1930
With the passing of the Labor Day weekend and the opening of schools it may be that your own thoughts are turning back to Hanover. Let me say that if you were to drive up here even early in September, as this is written, you would find many of the maple trees edged with traces of orange and red, and just so often a flaming red branch may be more noticeable because of its still green neighbors. You would also find that the football team has been here since September first and that the College opens September 19. In fact, all is hustle and bustle in Hanover as it was when we arrived thirty years ago this month.
However, our future is not all in the past and just to prove it, let's see what has been going on this summer.
In a year dominated by elections it is quite proper to report on the political situation and while I am sure you all approved them, we do want to make it a matter of record that Meade Alcorn in introducing Tom Dewey and Fred Scribner in closing the Republican National Convention certainly well represented '3O; and because we are non-partisans, we go on from there to point out that JohnFrench's wife, Ellie, is running this year as a Democratic Liberal candidate for State Senator in New York. She is running as "a new kind of woman in politics" and "a new kind of State Senator for New York." With her background in education, welfare administration, writer, editor and civic leader, she certainly is well qualified to meet those specifications. Good luck to you, Ellie.
It was pleasing in August to see Horst Orbanowski draw headlines in the sporting pages of The New York Times with his win at Larchmont of the Atlantic Class with his boat "Ann."
Since we last got together, Jack Fitzpatrick has been made Superintendent of Agencies for the State Mutual Life Insurance Company in Worcester; Sam Hutchins was elected Trustee of Vermont Academy; and Bill Fenton added to his long list of honors by being elected a Fellow in the Rochester, N. Y., Museum of Arts and Sciences "in consideration of scholarship in science and in the progress of museums."
Ed Faust, together with a man in the Class of '36, made a very real contribution in causing the Columbia Broadcasting System Foundation to give an unrestricted grant of $4,000 to the College. Under the CBS plan, privately supported institutions providing key executives to Columbia receive grants on the basis of $2,000 for each executive.
One of our news scouts reports that Bob Pratt's son finished his first year at Gettysburg College last June and also sends along an excellent picture of Ed Downey which appeared in the Nashua, N. H., papers. Let me assure you all he grows even more handsome with age.
The highlight in the life of the Class since last Reunion was beyond a doubt the informal get-together in Hanover the weekend of August 25. It was a superb occasion, guided to the extent an informal affair has to be guided by Harry and Barb Condon who cer- tainly did a splendid job. The get-together drew approximately fifty husbands, wives, and (to use Harry Condon's word) "kinder." The group began to grow toward the latter part of the week and each family made its own housing arrangements, while many of us local people drove over to Hanover just for the day Saturday. There was golf and swimming and Bob Keene gave an excellent showing of the 1955 Reunion pictures together with many fine slides taken by Dick Butterfield. You all will remember the kind of a feed the Keenes put on at Reunion. This was another one with wonderful tender steak, marvelously cooked, and lots of fresh picked corn.
Many of the families were in the area in the course of picking up children from summer camp and when we all got together the group consisted of the following: George and Kay Lord, Tom and Mary Dunnington, Henry Newell, Charley and Larry Widmayer and son Martin, Alex and Caroline McFarland, Dick and Gwen Bowlen, Herb and Marge Chase, Charlie and Mildred Rauch and daughter Katrina, Bill and Billy Putnam, Wally and Gladys Wasmer and sons Walter Jr. (entering Vermont Academy this fall) and Kenneth, and daughter Andrea, Fran and Liz Doherty and Liz's sister, Margaret Riley, Vic Borella, Ev and Dot Low and son Dana, Eddie and Timmy Jeremiah, Wayne and Grace Van Leer and daughter Betsy, Dick and Gen Butterfield and daughter Joan, Fred and Anne Watson and daughter Kathy and son Bob, Harry and Barbara Condon, and Bob and Louis Keene and daughter Susan and son Peter.
It's a sure thing that this annual get-together is going to be with us henceforth and if you weren't there, start planning on it for next year. It will be wonderful!
