1933

And Happy New Year to you!

Many fine things are in store for us in the months ahead. This is the year when you will come back to Hanover in June for Reunion. Before we do that we will have laid aside our miserly habits and eclipsed all contemporary classes with our performance in the Alumni Fund. Class Treasurer Eckels will report a substantial surplus in Class dues payments and recommend that some of this money be turned over to our Memorial Fund, building toward our Twenty-fifth. Early in the year the Executive Committee of the Class will meet to lay plans for Reunion and other projects, appoint key personnel to committees, and the wheels will begin to turn. Volunteers will come forward in large numbers, asking, begging, for a chance to go to work; letters will pour into your secretary's mailbag by the hundreds, and the flood will overflow these notes and fill frequent editions of Hank Smith'sNewsletter. In short, the desert will be seen to blossom with '33s good works, and we will know Utopia.

But this is still '51, and the good that men do not get around to do is still with us. So we will be brief.

You will be interested to learn that the first '33 son is now in College. Bob Taylor Jr. entered this fall with the Class of 1955. The old man came up to check upon things over Cornell week-end and we had the pleasure of doing a little checking ourselves. Bob and Margie came on from Cincinnati, where Bob is in some kind of metal business, and stayed with the Wrights. Jack and Madge threw a party after the game, invited a number of '33s. and we did appropriate honor to the occasion. John and Jean Meek, Bill and Eleanor Bates from West Hartford, Conn., Sam and JeanBlack from New Britain, Conn., Don andMuggs D'Arcy from Dover, N. H., and the Theriaults rounded out the delegation from the class. Bob had thoughtfully brought along a supply of Scotch for the weekend, which lasted just long enough to dispel the postgame chill, but when we'd settled down to a slower pace with the Old Overshoe some of the rest of us had along we got Bob in a corner and brought ourselves up to date. Bob and Margie have three other youngsters besides Bob Jr.—we hope to have a family picture for you next month—business is going well, and just what do you New Englanders think you're doing leaning toward Eisenhower when there's a man like Bob Taft in the picture? Bob is a persuasive fellow and before he got through he had us in a corner.

It was quite a party, and fun to see Bob again after lo these many years. Bob Jr. hasn't showed up in any of our classes yet, but he is serving notice that the day has about arrived when some of the students may come up after class with, "My father tells me that when you were in College ...", and we will only be able to fight back feebly with "Did he ever tell you about the time he....?"

Bill and Maggie Judd '34 were there that night too, and we might just as well as announce here and now that they had their fifth, Rebecca, last July. With this announcement (unless it gets into the '34 notes this month) we keep our record clear, we've beaten our colleague in the next colyum with a Judd birth announcement three times running, and we intend to hold this lead as long as the Judds hold the pace.

While in general this has been a quiet month news-wise, we have learned that Dr.Lorrin A. Riggs of the Psychology Department at Brown has been promoted from associate to full professor. Lorrin was appointed an assistant professor in 1945 and associate professor in 1948. He has done a great deal of research in the field of vision. This past summer he attended the International Congress of Psychology at Stockholm and presented a paper on his work in this field.

Russell Shaver is now manager of all IBM sales and service in the Uptown Office of IBM in New York City.

Frederick S. Clark is office manager for the Shellmar Products Corp. in Springfield, Mass.

Gay Milius has gone back into the Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and he is with the Bureau of Ordnance.

And—so long until 1952.

Secretary and Acting Memorial FundChairman, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh ig, Pa.