1940
This is the last column for another season. It has been a difficult one to get to writing for a number of reasons. For one, I find that the increased pace of activity associated with a new job assignment has all but eliminated what is so innocuously referred to as spare time. As though four children had not already gone far to demolish the concept! In any case, the time just does not make itself available for more than the essentials, and an inevitable result is that this column suffers.
The Class of 1940 was well represented again this year at the annual Hanover meeting of alumni class officers and club secretaries. Besides Don Rainie, Stet Whitcher and myself, the alumni clubs of Springfield, Worcester, Burlington, and Boston were represented, respectively, by Micky Miller, SamSnow, Jack Moody and Gordie Wentworth. Miller, Moody, Rainie, Wentworth and I had our wives with us, so the distaff side of the class was there to introduce a festive note into our deliberations. The weatherman really smiled, so that Friday and Saturday of the meeting weekend were delightfully warm and sunny. The schedule was full of meetings as usual, with too little time to do the visiting and wandering around that makes the return to Hanover so enjoyable. However, operating from the remodeled Pi Lam house, now renamed Occom Lodge, where we were quartered, the Forty contingent managed to make the weekend into a good small-scale reunion.
Sam Snow was elected to succeed Gordon Wentworth as representative of the alumni club secretaries on the Alumni Council. DonRainie added to his laurels by being elected to the Council as representative of the class treasurers.
The week preceding that of our Hanover meetings, another reunion took place at LarryHerman's hacienda, The Eliot Lounge, in Cambridge, Mass. The occasion was the annual get-together of local and visiting members of the class. The turnout for cocktails and dinner was the best in a couple of years. Those attending included: Ted Miller, John Baybutt, Bill Squire, John F. O'Brien, Larry Cate, Jack O'Shea, Fred Porter, Dr. Fred Kelley, Dick Hawkes, Earle Reingold, Al Mansfield, Copper Nye, Bill Halsey, Cliff Falkenau, Frank Whaland, John Fitzgerald, Ron Woodberry, Roy Merchant, and those later seen in Hanover, Ramie, Snow, Went-worth and Whitcher, and host Herman. Apparently, the party was a great success. Among those unable to attend at the last minute were Moody Dole, Ike Weed, who had to put his wife on a train for Georgia, and Dick Kidder. Dick, who supplements his lumber business activities at Franklin, N. H., with considerable community service, was pictured recently in the Concord newspaper giving archery instruction to veteran amputee victims at the Franklin Recreation Center.
Bill Daniels, still in sales work with Monsanto Chemical Company, has moved from Syracuse to Newtonville (Mass.). James S.Timothy, recently promoted to Lt. Col. USMC, has returned from overseas assignment with the Allied Forces, Southern Europe, at Naples, Italy, to join the staff at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
The other day we received a newsclip prominently displaying a picture of Rev. Lawrence L. Durgin, who has been minister of the Central Congregational Church of Providence, R. I. since 1952. Larry was being publicized as the speaker in the final of a series of meetings sponsored by the Milford Area Council of Churches.
Bob and June Austin are turning his broad hotel experience and her designing talents to a new project which will provide a modern vacation resort on some land at Webster, N. H., in which the Austin family have had an interest for many years. Situated on virgin forest frontage along Lake Winnepesauke, the resort planned by Bob and June eventually will contain 15 to 18 ultra-modern cottages with a boat and landing for each one on a private stretch of shore 100 feet long. Two of the cottages are scheduled for completion in time for July 4 occupancy this year. With a minimum rental period of one week, these two and three-bedroom cottages promise to be very fancy and comfortable answers to your vacation needs. "The living room is glass-enclosed at both ends with glass walls that slide back to let the lake and forest breezes enter. A kitchen, bath, ample closet space, and sundeck complete the building which is furnished throughout, plus linens, dishes, utensils and a filled woodbox." Bob is open to inquiries on his West Wind Village, which is the name given to the project. Write him at 101 Mayo Road, Wellesley, Mass.
Completing the column this month is news of the engagement of Bill Duncan, of the Cleveland '40 contingent, to Lois Wadsworth Kline, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Lois attended the College of Wooster (Ohio), and graduated from Michigan State College. She is presently teaching school in Shaker Heights. Dune has been with the Pickands, Mather Company of Cleveland since leaving Dartmouth, except for a stint with the Air Force. He has recently been transferred to the Chicago offices of his compairy, .so it looks like the couple will be setting up housekeeping in the Windy City following a June 26 wedding in Cleveland Heights.
Have a good summer!
FAMOUS RECORD: Les Nichols '40, author of "Impact." the story of the 10th Armored Division in World War II, presents a copy to Lt. Gen. W. A. Burress, First Army Commander. Nancy Nichols holds the book it took her dad seven years to write and check.
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Class Agent, 168 Reed St., New Bedford, Mass.
