June, 1951 - Milwaukee Road Archive

fighter support to the boys on the ground.
He has been to Formosa and the South
China coast. Urbanowicz' letter says he enjoys
our Magazine every month, and would
enjoy hearing from some of his old pals.
The golf season is off to a good start with
a group composed of Yardmasters Bill Stutz,
Ray Granger and Eddie Parr, Relief Train
Director Bruno Tancula, Rate Clerk Wally
Hamann, Train Director Joe Camp, Switchman
Bob Lewin and Special Officer Vern
Schroeder all sporting Milwaukee Road emblems
on their equipment. Several groups
hope to join in the fun. Soon as we have the
names we will let you all know who is who
on the golf course.
Paul Norris, relief caller, is taking over
the 6 to 2 job as bill clerk at Bensenville.
Rita Dominick, Galewood office, and Special
Officer Vern Schroeder, Bensenville district,
said "I do" June 3. Open house was
held at the Dominick home. The couple will
make their h{)me in Half Day. Vern was in
the Air Force for several years and has been
with the Milwaukee for over four years.
SLEEPING & DINING CAR DEPARTMENT
Marie Keys, Correspondent
Our former office boy, Kenneth Kuper,
who became file clerk upon the death of
A. J. Guettel, is now a Seabee stationed at
Port Hueneme, Calif. It appears that because
he worked in the dining car department of
the railroad he should know about cooking
and was assigned to the galley. For reasons
not disclosed, he was transferred to the typing
department. While Ken is working for Uncle
Sam Don Arensdorf is replacing him as office
boy.
William (Slugger) Nolan, who worked in
the commissary and is the brother of Jim
Nolan, sign-out man, in our office, is one of
the young men with the armed forces at the
Korean front.
The task of running errands and other
chores is being taken care of by Edward
Hoffman, and Mrs. Marguerite Marriott has
joined the stenographers. In order that the
pay checks arrive on the designated dates,
Charles Morris succeeded Mrs. M. J. O'Keefe
at the time of her retirement, and Miss
Eleanor Rutowicz, a comptometer operawr
from the accounting department, is now
working in the payroll department. Marie
Zembron decided that she would rather
handle figures than continue in the stenographic
section.
The wedding of Marie Zembron to Harold
Keys, who is a senior at I1nnois Institute of
Technology and the son of Marie Keys, your
correspondent, will be solemnized at 11
o'clock mass at St. James Church, Mango and
Altgeld, June 23. Marie's sister Joan, one
of our stenographers, will be an attendant.
In the evening friends and fellow employes
will gather in their honor at a reception at
Major Hall.
Tom Rowley, who retired a little over a
year ago, sends greetings to his friends and
says that he still lives in the same home
and would be happy to see or hear from
them.
In the changes which took place in our
department upon the resignation of Edwin
Sokol, Leo S. Trela, former relief man, was
assigned as sleeping car sign-out man.
It is anticipated that in the not too distant
future the results of the efforts of W. R.
June, 1951
SHURE THEY COME FROM IRELAND. All newcomers to the U.S.A and ail from County
Mayo, Ireland, it also happens that these smiling colleens are all employed in the Fullerton
Avenue accounting offices in Chicago. From left: Nora Chambers, Mary Mulcrone, Mary
O'Mal ley, (rear), Margaret Saunders, Kathleen Moran (rear) and Kathleen McDonagh.
Three of the girls were friends in the old country. They all share a love of dancing and
make a point of having fun together at local Irish dances.
Jones, special representative, ,on his twoweek
vacation will be evident, and samples
of his agricultural enterprise will be passed
around to his less fortunate fellow employes.
As it has been some time since news of
our department has appeared in the Magazine,
may we at this time extend our sympathy
to the families of Lucian DawSDn,
Fred Stevenson and Louis Albright, retired
waiters; F. J. Fearbow, waiter; Palmoe Fagan,
retired chef and father of Waiter Roy Fagan;
and Chef Albert Gonlin; also to Waiter
Claude Bowman and Conductor Joseph Kane,
upon the deaths of their wives.
Dining Car Waiter Johnnie Chism rated
a commendation recently, due to a letter received
by company officials which expressed
appreciation for his services. "I wish to bring
to your attention' the kindness and courtesy
of one of your employes," wrote Mrs. A. M.
Fisher, Bernardsville, N. J. "Mr. Chism was
very helpful during a recent trip I made on
your road from Seattle, which I appreciated
doubly because I was ill when I boarded the
train."
The housewives of our well-fed land open an
estimated 30,000,000 tin cans a day. . . .
Speaking of u,hich, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture says that "it is just as safe to keep
canned food in the can it comes in-if the
can is cool and covered-as it is to empty
the food into another container."
ChicagoCeneralOffices
OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF EQUIPMENT
ACCOUNTS
Harry M. Trickett, Correspondent
We all mourn the loss of Florence Haeger,
who passed away suddenly on May 17.
Florence had been with us since August,
1925. She was laid to rest at Mt. Emblem
Cemetery with services by the Order of the
Eastern Star, Rev. Preston Bradley officiating.
A baby shower honoring Patricia Forest
was given on May 18, when she resigned
from her office duties for the blessed event.
William Roloff, a former employe, now
retired, was an office visitor on May 11. He
said he was returning to California soon to
make his home.
Robert Olis is our new office boy, starting
on May 16.
Pvt. Richard Weel and Pvt. Everett Hopke
were office visitors May 17.
In celebration of her birthday and 25 years
of service with the Road, Julia Feindt was
accompanied by Helen Degner, Irene Goelz,
Anne Litwin, Clara Raupp and Laura Wojciechowski
on a trip to Milwaukee May 12.
She was honored again by 12 of her office
associates at a birthday luncheon May 17.
Margaret Gallagher left for Miami Beach,
Fla., with her husband May 26, and received
many cards of good wishes on her
second honeymoon.
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