1944
Are you tired, let down, and wearied with age? Of course you are! That's because twenty long years have wafted by since you left the "vigah" of the "rah! rah!" And that's why your pooped but erstwhile Reunion Committee have resorted to bootleg Hadocol and come up with the answer to your problem next June 19-21. You can tell that they were still pooped when they entitled the clam-bake the "Roaring Twentieth." Aside from their title choice, their imagination ran rampant at an Appalachiantype Cosa Nova meeting in Hartford last July when Messrs. Berry, Craig, Welch, Leopold, Barr, Bruce and Orr convened at the Grantmoor Motel. I understand that they hammered out a program to make you feel like a sophomore again and your wife and kids delighted that you are ... or will be.
This reunion, a mammoth event, commemorating twenty cruel interim years, will be global. We know that if you pricked a compass in Boston and scribed an arc through Buffalo and Washington, you'd get all confined alumni. But the boys are going for 100% attendance, reaching to Nepal, Bangkok, and even Chicago. To do it they're resorting to Roy Cohn-ism tactics and tying in the New York World's Fair. So if you're World Fair-ing it in '64, make it late June and your Committee has a block of rooms in Gotham for you and the brood after the New Hampshire adventure.
To more pressing matters. Don Hinkley has left a top Procter and Gamble post in Germany to become the V.P. of Pepsi Cola, International and will make his home in Rome. Dr. Frank Ebaugh is back in Hanover. Recognized as one of the country's leading blood researchers, Frank has done extensive work with many forms of blood diseases including leukemia. At the Mary Hitchcock, he'll conduct clinical research on leukemia for the American Cancer Society. Fred "the Flyer" Daley is, of course, back on the Plains, having recently moved into a new home on Balch Street.
Cy Thompson, a long standing, shrewd, and successful expatriot with Rank Xerox is now calling Zurich, Switzerland home. And Bill Turpin is currently assigned to the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Always on the move, Col. Nick Manitsas is now at the Air War College, Maxwell A.F.B., Ala.
John Beckwith has just been named administrator of the Community Medical Center, a 200-bed hospital in Scranton. John, his wife Nancy, and their six youngsters made quite a name for themselves in New London, Conn., where for the past seven years John served as Assistant Administrator of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and actively led many of the important community affairs.
I presume that our white hope, ClarkMacGregor, has decided to hold back his big guns 'til '68. But the good representative from Minnesota is sowing those grass roots hither and thon, even into Rocky's bailiwick, and confining himself to a casual 18-hour day of speaking engagements, press conferences, hoop-de-la, and homework. And he's getting great press notices across the nation.
Art Kiendl has returned to the East after five years as dean of students at the University of Colorado to take on the responsibilities of head- master of Mount Hermon School. Art went out to Colorado after three years as associate dean at the College. An editorial in the University of Colorado student newspaper had this to say about Art: "...he has brought into positions of responsibility under him top administrators affecting almost every phase of student life. These people, in combination with Kiendl, have greatly improved the functions and services offered to students. So, it is with a great deal of regret and a sense of loss that we say goodby to Dean Kiendl with best wishes for the future."
Under Phil Penberthy's outstanding leadership the class of '44 hit new highs and records in this year's Alumni Fund with over $16,000 (117% of objective), a 72% participation index, and ranking 21 of 60 participating classes with only 7 classes since 1927 exceeding our "objective" effort. For a war class this is truly outstanding. Phil and his associates can take some measure of comfort in reflecting on the many hours of planning and work they put into the drive and in the gratitude we as a class hold for them.
Ray Zrike possibly makes a hobby of work, but he does read trade magazines. A day after the July 5 issue of Sales Management came out he sent me a notice of GeneKinney's appointment as President of Zenith Hearing and Sales Corp. Gene is also V.P. and member of the Board of Zenith Radio Corp. I didn't quite get around to my copy until the end of August. Ray, incidentally, is also a president of Royal Worcester here in the U.S. Jerry Brody, New York's most outstanding restaurateur (The Forum, Four Seasons, Hawaiian Room, etc.), has finally given up on the commuter bit and reluctantly moved his home to the city. MarshClark, on the other hand just moved to Greenwich and will stoically take his lumps with the N.Y., N.H., and Hartford. GeneKinney in addition to his corporate responsibilities has been named to the Board of Trustees of Vermont Academy.
The important date to keep in mind is June 19-21,' 1964 in Hanover. As the mittee promises., it will be "mammoth' and you can taper off in Flushing Meadows. June 19-21.
Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.
Treasurer, River Road, Cos Cob, Conn.
