1944
15th FIESTA! JUNE 19, 20, 21
I wonder what Mac Corner of the American Bridge, Division of U.S. Steel will have for Needle Allen to auction off during the Saturday cocktail hour. Ye Gods!
The Reunion boys have got up a good head of steam now and report extra-ordinary early return enlistments. Bill Walters' good wife Beverly dropped me a note last week enclosing Bill's directory card. To wit:
It', a good thing we clean house once in a while. I found this (the card) in the far reaches desk drawer where Bill had put it to get at" when he could. Sorry to be so late, and hope it's in time for your uses. Bill has a beautiful new office with three other M.D.'s, all working independently. It's the last word in modern decor and he loves it.
We're in a town of 15,000 (Warren, Penna.), spend free time putting about Chautauqua Lake in a fifteen foot inboard runabout .... also putting around the local golf course in the 80's (him) and the 115's (me). Makes for an interesting match (for him)
We'll be at the reunion for sure, and are considering bringing our two older boys along. Hanover can survive that, it is built to last.
Since the newspapers have stopped speaking about Cuba, perhaps we should. That's where Malcolm McLoud and bride Lydia are honeymooning. And that's where Joe Dryer holds forth as president of the North Atlantic Kenaf Fibre Co. This company with several plantations and a plant in Cuba grows, spins, and weaves Kenaf - or ambary - into bags for the coffee industry. Joe has been in Cuba since '51, found his bride there, and is father of two lovely children. Joe seems to get along well with the Batista regime and feels that the change in government was entirely justified. One of his plantations is in Oriente Province, and during the course of the fighting 400 of Castro's troops were quartered on the edge of the plantation. "We didn't have any trouble with The troops," Joe says, "Now and then the soldiers would eat a mule, but they always paid for it. This is typical of our relations with all Cubans."
Brad King is in Havana with the First National Bank of Boston.
Claude Schuchter, formerly Secretary of the United States Trust Company in New York, has moved to Buffalo as V.P. of the Manufacturers' Traders Trust Co. Claude is a director of the New York Port Society, a member of the American Society Corporate Secretaries and of the Financial Public Relations Association.
Some of our military cohorts better start reserving flights back to the U.S. for early June so we don't get into any bumping ble. Col. Dick Paul is at Fort Gulick, C.Z.; Jeremy Hodson in Saigon; Maj. Nick Manitsas with the Eighth Army Headquarters some place in the Pacific. Barbara Bam (Miss Rheingold '59) is now in Europe and, oddly enough, so is Jack Grimm. I can think of one of those two for whom any number of brass hats would happily be bumped. I didn't realize this until the engagement piece in the newspapers came out but the pride of the Sterling Drug Company is also a director of the Madison Square Boys Club.
Ed Knight was recently named president of the Virginian Electric Company in Charleston, W. Va. He currently is serving his second term as member of the House of Delegates.
Leroy Bribes picked a tough place to live. He's instructor of Engineering at Ventura College and making his home in Santa .Barbara. I had lunch at the Victor Hugo restaurant in Ventura last week and as I looked at the rocky coastline and the beautiful blue Pacific, poor old Ohio paled like it never had before. Win Turner is one of those tine gentlemen in Washington who's making it tougher to earn a slightly tainted dollar. He's with the Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Dept. , .
Our top "Jacko" cartoonist, Al Hormel, is now a commercial artist in New York. So is Charlie Geer up in Leb. Frank Martell is lawyering it in Washington with Galiher and Stewart. Frank Parker up in Whitefish, Wise., with the Schlitz Brewing Co. trying to out-shout the Braves as to who made Milwaukee famous. John and Betty Roberts are living in N. Manchester, Ind., where John is with the DeKalb Agricultural Assoc. The third of their four youngsters is named Thomas Arthur after Tommy Douglas and Art Saul. You may recall our collie was named after Buff Crawford Hills. Sherm Pinkham is with Jones Press, Inc. in Minneapolis and Tom Kunau is with the Silver State Press in Reno.
We're hoping that Dick Morse will have completed his work in Bombay, India, and returned to his old home town in time for reunion. Same with John Brown over in Beirut. And it would be about time for JohnFurfey to come back from Germany. But I think Don Hinckley is having too good a time in Brussels. . .
We haven't written about Bill Benoit in a long time but he is safe up in Glencoe with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. So is near-by Lefty Bogan in Glenview.
Our class has been doing an unusually good job in this Capital Gifts Campaign. I was always impressed with the job Dartmouth did in getting in $¾ million a year on the Alumni Fund. When they announced their seventeen million dollar goal in capital gifts, I felt they were a bit overly-ambitious. To date they are up to $13.5 million and I am inclined to agree that it may pay to "think big"! .
Hope you've mailed the respective Reunion cards to Jim Dammann and Needle Allen.
Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.
Class Agent, 67 Highland Ave., Rowayton, Conn.
