1918
Harvey and Barbara Hood have recently announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Barbara Ellen Hood, to Mr. Harry Goff Carpenter Jr. of Lincoln, R. I. Barbara was graduated from the Winsor School and Mount Holyoke College. After studying at Munich University, Germany and completing the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, she received her master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harry Carpenter Jr. prepared at the Moses Brown School and was graduated from Bowdoin College. He served two years in the Medical Service Corps of the Army in France and is a student at Tufts University School of Medicine. A June wedding is planned. Our class wishes this outstanding young couple a long and happy married life.
Syl Morey writes from the Keewaydin Club in Naples, Fla., that he and Minetta are enjoying that lovely spot for a threeweek stay. Syl was able to get a lot of swimming, rest, and relaxation. The club is on an island a short distance from the mainland, which can only be reached by ferry. No cars and only one telephone, so one cannot be bothered by what goes on in the ordinary world. Syl had planned to spend three weeks in Naples and three weeks in other places in Florida, but late in January the president of his firm suffered a fatal accident, which cut his vacation in Florida to only three weeks. Now that a new president has been appointed, Syl plans to be considerably more active in some areas for some time and thinks this will be better for him than retiring completely as he had planned to do in about a year or so.
He expressed regret that he could not get to Miami to see Dan Shea or Al Gottschaldt.
Bob Fish writes, "I still hope to stage an occasional trip East, but at present the outlook could be a helluvalot better. Osteo-ar-thritis added to my long-standing rheumatoid arthritis has me crippled so that it's tough and painful to hobble from room to room about the house. I'm guinea-pigging two experimental drugs neither of which seems like the Second Coming, but life is good enough so that when tempted to feel sorry for myself I can repeat: 'I cried because I had no shoes and then I saw a man who had no feet.' "
We hope Bob will work out of this painful ailment as he has several times in the past. We are disturbed that things have been so rough for him lately.
Clint Carvell writes from No. Andover, Mass., x am still keeping on as a minister. Have been in this town for 39 years and have had many wonderful experiences. I do not know when I shall retire and begin to enjoy the kind of life I have denied myself through the years. We have six children and fourteen grandchildren and our pattern of living is pretty well settled on us."
Paul Miner indicated that Clearwater has been popular with 18ers since the first of March. The Miners have had visits from Phil and Marjorie Boynton, Dwight andPeggy Sargent, Tom and Elizabeth Robbins,Lew and Helen Cousens and Hugh Whipple.Ralph Bickford is in town and Phil Sanderson is nearby and they hope to see both of them before they head back North.
Reed Montgomery writes from Colorado Springs that he has recently met Dick White and his wife at Judge Austin Hoyt's. Judge Hoyt is on the same tax court with ClarenceOpper. The Whites' daughter, Mrs. George Vradenburg Jr., lives in Colorado Springs and is the executive secretary of the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra. Reed comments, "She is most charming."
He continues, "We are leaving Colorado Springs on May 6 and plan to visit our daughter in Dallas and our son in Detroit on the way East. We expect to be back on Cape Cod by May 21. We have had a grand time out here this winter. There's a lot going on here. I play golf Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - weather permitting. And that is most of the time. I've played over 30 times while here. Hitty's mother is 92 tomorrow and that will be a festive day."
Al Gottschaldt suggests that the Class of 1918 plan a pre-reunion holiday in Florida this next winter. He writes that several classes in our generation have held such an event quite successfully. If there is any great interest displayed by our classmates in this suggestion, we will appoint a committee to arrange this get-together in Florida during the winter of 1964. Think about it seriously. We will poll you next fall when we send out return post cards asking about your attendance at the various football games.
Madeleine Scully has written about the Don Scully family. Don is about the same. He is confined to the house most of the time these days. Don Jr. has a third child who was a year old this April. He is still working for the J. W. Clement Printing Co.
Son George is now a Vice President of the Casco Bank & Trust Co., of Portland, Me. He has a second child a year old last August, named Jimmy. John Scully is in his second year of graduate school at Purdue. He is after a Ph.D. in engineering - field of Foundations and Soil Mechanics. He is teaching a course and is taking three courses, so is very busy. Madeleine has recently had a slight operation which kept her in the hospital for a few days.
Em Morse was in Dick's House the first part of February for a slight repair job. His is driving a car again and is back at the office without getting too tired so things are looking cheerful again at the Morses.
Hugh Whipple wrote Eddie Ferguson a long letter on April 10 which we summarize. Hugh spent some time in Florida with the Paul Miners and then traveled on to Ft. Lauderdale, playing a lot of golf at several courses. Paul and Hugh played golf in Clearwater, but Paul's game is tennis, which he plays with the old timers three times a week and "very well" Hugh adds. April 18 Hugh and Helene met their older son David, his wife Carolyn and their three grandchildren in New York. David and his family have just returned from the Katanga, Congo, where they have been living for several years.
Russ Smith just returned from an enjoyable trip to Mexico. He is semi-retired. Re cently he was appointed by John Bickford 29, the mayor of Morris Township, as the area chairman for the New Jersey Tercen tennial 1664-1964. In addition the authorities in Maryland have seen fit to institute a Planning and Zoning Code that appears to be of considerable concern in the administrating affairs of the Borden Mining Co. with which he is associated.
We recently received a notice of the death of Allen H. Ward. He passed away from a heart attack on November 14, 1962. He resided in Northfield, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Classmates may wish to write his widow, Florence W. Ward; her address is Whittier, Calif.
Reports from the Alumni Fund indicate that we will surpass our goal of $21,160 without question. We wish to compliment Tom Bryant and his Class Agents team for the hard work they performed this year, which helped the class exceed its 1963 quota.
We are planning to have our regular class luncheon at the Keene's on Saturday, the weekend of the first football game in Hannver We hope many of you will be in attendance. If you plan to come, be sure to make your reservations early, because Hanover is crowded the weekend of the first
Change of Addresses: Cmdr. Edward T. Garvey. USN Ret., Madero #664, Chapala, Jalisco Mexico; Dr. Edward S. McDowell, 66 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburg, N Y.; Rear Admiral Paul L. Mather, Ret., Apt. 506, Woodley Park Towers, Washington, D. C.
Secretary, 137 Annawam RcL, Waban, Mass.
Class Agent, Apt. 2, 95 North Lansdowne Ave. Lansdowne, Pa.
