1952

REUNION-JUNE 14-16

It's been colder than blazes over the holidays and the early part of January in these parts. As a matter of fact, I even heard somebody say that it was so cold that the skiing was slow. Not that there weren't people skiing, but the skis themselves moved over the snow slower than in warmer weather. It's a new twist for me but I have as yet to give it a whirl on the slopes this year.

At any rate now that we are well into the new year and the next big headache coming up is income taxes, it won't be too long before the days will be noticeably longer, spring skiing will be in full swing and the mud season under way. If you can see beyond this and do any planning, keep the above dates in mind. Enough of that for the moment as we swing on and into

WHAT'S NEW WITH '52

I like to call the next couple of months the "Dry Season" as far as this column goes because this is the time of year when I have to write a few letters in order to have the high quality type of stuff that is traditional with this particular spot in this here magazine. ike very much to hear from you especially if we haven't seen your name in print here.

Of course, there are hardly any "Goofs" made by this scribe but once in a while - well, there is a slip. In the November issue I made reference to Roy Abbott and "date." As some of you know, Roy and "date" have been doing rather well of late. Indeed this is no passing thing and Roy Abbott III objects. As a matter of fact, Leigh E. Hinsie has been Mrs. Roy Abbott, Jr. since April 17, 1954. (If these records are right.)

From around this neck of the woods, reports have it that Mendy Balkin was released from active duty with the Navy as of last October. He had been on duty in the Procurement Division of the Office of Naval Material. He has accepted a position with the Bankers National Life Insurance Company in Boston and he and his wife Lorraine make their home in Brookline. In the Westfield, N. J., area, Ted Frankenbach has joined the firm of Pearsall & Frankenbach Inc., realtors and insurers. After graduation, he put two years in with Uncle Sam and then joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society with whom he has been working until last fall. I understand that he is specializing in life insurance, thereby rounding out the firm's insurance department.

Tom Batchelder, now a Captain in the Marine Corps, is currently stationed in Japan, if my sources are correct. He entered the Corps in June of 1952, was commissioned shortly thereafter and stationed at Camp Lejeune where he served as a Motor Transport officer. He received his Silver Bar in 1954 and shortly thereafter was transferred to the island of Vieques. He was then brought back to Quantico to instruct the Platoon Leaders' Course and in March of last year was sent to Okinawa. He received his second bar while at that post and is now serving as executive officer in a unit attached to the 3rd Service Regiment. His wife Janet is living in Lansrdon, N.H., and teaches at the Charlestown High School.

While we are talking about the uniformed group, I have a letter dated last fall which is long overdue here. The post mark is Augusta, Ga., and the author is BOb Prew who was at that time stationed at Fort Gordon. That post, he wrote, is the home of the Southeastern Signal School and he allowed as how he kept busy as an instructor of radio operators. Apparently, the environment around that camp leaves something to be desired - either that or the influence of the Southern Clime on a New Englander. In his spare time during his earlier days there he managed to put his Notre Dame M.A. to work as a member of the University of Georgia Faculty for two years. Bob says his "Students" were mostly Southern Officers and the subject was Civil War History. As of the letter he had not been tarred and feathered as a carpetbagging interloper, but he was writing from the hospital where he was a patient. I trust that by now he is clear of the hospital, the infection he was suffering from, and the Army. Bob's future plans called for a return to Notre Dame and work towards a Ph.D.

Bob made mention of three other classmates. Jack Barclay is stationed at that same spot and is connected with the Military Government Company there. I am also informed that Tom Ranney, his wife Lorraine, and their three boys are now living in Tilton, N. H. Tom had been teaching history in Honolulu but is now a member of the faculty at the Tilton School. I am further informed that Chuck Schuck was recently released from the Air Force. He had served with that branch of the Armed Forces for four years.

From New Haven comes word that Bob Lord now holds the post of minister of music at the Edgewood Congregational Church in New Haven. Bob is still enroute to his Ph.D. at the Yale Graduate School. I am further informed that George and Elaine Littlehales are located in the same apartment building in that town. George, incidentally, has a flying career with the Navy behind him. Among those now in the teaching profession who have not as yet seen print here is Dick Gagne. Now at Brewster Academy in New Hamp- shire where he is teaching French and some science, Dick has an M.A. from the University of that state to his credit.

WHO'S NEW WITH '52

Again a singleton for this month. Just under the wire for a deduction are Lyle and Lola Spalding. December 30 was the day and son David now has a sister, Jane Drew, who bounced in at seven pounds one ounce.

TROTHS AND BETROTHS

There is still a great deal of backlog to clear from the files in this department, but this issue will see all early fall marriages that I have on record in print. For example, Charlie Tremblay and Barbara Ann Hesselin exchanged their vows way back on September 15 at St. Bernards Church in Keene. Charlie spent several years with the Army in Europe and, as I recall, did some skiing thereabouts as well. As of my last report he and his bride, a graduate of Westbrook Junior College, were making their home in Wigwam while Charlie finishes up at Tuck.

October 6 was the important day for Tom Dudley and his bride, the former Dudley Webster of Durham, N. H. Tom is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and his spouse attended both Jackson College and the University of New Hampshire. A week later in Lancaster, Pa., Margaret Ann Herr became the bride of Jim Branch at the St. James Episcopal Church. Margaret is a graduate of Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio. She spent part of 1955 teaching in Venezuela and prior to that had taught in Germany and in Virginia. Jim is a Tuck School graduate and served with the Army for three years of which half he spent in Germany. They make their home in Denver.

October 20 in South Weymouth, Mass., saw the marriage of Tom Garrity and Joanne Louise Monahan. Tom's bride is a graduate of Lasell Junior College. After a wedding trip to Bermuda they returned to make their home in Freeport, N. Y.

So ends it for this month. See you back here for the beginning of the duck board season.

Part of the 1952 turnout for the Yale game, biggest class gathering since graduation.

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