1949

This is going to be shorter than usual, even though it is the first issue of the fall, because I broke my right ring finger last week, and the splint involved requires my typing to be a pathetic left-handed job.

Several important timely items ... not the least of which is that Rank Lashmet of the Chicago area dropped into R. I. last week on a business tour and I had the opportunity to spend over an hour with him. Rank and I haven't met in over seven years, so we reminisced freely. He's recently seen Stu Sayer who's moved to Chicago to work for one of their larger banks. Others who Rank runs into "often" are Frank Stowell and Irl Marshall. He says he also read where Gene "Biz" Howard is quite a tournament golfer out that way. Rank himself is a space-salesman for The Saturday Evening Post, working from their Chicago office.

At our spring R. I. Alumni Association cocktail party and annual dinner, other classmates present were Bob and Shirley Magown, Jack and Peggy Kilmartin, Harv Nolan and Sew Weber. Sew Weber, incidentally, is the City Planning Commissioner for the city of Woonsocket, R. I.

I see by my change-ot-address lists that Bob Mac Arthur is living right over, here in East Providence. I stopped over at the house the other day to say hello, met Bob's wife (a mother only two weeks before), and learned that Bob works in the local Westinghouse office. We hope to see more of them this fall when we get settled after a summer in the "country."

Incidentally, you'll note above that we've moved to Rumford (East Providence) this past summer into a house with more room and also into a neighborhood with more young people. We aren't any longer a short walk from the Brown stadium, but my invitation still stands for cocktails after the victory this fall. Anyone interested will be given driving directions between halves. I don't know offhand what games we'll make this fall, but we might just turn up at several, so I hope we'll see you there too.

One engagement this issue to report.... Bill Marden of Delmar, N. Y., to Miss Joan Bell of Cambridge, N. Y., with a fall wedding planned.

Weddings of recent vintage.... Bob Nutt of Staten Island, N. Y., was married in June to Miss Laura Natalie Elliman of Staten Island. Bob is employed by Donahue & Coe in New York City. ... Ed Graham of New York City was married May 12 to Miss Nancy Ann Keogh, also of New York. Both Ed and Nancy work for Young & Rubicam. Ed is the creator of the characters Harry and Bert in the Piel Brothers' (Beer) television commercials. DickStanwood was one of Ed's ushers.... Bob C. Smith of Swampscott, Mass., was married in June to Carol Jean Agnew of Lynn, Mass. Smitty is an executive assistant to the vice president and general manager of the North Shore Gas Company. .. . Peter Serafin of New Haven was married July 7 to Miss Shirley M. Ballah of Stafford Springs, Conn. I see by the clipping that Peter has a degree from Fairfield University as well as Dartmouth.

A few birth announcements trickled in this summer, too. Sid and Barbara Johnston of Lockport, N. Y., announce the arrival of Scott Douglas Johnston (second child and second son) on May 16. Their other - Jeffery - is age 4.... Ed and Marge Clogston of Rosedale, N. Y., announce the arrival of Ruth Elizabeth on July 15.... Tom and Ann Swartz announce the birth of Gary Russell Swartz on August 11. Class Congrats to all three families!

Two Hanover Inn visitors in June were Bob Weber of Arlington, Va., and Jim Fowler of New York.

Nathan Gottschalk has been appointed assistant to the director and chairman of the chamber music department at Hartt College of Music in Hartford.... Army Pfc. Mark Feer is now stationed at Fort Myer, Va.... Dr. Dick Kearsley has moved his family to Scituate, Mass., where on July 1 he opened his office to practice pediatrics. Dick married the former Nancy Conlin of Brookline, Mass., and they have a son Richard Jr.... Dean Worth received a Ph.D. degree at Harvard's June commencement. ... Jay Haft, a faculty member at Boston University, is making a summer study on Cape Cod of the small mammals of the sea. Jay, in addition to his work as an instructor at B.U., is also writing his dissertation for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in biology. He received his Master's from Columbia.

Bob Alden writes that he and Persis hope to join us at Carnival next winter. He says Clarke Church was one of his January ushers. Clarke is now district manager in Boston for Procter & Gamble.

Peter New writes from Kansas City, where he's working with Community Studies Inc. He's been doing a lot of traveling (as usual) interviewing osteopathic students for his Ph.D. thesis. Pete's present job is project director of a nurse-patient relationship study they're doing. While touring, Pete saw Dick and Rita Hoar in Kansas University where Dick's finishing his Ph.D. in anatomy.

Guess I'll quit for now. Will save many (more recent) miscellaneous items for the next issue. Hope to see you at some stadium this fall. I think the Green will warrant and receive good support from now on.

Secretary, 50 Tryon Ave. East Providence, R.I.

Treasurer, 21 Crescent Dr., Whippany, N. J.