1940
Perhaps I should apologize in advance for what this column may lack, since I'm not quite sure whether there is enough material in the notes folder to make up much of a column. Trying to get my thoughts in order and compose this on Sunday afternoon of a weekend commuter's brief home stay is a bit more than I feel equal to today. By the time this reaches you, however, I'll be well settled, I hope, at the above new address, and next month's column can be dealt with a bit more leisurely. How about sending me a note of your own personal news to help me on this task next month? It would be a fine housewarming present to me!
Now to run through the correspondence from a few of you (too few!) which Dick Bowman did not have a chance to report on in the recent flurry of newsletters. A belated note from Bill Harriman, who is doing a job for Creole Petroleum Corporation, in Venezuela, says he's been swamped with work there looking for new oil fields and straightening out old ones. Hopes next year to be in position to give us a big spiel on life in foreign oil fields. Meanwhile, he says "hello" to those of the '40 group who may remember him.
Seymour E. Wheelock, one of Forty's established M.D.'s, hit the nail on the proverbial head in the opening paragraph of his letter, written on letterhead of The Children's Clinic of Denver, of which he is one of the guiding lights: "Your job is not an easy one and in these busy days, probably, it is quite a chore to extract news from all of the men who are so widely separated from each other and from the College. "News from Denver is pretty much routine. "We have quite a nucleus of men from the Class of '40. many of whom gather periodically for the monthly luncheons when they are held. At the moment, I count seven or eight men in Colorado. Among them are (in Denver): Lee Brekke, Bob Welborn, PeteAlexander, Bruce Espey and Dick Campbell. Outside of town, there are Charlie Thomas, in Paonia, and Bob Perry, in Carbondale. "There are about nine or ten children belonging to these men. As you know, I am a pediatrician. Pete Alexander sits in regal splendor behind the rail at the International Trust Company. Bob Welborn has recently formed a law association. Bruce Espey carries on his father's ice business, as well as flying a good bit in the Marine Air Corps Reserve. Lee Brekke is in the lumber business. Dick Campbell is no longer teaching, but I'm not sure what he is doing now."
A flash note from Tom Brade?i indicates that he moved in a hurry last June from New York City to Washington, D. C., where he is settled with family at 2203 Foxhall Road, N.W. He is spending most of his hours as assistant to Allen Dulles, but perhaps some of you who happen to be in Washington from time to time can find him home at that address. Far as we know, wife Joan and son David are making out well on the sidelines with Tom's new assignment.
Every once in awhile we receive a clipping from some fan of Jack Rourke's, which comes to us in an MGM envelope with no good indication of the sender's identity. Maybe Jack's social secretary or his publicity agent is to be suspected. At any rate, the most recent piece promotes a television program entitled I WantTo Get Married, starring Jack as "Master of Matrimony." If you could glimpse the loaded blonde, looking like a left-handed Veronica Lake, with plunging neckline, you'd wonder, as I do, what sort of circus Rourke is embarked on now. If anyone (including Jack) has more light to shed on this puzzlement, please step forward.
From Sam Williams comes a note of personal news, such as we'd like to have from many more of you: "Life goes on for me much the same as it has since the end of the war. I commute daily to NewYork City, where I'm employed by Brundage, Story & Rose, an investment counseling firm. The work is very interesting, and the results are measured quite exactly every day in the stock quotation pages of any good newspaper. "Home life is made pleasant by my good wife Lorraine and a growing family which now includes three children: Patricia, 7, Pete, 5, and S. C. III, 2. They're enough to keep any man busy full time, so consequently my contacts with other '40's are infrequent."
Many of you will remember Hans-JoachimHeinz, who departed Hanover after freshman year to wind up a somewhat unwilling member of the opposition team in the past war.Heinie has finally gotten out of Germany,after completing studies for his doctorate anddoing some research work at Hamburg andLuneburg. He is presently on the staff of theSouth African Institute for Medical Research,located in Johannesburg, South Africa, fromwhence he writes: "A lot of water has certainly flowed down the Connecticut since last we went chubbing together. I was greatly looking forward to seeing most of you at reunion, but things just didn't go right to make that possible. However, there is always another one coming. When you're down here in Africa, you just naturally think a lot of the Hanover hills, the D.0.C., and especially the swell gang in Forty. "I've been made head of the department of parisitology here at the Institute. I consider myself most fortunate to get this position, since the Institute enjoys great respect among the people of South Africa. Though this is different from the work I was doing in Luncburg, I'm not entirely inexperienced, since I did a lot of work in parisitology, especially in protozoology, at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, at Hamburg. "Jo'burg is a growing city which is in the process of being entirely rebuilt. It reminds me in many respects of American cities. Unfortunately, however, cultural life is still very dormant here. I am sure that the next ten years will bring about a great change."
An earlier clipping, sent by his father sometime last May, states that Capt. and Mrs. JoeH. Rinehart Jr. of Swansboro, N. C., are the parents of a daughter born in the Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, N. C. They also have three boys, Joe, Ed and Larry.
Also from the clippings, the engagement we announced in last month's column, concerning the prospective wedding plans of AllenJay. Rosenthal, of Brookline, Mass., and Sylvia Ruth Zura, of Providence, was stale news before the column appeared. They were married on September 6, and are now on a wedding trip to Europe.
Cards from the Hanover Inn remind us that recent visitors to Hanover have been the HerbLandsmans, the Bill Pellingtons, Capt. GeorgeKimball and wife, Bill Williamson and FredPorter. No doubt many more of you will be registering at the Inn this fall in the course of the football season. Whether there, or elsewhere, think of your scribe, and jot down the news on a card to the above address.
IT LOOKS LIKE BASEBALL but football was the topic of discussion. Les Nichols '4O, promotion di- rector for the annual Fresh Air Fund Football Game in New York, signs up Jackie Robinson of Brooklyn to appear on an advance radio program.
1940 STICKS TOGETHER: Shown at the annual dinner of class and club officers in Hanover last May are (I to r): Scott Rogers, member of the Alumni Council and former secretary of the Cleveland club; Elmer Browne, class secretary; Gordon Wentworth, secretary of the Boston Alumni Association; Don Rainie, class treasurer; and Sam Snow, secretary of the Worcester club.
Secretary, 322 Canterbury Rd., Westfield, N. J.
JTreasurer, 88 N. Main St., Concord, N. H.
