1945

One of the letters I received during the month interested me a great deal. Sarah-Jane Crough, wife of Sherm, wrote that she had noticed that the wives of members of other classes write to the secretaries to give them the latest news. I had never given much thought to the wives as a source of news, but now it seems like a good idea. Now that the ice has been broken why don't the rest of you wives drop me a line on the doings of your noble spouses? You, too, can help a great deal in building class unity. Sarah-Jane goes on to say:

"It will interest you to know that ShermanCrough became the father of an 8 lb., 5½ oz., son on October 20, 1947, named Sherman Thomas 'Tommy' Crough. He is three-months old today and quite a boy!"

I also received a long letter from DickOilman:

"I've been here in England since last September, continuing my graduate studies in philosophy at one of the colleges in the University of London. In addition to my full program of academics, I have been able to travel quite a bit on the weekends and in the long vacations, so that by the time I return in the summer I hope to have visited every part of this island. Further, I have already made one quick trip to Paris and hope to see more op the continent before I return. Needless to say, it is a wonderful year from all sides, and I am enjoying a most profitable and interesting experience.

"I've managed the transition to English life and customs without any undue difficulty, and am ready a confirmed tea drinker (of necessity and not by choice), although the high spot of the day is a cup of good American coffee which I make every morning here in my study. With all the rationing and restrictions, the diet is pretty pale and monotonous of course, and I miss so many of the things we take for granted there at home. But all the same it hasn't affected me adversely, and I am making the most of it. You just have to get used to it, for there is no other course here.

"In the past several months I have met and made many new English friends, which is indeed one of the great pleasures of this year here, for everyone has been extremely kind and hospitable. Naturally, I am looking forward to my return home again in another five or six months, but not without pleasant memories of a splendid year."

At last I have heard from a native lowan! Fed Hedges is back in Cedar Rapids and sent over a long letter with a lot of news:

"I suppose you know that Bob Katherman is down at lowa City (State University of Iowa), graduates this month, and is engaged to Carolyn Voss of Davenport. Last time I talked with him he wasn't sure what he would set on fire after graduation, but hoped it would be in Sioux City. "Gene Pinney has been back at Dartmouth for the past two years. He graduates next month, was home during the holidays, letting all of the local belles know just how smooth one can get in Hanover.

"I talked via phone with Charlie Williams in Cleveland this fall. Was on my way through town, so didn't have a chance to see him.

"As for myself, I came back to Cedar Rapids last November, after two years in Chicago. Have been working for Stamats Publishing Company since I graduated from lowa U. Am Associate Editor of Buildings. We moved the Chicago office out here to the main plant, so I'm thriving once more in the old home town.

"Have been engaged since last summer to Sally Stamats (Yes, I'm one of those guys that marries the boss's daughter). Plans are under way for a June wedding, as soon as Sally gets through at the University of Michigan. In the meantime, I'm having a great time watching our new ranch-style house go up on the outskirts of town."

Fed also reported that Johnnie Brandt was married on January third. John and Don W.Campbell are working for the Continental Bank in Chicago.

Jobs: John Paul Meegan is a staff reporter on The Buffalo Courier-Express. John Chambers has been assigned to the Atlanta office of the Deering Milliken Co., Inc. John is to contact the wholesale and manufacturing trade for his company.

Joseph H. Weaver and his wife spent the Christmas holidays in Omaha and got their picture in the Sunday edition of The OmahaWorld-Herald.

Bob Hausman and Gloria Claire Moss were married on January 6. Mrs. Hausman is a graduate of Highland Manor Junior College.

Ed Harte was recently presented a son, Christopher, by his wife, the former Janet Frey of Hanover.

Engagements: Charles W. Murphy and Mary Louise Bailey of Atlanta, Georgia, Stephens College, and the University of Georgia. John Alexander and Virginia D. Colby of Lacrescenta, Calif., Glendale College, and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. LarryLevine and Peggy Shevell Tenenbaum of New York City and Smith. Bud Baldwin and Phyllis Grace Maynard of Wheaton College. TomKing and Mary Louise Purcell from the College of William and Mary. Bill Freese and Marian Adams, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. Miss Adams is teaching at the Cambridge School in Weston, Mass.

That's all the news for now. Why not dropme a line so we can have a bigger column nextmonth?

Secretary, 1625 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines 16, lowa Treasurer, Steele Chemistry Bldg., Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 706 Coleman Ave., Fairmont, W. Va.