1943
Since we prepared copy for our last column, we have received a bulletin from Hanover giving more details on next June's reunions. The 25- and 50-year classes (1903 and 1928) will join the older classes of 1888, 1893 and >B9B in holding their get-togethers on Commencement weekend, June 12-14. Our class will be the youngest of the eight that will be in town again on the following weekend, June 19-21. The others are 1913, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Under the Robinson Plan the 10th reunion will be our last for six years. In 1959 we will be joined by the classes of 1944 and 1945 and will meet them again five years hence, in 1964.
And for those who are interested, Hanover Holiday will be held on the four days immediately preceding next year's reunion, June 15-18.
As we reported in October, Maury Dampier is chairman of the 10th reunion committee. Further details on the affair will be given in this space in the coming months. (In case you failed to recognize the style in the sketch used last month in connection with the announcement o£ reunion plans, the cartoonist was ex-Jacko man, Bob Costello.)
We are happy that some of the news items we have this month are about '43ers of whom we have not had word for some time. One of these is George Beaton, who became an electrical engineer for the National Advisory Aeronautics Commission in Hampton, Va., after his graduation from Thayer School in 1947. Our informant says that George has pulled up eastern stakes for California, where he is employed by one of the Howard Hughes enterprises in the Los Angeles area. Before joining the Navy in 1943, he had worked for Lockheed Aircraft in the Golden State. Ever since then, our informant further reports, George has had a hankering to go back to California.
Another classmate o£ whom we had scant news until recently is Gordon Carter, who left college in 1941 to join the RCAF. He later served with the RAF and was a POW in Germany. After the war he returned to Hanover with his French wife Janine for one semester in 1945 but left shortly thereafter to help war orphans in France. We now learn that he is in Roberto Herrera's birthplace, Guatemala City, where he is with the staff of the United Nations' International Children's Emergency Fund (Roberto, interestingly enough, has been a U.N. legal affairs officer in New York).
For the record, the marriage of Shirley Wallace Nelson to Banker Jim Elleman did take place as scheduled on September 20 in the First Church of Orange, N. J. The best man was one Bill Seidma7i of Grand Rapids, Mich., and one of the ushers was a Chuck Feeney of Scarsdale, N. Y. The reception was held at the Rock Spring Country Club, West Orange, and the couple's home address is 56 Washington St., East Orange.
Ralph Entwistle, formerly of Monson, Mass., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he has enrolled as a student at the University of Michigan Law School. Bob Field, accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co., spent the summer in London. (Bob's firm got some publicity at the expense of the Republican National Committee when it audited Nixon's trust fund.) As forecast by this column last April, Walt Howe has been assigned to the U. S. legation in Luxembourg after a stateside tour of duty recruiting college students for the Foreign Service. Don Kingsley is public relations director for the pharmaceutical company, Sharpe and Dohme in Philadelphia, where he was formerly editor of the firm's house organ. He, wife Sandy and two children, two- year-old Scott and daughter Christine, born July 13, are residing in Churchville, Pa.
Two '43ers on active duty with the Navy were reassigned recently. Dr. Fent Lane, formerly a physician at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, is on the USS Oriskany out of San Francisco and Smed Ward is aboard the USS Irwin out of New York. Edward O'Brien is an assistant producer for Coronet Films in Glenview, Ill., and is living at the Michigan Shores Club in Wilmette. Stan Skaug is back again with the Josten Company and is residing in Omaha.
And now several noteworthy address changes: Gordon Bingham, who studied at the University of California after the war, is now in Richmond, Calif. Don Crance, who has been with Lederle Laboratories in Boston, has moved to Shorewood, Wis. DickEmerson is back in Boston, we presume for the purpose o£ continuing his medical education at Harvard. Lumberman Dick Eymann has moved from Springfield to Mohawk, Ore., while Forester Bob Thede is now rooming at the "Y" in Denver. And Joe Koci, who has been a curate at St. John's Episcopal Church in Waterbury, Conn., is now at Middletown.
A number of '43ers undoubtedly wended their way to Hanover for the Holy Cross game in September and the Rutgers contest last month. Others will be planning to take in the Columbia fray the first weekend of this month. But because of our deadline, we only have word of four recent '43 visitors at the Inn. They are Mr. and Mrs. Tom Redstone of Stamford, Conn., who were in town in August and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Porter, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who sojourned there the middle of September.
Go easy on the Thanksgiving turkey.
Secretary, 12 Berkshire St., Worcester, Mass Treasurer, 6435 Bandera Ave., Dallas, Texas
