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Hello again. Here we are in our 30th reunion year and Don Marcus, our reunion chairman, has been busy making great plans for a big turnout next June. This month also marks the beginning of the last series of news columns from your present Class Secretary, who has found the writing of these notes a particularly rewarding experience, He recommends the assignment to any red-blooded ’32er with an instinct for self- discipline and a notion to recapture some of the lost associations of youth.
As mentioned in the June notes, our reg- ular fall reunion at Bonnie Oaks will again be on the weekend of our first home Ivy League game, which is the Penn game on October 6. Art Allen has called for a meet- ing of the Class Executive Committee on Saturday morning at the Oaks and hopes that a goodly number of other members of the Class will be there to sit in on the dis- cussion.
During the summer John Vanßuskirk mailed us a postcard from his new home in Santa Barbara advising that he is working at two jobs, growing watermelons in his spare time and gradually developing suffi- cient self-composure to visit fellow towns- man Ping Ferry and his group of thinkers. He failed to mention the nature of either of his two assignments, but from other in- formation at hand it is assumed that the bread and butter job is deputy superintend- ent of Santa Barbara County Schools. He warns us of the risk in visiting Santa Bar- bara: those who do never want to leave.
A card from Bain Davis postmarked Washington, D. C., announced his retire- ment from the U. S. Foreign Service on May 31. He and Virginia were to spend the summer at their farm in the Catskills which, he says, produces nothing but relaxation and taxes. They will both take courses dur- ing the fall term at Pendle Hill, a Quaker center for graduate study adjacent to Swarthmore College, and plan to travel in the U. S. next spring. After that they will devote themselves to working for the (Quaker) Society of Friends. Bain also men- tioned that on a recent trip to Cleveland he talked with Bud Hubbard, who heads a fa- mous jewelry firm there founded by his and Bain’s grandfathers. Apparently Bud’s exec- utive duties were keeping him busy, but not too busy for a vacation trip to Hawaii.
From Cleveland we have received word that John Brett passed away on July 20, leaving his wife Helen and two daughters, Judith and Constance. Bill Steck ’3l, a life- long friend of Johnny’s, writes to say that an operation was performed on July 10 for cancer of the lung. Johnny was coming along fine by the 19 th, but a pulmonary embolism ended it all. Recollections of his warm personality and of his dedicated and useful life as a physician make it all the harder for us to accept the bitter news of his untimely death.
Further bad news arrived just a few days ago when we learned that Dick Allen also had passed away in Quantico, Va., on Au- gust 28. Dick, you may recall, was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and had recently been sent to Quantico on a special training assignment. Like Johnny Brett, he had just reached the point where he could really enjoy some of the rewards of a, good and useful life when death came to him. He leaves his wife Jane and three daughters, Joan, Barbara and Patricia. Our last re- spects to these two most esteemed class- mates will be paid in the In Memoriam section of this or a later issue of the Maga- zine.
Bo Wentworth proudly announces the birth of his first grandchild, Jonathan W. Cannon, in Geneva, 111., and mentions that the child’s other grandpa was his old school buddy back in Newton, Mass. He goes on to say that he, Morton, Allen and Corbett re- cently enjoyed a reunion with Seattle A 1Boncutter who was in fine fettle and on his way to visit Hanover and other eastern points. Bo himself was in Hanover to wit- ness his nephew’s graduation and was moved to speculate whether any of us (Ferry excluded) thirty years ago could have anticipated this year’s honorary degree to spaceman Shepard.
Enclosed with Bo’s note was a clipping which announced that Howdy Pierpont, vice president of Equitable, has been appointed chief of staff in the Society’s group depart- ment. Bo says he saw Howdy recently and found him to be holding up well despite ad- vancing years and the burden of ever grow- ing responsibilities. The “advancing years” bit was doubtless prompted by the unob- structed aspect of the Pierpont cranium which is about as devoid of hirsute encum- brance as your correspondent’s.
In August Carl McGowan was nominated by President Kennedy to be a judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals of the Dis- trict of Columbia. The appointment was sent to the Senate, where it will be acted upon probably before you read this notice. Carl, who is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Ross, McGowan, Hardie and O’Keefe, served as assistant to Governor Adlai Stevenson from 1949 to 1953. He has been general counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad since 1957 and a member of the administrative conference of the U. S. since April 30, 1961. During the war years Carl served in the Navy and on his discharge was appointed special as- sistant to the Undersecretary of the Navy and later associate general counsel for the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
Les Wilson, formerly district manager of the Public Service Cos. of New Hampshire at Franklin, has been named division operat- ing assistant for the New Hampshire Elec- tric Cos., a subsidiary, with headquarters at Portsmouth. In his new post Les will be de- voting most of his time to operating prob- lems, budget control, load promotion and public relations. A New Hampshire native, Les has long been active in Franklin’s civic affairs and at the time of his appointment was serving as director of the Chamber of Commerce and the Franklin Building and Development Corp. He and Mary will doubtless continue their active interest in community life at their new home in Ports- mouth.
Mike Cardozo, having fulfilled his stint as visiting professor at the Northwestern Uni- versity Law School in Chicago, has pro- duced a book entitled “Diplomats in Inter- national Cooperation: Stepchildren of the Foreign Service,” published by the Cornell University Press. As you may recall, Mike’s experience with international affairs has in- cluded work with the Lend-Lease Adminis- tration and Foreign Economic Administra- tion, in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U. S. Department of State, and as a con- sultant at various times to the State De- partment, Economic Cooperation Admin- istration, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Ken Kendall of Rochester, N. H., has been appointed special agent in southwestern Connecticut for the Aetna Insurance Cos. He joined Aetna in September 1961.
Herb Friedman of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been elected vice president of St. Agnes Hospital where he has served as an attend- ing physician since 1947. A graduate of Co- lumbia’s School of Physicians and Surgeons, Herb is a skillful plastic _ surgeon and also a specialist in treating diseases of the ear and larynx. He served with the U. S. Army in the Asiatic Theatre during the war and was discharged with the rank of Lt. Col.
Hank Greenleaf, a retired Army colonel and deputy director of the Hartford, Conn., Health Dept., was appointed director of pub- lic health in Newton, Mass., on July 2. Hank was graduated from Harvard Medical School and received his Master’s degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Major Din Hindes, who has had an inter- esting career of more than 22 years in mili- tary counter-intelligence and criminal inves- tigation service, was recently retired with ceremonial honors at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. His retirement was necessitated by reasons of health. Since 1952 Din had been assigned duties at the Headquarters, U. S. A. F., in Washington, D. C., and in Europe as a criminal investigations super- visor and as an instructor at the U. S. A. F. Special Investigations School. His plans for the future include resuming the teaching profession at the Highgate Center, Vt, High School.
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