1944
The best thing I can say for our Reunion this June (henceforth to be known as the '44 OUND-UP) is that on the committee there are account executives of THREE of the tipytop drawer advertising agencies in the Big Town. Naturally the most ghastly thing that can happen to these sincere dispensers of ideas is to be caught amongst one another with anything less than two score colossal, earth shaking programs. So you can be confident that when John Eaton, Marsh Clark, and Phil Penberthy lay their portfolios on the table, you're in for the best reunion poor old Hanover has seen in many an eon. I should add that dignity and prudence is being lent the committee through the banking philosophy of Bill McElnae.
As an example of why you shouldn't expect the trite of these lads, I was in NY last week and met the advertising element for lunch. Bull Hinman joined me in representing conservative industry. Bull and I were considering some dashing eatery like Child's or Hamburger Mary's, but before we could consult our Duncan Hines we were swept into a foreign establishment, Ethiopian I think ... where you get menus the size of a small mattress, penned in longhand ... in a variety of colors ... and in Ethiopian (I think). While Phil, Marsh, and John were plucking ideas from the air and guinea hen from under glass, Bull and I were quietly sloshing through an omelet (the only word on the menu we recognized was "oeuf"). Anyway, you can be sure that these boys are going to make the '44 Round-up an all-time memory holder for you.
Our football captain's captain, Sue Douglas, recently dropped me a note to confirm the reunion dates of June 18-19-20, so she can line up their sitter well in advance. Modestly, Sue reports "Not much news... at least it's old news to us.... We had our fourth child and third son last May, Scott Glenn Douglas." That name would sound good on any football program. Tommy and Sue in Aurora, 0., occasionally get over to Alliance to see the John Roberts, who Sue describes as "a lovely family of three and one half."
I was just speaking with the good Reverend of the Rector Calvary Church, Don Oakes. Their third youngster, Christopher Paul, made his debut January 25. Together with young Catherine and David, he's keeping the parsonage hopping. You'll remember a couple of years I reported Don's prowess in masterminding the St. Paul (Japan) eleven into the national finals and promised to soon give you the results of the finals. I am now pleased to report that he won the national championships ... and then repeated the next year with an undefeated season in which his boys averaged 42 points on offense and 6 points on defense! A good mentor, he's even a better man of the cloth according to the many enthusiastic reports I get from his Cincinnati parishioners who number up to 800. JimBriggs is one of the loyal.
Last month I reported that Dick Morse was carousing about in Washington, D. C. I am now glad to say that the native has returned to Hanover. I also told you about Dr. BobLindsay and his escapades out on the Indian reservation.... Bob and family have finally come east and are now living in Holden, Mass., where Bob is at the Holden Clinic doing general medicine with special attention to pediatrics and anesthesia.
While speaking about our medical friends ... Bill Gatlin is a senior resident in Radiology at the VA hospital in Boston, Mass., and Dr. Francis Reilly is over in Sweden at the U. of Lund taking special training in neurosurgery ... will return to Hartford in time for the football season next September.
John Handy has taken to the speaking stands in connection with the work he has been doing in Arkansas and Massachusetts in making surveys of school facilities. Most of us had a hard enough time getting through freshman year. Young Mr. Handy is a graduate of Dartmouth, the Citadel, Yale Dep't of Architecture, and the U. of Durham in England, so when you see him in Hanover in June, don't bring up any intellectual discourse you can't finish.
Also on the podium these days is ArtKiendl, Assistant Dean at Dartmouth. In a recent talk in Holyoke (not at the girls' emporium but close enough for them to hear) the good Dean stood right behind his boys in blasting the misconception that Dartmouth is a drinking college. Drumming up trade for Carnival.
Horace Blood has finally hung up his khakis and returned to Concord, where he has opened his office for the practice of eye, nose and throat. The good doctor was in Japan for eighteen months, and while in Osaka served as chairman of the Japan American Society, an organization consisting of the Japanese and American hot dogs in that area, an oriental exchange club. En route home, Horace ran into Walt Price at the Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, where Walt is chief of the pediatric service.
One of our friends on the West Coast sent me a newspaper clipping with a picture of Brad Long and his good-looking wife at a society function in Frisco. Hope we can get them and their accordion east in June. Also out in Frisco, John Downs is now Chief Underwriter of the Pacific Div. of the Boston Ins. Co. And a bit south, in Beverly Hills, Dick Gunthrie is a lawyer with the Music Corp. of America. And if you go a few thousand more miles south, you'll find Don Decker teaching English and conducting a boys camp in Chile, South America.
A new scion for the Mottola family, James Van Sicklem, arrived January 5. We're going to have quite a little platoon down there in Newnan, Ga. Also down South, Hardy Caldwell, the jolly drummer from Lookout Mountain, Tenn., went to Atlanta for the Southern Regional Dartmouth Conference ... and just a few 3-iron shots west, Teeny Riggs attended the Southwestern Conference in Dallas.
Swampy Marsh is in NY with the Teleprompter Co., the people who make up those prompting things that TV performers (not excluding the President) use to remember their lines. Out Chicago way, Freddy Mills is vice president in charge o£ engineering of Mills Industries, Inc., a multi-faceted live wire outfit.
I am mortified to report that the only visitor we had at the Hanover Inn last month was Art Saul.
Keep your sights set on the weekend of June 18!
HIGHER RANK: Horace Blood '44, who served as nose and throat Army doctor at the 382 nd General Hospital in Japan, is shown being congratulated on his captaincy. He has since returned to practice in Concord, N.H.
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