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October, and leaf-turning time. Turning the pages back to summer for the moment, it is not too late to tell you about a most enjoyable reunion which Joyce and I had with many of the Cleveland '4O contingent in late August. While our primary mission was a visit with my parents, we did manage to see quite a few classmates. Scott and LoomieRogers started us off right by getting the Karl Bruchs, the John Knutsens, and the DaveDavenports together for dinner one evening at the Rogers' homestead. Dave's wife Carol was enjoying life on the occasion of her first outing since the arrival of their new baby girl. Dave is still working for American Ship- building at their Cleveland headquarters, having wound up there after stints for the firm in Buffalo and Toledo. We spent a major part of the evening trying to convince Sue Knutsen that Ike was a better bet than Taft and finally had to call the contest a draw, being completely out of breath. In between other chatter, which ran the usual gamut from jobs to children and the pennant chances of the Cleveland Indians, we discovered that Eb Cockley, wife Mevie and children were taking a vacation at his family's farm in Ohio to give Eb a respite from his law practice.
Later that week, we managed to attend a dance at the local country club, sponsored by Wells College alumnae. Classmate BobMacMillen's wife Crosbie was one o£ the ring- leaders so it was natural that a lot of local '40s took tickets. We saw Dr. Bill Huffman at a pre-dance party at the MacMillens' home. He, John Sinclair and Bob Williams are very busy '40 medical men in that area. Bob and his wife Ruth were East visiting the LewChipmans at the Jersey shore, so we didn't see them. We did manage to catch up with Keith Benson at the dance that night, however, and found him looking just the same as when we graduated. He's punching away in the employ of Pickands-Mather, as is WillDuncan, whom we missed seeing. Through his parents, I determined that Ned Jacoby, former Clevelander, is still happy in his free- lance designing work on the West Coast, making his home with wife and boy in Los Angeles.
Leaving Cleveland, but not Clevelanders, for the moment, the weekend after Labor Day, Joyce and I drove up to Washington, Conn., to visit Diz and Gina de Sieyes. In itself, the weekend was a wonderful climax to the summer, but it was also enlivened by the appearance that Saturday of Scotty and Loomie Rogers. They came on to join the de Sieyes in a post-season trip to Cape Cod. We just helped start their vacation off on the proper note with a small but lively Dartmouth reunion. Two weeks later, the Rogers stopped for the night with us in Westfield on their way back to Cleveland via a visit with John and Betsy Case the following night in Harrisburg.
Elsewhere on the class scene, a letter from Bud Hewitt reports that his ladies specialty garter business is going full blast with the heavy fall selling season bringing snappy sales returns. Now that I'm out of the corset business, he couldn't give me the usual blast as a partner in the intimate apparel trade. However, he did submit some news of other classmates. He passed along the rumor that TomBallantyne has forsaken his New York haunts to set himself up in a liquor store in St. Petersburg, Fla. We have no confirmation, but it sounds like a good move for Tom, following in the footsteps of Don Schott, with his drugstore in Fort Lauderdale, and DinkWiener, with his newly-purchased interest in the Florida Ladder Company, at Sarasota. Bud also reported having dinner recently with "sylph-like Jack F. McDonald," former Jayvee footballer and contestant with Bud in Andover-Exeter rivalry. He is still covering the Middle Atlantic Area as advertising solicitor for three trade publications in the plumbing and metal-working industries. JackLittle is doing well as advertising manager for Martex Towels, and indicates there will be a third addition to his growing family early this October.
Lt. Col. Edward J. Doyle is attending the Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., where he began a ten-month course in September. Ed entered the Marine Corps in 1941, and has served two tours of duty in the Pacific Theater, winning the DFC and Air Medal.
Gleaned from the periodic change-of-address notices: Phil Dostal has apparently changed professional affiliation from McCannErickson to E. S. Browning Co., of San Francisco. Our query to find out just what he does there has produced no response. GeorgeMills, ex-Clevelander, is reported as being the director of the Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs, Colo. Frank Orenstein, who has followed a varied career, first as Army captain, and, since, in market research and survey work with a large market research organization, R. H. Macy & Co., and Voice of America, respectively, has now joined the State Department in its Exchange of Persons activities. Bob Dibble has departed his personnel job with Sargent & Co., in New Haven, to become personnel manager with Teleflex, Inc., in Philadelphia. John Cooper, formerly Houston manager for the Wall Street Journal, is reported to be located in Chicago with that publication. Joe Feemster, whose last known affiliation was as a salesman for DuPont in Boston, has shifted his address to Wyoming, 0., for reasons unknown to us. Julian Hartwell has turned up after a long absence from our view, identifying his present employer as New England Tel. & Tel., in Providence, R. I. Jay Stout was operating his own photographic business in New Jersey when last we heard, but he now turns up with a new address in Palmyra, Pa. Similarly, Jim Faulkner, who returned from the Far East a year ago to settle down at Keene, N. H., has apparently moved to a job which makes living at Saxonville, Mass., desirable. NickTurkevich has shifted from statistical research work for the Atlas Supply Co., at Newark, N. ]., to take up market research duties with Continental Oil Co., at Houston, Tex. JohnHarley, whose last recorded whereabouts placed him as U. S. vice-consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador, is now reported to be in banking activities in San Francisco.
You can see that there are many open questions posed by these address changes, so if you who have the answers will please step forward with even a postcard account to fill in the blanks, it would be a tremendous help to your short-on-news secretary.
Fred Fuld Jr. is in the birth notes spotlight with the news that Fred II recently made his appearance. Both the birth announcements and the engagement notes are conspicuous by their absence this month, but unless you guys and gals tell me, I can't report them. Suffice to say that the Brownes will be adding a fourth, preferably a second boy, sometime next April.
Cards from the Hanover Inn show that Dick Glendinning and wife made the north- ward trek from Florida to Hanover during August. Also visiting Hanover that month were Roy Merchant and Maurice Williamson. The mail has just brought the first official notice from treasurer Don Rainie that class dues for the season at the usual rate of $4 are now in order for payment. Give him the kind of early response that will save him licking a lot of stamps and envelopes for later mailings. And, remember, your continued receipt of this MAGAZINE, notwith- standing this column, is well worth the price of your annual dues.
The Big Green has thus far met Holy Cross and Penn. Even though both games left them on the short end of the scoring, there is still a good possibility that the annual match with Princeton will bring that glorious upset. For all of you who plan to journey to Princeton, make a note on your calendar to meet at the Nassau Tavern for a big '40 pre-game get-together. Fred Porter will be holding forth as a committee of one to organize the festivities, whatever they may be, at that encounter. So don't forget!
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