1948
Don't know exactly why, but the mailbag is somewhat less crammed with news this month than last. There are a few items, however enough at least to keep this shovel-like typewriter occupied a few minutes.
Before dipping into the sack, though, I want to mention the cabbage situation once "rain. By this time, you've each received a request or bill from Johnny Fenno for four green leaves to cover your ALUMNI MAGAZINE Subscription as well as some badly needed change for the '48 treasury. John explained the whys and wherefores concerning the need for the filthy lucre, so I won't go into the subject here beyond sincerely exhorting you once again to get the four bucks into the mail as soon as you can. Thanks a lot.
Probably the most important event in a man's life is his marriage (as a bachelor I am merely guessing here), so Paul Hackett, EdConcannon and Jerry King rate plaudits for having walked the primrose path in the past few months. On September 5 Paul married the former Nancy Jane Cullen of Larchmont, N. Y., in Larchmont. Nancy is a graduate of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and the couple now reside in Croton-on-the-Hudson. On the same day, Jerry and Mile. Muriel C. Driard of Aix-en-Provence, France, became groom and bride in Hanover. The couple met at Stanford where Muriel was studying on a Fulbright Scholarship in English Lit. They plan to spend another eighteen months of study at Stanford and then go to France for a year. Ed married the former Catherine Mosher McCabe of Wilton, Conn., on September 12 in nearby Georgetown. Catherine is an alumna of Goucher College. No news concerning where the couple has settled. Best wishes to the six of you!
Another accomplishment is that of LorenSpademan, who has become engaged to Miss Susan Speed Hubbard, a Michigan graduate of Birmingham, Mich. A winter wedding is planned.
An interesting letter from Pfc. Ted Finkelday places him in the Army Medical Corps near Bordeaux, France. Fink has been in Europe some eighteen months and expects to head back across the Atlantic very soon. He skied for the Army at Garmisch last winter, and on leave in Spain in August, who should he bump into but Colin "Stew" Stewart, who was on an architectural tour of the Continent. A "small" but enthusiastic reunion was held on the spot. That tequila is tough stuff, for Fink ended up in a swimming pool. Don't know what happened to Stew. Talked to AlGustafson's wife, Nancy, when I was in Boston last summer. She told me they returned from Alaska a short time ago, and Gus Will study and teach at Cornell this year as part of his work toward a Ph.D. Irv Tuttle forwarded a card sent by Rog Barrow last May. Rog at that time was serving as a lieutenant in the Marines at Camp Pendleton, but hoped to return to civilian life shortly as well as "to the hills of Hanover." Hope you get to the Plain while the leaves are in their fall colors, Rog. Velvet Rocks are in their full glory now.
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Wood celebrated the birth of their first child, a daughter, Margaret Sharon, in Tulsa, Okla., in July. Newlyweds Dick and Nancy Donahue spent a night at the Hanover Inn on their honeymoon in September. Dr. Dave Miller and spouse, Ellen, are now located in Portland, Ore., where Dave is interning at St. Vincent's Hospital. Another medico, John Price, has been transferred from Denver to the Psychiatric Division of King's County Hospital in Brooklyn. Did the World Series increase business from the Brooklynites, John? A third doctor, Bob Flanders, is with the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco.... '48 is fortunate in having an unusual number of pill pushers among its members. And I almost forgot, but Dr. John Parks of whom we've heard but little in a long time, much to our loss is at present practicing in Sells, Ariz. Haven't seen you since a well remembered Harvard game of some years ago, John which you may not remember well.
Speaking of Harvard games, two old buddies of Don Drescher, whom I met up in Tuckerman's Ravine last spring, told me that Dresh has been promoted to Wage and Salary Administrator by Ebasco Services, Inc., of N.Y.C. Don and his wife live out in Bellaire, L. I. Bob Parrant is a field engineer with Western Electric, and works in conjunction with the Bell Telephone Labs out of Manchester, N. H. Ed Tarca, an electronics engineer, has been transferred by his firm of Philadephia to Pasadena, Calif.
That's about it for now. Don't forget Reunion in June! See you on the campus.
Secretary, Norwich, Vt. Treasurer, North 7th St., Terre Haute, Ind.
