Interest in the informal reunion next fall at Hanover seems to be snowballing, which is quite appropriate in view of the sort of winter we've had in these parts. Over 75 are already planning to come, without mentioning the distaff side, and the cards are still coming in. This raises rather interesting questions just how informal a reunion it should be and what you fellows would be most interested in seeing, other than the Hopkins Center and the Nathaniel Leverone Field House; and doing, besides renewing old acquaintances. If you have ideas on this subject (or any other), drop me a line.
""From warmer climes comes a little news of Ed Henriquez, who is now president of the family firm of wholesale importers named rompania Henriquez in Colon, Panama. While Eddie Jr. was at Choate and Dartmouth (graduating in 1960) the family got into the habit of spending some time in New York each winter. Recently, our local operative McCarty, who jumped ship from a United Fruit job one summer to visit with the family in Colon, renewed old acquaintance by seeing Ed for lunch in New York. Mac, incidentally, is moving into his new quarters in the Pan American building soon. His name has appeared for months on the big sign dominating 43rd Street which publicized the firms who signed up early for space in the largest office building in the world. Looks like a big cake of soap turned up on end,
"speaking of football players, Scotty Mcpherson and his wife, Pat, were in New York a week or two ago for the big paper convention (APPA) and had lunch with ArtBamford and Carl Spengeman. Report: "Scotty's hair is full and black; the five children range from 20 to 5; he's manager of Mosinee (Wise.) Paper Mills, makers of industrial products; confessed he did get hit in the war as a Marine captain - one bit of shrapnel in the tail - but no purple heart."
Now this is an area that Dr. Phelps Luria rarely touches, if his recent report entitled "The Role of the Nurse in Nasal Plastic Surgery" is carefully scrutinized. I never realized a surgeon had to have so much miscellaneous equipment around in an operating room set-up, including a double-end rasp and a Glabellar rasp on a big table in back, where they keep company with a Lewis sweeper, hump saws, and a protected Drosal chisel, among other more mundane articles of nasal mayhem.such as a mallet. You realize this is all written for the benefit of the nurse, not the patient, so you have delicious bits preparing you for "natural causes" that may "force the pack posteriorly into the throat causing nothing more serious than gagging." ARR-R-GH-GH! According to Luria, the nurse's understanding and assurance alleviates the patient's mental anguish and aggravation under these circumstances. Laughing and talking excessively is out anyway since this may cause incisions to pull apart or some other irreparable damage. By the way, through all this you are on a diet of malted milk, eggnogs, jello, junket, and milk toast, so why should you care anyway. Moreover, you probably can't focus your eyes and they may well be closed by swelling and ecchymosis, whatever that is. No cause for alarm, says Luria, this too will pass. And, by the time the tip of your nose responds normally to heat and cold, you should be out of the woods.
Where was I? Maybe I haven't mentioned that Eddie Hinman, president of the Canadian International Paper Co., has been elected to a three year term as member-at-large on the Alumni Council. Or that Charlie Dressen left Bradford, Pa., and Temple, Texas, some time ago and was appointed Assistant General Manager of M & H Valve and Fittings Co. in Anniston, Ala. Still with Dresser Industries, though, and a member of the American Water Works Association. Or that Paul Siskind was appointed Special Assistant District Attorney General for Massachusetts to fight the Commonwealth's battle with the New Haven Railroad over Old Colony and South Shore matters. Paul is also a member of the Massachusetts Legislative Committee drafting a code on Ethics and Conflict of Interest and serves as Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University. Or that Fritz Beebe was elected a board member of the Allied Chemical Corporation. Or that David Levy has done an outstanding job as a member of the National Budget and Consultation Committee, sponsored by the United Community Funds and the National Social Welfare Assembly in forty states to provide budgetary assistance from an authoritative outside source. Or that Willard Heckel, Moderator of the Newark, N.J., Presbytery, is the first layman to be so chosen since 1938?
Or ... that Fred O'Brien of Andover was appointed to the board of bar examiners in Massachusetts. He not only makes up the exams (with four other solons) but determines who passes. Or that Bill Chapman has been appointed senior vice-president of the First Western Bank and Trust Co. in Los Angeles. Or that Jim Hughes, executive vice-president of the Diamond Alkali Co., has been elected a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Or that Sven Karlen was appointed village treasurer of Bronxville, N.Y.
Well, all of these things are true ... or were. As is the family news submitted by Ralph Specht:
"Trudie and I took the family down to the vicinity of Washington, D.C., for our annual Christmas visit since Trudie's sister lives in Bethesda, Md„ as does brother Frank and his family. On Sunday evening, December 23, Frank and his wife Edith invited Trudie and me to their home for a dinner party and we were pleasantly surprised when the other guests included Evelyn andHarris Dawson, Lucia and Hugh Wolff and Martha and Bill Bury. The food was delicious and refreshments started with cocktails, champagne, and finally, cordials - all Schenley products, of course.
"I have been residing in Ridgewood, N.J., for the last three years and occasionally see Jim Boldt and Bill Mann."
To close I will quote from a long-lost friend, C. S. "Brad" Bradshaw, who keeps industrial relations straightened out for the Lockheed Space and Missile operations out Los Angeles way. With nary a snow flake from North Hollywood to Aspen, Colo., Brad gave up the skiing and 13-year-old Mike and he went sailing at Balboa. "Enjoyed it so much we caught a Sunfish, transportable on top of the car, and now intend to learn to sail." This should be easy for an old iceboater on Lake George. Brad plays tennis with Bill Short when union negotiations don't interfere, speaks highly of the Short "vigah." There is a new Dartmouth addition to the Lockheed board, Tom Proctor '18, so Brad should have gained an ear at court.
Jim West (with 1935 reunion mug) was featured on the cover of the Februaryissue of the M.I.T. Technology Review. Jim, assistant director of M.I.T.s new'National busy man these days as his blackboard notes show.
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