1943
Class Reunion - The 15th Hanover — June 19, 20, 21
Gentlemen, by the time that this article is published, I hope all of you will have made plans to come to Hanover on June 19, 20, and 21. If you haven't sent in your reunion tax to Robert Craig, you have lost your five dollar discount but, nevertheless, don't let that hinder you because five dollars spread over fifteen years is mighty small and the total of $55 per couple is well worth it to get this opportunity of talking over old times with fellow classmates and reviewing past activities since we all had the opportunity of daily association. We hope those that are from afar will not let distance hinder them at this time. Plan, if necessary, to take part of your summer vacation in the Hanover Hills because there is no lovelier spot in the country at this time of the year.
Charlie Donovan has already listed 85 fellow classmates who intend to return. Review this list and see if you can't tie in with some of your special friends to make this weekend even a more pleasant one than it would be otherwise.
Our classmates still continue to sparkle in the news and trying to be chronological, they go as follows:
Dave Schirmer has recently joined Diamond Gardner Corporation as director of new product development for the company's Diamond Match Division. Dave is to be congratulated on this new job. We hope that he, too, will be in Hanover the weekend of June 15.
Relly Raffman once again wins honors in his chosen profession of music and goes off with the Ernest Bloch Award for 1959. He received this acclaim for his composition, In The Beginning," a mixed choral and piano work on a text by Dylan Thomas, noted Welsh poet. The Bloch Award, named for the well-known American composer, is offered by the United Temple Chorus of Woodmere and Lawrence, N. Y. The competition is open to foreign and American composers for the best new work for mixed chorus. Relly has had three of his other compositions recently published, two on texts by Shakespeare and one on a text by Christopher Marlowe. This is quite an achievement for a fellow classmate. I am sure that the Class joins me in congratulating Relly.
Mike Frothingham has been elected Vice President and Secretary of Ted Bates Company, Inc., one of the world's leading advertising agencies. Mike joined the Bates agency as assistant secretary and general counsel in 1958, prior to which he had been associated with the law firm of Coudert Brothers. It will be great to get together with Mike in Hanover during our Reunion, as I understand he plans to attend, joining a New York contingent consisting of Emil Mosbacher, Jim Elleman and others, we hope.
Donald W. Kingsley Jr., editor of the General Foods News Services, White Plains, N. Y., was elected Vice President of the American Association of Industrial Editors. This is another good advancement for the solid Class of 1943. Don, as some of you might remember, is a misplaced Texan now living in York-town Heights, N. Y. He has been with General Foods for five years where he supervises news bureau service to more than seventy field locations, edits a monthly publication, and has responsibility for other employee communications activities. In addition to his duties in AAIE, Don is noted for his outstanding activities in behalf of other professional societies in the industrial communications field.
One of the Class of '43 foresters, John O'Donnell, has recently joined an engineering firm known as Wright and Pierce, as their aerial photographer. This organization specializes in photography, mapping and planning studies. John presented a talk in Greenfield, Mass., at the assessors' portion of the annual Town and County Government Conference April 4 on "Assessors' Maps, Their Construction and Use." John is a member of the Society of American Foresters and in the past served in the weather division of the Air Force before receiving a Master's degree at the Yale School of Forestry in 1948. Congratulations to you, John.
Our good friend and ever-smiling classmate, Emil Mosbacher added to his sailing laurels this winter by being named the Ocean Race Champion for the season. He won the St. Petersburg to Havana yacht race which due to his other top performances, entitled him to the Governor's Cup based on points won in five major races. Congratulations to a great guy and a great skipper from the Class of '43. We would like to hear more during the 15th Reunion. I know where we can corner you to get the best results.
Last but not least for this month, Edward R. Kast, Headmaster of the Short Hills Country Day School, was elected this month as President of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Association of Northern New Jersey. We look forward to seeing this outstanding classmate during our coming Reunion.
Just received a very interesting note from Dick Proctor from Winter Park. The contents follow:
Saw statesman Guy Mallet, his beautiful wife and a real red-headed "young guy" in the Mallet's Paris apartment last summer. Their place, a three century-old house, extremely interesting - overlooking the Seine River, with the Louvre right across the river. Guy is right "up there" in the State Department as a Rep. to the U.N. Also met Howie Thomas en route to new assignment - possibly Far East? Plumbing mogul Norm Askey in Miami raising the best looking bunch of kids (five).
Thanks, Dick, for your information.
Don't forget one and all this is the last chance to get together as a complete class before our 20th Reunion rolls around five years hence. Let's make this an outstanding weekend that we will all remember with fond thoughts. I personally look forward to seeing as many as can attend on that date.
P.S. Although this is a postscript in my monthly letter, it should not be in your monthly activities. Don't fail to participate in the Capital Gifts Campaign before June 30 of this year. Your sights should be raised to pledge an amount over and above your annual contribution as this program runs for three years. If we could all contribute something, the Class of '43 might, for the first time, step out of the cellar position that it has maintained so regularly in the past. Let's all make a concentrated effort towards a higher goal.
Secretary, Glen St., Dover, Mass.
Class Agent, 42 Homewood Ave., North Haven, Conn.
