1949

A lousy rainy Sunday today, so the gardening will be replaced by column-writing, esecially since this is due in Hanover on Tuesday, and I get wrist-slapped if I'm late.

The big business on hand is details of spring class dinner blasts. We have two scheduled on successive weekends in early June. I hope to attend both with my frau, so there seems to be little excuse for those of you who cry "distance" as reason for non-attendance. On Friday, June 3, at the Dartmouth Club in New York City we will have the first affair. This will be a cocktails preceding dinner set-up where both sexes are cordially invited. My address list of the class indicates that there are roughly 175 of you in or near the New York area. Thus we should have a good turn-out -I hope. The price will be kept down to $3 per head for dinner, and the additional cost for liquids depends on your capacity- and your better half's. Each of the above 175 will be further propagandized via double postcards asking them to return their answers as promptly as possible. If anyone does not get an "Invite" and wants to go, please write me. My address list may not be up-to-date, so I'll make errors of omission. We had a similar N. Y. affair two years ago, and I think it went over big, so I'm optimistic again for this year. It's an inexpensive evening - a chance to take the old bag out for dinner — and a chance to tip a few with some old tippler buddies. So let's go - that's Friday, June 3.

We have tried a similar Boston get-together several times and only once did we get respectable attendance. So this year I guessed we might try a different type brawl. Through the cooperation of Bob Muenzberg who has done all the contacting of spots, etc., we have decided to do it up right, this year. Mediocre dinners in mediocre settings have never lured large quantities of you, so this year we're shooting the works. The cocktails and dinner will be at the Red Coach Grille on Route 20 in Wayland on Friday evening, June 10. Even with this location we are keeping the price to $4 per person - and that's for their top dinner, which all of you know is something to eat. We will have a room of our own with loaded drinks to start the evening off on the bright side. Again I will mail further dope on a double postcard to the 125 odd potentials for that area and ask you to return them at your very earliest convenience - they have asked for all answers back by May 23. Please cooperate! Again - if you don't get the dope in the mail, please write me.

Both of these affairs will become annual if attendance warrants it. Your Class Officers are trying the best they can to stimulate class interest - and these dinners seem to be the most logical and popular expressions of class interest. If they don't go over, it doesn't seem logical that a different type of entertainment will- I have chosen Friday night as a better evening to "get the troops out" than Saturday. Maybe I'm wrong — and June will tell - but we're offering an attractive choice of meal for both meetings, and we think it should please. My thanks go to both Bob Muenzberg in Boston and Bob Alden in New York who have done all the work. Without them, we'd not have undertaken either function.

Bob Muenzberg wrote of the arrival of a son on March 9 which means his household is really jumping - even more reason for Class appreciation for the work he's done. He said that John and Joan Sweetland were down from Hanover for a visit recently.

Letter from Tom Swartz regarding the cleaning up of the Reunion (last June) finances. Tom and Ann have bought a home in Short Hills, N. J. - soon to move in.

Baby announcement from Art and BettyWallace up in North Quincy, Mass., tells of the arrival on March 14 of Andrew James.

Card from Spike Smith in New York announcing he's out of Air Force and working for Ernst Wachsmuth Co. (a small marketing research and consulting organization). He and Cary have bought a lot in Locust Valley, Long Island, and will build and move in by August.

Recent Hanover Inn visitors - FrankO'Halloran of East Orange, N. J., Mr. andMrs. Ted Krug of Rowayton, Conn., PaulWoodberry of New York, and Connie Pensavalle of North Attleboro, Mass.

On the envelope of last month's Paul Wood-berry letter I discover the news that he had a few drinks with Lt. (jg) Jay Urstadt in February in New York. Jay is a legal officer aboard the U.S.S. Bennington, now being tended in Brooklyn.

A clipping mailed from Worcester announces that Dick S. Russell has been elected vice president of Sleeper & Hartley Inc., of that city — makers of spring making machinery and wire mill equipment. Dick has been working there for six and a half years.

One engagement this month ... Lt. (jg)Pete Brown of Easton, Conn., to Miss Carol Newcomb of Falmouth, Mass. Pete has degrees from Dartmouth, Thayer, and Penn's Wharton Business School. A fall wedding is planned.

Two weddings to report... Pfc. John Adler of Rye, N. Y., was married last month to Miss Iris Richman of New York City. John is with the Army Audit Agency in Washington.... Dick Hyman of New Haven was married in early February to Miss Suzanne Claire Hagedorn of Gadsden, Ala.

Bill White sent a fine itemized Class Treasury report which included a list of the 291 dues-payers of the Class. We seem to be just about solvent this year, with a little scrimping -and hope next year will put us substantially in the black. Bill and Ginny were greeted by a son, William Allen, on December it. He also modestly announces his own promotion with Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark. Bill's official title is Administrative Officer.

A few vocations I can pick up from my recent change-of-address list from Hanover. Dick Andrews is in purchasing with G.E. in Cincinnati.... Dick Desmond is with Southern Lehigh Textiles in Birmingham, Ala.... (jg) Marv Durning is with the Consulate General of the U. S. Naval Forces in Germany. ...John Hodgens is general manager of the Admiral Corporation office in Delmar, N. Y.

... Dick Kramer is a student at Claremont Graduate School in California.... Win Taylor is sales manager of Trice Contract Carpets & Furniture Co. in Dallas, Texas.... Gordon"Punchy" Thomas is a claims adjuster for the Travelers Insurance Co. in Los Angeles.... Bob Williams is in .sales with the National Plastic Products Co. in Annapolis, Md.... Dick Wolff is a textile salesman in New York. ... George Owen is with Delta C& S Airlines Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

Guess that's it for now. Hope you'll all make note of these oncoming class dinners- and plan to attend!!

Secretary, 230 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I.

Class Agent, Box 11, Augusta, Maine