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The holiday issue of the "Indian Drum" contained news of the meeting last October of the Class Executive Committee at which time it was decided to schedule such a meeting annually. It was further decided that this was too good an idea not to share with others in the class and that we should encourage more to enjoy an informal reunion the same weekend, taking advantage of Hanover's fine fall weather. Those classmates with sons in the college should be especially attracted to this idea. If only one football weekend can be worked into your schedule we are hoping that many more will want to point toward this particular weekend each year. Of course the home football game will be the raison d'etre but the fun of a brilliant fall weekend reunion with classmates on the Hanover Plain is just too good to miss. Those of you who have been doing it during recent years can vouch for that - those of you who haven't don't know what you have been missing.
Since housing on football weekends is always a pressing problem, it is necessary to make at least tentative rooming arrangements as early as possible. And the expected number might have a bearing on whether we can fit our group into available space for the Brown or the Holy Cross game. To help the anguish of making too many plans in the dark at this end, will all of you who think this is an idea you would like to include in your long-range plans so indicate on a (4-cent) postcard to me. It won't be binding at this time but will allow me to line up sufficient rooms and make other tentative plans which are so necessary if we are to have a smoothly run weekend for everyone's complete enjoyment.
A change of jobs which came in time for an early Christmas present filled HenryDahl's stocking. He has been elected Vice-President and manager, Everett Division, of the Seattle-First National Bank with senior responsibility for much of the banking assets in the Northwest region. Hank and Dody and their four children apparently enjoy life in the Puget Sound country during all seasons of the year for they support the activities of the Everett Golf Club, the Everett Yacht Club, the Evergreen Fly Fishing Club, the Everett BPOE and the American Legion. In any spare time the six of them ski and Hank hunts ducks and pheasants, although the ability of the youngsters in the former sport so far outpaces the old man's that they leave him in their wake. Sounds like a familiar complaint, but the after-ski activities have a compensating fascination. Hank hasn't been back to Hanover since moving west in 1946 but is making plans to be on deck for our 25th. That's the kind of farsighted thinking that's good to hear about!
A recent card from Scott Dillingham confirmed the fact that he is still selling school books for the Macmillan Company in the Western New York State area. He must be good at it because he's recently been elected to P.B.A. (Professional Bookmen of America), an honorary textbook salesmen's society.
Dr. Gordon D. Stokes must be one of the most active Christian laymen of our class. He appears as guest preacher at the First Congregational Church in Fall River, Mass., from time to time as well as being a member of the Prudential Committee at the church, chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, and teacher of the senior high Sunday School class. Gordie also finds time to be Chief of Medicine at Truesdale Hospital, for which important job he prepared by being a Fellow at the Mayo Clinic following Northwestern Medical School.
Another medical doctor from our class who recently spoke to a church group was Dr. Charles A. Pinderhughes who spoke at a congregation breakfast meeting of Temple Shalom in Quincy, Mass.. on the topic "A Negro Looks at the Jewish Community." Charlie is currently chief of the psychiatry service at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts School of Medicine and a lecturer at B.U. School of Medicine. And you think you're busy!
Another classmate whose vocation is religion and not his avocation - figures in the news this month. Rev. Lawrence L. Durgin was recently installed as eighth minister of the 122-year-old Broadway Congregational Church in New York City. For the past year and a half Larry has been a member and the minister of that church while he and the congregation "engaged in a thorough process of a mutual and comprehensive analysis of the future of a large mid-town Manhattan church in an area slated for redevelopment." Larry went to the graduate School of Theology of Oberlin and Union Theological Seminary, and as well holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Brown University. He still keeps an interest in his home town however through his duties as a trustee of the Northfield Schools in upper Massachusetts.
A welcome, newsy letter from FrankWhaland, who lives in the southern part of the state, in Amherst, N. H., but at a distance that would be normally a comfortable commute for the metropolitan boys, tells of seeing a few classmates from time to time. When insurance business takes him into Boston he occasionally sees Chet Brett or Hank Coleman. Frank has recently gone into business for himself as an Insurance Consultant, a job which makes him unique in New Hampshire. His hard-to-get CPCU degree will stand him in good stead as he sells advice to business men instead of a policy.
That's all for this month. The mail box is empty now, so take it upon yourself to help fill it up for another month. Let me know soon if you would like to be included in the fall reunion tentative plans - you won't regret it!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Class Secretary Bob MacMillen was in the Hanover news last month when it was announced that he has been named Assistant Dean of the Summer Program and assistant to the Registrar of the College. Bob has been an associate in the College's development office since 1958. More details about his new duties will be found in "The College" section of this issue.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N. H.
