1949
The hectic holidays have just ended, and I sincerely hope that yours were as pleasant as ours here in snow-less Rhode Island. Over the holiday period I did run into many of you in one town or another. For instance, I managed a day off last week to wend my way up to Hanover to see part of the Invitation Basketball Tournament. While there I had much opportunity to visit Mike and Lois McGean at their lovely home in Norwich and to talk at the Gym at length with John and Joan Sweetland, who are now living in Hanover, from where John tours N. H., Vermont, and Northern Mass., for the American Hospital Supply Corporation. Naturally he has an ideal home base, and likes his work very much.
Herb Gramstorff was in R. I. with his parents one day two weeks ago and dropped in for a visit. He is on Tom Swartz' reunion committee in the N.Y.C. area, so could keep me up to date on their doings. He says the first mailing with reunion dope will go out this next week. I sure hope you'll be planning ahead for the big June weekend - remember that's June 18-19-20. Of the many nice Christmas cards I received, most from classmates indicated that they too expected to attend.
Just yesterday Jack and Peggy Kilmartin were here for an evening, and they too assured me the trip was a must. Jack is the Vice Prexy of his dad's Jewelry Findings Plant here in Providence and has fathered both a son and a daughter.
Last week out in Woonsocket at a party I met Harv and Jane Nolan and Ken and MimiWheeler. At last report, their glasses were still tipped, so my report must be that all was fine. The Nolans have two young lads, and the Wheelers have one daughter.
The other day Johnny Stockwell called to discuss this year's Fund drive. John again will be our Class Agent this year and is even now beginning to set up his campaign. I hope you'll all give him your whole-hearted cooperation. We're glad to welcome John back to the job after a two-year "leave," while he was back in the graduate school of hospital administration. He now is one of the assistant supervisors at the large Rhode Island Hospital.
I'd like to acknowledge beautiful Christmas cards from the following: Fran and Clay Morey, Mimi and David Vogels, Chet Palmer, Harv and Jane Nolan, Jack and Peggy Kilmartin, Terry Maphis, Jody and King Ball, Ken and Mimi Wheeler, Paul Erwin, Gene Kelly, Nonie and Summy Arneson, Sue and Bert Rodman, Herb Gramstortf, Paula and John Gallup, Lou and Pat Clarke, Peter New, Dave and Kay Strasenburgh, John and Nancy Stockwell, Lew and Dolores Geer, Brud and Jane Becker, John and Joan Sweetland, Nomi and Bill Ballard, Ann and Tom Swartz, Lois and Mike McGean, Nell Abrahamson, and Dud and Betsy Bursch. Naturally Pat and I were very pleased that so many people thought of us at Christmas time, and we are most appreciative.
From this assortment of cards, I received much poop. ... Bill Ballard has moved from the BIG city to live in Glenbrook, Conn., where he and Nomi have invested in a fine old home. Bill Jr. went too, of course, and the stork rumors that he may be joined in May. ... Dave and Kay Strasenburgh are planning another February ski excursion and hope this year we can join them, as we did two years ago at Lake Placid. Unless New England gets more snow soon, no one will be skiing. ... John and Paula Gallup received a second daughter on November 17 named Paula Gardiner to go with Susan, age 2.
Gene Kelly assures me he'll be at reunion. ...Paul Erie in is scheduled to finish Law School (Temple Univ. I think) in June, so expects bar exams to prohibit his attending.... Chet Palmer has received his MA degree in history from the Univ. of Illinois last August. He now is teaching in Mahopac, N. Y., after helping back home "on the farm" this summer Clayt Morey is attending Columbia Architectural School at night while he works for Raymond Loewy Associates in N. Y., as does his wife Fran Nellie Abrahamson is now associated with his dad as Cleveland Optometrists. He graduated from Ohio State School of Optometry last June. He has kept in touch with several guys, having met RankLashmet in the Hotel Cleveland in November. Rank is an "Ad" salesman for Curtis Publishing Co. Nellie says Bill (Harden) is a Los Angeles architect. Bill told him that Al Sullivan is back in California after a Korean tour as a flyboy (Navy).
A baby announcement arrived from CharlieEaton announcing number three, their third boy, Scott Harrison Eaton, bom December 13. Recent Hanover Inn guests were Bob Barnaby,Bill Norwood, and Rog Atwood, all the week of December 4-8. Lou Mulkem is still living in Bangkok, China, where he works for the Bank of America.
