1942

Well, let's be charitable and say that this month the lack of quantity of news is more than offset by the high calibre of the available info.

Bob Pitman's Christmas card arrived some weeks late, but no wonder, he was sending it from Australia. He is in the midst of a two year tour of duty in Adelaide as a geologist for the South Australia Department of Mines, but is still on the payroll of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The above leaves me a bit confused, too, but I can unequivocally state that I fully understand the remainder of his message, i.e., Bob, Mrs. P. and the two children have just moved into a new six-room house.

Mike and Polly de Sherbinin have added a son, Nicholas Jacques, to daughter Laura in their Hanover household. Mike is City Editor of the Valley News.

Dr. Andy Morgan writes from Honolulu that he is practicing urology there after returning last summer from a residency at Yale. Dr. John Milnor is another Honolulu M.D. He is a pediatrician and so should be well prepared to cope with the recent addition to his family.

Warren Kreter, CLU, was on the program committee at the recent Northwestern Mutual Convention at the Waldorf. What is this C.L.U., Krete? What is much more important, this same W. G. Kreter recently wrote me a long, welcome letter. We are going to have to get a picture of John Corwith and settle this hair question once and for all. Both Krete and Proc Page patronizingly stated that John hasn't lost any more hair than they have themselves, but I have to be shown.

The Kreters, Corwiths and Feeneys (Chuck '43) made a pilgrimage to Hanover together last fall.

Betty and Bert Kierstead are the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl, Mary Ethel their first.

Dr. John Glesmann is building a house on a mountain overlooking Summerville, N. J., while Bob Smith is putting an addition on his place in Connecticut.

Mattie Bride is with a new magazine distributed through Woolworths. Well, Matt, what is the name and how do we get on the free list?

The news of the death of Dick Remsen's brother Bill '43 came as a great shock to us. Bill's heart attack brought to an untimely end the promising career of a very swell guy and I'm sure you all join me in expressing our deepest sympathy.

Joe McCormick, who has been with U.S. Rubber in their Naugatuck (Conn.) plant since his graduation from Harvard Business School, has now been promoted to manager of the production control department at the Woonsocket (R. I.) plant. There he'll have jurisdiction over the production control, purchasing, transportation, shipping and warehouse functions of the plant which manufactures footwear and Koylon foam products.

Joe wants to hear from '42s in the Woon- socket-Providence area, and I want to hear why Joe didn't tell us about Miss Eileen O'Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J. O'Neill of Orange, Conn., have announced the engagement of their daughter Eileen to said Joseph M. McCormick Jr.

Bob White is back from his tour of duty with the Marines and now is with Geophoto Services in Denver, Colo. Jeanne and Bob have two sons and a daughter.

Pete Krist is now manager of personnel administration for the Bendix Aviation Corporation in South Bend, Ind. He reports that George Boyle is assistant to the director of industrial relations for the Eclipse Pioneer Division of the same corporation located in Teterboro, N. J.

John Highmark is on active duty with the Navy; Don Gutman with Montgomery Ward in Binghamton, N. Y. Kelly Wehnes is in Mexico, but as yet I haven't been able to discover what he is doing there besides drinking that good beer.

Phil Moon, formerly assistant credit manager, has been made an officer of the National Bank of Detroit. He was recently elected assistant cashier.

Here's a late flash from Bud McKinlay. It's a boy - again! The count now stands at three boys and one girl. This latest is Stuart Wayne and now the McKinlays are fresh out of bedrooms again.

I hope by this time those of you who patiently waited for your reunion pictures from the David Pierce Studio have all received them. Mr. Pierce was somewhat handicapped in mailing the group photo since he didn't get the addresses 'til last month.

That's all for now. Still hoping to hear from more of you.

Secretary, 1369 Stanley Blvd. Birmingham, Mich. Treasurer, 5 Barry Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y.