1931
Cranking up this report in the opening days of January brings to mind that this assignment of secretary-columnist requires much of the flexibility and periscopic outlook of the old Greek god Janus - backward into the mellowing history and sentimental anecdotes of our Class, but also ahead with an eye on the activity calendar of the College. As you scan this literary outburst by a Thayer-trained civil engineer, it will be carnival time in Hanover - and quicker than you can say "Balch Hill Slalom Course" it will be spring, by which time you should certainly have firmed up your summer schedule to include, I sincerely and genuinely hope, a sentimental journey to Hanover to join in the benevolent festivities of our 30th Reunion.
Belated scoop from Boothbay, Me., reveals that Cruise Captain "Peanut" Winslow was scheduled to introduce to the local passenger trade last spring a new Argo. It is indicated in the now retroactive publicity concerning this major coastal event that the new vessel, in addition to many smartly designed features of silhouette and safety, highlights the dispersion of all Diesel fumes to a degree permitting passengers to enjoy the coastal sea breezes untainted by any trace of Winslow's exhaust. Bax Ball, general sales manager of domestic marketing for Mobile, was a recent speaker at a major divisional rally of his company in Albany. Tom Williams, longtime railroader with the Lehigh Valley line, has been appointed assistant freight traffic manager at their Pittsburgh headquarters. Ned Rosen writes that he and his daughter Dena, also a staunch Green rooter, were thrilled with the Princeton game and its whirlwind finish and that entering the battlefield they saw Dan Denham and his son Bruce, and also Red Gristede. Ned hopes to make the Big 30th in June.
It was recently announced by Alfred Hayes, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, that the board of directors had promoted Howard Crosse to Vice President in Bank Supervision and Relations. He assumed his new responsibilities on January 1. Howie first joined the bank as a summer college student in 1930 and returned upon his graduation. After four, years of night school attendance he was awarded his M.B.A. from New York University in 1935. In addition to his banking career he has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University, of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University and has lectured at the Institute of Executive Development of the New York State Banking Association.
In the field of education, pedagogue Mai Pratt, math instructor at Weymouth High School, received a National Science Foundation award for, study last summer at Lafayette College. Two years earlier Mai was given a similar award for advanced summer study in mathematics at the University of Colorado. Nick Rogers, physics teacher at Loomis, served as lab supervisor last summer at the Trinity-Loomis Science Center in Hartford.
Social note: Dick and Peggy Holbrook have announced the engagement of their daughter Margaret (Peggins), Wellesley '59, to Richard Birch, now in his second year at Harvard Law. With a June wedding indicated, it is assumed that this nuptial adventure will be dovetailed by chairman Holbrook into his Hanover Reunion junket.
For you avid penmen, these address changes: James W. Rice Jr., Boeing Airplane Co., Box 707, Renton, Wash.; Gilbert L. Wolfe, 950 Balltown Rd„ Schenectady, N. Y.; Francis M. Pope, 87 Cottage St., New Bedford, Mass.; Thomas F. Williams, 450 Meridian Dr., Mt. Lebanon 34, Penna.
Dr. H. Calvin Fisher '32, president of the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide, addressing the group's annual Christmas luncheon meeting at Denver's Albany Hotel.
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Treasurer, The Elms, 2701 S. Dort Highway Flint, Mich.
