1924

By the time this is in your hands, you'll be getting packed up for the Holy Cross game, the 20th. I'm writing these first notes, at least, almost two months in advance as copy has accumulated. Best news is that we will have a group together the 19th and 20th at the Coach an' Four Motel, in White River Junction. Rooms being at a premium already (and many taken last fall), ten of eleven available units are reserved for the lucky ones. As of now they are the Craigs, Wheatleys, Hartshorns, Tuppers, Herseys, Campbells, Schoonmakers (4), Lamsons and Bents. Congratulations, mes amis. And let's start planning now for next year. Regrets have been received from some, including the Van Huycks and Spauldings. Jerry has a daughter getting married right about then.

Doug Craig sends some news some will want to share. As reported, his son Jim graduated in June —along with other distin- guished '56ers including three Hanoverians: Jon Allen, Jon Strong, and Kendy Bridge. He had fun in summer school at Michigan, and returns to Tuck for the second year. (Jon Allen returns for his Master's, too, at Thayer.) The Craigs spent July in Bermuda, and Jim joined them for a week. Doug was of! for a business trip the end of August, all the way to the coast and into Canada. Anyone see him?

I tried to see Howie Bissell when in Cleveland recently. But my two days there were too full with a speaking engagement and what went with it. Son Suds, '51, Harvard Business School '53 (instead of Tuck), married Bill Cunningham's daughter after two years in the service. An older son, Bob, went to Swarthmore, married a Swarthmore girl, then Harvard Law, is now practicing in Cleveland, and has two sons.

We get around. Red Newell is at Singapore, and these are hectic days for him, and the Bank is building anew. He ought to get here again soon; just sitting around —no tennis or golf. We can remedy that for you, Red. You might be just right for my tennis game. (Took it up again the other day with Gordie Bridge; we shall repeat as often as time permits. Gordie is hardworking, and right now enjoying being grandpa, with his daughter briefly home with her daughter.) A birthday card addressed to Bob Macaulay ended up in Bangkok, not Long Island. He is confused, having started with 1923, but 1923 also seems confused, and so we are delighted to make him ours — officially.

Lloyd Parker, of Hudson, Mass., celebrated his wedding anniversary in June. (Never mind which one. Only Red Newell is brash enough to post his tender twenty years. The rest of us are more ancient in this sense.) Lloyd is president of the Larkin Lumber Co., is active in the community on the School Board, as Selectman, and director and trustee of two banks. He and Arline have three sons and three grandchildren. Lloyd's father is Town Clerk, and celebrated his marriage on the same day as his son's.

Ted Nilsen has come up through the ranks to become the new president of the National Assn. of Wool Manufacturers, coming into the post through the Midwest Association where he was president, and top man in the Clinton (Michigan) Wool Manufacturing Assn. He is also active in community projects such as Rotary, School Board, and the Boy Scouts.

Roily Taylor opened a real estate and appraisal business office in West Hartford, Conn., where he lives with his wife and two sons. Not too far away, in Westport, lives Al Brown; many will remember him as the advertising mogul of Hanover when here, and he's a top man now for Best Foods.

Paul Ford shows the stylish pattern of receding, off-the-forehead hairdo many of us also effect these days. Pictured in The Baltimore Sun, as a native son, he is described as Colonel Hall with the Phil Silvers Sergeant Bilko TV show, who drifted through various occupations until he was 35 years old and found his college acting was both fun and a good career. (He dropped the family given name of Weaver, as we knew him.)

Stu Eldredge drops into Hanover occasionally, but we seem to miss each other. Last spring he had an exhibition in the Bronxville (N. Y.) Public Library of his excellent watercolors. Many remember him as teaching art at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union, in New York, and the Art School at Hartford, Conn., for some 15 years. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, in 1943 to paint and teach privately. His current project is a mural for a children's hospital. Joe Butler, among others, has some of his paintings in the Butler Art Institute, in Youngstown, Ohio. The Class will see more of his work, I'm sure.

Don Wilbur, with whom I had an enjoyable lunch last year here in the Inn, was the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the YMCA in Woburn, Mass., last spring. He is Treasurer of the Wilbur & Williams Co., Boston. He has been associated with the YMCA movement ever since 1915, and is a member of the Boston Association Board of Directors.

Charlie Altman breaks into print, as the Atlanta papers announced his partnership with Clement Ford. Charlie studied architecture at Penn and then Columbia; and has worked in Atlanta since 1949 after hitches in New York and abroad and as a project planner for the Federal Housing Administration during the war years. Charlie is a past president of the American Institute of Architects.

George ("Senator") Avery, who has been Director of the beautiful Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, received the honorary LL.D. degree from Long Island University at Commencement in June. He's known as an outstanding plant physiologist. In addition to teaching at Duke and Columbia universities, he also taught here in the Botany Dept. This, like my own present status, is a far cry from freshman year struggles in Math. 1 — along with Ham Fish and Charlie Holbrook.

Anyone know the whereabouts of A 1 Hailparn? Was in Fresno, but forwarded from there to Fort Ord, but from there we draw a blank.

To close on a light note: Hal Cowley addressed deans from some 150 colleges and universities,.last June at the Stanford School of Education. The topic? "Panty raids are a blessing in disguise," from the historical poixrt of view — citing the more vigorous misdemeanors of Oxford, Princeton, etc. Seriously, this psychologist goes along with him and wished he could have heard the talk — and the following discussion.

Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 29 Woodside Rd., Winchester, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,