1930

As we come into the spring the spirit of reunion is in the air! Have you made arrangements for the baby sitter? Have you made a reservation at the kennel for the house dog? Have you made plans for transportation to Hanover for 30's 30th? Well, Walt Dresser has! He's going to step back thirty years and once again make the trek from Calais, Me., to Hanover in a Model T. Here's his story: "I wonder if you remember the dilapidated model "T" touring car that used to sit dejectedly alongside South and Reed Halls? Asthmatic and paintless, it nevertheless was cheap transportation between Calais and Hanover, and was all mine (for ten bucks). During the past year I have found the exact duplicate of my old '21 Lizzie and it is my intention to return to Hanover in same, come June, to prove to our next President and sundry others that although I have not gone far ahead in the last thirty years, I have at least held my own. Our eighteenyear-old daughter Mary, now a freshman at Endicott Junior College in Beverly, soloed Lizzie this summer and I may be lucky enough to have her as co-pilot. Her mother, Betty, will probably follow in a "Parts" car; that is, to collect the parts as they fall off."

Many of you noticed, I'm sure, Ted Childs, suave and poised, in a recent New York Times discussing plans for an art exhibition and sale to assist the Speech and Hearing Center of Lenox Hill Hospital. Ted has been eminently successful in guiding this institution.

And Fred Scribner in his position as Undersecretary of the Treasury brings forth frequent press reports - of a speech in Hartford in which he held forth little hope for further tax concessions to Colleges, and another at a fifty dollar dinner in Manchester at which he discussed issues of the forthcoming campaign.

A recent announcement relates the marriage of John French's daughter, Mary Montagu French, to Mr. James Barry Corbet on December 12 in Woodstock, Vt.

A note to Wally Blakey from Bill Wilson brings us up to date on that household. "We are slowly beginning to exhale at our house after the departure of our older two for College. Eric is a senior and September is a freshman and both are at Stanford where they are doing very well." Bill is Assistant Manager of the West Coast Investment Division of the Ohio National Life Insurance Company.

Ray Bernhardt reports in from Buffalo that he has two sons Ray Jr., fourteen and Dick, eleven. He says "I have been teaching Economics and Investments at the University of Buffalo (Lecturer in Finance), am President of the Harvard Business School Club of Buffalo and have my own securities firm - R.S. Bernhardt Company. I see Hugh Johnson occasionally and also Lee Sturman in Rochester. Hope to see you in June."

Congratulations to Pat Weaver on being elected Board Chairman of the American Heart Association. Pat has been connected with this activity for some years.

Once again Sam Stayman pops up, this time, as joint winner of the nine-day tournament sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League.

Bob Chittim, who has been in sales work for Chase Brass for some time has more recently been on special assignment to the manager of mill sales, sales personnel being one of his special areas. He adds "Haven't had to travel much lately but come the first of the year I have several recruiting dates at most of the major engineering schools in the New York-New England area, looking for sales trainees from the class of '60. My son is now a freshman at the University of North Carolina, leaving my nine-year-old fourthgrade daughter to keep us busy, which she succeeds in doing without half trying."

Sandy McCulloch reports a hectic fall, and let's hope things have quieted down a little since then. "Son John transferred from Worcester Tech to M.I.T. Wife Lina in hospital for major surgery. Started a new recording company - still in embryo. Bought new house —moved December 1, still unsettled. Una's mother passed away Thanksgiving eve. Brother widowed a year ago - remarried November 16. Lina and I co-chairman annual church fair, also chairman of Property Committee of the church."

Phoenix Mutual Life recently announced promotions 011 the home office staff which included one for Warren Phinney who is now manager of the city mortgage division.

For those of you who may be planning a spring vacation, the following Christmas letter from Ed Weinstein will bring you a little of the exotic atmosphere of the Virgin Islands.

This holiday season will be our farewell to the West Indies as we are planning to return to Washington early in January. Helen has been in the States since September working for her M.A. in Anthropology at American University and she and the children will be down for Christmas pending our mass return.

We leave with mixed feelings. It's been a fascinating two-and-a-half years in this combination luxury resort and anthropological field station. As the only psychiatrist in the American and British Virgin Islands, I did everything from sponging up alcoholics to competing with obeah men in dis- suading jumbies and spirits from harassing and humbugging the islanders. The skill of obeah practitioners seems to vary inversely with their distance from St. Thomas, so while I hold my own with the local variety, I bow before those from St. Kitts and Guadeloupe and take care to keep my hair cuttings from dropping on the barber shop floor.

The place is in one sense exotic but also very much of a small town. I know I'll miss a community where gin is cheaper than vermouth, where a doctor doesn't treat patients but "has them in charge," where one's father isn't Danish but a "Dane mon," and no one steals anything but "tiefs" it. Patients though not communicative in some ways are articulate on the subjects of children and religion.

I won't know until I'm back in the States for a while whether I've acquired a case of sub-tropical Nirvana or if I've gotten some good ideas. Right now I think I have both.

We received a nice letter from FrankDoherty the other day and he's busy thinking about reunion. "I am handling the soda-bar detail again - and hope to have the able assistance of Herb Chase, Ted Childs, Sam Butler and Gordon Hoxie - in the mellow glow of Woodstock, Vt., last fall they all said 'Yes.' I seldom see anyone but Pete Davis and Frank Leahy around here. I did see the Booma boys, Les Godwin and Mem King at the B.C. game. Mem's boy is playing on the freshman team but I was too late to see that game."

Again on Reunion George Parkhurst down in Baltimore has already suggested one speaker whom he would like to have address the class if there is to be another program similar to the one we had five years ago. (The popular Hanover Holiday program will be going on during our reunion.)

Finally one matter of business will come up in June on which we should be taking action now - the election of a seventeen-man Executive Committee to run the class for the next five years. Out of this group usually also come the class officers. Vic Borella, in anticipation of this, has already appointed a nominating committee consisting of Bud French, Chairman, 99 Hudson Street, New York 13, N. Y.; Stew Warner, 46 Sutton Drive, Hohokus, N. J.; and Ed Schuster, gos Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn 21, N. Y. These fellows will appreciate getting suggestions from you as to the men you would like to see on the Executive Committee. Send your thoughts along right away!

Randy Fawcett '30 pictured with his granddaughter Lisa. She is the daughter of Dick Fawcett '56 and also the granddaughter of Jake Bingham '18 of Concord, N.H.

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