1947

It doesn't seem possible that summer is long-since gone.

The fine results of this past Alumni Fund drive are well known to all. Al Bildner and Hall deserve the heartiest congratulations. Sorry to report that Al Hall finds he no longer has the required time to write our Class Newsletter. His successor will be named shortly.

There have been 115 changes of address since early May representing 15% of class members. Your Secretary is responsible for one of those changes. He and his family are enjoying the quiet, corn-fed living of the Midwest.

Beau Beauchamp is now living in Houston, Texas, business unknown. Last heard from he was an instructor at Brewster Academy. DonEdwards continues in Dixon, Ill., with the California Packing Corp. Ken Coyne continues for his fourth year with the American High School, Heidelberg, Germany. Bill Moran continues in Nashville, Tenn., with the Diamond Alkali Co.

Lt. Bill Cumming is a clinical psychiatrist at at Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif. Dr.Dick Egdahl is at the University Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn. Frank Murphy is with Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Pittsburgh, Pa. Jack O'Connell continues as principal of the Hemenway school in Canton, Mass.

Summer visitors at the Hanover Inn include Dick Leary, Andy McCulloch, and Mr. andMrs. Jim Conceison. Steve Bucklin left for Metz, France, during August to head a school for dependents of Army men. For the past five years, he has been principal of a school in Newport, R. I. During the past year, he has been working towards his Master's degree at Brown University.

Sam Tassel will be a candidate for Ward 5 berth in City Council, Lynn, Mass. Sam won the primary for the same position in 1953 but was unsuccessful in his bid for election. We are glad to report that Sam is now considered "odds-on favorite to become the new councillor of Ward Five."

Dr. Line Cain has completed his residency at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover and will begin an American Cancer Society Fellowship in Clinical Radiology at the Mass. General Hospital in Boston. Jim Murphy successfully passed the examination for admission to the Massachusetts Bar in March of this year. He obtained his law degree from Boston College last year.

Dr. Ralph Brackett has been appointed to the courtesy staff of St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, Mass. He is specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. During the past three years, he served on a fellowship in obstetrics and gynecology at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Clayton Birdsall is practicing dentistry in Haverhill, Mass., his home town.

Bill Kimball was recently elected vice president of W. W. Kimball Co., manufacturers of fine pianos. Howie Doolittle has been promoted to sales manager of radio, TV, and traffic appliances for the General Electric Supply Company in Pittsburgh. John Kaufman has been appointed Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers' Law School. He is continuing in the practice of law with Bilder, Bilder & Kaufman in Newark.

Better late than never is the proud report of Lance and Alice Reed of the birth of their first daughter Martha Farr on January 19. We have another fine report from Fritz and Catherine Alexander of the birth of Karen Patricia Denise, April 25.

Secretary, 308 East Jackson St., Attica, Ind.

Treasurer, „ Apt. 3-A, 40 West 70th St., New York 25, N. Y.