1949
It's income tax time in Rhode Island, which naturally is the dreary season of the year. But the sparkle of humor in my liquid typewriter will certainly warm you up - besides by the time you read this it'll be April and the ball season will be only one week away. Can the Yanks repeat? Here's one vote who hopes not.
Enuff jibberish - into the news of the month. The most significant item I have is actually only a preview, the body of which I'll fill in next month. It's the forecast of a big class dinner get-together in New York City. This year we will experiment with a Friday night and also with making it co-ed. Both we feel should increase attendance, and we hope for big results. The date will be Friday, June 12. The dinner will be held at the Dartmouth Club in New York City, but we'll fill in the details later. Tom Swartz is doing the legwork for me, so credit and suggestions should go to him. However, plan ahead, and wives, sweethearts, girls are definitely to be invited and expected. We hope to make it a big affair. Similar plans for the Boston area are being considered and may follow through, but our last experience in Boston was so discouraging from the attendance angle that I haven't made any strenuous effort to settle the issue definitely one way or the other.
Pat, Cathy and I went to West Springfield over the past weekend to visit Bill and EnidBurke. Bill advises me he has as many pals in
'49 as in his own '48, so I enclose this news item for what it's worth. Tomorrow night Pat and I (this time without the screaming one) are to visit Harv and Jane Nolan and their two football prospects.
In talking to Tom Swartz via Mr. Bell's invention the other day, I was advised that he often bumps into Chuck Higley, Bob Alden and Bob Pridham in the big town. The latter, in fact, works with Tom in their mill....
A recent letter from Class Agent Vail Haak down in sunny (?) Georgia, encloses a geographical list of the entire class. We .seem to be extremely spread out (one representative in each of 11 foreign countries). New York is tops with 133, with Massachusetts second with 98. The others then are way down: New Jersey with 40, closely followed by Connecticut, 35; Illinois, 31; Pennsylvania, 30; Ohio, 26; New Hampshire, 25, and California, 24. ... This year's drive has now started and I'd again like to ask that each of you give Vail your 100% support. He's doing a fine job, but he cannot be successful without you. So do your share! Make our class lead the pack in its age bracket!!!!!
One engagement this month: Walter Klein of Roxbury, Mass., to Miss Marise Gelewitz of Hyde Park, Mass. A summer wedding is planned. Walt is now a senior at Tufts Dental school....
One wedding this month: Dr. Stuart Silver of Akron, 0., to the former Miss M. Patricia Dunn of Washington, D. C. Stu is an interne at New York's Bellevue Hospital....
Some poop on two Dartmouth offspring. 1 related last month that Bill and Jocie Yates had become proud parents of a boy - the holes are now filled in to relate that John Gordon Sandburg Yates, weighing 8 lbs. 6 ounces, arrived the afternoon (the only one ever born anytime except middle of the night?) of December 2.... Also Dave and KayStrasenburgh received a screaming bundle named Paul Hewlett Strasenburgh on December 28, just in time for an Income Tax exemption. Dave and Kay live outside of Rochester....
Dr. Talbot '25 mailed me a clipping from Natick, Mass., announcing the engagement of Bill Stout of Plymouth, Mass., to Miss Ellen Hearn Simonds of Brookline, Mass. Bill at present is working in Pittsburgh with the Aluminum Co. of America....
A letter from Pete New out at the University of Missouri, where he's just completed his M.A. thesis in Sociology (subject: infant mortality) and will take his comps and orals
in March. Pete intends to go for a Ph.D (three years) at either Minnesota or North Carolina. He hears from Ritchie Hunt, and not long ago had lunch in New York with Elliott Baritz. The latter is out of the army and into his father's button factory. Also Pete lunched with Rus and Betty Blackwood. Rus is not far away from his Ph.D at Columbia (listen to all these brains!). Pete also stopped in to see Charlie and Phyllis Yardley who have a new home in Needham, Mass. He hears from Charlie "Arizona" Holtzman who's in his last year at NYU Med School. He says Joe Kelley is an interne at Cleveland Presbyterian Hospital. Back to Elliott Baritz... he saw Lee Fancher at discharge camp in Jersey, and Lee was going back into the engineering business. Pete's last memo was that ReedParker is soon to be discharged also.. . . Pete is a goldmine of information, for which I'm grateful
A letter from Attorney John Schaaf in Hudson, Mass., where he has hung out his shingle after graduating from Boston College Law School in 1951 and being accepted into the Massachusetts Bar in November of 19.51. John laments his lack of contact with '49ers, as his neighborhood seems to be void of classmates. In a more recent mail from Hanover I received a clipping announcing John's candidacy for the school committee in the March Hudson town elections....
Alan Winslow is studying site planning in Scandinavia where he's working for a landscape architect in Stockholm... . Bob Leary, formerly with the Atlanta office of State Mutual Life Assurance Co. (the Life Co. I work for), has recently been placed in charge of the Group Office in Charlotte, N. C.
Address changes forwarded to me from Hanover show several occupations.... DaveJones is a broker for Tucker Anthony & Co. in New York City. Lou Mulkern works for the Bank of America in Bangkok, Thailand (of all places!)... Foster Saville works for the Engineering Dept. of Standard Brands Inc. of New York City. Win Snoiw is the foreman for Sexton Can Co. of Everett, Mass. Bob Winshipis a pharmacist in Springville, N. Y. DonBurch is a Market and Product Analyst for General Electric in Louisville, Ky. John Goodrich is a Claims Investigator for the Social Security Administration in Bangor, Me. Lt.Dave Heusinkveld is a flight surgeon for the 317 Troop Carrier Wing stationed at RheinMain Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany. DougMott works at the American Embassy in Havana, Cuba. John Pomeroy works for the Republican Finance Commission of Pennsylvania. Roger Sheldon is in the export business with General Motors Overseas in their New York office. Sew Weber is in the Dept. of Planning, City of Greensboro, N. C. Scott Whipple is a wholesale lumber salesman in South Norwalk, Conn.
That seems to be it tor this time. More on those class get-togethers next month. I'd be delighted to get suggestions from any of you.
HAS HIS WINGS: Navy Ensign Charles S. Kilner '49 received his commission at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in February. He has reported to Corpus Christi for more advanced training.
Secretary, 230 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I.
Class Agent, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. 828 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga
