1925

The football season opens the gate to numerous small and medium reunions. Your secretary apparently was the only out-of-towner to join the local group at the opening game at Hanover in delightfully warm weather, in contrast with the following weekend when it was difficult to identify people who braved the steady downpour in all kinds of raingear to watch the team hold Penn to minus yardage. The first real gathering took place at the tent in Providence prior to the Brown game where the following were observed: Pete Haffenreffers,Ford Wheldens, Larry Leavitts, June Chamberlain, Dick Holdens, Bob Pierces, TerryMcGaughans and Gordie Churchill.

During the evening prior to the Holy Cross game your executive committee held its regular annual meeting in the Baker Library. Answering the roll call were: EdBlake, Ed Burns, June Chamberlain, DonHunt, Bill Jenkins, George Joslyn, LarryLeavitt, Bob McKennan, Ed Ober, KenParker, Ed Pease, Bob Rhoades, Ed Roessler, Herb Talbot, Frank Wallis, Ford Whelden, Walter Vom Lehn and George Zahm. Some of the items of business will be reported through other media. Here, however, it should be stated that it was decided to hold the next regular meeting on Friday, October 11, 1963, the evening before the Brown game. In view of the tight housing facilities on football weekends it is urged that if you have any idea of being present you should make reservations now with your favorite hostelry.

The highly gratifying victory over Holy Cross was celebrated with cocktails and buffet dinner at the Tavern Room in the Hanover Inn, where the aforementioned committee members were joined by their wives, together with the Bob Snyders, Patch Tompkins, Rad Tanzers, June Bryant and GordieChurchill, also several guests, including Ed Ober's daughter and son-in-law, Jim Reynolds. The occasion was enlivened with music from George Zahm's saxophone, accompanied on the piano by Don Hunt, Jim Reynolds and yours truly.

Stan Chamberlain has moved to Old County Rd„ Truro, Mass. Jock Packard has followed the birds south and again is running the Treadway Royal Park at Vero Beach, Fla. Jim Todd now gets his mail RFD #1, South Salem, N. Y. Frank Crawford has left White-Rodgers Co., with whom he had been associated the past 15 years, to become technical adviser to the engineering department of Thatcher Furnace Co. Frank is reported to have designed and perfected an air conditioning unit on his own. For the first time in 40 years your reporter went through the experience of seeing a Harvard Dartmouth game without meeting a class- mate — this time to share the joy of sweet victory. But his disappointment was mitigated somewhat, later when he joined Bettyand Line Davis and Gertie and Ford Whelden at the home of Ann and June Chamberlain in Weston to mull over the highlights of the game and prognosticate an undefeated season during cocktails and dinner. By the time these notes are read, the accuracy of such an optimistic forecast will have been determined.

Fred Webster, senior vice-president of International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. of New York, was recently put in charge of all fragrance sales activities in the United States and Canada. Ron Honeyman writes from Portland, Ore., that he is blessed with a wonderful son-in-law, a wonderful daughter in-law, and five grandchildren. John Brownell writes from Pittsburgh that all goes well with him. Bob Myers has four grandchildren; three in Philadelphia, and one in Groton, Conn.

Jack Norris can certainly be counted among the busiest of '25ers with three very important assignments: his medical directorship of Eastman Kodak with trips to Texas and Tennessee; his membership on the executive committee of the Industrial Medical Association with headquarters in Chicago and recent meetings in Washington, Boston, and Toronto; and his chairmanship of the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, plus the chairmanship of the Governor's Advisory Council to the New York State Alcoholism Commission.

To see his six grandchildren Line Price had to range from Indiana to Maine to Colorado. Line is another '25er igiving serious thought to retirement in the Norwich-Han-over area.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St. Waltham 54, Mass.

Treasurer, R.R. 1, Box 134, Chester, N. J.