1948
Well the summer has rolled by again, our fabulous 15th Reunion is a distant past, and it will be almost six years before some of you who were back have a chance to visit Hanover again. Even though we discussed at the class meeting an infusion of new names among the class officers, you will have to bear with me until our next reunion because so far we haven’t discovered a successor willing to take the job. I’m sure we will have better luck next time.
During the summer the usual news flowed in about all of you, and in addition I received some very nice personal letters telling of family changes or new business ventures. I certainly hope this trend continues.
Starting with the current news, Jim andEllie Schaefer are the proud parents of Charles James Schaefer III, born on August 9. I hope he will be able to help his mother and father next time and take on the job of running a ’48 reunion.
I recently heard that A1 Gilbert is at- tached to the American Embassy in San Sal- vador, Central America. AI had formerly been with the State Dept, in our Embassy in the Philippine Islands.
Once again. General Electric has trans- ferred Jim Eckman. This time Jim and Jean are living with the three children in Lyndon, Ky., right near G.E.’s Appliance Park in Louisville, where. Jim is in the marketing division.
The “Advertising Age” carried an inter- esting article earlier in the summer about Tom Campbell, new president of Business Publications Audit of Circulation, Inc. where he has worked since 1951. Tom has de- voted the last few years to hard work for the company and the growth is mostly due to his efforts. About Tom the BPA board chairman noted, “There is no one more qualified in the industrial advertising or publishing field to assume the presi- dency.”
At Brown’s Commencement in June, Sandy Smith received his Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics. Sandy has been devoting his full time recently toward attaining this degree.
Although Dick Leggat didn’t mention anything about his forthcoming elevation to partnership when we were together in June, I was very happy to receive an announce- ment from the eminent Boston law firm, Bingham, Dana & Gould announcing that Dick had become a partner of the firm.
As always I enjoyed hearing from Colin Stewart, and receiving an article describing his new venture. Colin and a partner will in- corporate their architect and design business with an existing interior design and decorat- ing service. We wish the new firm, called Havens-Batchelder after the previous own- ers and headquartered in Denver, much luck in the coming years.
The Sh Regis Paper Company released the news last spring that A 1 Fritzsche had been appointed advertising manager. AI came to the company in 1959 after being with DuPont. Nice going, Al!
After a tour of duty in the Pentagon, Lt.Commander Gene Finke has been reas- signed to the Naval Base at Newport, R. I. Gene and Betty have two children, Harvey fourteen, and Kathy, ten.
Another classmate who is in the regular Navy is A 1 McMlchael. A 1 is a Lt. Com- mander acting as assistant officer in charge of a Neuropsychiatric Research Unit in the Medical Corps. A 1 and his wife Ruth are currently stationed at Pensacola, Fla.
Phil Kelly, who is still living in Honolulu, is now a systems engineer for IBM. He and June have a son, Sean, who is now six.
Major Dave Karukin of the Marine Corps received the “Merit Award” for an article he wrote entitled - “Partisans, Guerillas and War in Depth: A Soviet Tactical Doctrine.” Dave is a language expert speaking both Russian and Spanish fluently. The article dealt with the training of Soviet guerillas be- fore World War 11.
For those of you going to the Yale game on November 3, be sure to check in at the Dartmouth tent either before or after the game, because Pete Foster and Jim Johnson are planning a ’4B gathering there.
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