1911

Who has an idea for reunion? Is there something to do that is new or different? We will not have many more reunions coming up, so now is the time to get in your suggestions! Your executive committee, which is your reunion committee, will be pleased to have their efforts supplemented by the classmates meeting as a Committee of the Whole.

A few names have been added to the list of returnees. They are the Fred Eatons, ChuckEmersons, and Jack Ingersoll and Jim Malley. Also, Ruth Hastings writes that she hopes to be in the East next June, is delighted at the prospect of being with the class again and hopes to be able to make it. By the way, there are fifteen living members of the class who have attended all reunions from the fifth to the fortieth inclusive. If your name is improperly missing from this list, please inform the Secretary so that he may make the proper additions. Here they are: Agry, Burleigh, KenClark, Cooper, Crooks, Harvey, Ed Keeler,Mathes, Partridge, Pearson, Reilly, Russell,Sanderson, Sterling and Stucklen. There are twelve others who have missed only one reunion. For your information as to the 40th reunion, there were 95 men, 77 wives and eight children present, of whom 99 participated in the Whitefield reunion.

Likewise, a few more names have come to the desk to be classified in the retirement group. They are: Rick Castle, Bob Hatch,Swede Needham, Tom Wanty and GeneFuller.

I think you should know a little more about Gene Fuller, who because he went to work after being at Dartmouth for two years and because he is an extremely modest chap, may not be as well known to some classmates as many others of us, even though his contribution has been a large one. Gene was a second lieutenant in the Air Service of the U.S. Army during the first World War. Perhaps that's where he got his air-mindedness. A little later he formed an organization called the Chicago Aerial Survey Company, which originally engaged in precisely the work indicated by the title. However he soon developed the business into an important manufacturing organization, and in 1951 opened a fine new factory in Melrose Park, Ill., but still continuing to operate the earlier plant in Chicago and maintaining their main offices at 332 S. Michigan Ave. Their production has grown with the development of higher speed aircraft with its additional photographic requirements. Gene's company has been a leader in this field, and engaged in the development of controls and other items which are classified materials. At the time of Gene's resignation from active management of the company in September, the company magazine, The AerialSurvey, carried a message to him from the employees, from which are quoted a few passages:

"We were indeed shocked and not a little sorrowed to receive your message of September 28, 1954. For so many years your name has become synonymous with Chicago Aerial Survey Company. . . . With this leadership we have found security and peace of mind. With this guidance we have progressed to a point of advancement little dreamed of by the early few who first threw in their lot with Chicago Aerial Survey Company. . . . The lessons we have learned are legion. We want you to know that you have been an inspiration to us all. What we have learned will not be soon forgotten nor shall we be inclined to ever deviate from the traditions and standards that you have laid down for us to follow. ... In your new .ventures, know that you have earned a rest. Know that you have earned the respect and admiration of everyone of us. It has been a privilege to serve you, may you now find a new measure of joy, of peace you have not known before, and above all may God bless you in all you undertake."

From the Board of Directors' announcement of the change of managership: "We announce with profound regret Mr. E. W. Fuller's retirement from the Company, which he founded and served so capably as President since 1924."

We're all hoping very much that Gene will be back with us in June so that we may have a chance to make up for his absence from us during these many busy years.

Even though Chuck Emerson is a top executive in a United States defense plant in St. Louis, he can let us in on the secret that he and Emma are going to fly East for reunion. This deletion from his letter is likewise proper:

"This assignment is timely, exacting, and most interesting to me and, at the moment, I must put further thought of retirement aside for a more opportune time. .. . Both Emma and I look forward keenly to the reunion both at Hanover and Whitefield. I hope we still have plenty of active golfers in our Class."

It looks as though the directory will be on the way to you eventually. However, many of you classmates need to return the postal card making our information up to date. Otherwise you may run the risk of finding yourself in possession of a wife of a different name or you may be put down as retired when you're still active, or we may not have your present location. Accordingly, for your sake and mine, I would appreciate the receipt of the postal cards or else a memo giving your wife's name, your business and home addresses.

Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N.H.

Treasurer, Howland Dry Goods Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn.

Bequest Chairman,