1947

A quick glance at the heading of this column will show that your regular class secretary is on the job again. Many thanks go to Barry Marks who has done a fine job of looking after class business in my absence. After a short five month's absence in the Navy's behalf, I was glad to find that I could return to Hanover for one more school year. Business with the treasurer oT the class should be sent to the above address until we are able to get Treasurer Tourtellotte's new address at the Stamford Medical School.

The most important news seems to be the class get-together held Friday evening, October 4, at Oak Hill. Thanks to Barry Marks' plans made with the D.O.C. at the end of Reunion time this past summer, we had a plentiful supply of hamburg, which, when cooked by Ross McKenny and his helpers at Oak Hill, turned out to be very tasty. Although no beer was served, about a hundred class members journeyed to Oak Hill in trucks and assorted cars to eat a dinner of the previously mentioned hamburg, mashed potatoes, assorted vegetables, sliced tomatoes, coffee, and ice cream. After-dinner entertainment was supplied by Jean Baptiste, Mr. Hayward, Prof. Amsden, and President Dickey. As a climax to the picnic-reunion, the group returned to the campus to carry torches and lead the Syracuse rally parade.

With the start of the fall semester, we find many of our old friends in Hanover again. The office of the Secretary of the College has estimated that there are 350 members of the class now on the campus, which with another estimate of the number of graduates, and fellows in the class who have not returned to Hanover, bring the number of '47's to a little over 400. That's quite an increase since the days we started with 183 members.

This month we have two wedding announcements to make. This summer Ruth Dougherty of Westport, Conn., and a senior at Wellesley College, was married to Skip Stoddard. Skip is now back on campus after service with the Navy at Kwajalein, but his wife is not living in Hanover with him. Just recently Margaret Tillman of Statesboro, Ga., was married to Phil Booth, who returned to school this spring after service in the Army Air Force. The bride holds a Bachelor of Music degree and is a graduate of Wesleyan Conservatory of music in Macon, Georgia. Congratulations go to both couples.

Garvin Bawden Jr. is now working for A. D. Little, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., on market research problems. He had previously done research at M.I.T. A letter from Tom Grimley says that he was decommissioning ships at Green Cove Springs, Fla., but by this time he should be out of the Navy. Tom was graduated from Harvard the first of this year and was then sent to the Steam School at Newport, R. i, before being assigned to the Destroyer Escort Otter, the ship he k now decommissioning.

LISTENING TO ROSS McKENNEY PLAY JEAN BAPTISTE, 1947 enjoys itself on their recent Hanover outing held at the Oak Hill Cabin. In the left background, President John Sloan Dickey and Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the College, enjoy the chow as well as the entertainment.

Secretary, 304 Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.