1940
Secretary, 21 Old Farm Road, Darien, Conn.
Class Agent, O.D.M. Inc., New Canaan, Conn
REMEMBER - June 16, 17 and 18
Just had a phone call from Hugh Schwarz awaiting a delayed plane at Idlewild which will take him to Zurich, Switzerland on business with a final stop in England ten days hence where he plans to spend at least an evening with Elmer and Joyce Browne. Then home, and plans to be in Hanover for reunion both for the Brownes and the Schwarzes.
The class of 1940 is a real product of the jet age with Hugh in Switzerland and England, Howie Sommer on his way to Africa and Europe for the third time in two years, and John Manley just back from Europe. Howie will spend three weeks in Tunis working on his firm's industrial development project there. Then Sally will join him in Rome and from there they will go together to Tel Aviv, Athens, Geneva, Paris, London and Edinburgh returning home in time for reunion accompanied by their two sons, Scott fifteen, and Paul twelve. John Manley met his old high school friend, Keenan Wynn, the actor, in Rome, who advised him not to miss the Island of Ischia near Capri. Informed that when there he should go to the Florio d'Ischia, the finest restaurant on the island and ask for Filippo, the owner and a special friend of Keenan's, he did just that. And who should Filippo be? You guessed it - Phil Dakin, Class of 1930!
Speaking of far-off places, Harold Hillman is completing his third year in Honolulu with General Motors Overseas. He claims a fear of the sleet and snow in New England. Not the Harold we knew. This assignment fellows assignments in South Africa and Venezuela. Last summer, on home leave in the States, he saw John and Betty Crandell in Los Angeles, a place where they do not live any more, John having been moved back east recently by Time, Inc. and put in charge of their New York advertising office. They have returned to Bronxville and wasted no time seeing old friends. At Doc Aulmann's engagement party they saw Tuffy Reeves and Jack Little. Doc became engaged to Miriam Powers of Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 5, 1961. She appeared for three years in stock on Broadway and has appeared on T.V. She is currently writing professionally for Dell Publications.
Tom Todd has recently run for the Littleton, Mass., school board, with what success we do not know. Tom operates a printing concern in Boston and, as a side line, teaches cost accounting for printers at Boston University.
Ed Curtis reports from Portland, Me., that his free time is spent in coaching a rifle team which was runner-up in the state shoot-off. Meanwhile the rest of the family is off skiing.
Jack Townsend reports from Georgetown, Del., that the only classmate he ever sees isDr. Lew Chipman. Must have ulcers. Jack is living in Rehobeth, Md., with his wife and two boys and spends his working hours fighting the battle of the chain stores and supermarkets in the frozen food business, he being a grower and packer of vegetables.
Chuck Haskell is still a manufacturer's representative with the Air Force in Dayton. After attending his twenty-fifth reunion at Culver last June, the next one in Hanover won't make him feel so old. And speaking of age, Dick Funkhouser bemoans the fact that he will have a son in college next fall and one at Mercersburg Academy and that within another year only their ten-year-old will still be at home out of the four children.
Art Ostrander has returned to Cleveland to his former business connection with Robert Hiller and Associates, management consultants. He was formerly with them from 1945 to 1948. He has managed to get out to the west coast to see his three children at least once a month since the move. Another change of locale will take place for Dr.Danny Rectanus. He and his family will move on June 1 from Menlo Park, Calif., to Dedham, Mass., where he will be a part of Dedham Medical Associates.
Scott Dillingham is in Warsaw, N. Y., selling text books for Macmillan Company in western New York. Meanwhile, daughter Sally is in the eighth grade, son Walter in the first, and wife Connie in the kitchen.
Don Fox has returned to Detroit, this time as advertising and public relations director for Bendix Corporation. Prior to this he had been a vice president and assistant manager of the Minneapolis office of Batten, Barton Durstine and Osborn, a job which he took over in 1959 as a sequel to a position as advertising and sales promotion manager for the Edsel Division of the Ford Motor Company. Don hopes to be at reunion but says that it will depend on how the family relocation goes.
Gary Allen reports that he, Lucile and their five children spend as much time as possible in the New Hampshire out-of-doors hiking in the summer, climbing in the fall and skiingin the winter and spring. Phil, their oldest, age seventeen, is a Nordic skier; Tommy, age thirteen, is the family's Alpine competitor, while the rest of the clan are recreational skiers. Gary reports that he is impatiently awaiting the return of Ike Weed and family from Norway.
AND DON'T FORGET JUNE 16, 17 and 18. SEE YOU THEN!
Harold Berman '38 and his family have been granted visas for a lengthy visit to Russia. Berman hopes to study and teach in the Soviet Union for about a year. The family includes (seated) wife Ruth, John, 10, Hal, and (standing) Susanna, 11, Stephen, 17, and Jean, 14. Berman, currently teaching at Harvard Law School, will leave in June.
