1940
This is get-acquainted1 with-the-foreign-element-in-our-midst month, in some part due to the arrival well after the tenth of January of holiday greetings from Australia, France, and Ecuador. Anyway, if you'll turn your minds from March winds back to a white Christmas, consider the class greeted as of then by CecMoore (joined by Nell and John Ritchie) who was still concerned with the European operations of Pan-American; by Jack Harley, the silent one of many moons standing, who has a Senora unknown in class records, and can be reached at the American Consulate General, Quayaquil, Ecuador, and by Harold Hillman, who says hello from Melbourne, Australia, where he has been since September with General Motors, and looking forward to the skiing season which starts next June. In addition to these direct contacts, the ever accurate report on address changes from Hanover lists BillCoulson as located at Sao Paulo, Brazil, with an outfit that sounds to my untrained Portuguese like oil.
Around April a year ago I reported that contact had been reestablished with HansJoachim Heinz, our news of him being, however, very meager. A letter posted to the address then given has just been returned marked addressee unknown, and Scotty Rogers wrote a month ago that his personal efforts to contact him had been unsuccessful. It is known that he is married, has a small son or daughter, and was studying for a degree in biology. His last address was Military Hospital, Zinneberg, Glonn. Any further word of or from him would be appreciated, both for reestablishing contact with a long out of touch member of the class and for its value to the class records.
Our doctors of medicine, in the course of getting settled, it is presumed, continue to provide news by their nomadic tendencies. Anyway, Dr. Bill Blake is at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York; Dr. Bob Unangst is stationed at the Naval Hospital at St. Albans, L. I.; Dr. Al Humphries has foregone the pleasures of a Hanover winter in favor of those in Yonkers; Dr. Art French is in Baltimore, presumably having severed his recent military connection; Dr. Bill Sinclair is in Pathology at University Hospitals, Cleveland; and Dr. PercMclntire has moved to Lewiston, Md.
The group activity in the Chicago area seems to be underway, returning to the good parties of the pre-war couple of years when the 1940 Chicago delegation was the most active in the class. Hal Sommer (address Room 932, 7 South Dearborn, Wolf Management Engineering Company) has agreed to head it up with Will Rothermel, Bud Raymond and Dink Wiener offering assistance. Hal says he will contact every one whose address we supply, but some of you who may be interested, or who get to Chicago only occasionally may be missed. You can reach Hal at the above address for details on the first shindig, which is reported to be of the spring beer party variety.
And the following briefs: Rick Davidson, married (if plans went off as scheduled) on January 18, to Ellen Burtt of Washington; BillHalsey, still holding on to bachelorhood (by his back teeth, 1 hear), placing high in ski races in the North Country (two of which caught the eye of this strictly recreational slider-on-the-boards); Major Sumner Peterson, now stationed at Langiey Field, Va.; ChuckGoodwin, topographical engineer with the U. S. Geological Survey, Traveling for the Atlantic Division; and Bill Wotherspoon, labor relations, Ford.
Our diligent treasurer reports that one hundred of you, as of February 1, were still holding out on those four small bucks for the class. Jack has gone through all his follow up memoranda, so, assuming that you were slow only in order to get the full picture of his literary efforts, you may now write the usual Pay to the Order of—Class of 1940—and send it along. Incident to your payment you might add a few words of biography anent yourself, and other '40s within your ken.
May I add that, although the flow of news seems to have worked itself down to a steady stream, though by no means at flood level, there are many of you characterized in class records by only large open voids. Now you may be the shy, retiring Harvard type for all I know, but there must be a few of you who really enjoy your status as nonentities. I promise special personal thanks, engraved and mounted if requested, for information leading to a formula for unearthing that third of the class which seems to have disappeared without trace, save that their mail can follow them, but can't find the way back.
Secretary, 16 Elm St.,.Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, _ 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
