1932
We have a good package of news this month. My own work overload prevents me from attempting to editorialize - which is your good luck.
Our treasurer, Bob Fendrich, sends us a note describing some of the problems of a bank vice-president: "Life surely speeds by. I just returned from a two-week business trip on the West Coast and have hardly settled down when the time has arrived for me to leave tomorrow for a banking conference in New Orleans. Believe me, it is purely coincidental that it happens to be the occasion of Mardi Gras. Nevertheless, being an optimistic opportunist, I shall truly enjoy it."
Adrian "Whip" Walser left Florida in early January for a 3-month trip in the South Seas and the Far East. A few of the places he will visit: Tahiti (from where he sent me a postcard with a beautiful view), Fiji Islands, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Tokyo. He is taking his son Eric '68, a geography major, on the trip. In December, Whip saw Bill Brister in La Paz, Bolivia, where he works for AID.
Dr. George A. Halm sends an updating note: "Since my last letter to you I have engaged in the following activities: Appointed chairman of the Research Committee of Project HOPE. Election to the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society with membership on the Cancer Control Committee, Publication Committee and Sub-committee on Health Education. Election as secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. In addition on the non-medical standpoint I have been elected to the United States Power Squadron (Maine Line Squadron Division). It was quite an interesting experience to take a two-hour objective examination on boating, seamanship, and navigation. It has been a long time since I have been on the receiving end of an examination."
Dr. Sey Rogers sends us the latest: "Still practicing general surgery in Greensboro, N. C. My son, Stewart, who is presently a sophomore at Dartmouth is enjoying the Alma Mater more each year. Have two daughters, the older a senior in high school, and the other a 9th grader. Will try to attend the '68 reunion."
From Honolulu, Ben Cowden reports: "Work-Management Assistant of Naval Air Station, Barber's Point. Hobby - Waikiki Beach. Family - Wife Betty and two boys John, age 15 and Charles, 12. Boys virtually live on surf boards. Travel- Mainland this summer."
Applicants for the enviable and funfilled job of Newsletter Editor will please contact our president. Carlos Baker explains the situation: "I wish Bo Wentworth would get busy and appoint my successor on the Newsletter, from which I felt compelled to resign this summer or fall owing to preoccupation with Hemingway et cie. So this comes without need of a letter in reply, and I think I will simply send on to you in a separate envelope the remains of my file from the Newsletter, including the last thoughtful letter I had from Hosmer.
"As for me, I am back full-time teaching and progress on the biography has been reduced to the pace of a snail on crutches. But I now have 1024 pp. of first draft of the book done, with about 400 more to go before cutting begins. I am shooting for 1968, the year we are supposed to land a man on the moon. My man won't get that high, nor travel in a capsule."
Our lawyers' lawyer, Mike Cardozo, sends a thoughtful note: "In recent communications, several classmates have complained about the poor seats they received from the D.C.A.C. during the 1966 football season, suggesting that we were old enough grads to get something better. I felt the same way at Princeton in 1965, but all had to be forgiven in the Yale Bowl this year. We were right on the 50-yard line, albeit a bit high, in the top row. Nonetheless, one of our classmates announced to all concerned, 'Well, we finally made it.'
"I look forward to a renewal of the class newsletters, and I hope that the new editor, whoever he may be, will continue to publish controversial views from our classmates, no matter how many of us may disagree with them. I am amazed and disappointed when one of them talks about having his name taken off the mailing list because the latest emanation from Ping Ferry has appeared in a newsletter. I suspect that I disagree with the political views of as many of our classmates as anyone, but I always want to hear what it is that I disagree with. It is highly unsatisfactory to disagree with Tom Curtis just because he is a Republican; I like to be sure that I know exactly what views on the nation's economy the Republicans' spokesmen are expounding. It restores my confidence in my own views.
"By the time you are reading this, I will be an experienced father-of-the-bride, as my daughter lulia's marriage to Charles R. Eisendrath of Baltimore and St. Louis will have occurred on January 28, 1967 in Washington."
Congratulations to Donald S. Richardson, who was recently named as vice-president and assistant general claims manager of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies.
Donald McPhail has been named president of Capitol Cement Co., a division of the Martin Marietta Corporation. Don was an executive with the National Lead Co. and the American Smelting and Refining Co. prior to joining the U.S. Navy in 1942. Achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander, he left the Navy in 1945 to join the Dixon-Bartlett Co.
In 1955 he moved to the Standard Lime and Refractories Co., also a Martin MariEtta division, as Baltimore district sales manager. He was later named vice president-marketing. In 1965 he was named vice president-marketing at Capitol Cement Co. when Standard's cement operations were organized as the Capitol Cement division.
Headquartered in Arlington, Va., Capitol Cement operates a cement manufacturing plant in Martinsburg, W. Va., and sales offices or cement terminals in Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D. C.; Richmond, Va.; Greensboro, N. C.; Pittsburgh, Pa., and Parkersburg, W. Va.
Thus endeth the mid-winter story. Let me know what you'd like the others to hear.
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