1942

The news is out: June 20, 21, and 22 are our big days.

With this as a starter we can begin to formulate our plans for getting back to Hanover after five years. Figure now on sharing these three days with one and all on the Plain. You've got nine months notice. All of us must get back.

I had hoped to have news of a reunion committee with this issue, but having been left in a hole by the executive committee, which only appointed Black Jack Corwith a tentative chairman back in '42 (and he is expecting to be in South America in June-time), I don't have the news for you yet. I am hard at work trying to round up a set of worthies to help with the dirty work and with our large Hanover representation as a basis we should do okay.

Thanks to Ankledeep Jim Farley the news is piled knee deep on my desk this outing. Jim was the guiding genius of a '42 clambake in Hanover on August 24 and his tale of the proceedings brings to you a whale of a lot of news. To brief the occasion before turning over to Jim, a cocktail party and buffet supper in the Hanover Inn Ski Hut, with genial DaveHeald, now regarded as the Bey of the Hill, as the on-the-house host preceded a showing of two reels of the '42 movies. A most convivial time was had by all. On hand were Mr. and Mrs. Dave Heald, Mr. and Mrs. Al Miller, Dr. Bob Wilson of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Matty Bride, Rod McCathran, Bob Waldron, Frank Malavasic, Mr. and Mrs. BobSchoonmaker, Mr. and Mrs. Bill McMahon,Bill Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Sturz, Mr. and Mrs. John Highmark, Mr. and Mrs. DougDuffy, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Seacord, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. Al Britton, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boggs, Johnny Brewer, Herb West,Lloyd Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Fanelli, and the übiquitous Mr. Farley.

Quote Mr. Farley:

Here is some incidental information I picked up and jotted down Mrs. Bob Wilson was unable to attend because she had given birth August 21 to one John Robert Wilson at the Mary Hitchcock Dick Lawton was in town, but unable to attend because of a previous engagement with a sister. Dick might have a job at the Med School this'fall. Large Charles Camp and wife were not present due to a week's vacation at Memphremagog. Frank Malavasic will continue his scholarly pursuits at Cornell Law this fall where he may hook up with Ted Lapres who is already there. Bob Waldron is also about to become an incipient barrister at that factory of culture, the University of Michigan. Bill Fowler is going abroad to study this fall, maybe at the Sorbonne. Roy Carruthers has been accepted at Tuck School and will attend provided he can talk Bill McCarter into giving him another year of eligibility which would make him the oldest collegiate competitor in eastern North America. Al Britton and wife are manfully engaged in the construction of a new house in the Hartland, Vt., area. Jim Boggs is one of the local tycoons, being engaged in toting ice to local establishments in his off hours.

Author's note: This copy has to pass through Farley's hands en route to the press. No telling how it will turn out.

Farl also reports that Pete Geisler and wife were up for the summer prom. Pete is engaged in some sort of promotional work with Vest-Pak, makers of a dry shaving gadget. Also that Jerry Tallmer is very much a professional reuner and is back and forth from N. Y. C., where he is unemployed still, for weekends on the Plain.

My other fan mail has picked up considerably.' First of all a letter from Ed Spiegel who is located in Greenville, S. C., learning about the paper container business. Ed in the Navy spent fifteen months in Brazil and then had a year in the Port Director's office, N. Y. C. DonWilliamson, a real planner such as I hope there are a lot of, writes in to get the Reunion date so he can arrange a nursemaid for his cheeild come next June. Don adds the news that Stu Finch married Pat O'Brien in Rochester, N. Y., June 15 and is headed for Japan in the Army Medics.

Bill Miller, back from 30 months in ETO, pens news of his engagement in July to Elise Sollman, Colby Junior '41. He adds that BertAnger is now a War Department civilian in Bavaria with a top-high rank of CAF-11. FredBrutschy chips in with the information that he married Virginia Skiff in San Mateo, Calif., on July 27. Virginia is U. of Arizona '44. Fred, a Ph.D. in chemistry, has a DuPont fellowship and is doing research at the University of Wisconsin.

Sid Bull, Gulf Oil's Back Bay boy wonder, is working at that firm's South Station emporium. under Harpo Walsh '39. He has run into Em Rice who is in the "production management end of some sort of machinery company." Sid also tells that Bobus Vaitses and Buck Strader have been by to pay their respects. Buck is with Saks Fifth Avenue in N. Y. C., and Paul is "working in a securities office in Boston and smoking seegars to fill the part." Andy Wood, Sid says, is now overseas in the Army.

Joe Wilder, now in a residency in pathology at P and S in N. Y. C., writes with an offer of service which is mighty welcome. Joe says New York seems more and more full of Dartmouth men with Jim O'Mara, Matt Bride,Roily Tremble, Bob Buckalew, Frank White, and others, showing up at one time or another.

And finally in my mail an announcement of the arrival of Janet Knight Pitman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob, on August 22 at Laconia, N. H.

Through the Hanover channels word comes that Kent Barclay, Ed Chalfant, Walt Haley,Tom Danes, Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenfeld, Mr. and Mrs. John Furth, Herb Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hickey, Eric Haessler, Mr. and Mrs. East Birkett,. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Friez, Fritz Heinbokel, Dr. and Mrs. Glen Thompson, Brad Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kellers, Reed Griffith, Capt. and Mrs. Fred Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. FredWorthen, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Niven, Mr. and Mrs. Goeres Hayssen, Mr. and Mrs. John Wester, and Mr. and Mrs. Diet Lamade have been Inn guests during the spring and summer. It is evident that a lot of you have been getting back. So plan for June.

The clipping service says that Ernie Kierstead, an AAF-ASC lieutenant, has joined the Keirstead Realty firm in Hartford, Conn.; that Mary E. Bouton of Bedford Hills, N. Y., announced her engagement to Kent Barclay, an AAF Captain in dear old CBI, on June 30; that Carolmae Baehr of New York City announced her engagement to Bob Encherman on July 6th: that Wendy Neefus III was born June 27; and that Luis Zalamea has the second largest advertising agency in Bogota, Colombia. Luis is still said to be homesick for his newspaper days with UP in New York.

Which about does me in for this month. I still have a pile o£ news for you and although it gets older by the day, I'll be tossing it at you in a hurry next month.

Right now plan for June 20-22.

MALE AND FEMALE MEMBERS of the Hanover Chapter of the 1942 Chowder and Marching Society have a group picture taken at a recent cocktail party and buffet supper held at the Inn Ski Hut.

Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.