1935
The following message comes from RalphSpecht, Reunion Chairman for our upcoming25th:
The response received to date from the Class about our 25th Reunion to be held in Hanover, June 16-19, has been terrific, and many classmates will be traveling hundreds and even thousands of miles to be present at this momentous occasion.
To those who are on the fence — we guarantee you a wonderful time and assure you that you will forever have fond memories of renewed fellowship, graying hair, a few more bald heads, the prettiest wives you have ever seen, and an example of mass prolificness as evidenced by the number of sons and daughters who will be present.
Your 25th Reunion Committee is preparing a program that will be interesting, instructive, hilarious, thirst-quenching, and will have practically everything to fit the various moods of the occasion. A well-organized program for the juniors and teenagers will relieve us of the usual worries or overseeing their activities so we can all let our hair down, relax and enjoy a wonderful weekend in Hanover.
We are really sharpening our pencils to keep the cost at a minimum, and to sum it all up - this is one affair you cannot afford to miss. "See you in Hanover on June 16th."
Ralph says that full details about the Reunion will be coming to each of you shortly.
Now for some late news items about some of the classmates you will be seeing in Hanover in Tune.
Jim Berkey has been named president of the Chamber of Commerce in Arlington, Va.
Hunt Harrison appointed assistant vice president of Singer Sewing Machine.
From Cleveland Charlie Ganzel reports a recent get-together with Bud Fraser, Bill Hawgood. and Jack Gilchrist. Gilchrist, he says, is a country squire "doing over his second farmhouse, also raising bassets on the side."
John Dunn is now assistant chief, standardization division, Armed Forces Supply Center in Washington.
Dan Cotton recently made chairman of the $75,000 Fund Drive to benefit the old Meeting House in Cohasset, Mass.
Willie Ogg, sales manager of machines for Norton International in Worcester, Mass., is afraid that a business trip around the world will prevent his making Reunion.
Rudy Pacht, who has recently moved his law offices to 5451 Laurel Canyon Blvd., No. Hollywood, has been putting in yeomen civic service as a member of Gov. Brown's Committee for Employment of the Handicapped; the Advisory Committee on Mental Health, the board of directors of the San Fernando Valley Mental Health Association; the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America; chairman of the American Jewish Congress' Southern California Chapter's Commission on Law and Social Action an Community Interrelations; and legal counsel of the California Democratic Council.
Advertising man Bill Laurie is now manager of J. Walter Thompson's Detroit office.
Cardiff Bradshaw, who works for Lockheed in No. Hollywood, reports that he still plays tennis at least once a week.
Frank Donahue has been promoted to chief hull inspector of the Navy's shipbuilding staff at Fore River Yard, Mass.
One of the prettiest participants in the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley was Joan Hannah, whose father Sel was also in attendance.
Bill Hands has a new position with the American Hospital Supply Corporation, Evanston, Ill., and is now vice president for international operations. He continues as director of the firm's international division, which has affiliates in Peru, Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil. Bill also is president of American Hospital Supply Export Corp., the contract arm for some Latin American operations. He spent ten years in Latin America with Standard Oil of New Jersey before joining American Hospital in 1958.
Lawyer Jerry Spingarn has formed a new partership in Washington - Fanelli and Spingarn.
Mel Rothschild, who is in the investment business in Chicago, has one daughter at the University of Arizona and another at New Trier High School in Winnetka. Mel still iceskates regularly in the winter.
Jin Shoenfelt, who practices medicine in Leesport, Penna., writes that he intends to be on hand for the Reunion.
Gardy Spring, who lives in Syracuse, N.Y., reports that he has a son running for president of the sophomore class at Syracuse University.
Dr. Ed O'Brien reports that he is still "happily married to Melba, the girl who never missed a dance at Dartmouth." Ed has made gourmet foods his hobby, and is a member of Les Amis Escoffier and several other world-wide gourmet societies.
Bill Moran, the White and Autocar truck distributor in Springfield, Mass., has recently acquired a new business - Nigro Freight Lines, which hauls commodities between New England and Georgia.
Yank Price, who lives in Scarsdale and works for Sero of New Haven, reports that most of his business hours are spent in New York City.
The day after completing this column your secretary is scheduled to take off for Portugal and Spain, and next month we hope, along with other news, to have a firsthand report on the latest activities of Bob Sellmer in Madrid.
THIRTY-FIVE'S 25TH - JUNE 16-19,1960
Secretary,17 East45thSt., New York 17,N.Y.
Class Agent,Libby Division, Owens Illinois Glass Co.Box 1035, Toledo, Ohio
