1949
Summers certainly fly when you're having a good time, and here it is Labor Day and time to hit the typewriter to beat out the smattering of class news which has accumulated since May. Not as much of it as there should be due to your shameful neglect in writing me. How about that letter you meant to get off by this time passing on your dirt to me?
To start the ball rolling this fall I'll dip back into May when I attended two separate Dartmouth functions and bumped into a few of you. On May ai here in Rhode Island we had our annual dinner out at one of the large country clubs, and the attendance was excellent. Dr. Hopkins, as guest-speaker, was the principal attraction, and two classmates, Harvey Nolan of North Smithfield and Gerry Farnum of Newport, were among the boys there.
Two days later I made the annual spring trek to the Alumni Officers' Meetings in Hanover where each year we try to decide alumni issues and fates. Others present were VailHaak, your Agent, and Bruce Benner of Chicago who is that city's Association Secretary. Vail, incidentally, completed his first year as Agent and did a really fine job for the first year at it. It's far from easy to step into that job, and Vail filled the breach remarkably well. Thanks a lot to Vail and his aides for a fine job.
On July 1 I met Dave Vogels, your Class Treasurer, out of New Bedford when a civilian, for lunch here in town. Dave was home from Randolph Field on leave from Army Air Corps (ijst Lt.) preparatory to going to Japan and Korean duty as a navigator. Just last week I got a letter from him over there acknowledging his safety, etc.
Speaking of Korea reminds that HarveyNolan has received more, and more historic, plaudits for his sensational Korean escapades, the latest being the decoration by the Governor of Rhode Island in behalf of the Marine Corps awarding Harv and his proud wife Jane the Navy Cross for further heroic action over there. Earlier this spring Harv had received the Silver Star, so I think Ave all owe a deep bow and a tip of the hat to ex-Lt. Harv Nolan. Another mate who did his job well real well. The photo of the award was four columns in our Providence paper. Take my word for it that we've got a brave lad among us.
Now into the Social Poop of the summer, and I have lots. First, the engagements. Please excuse the antiquity of some of these. GeorgeSoufleris of Manchester, N. H., to Miss Rita Ruth Heft of Chicopee Falls, Mass CarterHoyt of West Newton, Mass., to Miss Penelope Shoup of Bellport, L. I... . John Coleman of New York to Miss Jo Ann McNaghten of Hutchinson, Kans.... Alex Smith of Larchmont, N. Y., to Miss Marian Elizabeth Hall of St. Petersburg, F1a.... Bill White of Milton, Mass., to Miss Virginia Adele Meseroll of Brookdale, N. J.... Scott Whipple of Medina, N. Y., to Miss Barbara Jean Davis of Newburyport, Mass.... Dave Jones of Glen Ridge, N. J., to Miss Janet Van Zoeren of the same town.... Clayt Morey of Garden City, L. 1., to Miss Corinne Jane Edgerton of Floral Park, L. 1.... Cpl. Ken Soule of Camp Atterbury, Ind. (temporarily), to Miss Martha Ann Hoerle of Plainville, Conn.... Ray King of Springfield, Mass., to Miss Joan Morrow Mc-Kinney of Broad Axe, Pa....
The second step the hitching post Noble MacFarlane of Charlottesville, Va., to former Miss Claire Zimmerman of Sandusky, O. Noble is a 4th year student at University of Virginia Med School.. .. Donald Pardee of St. Albans, N. Y„ to former Miss Muriel E. Graf of Huntington, N. Y. Don is an industrial engineer with the Sperry Gyroscope Corp Jeff Mansfield of Lowell, Mass., to former Miss Jean Owen Remington of Needham, Mass. Jeff is a cost accountant at the Courier Citizen Printing C 0.... Ray Truncellito of North Bergen, N. J., to former Barbara E. MacEwen of Manchester, N. H. Ray presently is an officer in the Army Signal Corps.... Tom Swartz of South Orange, N. J., to former Miss Catherine Ann Phillips of the same town. ...it. TomTowler, now in the Army Infantry (Officer), ot Darien, Conn., to former Miss Suzanne Smith, also of Darien.... Bill Perkins of Portland, Me., to former Miss Zelah Elizabeth Millard of Washington. Bill is an Air Corps Lt.... BobRencurrel of Scituate, Mass., to former Miss Martha Curtis also of Scituate. ... Peter Costich of Westbury, L. 1., to former Miss Mary Ann Tuite of Oneida, N. Y Frank Stowell of Evanston, Ill., to former Miss Luella Eaye Jones of Snyder, N. Y... .Fred Springer-Miller, of Stowe, Vt., to former Miss Glenn Abbott Harden of Pinecroft, N. C. Fred's best man was Summy Plunkett and Jack Harden was an usher. Fred is with the foreign information service of the State Dept.... Harry Randall of Hillsdale, N. J., to former Miss Katherine Mary Potter of Providence.. .. Our Agent, VailHaak of West Roxbury, Mass., took the big jump last July by marrying the former Miss Barbara Grinnell of Durham, N. 1T.... AI
Rich of South Newbury, N. H., to the former Miss Joan Frances Carlin of Littleton, N. H. . .. Len Britton of Hartland, Vt., to the former Miss Priscilla Robinson of Windsor, Vt. FredRemsen was an usher at this one. Len works as a junior executive in his dad's lumber business. .. . Tom Barr of Bronxville, N. Y., to former Miss Marian Jane Gaston of Houston, Tex.
The third step, the one with the longest hours, hit the following. March 21 to Mr. andMrs. Gil Campbell of Springfield, Mass., a son Craig Eaton.... March 31 to Paula and JohnGallup of Greenville, S. C., a daughter Susan Barton... . May 14 to Bill and Naomi Ballard a son William Parker, in New York.... August 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lovell of Milford, Mass., a son Jeffrie Holmes... .
Now into miscellaneous stuff as time and space a110w.... From Nellie Abrahamson of Cleveland comes a letter reporting that he's in his junior year at Ohio State's School of Optometry where he's busy as hell, but still finding time to play some Softball. Nel was the champion '49ers big and very able ist baseman back in Hanover. He hears often from Bill Marden, just graduated from R.P.I, with engineering degree, and from Ensign Al Sullivan in Navy Air Corps.... Letter from Lt.Paul Woodberry down at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. Paul is a Second Balloon Navigator, whatever that is. He started as a pilot-trainee, when he had Jack Everatt as a classmate. Paul also reports running into Ken McGlain who works for Midland Oil down in Texas. On recent New York leave, Paul spent much time with old-roomie Jim(Chicago) Smith and wife. Smitty is a Second Looie in Air Corps processing supplies in Brooklyn. Smitty married Ort Hicks' sister, reports Ort is due back from Copenhagen studies this month.... Of the 16 men who began internship July 1 are Otto Schumacher and Dick Kearsley. That's at Mary Hitchcock. ... Recent (?) Hanover Jnn visitors included Bob Barnaby twice (May and July), Dick Hook in July, and Christian Bill Miller in April.... Ed Macßurney was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons on May 22 in Springfield, Pa., by the Right Rev. Bishop of New Hampshire, Charles Francis Hall, D.D.... GeorgeSnyder of Kingston, N. Y„ received his Master's in geology from University of Chicago in June. ...Lt. Bob Smith of Lynn, Mass., is in Korea, after training at Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Riley, Kans.... Joe Riley graduated from Georgetown Law School in June.... Naval Aviation Cadet Paul Canada is at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Kingsville, Tex.... All for now. How about that letter????
TEACHING IN GREECE: Phil Chapalis '50 shown at Athens College where he teaches chemistry.
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