. This is particularly true now of those who either have to come quite a distance or must work out a vacation schedule with the boys in the office. Damp, Bob and Kelly met at the Dartmouth Club in New York in gust to formulate plans, more details of which will be forthcoming in this space in future months. (Any one with any bright reunion ideas is asked to contact Kelly at Conn. Mutual Life Ins. Cos., 6 East 45th St., N.Y.C., 17.)
Before we go any farther mention should be made that the keeper of the class bank book, Stan Pridcly, has left the quiet of old Boston to move to the hustle of Dallas in the heart of you know what. There he is general manager of the Industrial Life Insurance Cos. Stan wrote us enthusiastically about a Texas trip he took a while back but we didn't know that he was THAT, enthusiastic!
Just about the next biggest news (usually the biggest news of summer) are the '43 weddings which have taken place since our June column. The list includes three grooms whose engagements have been chronicled previously, Bing Donaldson, Jim Gilfillan and Bob Gray. The two of whom we have our first news are Rosey Thorn and Dr. Harry Bishop (for further word of the men in white, see below). Bing and Anne Link were married May 17 in the Scarsdale (N. Y.) Congregational Church with a reception at the Scarsdale Woman's Club. Pres Brooks was best man. Bing's bride is with the public relations department of General Foods Corp. Jim was wed July 26 to Elizabeth Wurtz at the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, Millburn, N. J. Following a New England wedding trip which included a Hanover stop, both bride and groom returned to their work at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, N. J. Bob and Anne Skinner were married May 17 in Holy Family Church, New Rochelle, N. Y. Their reception was at the Larchmont Shore Club. Bob is a CAB attorney in Washington.
Rosey was married May 31 to Marilyn Lois Brackney of Brookston, Ind., in the First Baptist Church, Hollywood, Fla. Marilyn attended Indiana and Purdue Universities. Both she and Rosey are employed in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he is southern representative of the Premier Automore Cos. of Cleveland. Harry was wed June 1 in Boston to Katharine Thayer of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Harry's bride is a Wellesley alumna.
To round out this month's report on affairs of the heart we have engagement announcements involving John Keefe and JimElleman. John was betrothed in August to Ann O'Shea of Douglaston, Queens, N. Y. Ann is a graduate of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart and is an associate merchandising editor of Vogue magazine. John is now using the legal skill he acquired at Yale on behalf of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. in Gotham. Jim was to be married September 20 to Shirley Wallace Nelson of East Orange, N. J., an Upsala alumna. He is with Chemical Bank & Trust Cos., New York.
Passing on to the medical fraternity, we have learned that Glenn Behringer has completed a five-year resident training in surgery at Mass. General in Boston and is now both assistant to Dr. Arthur Allen of Boston and surgeon in the surgical clinic at M.I.T. Glenn's current home address is on Beacon Hill, 76 Chestnut Street. Berger Carlson has completed his residency in surgery at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, and has opened an office at 4 North State St. in his home town of Concord, N. H., for the practice of medicine and surgery. Part of his training in Chicago was on a fellowship of the American Cancer Society. Cliff Baldwin, a major in the Army Medical Corps, retained to the states from the Far Eastern theater in May. Cliff served as anesthesiologist at the 8063 Medical Surgical Hospital in Korea and is a charter member of the 38th Parallel Medical Society, a group of doctors representing 11 nations with troops in Korea. He spent part of his leave in Hanover and was due to report at the hospital in Camp Atterbury, Ind. Other M.D.s vacationing at the fnn last spring were Forbes Delaney, DocFielding, Gerry Shattuck and William Simonds. (Two others seen rocking on the Inn porch were Bill Seidman of NYC and JimWells of Bristol, R. I.)
Latest '43er to take the Hippocratic oath is Bruce Anderson of Larchmont, N. Y., who was among 70 graduates of the medical college at the University of Rochester in June. He is now residing at 300 Longwood Ave., Boston.
In the educational world we find that JoeHirschberg, formerly a research assistant at the University of Wisconsin, was one of 240 awarded Fulbright scholarships for study in France during 1952-53. He plans to study physics at the University of Paris. Williams faculty member Drex Godrey took part last spring at the Workshop for World Understanding in Pittsfield, Mass. He was one of four to discuss, "How Communism, Imperialism, Nationalism and Economic Forces Affect American Foreign Policy in Europe."
And now a roundup for as much news as we have room for:
John Goode has joined the eastern sales staff of Town and Country magazine in New York. Bus Mosbacher won all kinds of races last summer with his yacht Susan, something he has been doing for quite some time. Out in Cleveland Bill Jones has been named assistant to the acting manager of the electronics division of Thompson Products. Bill started with TP in the stock department after he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1948. Later he worked as a budgetary control engineer in the staff industrial engineering section. (Grinding machines for Thompson Products to turn out jet engine parts are made here in Worcester. Adv.) Yale & Towne Publicist RodWolbarst has moved with wife Lee, daughter Susan and son Tommy from Mamaroneck, N. Y., to Rowayton, Conn. Business-wise, Rod is at the Chrysler Bldg. Dave Bortz has departed from Cleveland for Chicago where he is district manager for the F. W. Dodge Corp.
Paper Salesman Paul Enz has moved from Tempe to Tucson, Ariz., and Giants Promoter Chuck Feeney from New York to Scarsdale. Burt Hooker is a molder inspector for a Boston plastics company. Frank Loesch, one-time assistant professor of aerodynamics for the Brazilian Air Ministry in Rio de Janeiro, is now getting his mail in Redondo Beach, Calif. No further details, unfortunately.
Bob Pinto, sales representative for Mergenthaler Linotype Cos., has moved back from Dallas to Brooklyn. Dave White, formerly teaching eccy students at the University of Vermont, is now chief investigator for the House Small Business Committee and is residing in Takoma Park, Md. Two employes of the Providence (R. I.) Journal-Bulletin also moved recently. Herb Harrigan, a Journal copy editor, is living in Warwick and BobWilliams, a reporter at the Warren office, spends evenings and week ends in Barrington.
Whew! This gets us off to a flying start for another year. Better close now to give '44 some space. See you first of next month about the time the frost is on the pumpkin.
Secretary, 12 Berkshire St., Worcester, Mass. Treasurer, 6435 Bandera Ave., Dallas, Texas
