Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-08-06
QUITS $4,000 YEAR
JOB FOR AN IDEAL.
Harry Wellman, Lowell Man, Has
Remarkable Career as Told in
Following Story.

Harry R. Wellman, a native of
Lowell, a son of Mrs. H. B. Smith of
Orleans, is the subject of the follow
ing sketch in the July % issue of the
Boston American. L. B. Wellman of
Newport is brother, and Mrs. Earl
Twombly of Waterbury, formerly
teacher in the Barton graded schools,
is a sister.
The sketch follows:
"Would you give up $4,000 year
for an ideal?
"Would you sacrifice a position as
vice president of one of Boston's big
gest firms for a professors chair in
university at a comparatively meagre
salary?
s'That's what Harry Richmond
Wellman, vice president of the Wal
ter H. Lowney company, is doing.
"Why?
Because of the world war and its
lessonsl
"Mr. We1lman is leaving the throt-
tie of big business, with its great fl
nancial return and prestige, for a
chair in the Amos Tuck School of Ad-
mouth college. Here is the world war,
which swept thousands of young
Americans from the quiet of country
village homes into the maelstrom of
gigantic continental war, carrying
one young American from the mael-
strom of big business in great city
into the monastic quietude of a col
| lege town-but-
Harry Richmond Wellman doesn't
| look at it in just that way Through
the war he discovered that chasing
the almighty dollar was not the high
est aim in life, he says, and Hanover,
| n. H, may be small, but there is no
monastic quietness about it, and there
will be less when he gets into action
/ he declares.
Furthermore he said during an
| interview with an American reporter,
4 don't think I'm any hero. It's true
that I'm sacrificing big salary for
small one. But l expect to be twice
as busy in the new job as in the old
one. It's really selfish proposition,
for as professor of commercial organi-
zation and management at Dart
mouth, bringing a message to young
men about to start into life, l will
know happiness | could never get
from any business
Although today his position yields
some $4,000 per annum, he is no
! stranger to hard manual labor. In
his college days he washed dishes,
tended furnaces and moved lawns. In
/ the spring of 1904, he went to the
Worlds Fair and pushed wheel chairs
and played the piano in fair conces-
siorr.
''In 1904 also, he worked in the
serving room at college, and was
night checker in the grill, and in the
summer worked at Franconia Inn,
Frsaeo1;;a, n. u. The next two years
he worked in a clothing store days
and at night as a checker in the grill.
"He graduated in 1907, in which
year he served as assistant secretary
of the College Club; chairman of the
executive committee, member of the
Dartmouth board, member of the
Aegis board, president of the Banjo
club and news reporter for the Boston
American. He was also active in
the Paellopitus, Honor Socie-
! ty), D.K.E., Press club and Casque
and Gauntlet senior society.
"He remained at Dartmouth sever
al years after graduation, and in 1908
was supervisor of dormitories for the
college, wrote the music for "The
Prom Girl" and with E. D. Grover
published the Dartmouth College
Song Book.
s'Tn 1909 he became secretary of the
Retail Trade Board of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce; the next year
secretary of the Trade Extension
committee and took part in other
trade activities; in 1911 was assistant
secretary to the Chamber of Com
merce; in 1912 was assistant to the
chairman of the Port Directors, and
did the mems advertising for William
Filene's Sons Co."