1944
While we won't have our formal Fifteenth Reunion until next June, a select assortment of the group got a little head start this year in Hanover at Bob McLaughry's for a lobster and steak cook-out. If you think they're posed to look like the New York Yankees after copping a flag, you're wrong. It's a handy, type saving way of identifying spouses. Reading from North to South you spot the respective better halves, then turn the page around and you catch Dad with the empty tumbler.
The Kiendls left for Boulder, Colo., shortly after this Hanover assemblage. The Ebaughs took off for Rome for a bit of a medical conference and some touring. The Brownings also left for Europe where Jim will put in two months as an observer to NATO exercises, touching Portugal, Belgium, and Scandinavia. Bob and Jay Densmore find New Hampshire too nice for such meandering; Bob recently getting another promotion and keeping his nose to the grindstone, and Jay doing a big business in his construction supplies but still finding time to weekend at their lakeside cottage. The Fritz Hiers, after having assured their third son the honor of being born on U. S. soil, and New Hampshire at that, are champing at the bit. and as I write this, they're all probably on a Pan-Am balloon winging their way to some tension-ridden spot on the Continent. The Flyer Daleys find caring for a stable full of spring foals on their Plainfield acres a bit confining this season.
Speaking about Hanover people like the Ebaughs and Brownings who have headed abroad, the Dick Morses are in Bombay where Dick, a staff member of the Stanford Research Institute, is Economic Advisor to the Government of India Small Industry Program; and John Brown who had been instructor in classics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, leaves this fall to teach in the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. A three-year tour, with or without Marines.
Last spring when I made my entreaty for some news, Dale Sisson, who must at least have been an Eagle Scout, responded by sending .me the press release on Bill Harrison's award of a National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate study. While I already had that for the June issue, I wasn't aware, as Dale points out, that "only 60 are awarded for the entire country each year." Dale and Norma have added another member to the family, a girl, giving them a line-up of three girls and one boy. Their home is now in Stamford.
Cleveland is getting to be one of the better Dartmouth towns around the nation. Billand Joan Portman helped the cause when they recently migrated there from poor old Cincinnati. And last week I ran into one of their pride and joys, Andy "Honker" Carstensen, at an interchange of airport limousines in Minneapolis. And then, of course, there is the Herb Elliott of years gone by, Chuck Richardson, now the Louis Wolfson of years to come. Chuck is in the securities business with Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, but for kicks is also secretary-treasurer and director of the American Packaging Corp., Cleveland; vice-president and director of Charles E. Schuler Engineering Co. of Newark, Ohio; and director of Seacoaster Products Corporation of Williamstown, Mass. And from all I can gather he and Becky are social lions (and/or lioness) in the Cleveland circles. They, took off to Maine this summer with daughter Holly (2) and young Charles Jr. (½) where it's expected that Chuck got in a return golf match with running mate Don Burnham and Bud Zetterberg. When back in Cleveland, he traipses around with the likes of E. Buffum Hills, Bob Gilchrist,George Cornell and Bad Pete Bruch.
It seems that all we write about are the ones who flit abroad, and it's always a pleasure to report the return of a prodigal. Marsh Clark, who has been in London for some time as marketing manager of Bowater-Scolt (Scott's British affiliate), has elected to come home as Vice President of Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove Inc. (advertising) and manager of their New York office. Good picture of him in the Times financial section.
As I passed through Rochester a few moons ago I gave Harry "The Rocket" Davidson a honk and am pleased to say he's prospering. At the time of my call, he and Dottie were in the throes of loading the wagon for a flight to Cape Cod. He has a cage in the back for the boys.
West Shell, the friendly Cincinnati realtor, has opened his own office. Engineer George Dyke is now in Atlanta; Dr. Don McCreerv is out in Greeley, Colo.; Andy McDowell with Eastman Kodak is now working out of Cleveland; Don Oakes is at the Berkshire Country Day School in Lenox, Mass.; Dick Ettinger out in San Francisco with the Wadsworth Publishing Company; Hal Cannon is manager of the State Farm Insurance Company operating out of Port Jefferson, N. Y.; and going down south a bit, Capt. Dud Wilson is in Savannah, George Troxell in New Orleans, and Dave Parks in nasty old Ft. Lauderdale.
Within the next few months we'll get you lined up on Reunion plans. The important thing to keep in mind is the date — June 12, 13, and 14. Bill McElnea has already reserved - what in expert opinion is regarded as the greatest reunion location - Keene's in Etna for our main outing, Saturday, June 13. More about this later.
Dr. Jim Locke and Elizabeth Crouse of Chelmsford, Mass., were married in Utica July 26. Jim is an orthopedic surgeon there. And in late May, Bill Hufstaeder and Marilyn Stone of Springfield, Mass., became man and wife. They are living in Boston where Bill is office manager of the Motors Holding Division of General Motors.
I have to quit now because I'm due to take my lumps on the links from JohnSteele.
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