1930
As the boys on the campus have been saying for the last week or two, "Hi, d'ja have a good summer?" It certainly seems as though many of you must have because of the sizable number of promotions and honors which you received.
For instance, back in July the President of Airwork Atlantic Limited announced the election of Pat Patterson as vice president of this airline which operates all-cargo scheduled flights across the Atlantic. Another announcement along the same line was the appointment of Henry Wood as manager of the W. T. Grant store in Maiden, Mass. Henry has been with this company for some 24 years, having last been located in Worcester, Mass.
Russ Gray hit the columns in two spots recently. First in the New England Telephone Company house organ which reported that he was being transferred from survey engineering to the commercial engineering staff of that company. At about the same time he was given a splendid write-up in the columns of his local Portland, Me., paper as organist for the State Street Congregational Church where Russ directs a choir of 32 mixed voices in addition to his work as organist. He has held this position for the past eight years after having done formal work in liturgical music at Harvard.
One of the most interesting write-ups concerning a member of the Class was telling of Grif Roberts' job as president-treasurer of the New Bedford Stevedoring Corporation. Grif and his brother are given credit for playing a major part in revitalizing the coastwise traffic out of the harbor.
We hope all of you who are stockholders of the Pitney-Bowes noticed that the President's report for the first quarter of this year included a very splendid picture of Fred Bowes in a stockholders' meeting. As director of public relations, Fred was again in the news shortly thereafter in connection with the taking by the Company of an option on another building to handle the increased business.
Anyone who heard Art Browning present the very excellent set of resolutions at the class meeting at reunion would have known that he certainly was really going places. This was confirmed when early in August the New York Life Insurance Company announced his election as Vice President in charge of its Group Insurance Division. Congratulations. The Ohio Banker a month or two back carried a full page advertisement of the Central National Bank of Cleveland featuring the face of none other than Ed Sprankel, assistant vice president. At reunion time, although few of us were aware of it, Ed Downey was celebrating his silver anniversary as principal of the Nashua Junior High School.
Turning now for a moment to a son of '30, Al Dickerson's son Gregory, an 18-year-old senior and honor student at Andover, was recently selected as a winner of one of the General Motors four-year scholarships which he will be using at Harvard this fall. Gregory was among the top contestants in the New Hampshire State French examination of 1951, placed second in the Baird Memorial National Latin Competition in 1954 and was awarded the Catlin Prize for Latin and Greek among Phillips Andover Academy students in 1954.
The number of younger additions to the Class of 1930 continues to increase on the campus at Hanover. This year in the Class of 1959 will he the following, all identifiable by their names: Peter Herz, Fred C. Scribner III, Terrence E. Troy, William H. Truex Jr., Frederick K. Watson Jr., Scott Bloomer, Hal's son, and Wayne G. French, Bud and Celie's boy. Scanning down the list it looks to me as though these fellows will do all right if they can match the performance of their respective dads in college.
On August 20, Miss Sally Birnie, daughter of Walt and May Birnie, became the bride of Mr. William Arthur Stoops Jr. Sally is a graduate of the Winsor School and attended Mt. Holyoke College and Katherine Gibbs. The bridegroom attended Brown and Harvard Business School. Still in the same vein, we noticed this summer that Miss Ann C. Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. NelsonRockefeller, was married to the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, the ceremony being performed in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, the Bronx, where the bridegroom is priest in charge. The bride is an alumna of the Brearley School and a senior at Wellesley. Her husband is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Obviously, Sam Stayman had some energy left over from reunion because in the middle of August a team headed by him won the Masters' Team Championship of the American Contract Bridge League's summer tournament in Chicago. It is no news to see Sam's name in connection with such activities and with this win goes the right to meet the French European champions in a world title match in Paris next January.
Having mentioned reunion, we should go on to say that Charlie Rauch reports having shown the 800 feet of reunion film at Little Compton, R. X., where he and Mildred visited Haffy and Carol. The showing also included Bud and Celie French, Shaw and Vivian Cole, and Buck and Hannah Steers. Charlie also intended to show them in Hanover at the Keenes on August 19 only to be delayed when his house along with most of the rest of Farmington, Conn., was flooded by hurricane Diane.
Alex McFarland is source of some information which we pass on with very real pride. He points out that the record class contribution to Yale this year came from the Yale Class of 1930 which donated $125,000. Further, that the Harvard Class of 1930 has given since graduation $250,000 which compares with our comparable figure of $342,000. And still talking of reunion - I hate to stop talking about it we can now identify the missing recipient in the class raffle - Cliff Vogt won the tie and tray donation given by Randy Faucett.
Getting back to Buck Steers for a moment, congratulations are due Buck who has been named director of sales and advertising of the Sanforized Division of Cluett, Peabody and Company.
Just before the Vermont 100-mile Trail Ride last month we enjoyed having Kini, daughter of George and Kay Lord, stay with us overnight. There were two other daughters in the ride - Nancy Ela and our Chris. All three girls completed the three-day test, something of a feat, and Kini won a trophy with her buckskin Tanya.
The Class of '30 has also spent some little time making speeches out around the land. While X am sure he has made many more, I happen to know that Fran Horn, despite the time he had to take for getting together the 25-year book, was able to get out and talk to his western Massachusetts alumni of Pratt Institute, and our local Vermont papers reported that he also gave the Commencement address at Green Mountain Junior College in Poultney. Down in Trenton, N. J., the press recorded that Dr. Merrill E. Bush, headmaster of Friends Central School in Philadelphia, was speaking at a dinner forum at the First Unitarian Church. Finally we know that out in New York State, Bill Fenton discussed the League of the Iroquois preceding the American Revolution before the Oneida Historical Society.
At Scott Paper Company, Harry Dunning carries on his steady and rapid rise. This time he has been named a director of the company, having been elected vice president in 1951. Norm McGrath has also moved ahead, having recently been appointed general manager of the Buffalo plant of the Percy Kent Bag Company. Norm previously had been Buffalo Sales Manager.
Al Marsters took over a new position this summer as general sales manager of CBS Hytron, tube manufacturing division of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The announcement by the company paid tribute to Al's capacity in sales administration work. Al previously had been vice president and general manager of the Packaging Machinery Division of Colt Manufacturing Company in Hartford.
Psi U's in the Class of 1930 figured their 25th Reunion turnout was big enough to rate apicture. Lett to right, front row: George Lord, John Cheney, Buck Steers, Fred Page, LeeChilcote; second row - Bob Winter, Norm McGrath, Shaw Cole, John French, Bud French,Ned Grant; back row - Fred Chase, Al McGrath, Pete Callaway, Hugh Johnson, NelsonRockefeller, Cliff Vogt.
Secretary, Reading, Vt.
Treasurer, Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
