1951

REUNION EVERYONE? Tune 16, 17, 18 '51 Out!

Our Tenth Reunion will be hard upon us as you read this, and since you've been well bombarded with all the details through the mailings from Hanover, I won't go over them again here. Suffice it to say that Bob Leavitt and his committee have done their level best to arrange the most enjoyable of weekends. We hope to see you there.

The logical way to begin this column is to advise all hands that the '51 Society of Bachelorhood has sustained a body blow from which it surely can never recover. Gary Mansur is getting married! Mugs wrote to impart the news, asking "Do I make the class notes now?" The reply was "Yes, and you should also try Ripley." Gary's intended is a pert, pretty lass named Margery Beddoes of Wilmington, Mass. who possesses a delightful Yankee sense of humor. Since graduating from Fisher Junior College in Boston, Marge has been with the Avco Corporation. You will meet her at reunion, and the wedding follows shortly — in Wilmington on July 9.

Another engagement - Dave Batchelder is betrothed to Laura Leonard of New Canaan, Conn. We mentioned last month that Dave has been elected to the school board in Stowe, Vt. Now we learn that he's had a dairy farm up there for the past seven years and runs a ski lodge in the winter. Laura graduated from the Garrison Forest School and Bradford Junior College, and has been with the research department of United Aircraft in Hartford.

After engagements come weddings, so it's a happy task to inform you that Elsbeth Wetzel of Munich, Germany was married to Kennerly Woody at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on April 8. Ken has been in graduate school at Columbia recently.

Everybody knows that doctors make a lot of money, and Don Clark has been fortunate enough to combine such affluence with attractive surroundings (in more ways than one) by practicing in New London, N. H. - remember where that is? Don is also pretty happy right now about the arrival of a son, David Scott, after he weathered a barrage of three daughters. And he thinks there must be some sort of symbolism in the fact that all three girls were born in Hanover, while number one son, who arrived April 8, was ushered into the world within spitting distance of Colby Junior. Says Don, "It makes some sort of sense, I suppose."

I'm very sorry to say that I also have a note of sadness for all of us this month. Charles Collins of Weymouth, Mass., died March 6 in a Boston Hospital. We have not vet received enough details for an obituary, but (since this is the last regular ALUMNI MAGAZINE issue of this year) I hope to post one on the bulletin board at reunion. Charles is survived by his wife and a son and daughter For those who knew him well, the last address we have for Mrs. Collins (the former Barbara Cole) is 21 Tirrell Street, Weymouth, Mass.

Random Notes: Langdon Palmer, living with Millicent and three children in Basking Ridge, N. J., has been made an assistant vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. . . . Dave Hilton has merited so many insurance citations we've quit trying to chronicle them — just take it from that that he's a helluva'n effective salesman. . . . Marc Cole lives in Fairfield, Conn., and is a production supervisor with McKinsey and Co. in New York. . . . Bill Lamade represents Marsh and McLennon in Caracas, Venezuela.

. . . Justin McCarthy has moved to Vancouver, British Columbia Warren Pfaff has come to Washington to illustrate the coming report of the Civil Rights Commission. . . . Danny Rownd now lives in Wheeling, West Va. . . . and Jesse Schoenbrod is in Carmel, Calif.

I'd like to take a paragraph here to say that you'll be under a new group of class officers after reunion - and I presume you've already received from Jim Balderston a ballot for choosing them. I have thoroughly enjoyed being secretary, hearing from those of you who wrote and passing it on to the rest, and seeing those who passed through. I retire from the job with some regret, but an increasingly hectic schedule (this is being written over the Pacific on the press plane following Lyndon Johnson to Viet Nam, Hong Kong, and India) makes me feel that someone else can do a better job on the class notes and other responsibilities. I hope some of you will still keep in touch with me, and all of you will keep the next secretary posted on your activities.

My very best to all of you. See you at reunion!

Secretary, 3632 Warren St., N.W. Washington, D. C.

Class Agent, R.F.D., Indian Spring Rd„ Concord, Mass.