1942
I am no Fred Stockwell with home delivery and all, but the big event in my life since I last came to you is the arrival of Candace Page, all six pounds and eight ounces of her, on April Fool's Day. Mother, daughter, and even father are doing well at this point, although it was hard on father for some time.
Terrible Ted Arico, our treasurer, has failed me and I am sorry that I have no financial report for you at this time. I am still hoping that I might have some such data for you in the June issue which will undoubtedly reach you before the mass trek for Hanover starts on or about June 20th.
You have all, no doubt, received Jim Farl's number one issue of the year with the news about Reunion. I dare say that now that Farl has taken the first of a few minutes from his ALUMNI MAG. duties he will follow up this number one essay with more and richer details of the three day soiree into the hills. The program is set to start with cocktails and a buffet supper Friday night at the Class Tent, and a full program follows for the three days. The Class Tent, as some of you may remember from our undergraduate days, is the center of activity with various extracurricular affairs coming up around the campus. There will be a reception at President Dickey's Friday night, followed by a dance for all reuning classes. Saturday we start out together with a class breakfast, the class meeting with class movies, and a stag Alumni Luncheon. There is a beer outing at the Canoe Club at 2 Saturday afternoon with a five-hour period at this time which will allow for fraternity get-togethers and the like. The Class Banquet is at 7 Saturday night with a play for them what wants Saturday night. Another class breakfast at the Inn, a Memorial Service, and a buffet lunch at the Inn are on Sunday's itinerary. It is a program which the committee has studied out thoroughly with the idea of having something doing all the time and with everyone getting a chance to see as many of the classmates as possible. And always there is the class tent. Let's let Chick know we're coming.
The mail bag this month has been rather gratifying. Right after X dispatched the April copy through March storms, John de la Montague reached me by courier from Jackson, Wyoming, where he is presently worked up as a teacher-coach and summertime National Park Ranger. John puts forth a mighty inviting line about the opportunities and needs and good points of the wild West and suggests that a few o£ his classmates give the Yellowstone state a try. Johnny adds that from New Haven he hears John Storrs and Dave Sills are setting the world on fire in the fields of architecture and sociology respectively.
The women have helped out too this month. There was first a letter from Alice Mae Sturz, wife of Charlie. They are presently living in Scarsdale from which Charlie commutes daily to his job with the Treasurer's Department of General Motors. Alice adds that Ed Millikin is with Time Magazine and also living-in Scarsdale; that Ernie Friez is assistant hotel manager of the Treadway's Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, Florida; that Ira Berman is engaged and plans to be married in May; that Bob Highmark is with U. S. Steel in Cleveland; that Wendy Nauss is studying law at Yale. A letter the likes of which some of you guys might write once in a while. And then the other day there was a good long note from Melvina Herberger (Mrs. Chuck) in Cincinnati. Mrs. H. reports that she and Chuck were married last August 10th with Frank Stratton as one of the ushers. Chuck is now a graduate assistant in English at the University of Cincinnati. Melvina adds that Bill Stockdale, his wife and daughter are in Cincinnati with Bill doing graduate work at the University; that Sam Hall is living and working in Carrollton, Ohio; Jeff Markell is with the Art Students League in New York. Sometimes the women are a joy forever.
Dick Higgins reports from Chicago that the first of several Wednesday noon meetings of the class was a success. On hand were BudMcKinlay (co-promoter), Dick Clarke, GlennGreen, Bill Stegner, Al Bede, Brayton Smith,and Don Williamson. These meetings will be continued and any '42 in the Chicago area is welcome to drop in at Carson Pirie's Men Grill at one on Wednesday. Dick also reports that Dan Hagge is now in Chicago as a safety engineer and is living at the Lawson YMCA. Another Chicago correspondent, Jim Inger-soll, reports that in the interim of our last letters he has acquired a daughter, Jean, and a son, Jim Jr.
From Pasadena, Calif., Joe Nason writes that he is happily married and studying law. Saw Pete Koelch at a recent Dartmouth luncheon in Los Angeles, but there is no mention of what Pete is up to. Joe also tells that BillSimpson is in Detroit learning to be an automobile executive. From Montclair, N. J., there is the invitation to the wedding of Elise Marie Sollman to Bill Miller. A pre-wedding report indicates that Bruce Stephens will be an usher. Mike deSherb in NYC is looking for a used car. In asking me about same Mike adds that Kelley Wehnes, who is now teaching at Mexico City College, married Mrs. Lutecia Quintanilla in December. Mike's address, 16 West 71st St. And from Davenport, lowa, Harry Bartlett's mother notifies me that Harry received his Master's Degree from Harvard Business School in February and is now with the Administrative Staff of the school. (I think I had this last month.)
From the News Service there is a mite of information this time and most of it is confirmatory. There is advance news that LeslieDouglas Allen will be married to Paula Fleer of Cleveland and Wellesley on April 11; that Susanne Latson was married to Tom Blankley in Brooklyn in February; that Katherine Grace of Hinsdale, Ill., and Vassar has an nounced her engagement to Dick Riggs.
Which about does it for this time. One more issue and it will be our Fifth. Plan for Hanover on the 20th of June.
Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.
