1930
Will you be in Hanover July 19 and 20? Reunion chairman Si Chandler is getting the program in high gear and promises that this one will be even better than our record Tenth. With the familiar form of "Greetings" to Eddie Jeremiah, Si has added Jerry to the Reunion committee, thus assuring the class that our needs will be well taken care of and looked after at the Hanover end. Si has already picked out our Reunion costumes, which, he says, can be worn more often than the Indian suits we had in 1940.
The tax has tentatively been fixed at $12, plus the dormitory room charges which at the moment are unknown. If your wife insists on coming along, it will cost you another $5. We shall have another picnic and lots of time for good visits with your friends in the class, as well as contemporaries in other reunion groups. The luncheon and dinner for the wives will be repeated again.
Make your plans to be there. Get after your boss and put your vacation request in early so he can't let you down. If you are definitely going to Reunion, line up the doubtful ones and slow starters and get them on the bandwagon.
The executive committee has arranged a meeting in Boston for Saturday, April 13, at the University Club. As this is being typed, Chandler, Dickerson, Embree, Borella, Haffenreffer, Raymond, McFarland, Rockefeller, Jessup and French have promised to be there, and it is hoped that Adams and Tragle will attend for one hundred per cent turnout. Final plans for the Reunion will be whipped into shap and other class affairs attended to. From now on you will receive further news about the Reunion in the "Fund Thirtyteer," which will provide faster dissemination of information than this column.
February brought forth three aditions to Thirty's second generation. The new little exemption on Herm and Alice Sander's income tax is Mary Alice, born February 2 at the Christina Parker House. The other two February babies arrived the same day, the eleventh Fred and Esther Tangeman announce the birth of Jan Ellen, while Bud and Harriet Ackley's third son, George Davison, who tipped the scales at nine pounds, eleven ounces, provided sufficient excuse for Bud to miss the New York class dinner a couple of nights later. And digging through our files we came across an October note from Al Dickerson containing the news of the August 22nd arrival of Jennifer Lillard. With apologies to all concerned for misplacing this item, we add that Pete Lillard has forsaken Tabor Academy to work for the Sun Oil Cos., in Boston.
The aforementioned class dinner produced a lively discussion on the subject of wives at Reunion. The College is softpedalling this topic, because of the crowded conditions which will likely prevail in Hanover this summer. In addition to the eight classes which will be back every weekend, there will be a summer session in progress, but if it is a question of bringing your wives and kids or staying at home, by all means bring them along with you. We were happy to welcome back some more of our service men at the dinner, including Ed Schuster, Rusty Morrill, Spen Foster, Milt Fleischman, Red Gould, and Ed Warren. Ed is back with Parent's Magazine in New York and confirmed the report that he was married to a Wave at Petersburg, Va., July 20, 1945. Shelly Stark was another who had not been seen at a dinner for many long years.
Ranny Hobbs, who joined Farrar & Rinehart in 1943 as acting manager of their College Department, has now become manager of their growing Text Department. The name of the firm, as of January 1, 1946, was changed to Rinehart & Co., Inc.
Several years ago this column predicted that an important anouncement about Chuck Faye was imminent. The war postponed it for four years, but on March 1 Chuck was appointed manager of perishable freight service of the Western Pacific Railroad Co., the Sacramento Northern Railway and the Tidewater Southern Railway Co. The new manager plans to dovetail a necessary eastern business trip with an equally important visit to Hanover in July. Tom Peirce says he completed the conversion from lieutenant commander to plain Mr. with no strain or pain whatsoever as of midnight January 28. He is now back in Philadelphia, after a 10,000 mile trip on the same old tires, and still looking for a girl who can support a husband in the manner to which he is accustomed.
Jim Mitchell spent most of his terminal leave looking for a roof to put over the five heads of his family. He finally located one at 69 Kensington Road, Bronxville, about a block away from the Vic Borellas, and is now back at his old stand with the New York Telephone Co., in New York. Jim was a lieutenant colonel when he left the Army, after five years in uniform.
Joe Guilfoy is back in Manchester, N. H., after 34 months of service in the civil engineering corps of the Navy. Joe was overseas in the Pacific for two years, from the Aleutians to New Hebrides and Wake Island.
Recent visitors at the Hanover Inn from the class of 1930 included the Red Goulds, the Pooch Meyers and son, the Hal and Roly Boomas.
The sympathy of the entire class goes to Red and Janet Alcorn, whose only son, Thomas Glenn, nine years old, died at St. Petersburg," Fla., after a long illness, on March 5. The boy was passing the winter with his family at Pass- A-Grille, Fla., where Red had joined them a short time before.
Lt. Col. Fran Horn received the Legion of Merit medal at a ceremony held at Biarritz in southern France. Fran, who is now assistant dean at the Army's huge educational institution, earned the award while assigned to the Office of the Commanding General in Washington.
Lt. Bob Hooker recently received his honorable discharge from the Army. He formerly served as an enlisted man in the Mountain Infantry, a battalion sergeant-major. Upon his return to the states from the Aleutians, Bob was selected to attend OCS at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., and received his commission early this year.
Bob Booth was a welcome visitor at the office last month, while in the city on one of his infrequent excursions from the Southold farm, where he and his brother raise vegetables.
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