1941

A Twentieth Reunion "kick off" luncheon was held at the Dartmouth Club of New York in December for the purpose of formulating plans for this forthcoming gala occasion. We were fortunate in being able to set the meeting for a date when our Class Chairman, Lew Johnstone, and Treasurer, StuSteffey, were in New York on business. Reunion chairman, Bob Taft was the principal spokesman on this occasion. He expounded at great length on the preparations he had already made toward assuring that our Twentieth Reunion will be the best ever. Also present were Pete Glenn, Don Stillman and Bruce Friedlich. Costume Designer, Felix Lilenthal, was in deep deliberation as a member of a jury, so he was unable to attend.

Our Class Chairman appointed Don Stillman and Bruce Friedlich to the Nominating Committee that must take under advisement the slate of class officers to be presented to the general class meeting the Saturday morning of Reunion. The way our class operates is that an Executive Committee is nominated and elected. The Executive Committee then selects from its constituency the members thereof who will act as Class Chairman-Secretary and Treasurer for the next five years. Nominations to the Executive Committee are not limited to those persons selected by the Nominating Committee. Any member of the class has the privilege and the right of nominating one or more fellow classmates felt to be deserving and qualified to serve on the Executive Committee. Nominations from members of the class are welcomed. So if anyone has any suggestions along these lines, please pass them on to Don or Bruce. Don's address is 13 Richmond Drive, Darien, Conn. Bruce's address is 150 Morningside Road, Verona, N. J.

The dawn of a new year is traditionally welcomed with predictions of things to come. Just recently the advertising editor for the New York Journal American predicted that Julie Koenig's new advertising agency of Papert, Koenig and Lois would be the most promising new agency for 1961.

Rev. Dick Knight was recently reassigned from his position as Rector of Grace Church of Amherst. Mass., to the post of Associate Minister of the Christ Episcopal Church of Grosse Pointe, Mich., where he will be in charge of one thousand young people of the parish. Dick spent seven years in his Amherst parish. During his time there both the congregation and school increased substantially in size. He was also active in the work of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts' Department of College Work. He also served as Episcopal chaplain at the University of Massachusetts. Dick graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. in 1944, and two years later he was ordained a deacon. Before going to Amherst, he served nine years at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. Dick and Jane have three sons and three daughters.

It seems that Michigan is starting the new year by stealing the show in the achievement ledger.' Dusty Rodes, present president of General Motors Institute, and former president of Bradley University, recently received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Bradley on Founders' Day. Dr. Dusty also delivered the convocation address on this momentous occasion.

Joe Loveland wound up 1960, by devoting his "all" to the United Fund of Westfield, N. J. Joe was in charge of solicitor training and of the production of printed material used for the 1960 campaign. He got his baptism of fire in charity work as a captain and solicitor in prior United Fund drives. But charity begins at home, so Joe brings home the bacon in the role of. Assistant General Sales Manager in the Electrical Division of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Sales of New York City.

After almost five years of reporting on the achievements and accomplishments of many of our classmates, I have finally been called to task for invoking the "author's license" of indulging in superlatives. Modest Larry Norton, on whose doings I reported in the October 1960 ALUMNI MAGAZINE, has asked me to correct the "record" on a few items extracted from a trade journal. He does not live on "an estate in Richmond, Va., which is the envy of horticulturists." His land holdings consist of a one-acre plot on which is planted a rose garden and other gardens made up of the usual assortment of spring and summer flowers.

The early months of every year are usually the months of appeals of every nature and description. Being an "old infantryman," I like to keep in step. So I am going to close with two appeals of my own. Neither of them is for money. One is personal and the other I am making on behalf of Bob Taft, our Reunion Chairman. First, the personal one and the least important of the two. I have only four more editions of Class Notes to go before we converge on Hanover in June for reunion. As is easily ascertainable from the length of this epistle, at the present I have run out of news. As I come down the home-stretch, won't you all please come to my rescue by limbering up your pitching arms and throwing a few tidbits my way.

Now for Reunion! Everyone has already received at least one mailing from our Reunion Chairman, to which a reply is requested. Bob is working hard at doing everything possible to see to it that our Twentieth Reunion is one we will always remember. Besides devoting every moment of his spare time to the task at home, Bob went to Hanover in January to personally supervise the requisite on-the-spot preparations. But he cannot do it alone. Everyone must help by returning the reservations card they received from Bob in January.

Members of three faiths were among those who paid tribute to Rev. Lawrence Durgin '40, for his contributions to civic, community and religious affairs during his eight-year pastorate in Providence, R. I. Among those attending a dinner in Lawrence Durgin's honor were (l to r) front row, James N. Williams, executive director, Urban League of R. I.; and Rt. Rev. John S. Higgins, Episcopal Bishop of R. I.; back row, Irving J. Fain, president of Temple Beth-El; Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney, Brown University president; Dr. Durgin; J. Harold Williams, Scout executive; and the Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur Geoghegan, chaplain of the Brown University Newman Club. Dr. Durgin has accepted a pastoral post in New York.

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