1940
Your attention, please, for one short moment. Look at the dates above, write them down in your memo pad (if you use such things), commit them to memory, cancel all other engagements, charter a bus, plane, railroad, ship, bicycle, buy an extra pair of shoes, or whatever, but be there! Big Don says he has put away his tuba for this year, just to get the big weekend ready for you. The least you can do to show your appreciation is show up. If you can't get a baby sitter, bring 'em along, the surviving remnant of the 1940 Bachelors' Marching and Chowder Society will have a delegation, untrained but eager. No further juvenile entertainment is planned. Guarantees to date have been received from the College and Tanzi's, and there was some mention of beds being available for periodic brief occupancy.
The succession of weekend reunions in connection with the 1949 football schedule was given a sendoff by Bill Rearden's cocktail party after Penn. The report at hand mentions host Bill, Jordan Van Cleve, Bill Bumsted, Chet Ferguson, Sid Morley, Dave Leake,Jay Weinberg, Herb Condit, Fred Ewing,Marty Rubin, Bud Hewitt, Nick Turkevich,Lew Chipman and Chuck Bensinger. Special mention was made of the dates of Bill Rearden (his wife), Bill Bumsted, and Bud Hewitt, the Cleaves family, represented by everybody but Bill (headed by the sister who married Nick Turkevich), a Lehigh man smuggled in by Chet Ferguson, and Fred Ewing's wife who is either an Admiral, or the daughter of one. There were also a few ringers from '39 and '41 who must have thought the party was going to be free.
Three days after the deadline for these notes we saw a very worthwhile football game (D 39, Holy Cross 7), and had lunch, visited with, saw fleetingly in the distance or sipped cocktails with: Jud and Peg Lyon, whose apartment was the focal point for the day,. Joe Adams, who just happened to be around Hanover and discovered there were a football game and a 1940 gathering, Don and RubyRainie and Dick Everett, very antisocial, but rung in here because they sat near us, Kneeland Swenson, Cal Sterling, and two of our remaining Hanover docs, Bob Unangst and Howie Oliver, whose wives will be unforgiving since we can't mention their names, the filing system being what it is. Somebody said,. too, that Steve Jewett was around, but the Laconia influence was too strong to overcome (the rest of them stayed home) so he was, to our knowledge, invisible.
Coming up are Harvard and Yale (history before this gets to print), Bud Hewitt's arrangements for a 1940 corner at the Dartmouth Club after Columbia November 5, and the repeat of lunch before the game and cocktails after at Jud Lyon's apartment for Cornell on November 12. The address, in the event you don't read your class communications very thoroughly, is 1 South Park Street, park on the lawn opposite if you have outof-state plates.
New classmates, associate variety, for this month are: Earle Reingold's second son, Suzanne Snively (Mrs. Ray) Dau, recently of Janesville, Wisconsin, Kathryn Wilson, who moved down the street a ways in Cleveland Heights, following her recent marriage to John Moore, and Ruth Beede Agar, of Bismarck, North Dakota, married to Frank.
Further word has been received to the effect that: Alec Clark has abandoned the world for a position as assistant director of the Office of Student Placement at Harvard (he claims to be an undercover man, but that remains to be proved); Ken Arwe is the new City Solicitor of Keene, New Hampshire; Harry Midgley, "rising young bank executive" of Worcester, Mass., is a moving force behind a new young business and professional men's organization there; Dave Leake has transferred operations from New York to Philadelphia; Dr. George Schneider is Associate Resident in Orthopedics in Charity Hospital, Shreveport, La.; Jim Buck has been appointed head of the cathode chemistry group at the product development laboratories of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.; Dr. JackSchleicher was recently appointed teaching fellow in obstetrics and gynecology at Hanover; and Art Mountrey is now New York district manager for American Home Foods, Inc.
Don Rainie keeps us up-to-date on 1940 in New Hampshire with' this, "Bud Swenson's difficulties with arthritis have responded to treatment. During my vacation I paid a flying visit to the scene of operations in Gilford where Ike Weed and Gary Allen (between short hops to Frankfurt and back) together with partner Gus Pitou are laboring like beavers. Having splurged on some high priced advertising in one of the plush monthlies, they expect a bigger backlog of orders up to Christmas than they have on tap at present. Things have been going favorably, according to Ike, and he hopes to get in more skiing this winter, with initial details pretty much ironed out. Last week I missed a visit from Maurice Williamson. Last I knew, Willy was struggling with life's problems in New Jersey, but his card indicates that he now operates out of Curley's clip joint. We've lined up our sitter for Harvard six weeks ahead, because we do not intend to miss that operation, barring act of God."
There seems to be more, but it will have to wait for next month. We are in process of moving the Moody brood forty miles west, please note the changed address at the head of the column, and somewhere along the line there will probably show the remains of our notes file. The Moody memory being 2.0 or less, it's a case of no file, no news.
C.C.N.Y. PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT: Lester M. Nichols '40, director of the City College public relations department since 1946, has been named Assistant to the President for Public Relations.
Secretary, 203 College St., Burlington, Vt.
Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt.
REUNION JUNE 16 to 18, 1950BE THERE!
