1949
The one type of guy I always hated at college was the one who came out of an exam moaning how badly he flunked it, how little he knew, what unfair questions were asked, etc. and then when he received his mark he cracked a high 90. You've all seen guys like that. Likewise I'm sure by now that you're sick of hearing how close I am to being inducted into the Army by our favorite uncle and how this for sure will be my last stab at a column before I leave. I've been crying such blues for over a year now, and come to find out just this week that I've been saved again at the bell and don't have to go—now. The saviour this time is Lady Stork, who after many urgent pleas from me previously, finally came through with the proper document to keep me listed as 3A (married with a dependents). Local Board #8 was duly advised, and I'm free until Congress changes the present draft law, which certainly won't be before the November elections. I've always made it a policy not to announce the impending addition to a classmates' family lest I jinx him in some way, but I felt that I must offer some sort of weak explanation why you have to read more of my dribble after I'd promised you an out soon.
Perhaps its best to get the tragic news out of the way first. For the second time since I took this job I've been asked by Hanover to write an obituary column for not only a classmate of mine, but also a good friend. Naturally I'm understating when I say it's a most unpleasant job. This time it's for Richard"Red" Parsons of Pleasantville, N. Y., an army Lt. at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex., who was shot and killed by his wife of seven weeks on February 16. Perhaps most of you have read one of many news clippings on the tragedy, as I have four in front of me now, all from different cities. The obituary column is in another part of this issue, and it tells the story as best I know. The reasons for the murder are vague, but I'm sure all of you are as shocked a I am in Dick's death. To those who knew him, he was a great guy.
Weddings Coming Up
Now into more pleasant news A good number of the boys signed up for the marital tie by announcing recent engagements, so I'll run down that list Summy Arneson of Boston to Miss Leonora Elizabeth Handy of Longmeadow, Mass., with the wedding planned for April 26 Dick Andrews of Bath, Me., to Miss Janet Lois Kenerson of Newport, Vt., with a June wedding planned. . Jim Ruch of Garden City, Long Island, to Miss Frances Veronica Collins of Pelham Manor, N. Y., with a spring wedding planned. Jim is now associated with Goodall Fabrics, 1nc.... Jeff Mansfield of Lowell, Mass., to Miss Jean Remington of Needham, Mass., with an August wedding planned NobleMacFarlane of Charlottesville, Va., to Miss Claire Zimmerman of Sandusky, O. Noble is at present at the University of Virginia med 5ch001.... John Pomeroy of Mt. Airy, Pa., to Miss Joan Kurtz of Germantown, Pa BillWhite 3rd of Milton, Mass., to Miss Alice Christensen of Nutley, N. J Fred SpringerMiller of Stowe, Vt„ and New York to Miss Glenn Abbott Harden of Pinecroft, N. C. Fred is a grad student and instructor in German and Latin at the University of North Carolina Tom Swartz of South Orange, N. J., to Miss Ann Phillips also of South Orange with a June 21 wedding planned.
And One That Happened
The only hitching of the month I have is that of Bill Thayer of Richland, Wash., to the former Miss Marion Edith Katherine Johnson of Minneapolis. The wedding took place in January. Bill works in the nucleonics department of General Electric.
Recent Hanover Inn guests were Mr. andMrs. Richard Wacholz of Englishtown, N. J., on February 6 and Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeEaves of Martinsburg, W. Va., on Feb. 8.
I went up to Boston February 13 to see our Green sextet get handled by John Harvard 1-5 and spent the evening with Bert and Sue Rodman and Summy Arneson and fiancee Noni Handy. Outside of the hockey result, the evening was fine. Bert is an insurance broker in Boston and sees Law-Student Quent Kopp over playing basketball in Harvard gym occasionally.
About a week later at our annual winter Rhode Island Dartmouth Association Smoker, Connie Pensavalle, the football coach at nearby North Attleboro (Mass.) High School, dropped in. Connie looks in as good shape as he did when he QB'd Green elevens a few seasons ago.
Tom Swartz reports his engagement (see above) and also that he made Carnival last month and collided with Johnny Sweetland and wife Joan as well as Paul Erwin, Tom McManus and others.
Down in Ramsey, N. J., Bill Cook, better known locally as Chief Flying Cloud of the St. Regis Indian Reservation, Bombay, N. Y., has been lecturing on the American Indians, their rights and privileges, etc. to the elementary school pupils of that town. Bill emphasized the importance of education.
Bud Hughes, of Bronxville, N. Y., was recently commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve in New London, Conn., after successful completion of an intensive four-month course at the Coast Guard Academy.
Letters of the month . . . King Ball reports from Springfield, Mass., that he is now working as Technical Representative of the Insurance Company of North America Group Bob Alden reports from Mineola, L. I., where he works for Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Bob says that Clarke Church of Philadelphia is engaged to Miss Jane Oilman of Drexel Hills, Pa. ... Bert Rodman writies that he also sees EddieSullivan out at that Harvard gym where QuentKopp too is trying to keep trim. Bert and Sue are expecting in late summer or early fall. . . . Bob Belfit writes from State College, Pa., where he is a Research Assistant in the Petroleum Refining Laboratory in the Chemistry Department of Penn State. He gets regular school vacations, gets paid for his job, and still is working for another degree. ... Last letter of the month arrived just this morning from Ed Nicholson out in Grosse Pointe Woods (Detroit suburb), Mich. Among his many post-Dartmouth "vocations" was a brief fling at Michigan Law before he decided that it just wasn't for him; he also worked for a roller bearing outfit and even tutored a while. At Law School one of classmates met was Warren "Ornie" Ornstein who by now .should be in his third and last year, Uncle Sam permitting. Ed's latest, and seemingly permanent job, is learning the merchandizing business with J. L. Hudson in Detroit. Ed hears from Dave Kimball occasionally, and has bumped into Sam Kilner (in Navy Blue) and BillMackey.
That seems to be it for this time. In contrast to previous columns, I promise I WILL be back next month. Aren't you just overjoyed??????
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