1937

A quick dash to Hanover the day of the Holy Cross game netted - as far as classmates are concerned - no more than a few quick words with Win Taft and Will Brown on the field after the game. Doesn't anyone else in '37 ever feel the urge to join us poor folk in the rush seats behind the goal posts? Harvard weekend we succumbed to laziness and watched the game on TV, halfwishing we had gone to Cambridge after all. Then came a letter from Bibs Bankart whose trained eye can spot a classmate half a football field away. Writes Bibs:

We saw Monk Amon waiting for Al Mclntyre. Monk had Al's ticket. Between the half met up with Les and Cele Barrett under the stands; right after the game, crossing the field, Dick and Bea Wood with Dex Smith. Kay and I went into the Briggs Cage where the Dartmouth Club of Harvard had corralled the band along with a cash bar and free potato chips. Met a small group consisting of Al Romanow, John Handrahan and wife Jane.

Later that evening we received a call from Barby and Dana Douglas who had been to the game but, like maybe 100 others, we did not get to see them. They had come down to see their daughter who is going to school near Boston, and we learn that Doug has been working for TELSTAR for the past several months which is located in Andover, Me., not too far from their home in. Bethel. The stadium was darn cold and windy, but '.he score was worth it.

A note from George Andrews in Wausau, Wis., who is writing a text on personality development for high school age Sunday School students, and who was preparing a talk on Albert Schweitzer to be given before the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association in October. Nice notes from Pat Uhlmann in Kansas City and Frank Rothschild in Chicago, requesting another copy of the class book. There are still a few left. You are welcome to them as long as they last, but from now on the price is a news item for this column.

Jim Hathaway has a new position with the Allstate Insurance Companies. He has been promoted to salary administration director, with headquarters in Skokie, Ill. Previously he was home office personnel manager. Jim and his wife Mary Louise and their six children live in Libertyville, Ill.

Bob Aylward must be back in Hong Kong by now after an extended visit to the States where he made a real effort to show his children as much of their country as possible, including a brief stop in Hanover. Bob showed us some of the slides of his travels. As Refugee Advisor to the State Department in the Far East he is based at Hong Kong, but makes occasional trips to Taiwan and to the Tibetan rehabilitation camps in northern India and Nepal.

When that transport plane ditched in the Atlantic a few weeks ago headlines were concerned with the rescue of the survivors, and most of us may not have seen the announcement from Antwerp, Belgium, that Brig. Gen. Royal Hatch was placed in charge of U.S. Air Force operations "to smooth the last stages of a terrifying journey" for the survivors. The Wellesley (Mass.) Townsman, Roy's hometown paper, reported that:

General Hatch, who has been deputy chief of staff, Air Force personnel in Europe, since May 1960, with headquarters in Weisbaden, Germany, heads the task force of American Air Force personnel assigned to supervise the rescued party. .

Having been an AP correspondent during much of his college career, he joined the staff of the Boston Traveler as feature writer following graduation. Enlisting in the U.S. Air Force in 1941 he trained at Darr Aero Tech in Alabama. During World War II he was in charge of training pilots in the larger aircraft until he was called to the Pentagon.

Returning to civilian life, he entered the automobile business in Alabama. At the same time he was a member of the National Guard. Eight years ago Hatch was recalled to the regular service with the rank of Brigadier General. First stationed at Mitchel Field as Deputy Commander of Continental Air Command, he was to his present post two and a half years ago. With him in Germany are his wife and three children: Royal Hatch V, age 16; Andrew, 14, and Margaret, 10.

Dave Camerer's book, "Nine Saturdays Make a Year," continues to get good reviews, of which perhaps the most glowing was in Robert C. Ruark's syndicated column. Writes Ruark: "The book can stand right up there in the cleanly written department with any book you ever read about bullfighters, aviators, actors, senators, tycoons, nymphomaniacs, or satyric interns. The book is about the inside business of big-time football and it is a better job than Hemingway did on bullfights.... It is a better job than Ring Lardner did on boxers in 'The Champion,' and a dang sight better job than moony genius Arthur Miller did on salesmen in 'Death of a Salesman.' I never suspected athletes - and Camerer was a great athlete — of secretly harboring writing skills, but damned if this big rangy old sweatshirt doesn't write as sweet and quiet and unhysterical prose as anybody...."

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