My other social news of the month is all repetition. On the engagement end we find Herman "Skip" Muller of N. Y. to Miss Evelyn Grey of Greenwich, Conn. Skip received his Masters at the Columbia School of Business. He is now with Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell in N. Y.
Two weddings: Dick Wolff of White Plains,N. Y., was wed to Miss Marilyn Wasserman ofLarchmont, N. Y., on November 1. The Wolffswill live in Tuckahoe, N. Y. ... John Griffithof Englewood, N. J., was married December 5to Miss Jane Ann Berg of South Orange, N. J.
A few vocations to close up shop this month - taken from the address-changes Hanover sends me - Dick Moerscb is now a Dr. at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. ... Ray Powers works for Famous Artists in N.Y.C. ... Jim Sullivan is a structural designer for E. I. duPont in Wilmington, Del. ... Jordan Kurland is doing research work in history on a Fulbright award in Netherlands. ... Bob Alden, one of your reunion co-chairmen, is in magazine circulation for the Sales ManagementMagazine in N. Y. ... Tom Barr is a civil engineer for Barr, Gleason & Barr of N. Y. ... PaulBjorklund works for the FBI, so be careful of him. ... Clarke Church works as an assistant to the manager at the Harrisburg, Pa., branch of Procter & Gamble. ... John Doukas is staff adjuster for insurance claims in Portland, Maine. ... JohnDaukas (those two names are awfully similar) is in the Sales Dept. for the Atlantic Commission Co. in Milwaukee. ... Les Felton M.D. has a Worcester, Mass., address. ... Ed Graham is an advertising copywriter for Young & Rubicam in New York City.
Ray Grinold is assistant production manager with Wallingford Steel in Wallingford, Conn George Hartman is a Binghamton, N. Y., engineer. ... Clark Hayes is a mathematician with the Army Map Service in Washington. ... Dick Higley is with the Irving Trust Co. in N.Y.C. ... Bill Johns is an accountant with Lambert & Co. in N.Y.C. ... Don Kingsbury is with the Public Service Co. of N. H., in Keene. ... Mark Lansburgh is in the advertising business in San Marino, Calif. ... Mike Marchese. is at George Washington Law School. ... Gil Nelson is an engineer with J. E. Gieiner Co. in Cleveland. ... Bob Priester is with U.S. National Bank in Denver Dr. OttoSchumacher is another M.D. at the Mayo Clinic. ... Win Taylor is the manager, Commercial Carpet Firm, with Trice Commercial Carpets, Inc., in Dallas, Texas.
Lee Van Voorhis is with Kendall Mills in Walpole, Mass. ... John Waugh is in the Chemistry Dept. at M.I.T. ... Bill White is an associate actuary with the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co., in Newark, N. I. ... Wayne Whittemore is a life insurance underwriter with Home Life in N. Y. ... Noble MacFarlane is with the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle George "Zeke" Thurlow is assistant general manager of the Evanston Illinois Fireproof Warehouse. ... Paul Barnico is a mechanical engineer with Aircraft Gas Turbine Division of General Electric in Lynn, Mass. ... Francis Blanc is a salesman with Westvaco Chemical Division in Philadelphia. ... Dr. Louis Buie is still another at the Mayo Clinic. ... Guy Busch is a salesman with Stein Hall & Co. in Atlanta, Ga. ... John Cooley is with American Express Co. in Paris. ... Lt. Ray Drake is a pilot down in El Paso, Texas.
Dr. Dick Kearsley is with Mass. General Hospital in Boston. ... Arnie Kramer is a hosiery manufacturer in Philadelphia. ... Jim Mytton is with the Radiation Laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver Dick O'Brien is a salesman for the Bennett Chemical Co. in Hagaman, N. Y. ... George Oliver is an Old Orchard Beach, Maine, optometrist. ... Ray Rasenberger is a budget examiner with the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. ... Stu Silver is a surgeon with the U.S. Navy. ... Gene Smith is a reporter with the New York Herald-Tribune.... John Stearns is back from Korea and is in his third year of Harvard Law 5chool. ... Ens. Al Sullivan is a naval aviator at Ream Field, San Ysidro, Calif John Travers is a diplomatic courier with the American Embassy in Paris. ... Roger Borregard is a bank teller with the Bank or Silver Spring, Md Ken Riley is in investment banking with Smith Barney & Co. in Chicago.
I guess that catches you up pretty well. Hope you'll keep in touch, and be sure to plan on Reunion.
Secretary, 230 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I.
Treasurer, Box 227, 10th R.C.S., APO 328, c/o P.M., San Francisco, Calif.
