1943

Back to my old tricks again, writing at 32,000 feet in an airliner where the coach seats look big in ads but hardly lend themselves to spreading various papers and notes. Eddie O'Brien may call himself the Writer; I've got another name for myself.

Hanover was lovely in May - a treat for return. Hopkins Center is unbelievable - a triumph for the arts in years to come. You'll have to tour it to believe it. George Munroe, Helen, and son Ralph motored from New York and joined Ruth and me at the Norwich Inn, where we'll have our fall class executive committee reunion, nice place. Bus Mosbacher was chained to the mast of the "Weatherley" preparing for America's Cup races; as a reward he was elected to the Alumni Council to represent all class chairmen.

Frank Dain is a physician specializing in radiology in Nyack, N. Y., married to the former Blossom Huizer. Frank shares the fun of raising Joann, seventeen; Susan, fourteen, and Frank W., ten. He has met ForbesDelany and Bob Liming at medical meetings and occasionally sees George Burke, who lives in Spring Lake, N. J.

Ray Schroth is vice president, The Presray Corp., subsidiary of Pawling Rubber Corp., Pawling, N. Y. Ray is co-inventor of pneumatic handling equipment manufactured by Presray with special uses in aerospace and nuclear industries. Ray married Margaret M. Klersy of Toronto, Canada and their family consists of Margie, eleven, Tommy, nine, Carolyn, five and Nancy two. Ray's twin brother, Tom Schroth, executive editor of the Congressional Quarterly, recently had an article, "Speakership of the House," in the New York Times magazine. Tom and wife Pat have a recent addition, Jennifer.

Harry Hopper is in Beirut, Lebanon with the Trans Arabian Pipeline Company. For the past three months he has been his company's representative in charge of all relations with the Saudi Arabian government a most responsible position.

Thanks to Kelly Coffin, we've heard from Jim Stewart, another of our doctors, from Rochester, N. Y., where Natalie and he have raised Nancy, twelve, Mac Jr., eleven, Dick, eight, Cindy, five. In a brief weekly stint of about sixty hours, Jim is in a group practice with another internist and two surgeons. He teaches part-time at the University of Rochester Medical School. Tom praises Ed Leene as a real hard worker in the local Dartmouth Club.

In Ridgewood, N. J., Hudson Wilson is an orthopedic surgeon. The Wilson family consists of wife Marilyn and children, Donald, Bruce and Hudson IV. Apparently Hud must practice in New York City.

Sad news about the passing of Art Clement, whose obituary appears elsewhere in this or a subsequent issue. Art was forty this past Christmas Eve, and it seems a shame to lose this good man in the very prime of his life.

Dick Proctor says nice things about this column from Winter Park, Fla. Dick hasn't seen a classmate in months but expects to visit Forbes Delany in Greenwich, Conn., this summer. Dick writes: "Koo, as Forbes was affectionately known around the Phi Delt house, med school, and Hotel Coolidge, is a highly successful radiologist." Dick would enjoy hearing from Howie Thomas in Saigon.

Don Kingsley, until recently supervisor of employee communications for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. in Toledo, has joined the public relations department of Corn Products Co. as manager of internal communications. His headquarters are now in New York and the Kingsleys are residing at 2890 Springhurst St. in Yorktown Heights, N. Y. Don's earlier positions in the communications field were with General Foods and Sharp and Dohme, Philadelphia.

Elected to the board of trustees of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Ill., was John H. Altorfer, a director of numerous Illinois financial concerns. Included in John's portfolio: director, Commercial National Bank, First Federal Savings and Loan Association, Edgewild Farms, Inc., and Industrial Enterprises, all of Peoria; the Dunlap State Bank, Dunlap Business Capital Corp., Chicago; State Life of Illinois, Springfield.

Larry Austin is active in Hartford in American Cancer Society affairs as president of the Hartford branch. Larry graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, interned at Hartford Hospital and has been in private practice in obstetrics and gynecology for eight years.

Life's pleasantest surprise came today in Chicago when I picked up my hotel room phone and a voice said, "Mr. Donovan, this is Mr. Hanlon." Paul D. Hanlon, almost out of the past, silent for fifteen years. I walked two blocks from his hotel to mine largely at the intercession of Dick Kimmel, whom I had called earlier and whom Paul called. Quite by chance we met to have a wonderful reunion for about two hours. Paul and Carol live in Portland, Ore., with their six children. Mary, the latest, having arrived a few months ago. An attorney in private practice Paul has been recently serving on one of President Kennedy's special fact-finding boards relating to the Chicago Northwestern Telegraphers' labor dispute, a duty requiring extended visits to Chicago. While Kimmel and he are poles apart politically, they will play golf this weekend in a match which probably should be on TV golf. Wonderful to see The Mole again, a little heavier and balder but still one of the nicest Dartmouth men I know.

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Class Agent, 315 Central Park West New York 25, N. Y.