1936

What with hearing more and more frequently about various classmates retiring to some exotic spot, it is refreshing to learn of a classmate who is still working successfully. Adjacent to these notes is a picture of George T.Conklin Jr., better known to his classmates as "Pinkie," and the most recent news about him is that he has been named to the board of trustees of Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y. Pinkie is president and chief executive officer of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in New York, capping a long and successful career with that company. After graduating from Dartmouth, Pinkie received his Master's degree at Tuck School and continued his studies at NYU, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research, all in New York City. In 1943 he received his Ph.D. in economics from NYU. After graduating from Tuck School he entered the investment counsel field with Haas and Conklin, and in 1939 he began his career with The Guardian Life Insurance Company. He was appointed assistant to the president in 1944; assistant to the president and director of research in 1946; financial vice president in charge of all investments and of economic research in 1953; vice president and board director in 1957; president and chairman of the finance committee in 1959; executive vice president in 1964; and in 1969 he became president and received the added title of chief executive officer in 1971. I am sure that the rest of the Class joins me in saluting Pinkie for a very successful career.

As indicated, news continues to filter in of classmates retiring. An item in PublishersWeekly reports that Dang Scherman is leaving Time Inc. after 40 years of service and that he may be reached at Collaberg Road, Stony Point, N.Y. John Sawyer reports that he ran into Dick Morton recently and that Dick, who has retired but is still doing consulting work, was on his way to Madrid, Spain, to conduct a sales meeting. At the time of this writing Johnand Helen Wiesman are back in Italy for another visit.

Also joining the world travelers early in September were John and Nancy Sawyer, who spent four days in Copenhagen and a couple of weeks visiting Munich, Innsbruck, and Vienna. They found the prices high in Copenhagen but not so high in the other cities and found things prosperous in Vienna. They were particularly impressed by the restoration going on in Munich and Vienna. An alert reader of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE would have noted in the 1938 class notes of a recent issue, as John did, that Bob and Beryl Burr enjoyed with members of the Class of 1938 an outing in Mazatlan, Mexico, involving five days of golf, tennis, sunbathing, breakfast discussions, and socializing.

A note of sadness: On September 4, Richard Crosby died at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Most of Dick's working life was spent in education at Colby-Junior College - now Colby-Sawyer College - at New London, N.H. He was engaged in what he considered the most important job in today's world - "the education of the coming generation." The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.

Also we have learned that Pricilla G. Lynch, wife of Arthur H. Lynch of 6 Sea Cove Road, Cumberland Foreside, Me., has died in a Portland hospital after a long illness. Pris was active in many worthy endeavors, including the Maine Medical Center, the Animal Refuge Center, the Portland Symphony, Red Cross chapter, and Travelers' Aid Society. 1936 extends its sincere sympathy to Art.

Although not world travelers, Dave and Shirley Fox of Pennington, N.J. (Dave works nearby at Educational Testing Service and Shirely directs a nursery school at Princeton) flew out to the Canadian Rockies in July, rented a car and drove through Bamff and Jasper national parks. They then took the Canadian Pacific, a luxury train in the old tradition, to Vancouver and went on by ferry to Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. From there they took another ferry to Seattle where they met with son Dave and daughter Nancy, both of whom are attending the University of Washington. Frosting on the cake was added when their other daughter Sally, who is studying for a doctorate at the U. of Michigan but had been attending a conference at the U. of Hawaii and then had gone to South Korea, flew back and joined the rest of the family in Seattle.

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