1949

Guess this is my last column for the year, so you can all take a deep breath, thank God for summer recesses from drab copy-boys, and live a little until I return in all my glory next fall. There's a minimum of poop this month anyway, so I'll gather sheaves of notes for the fall issue.

I've had several inquiries from Boston-area and New York-area classmates wondering whether we had planned class get-togethers in their respective areas. My answer in each case was a reluctant no in that the uncertainty of my availability this spring caused me to overlook such attempts to convene. Now I'm sorry I hadn't anticipated a draft-deferment and planned such meetings, but unfortunately it's too late now. We have found in time that such a get-together needs much advance notice to secure decent attendance. But as the Dodgers always say, "Wait until next year!"

By the time you read this, the annual Alumni Fund Drive will be within a few weeks of ending. At this writing our class is not holding its own as it should. It certainly doesn't require much effort to pitch in and help us out. The goal for participation is set—why not your share? Put the class in the lead in these last few days of this year's fund. Help Val Haak make his first year as Class Agent a big success.

Last Saturday, April 26, I ventured to Long-meadow (Springfield), Mass., to usher at the wedding of classmate Summy Arneson and the former Miss Leonora Handy of the above town. Tom Swartz was Summy's best man and other '49ers present were King Ball, BillKnight and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rodman. Just as We were all dressing preparatory to leaving for the church Rocket Reed called from Boston to say that he couldn't make it at the last minute since he had to serve as baby-sitter for his newly-arrived (daughter, I believe). Swartz caught me up on many of his pals, so here's the dope he donated.

Bill Ballard, in television production in New York, recently put on a big show which Tom saw and enjoyed. Charlie Eaton is a life insurance tycoon in New York and recently nailed down Doug Parsons as a customer. BobPridham works with Tom in Tom's father's Thomas Textile Co. in New York. Bob's wife Joyce donated to the growing Dartmouth enrollment list a baby boy Robert, born about a month ago. Jay Urstadt is in Cornell Law School, his ninth year as a college student (a record for our class?). Dick Wolff works for J. P. Stevens Textile in New York. Claude Offray works for the Maryland Ribbon Co. Claude's wife Gloria Ann recently increased the family with a baby girl. Paul Erwin goes to Temple Law School nights. He was up at Winter Carnival with what Tom describes as a knockout. Bud Hughes is in the Coast Guard. Tom himself is to be married June 21 to Miss Ann Phillips in South Orange, N. J. His choice is a very charming gal, incidentally. Tom's dad's textile outfit makes and sells infant wear.

Recent Hanover Inn visitors are the following: Maurice Bombar Jr. of Drayton Plains, Mich., in April. ... Mr. and Mrs. John Ayvazian of Boston in March. . . . Dick Bandfield of Brooklyn in April. Jay Haft of Harrison, N. Y., in April. George Hartman of Schenectady, N. Y., in April. Bob Rooney of White Plains, N. Y., in April. I will be a guest myself over this weekend as I return for the annual Alumni Officers' Meetings.

Here's the dope on Rocket Reed I knew I had it somewhere—On April 11, Barbara gave birth to a daughter Sandra Reed.

Word reaches me that Johnny Stearns recently graduated #1 of 296 Army Air Force Cadets in San Antonio, Tex. Johnny is now a Second Lt. and has been ordered to Lowry Field, Denver, Colo.

More News Two engagements this month.. .. Tom Barr of Bronxville, N. Y., to Miss Marian Jane Gaston of Houston, Tex. The wedding was set for April, so that must be past history by now. Tom is associated with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. . . . Mark Feer of Winterhur, Switzerland, to Miss Helene de Lone of Overbrook, Pa. Mark is at present a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.

The only other wedding I have, besides Summy Arneson's, is that of Roy Benson of North Easton, Mass., to the former Miss Betty Carolyn Getz of Springfield, Mass., on April 12. Roy is with General Electric in Pittsfield.

My final dope is vocational news.. .. GuyBusch is in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado area as sales representative for Stein-Hall Co. Inc Paul Denecke is a salesman for Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (floor covering) in Cincinnati.. . . Austin Eaton works for Sears Roebuck in Stamford, Conn.... John Harder is an insurance agent in Oakland, Calif... . BobHill is an ensign in the navy Dick Kramer's address is Department of Psychology, V.A. Hospital, Tomah, Wis Bob Kreplin is in the Naval Research Lab in Washington... Dick O'Brien is in the College Training Program for International Paper Co. in Glens Falls, N. Y. ... First Lt. Dick Raybold has an APO out of San Francisco Bobb Slattery is with the advertising department of Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati... . Bill Thayer is an expediter for G.E. in Richland, Wash.... Lynne White has been appointed General Manager of the Mars Signal Light Co. in Chicago. ... George Eaves is another with E. I. DuPont de Nemours, in Martinsburg, W. Va. ... Bill Stedman is with the American Broadcasting Co. in New York....

That's it for this time and until the fall, gang. Remember your letters make this column possible, so how about one? Get YOUR name in print next fall. Also don't forget to help the Alumni Fund. Give as best you can.

CITED FOR HEROISM: 1st Lt. Harvey W. Nolan '49 of the Marines receives the Army Silver Star Medal from Maj. Gen. Clovis E. Byers USA, 10th Corps Commander, for heroic action in Korea.

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Class Agent, 48 Martin St., West Roxbury, Mass.