1951

The '51 Reunion which has floated around the country for the last three summers casts anchor in Hanover in June for our advanced 15th. I hope to see you there - with your family (there will be activities for kids). En route, you can take in the New York World's Fair and see Al Karcher's Kodak exhibit, which was not treated too kindly by the hands of Time.*

My report on the 1964 edition of the Floating Reunion will have to await future columns. What was cut from my June copy and news accumulated over the summer provide a surfeit which won't be exhausted with this issue.

As for the family bit, I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that pretty soon only Karcher and I will be left in the Class' bachelor ranks. And he's cornered the market on eligible young women!

On August 17, it was Jack Gray and Winifelor Hume Perkin in New Canaan, Conn. Lawyer Jack is with Lord, Day & Lord in New York City. His wife is an alumna of the Thomas School in Rowayton and Mount Vernon Junior College.

Paul Hodgdon was supposed to take the leap in July with Norma Jean Brewer of Rochester, N.H., where Paul is with the Spaulding Fibre Co. Norma, a graduate of UNH and Bennington College, taught music in the Westport, Conn., schools. Back in May, Mike Monroney married Jocelyn Murray Phillips, a graduate of Smith and of National Cathedral School in Washington.

John and Nella Boardman started off with a boy baby, now 11, followed by five girls, the most recent of which, Mary Fran, arrived on May 11. As of August 1, John be- came administrator of the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Harbor City, Calif. In July, Cal and Joyce Knights of Norwich, Vt., added a girl to their brood.

If the word-counting editor in Hanover treats me kindly, I'll now complete my report on classmates whose names haven't appeared in this column for some time but who helped out by responding to my postcard of some months back.

Out in outer space, Jim Fredericks is concerned with engineering a lunar landing vehicle for Grumman Aircraft. He bears the title of group leader, reaction control system. On the side, he and wife Nina have four children: Barbara, 12; William, 10; Carol, 8; and Peter, 4. Gordie Williams is Wage and Salary Administrator for Space Technology Laboratories in Redondo Beach, Calif. Gordie's family includes wife Demaris and son, Jonathan, 6.

Ralph King is president of Custom Beverage Packers, Inc., in Cleveland. He and wife Jane have a brood of four: Lindy, 9; Ralph Jr., 7; Douglas, 6; and Alan, 3. Hayden Thompson is president of Barber Mfg. Co., also in Cleveland. He and wife Martha have five children: John, 12; Bill, 10; Marnie, 8; Patsy, 7; and Michael, 4.

Bachelor Bill Blaik is a petroleum consultant and president of Blaik Oil Company, involved with oil and gas exploration, development and operations, with offices in Oklahoma City. Bill is also a director of Farmers & Merchants Bank in Tulsa and was appointed by the local U.S. District Court as a Commissioner in the Oologah Dam Project condemnation proceedings.

Charlie Blood works for himself in Maine as a pulpwood broker for numerous paper companies. He is chairman of the Republican Town Committee and First Selectman of North New Portland. While in the shadow of Sugarloaf, he confesses that he still doesn't ski.

Steve Wolff is employed by Hoffmann La Roche, Inc. He does marketing work for the Fine (?) Chemicals Division and has the title of Industry Manager - Pharmaceutical. His family includes wife Hughe; Chris, 9; Steve, 5; and Leslie, 2. Bob Goode is chief of requirements planning for Eli Lilly International. He and wife Fran reported 5½ children: Michal Ann, 10; Andrea, 9; Joe, 6; Kristen, 4; Abigail, I½; and?

Pathologist Dave Angell reported from Ann Arbor, Mich., that he was finally about to finish his residency and enter private practice in Eau Claire, Wise. Dave and wife Joan have a brood of three: Robert, 8; Susan, 6; and Thomas, 1. Since Dartmouth, they have spent four years in Montreal for medical school, three years in California interning and Air Force, and six years residency in Ann Arbor. It's a long, hard grind.

Up Beantown-way, Dick Sampson is District Group Manager for Prudential. His family includes wife Nancy, daughter Rebecca, 7, and son Nicholas, 4. Investment broker Bill Stout is in the Boston office of R. W. Pressprich & Co. Bill and wife Ellen's son Bill Jr., 9, and daughter Lee, 7, may explain Bill's trusteeships of the Park and Dexter Schools in Brookline.

Jack Woods is a security analyst for Vilas & Hickey in New York City. He and wife Sue have four children: Jay, 8; Laurie, 6; Rickey, 4; and Linda, 2. Down in Florida, Joe Sisson is sales representative for Lakeland Cash Feed Co. and, on the side, local Elks Club organist. His family includes wife Marilyn, Mary Anne, 8; Walter, 5; and Joe Jr., 4.

Recently moved from Michigan to the Philadelphia area, Dick Swain is Eastern Division (the entire Atlantic Seaboard) Manager for Elkay Mfg. Co. (stainless steel sinks and custom work). He and wife Mary have three children: Catherine, 10; David, 8; and Susan, 6. Charlie Bagot is merchandise manager of the Glass Block Store in Duluth, Minn. His family includes wife Alice and sons Wesley, 11, and Allan, 8.

Bill Ricketts teaches U.S. and world history at Franklin Senior High in Reisterstown, Md. (Baltimore County). He and wife Jane have a daughter, Miriam, 2½. Bill also flies and has an interest in old cars (undoubtedly because of his teacher's salary), a Mercedes and a Borgward.

Hunter College prof Paul Meyer recently got his Ph.D. in math from Columbia. He and wife Mary have a brood of three girls and a boy, ranging from 7 down in age. Poet BobPack has left Barnard to become Assistant Professor of English at Middlebury, where he has served on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in the summer.

* This is an appropriate point to drop a Time-style footnote, probably the first ever in a Class Notes column. But the two guys whose Time mention we want to mention have already had their share of regular size type in this column.

Independent film-maker Kent Mackenzie made the April 3 "Cinema" section article "In the Year of Our Ford" as one of twelve recipients of Ford Foundation largesse. His "The Exiles," a full-length semi-documentary about American Indians living in Los Angeles, received special mention.

Time-writer Loye Miller used to trail Lyndon; now he tracks Barry. Loye got his pix with Barry on the Publisher's page of the July 24 issue. The Publisher's comment on Loye ended as follows: "[He] discovered that Barry likes to wear a white nightshirt with the words 'Goldwater's Body Shop — 24 Hour Service' embroidered on the back. So complete is Miller's file of notes and copy on Goldwater that when he packed it all into a suitcase for the trip to the West Coast [convention], he had to pay $34 overweight."

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