1952
The students were back in town this morning. It was a mild sort of shock to hit the center of campus this cool January morn and find them hurrying to classes, to Thayer, or to the hundred and one other places they always seem to be hurrying to. Did we move that fast as undergraduates?
The shock comes about because for the past three or so weeks Hanover has been a delightful New England village once again - with overtones of Scarsdale during the cocktail hour. Baker chimed its notes in the cold blue of the morning and no one panicked. Hanover fathers, most of them otherwise known as profs, settled back to leisurely reading and putting the young ones on the fire engine for the annual ride to Santa Claus. The dorms were dark. The streets quiet except for the thump, thump of the Hopkins Center pile driver. Hanoverians celebrated Christmas and New Year's as others in less remote spots. Three weeks of a New England village in winter-time - but the dorms didn't seem right so dark, or the streets right so quiet, or the campus at ten in the morning, it wasn't right without undergraduate types hurrying about. It may be a shock, but it's good to have them back!
I was delighted to hear from Bud Sawyer, especially since this letter brought the happy news of Bud's marriage to Elspeth Graham Henry on November 21 in Linden, N. J. Elspeth spent two years at Douglass College, then went to the Cornell University School of Nursing at New York Hospital, graduating in 1957. She continues as school nurse in the Linden school system as the bridegroom commutes to Manhattan for work day hours with Lennen and Newell advertising agency.
Dick Swicker and Ronnie Marcks were on hand for the wedding, as was Don Williams '53. Dick is unit manager in television production with NBC while Ron is finishing up at the Harvard Law School this June.
Bud also reports running into Dick Boege at one of those NYC cocktail parties. Dick's now a medical supervisor with Dancer-Fitzgerald and Sample ad agency, also of New York. Shall we blue sky it a bit, gentlemen?
Another New York-area marriage of special interest to the class concerned one broadcasting ace ("This is New York") Dave Dugan and Joy Angelillis on November 14. Joy's a Barnard gal. But broadcaster Dave will take a big jump in mid-January to the sales end of the radio-TV business with a CBS-owned station in Philadelphia, WCAU. Administra- tive executives come from the sales end, Dave notes, and he aims to return to the big town - a spot he finds most stimulating.
Three other class members have announced their engagements. The engagement of BobFoley to Miss Nancy J. Hopkins was announced on December 25. Merry Christmas, Robert. Bob's over the hill and down the road at Kimball Union Academy where he teaches, coaches, raises money and what have you.
John Ballard's got himself engaged to a real live Irish-type colleen. Yessir, Miss Barbara Brigid Ann Hamilton comes from Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. She is a graduate of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, and the University of Capetown and is presently studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. John who holds degrees from Harvard Law and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy has been on the Harvard staff for several years.
Charles Clough also plans to take the big step into marriage, according to the New York Times. His bride-to-be is Miss Rosemary Todd of Grand Rapids, Mich. She's a Bradford Jr. and Tufts girl.
Walt and Betsy Lashar have left the marble capital of the world (well, at least Vermont) for Hartford, Conn., where Walt is now associated with the Hartford National Bank. He and Betsy have three children, Walty, Tim and Susan.
Bill Fisher has been named assistant mortgage officer for the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. He's still in New York City. Good luck, Bill, and please be careful that's my retirement fund you've got there!
Down at Davidson College Bob Lord gave an organ recital where he gave the Southern premiere of Langlais' Three Modal Pieces. And in Watertown, Conn., Taft School teacher of Bible and Rev. Dave Duncombe gave the second of the school's public lectures for the year. He examined the "basic, but unspoken, assumptions of classroom learning."
Dick Colson is now in Yorba Linda, Calif., where he is a "sort of field engineer" with Hughes Aircraft. Dick gained his M.S. in electrical engineering from Thayer last June. He and Hella have a daughter, Kathi, who Dick reports, is blond, blue eyed and bilingual. They expect to move to El Paso, Texas, for a while soon.
There was an interesting story on Rabbi Marsh Meyer in a recent Hartford, Conn., newspaper. Marsh, the article reports, is trying to reach the youth of Argentina in "modern philosophical and scientific terms." Naomi, the article reports, is concentrating on her studies of Spanish.
Adios, amigos.
Secretary, 15 Ray ton Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 33 Dean St., Attleboro, Mass.
