1948
Autumn and Indian Summer are about over in Hanover. The days and nights are raw and chilly, and the hillsides are giving up their bright colored coatings for one of a sere brown. The trees have lost their leaves, and the hardwoods stand like gaunt scarecrows against the frosty skyline. From my window this morning I can see that the whole length of Moose Mountain is covered with snow as is Smarts in the distance. A blast from an occasional hunter's shotgun can be heard off in the woods, and the smoke pouring out of the Hanover heating plant's chimney seems to disappear into the ether with reluctance as it strikes the cold air. AH in all, it looks as though fall is just hanging on, and that winter can't be far off.
But winter can't come before this week's Cornell game. The tension and anticipation over that game are really strong around town. An overflow crowd is expected, and a good ticket will undoubtedly bring scalper's prices. At the moment, in fact, a ticket for the main stands is as hard to find as an Eskimo on the Sahara.
Have heard from quite a few of you fellows this month, and your news has made my task a lot easier. Many thanks.
Dick Leggat writes from Boston, where he is in Harvard Law, that he has seen quite a few of the fellows around the Hub City. He says Dick Donahue, who is doing a great job at B.U. Law, spent the summer working on the Cape as a member of the Bartenders Union. "Speed" hasn't yet had a chance to see whether Dick can mix a good drink or not.
Jack Tracy, Bill Hartwig, and Fred"Gopher Gus" Loomis are also at Harvard Law. Dick and Gopher room together. In addition, Dick mentions that Bob Merriam is head of a dormitory at Deerfield Academy where he is doing a fine job.
Dick "Approved—R.S.R." Repko writes that he is studying at Columbia's School of Business Administration where he will get an M.B.A. next year. He is planning to go into labor relations work, a field that apparently needs some new blood, judging by the papers. In the meantime, Dick said he was "conducting a program to disorganize the Columbia football team." Judging by the score, he succeeded very well. And Dick wants to hear from any of you '48s who are in the Columbia area.
Bob Tracy has really been running into quite a few classmates. He himself is working for a construction outfit run by Herb Darling '26 in Buffalo, "is getting a crack at everything, and likes it fine." Bob went to the Penn game, and while there ran into Ray Richard, Ed Tarca, Bill Wheeler, and Jerry Poole. Ray has just been transferred from Erie to Philly on another leg of the G.E. training program. Ed, a Thayer grad, is working for an electrical concern that is fulfilling government contracts on Long Island. Bill, also Thayer '49, is working nearby on a project designing sewerage systems for New York State. Don't know what Jerry is doing, but he told Bob he had seen Tom Davis and Bose Kirpatrick at the game. I believe that Bose is in Temple Med School, and that Tom is a rising young executive with a Chicago bank.
Trace ran into Bob Eckerson and his wife on the street in Buffalo one day this fall. The first Trace saw of them, Eck was pointing out Bob's "car" to his wife and saying, "That car could only belong to Tracy." The subsequent conversation disclosed that Eck had just gotten over an appendectomy, and that he is working for an electrical firm in the city.
Beech Lockwood is studying at Cornell Business School. Wish he could do as good a job of disorganizing the Cornell team as Repko did with Columbia. Word about DaveMiller suggests he is finding N.Y.U. Bellevue Med School a hard nut to crack, but that he likes it.
Pete Foster is really keeping busy. He is connected with the local ski club, plays soccer in the National Soccer League, corresponds for the Hartford alumni of his fraternity, takes part in the monthly performances of the Community Players, and participates in the local vets and business men's clubs. In addition to all this, Pete holds down an engineering job and sends in a lot of info about our class. He recently went to the Lake Placid convention of the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association. Pete, with all that spare time, you ought to join a couple of organizations.
And here's some news the Alumni Office sent over. Herb Bender is now a teacher at Greer School, Hope Farm, N. Y. Don Briggs is a salesman for the H. P. Brewster Co., Rochester. Bill Burke is taking a P.G. at the University of Maine in Orono. Ev Chapman is a physicist in Hampton, Va. FredComstock is a resident engineer with the N. H. Highway Department, Bridge Division, and is working out of Concord. Howie Hilton has changed his address from Chicago to Clearwater, Fla. Gene Finke sells photographic supplies for Harbor & Finke, N.Y.C. Art Niederbuhl is in the wholesale grocery business with M. B. Norman Co., Bloomingdale, N. Y. Would appreciate further details from you guys.
And here's news from the marital front via Dick Greene. Way last March Jack Taylor married his Smith fiancee, Helen Ross. Jack and Helen are now expectant parents. Congratulations, Taylors.
Cal Brown and his fiancee, Nancy Joy of Smith, were in town Colgate week-end. He is a mechanical engineer with the Bryant Chucking Grinder Co., Springfield, Vt. JohnFenno is now business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, has his office in Crosby (no longer a dormitory), and lives with his wife in Wigwam Circle.
Snow Job Award of the Month: Congratulations go to Walt Cairns and Al "Daddy"McAllister for their recent handling of a ticklish but humorous situation which required their impersonation of parents to a group of skeptics.
Well, that about winds the clock for this month except for the following Confucius proverb which I heard the other day—in case any of you are collectors of Confucius sayings. "Persons who roll up their sleeves seldom lose their shirts." Next stop Afghanistan.
Secretary, Elm St., Norwich, Vt.
Treasurer, Phi Kappa Psi House, Hanover, N. H.
