1940

The weekend of May 4 and 5 brought over 400 class officers back to the Hanover Plain for an interesting round of meetings, conferences, dinners, and tours of the new additions on the campus. Four of your elected officers made a certain quorum of our class representatives to this august body of alumni. Diz and Gina de Sieyes, Don andRuby Rainie and Jack and Lois Moody joined forces with Crosbie and Bob MacMillen and spent two days catching up on new developments around our college and absorbing information from counterparts in other classes.

Diz had stopped in Proctor, Vt., to check up on the kinds of marble Moodo sells, with an eye to installing some in the house Diz and Brownie are building in St. Croix. Plans call for a dazzling abode right smack on a golf course where the guys can run out to putt between rum swizzles. Diz reports ground has been broken and Gina is working out the furniture buying so they expect to join forces with the Brownes for a Christmas celebration. Thereafter, it will be rentable and I'm trying to suggest a special discount to all classmates.

Turning to another climate for their vacation house are Whit and Martha Miller who have recently finished rebuilding a ski lodge in Aspen. The whole family enjoyed fine spring skiing this year and will probably make the trek from Kansas out there during all the school vacations.

In what is a relocation of major proportions is Vic Bloede's move from Hawaii to Washington, D. C. Apparently a different job necessitated it however, for while he has been a professor of law at the University of Hawaii he will henceforth hang his hat in the Office of General Counsel, Navy Department.

A few weeks ago I had several chances to talk with Martin and Helene Rubin when they attended a Dartmouth Horizon's weekend here in Hanover. At different interludes in the busy program they were pursuing I learned that Martin had sold his rendering business, and as soon as the three boys are out of school in June they will move to Tucson, Ariz. They have rented a big slice of the wide open, spaces and are looking forward to year-round golf and riding.

Jim Malaney has been appointed town recreation director for the balance of the year in Grand Island, N. Y. He has been active in senior camp counseling and all types of sports programs, so he assumes the role with eminent qualifications.

Perhaps as you looked over the Easter Sunday calendar in your church you may have seen "The Message of Easter" by Lawrence Durgin, which was carried by the majority of Congregational Churches. This choice was a fine tribute to Larry's thoughts and expressions and I'm sure it brought better understanding to the countless thousands who read it. Larry recently presented the Protestant approach to the question of the Christian unity movement in a lecture at Short Hills, N. J. His current parish is the Broadway Congregational Church in New York City.

Since this is the last go-round until fall, I want to be sure you know about plans for an official "unofficial" 1940 reunion October 19 and 20. That is the weekend of the Holy Cross" game in Hanover and the glorious fall coloring should be well worth the trip too There will be publicity and more details in subsequent issues of Sam Williams' Indian Drum, but it is not too early now for you to include it in your plans. Save three or four days of your vacation or plan that eastern business conference for that particular time or do whatever you have to in order to ensure your presence. It would be helpful if you drop me a postcard if you think there's a possibility you will be able to come. It would sure help in planning space for the class meeting, cocktail party, dinner after the game, etc. Some who are already signed Up include Rainie, de Sieyes, Moody, Fred Porter, Weinberg, Willetts and Gordie Wentworth. We hope you'll be there too!

Social Notes From All Over Dept.: Scottand Connie Dillingham brought the kids over to New Hampshire from their Warsaw, N Y., home to spend Easter with relatives.

Scotty and Loomie Rogers took Gina and Scott to Apple Valley, Calif., for five days of sun, tennis, golf and swimming.

Another Rung Up the Ladder Dept.: John E. D. Peacock has been elected vice-president and secretary of L. S. Ayres & Comp any, Indianapolis' leading department store. Johnny has most recently been director of the research department selecting locations of the new self-service stores and supermarkets being built and operated by an Ayres subsidiary.

Walter D. Dance was recently moved up to the imposing title of General Manager of the Hotpoint Division of General Electric. Dave has been managing the Household Refrigerator Department, but now will be concerned with the whole line of Hotpoint appliances.

The ranks of our class have been depleted by two this month - both Danny Harris and Butch Heneage died in the same week. Such news is always hard to accept, and it is difficult to know why some of us are not permitted to finish our tasks here. The Class will always be richer for having had Danny and Butch part of us for this long.

Here are some recent moves to record. Check the list before making up the list for your next steak roast, you might find a former roommate living in the next block:

Walter S. Bernstein, 205 West 57th St., New York 19, N. Y.; Victor C. Bloede, 12 Arbutus Ave, Baltimore 28, Md.; John J. English, 6 East Kirke St., Chevy Chase 15, Md.; Elmer B. Hampton Jr., 405 Vernon Rd, Jenkintown, Pa.; Roland A. Hillas Jr., 2433 Swainwood, Glenview, Ill.; Lewis J. Holmes, 1228 Alhambria Circle, Coral Gabies 34, Fla.; Paul E. Hurley, 1 Emerson Pi, Boston 14, Mass.; James A. Malaney, 2187 West River Rd, Grand Island, N. Y.; John T. Newman, 1100 Madison Ave, New York 28, N. Y.; Don Rainie, 88 North Main St, Concord, N. H.; Richard O. Wilson, 900 2nd Ave. Rd, Clinton, lowa.

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.

Class Agent, 2634 Haddam Rd., Cleveland 20, Ohio