1932

A damp but joyous throng of '32ers assembled at Bonnie Oaks on the Brown weekend and trooped down to Hanover to watch a fine Indian team outrun a determined but heavy-footed Brown eleven. Mercifully the rain let up for the first three quarters, but started again in earnest at the beginning of the fourth. At this point, as the old joke goes, your correspondent retired to Fairlee to get out of his wet clothes and into a dry martini. On the drive up from New York the autumn colors were beautiful, especially on the trek over Peru Mountain from Manchester, and for the man in a hurry a simultaneous view in color of five states was offered as inducement to ascend the chairlift at Bromley. On the return trip it had turned gloomy and cold and the mountain tops were whitecapped.

The youngsters were back in evidence this year, after a depressing dearth of same last fall. In addition to Dot and Bill Lieson's trio making a return engagement, there were Helen and Buzz Burrows' daughter and son-in-law, Edna and Bill McCall's youngest son Donald, Darbie and Art Allen's daughter Cindy, Joan and Don MacPhail's infant son Hugh, also Don's undergraduate son Bruce, Jane and Tom Lott's son Tony, Margaretand Ed Marks' undergraduate son Tom and Helen and Al Zinggeler's daughter Norma together with her roommate from Vermont.

Before the game your correspondent dropped in for a brief visit with Alice andBob McKenna's freshman son Dan, living in Gile Hall. The young man when found was in the midst of an old-fashioned dormitory bull session, in which the principal objective was apparently to make oneself heard above the hi-fi. This was a heartwarming throwback to old times and reassuring to one who had begun to wonder whether today's undergraduates ever had time for such nonsense.

At Bonnie Oaks the Burrows' suite, adjoining that of Nancy and Bob Reinhardt, served as the general gathering place and, if memory serves, was visited by John Sheldon, John Wright, Rhoda Clark and Dianeand George Blaesi in addition to those previously mentioned. The Blaesis are residents of nearby Orford and made the tactical mistake of inviting everyone for scrambled eggs about one o'clock Sunday morning.

The weekend was also notable in '32 annals for a reason other than the third consecutive fall reunion of the Class. Congressman Thomas B. Curtis (R., Mo.) was named a life member of the Board of Trustees of the College. Tom had served for the past ten years as a term trustee nominated by the alumni. He is now serving his sixth term in Congress representing Missouri's Second Congressional District and has already announced his firm intention to run again in 1964. He is the senior Republican on the House-Senate Joint Economic Committee and fourth-ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Bo Wentworth's absence from the fall gathering was explained by a postcard (in utter disregard of Peace Corps regulations) from La Paz, Bolivia, reading: "Here I am calling '32 up, but nobody else has put in an appearance as yet. Still hope to recruit a few local Inca lads for the Class of '66 so we can put the Indian back in Hanover. Actually am on my way to a hemispheric insurance conference in Lima, Peru." The card itself was an exotic silver-tinted affair depicting possibly Bo in Incan costume playing a sort of shepherd's pipe beside a mountain lake and holding a rope looped around the neck of a llama.

To catch up on earlier datelines, BobNewfang, executive vice president of Canfield Paper Co. in New York, was elected president of the Paper Association of New York City. Bob brings to the position a wealth of selling and managerial experience plus a firm conviction of the trade association's value as a medium for developing and maintaining faith and better understanding among its members. '

Bob and Gillett live in Mamaroneck and have two daughters, one a sophomore at Wheaton College, Ill., and the other a preparatory student at Wheaton Academy. They summer at Seymour Lake, Vt., about three miles from the Canadian border. Bob is profoundly interested in church work and his deep faith combined with superior salesmanship have exerted a powerful influence in several evangelical Christian organizations with which he has been associated. During Billy Graham's crusade in New York, Bob acted as one of his counsellors.

From Charlotte, N. C., Jim Flint writes that he is working hard as a technical sales representative in the Dyestuff and Chemical Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation. Their older daughter Donna was married last June and Jim says the rest of the family is at present content to live the quiet Southern life. He speaks disparagingly of his golf game but is probably overmodest. In the early fall Paul and Thelma Leach spent a couple of days with the Flints on their return trip from Texas where they had deposited their son Robert as a freshman at Texas A. & M.

From Hollywood, Calif., comes sad news of Syd Madian's untimely death. He had been a leading citizen of that community, highly respected for his work with the national medical center, City of Hope. To Ann Madian and her three sons the Class extends deepest sympathy. Our brief tribute to Syd will appear in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue of . the MAGAZINE,

Jim North has been elected vice president-marketing services of General Foods Corporation. Until being promoted to his present position, he had been a corporate marketing counselor. Beginning with General Foods as export advertising manager in 1937, he held a succession of advertising and marketing posts including marketing manager of the company's Jell-o division and, subsequently, assistant general manager of the Birds Eye division.

Jim's previous business experience included a vice presidency with the Market Research Corporation of America, and he also was with Foote, Cone & Belding, advertising agency. During World War II he served as a major in the Army Air Force.

Alice and Mike Cardozo send greetings from 1125 Judson Ave., Evanston, Ill., where they will be staying until next June when Mike completes his year as visiting professor at Northwestern University Law School. Michael, 21, is a junior at Dartmouth; Julia, 19, a sophomore at Bryn Mawr; and Rebecca, 14, a high school sophomore. Mike good-humoredly deplores the virtual absence of intellectual content in the '32 Class Notes and says if anyone wants to know why he accepted the Northwestern offer or how it seems to be working in a big city again he'll have to read Carl Baker's Newsletter, to which he adds: "Hail separation of fact from fancy!"

Secretary, 341 West End Rd. S. Orange, N. J.

Treasurer, Valley Bank and Trust Co., 1351 Main St. Springfield 3, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,