1941
It used to be that for me the first signs of fall were the yellowing leaves, the run of tough-fighting bluefish out in Plum Gut, the long losing streaks of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the first thud of leather shoes against pigskin. But that has changed. Now the first sure sign of fall is my communique from Hanover reminding me that class notes are due on September 5. That date is almost upon me so once again the typewriter comes out of the closet and here I go rummaging through the scraps of information I've accumulated during the summer months. And the pickin's have been mighty slim this summer. Letters from the class members have caused my mai'.man no concern at all. In fact, if everyone wrote as often as do my fellow '4ls, we would be able to cut the Federal payroll by quite a substantial margin. Be that as it may (and I hope it won't be that way long) there are some tidbits to pass along this month.
First of all let me give you a recap of what happened to '4l in the Alumni Fund drive ended last June. You know, of course, that the Fund had its most successful year in history with donations topping the $600,000 mark. However you may or may not know the relative standing of our class in the Green Derby among classes from 1938 through 1946. We had 345 members of the class contribute and in dollars we reached about $5,300 or approximately 67% of the class quota of $7,870. Our combined rating left us sixth out of the nine classes mentioned with '43, '44 and '46 behind us. A record was established this year when 34 classes exceeded their assigned objectives. We did not join that select circle but neverthless we made a commendable showing. And Bud Martin did an excellent job in his first year as class agent. Well, now I ditch all my records on the 1952 Fund drive and wait till next year.
The College news bureau has been on the ball this summer and the clippings are piling up in my file. Perhaps it would be best to attack them first. Here's an item about BillDavid, the former soccer luminary. Bill, whose hometown is Orangeburg, N. Y„ has been named dean of men at Western Maryland College. Bill received his M.A. at Columbia and is continuing his doctoral studies there. He leaves Denver University to go to his new post. Bill's presence out at Denver may explain in part their rise to importance in the skiing world.
An item about Chuck Bolte. Effective August 1, Chuck became executive secretary of the American Book Publishers Council. For the past two years he has been political advisor to the United States Mission to the United Nations. Johnny -Bowers out in Detroit is now an account executive with the fine advertising agency of Brooke, Smith, French & Dorrance. He's been with the agency since 1946 and the Detroit Times tells that he served four years in the Navy as gunnery officer of the USS New York.
Down deep in the heart of you-know-what Ted Redington has been appointed a Home Office representative in Houston for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester.
News of your classmates continues to have a very high literary and educational tenor this month. Now here's word that we've come up with a poet and a good one too. He's HarryButterworth, who's a graduate student at Yale and has just won the Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize in poetry. This is one of the most coveted literary prizes at Yale and is awarded annually to the student enrolled at the University for the best unpublished poem or group of poems. Harry's poem Knock Brandon took the prize. How about sending me a copy, Harry, and let me remove it from the ranks of unpublished poems?
If you think that Eisenhower and Stevenson are doing a job of campaigning you ought to have seen what a campaign Norm Locke ran up in Bridgeport, Conn., for President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. It was quite a job and both Ike and Adlai hope they do as well Norm won. Norm is married, has three children, lives in Fairfield, Conn., and is extremely active in community affairs. He is at Raybestos as Assistant Production Manager.
A bit of news from the Mid West, concerning the engagement of Katharine Reynolds to none other than Stacy Hill. And so another '4l is removed from the list of eligibles. Yes, the holdouts are shrinking in number. The report is that the wedding takes place in September. Let's hear from you, Stace, on the situation in the Mid West.
Sumner Arneson married the former Leonora Handy of Longmeadow, Mass., since my last report; and in June, the New York Herald-Tribune carried news of the engagement of Miss Margaret Pratt of Oyster Bay, L. 1., to Dr. Dick Cardozo, who is now an assistant resident surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston. And Jack Ripley was in Hanover this summer to proudly announce that he too had left the ranks of the single gents. He was married to the former Miss Joan Robbins of Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
Space for these class notes is going to be cut down slightly in order to make room for additional features up forward in the MAGAZINE so I'll get in the habit of shorter notes by signing off and seeing you next month. Leave us hope that the Dodgers will make it this year and save your secretary his annual fall attack of nervous prostration.
Secretary, 47 Hook Lane, Levittown, N. Y. Treasurer, 1140 Wightman St., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
