1937
May. What a month! Did you ever climb out of your sack on a beautiful May morning, amble downstairs, reach out the front door for the morning paper then pause, look around at the dew glistening like diamonds on the front lawn, take a deep breath and say to yourself "Gee, smells just like Hanover." May is a month of nostalgia, of day-dreaming, commonly dubbed Spring Fever. And your mind runs fleetingly over pleasant associations of time and place long passed.... Green Key weekends.... A picnic in Northampton with the top down.... Pompanoosuc...
or just plain cutting a class because the weather was too good to be indoors. We all of us like to think of Hanover as an unchanging part of our busy lives, and if we are only fortunate enough to get back once in ten years we will find everything the same as we left it. Fundamentally this is true. Maybe they've added a few parking meters or built an addition onto Wilder but essentially the mental picture we hold is unchanged.
And since we reune this June 19, 20 and 21 with the classes of '38 and '39 we will have many of the familiar faces that were on campus with us through two of our undergraduate years. It's only one month away and a lot of people are giving it a lot of thinking over.
And just while we're dwelling on matters reunion we have a word from the Greenfield Rugbug that he has received dues from only 367 members. Since we have additional expenses this year he hopes to find more paidup members than ever, so if you have not placed your fin on the line send same to him at 17 High St., Greenfield, Mass., and keep him happy. Otherwise you might not like his report at the coming class meeting in June.
Also, the long touted Class Directory has been mailed out and you all should have received it by now. They went out first class mail with our return address thereon so if you have not received yours or if you need an extra copy please get in touch with your secretary. Bill Rotch did a fine job printing them up and he and Patty spent a weekend at home inserting, stamping and mailing.
To the news.
Word from Albie Chester to the effect that he is leaving Hudson, N. Y., as he has become affiliated with the Ferracute Machine Co., Bridgeton, N. J. As this is hot off the breath he does not know yet where he will live but he and Margie have been looking around. They also report their first child, a boy, born last June and a candidate for 1974. It was only three months ago that Albie was elected to a five-year term as a trustee for the Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson so it looks like they're going to have to call another meeting.
We mentioned back during election time that Prof. Walter Johnson of the University of Chicago had been an active worker on behalf of Adlai Stevenson and we note from recent press releases that Walt is accompanying Stevenson on his current world junket. We might well keep our eyes open and see if Walt appears in any background pictures. The party sailed March 2 from San Francisco on the SS President Wilson and will not return until mid-July.
Of interest to our many medics is a note of appointment of three doctors to the staff of the Greene County Memorial Hospital in Catskill, N. Y., one of whom is Ken Stearns to the Consulting Surgical Staff. Ken is with the Rip Van Winkle Clinic in Hudson.
Bill Newburger has rejoined G. Fox & Co., Hartford's big department store, as manager of men's furnishings after absence on military duty since May 1951. Before he went back to the Air Corps he had been buyer of boys' clothing.
We had a phone call from Duke Dumont who spends busy days each spring interviewing at various Colleges in line with his personnel work at the Hartford Screw Co. Seems he went to Maine and dropped off to see JulianLeslie at the Casco Bay Trading Post only to find that Les was in Florida on vacation. (And did you note Les has done quite an expansion job on the Trading Post, even to adding a plane so as to get around the fishing areas of Maine and pick up hot scoops for their fishing information bulletins?) Also the Duke looked up Maine State Trooper Bill Gaines whom he found keeping an eagle eye open at a traffic circle on Route 1, and he could not but suppress a few chuckles as the general public wheeled past obviously thinking he was deep in trying to talk his way out of some kind of a ticket.
Joe Tardiff is moving from Buffalo, N. Y. The Hooker Electro-chemical Co. is building a new plant in Montague, Mich., and we understand Joe is to be the new Works Manager. Sounds like a big job with congratulations well in order.
Various and Sundry
First word for years from Gordon Torrey who has spent some time in Japan but now living in Montclair, N. J., as special representative for State Marine Lines Bob King is owner and General Manager of the King Thread Grinding Co., in Langhorne, Pa....
Dave Samson a department manager at Bamberger, Newark, and residing in Great Neck, L. I....El Timson is Superintendent of the Sunbeam Corporation.... Fred Kennedy has swapped over from R. H. White's Dept. Store to Raymond's in Boston and is now an assistant buyer. Also unreported in these sheets his marriage to Jane Ensinger back in '47 and has two young daughters After a tour of active duty George Zeiss has returned from the Air Corps (Finance) to Lawrence, Ind., with Marchant Calculators, Inc...
Harry Brown a salesman for Artistic Foundations traveling Penn Ump Umpleby in NYC with the Doughnut Corp. of America. ... Whitey Fuller in the Pacific with Navy Carrier Division #5 as Commander in Air Intelligence.... Bob Kirstein teamed up with Les Koenig in the Good Time Jazz Record Co., Los Angeles, as Sales Manager... . Unreported also that Rog Bernhardt married Alyne Gais in June 1951, and has a year-old daughter Wendy. Rog still studying in Ann Arbor and plans to get his Masters this June, then hopes for a job in the East Bob Cone still real-estating in California but now Manager of Small Homes Division of E. A. Daniell Co... . Carl Lang is Boss Finisher with Richport Finishing Co. (Textiles) in new plant in Puerto Rico.... Hal Putnam ran for town moderator of Needham, Mass., against rather solidly entrenched opposition and won hands down by 3-1 vote.
Since we are now one third of the way through the 1953 Alumni Fund Drive this column would be remiss if we did not mention it. AI Bryant (from personal observation) has been as hard working a guy as you ever saw during this time each year. The class goal seems always to be just beyond our reach when everything is added up at the end. But if all of us give what we can in this, our reunion year, it should serve the several purposes of fulfilling our goal and showing both A1 and the College our appreciation.
The Hanover Inn reports four classmates checked in during March, Art Sprague, Maine; Paul Dickson, New Jersey; LemBowen, Detroit; Ike Collins, Conn.
WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? Sixteen years ago the Class of '37 heard Bill Leonard in full Indian dress give the Sachem Oration on Class Day. How many others in the picture do you recognize?
Secretary, 10 Colby Rd., Wellesley 81, Mass. Class Agent, 803-B Park Square Bldg., Boston 16, Mass.
