1938
This being the annual wind-up of the season before the MAGAZINE retires to its final reunion issue and your respondent hides away in the social center of Hanover, the usual invitations for the summer to call me under the Lebanon exchange or just drop out to Hanover Center is now extended for the balmy months. In any cases of doubt confer with Tanzis, Mac, or other Main Street stalwarts. Any juicy libel you want printed about a friend next season can be sent Star Route, Etna, N.H.
Having recorded from time to time the industrial, educational and diplomatic heights to which various members of 1938 have risen during the brief, almost twenty years since leaving Hanover Plain, the greatest honor of all comes to one who left it to a friend to inform the secretary, modesty befitting great accomplishment. From Dave Hosmer, who mysteriously writes on New York hotel stationery when he should be in Syracuse, comes word, to wit:
"Our energetic classmate, John Meacbem, recently managed to win first prize in the annual upstate baking contest with his 'chocolate marble cake.' First prize was a lovely orchid. It is rumored he also plans to enter the contest at the State Fair this fall and has hopes of making the Big Time in Pillsbury's annual event."
The last we knew Johnny was secretary and assistant treasurer of an iron foundry in Manlius. Hosmer is president of a textile mill, the Patrician Knitting Co., in Syracuse; perhaps he can crochet something for the same State Fair.
Upper New York State is a busy place these days, first cake-baking, and now with the bangtail season opening in a big way. We sort of sneaked into this one by finding a picture of Red Boutilier in the MAGAZINE last month in quite another connection:—
A new member has been added to the official staff at Vernon Downs (Cortland, N. Y.). He is E. L. "Reds" Boutilier of Clinton, who joins the publicity department at the three-quarter mile track. Boutilier, a native of Leominster, Mass., was a prominent high school, prep school, and college athlete, and a 1938 graduate of Dartmouth College.
Boutilier went from Dartmouth to a coaching position at Amesbury, Mass., where his football, basketball, and baseball teams were highly successful. Following three years at Amesbury, Boutilier went to Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, Maine, as head coach, and also as full time Boy Scout executive at Waterville. During the war years, he continued his interest in athletics by being director of athletics and recreation for the Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine.
The sports column from which I am quoting this goes on to tell of Red's newspaper activities in Saratoga, where he also managed a professional basketball team and then transferred to the Utica area with the newspapers there for six years. He is also a noted photographer of horses, one of his pictures having been selected as the model for a plaque awarded to the owner of a prize trotting-horse.
There comes this word of another '38er:
"After four years in Haiti as an agricultural advisor under the technical assistance program of the U. S. State Department, Charles B. Wiggin Jr. has been appointed by the Department as program director in Ecuador for the Institute of Inter-American affairs. In that South American country he will direct a program of U. S. aid in modernizing agriculture, building roads, and draining swamps." I can just picture Wiggin draining a swamp!
I remember somewhere in Europe running into Norm Holland in the course of his U.S.O. activities, whether it was around Verdun or in Germany, you got me. Now he turns up again in Cheshire in the Nutmeg State delivering the latest on modern theater plays and practice. A graduate of the Yale Graduate School of Drama and director of productions for the Cheshire Community Theater, he has also written and produced a series of Girl Scout shows during the past few years.
My favorite newspaper (this month) is the Kearsage Independent in Warner, N.H. Part of my love for this progressive old-line Republican journal is due to its devotion to the Rev. Telfer Mook, minister of the First Congregational Church of Concord, reporting in detail his remarks at the "capping" of the last group of student nurses from the "old" Concord Hospital. "He is a graduate from the Dartmouth University, a layman for the Yale College, and was first assistant minister at the Chicago Seminary. He saw three years' service in the Navy."
A long account in the News-Letter, an Exeter, N. H., journal tells of school committee affairs and meetings, in which DickNiebling has filed for a member of the board. Dick has been an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter for fifteen years and the father of five girls ranging in age from 4½ to 13½.
The Dartmouth College Lecture Series has finally gotten around to recognizing the unique knowledge of one Harold Herman, who spoke in 105 Dartmouth, the day this is being pecked out on the old Royal, on "Justice in Russia." The blurb put out by the College states:
"Professor Berman is a leading United States authority on Soviet Law. His numerous books and articles on various legal aspects of Soviet culture are widely known and used. Last summer he spent a month in Moscow interviewing Russian jurists and his information on the proposed changes in the Soviet legal codes is the latest available in this country."
From Tenafly, N. J., comes word of the appointment of William A. Fasolo, formerly of the firm of Cooney, Reilly, and Fasolo of Harvard Law School as magistrate of the Tenafly Police Court.
"Mr. Fasolo is 40 years ago (sic). He received his A.B. degree at Dartmouth University and his LL.B. at Harvard University. A member and former vice president of the Lawyers Club of Bergen County, he is a member of the Lions Club of Tenafly, a member and past commander of the American Legion, a member of the Bergen County Bar Association, the American and New Jersey Bar Associations. He served in the Air Force in World War II with the rank of lieutenant. Associated with the law firm of Milton T. Lascher, Mr. Fasolo is borough attorney for the towns of Demarest and New Milford."
Having now for some space avoided the marts of trade, to which considerable emphasis has been given the past two issues, we must perforce record the progress of certain '38ers in worldly matters. Jim Ramsey has been appointed manager of the Diamond Match Co. s plant in Springfield, Mass. He started with the company eighteen years ago, first working in the Oshkosh, Wise., plant. During World War II he served four years with the Engineers. He was plant superintendent at Oswego, N. Y., and assistant manager at Oshkosh before transfer to Springfield as assistant manager in 1955.
E. Miles Prentice is now assistant to the vice president and manager of the Montpelier, Vt., branch office of the Peerless Insurance Co. He has been in the insurance business since 1939 with the Great American in their underwriting department, and as special agent in New Hampshire and Vermont. He was a navigator in the Air Force in World War II.
Tom Herbert has been elected an assistant treasurer at Bankers Trust Company in New York. His assignment is with the Investment Research Division of the bank. He joined the company in 1954.
On the social side, Graham White was married on April 21 to Miss Mary Claire Martin in Adams, Mass. Graham's bride is a Smith Girl and was selected on graduation for a European tour as a soloist with the Smith College Chamber Singers.
Mystery to be solved over the summer: Why is Frank Frey now listed as a resident of New York City?
Secretary, Trinity-Pawling School Pawling, N. Y.
Class Agent, 329 Concord Rd., Yonkers, N. Y.
