1948

To the tune of the drip-dripping of fall rain outside, we set up the old portable for another fling at alumni journalism. By the time this is in your hands it'll probably be snow.

Another Redskin...

Dick Leggat and Miss Patricia Bowler were married in Hanover on September 18.

John Van Raalte and Miss Barbara Goldman were wed in Rochester, N. Y., on September 5. They honeymooned in Spain and Italy and are now at home at 105 E. 63rd St., New York.

Half Way

Tom Warren and Miss Janet Louise Rohrer of St. Clair Shores, Mich., announced in August. She attended Wayne University and Harper School of Nursing. Tom is with Chrysler Corp. in Detroit. The wedding is scheduled for December.

And Furthermore

A clipping from the Burlington (Vt.) Republican tells us of the whereabouts of BobHeussler, long unknown, since his departure from the campus in 1948. He has recently been appointed assistant director of the Vermont Council on World Affairs. In the interim, he went to China, Hong Kong, and the Philippines as a representative of StandardVacuum Oil Co. After graduation and while in China, he studied the language a"d culture. His work involved the supplying of petroleum for General Chennault's air lilt into Manchuria just before the communists took all of North China in 1948. Between 1950-52 Bob studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton. Following this, he spent some time as an intelligence officer with the CIA before joining up with his roommate, Lowell Thomas Jr., as a unit manager for the Cinerama Production Corporation. This work took him to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, The Caribbean, Argentina, French West Africa, Liberia, the Gold Coast, French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Ruanda-Urundi, Anglo-Egyptian' Sudan, Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, Greenland, and Iceland. He is now fixing up bachelor quarters in Moscow, Vt., and will travel through Vermont finding out ways that the Vermont Council on World Affairs can help to promote international understanding.

A nice note came through from SonnyDrury the other day saying that he had been down in Washington on business and had a drink with the Dean Rathbuns before rushing back to the airport for a plane back to Pittsburgh. He also forwarded a note from WoodyDeYoe who should be on his way home from Korea by now to join Meg and young Woody in Florida. He is planning a month of leisure with them in Florida before they go north and he gets back in the legal harness with Evans, Hand and Evans in Paterson, N. J.

We refrain from quoting tidbits from the Bulletin which periodically comes out from Hanover telling of the goings-on there, since most of it is to be found on other pages of this publication in very well written form. We cannot help but call your attention to the write-ups on the first two football games which were unique, each in its own wav. The Holy Cross finish brings to mind the Cornell game in about 1047 that was pulled out of the fire in the waning seconds, much the same way. As the stands were practically empty, our date (now Missus) poked us and yelled into our ear that the game was over and to SHUT UP!

Musing over the new masthead, as printed in the October galley proofs, we note that it looks a bit provincial. Not that it is odd to have two class officers in the same city (New York, Boston, etc.) but where is Niles, Mich.? The truth of the matter is that it is even worse than that; we work together in the same office with many of the same problems. Again, working for the same company is pot uncommon among clasrmates - but the Michigan Mushroom Co. isn't AT&T or Merrill, Lynch. Pearce, Fenner & Beane.

What this is leading up to is that the welcoming committee is always represented in Niles, a thriving town of about 131/2 thousand, just barely in Michigan and due North of South lnd. lnd. For those who travel, it's right on the beaten track between Detroit and Chicago. In fact, if you're flying between Chicago and New York and get blown out of a pressurized plane, just let us know and we'll have the net ready 'cause you might be right over us. Although no formal organization exists, we have a nucleus of a Dartmouth group right here in town with five Dartmouths ranging from the early '20's to '51, to muster up a party at any time.

By the way, Johnny asks that I put in a plug tor the class dues, statements for which are currently going out to you all. He says that for the present everyone in the class is receiving the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and the only way we can keep it up is for ALL of us to kick in with the four bucks on the double. While the Newsletter keeps circulating irregardless, how are you going to keep up with your friends in other classes if you don't get this publication?

With the December issue (we hope) you'll see a new address for the Herricks. Jimmy and I have been in the throes of struggling with the VA, abstracts, taxes, blueprints, et al., since April and are now going through the very exciting process of watching a plot of grassy land with some nice trees on it and a little stream alongside turn into a house which we hope to make a home before Thanksgiving. The new address will be 807 Tomahawk Lane for those who might beat on the wrong door, and it's just a block off the main east-west highway. No excuse for not stopping in when you're driving through.

One important name omitted in the newsletter reaffirming class executive committee members was that of John Hatheway, who is serving as vice chairman.

Weil, we could go on and on - if we had more material. Seems like we shot our wad last month. Happy Turkey Day!

Secretary, 47 South 3rd St., Niles, Mich.

Treasurer, Michigan Mushroom Co., Box 223 Niles, Mich.