1943

Our June open house welcomed Bob andPhyllis Scott, Binney and Shirley Tower,Charlie and Peggy Dorkey. Invitations, postcards, phone calls couldn't shake other classmates from their camp openings, commencements, and vacations including special regrets from Church Leonard, Bob Bradford,Burrows Barstow, Jim Ewing, Amasa Pratt,Harry Bishop, Ray Wolfe, Bill Moseley, JimOlson, Frank West, Herb Harrigan, AlCoons, Sam Bullock, Dick Livingston, SmedWard, Bob Garvie, Dick Koester, Joe Koci,George Tillson, George Schaefer, JohnSmedley, Bill Wolf, John Harvey, JimHooker, Bus Mosbacher, and George Munroe.

We had a wonderful time with the Scotts, Towers and Dorkeys. Ruth and I especially appreciated their efforts to attend on what was a poor choice of dates. We'll probably try again next year!

Correspondence from overseas: HowieThomas from Saigon-Vietnam: "I have been here as Asia Foundation Field representative since 1959 though I had previously been in this part of the world when I was still in the Foreign Service, having been in the consulate at Hanoi in 1954 and at the embassy at Pnom Penh, Cambodia in 1955. During the years in between I was in Paris where I finally managed to leave the bachelor ranks. I married Jacqueline Vielledent of Tucson in 1958 and have one daughter Alexandra, now two. ... If you see my old roommate and your neighbor, Dick Kimber, please give him my best regards." . . . HollandHiggins writes from the Swim School Hawaii, Inc. "I left the Ivy Towers (Punahou School) two years ago to open a private swim club and school. We broke ground on May 17 after a hassle with the government agencies, etc. Associated with me are Jim Doole '45, Cline Mann '45, and a Yale misfit, Al Stack, 1948 Olympic backstroke champion."

From the West Coast. . . . Bob Straub forsakes the state Democratic chairmanship of Oregon to run for the Democratic nomination for the 1962 Fourth Congressional seat. Bob and Pat have six children, and in addition to politics, Bob operates farms in Lane and Douglas counties and develops real estate in the Eugene-Springfield area. If elected to Congress, Bob will join a sizeable Dartmouth group already there. Interesting how our classmates are getting the political fever, ranging from school boards to Congress. I suspect we'll hear more about Bob Straub, as he has had considerable political success in Oregon. . . . Charlie Cusack checks in from Sacramento, still rolling along in the insurance business. Barbara and he have three children, with two boys approaching college age. . . . Warren Preece, with a background of teaching, Army, newspapering, and politics, served as executive secretary of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1957-61 when he became assistant to its editor-in-chief, Harry Ashmore, and moved to Santa Barbara. In addition to his former duties he works immediately with Robert M. Hutchins, chairman of the board, and Mr. Ashmore - apparently a most stimulating experience on a daily basis. Deborah and he have three children, Scott 12, Mark 7, and Thayer 5, enthusiastic Californians all.

New responsibilities have been handed to Frank Hartmann as manager of Acrilan home furnishings for the Chemstrand Corporation. In addition, he is also administrator of merchandising programs on behalf of home furnishings made with Chemstrand Acrilan acrylic and nylon fibers. Frank joined Chemstrand, a subsidiary of Monsanto Chemical Co., in 1958. He and his wife Margot, together with their five daughters, reside in Hartsdale, N. Y.

Tom Gerber, former chief of the Boston Herald's Washington bureau, is the new general manager of the Concord, N. H., Daily Monitor, recently sold to the William Dwight newspaper chain. Tom's newspaper experience is extensive, and he'll need all of it for such critical Concord readers as Bob Pelren, John Hyde, Berger Carlson, ArtLamoureux and Mort Tuttle. Not a comic page reader in the group.

Rev. Joe Koci made recent Philadelphia headlines in his suggestion to Selwyn Lloyd, chairman of the? exchequer, that the British government repay a 183-year-old debt to Joe's St. Peter's Church. Seems the Redcoats needed some firewood, tore down the white board fence, gave the church an lOU, never paid it. The $lB.OO carried forward with finance interest now amounts to $751,536.90. Joe wants the debt cleared before St. Peter's starts its third hundred years in September. British reaction: Mr. Lloyd has put his country on an austerity program.

True to his word, Jerry Blanchet, daughter Sylvia, and puppy dog arrived in Pottstown in a compact compact in August en route to Washington from the Poconos. Earlier in the summer we had bumped into each other quite by accident in Washington, and Jerry promised the visit. Long ago in 1939 Howard Bates, Jerry and I shared a College Hall room with a view overlooking a roof; this summer was my first glimpse of him since 1944 at Pensacola. One of the outstanding intellects of our class, Jerry was a Rhodes Scholar and has a Ph.D. from Oxford. How well I remember his brilliant work in the English Honors section of Prof. Cudsworth Flint where LamedWaterman and he wrote papers of exceptional scholarship and quality. Jerry works in the State department on disarmament matters.

The eastward move.... Walter Howe, with Ph.D. completed, moves to Washington as staff associate for African affairs, American Council on Education. . . . KellyCoffin, new superintendent of agencies, at the home office, Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford. California's loss....

Ray McMahon, one of our last bachelors, marries Mary Elise Russell of Greenwich, Conn., in September. Ray, a Harvard law graduate, is a partner of McMahon and McMahon in Providence.

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.

Treasurer, 159 Willow St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.