1952

I didn't want to do this but I guess I have - mention the Alumni Fund and our poor showing to date. It's not just in dollars but m participation; we're way behind where we ve been in any other year at this stage of the campaign.

I know most of you have intended to give and. just haven't gotten around to it. JohnnieKlein feels confident we'll pick up and do well m the end. I do, too. But how about it? Wont you pick up that check book right now and get your contribution in the mail?

As promised last month I am up here on the Hanover Plain trying to capture some of those hill winds for you. Those will have to be "chill" winds, however, for even though it's May first the thermometer wouldn t show it. It's dipped all the way back to March. But with the sun out toward evening the prospects don't look bad for a very pleasant weekend.

"First thing we did after stoking up on chow was to get a short preview of the new Hnnkins Center. There's a scheduled tour for tomorow but with all those lights blazing away we just couldn't resist going in. I know a lot of ink has been spilled over this new addition to the Hanover scene but I guess you just can't get the full impact it unless you're right there. To me it is terribly exciting. The opportunities it offers which we didn't have as undergraduates are many and a feeling of creative energy pervades' practically every corridor, even at 10 o'clock in the evening. I hope you all get a chance to go through this remarkable complex very soon.

I've carried on at some length about this hut I don't feel guilty because the news is rather skimpy this month. One thing you can count on, though — that old column about '52 educators is haunting me again. As the good frau went through the Christmas cards the other week, getting ready to throw them out, she came across an info card that had been hidden under the deluge since early last December, and, you guessed it I missed another teacher. Dr. Ed Smuckler who's at the University of Washington in 'Seattle teaching clinical pathology and who reports that he will receive his assistant professorship come June.

And while on teachers comes some late news (though it's undoubtedly old to the subject) about Tom Clapp who's now teaching just down the road from us in Westport, Conn.

I'm happy to say we still have some classmates with life enough in them to attract the fairer sex. I had previously reported the engagement of John Fellingham, and I am now relieved to report that he made it to the church on time. .February 23, John married Joan Hodson in Marysville, Wash. And if Dan Gutterman is prompt as John he will have walked the aisle with Miss Susan Barker in March in New York. As yet I have only the engagement announcement, but judging from Miss Barker's picture Dan will have made sure things came off as planned. (Okay, you dirty-minded old lechers: Dan will have gone through with the wedding!)

Even my business news has been slow this past month, but there are a couple of mates whose business hasn't been. Ed Myers has been appointed to the newly created position of product manager in the container division of Monsanto Chemical Company's Plax Company Department in Bloomfield, Conn. And out in Columbus, Ohio, Jack Bricker has become an associate with the law firm of Bricker, Evatt, Barton, Eckler & Niehoff. Congratulations to both Ed and Jack.

Some of you may find it hard to believe but I think it's of interest to report the newly acquired evening habits of Al Reich. As one classmate put it, Al didn't start patronizing saloons until he got laid up in a New York hospital. But under the expert tutelage of Jim Fowler (the newest legend of Cafe Society Uptown) Al has made it around to several of New York's more populous night spots. I only had the pleasure of accompanying them on one such tour, but I can see how a fellow could grow to like it. We had a very congenial crew that night. Al Fiertz, Sam Harned, Bob Herr, Howie Carter, Roy Megargel, Fowler, Reich, and the only '52 who's already had his twenty-fifth reunion, aging Herb Roth (ask Herb how he did it yourself). Jim Rosenberg started with us but had to leave early. It was like a small, regional reunion and we thought of sending the bill to brother Trautwein as a class expense. Would have, too, but we'd already paid the check when we thought of it.

All that night life is getting Al down, however, so he's going back home to Sudbury next week. He's still in a wheel chair and will be, but he's going back to work at Polaroid, May 15. I think he's made remarkable progress and I have the utmost confidence he will make considerably more. Al wanted me to send all of you people his sincere thanks for the letters you've sent and the visits you've made. So thanks from Al.

Thanks from me, too. You're a pretty great class and I'm proud to be up here in Hanover this week as one of your representatives. Arrieviderci, paisanos!

Kwock Chong "Bay" Yee '53 and President Dickey chatting in Honolulu.

Secretary, 168 Riverside Ave. Riverside, Conn.

Class Agent, 2295 Chatfield Dr., Cleveland Heights, Ohio