1933

Ginney and I just returned from a very wonderful Yale weekend spent with Beaand Jeff Davis. This weekend was made all the more enjoyable because Jan and WesBeattie were with us and then Al and BettySpeare and Bill and Marcella Teahan joined us for the evening Saturday. We had hoped to see the Bill Bateses and the Theriaults Friday evening but unfortunately they couldn't get over to Middletown. We did see Bill Bates and the Theriaults at the game for only a moment. Also saw the Ed Foleys who reported having seen the Douglases and the Mackeys although we did not bump into them.

Two notes from the Wall Street Journal. One, that John Howard Manley was named Economist and Executive Vice President of Fiduciary Counsel Inc.; and the second, that Bob Winger, who has been Vice President of Hoover World Wide Corp., a subsidiary of the Hoover Company was named President of their International Division. Congratulations to both!

The Davises had a copy of General Mills "Horizons," a house organ published for stockholders, and right on the front cover in a beautiful color photograph is our Jim McFarland explaining the virtues of Gold Medal Instantized Enriched Flour to three lovely ladies at General Mills Stockholders' meeting. Jim also appears in the inside of the magazine explaining a change in one of their cereals.

Thanks to those of you who have returned questionnaires. I have sent out 85 and had 44 returned. It would be most helpful if those of you who have not returned them would mail them back to me promptly.

I told you in an earlier column that my overseas correspondents have been very good to me in the returning of questionnaires. One of the first ones back was NormCrabtree's. Norm is Chairman and Managing Director of the English Division of W.A. Shaeffer Pen Company in England. He and Betty have two boys — Chris and Mike. Mike is Dartmouth '66. Let me quote from his note to me: "Just had to buy new tails to replace the ones I bought my senior year at Dartmouth. Match that, fat and fifty! Have lost 2 teeth and parts of 16 more- most of the hair in the middle of my once luxurious crop — and a good deal of my sense of humor.

"Went to Moscow on UK's 'Mission to Moscow' to develop trade but didn't and am now considering methods of supplying pens to Cuba so he can write more rude letters. When is the U. S. going to realize that you don't have to be buddies in order to do business?" Norm and Betty planned to be in Hanover in September to get Mike installed in his sophomore year.

Another foreign correspondent heard from is Fred Await. Wes had a nice note from him back in June saying how sorry he was that he couldn't make a quick trip over from Libya for Reunion. Fred and Eleanor have two sons, Alan and Hugh; a daughter, Marjorie and a total of 4 grandchildren. Fred is General Manager of Haji Abdullah Alireza Libyan Trading Co. in Tripoli, Libya. They are Ford, Michigan, and Goodrich dealers. Fred says "Tripoli is a real nice place to live. Florida would sell its soul for our climate and the sea is wonderful for long summer bathing, fishing, and sailing at least that's what they say. I never have time to do any of it. The country is enjoying an incipient boom which we expect to continue, having as it does, a sort of built-in guarantee with development of all the oil here." Nice to hear from Fred, too.

Here's a fellow we haven't heard from in a long, long time. Bruce Earl is living in Summit, N. J., and he and Margaret have 4 children - Virginia, Margaret, Bill, and Veronica and two grandchildren. Bruce is employed by the New York State Department of Labor in the Bureau of Apprentice Training as a supervisor. His responsibility is to supervise personnel for the purpose of promoting, developing and maintaining apprentice training programs in the industries of the State of New York. Their daughter, Virginia graduated from Immaculata Junior College in 1959, Margaret from Caldwell College in 1963 and Bill is a sophomore at the University of Nebraska where he has an N.R.O.T.C. scholarship and a full football scholarship. Sure is nice to hear from Bruce after all these years.

Stu Durkee reports that last November the Superior Oil Company decided to move its executive offices to Houston and he preferred not to relocate himself so he resigned from the company. He sold his house in Pasadena, bought a lot in South Laguna and is in the process of building a new home there. He says that his employment status is questionable. He is eligible for California unemployment insurance but he would have to look for work! He has looked at several jobs but as of now he is "retired." His only civic activity at the moment is a member of the Finance Committee of the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Bob Guggenheim is a fairly close neighbor but as yet Stu hasn't run into him.

Here's another fellow not heard from for a long time - Clarence Albaugh is engaged in the private practice of Ophthalmology in Los Angeles, and I want to quote verbatim from the note which he enclosed because I found it most interesting and I think you all will too. "As have all the others in the class, I've been involved in a good many activities of one type or another. A willing horse can really be loaded, but I'm easing out of things at this stage of the game. I do some flying for personal pleasure and business. I enjoy ham radio a great deal because it is something I can do at home and at any time of the day or night that the spirit moves me. Hunting and fishing all over the world keeps me active and in condition. In another month I'll be in New Zealand to try my luck with the big marlin. That's because I am to be the guest speaker for the Australian Ophthalmological Society this year, so I'll be in that area for the big ones. Of course the movie camera goes along always and in the course of several trips around the world and into unusual places, I have accumulated an enormous film library which keeps me busy at the editing table. Many of the films are used for Charity Benefits and for the edification of the many organizations I've been associated with. So you see, I keep busy and take little time to worry about how rapidly the times goes. Seems like yesterday that we were taking finals!" Clarence says his call letters are W6KOS for any of those classmates operating ham radios. Give Clarence a ring.

Rus Ackerman is living in Litchfield, Conn., and he and Helen have four children, Linda, Peter, Susan and Michael. Linda is a graduate of Syracuse 1963 and Peter entered B. U. this fail in the Class of '67. Rus was in the hardware business until May of '62 when he became employed by the State of Connecticut Welfare Department out of Torrington, Conn., as a Social Worker. Rus is most active in his community being a member of the Lions Club, past member of Litchfield School Board and the Finance Board of Litchfield. He is an active Mason and currently is Treasurer of Milton Congregational Church. He reports that Helen is working on her M.A. degree and is teaching at Litchfield High School and is also Registrar of Voters in Litchfield and a past member of the Litchfield School Board.

I think you will agree that we have some guys in the class who are doing and have done some very interesting things. How about you?

Some members of 1933's executive committee photographed by John Meek '33 inHanover last June. L to r: Jack Huntress; Bob Fox, newsletter editor; Sid Stoneman,head agent; George Farrand, treasurer; Bill Dewey, reunion chairman; Wes Beattie,chairman; Don D'Arcy; Larry Reeves; Jud Pierson, secretary; and Hank Smith.

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