1942

Time is running out on us. Only two more issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE before the festive Fifteenth Reunion, June 15-17. In fact it's almost time to start checking over your list of equipment for the big Hanover trip. Be sure to include your Scotch-flavored tooth paste, your crew-cut scalp doily, and a big bottle of liniment. Don't worry about the sleeping pills. Save them for when you get back home.

Our Reunion in Hanover will be a kind of going-away party for Francis G. F. Bridge. Gardie is leaving his post as assistant to the director of admissions at Dartmouth to become director of admissions at Trinity College. He and Pat, with their two young sons, will be moving to Hartford, Conn., where Gardie assumes his new duties July i. He had previously taught and assisted in enrollment work at Hebron Academy. From 1943 to 1945 Gardie worked in Hartford as a supervisor in the training department of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. President Albert C. Jacobs announced the appointment and said:

"We are most fortunate to have Mr. Bridge join our staff. The position of admissions director is one of the most important posts at Trinity, and will become even more demanding in the years to come when the increasing number of applications will make the role of admissions officer a most vital factor in the success of our college."

Dick Lippman has further strengthened his already formidable array of Class Agents by the addition of Harry Edgcomb, Bob Schoonmaker, Harold Hayward, John Wright and Walt Elcock. That brings the total to the very appropriate figure of 42. The big majority of the Class Agents are seasoned veterans of two successive Green Derby wins. Their '56 battle cry of "$10,000 and 500 donors" is even now reverberating throughout the land. It is only fitting that we save our greatest Alumni Fund performance for this Reunion Year. One approved technique is to send in your check now for the Alumni Fund. Then you'll have plenty of time to rejuvenate your bank account before you launch your reunion junket to Hanover in June.

There's been some significant activity among our Wausau, Wise., contingent. Dunbar Schuetz has left the Marathon Corporation in Rothschild, Wise., to become assistant secretary of the Wisconsin Valley Trust Co. in Wausau. His brother-in-law, RonnieWestgate, has just been appointed resident manager of the new Marathon Corporation carton manufacturing plant in Newnan, Ga., forty miles from Atlanta. Ronnie and Mary will be moving their four children from Wausau sometime this summer. Dunbar's skiing is unaffected by his move, but the Westgates are going to find the ski slopes hard to navigate with that red Georgia clay.

Barrister Joe Nason has recently been elected an officer of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company in Worcester, Mass. He's now the assistant counsel.

Dr. Charlie Thomson, Amesbury, Mass., physician, will serve as vice chairman of the 1956 financial campaign of the Amesbury chapter of the American Red Cross. Charlie had one interesting comment to make in his acceptance statement:

"I am especially concerned with the value of the Red Cross blood program. One false belief I should like to trample down is that Red Cross charges for its blood. Red Cross has never charged a single penny for a single drop of blood. The misunderstanding is due to the fact that hospitals necessarily make a chatge for administering of blood or plasma .... This service includes typing and tests needed to make sure that the right type blood is given.

"Red Cross never charges for blood, and this despite the fact that it costs money to collect it and to administer the blood program generally."

We would be most interested to hear from any of you well-organized citizens who are planning to be at the grand old Fifteenth in Hanover, June 15-17. While it is even more important that you organize your contingent among the would-be returnees, we'd like to have an inkling of whether to plan for 200 or 400. The more the merrier to be sure, so let's everyone try to sell another dozen classmates on the idea. Remember how beautiful Hanover can be in June.

Secretary, 3548 Roland Drive Birmingham, Mich.

Class Agent, Duval Manor, Apt. 108, Green & Johnston Sts. Philadelphia 44, Pa.