1939
Sadly, once again we begin this column by marking the passing of a friend. Walt Ma gee was killed instantaneously and his wife, Dorothy, was grievously injured in an automobile accident in Secaucus, N. J., on December II. Nothing that I can say here will express the great shock and sorrow that I know is felt by us all. We do take great comfort from the good news that Dorothy is now out of danger and making progress on the road to recovery.
Fifty members of the Berkshire County Dartmouth Club, it says here in the newspaper, have expressed confidence in Jack Treadway, resident manager of the Williams Inn, by electing him president of their Club. From the Directory of Alumni Officers recently issued by the College, I have gleaned that these no-longer young men also have been tapped by their peers to serve in the following honorable capacities: Morgan Price, president, Dartmouth Club of Central Florida, at Orlando; Hank Bagg, president, the Dartmouth Club of Holyoke, Mass.; Ed Oppenheim, secretary, Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City; Cleve Spillers, secretary, Dartmouth Club of Eastern Oklahoma, at Tulsa.
I am indebted to the Bridgeport (Conn.) Post for the information that pure young scientist Charlie Spiltoir, assistant professor of biology at the U. of Bridgeport, has received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Pure Science at Columbia University. Charlie's doctoral dissertation was concerned with the Life and Times of Ascosphaera Apis, a very nasty parasite which goes about making life unpleasant for bees. .
Classmates with sufficient liquid capital to invest in rocking chairs on the Hanover Inn porch have included in recent weeks: JohnHoasdi, Les Smith, Ed Oppenheim and BobSchwartz. .
Walt Martinson has been named chairman of the activities committee of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. An A.M. out of Harvard, and a C.P.A., Walt is a senior accountant with Patterson, Teele and Dennis, in Boston, and makes his home in Quincy, Mass. Among other things, he is president and director of Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, and treasurer of the Lutheran Evangelism Mission, and a member of the Mass. Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Accountants and the American Accounting Association.
Holme, Roberts, More, Owen & Keegan, distinguished Denver, Colo., attorneys, are understandably proud to announce that KeithAnderson has graciously consented to become a member of their firm.
Clem Burnap, who, just a brief year ago, announced that he was home from Haifa, Helsingfors and Hamburg for keeps, has gone back on his word. On New Year's Eve he took leave of metropolitan Hoboken again and now may be reached at 126 South Main St., Taipei, Taiwan.
This is rather late, but if your dentist has not yet thrown out the November issue of Town and Country magazine, you certainly will wish to read Bob MacLeod's article, Behind the Ivy Curtain, in which he takes several friendly but deep digs at Ivy League schedules and practices.
Byway of saying that I have an eye, ear, nose and throat for news, I report to you that the joint executive committee of the United Hospital in Rye, N. Y„ has appointed Dr. Richard B. Hadley as director of the eye, ear, nose and throat department in that particular pesthouse. Dick the Director is a graduate of the U. of Vt. Medical School. He interned at United Hospital, spent a couple of years in the Navy, and then took special E.E.N.T. work at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York and at the U. of Pa. A full attending surgeon at the hospital, he also is one of our foremost otolaryngologists, being a Diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology.
Another of our healers to win new honors is Dr. Frank Cline, who recently left the staff of Firland Sanitarium at Seattle, Wash., to become the new medical director of the Southwest Florida Tuberculosis Hospital at Tampa. Frank received his medical degree from the U. of Pa., spent two years with the Marines in the South Pacific, and then, moving west, became in due course of time senior physician and director of Firland's pulmonary function laboratory, and a member of the faculty of the U. of Washington medical school. States the official release of the State of Florida:
"Dr. Cline has a national and growing reputa- tion in the field of pulmonary physiology and is capable of giving the Southwest Florida Tuberculosis Hospital the progressive medical leadership and administrative stability so essential to the development of a great hospital."
Corking good news comes from Lancaster, Pa., where Mr. James O. Sampson has been named manager of the lumber dealer products department of the building materials division of the Armstrong Cork Company. Jim is a company man, having joined Armstrong in 1939 as a salesman working out of the firm's Chicago and Detroit offices before going off to war in 194 a. Since his return in 1945, he has been successively administrative assistant for Armstrong's Temlok department; administrative assistant for, and later assistant manager of, their dealer products department; and since 1952 assistant manager of the equipment insulation department.
A fine tribute to Art Bright whose life, filled with such promise, came to a sudden end in 1953, is the dedication to him of the monumental report on The Economic Stateof New England, recently published for the National Planning Association by the Yale University Press. Art, you will remember, was director of research for the N.P.A.'s Committee on New England, which produced the report. The tribute, written by Dr. Leonard Carmichael, former president of Tufts College and now secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is too long to reprint in full. The following excerpt must suffice:
"This study of the New England economy is a memorial to the vision, the wisdom and the labors of Arthur A. Bright Jr To those who did not know him, this volume is his identification. Though others have helped to complete it, essentially it is his. It is his gift to New England which he loved and in which he believed."
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