1941
There is an old proverb that says "No news is good news." Even proverbs have their exceptions. Since this is the last edition of class notes until the fall, I was hoping that this June issue would be replete with glad tidings about many of our cohorts. It seems that when tragedy strikes, it strikes in abundance. Thus for the second month in a row, the principal release is about the untimely death of Bill Wyckoff from a heart attack on April 1. Once again, on behalf of every member of our class, I would like to express the deepest sympathy to Bill's wife, four children, mother and two sisters. I have also learned of the death of Charlie Hadley, of Lancaster, Penna.
Dr. Dave McGaughey has been appointed assistant medical director of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in Hartford. Dave has been with this company since 1952, as a member of the staff of the medical department. His wife, Videen, keeps the home fires burning in nearby Wallingford, Conn., for Dave, his son and two daughters.
Bob McWilliam is a candidate this year for the office of Town Clerk of none other than good old Hanover. Best of luck, Bob, in the coming election. When you take office, how are you going to fit your duties as Town Clerk into your already seemingly overbur-densome schedule? In addition to working at Campion's store, Bob works evenings in the business office of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He is also an active member of the Hanover Fire Department. We all know that is plenty active. He has also served as Commander of Hanover's American Legion Post. Somehow, though, civic-minded citizens always seem to find more time to be more civic-minded and do an excellent job at it. Before taking up residence in Hanover, Bob was in the employ of Guaranty Trust Company in New York City, while studying banking at New York University. Bob's wife, Phyllis, is no stranger to Hanover either, being the daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Sidney Hazelton. Bob and Phyllis have two children, a girl and a boy.
Speaking of Hanover, Stu Steffey wrote to me recently that he was planning to travel to Hanover for the class officers meetings the first weekend in May. Unfortunately I was unable to attend them again this year.
The Hanover Inn reports that a number of our classmates have been taking advantage of its hospitality lately. George Middendorf,Dick Silberstein and his wife and family, Ez Crowley, Ted Wachs and his wife, and Bruce and Kathy Friedlich and their son have returned to their favorite New England village.
Also from that "neck of the woods" comes news about the appointment of Ed Tanzi as headmaster of the Winnocunnet High School in Hampton, N. H. Ed is leaving his present post as assistant principal of Valley Stream High School, Long Island, N. Y., to take on this new position.
Stu Steffey, newly elected member-at-large of the executive committee of the Philadelphia Dartmouth Club for a two-year term, recently forwarded to me a very interesting and informative letter from Jack Orr's spunky widow, Donnie. Donnie and Mike are now living in Birmingham, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, where Donnie is busily engaged in child welfare work for Social Welfare Department of the State of Michigan and in alumnae activities of a very lively Smith College alumnae group. She prepared herself for this wonderful work by studying three years at the University of Michigan for a Master's Degree in Social Work, "bringing home the bacon" at the same time as a dictaphone operator for Wayne County and as a teacher of history at Henry Ford Junior College. Last summer mother and son visited Dartmouth and now Mike is all excited about following his dad's footsteps at Dartmouth, busily preparing himself for similar athletic exploits for the Big Green by playing hockey for the Detroit Skating Club. "Scouts out!"
Al Eckhart is also engaged in gratifying social work as a probation officer. Al recently moved to Owings Mills, Md. Other recent changes of residence and employment are reported about: Andy Waring, who is now personnel manager of the C. Howard Hunt Pen Co. of Statesville, N. C., and who resides in the same community; Fred Begole, who is now in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany; Dini Suriyong, who is now in Bangkok, Thailand, with Standard Vacuum Oil Co.; Major Jack McAllister, of the U. S. Marine Corps, who is now stationed at Cherry Point, N. C.; Jack Beaumont, who resides in Chatham, N. J., and who is an engineer with Vanguard Records in New York City; Dr. ClintScholes, who is on the surgical staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kecoughton, Va., and who lives in nearby Hampton; and Jim Wallace, who is in the office of the President of National Container Corp. of Toledo, Ohio.
Jack Lockwood recently authored an article in the New Hampshire Horizon, entitled "Bombardment from Outer Space." TinnerGordon of Omaha has recently completed his tenure as representative of the middle-western states on the Alumni Council. Congratulations, Tinner, for the wonderful work done by you during your term of office.
As you have all received a recent communique from Dick Hill about the forthcoming Memorial Fund Campaign, Dick's appointment as Chairman of the 1941 Memorial Fund is no longer news. Dick was also named as one of six local area chairmen in the Greater Boston area for the special gifts phase of the capital gifts campaign.
While I am on the subject of money, permit me to close this epistle with one "hue and cry." The 1958 Alumni Fund campaign is coming down 'the home stretch and our class is only halfway toward the goal of Alumni Council Fund Committee member Lou Johnstone, Class Agent Bruce Friedlich, and all the sub-agents, of one hundred per cent participation. So please get out that check book before June 30 and do your part.
Best wishes to all for a very enjoyable summer. Here's hoping that the freckles will not get too large or the blisters too painful. Ladies and gents, both, while you are basking in the sun, please get out that note paper and drop me a line so that by the fall I will have plenty of news about many classmates not heard from or about in a long time. So long until October!
Secretary, 26 Broadway, New York 4, N.Y.
Class Agent, 150 Morningside Rd., Verona, N.J.
