1941
The Hanover scene has seemed a lot closer the past couple of months to many of the class who have been able to use the football games as an opportunity to find "what goes" with one another via a little first hand contact.
A good gang turned up for the Penn game in Philadelphia and old "Snuffy" Smith, our erstwhile football manager, perched in a position familiar to him on the end of the players bench still couldn't stick his foot out far enough to trip up Minisi as he whizzed by on some of those touchdown runs.
Lou Young and his attractive wife were also present and Lou with two brothers out there in the same position he used to play spent an exciting and interesting afternoon despite the score of the game.
Also present were Ray Hall and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kenworthy, Stu May, Frank Hall, Harry Douty, George Seel and others I probably missed seeing.
At New Haven for the Yale game it almost looked like reunion all over again. Among those present were Dusty Rhoades, Bill Reeder, Marston Gibbs, George Canfield, Felix Lilienthal, Larry Barnett, Bill Cashel, "Perc" Holloway, Bob Koenig, and Bob Darbee.
"Spider" Paul, Frank Watters, and Bruce Friedlich were also present, and George Flather and his wife came all the way down from Cambridge for the game. George reports that Dick Wheeler is back in Washington but couldn't get away to come up for the game. Dick Potter and Bill Galbraith also showed their faces, but I couldn't catch them in time to say hello.
Repeats at the Yale game included Stu May and "Mouse" Hall.
Bill Reeder is now at Yale Law School, and he and his very lovely wife Sally entertained some of us after the game in their apartment. They parked their twins in high chairs in the hall, well away from the cocktail crowd, and I think one of them must have decided their parents friends had hung around long enough, for one of the fuses blew out—but I think candle light fitted everyone's mood just as well.
An orchid this month to John Bowers for his nice letter which explains what he has been doing since last I saw him tearing down the gangway of the U. S. S. New York in Pearl Harbor. So, taking it from there, John reports the following:
"Unfortunately I haven't any children or a wife and haven't even robbed a bank lately, so I have little to report but for the past several months I've been deep in the beginnings of a job and now working for the advertising agency of Brooke, Smith, French, and Dorrance here in Detroit I'm an inflation bachelor and very contented with everything, except perhaps the latter I did bump into Creighton Holden ex-'40 who joined '41 during his last year in Hanover I believe. He is managing the St. Clair Inn and looking very much the prosperous innkeeper. The Inn is quite an establishment except for the bar where the brainstorm behind the spigots asked me for proof of my age before serving me. I could overlook her jostling of my legal-plus-five years if she hadn't pulled the same one on my side-kick that evening who tops me by five years. Creight has yet to answer for that one."
A couple of more weddings to report this month—Rosamond Stetson Ellis became the bride of Dick Arneson the 26th of Oct. The wedding took place in the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Harwichport, Mass. .
And way out in Denver Bill Durkee was married November 12th to Dorcas Mary Dunklee. Bill has been at Yale Law School, so I imagine he will bring his bride back to New Haven, and his address there has been Box 251, Pine Orchard, Conn.
John "Red" O'Connor is a brand new papa as of October 17, when wife Jean presented him with a baby daughter named Judith Anne. Now for a quick look-see at some of you guys about whom I have a little dope, but would appreciate more.
Bill Aylward lndustrial Relations Division of L. H. Gilmer Co. Philadelphia, Pa. Hall Buzzell is an instructor at Mass. State College. George Denny is in the Life Insurance business in Boston. Bob Evans is at the University of Michigan. Jim Eckels is working for Armour & Co. as a procurer for Dairy Products out in Ogden, Utah. Don Hagen is in the Construction Dept. of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. in Newark, N. J. It's Dr. Allen H. Keniston now with ye old shingle hanging out at 21 E. Main St., Port Jervis, N. Y. Major Freddy Lynch is in Headquarters, Flying Safety, Langley Field, Va. Dick Otter is now living in Princeton, N. J. (what "gives" Richard studying, instructing or what?) Joe Ozanne is a French Instructor at the DeVeaux School in Niagara Falls. Hank Palmer is with General Mills in Minneapolis. Dr. Dick Spillane is at the Baroness Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn. George Sexton is with Talon Inc. in N. Y. C. Don O'Rourke is in the Insurance business in Fort Wayne, Ind. And that's all for now. A Merry Christmas to all of you, and make a New Year's resolution to let your Secretary in on your doings.
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