1921
If your luck, finances, health and determination have all been good, you should be reading this at Hanover, surrounded by your classmates and their charming wives. Maybe you'll be too busy to read it until you return to your home, tired but glad to have been a part of our 35th. To those who could not get back this time, our sincere sympathy and our regrets that we could not renew the friendships of our youth.
If the length of the official Latin title of our 35th scared you away, please contemplate the predicament of a 26-year-old public works surveyor in Honolulu who is identified as Richard Keliipunikailanikealawaihinanowahineopuna Papa. His 41-letter middle name is translated "The chief who is fond of traveling amongst the fragrance of the Hala blossoms of the Goddess of Puna." Perhaps PudWalker, Ted Merriam, or even Bob Burroughs or Rog Wilde can tell us how pleasant that may be.
We hope you did not miss Ellis Briggs' delightful account of "his zaniest mission: the delivery of a gift from Syngman Rhee to Dwight Eisenhower." It appeared in the April 28 issue of Satevepost under the title: MyTangle with the President's Bears.
Also in April a full-page ad appeared in the Eastern Underwriter, an insurance journal, as a testimonial and accolade by Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Co. to its five leading general agents. Excellent pictures of Cory Litchard and Hank Cook indicated their agency as one of this select group in 1955, out of 93 agencies. Their successful partnership in Springfield, Mass., has continued without pause for 25 years.
Howie Ransom, who has the same gracious, reassuring appearance as Tom Cleveland and all truly successful real estate salesmen, recently acquired Charles W. Pastorfield as a partner after about ten years of conducting a real estate and insurance business on his own in New Haven, Conn. Howie lives in Orange, a suburb, with Lorraine, his enthusiastic and capable wife, who can sell a house almost as fast as her husband. Howie is a past president of the New Haven Real Estate Board. For fifteen years he was chairman of the Orange Town Planning and Zoning Commission and active in YMCA financial and membership drives. Now he is treasurer of the Regional Planning Authority of South Central Connecticut and a director of the Conn. Association of Real Estate Boards. Howie's a busy chap.
Goldie Goulding has worked for the Firemen's Fund Insurance Co. since 1923. During most of that time he has been their special agent in Buffalo, N. Y. All of which made it logical for him to address about 250 members, of the National Association of Cost Accountants at the Buffalo Trap and Field Club in March on the topic, "Insurance and How It Affects the Accountant." Goldie is a past president of the local Dartmouth Club and of the N. Y. State Underwriters Association. Have you enough fire insurance?
When Wilkes-Barre, Pa., celebrated its. sesquicentennial on St. Patrick's Day, Livingston Clewell '22, public relations director for the local Chamber of Commerce, prevailed upon Doug Storer to prepare a special BelieveIt or Not release and to bring Hazel, his wife, down for the big day. They took an active part in the festivities.
Under In Memoriam in this issue you will find an account of the life and death of Maynard Hawse who was with us only a part of our sophomore year. Nevertheless, we hate to lose another man from our roster and regret his passing.
Your secretary was slightly irritated at the implication when an applicant for financing brought his attorney to a business conference, apparently for protection. But when the lawyer turned out to be Line Miller and his client was disclosed to be a Cornell man of our vintage, the business was quickly arranged and a pleasant reunion enjoyed with Line for the first time since 1921. He operates as half of a partnership in Jamaica, N. Y., and obviously is a smart and capable lawyer. Unfortunately he could not be persuaded to attend our 35th. Competition is so fierce in his area that he might lose a client if absent for three days.
Mac McMackin writes from Highland St., Valparaiso, Fla.:
"I just wanted to let you know why I am passing up the biggest and best reunion. I had thought that I was settled in Maryland and my job at Aberdeen Proving Ground was not bad. Then I received a really worthwhile offer from the Air Force to come to Elgin Air Force Base.
"So here I am back in Florida, and Publications Editor (Physical Science and Engineering) at the Air Force Armament Center. The job is an exciting one and I like it tremendously! One gets a sense of something vital and dynamic in the Air Force - it's alive.
"I shall miss coming to Hanover, especially so since we just bought a lovely summer place on the side of Cube Mountain. What a gorgeous view of Moosilauke one gets from there! Well, I can dream about it. Meanwhile, I gaze daily at the waters of Choctahatchie Bay."
We're glad you've landed in the right spot,Mac.
It was also good to get a note from LukeBoggess who says he'll be at reunion:
"Last fall Mrs. Boggess and I went East and visited our son and family at Bound Brook, N. J. He has two daughters, Jill, 2, and Joy, 6 months. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1945 and resigned from the Navy a year ago. Is now with Westinghouse International in N. Y. office. My daughter and son-in-law live here in Carthage and have a daughter, Mikel, 5 years old. My youngest son Bill is single, an engineer living in Topeka, Kan. As for me, I'm old and gray but imagine I'm not alone on this score. While East in September, we drove to Montreal and stopped en route at Hanover for a couple of hours. It has certainly changed - almost unbelievably so. Plan to be back for the 35th."
Hoy and Helen Schulting spent a month on the West Coast about the first of the year, including visits in Los Angeles, Riverside and Palm Springs but especially with daughter, Nancy Ann (Mrs. John P. Kelly), and the grandchildren. They flew both ways but forgot the list of classmates and didn't have a chance to look 'em up anyway. Hoy says: "You can give L.A. and its ozone (smog to you) back to the original owners, and yet how can so many millions of people be wrong."
George and Madeline Harris seem to have settled down in Manhattan and may have sold their Manchester, N. H., house. He runs BobBurroughs' N. Y. office. They have daughter Lyn left to them. The other children are scattered around in La Jolla, Culver City and Guam with their spouses. The pensive tone of George's note indicates that he would welcome a 'phone call or visit by a '21er at Apt. 7-C, 15 West 55th St.
The Roland Augers of New Bedford, Mass., staged a small but beautiful wedding for their daughter, Nancy Ann, in April. The lucky inan was Richard Thomas McCabe of Wellesley Hills, a graduate of Bowdoin and a Deke. The bride graduated from Garland Jr. College and attended Rollins College. Spectators reported that Augie was remarkably calm for a man of Gallic descent.
As of May 1 our glorious class was leading our Alumni Fund of '56 group with 1924 a close second. Don Sawyer and Agents were neglecting their personal business in an allout effort to pry at least one buck out of each laggard. His progress report should be forthcoming at our reunion class meeting, but the race continues until June 30, so let's go!
The important job to be done at said class meeting is to elect an executive committee of eleven men in accordance with the provisions of our new class constitution adopted last year. We trust you will approve the names presented by the nominating committee. When and if elected the new executive committee is supposed to go into executive session on June 12 and come up with a President, Treasurer, Secretary, News Letter Editor, Class Agent, Bequest Chairman and any others needed. So these notes should be a swan song for ye sec. It's been an enjoyable and rewarding job for five years but new blood, new writing style is needed.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Class Agent, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass.
