1941

For the most part, this has been one of those newsless months, and as I've been out of town a good portion of the time we're compiling things on the run this time. Hope you will bear with me this once, and I'll try to round out a more complete report in May. Adding to my woes is the fact there is very little backlog material left, and the mail carrier has not been overly burdened delivering letters from three (God bless 'em) classmates.

Have a nice note from Dick McCornack, whom we mentioned not long ago as being back in Hanover as a member of the history department. Having already been credited with a Ph.D. Dick states:

"I hasten to say that I have not as yet received my Ph.D. but hope to soon. Teaching here has been all that I hoped it would be, and now have topped it off by finding a girl to accompany me in my tramps about the hills. Last Sunday (February 29) my engagement was announced to Miss Barbara Basye, daughter of Prof. Arthur H. Basye of the history department. The date is tentatively set for June 14 in the White Church."

Congratulations to you Dick, and sorry for jumping the gun a bit on your degree.

And more congratulations are in order for "Mort" McGinley and a sigh of relief that his recent hospital stay seems successfully concluded. Mort writes:

"Just completed a three-week vacation in the Glens Falls, N. Y., Hospital, if such you call it, as I managed to do a fairly good job of mashing the ends of three of my fingers on a churn drill up here (Tahawus, N. Y.) in the mine. I still have them I m happy to say, particularly as there was doubt on one of them for a while—and now well on the road to recovery, and looking forward to being married on April 17."

Barbara and Bud Rothermel have two sons now, Samuel A. Rothermel II being the latest addition as of January 27, at the Evanston Illinois hospital.

Pete Glenn and Miss Patricia Cutting were married on February 21, in St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Gladstone, N. J. "Jupe" Lewis and Charlie McLane were two of the ushers. The Glenns will make their home in Far Hills, N. J.

I ran across a new little local publication the other day called the Verona Shopper, and the masthead indicated Kathryn Friedlich as Editor, Bruce Friedlich as advertising manager, and Bailey Provost (that's Dan's wife) art director. After thoroughly reading Number 1, Vol. i, I'm sure their project is here to stay. It answers a community need, the principals are having fun with it, and though it's only sort of at the hobby stage now, it could grow to a full-time business enterprise.

Visitors to Hanover the past few months have included Lee Grace, the Art Hills, the Dick Hills, and Austie Baker.

And now credit where credit is due—having been flat on my back with flu, grippe, virus X and every other darn thing for a while, my good wife has stepped into the breach and written most of this month's column. And that offers food for thought, since most of you guys seem to have forgotten the timehonored custom of letter writing, perhaps I can persuade your wife to drop a few lines this way with a bit of news. What say, girls?

Well, that's about it for this month—and before closing just a reminder that the Alumni Fund Drive is in high gear right now, so make it easier for Lew Johnstone, as well as yourself, by getting that check in right away, and keeping '41 on top.

Secretary, 160 Gordonhurst Ave., Bldg. A-31 Upper Montclair, N. J. Treasurer, 447A Washington Ave., Brooklyn 5, N. Y. Class Agent, 3249 Avery Lane, Cincinnati 8, Ohio