1947
It's great to have the warm summer months behind us and to be looking forward to the football season once more.
Those of you who were unable to attend reunion this summer in Hanover were anxious to read Dr. John Tower's excellent account of that occasion. The damp weather was unable to detract from a weekend most carefully and completely planned by the reunion committee chairmaned by Townes Harris.
A class meeting attended by 44 classmates on a rainy Saturday morning at reunion disposed of two points of business and then further discussed the lack of a strong overall regional organization. The two points of business were the completion of the election of a new Executive Committee, and the adoption of the proposed Class Constitution with three minor changes. The Executive Committee: Jim Biggie, Al Bildner, Jess Chad-well, BobCraig, Pete Estin, George Ferrarese, Bun Harvey, Iggy Lohse, Bruce Mather, Ed Scully, and Hank Spiers.
Per the adopted Class Constitution, nominations and ballots are currently being circulated among the Executive Committee members to fill the positions for the coming six years of Secretary-Chairman, Treasurer, and Class Agent. These positions were not filled at Reunion time since there were only three members of the new Committee in attendance.
Visitors at the Hanover Inn this summer include Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mac Kinnon, Ed Miller, William Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. TownesHarris, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Churchill, and Mr.and Mrs. Tom Gustenhoven.
Several classmates received degrees June 21 from Harvard University: Jim Winters, Master of Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ted Clark and Dick Mayo, Doctor of Medicine, Medical School; Al Bjorklund and Jim O'Neill Jr., Bachelor of Laws, Law School. Dick Mayo will interne in surgery at Cooperstown, N. Y.
Pro Prochaska has been appointed a research chemist with General Electric at the Pittsfield, Mass., plant. Pro, formerly a research chemist with Charles Pfizer and Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y. and the Citro Chemical Co. of Maywood, N. J., received his M.S. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1951 in chemistry from Rutgers University. Pro married the former Doreen A. Thackeray in Ossining, N. Y., in 1949.
Mike Moran is one of three new laundry sales and technical service representatives appointed by Diamond Alkali Co., Cleveland, 0., to cover commercial, institutional, and linen supply laundries in Georgia and Alabama. He is attached to the Memphis Branch Sales Office.
Fred Ruoff has been assigned to Nurnberg, Germany, as an assistant field director for the American Red Cross. He will assist servicemen in the solution of personal problems and offer financial aid when required. He is one of more than 200 workers now stationed by the Red Cross in Europe and North Africa to render such services to members of the armed services.
Rube Samuels is planning to return to Harvard this fall to work for his doctorate. At present he is working for Thomas Crimmins Contracting Co. in N.Y.C., a small contracting firm specializing in foundations of buildings and heavy construction. Rube's wife Di has taught this past year in the public school system of New Jersey, and she expects to continue that work in Boston and vicinity while Rube continues at school.
Bun Harvey writes from Quantico, Va., where he is a Marine Corps instructor in the Tactics Section of Basic School, teaching rifle platoon offensive tactics. At present he is sharing an office with Walt Snickenberger '46 who is teaching the same course, and he further reports that Hank Parker and Roy Stifler are also instructing in other sections at the Basic School, and that Doug Palmer and GeorgeRusch are also on the post.
Dave Emmons, recently graduated from the Boston University School of Law, was admitted to the Bar of the State of Maine. Dave became engaged in May to Miss Joan McCausland of Lexington, Mass. and now associated with the Boston Visiting Nurses' Association.
Drs. John and Betsy Tower, both graduates with the degree of M.D. from Western Reserve University this past June, will interne at New Haven Hospital, John in pediatrics, Betsy in internal medicine. Kirt McCaleb combined business with pleasure this summer when he visited New England to attend our class reunion and a chemical seminar at Colby Junior College. Kirt received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1949, is married and has one son.
Hank Spiers is a reporter with the HolyokeTranscript. He previously worked as a reporter for the Arlington News, contributed to the Providence Journal, and wrote free lance articles in Great Britain and this country. During the past year, while attending the Brown University Graduate School, he has written a weekly theatrical column for the John Hancock newspaper.
Dave Stahl received his D.M.D. from the Tufts Dental School this summer. During his dental studies at Tufts, he was active in research work and served as editor of the TuftsDental Outlook during his senior year. JohnHavens, former manager of the State Theatre, has been named manager of the Capitol Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass.
Knobby Cunliffe was awarded the Bronze Star in April for heroic action in Korea, IstLt. Nip Hoernel is serving with the Second engineer battalion of the Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Kimball are the proud parents of a son, William III, born April 30, 1951. Willie is a foreman with the W. W. Kimball Co., manufacturers of pianos. William is their first son, but second child; the Kimballs have a four-year-old daughter Jennifer.
On June 10, 1951, Ray Military was ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal church at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. He will be curate at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vt. Ray is married and has a daughter Catherine Robinson, age 2.
Secretary, w Dye Plant Rd., Martinsville, Va. Treasurer, 1164 Northampton St.,- Holyoke, Mass.
