1935
One of these days you should get a "Tear Bag" with a first edition of "Inside Africa - with McCarty," since our peripatetic chairman just returned. He flew on 23 different airplanes, visited 18 countries on four continents, and logged over 30,000 miles. He put down long enough to see Steve Dorsey in Khartoum and Bob Sellmer in Madrid, among other local curiosities; so I can scoop the "Bag" by running the following pictures. Dorsey is Counsellor of Embassy and Acting Ambassador and with extensive experience in Lebanon and the Sudan is one of the State Department's leading authorities on the Near East. On the domestic side, he and Carol have two daughters, one now at the Madeira School in Washington, and the other finishing high school in Khartoum this year.
Bob and Bea Sellmer have now lived in Madrid for seven years, and like it so much they say they expect to stay there indefinitely. Bob is engaged in various mining explorations in Libya and in the Spanish Sahara, and he and Bea are leading participants in the gay social life of Madrid. They have two young boys, Michael, seven, and Peter, four. This seems a lot more glamorous than the listing given in our reunion book which reads: "Manager, Department Store, Madrid, Spain."
So much for the foreign news this month. On the domestic side, the big event was Freshman Fathers' Weekend at Hanover. There are 28 sons of '35 fathers on my list as of last June: three in the Class of '61, six in the Class of '62, eight in the Class of '63, and eleven in the Class of '64. One of these days I should run a column on this subject. Right now, however, I can only report that of the Freshman Fathers present I saw only Frank Cornwell, Rode Hale and Dud Russell. We were sort of lost among four hundred odd other fathers - and some of them WERE odd, too — but the balance was redressed by finding Tom and Ginny Lane also inhabiting the Inn after a lost weekend looking for skiable snow in the Mountains ordinarily known as White.
An unknown correspondent in Glastonbury, Conn., has sent me a clipping from the January 21 issue of Business Week with a picture of Jerry Spingarn waxing persuasive with a Jesuit priest at a recent Arden House conference. Jerry was recently appointed secretary of a special task force of Kennedy advisors, attempting to clarify disarmament policy. Jerry got his law degree from Columbia, not Harvard, in case you are curious.
The other items of news this month are rather sketchy. On a trip to Chicago last week (not en route to Lourenco Marques, Zanzibar or Dar-es-Salaam. like McCarty) I heard about the good job Grant Herman is doing at Kable Printing Company as Production V.P. Also ran into Art Bamford at a gin mill and restaurant called the Barclay Club. Appropriate place for a man who publishes a magazine entitled "Feedage," although his influence was so lacking that I couldn't roll 26 in four tries.
Found another competitor in the Class, too: Bob Morris, who worked for my father once on the War Production Board and became so interested in the container business that he is now president not of one, but of two packaging companies, Ferguson-Lander Box Company and the Precision Carton Company, both in Aurora, Ill.
Odds Bodkins: Neil Roberts is executive v.p. of the second largest bank in Denver, the Denver United States Bank. It's a mile high but people go there anyway. Norm Rand was recently appointed to the faculty of the High School at Billerica, Mass. Norm has taught for seventeen years, most recently at Beverly (Mass.) High. Paul Hilli showed up at our plant the other day trying to sell us some Foxboro Instruments. Please come back, Paul, and let me know when. Dick Hube ran again for Town Councilman in Farmington, Conn., last month after completing six years on the Board. Some people just don't know when they are well off. Address of the month: James H. Schipper, c/o Productos de Maiz, S.A., Hamburgo 70 — 2' Piso, Mexico 6, D.F.
The Embassy hours are from 7:30 to 1:30. Afterwards, apparently, Steve (Kitchener) Dorsey takes Sudanese sword in hand and prowls the bush looking for adventure - like this:
Secretary, Hog Hill Road, Chappaqua, N. Y.
Class Agent, 89 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport 5, Conn.
