1948
With the Portland, Me., rainy season apparently just about over, it is time once again to delve into the mail bag for news of '48. New England may not be getting the snow it was once accustomed to receive, but there certainly has been no dearth around the Northeast of the more liquid variety of precipitation over the past few months. The weatherman has been a wet blanket at many a party, and floods have even occurred.
With the above probably irrelevant climatic sidelight, we can turn to thoughts of spring. And, as per usual, the approach of that season has had its repercussions in the sphere of things romantic. On Saturday, February 14, the engagement of Bill Pendill to Martha Jane Bell of Hinsdale, III., was announced by her parents. The wedding is planned for September, and it will find the happy and not rare combination of a Dartmouth man marrying a Colby Junior girl. Another to have made the great decision is Dean Rathbun. He and Helen Orme Hance of Philadelphia, Miami Beach and Washington likewise became engaged in February. She attended Dunbarton College, Washington. Date of the wedding is not known to this correspondent. Dean is doing quite a job in the Washington area as a community and home designer, builder and developer.
Had an interesting conversation with BillWarnock on the phone the other night. He is teaching the 5th grade in an elementary school here in Portland, and is working toward an advanced degree trom B.U. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1950, he and his wife spent a year in tiny, rural Stratford, Vt., where Bill taught seven grades in a oneroom schoolhouse. A year at B.U. is being followed by his present work. His wife Nancy sang with the Green Collegians under BobPillsbury during Bill's last two years in Hanover and she now vocalizes quite often for various groups in and around Portland. Bill hopes to settle in Portland permanently.
Last month I wrote that Ray Richard was on a Mediterranean cruise with the Navy, and that he expected to get his discharge this coming summer. Looks like I may have been a few months behind time, for the Hanover Inn reports that Ray and his wife stayed there for about three days in early March. My apologies, Ray, if I got the information all crossed up. Guess maybe yours truly got hold of a little of that bull you saw them throw in Valencia, Spain.
The Inn had quite a host of '48s registered during the past month in addition to Ray. Ken Saunders, who makes his home in Des Plains, 111., stayed there for several days at the beginning of March. Dick Weaver, in the lumber business in Buffalo, sampled the hostelry's hospitality a day or two later. He was followed by Dr. and Mrs. Bill Cummings of Rochester, N. Y., who were in Hanover between March 11 and 13, and by Dr. and Mrs.Norm Harvey of Glens Falls who stayed there the night of March 15. No doubt it seemed great to all of you to see the Hanover Plain once again, associated as it must be with so many memories. How the time flew!
And speaking of Hanover, our Fifth Reunion next year will cover the period of June 18-20, and the classes of '49 and '50 will be reuning at the same time. Chairman Jim Schaefer is getting plans underway, and it should be a great weekend. Here's hoping we get a large contingent of '48s up there. Wives, too, are of course invited.
Bob Huke recently returned from Burma where he was attached to the Educational Foundation of the U. S. Embassy in Rangoon. He is now at home in Newtonville, Mass. DickRepko is still in Ceylon where he is working for the Caltex Oil Co. in Colombo. Another '48 in an out-of-the-way place is Don Funk, who is with the Civil Air Transport on faroff Formosa. Ted "Fink" Finkelday is with the U. S. Army in France, stationed near Bordeaux. As last heard, he was working to represent his unit at a big ski meet in the Bavarian Alps at Garmisch-Partenkirschen.
Tom Crook is now Ass't Director of Admissions at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy, Lake Geneva, Wis. He is making his home in nearby Whitefish Bay. Ed Tarco is an electronics engineer at 32nd and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, and he hangs his hat in Darby, Pa. Russ Carlson has been promoted to Ass't Portfolio Manager of the Onondaga County Savings Bank in Syracuse, N. Y. Any of you fellows with money to invest might look Russ up. Dave Auld recently shifted his address from Columbus to East 222nd St., Euclid, O. just outside Cleveland. Another late change was that of Julie Grow. He has become Executive Secretary of The Weirs Beach Area C. of C. at The Weirs, N. H., a prominent summer resort, not unknown to many '48s during our undergraduate days, on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. Chuck Sweeney is now a salesman with the Reynolds Metals Co. in Richmond, Va. Ed McLaughlin has the impressive title of Chief Consumers Representative of the Scott Paper Co. in South Glens Falls, N. Y. He lives on Sherman Ave. across the river in Glens Falls. Another responsible position is that held by Bob McKay. He's Factory Manager of the Wellington Curtain Co. in Putnam, Conn.
In concluding, let me urge all of you to do your bit, however large or small, in the current Alumni Fund Drive. Dartmouth needs our help. She gave us plenty, and our aid can help her continue to give her education and experience to other fellows such as we were. How about it?
See you next month.
Secretary, Norwich, Vt. Class Agent, 128 Market St., Saugerties, N. Y.
