1950
No rest for the weary! Just about the time you get the grass cut back and stopped growing, leaves come tumblin' down. At least the rake is lighter than the mower, but the snow shovel is making ominous signs of preparation for battle. Of course, some of you have a midget brigade to pitch in on these dandy little chores ... so what if it does take twice as long that way? It protects you from the inevitable task of replacing the screen with the storm windows. Pleasant thought!
Well, perhaps you can take five while that soggy mound of foliage tries to make up its mind to give up the ghost and burn a bit. Let's look at who's hooked at .. .
THE HITCHING POST
Many of you met the bride from this affair a week or so after the happy day since Tony Ambrose brought her to Hanover for reunion. She is the former Gail Nancy Kirkman of Riverside, Conn. The wedding took place in Greenwich on June 5. She's an alumna of Stanford University (Palo Alto, Pancho, not the Nutmeg city two stops further up the New Haven tracks). Tony is counsel to the Parsipanny, N. J., Municipal Planning Board, among a host of other things, and graduated from Rutgers Law School.
An August ceremony was planned for Harvey Graves and Miss Nancy Ray Copp of Bridgeville, Pa. She graduated from Finch College and the D. T. Watson School of Physiatrics. Whatever that may be, it's beyond the scope of an unabridged dictionary. Semasiology students, please note. Further details on who directed traffic and so forth will be published when received.
DIAPER DIGEST
Meanwhile, back at the maternity ward, anxious fathers-to-be were finishing their second pack of cigarettes and obliterating the oriental rugs. On June 28 such a scene took place before Dick and Lee Echikson increased the Manhattan population by one male type offspring. He was promptly named James Lawrence as soon as Ech was revived. If we can get him down from Cloud 9, he'll probably fill us in on the details. In case you haven't been to Herald Square lately, you could find out for yourself by popping into Macy's (Gimbel's won't tell) where Dick has charge of the first floor.
Three weeks later Dick and Marion Healy offset the 1950 imbalance of boys by countering with a daughter, Gail Marjorie. The damsel weighed six pounds, 10½ ounces and can be found practicing her wiles on the doting parents in Cedar Grove, N. J.
Great news, you great people! Congratulations!
INKADENTAL INTELLIGENTZ
Our chums in the prior sections notwithstanding, by this stage of life a large portion of your progeny are anticipating report cards or teachers' comments or whatever sort of data is supplied from your local little red school house (with the tiled swimming pool, campus construction, and stereophonic, 3-D, technicolor visual aids). That being the case, you might be interested in a few of the tribe who are on the report writing side or otherwise engaged in pedagogics. One such is Dr. Dave Fink, an assistant prof at the U. of Maine in Orono. Both a new degree and a new title, isn't it, Dave? Well done! Hot on the trail of that Ph.D. is Dave Luce who spent the summer around the not-windy-enough city this summer teaching the philosophy of science at the University of Chicago. By now "Scat" is holding forth in a similar position at the Milwaukee branch of the U. of Wisconsin.
Karl Marsh is teaching English at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Conn., and working on his master's at Bridgeport. .. . Also teaching English is Dick Pearson. He's at the Masconomet High in Lawrence, Mass.... Not far away, Joe Sardella has been appointed assistant to the high school principal at Wakefield's Memorial H. S. Joe received his master's in education from Boston University.
Somehow the summer season seems to provide the chance for our medical members to relocate. Dr. Dick Best, for example, can now be found at the Murray Clinic in Butte, Mont. Phil Chapalis has moved down to Bellevue in New York from his former post at the Norwalk, Conn., Hospital. Graduated from Jefferson Medical College in June, Dick. Howden is now interning at the Denver General Hospital. And Dr. Tom Tomasi is on the staff of the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington.
Tom Armstrong works for the National Research Foundation in Dallas.... Capt. PhilGross and his family were transferred from Fort Lawton, Okla.. to a tour of duty with the Army R.O.T.C. in Hanover just in time for reunion. Clever, what? ... Walt Lane is a test engineer with Sikorsky Aircraft in Stafford, Conn.... Whether he knows you're coming or not, Jack Bryant should have no excuse for not having baked a cake. Jack's employer is Pillsbury Co. in Minneapolis In Hollywood, Calif., Bob Karnan edits photos for ABC Television.
WINDY CITY WHATCHAMACALLIT
We neglected to report a year ago that Herb Ray had passed the Illinois Bar. The temptation to crack wise here is almost too-much to resist! Herb and a fellow Oak Park banker boast one of the few all-fiberglas sailboats of the Triton class in the Chicago Yacht Club harbor.... Class interests in the financial world hereabouts are further protected by the July promotion of Jay Buck to vice president in the banking department at the Northern Trust. Jay won an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago and this year is prexy of the Chicago D Club, succeeding Tom Rowe who ran the show for the past two years.... Another money man, Hugh Brower, was named assistant cashier in the banking department at the Harris Trust All of those worthy gents plus class agent John "Swede" Swenson and Inland Steel's Jim Stevens made merry at the Dartmouth Club of Chicago picnic held in late August. The rest of the clan who failed to enjoy the steak and beer-ball outing missed a most enoyable evening.
Si Morand will be getting back from Europe any day, so you can send your dues right away. Our surplus in the exchequer has no correlation to Si's trip, he claims.
GRAPEVINE REPORTS
About the middle of June one of the biggest grapevines ever sprouted in Hanover and reached all the way to Evanston! We oreatly appreciated the several post cards and dozens of signatures received from the troops who mustered for the tenth reunion. In case we don't get to say so to each and every one of you, thanks a lot! The crazy mixed up picture of the Sunday morning brunch looked strangely like an Orozco mural. .. but Joel Leavitt, mastermind of the wonderful weekend, was unmistakable in his loin cloth. Who's going to carry the ball for an unofficial shin-dig on our lucky 13th which would be halfway between this year's fun and the delayed 15th in 1966? All volunteers, one step forward!
Hop-scotching the world for headliners, we find John Woodward in Durban, South Africa. He'd been in Pakistan and has seen more of our globe than Echo I.' Jack Lockyer Pennington is a sales manager in Eugene, Oregon.... Jim Martel is agency manager for The Travelers' office in Swarth-more, Pa.... Frank Gilroy is co-author of the "Bull" Halsey biographical flick, "The Gallant Hours," which rated excellent notices by the critics.
Okay, better get ready to put on your spook suit and take the kids out to trick-ortreat. Let us hear about the '50s you see at some of these football games, and we'll be back here about the time Dick and Jack rest their cases. Hey, don't forget to register and vote!
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