1948

We are in the middle of a record cold spell and buried in snow here in New York and I've just finished reading about the activities at Winter Carnival. Therefore, it seems hard to believe that spring will ever arrive. However, I'm sure when you read this, winter will have long passed from all of our thoughts and again our attentions will be turned to gardening, the golf course, or scraping the barnacles off the bottoms. One consolation has been that our children around here have improved their skiing greatly even though up in Vermont they haven't had too much snow.

While playing a squash match for the Dartmouth Club the other day I bumped into Dirk Kuzmier. I was very happy to hear Dirk had married an English girl Daphne, and they are expecting the arrival of a little Kuzmier any day. Dirk and Daphne live in Hastings on Hudson and Dirk still is practicing law in New York. He reports seeing lan MacCartney recently when he was visiting here from his home in Caracas. Dirk reports lan is anxious to be transferred from Venezuela as soon as possible.

A short time ago it was announced HomerYoung was licensed to practice architecture in his home state of Massachusetts. Homer has been in related fields since graduation. He and Suzanne live in Amesbury and have four boys - Bruce, Brad, Bennett and Bryce.

It is good to see that Earl Chambers is moving right along in the banking business. Earl was just made Trust Officer of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company in Providence. Earl has been with the bank for eight years. He and Ann have a daughter eight years old.

I expect the securities business has been pretty good out in California for Dick Flynn. Dick is sales manager for the First Sierra Corp. in San Francisco. He and Maggie recently moved into a house in Valleio which is across the bay from San Francisco. They have a son Mike, six, and Susan is three and a half.

It is with great sadness that I must report the death of Bill Fitzpatrick on January 11, 1961. "Fitz" as he was known to his friends, held the rank of Lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps and was a test pilot at the Patuxent River, Md., Naval Base. He died in an aircraft accident. He was not married. Next month I will have more details in the In Memoriam column. He is survived by his mother who lives in Texarkana, Ark.

I hope Harvey Clarke has the opportunity to see some of you living in the Buffalo area as Harvey was recently transferred there by Reynolds Metals Co. from Cleveland. He was regional industrial representative in the Cleveland area while there. Harvey and Mary Ann's family consists of Susan six, and Kathleen, five.

Another transfer I just got news of was Rusty Ratcliffe's move to Coraopolis, Penna. Rusty is Assistant District Credit Manager for the International Harvester Co. in Leetsdale, Penna. Any of you needing a tractor real badly and can't afford to pay for it, Rusty is the one to look up. Rusty and Mary have three children. They are Barry almost ten, Betsy seven and a half, and Nancy two.

Next reunion I hope Shorty Johnson can bring Rita and the five Johnson boys ages three to nine, because if Shorty alone can keep the party rolling the way he did a couple of years ago, just think what seven Johnsons could do for our reunion parties. Back home in Zionsville, Ind., Shorty has to be more law abiding than when he is in New Hampshire, because he is the Prosecuting Attorney for Boone County.

Should any of you be stranded up in Maine (as I was during the hurricane last summer) you might try to drop in on Gordie Noe at his store, the Hardware Trading Post in Brunswick. I'm sure Gordie can give you some good local fishing information and if my Maine experiences are a sample, Betty feeds Gordie along with Doug, Nancy and Glenn very well.

Next time I sit down to write you if we have had much more of that white stuff, I think I'll have to move into a Swiss Chalet to keep feet dry.

Al Smith '50 (left), information adviser for the Japanese Consulate General in New York, ata recent reception at the Nippon Club, attended also by Basil O'Connor '12, president of theNational Foundation; and Mitsuo Tanaka '33s, Japanese Consul General in New York. Thereception was for Shigeko Kodera, who was helped by the National Foundation during a polio outbreak in Japan.

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