1942

It sure doesn't seem like five years, but it's swan song time. Just twenty more till our Twenty-fifth. Time will fly, won't it? Reunions will come and go much too quickly, so my suggestion is that we get back and enjoy them all. If you have not made your plans by the time you get this it'll be late indeed, but not too late. June 20, si, and 22.

Now of all times the news has begun to flow in with some volume. Perhaps the nearness of the Fifth is a good reminder. It is a good habit to get into.

The last of the news I got from cards a year ago: Kent Barclay, terminal leaving (since married I believe I have reported); Frank Brown, market researcher in St. Paul; Art Carpenter an oriental importer in Philly; John Milnor interning at Queens Hospital, Honolulu; Hank Reynolds with the Federal Mogul Corp in Detroit, still wondering at the 1946 Red Sox and worried about a repeat performance this summer; Dick Rugen an engineer with the Warren Woolen Co. in Stafford Springs, Conn.; Dick Smith in Amsterdam with American Overseas Airlines; Jack Witter with Cushman Chuck Co., in Hartford; Spook Conway a personnel manager with Fisher Brothers in Cleveland; HankColeman with Standard Oil of Ohio.

My morning mail, just in the nick of time, brings letters from Wichita, Kansas, and Madras, India. The Wichita missive is an announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Harve Moots of the marriage of their daughter Kathryn Genelle to Dex Richards in Bombay on May 3. They are now at home at Babyngton, Kilpauk Garden Road, Madras, India. The letter from Madras, naturally enough, was from Dex himself. Dex adds the news that his new wife was formerly with TWA as a hostess, instructor, and supervisor, and then set up the first group of hostesses for Air India Ltd. Dex himself is now burra sahib (manager to you) in the Madras office of the National Carbon Company Ltd. after a spell as manager of the Bombay sector. Dex sent along a 12 page letter which to an old native of India like myself was extremely interesting. His account of the February '46 riots in Bombay and his own experiences therein would be of interest to you all, but are a bit too long for my space here. Suffice it to say that it was a hot time for Dex for a while, and to me offsets the "gravy train" he says he's on over yonder.

Well, that's the end of the string I've had in the last month. Ereviously there were letters from Neil Barber, Dutch Schaefer, and Fred Nichols among others. Neil, who is still traveling in upstate New York and Pennsylvania tor the Hooker Chemical Company, reports that Peter Duncan Barber '66 has a baby sister, Susan, born March 23. JohnnyGlaze is also with the Hooker Company. Neil adds that as a conditioner for Reunion he took in the wedding of Doc Martz to June Landry of Rotterdam Jet., N. Y., on April 23. John Brill and Dick Duncan were also on hand for the shindig. Schaefer, who is still knee-deep in salt, does some locating of longnot-heard from class members. Dick Baldwin and wife are somewhere in the neighborhood of Elizabeth, N. J., I gather, while Doc JohnnyGlesmann is still sweating out the international situation in Korea. Cliff Roberts is now in New York City with Cargill, Inc., a grain house, and living on Staten Island. Dutch says the Roberts and the Bert Englerts are both expecting family additions at any time. Fred Worthen, Dutch goes on, is now in Chile with Atlas Supply, Atlas Tire, or something like that. Dutch bumped into Freddy at Newark Airport as the ex-swimming coach was about to fly down yonder. Finally Dutch news that Harry Edgecomb is living in Livingston, N. J. Fred Nichols writes that he is working for Blue Seal Extract Company, makers of alcoholic extracts, emulsions, etc. He became the father of a baby girl, Suzanne Ward, on January 31. Before he gets through his letter, Fred notes that Art Henderson (now a salesman with Armour), Al Thompson (a Newton Highlands, Mass. dentist), and Paul Forte, working with a manufacturer of silk threads, all have daughters. Fred adds that Brad Thompson, Al's twin brother, is taking a refresher course in medicine in Boston and expects to go into surgery in Worcester. Senator Bob Hill is at B.U. Law School and Jim Crotty at Harvard Law. (Jim also has a daughter according to Fred.)

A postcard from Fred Main who is at Columbia taking graduate work in geology. BobGarwick and Dick Riggs in the same field. Dick is now done and has gone into the oil business. Fred off to Mexico this summer for thesis work.

From Springfield, Mass., a letter from LouHopkins' sister Ramona. She says that Lou has been employed with the Virginia Dare Extract Company in Brooklyn since leaving the Navy. He's presently doing lab work in a course designed to give him an over-all pict ure of the business.

Bill Miller writes from New Jersey of his marriage on April 19 to Elise Sollman of Colby Junior College. Bruce Stephens was an usher and Dick Silver was on hand. Bill is working in the Credit Department of the Irving Trust Company on Wall Street. Bill adds that JayMcEntire was married on the same day in Dallas, Texas, to Mary Lynn Aldredge. Bruce and Liz Stephens now living in Longmeadow, Mass., Bill says, where Bruce is working for the Package Machinery Corp. Bert Anger is still in Germany, dividing his time between Nuremberg and Munich.

Harry Bartlett, now on the administrative staff of the Harvard Business School, forwards news of his engagemnt to Jane Miller of New York City and Wellesley. Harry adds that Pete Link, George Rounds, John Mendes, Army Stambaugh, and Dick Burns are all at Harvard Business.

And somewhere I've got a letter from BillDorrance. It's got lost in the shuffle that has been my life for the last five weeks, but I do remember that Bill is back at Temple Med School, finishing up his course after a hitch in the Navy. He is planning to interne at Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pa.

And finally there is the press bureau and its clippings. A repeat on the news that TomBlankley and Susanne Latson were married on Washington's Birthday in Brooklyn; a repeat on the news that Jack Tobin and Barbara Crane were married on March Bth in South Orange, N. J. The engagement of Mary Fontana of West Lebanon to James Donahue of White River Jet.; the marriage of Elizabeth Fenn and Ben Rogers in Hartford, Conn., on March 22 (with Ad Winship an usher); the engagement of Martha Opsion to Sammy Bell in Pittsburgh; and the engagement of Katherine Grace to Dick Riggs are on file this month. At the same time the Inn records of the Bey of the Hill, Monsieur Dave Heald, show Guy Swenson, Dick Maxwell, Al Dingwall, and Dave Biggs as recent visitors.

There isn't much point to repeat it here, but you have all received the announcement of the Reunion weekend, and I think any questions you may have had have been ironed out. Because of the late date when you will read this, address any questions or complaints to Mr. C. F. Camp, Hanover.

Here's hoping to see a pile of you in June. Thanks for writing and for listening.

Secretary-Chairman, 17 South Willard St., Burlington, Vt. Treasurer, 88 Howard St., Rockland, Mass.