Personally we had such a good time at the Reunion that we failed to jot down all the news we might have picked up. One thing I do remember is that Fred Watson, who has been a Senior Supervisor in the Research Division of DuPont, has now been transferred to the Plastic Sales Division as Assistant Manager of Export Sales. This brings him in contact with people from all over the world and probably in reverse means that Fred and Ann are going to do some travelling.
The Watsons reported having entertained the Rodis who came east when their daughter Albertina helped the Southern California team defend its U.S. Girls' Lawn Tennis Championship. The team then went on to added tournaments in Wilmington.
In the way of a special notice, if you would like to buy a copy of the 1930 "Aegis" you may do so by getting in touch with Minnie Crosby at the Athletic Council office in Hanover who has one for sale.
And here is another list of new addresses for the Class: Dr. John F. Birmingham Jr., Zensser & Co., Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., 74 Villard Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Eben N. Blake, 5 Dartford Rd., Sedgefield, Morris Plains, N. J.; Major Horace B. ChrissingerJr., G-2 Plans AFFE 8/A (R) A. P. O. 343, San Francisco, Calif.; Herbert M. Garratt,220 State St., Portsmouth, N. H.; ArthurL. Griffin, 164 Main St., Wareham, Mass.; Capt. William J. Harrison, Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla.; Radcliffe E. Kilbourne, Room 13032 duPont Bldg., Polychemicals Dept., Wilmington, Del.; Glenn W. Poorman, Esso Std. Oil Co., 15 West 51st St., N.Y.C., 38 Sinclair Terrace, Short Hills, N. J.; Walter Rosenberry,2619 S. Jefferson, Spokane, Wash.; Col.Hamilton South, Marine Wing Hq. Gp. (C-1) R. P. O., San Francisco, Calif.; James B. Babcock,616 Read St., Evansville 10, Ind.; FrankGulden Jr., 143 S. Awixz Ave., Bay Shore, N. Y.; Don A. Howard, 671 Board of Trade, Chicago, Ill., 111 S. W. Tenth Ave., Boynton Beach, Fla.; Alexander H. Hughes, 1657 Amberwood, South Pasadena, Calif.
These columns are all too restricted to record the doings and accomplishments of Nelson Rockefeller, so let me just report briefly that the press has reported his interest in the conversion of a 2400-acre ranch in Texas to an industrial development; he also has been chosen by Governor Harriman to head the temporary State Commission of the Constitutional Convention of New York State; along the way he has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hamilton University; and in late August the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion cited him "for preeminence in applying the principle of human equality and working toward goals to which the Conference is dedicated." Further, in June Miss Mary Clark Rockefeller was introduced at the Rockefeller country home in Tarrytown. She had attended the Brearley School in New York and graduated from the Madeira School in Greenway, Virginia.
In June also, Miss Dorothy Lee Booma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland C. Booma of Swampscott was married to Mr. Ferdinand Louis Carangelo. The bride graduated in 1953 from Colby Junior College and in 1955 from Tufts University, and her husband graduated in 1955 from Colgate.
Attention of '30 men in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area: It now appears that there will be a Class Dinner Meeting on Thursday night. November 1, in New York City. You will have further advice on it but mark your calendar now. Further, this is a preliminary announcement to the Executive Committee that on the following day, Friday, November 2, the day before the Yale game, there will be an Executive Committee meet- ing in New York City. Again, there will be further bulletins on this.
For those of you who are not yet aware, we are sorry to have to report the death during the past summer of Vic Borella's wife, Ceil. She was a grand girl, an ardent participant in all '30 activities, and we shall all miss her greatly.
John Tiedtke '30, whose multitudinous interests require his hopping about the State of Florida, is shown in his plane with Peter Keene, son of classmate Bob Keene.
Secretary, Reading, Vt.
Treasurer, 30 Boxwood Dr., Stamford, Conn.
Bequest Chairman,
