1929

We hear that more and more plans are being made —by more and more fellows - to be in Hanover in June for the 30th Reunion. Hal Leich reports that he hopes to be there and that he saw Duke Barto, Panos Georgopulo, Harris Huston, Bob Lyle, and Paul Woodbridge at a Washington Alumni Club luncheon in early December which was M. C.'d in a highly competent manner by Marv Braverman. The high point of the luncheon, he further reports, was an outstanding discussion by John Dickey of the major issues facing American education today and what Dartmouth is doing about it. Hal's home and business addresses are the same, but he has moved up to a new job - Chief of the Program Planning Division of the U. S. Civil Service Commission. We have also learned that he is very active in several of the professional societies in personnel and public administration and has contributed articles to various professional journals, was recently made honorary life member of the Ski Club of Washington, is a member (and a former chairman) of the Recreation and Wildlife Committee for the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin and contributed a canoeing article to their guide, called "Potomac Playlands," and that he received an M.A. degree in Public Administration from American University in June of 1955.

Wils Turrell is still with the U. S. General Accounting Office in Washington, but now lives at 3830 Jay Ave. in nearby Alexandria, and will be celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary in lieu of reunion. Time and older daughter, Martha Grace, have produced two grandsons and younger daughter, Jean Cynthia, is presently attending Shepherd College in West Virginia - right near Godfrey's farm. We also learned of a couple of other incidentals - that Wils was a teacher, long ago, in Bridgeport, Conn., and that when he lived on Center Road in Easton, Penna., in 1944, the marketability of produce from his blueberry (not cranberry) "bogs" was not hampered by government edict as he relied entirely on fertilizer from the chickens he raised.

A most interesting reply has been received from Joe Piazza, present address WHO, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, most of which is as follows:

In 1956, after eight years of living in Washington, I got itchy feet and requested a transfer to some foreign assignment. I drew the region for Africa, with headquarters at Brazzaville on the Congo river. I spent three years there, traveling some, mostly along the West Coast, French West and Equatorial Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Belgian Congo, and Portuguese Angola.

It was a fasinating experience, particularly to be there for the beginning of the African nationalist movement and its rapid early growth, to witness at first hand the great surge of independence among the tribal groups, to hear de Gaulle at Brazzaville announce the decision to grant independence to the French colonies, and exciting (though only in retrospect) to be on hand for the first tribal wars in Brazzaville, and Leopoldville just across the river.

In May of this year I was transferred to Geneva, for one year. It is good to renew our acquaintance with Europe and to be able to be here again for a prolonged period. Geneva is in a particularly happy location, being so easily accessible to so much of Western Europe. This assignment is an especially happy one since it brought all my family together for the summer months after three years of short, intermittent visits wherever we could get them in.

As for my business, I am in charge of administration and financial affairs at the regional level, for the World Health Organization.

My daughter, Jeanne, was graduated from Smith with the class of 1958. Since September of that year she has been teaching English at the Buxton School in Williamstown, Mass. My son, Peter, after graduation from Williston Academy in June of 1959, is a freshman at Harvard. Helen, my wife, is taking some courses at the University of Geneva, surrounded by Junior-Year-Abroad students and students of all other nationalities and ages.

I expect to attend the thirtieth reunion.

And from Heidelberg, Germany, comes the greeting "Frohe Weihnachten und ein gluckliches neues Jahr" from Larry and Mary Lougee as well as the following:

"We have just completed two years here in Germany and expect the remaining one and a half years will pass all too quickly. Many '28ers visited us this past summer but no '29ers. My work calls for a lot of traveling around Europe and the Middle East. I think the children are old enough to remember most of the auto trips we have taken on leave time."

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