1942
The holiday season having incurred since my last opus went forth in the mails, my mail bag has been unfilled of late and so you will all have to take what little I have to throw up at you, most of it older than the granite hills whence came our muscles and our brains.
First, to acknowledge Christmas greetings from Mike DeSherb, who gave a thumbnail account of his meanderings of the past year plus a sketch of what AVC has done in the same period; from Joe McCormick, from Oily Quayle and clan, and from George Sumner, now a Navy Doc at Kwajalein. George and his wife Audrey are well situated in a lovely cottage, two minutes from a lovely beach. All very lovely, I'd say. Ted Locke, a two-striper regular, is also at Kwajalein.
On the scene and in person was Jack Tobin, of whom I had a fleeting glimpse at Stowe, ski mecca for the East's distinguishing skiers. Tobe reports that all is well in N.Y.C. and that he is doing okay in the Merchandising Department of Gimbels. Bob (Livio) Smith, New Britain, Conn., schuseer, was a New Year's guest for some skiing. He's still hard at selling mill supplies and ducking inventories.
Along the organizational line I have nothing more to report in the way of Reunion news. Farl's letters should be started again by the time you get this and he undoubtedly will bring you up-to-date. Bill Housel has taken over Pennsylvania-Delaware activities and will activate such get-togethers as natives of those climes are interested in. Dale Bartholomew thus moves into command in Ohio. I admit that the local business and social schedule has been such that I have not done much stirring in class affairs since Thanksgiving. If skiing excursions into Vermont hills don't take too much time for the next six weeks I'll try to do better.
My only other letter of the month was a note from Faith Huck, wife of Art, reporting the arrival of their second daughter, Georganna, on November 19. Pamela, number one, arrived back in '43. Art and Faith are living in Enfield, Conn.
The News Service reports the following, which are good space fillers. The engagement of Judith Zahler of Smith and New York City to Charley Weinberg, back in November. The marriage of Ruth Wood of Smith and Richmond, Va., to Bill Thompson on November 16, Bill now with Haddock Engineers in California. The engagement of Karen Bausum of Verona, N. J., to Bill Holmes. Bill now with the Holmes Oil Cos. in Newark. The marriage of Joya Bovingdon of Washington to Art Cox on Thanksgiving Day. Art is with the State Department. And the engagement of Patricia Spore of the University of Michigan and Ponca City, Okla., to James Tompkins.
All of which now leaves me very much on my own.
John Olson a June grad in Hanover; Jim O'Mara a field engineer in Trenton; Bill Oppenheimer in the linseed-oil business in St. Paul; Ben Page a foreman trainee in Houston, Texas, his first love; Bill Parmer pitching for the Lynchburg, Va., Piedmont League Cardinals (I hate to report that they finished in the cellar); Sid Patterson an engineer in Tulsa; Dick Peebles with a fellowship at the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, New York City; John Perkins a student at Babson Institute, Boston; Bill Perry a student of theology; Pete Peterson a West Coast food products broker; Don Pfaff still in Germany as an Army Captain; Bud Pogue in the Fort Thomas, Ky., real estate game (pop of Catherine Lee on March 28); Bill Provost still in the Navy as an LST CO: Ed Rasmussen still in the Army as an Intelligence Lieutenant; Chet Ray at Hanover; Pat Reilly still with the Navy; Em Rice with the Standard-Knapp Corp., Portland, Conn.; Bill Richards vice president of the Catawba Beach Club, Port Clinton, Ohio; Dick Riggs at a Columbia Graduate School; Cappy Rix a creamery employee in Berkley, Calif.; Cliff Roberts a Minneapolis grain man; Bob Rodgers a civilian Stars and Stripes War Correspondent in Germany; Harry Rollins selling for the Upjohn Co. out of N.Y.C.; George Rounds at Harvard Business School (pop of Helen on May 4th); Bud Ruffner managing the J. C. Penney Store in Shreveport, La. (dad of Bud Jr. 28 Jan. '46); Bill Russell a credit analyst with Chase National Bank in N.Y.C.; Art Sale in advertising in N.Y.C.; Dave Sargent with United Investment Council, Boston; Dutch Schaefer a salt salesman in Elizabeth, N. J. (pop of Rickey on May 31); Bob Schoonmaker a Hanover student; Bob Schueete in Public Relations around Boston; John Scolaro a publishers' advertising representative in Detroit; Bill Scott married Helen B. Whittle on May 3, Bill with Cunningham Cleaner Corp.; Dan Seacord back at Dartmouth; Bob Searles the Norwich University ski coach; Gene Serafin an Army doctor; John Sewall still an Army Sergeant; Bob Sherman an expediter in Chicago; Dick Silver at Tuck; Bill Simpson, a Ford trainee, married Valerie Conway on March 22; Dave Skinner pop of Dave the Third, 2 January '46; Jim Skinner in the construction business in N.Y.C.; Dave Smith a Navy Doc; Ed Squire a Chem student; Ed Stafford first back at Dartmouth and now I understand back in the Navy; Army Stambaugh a research assistant; Doug Starrett a toolmaker in Athol, Mass.; Bruce Stephens back at Tuck; John Stewart back in Hanover; Doug Stowell at Yale Law; Buck Strader with Saks Fifth Avenue; Frank Stratton a salesman of Commonwealth Fund, Boston, Art Stukey still a Navy Lieutenant and Tony Susen a Navy Medic.
Which is where I will leave off this time. The old stuff is getting low to the point where I can no longer be indifferent about it. So please, I beg and beseech of you, come through with some news.
And above all don't forget that this is the year that makes "5."
Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt.
Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.
ANNUAL BOSTON DINNER, FEB. 26 COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL, 6:15 P. M.
