1948
Hi Again! What follows will be a hodgepodge of miscellaneous information gained in a myriad of ways and completely disorganized. Reason: some guy limited the day to 24 hours and it just isn't long enough.
First, we must sadly report the death of Paul H. Hemmerich in an automobile collision on June I. Details will follow in the obituary section of this or a subsequent issue. The class joins me, I know, in extending to his wife Nancy and his three children our deepest sympathy.
lI Battison wrote some time ago to report that he had a "Bankhart" (you MD's will understand) on his right shoulder last January at Mary Hitchcock by the same doctor who did the same operation on his left shoulder in 1947. Further he returned not long ago from Mary Hitchcock after a two-week treatment for knee trouble. Expected to be literally flat on his back for eight weeks. Hope you are up and rolling by now, AI. His comment summarizing the bouts is: "As the old man of the class, you guys can see what lies ahead in about 10 years." As one of the younger members, your editor can only say, thanks but no thanks.
Pete Batchelder is on the faculty at Bowdoin as instructor in German. Since leaving Dartmouth, he has done graduate work at Harvard and the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He has also been a teaching fellow at Harvard where he is a candidate for a Ph.D. degree.
Jerry Lucey has been appointed to the University of Vermont College of Medicine faculty as instructor in pediatrics.
Tampa's (Fla.) "Advertising Man of the Year" is none other than our own HowieHilton. Howie is advertising director of Maas Brothers Department Stores located in Tampa, Lakeland and Sarasota. He heads a staff of 30 people and his department's daily advertising lineage exceeds that of Macy's in New York. The award of "Ad-man of the Year" was made before the Tampa Advertising Club. Maas Brothers are the biggest volume department store group in Florida.
Stan Alger recently received his certificate as a registered architect in Massachusetts. He studied architecture at MIT and has been with Walter M. Gaffney Associates in Hyannis, Mass., since graduation.
Bill Cummings has been appointed assistant chief of the Anesthesiology Service at Veterans Administration Center, White River Jct., Vt. He got his M.D. from Boston University and interned at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N. Y. Resident work was done at the V. A. Center and Mary Hitchcock and was completed last June. He is also instructor in the Physiological Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School. Bill, his wife, and three children live in West Lebanon.
Class Agent Bob Russell reports that after a hectic summer all is again well in Saugerties. Regan Elizabeth, born June 30, is doing fine, and daddy is a new director of the Kingston Hospital in Kingston, N. Y. Summer visitors were Russ Carlson and family and KeithMcLoud who was on leave from being a flight surgeon for the Navy. Lou Clarke hung out his shingle at 80 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, Mass., as a specialist in Obstetrics & Gynecology recently.
Visitors to the Inn during late summer and early fall were: Dr. Chauncey F. Levy, Brook-lyn, N. Y.; John Zillmer, Wauwatosa, Wis.; Lt. & Mrs. Philip Shepard, Anchorage, Alaska.
Phil Viereck, part-time farmer and full time teacher, writes in from Bennington (Vt.) Country with a few kind words about the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Thanks, Moose.
Alex Proctor has sold out his furniture business just outside of Hanover and is now with the Concord Woodworking Co., in West Concord, Mass.
Rem Drury, reports from Pittsburgh that his work with Gulf's Foreign Crude Oil Sales Dept.. which has taken him to four different continents in the past eighteen months, is still keeping him busy.
June and Phil Kelly became proud parents of Sean Thomas Kelly on September 22, 1956. They are in Honolulu where Phil is at the Punahou School.
Sam and Jean Wilkinson are setting up housekeeping at 16 School Street, Manchester, Mass.
Dean Smith wrote from Albion, Mich., of his continued interest in the class and appreciation of the news that filters through these columns from time to time. Coincidentally, we ran into Dean's folks when they were in Niles for a State Historical Society meeting a week ago and they reported that he is an upand-coming educator - now principal of the Elementary Grades in Albion.
Art Kosse has moved from Denver to 508 E. Kirwin, Salina, Kan., and Sam Katz has changed his address from Newton Center to 122 Shornecliff Road, Newton 58, Mass. PaulRichrath resides at 8307 Elusive Dr., Los Angeles 46, Calif.; Pete Batchelder is living at 84 Federal St., Brunswick, Me.; and EdGingrich works out at 553 D Wakefield Dr., Charlotte 7, N. C.
Jim Wellington received his Ph.D. in English at Florida State University in May and is now an instructor in English at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.
The Al Battisons have a new daughter, Janice Elaine, born August 26.
Dave Walsh, who is with the American Foreign Insurance Assoc. in Karachi, Pakistan, will be heading home in February by way of Europe where he'll spend a few months. He notes that he'll be passing through Lugano between mid-February and mid-May and would like to see anyone in the vicinity at that time. His address can be obtained from the American Express office in Lugano. Also, anyone who is out Pakistan way is cordially invited for a Gin and Tonic (Schweppes, of course). Says he has yet to find Drury or any other of the roaming '48s after waiting on the other side of the world for six years. Family now consists of wife and two youngsters.
So there you are for another month. Thanks to Johnny Fenno for passing on the notes on backs of dues chits. For those of you who have not yet sent yours in, please do so soon. Cheerio!
Secretary, 807 Tomahawk Lane, Niles, Mich.
Treasurer, 120 No. Lincoln Ave., Niles, Mich.
