1940

This is being written before the Fourth Annual Informal Reunion which the executive committee has tried to schedule on the first home Ivy League game and Dartmouth night. This year we have the added excitement of Princeton and if you don't think that has produced a tension in the air equal to all the other home games rolled into one you are wrong. I'll try to report on the outcome of this and other football weekends in the next issue, but perhaps just one item will suffice to indicate the scope of this first- in-Hanover Princeton game. The freshman class promises to build the biggest bonfire the middle of campus has ever seen, and taking their cue from their class numerals they expect it to reach 68 feet into the night sky! That's "gear" for you with a capital "G."

One reason the freshman class has so much on the ball I'm sure is the presence of sixteen sons of 1940 in their ranks. Our progeny has really hit full stride this fall with the introduction to the Hanover Plain to the freshmen sons of Ed Basquin, Chet Berry, Ted Boorum, Ed Bovill, Bob Brooks, Mac Cross, Bob Foss, Ernie Lendler, Bill Mercer, Dick Mitchell, Johnny O'Shea, Dick Seidman, Bob Welborn, Perry Weston, John Wheaton, and Chief Wonson. There are few, if any, classes that can boast such a sterling delegation and if only half of these proud daddies show up at the Freshmen Fathers Weekend in February, it will be a good sized reunion!

The old shoe box where I file my news clippings and letters to use here has an assortment of goodies going back to last spring, which couldn't be shared with you before but are still newsworthy. The variety and scope of these entries will underscore again the fact that 1940 is a classy class making its mark with broad brush strokes on numerous canvases. One example is Jack Rourke's certificate from the mayor of Los Angeles congratulating him on the occasion of the third anniversary of his TV show "Business and Sales Opportunities." Jack, as the producer of this popular show in Southern California, has helped greatly to stimulate employment and to create jobs in new industries in that fast growing part of our country. The good mayor extolled the spirit of adventure and self-confidence which Jack's show has fostered and recognized the asset it has been through the years to the economy of the area.

A Clevelander, Keith Benson, has recently been elected a director of Society National Bank. Keith is currently vice president and assistant to the president of Pichands Mather after coming up through the ranks of their corporate department and being secretary, general consul and director. Keith, still a low handicap golfer, went to Yale Law after graduating from Tuck School and got his LL.B. degree from Western Reserve after the war. We hope to see Keith, Jean and their two daughters up here for the Big 25th.

A note from Heine Heinz, who is with the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Division of Parasitology, at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, indicates that he probably won't be able to make it back to reunion next June. He has been finishing his master's thesis and hopes to gain a W.H.O. Fellowship which would take him to the Far East instead of Hanover when the rest of us are cavorting on the Green.

As a result of a day-long written exam and many months of professional preparation, our esteemed class president, J. Malcolmde Sieyes, can now add the designation CFA after his name, meaning he is a Chartered Financial Analyst. The Institute of CFA gave this recognition to only a handful of aspirants in this country and Canada from those who tried, so it's not an honor to be taken lightly. Diz has been touring Hemphill Noyes offices in Europe this fall analyzing their problems with a new professional eye.

John Moore was also in Europe early in the summer parlaying his role as a delegate to the International Congress of Actuaries into the Grand Tour of England, Scotland, and Scandinavia. He and Kay had a day at Wimbledon too, but he didn't say whether it was as spectators or participants - knowing John's game it would be the former, but if Kay could carry him long enough it might have been the latter.

It was good to hear from Larry Boothby several months ago and to catch up on all of his accomplishments. After he got his A.B. at Reed College he started his teaching career and received his Master of Education from Harvard in 1962. After teaching science courses in various secondary schools he has joined the physics staff at Green Mountain Junior College this fall from which base he expects to do a lot of skiing throughout Vermont. His older boy is following his dad's footsteps and is transferring to Reed this year from R.P.I, while the younger boy will stay a Vermonter at Putney School.

Our long-suffering class treasurer - and have you mailed him your yearly dues yet? - Don Rainie, has taken on more work for Dear Old by being elected president of the Class Treasurer's Association last May. It must have been in recognition of those clear and concise (and solvent) financial statements he sends to all of us.

A few weeks ago we went down to BobAustin's attractive vacation village which nestles in the hills of central New Hampshire on the shores of a crystal clear lake. He has built seven cabins of unusual comfort and taste and has plans for expanding through the woods and along the shoreline with several more cottages. It would be an ideal place to unwind for a few days after the 25th reunion next June with the couples you haven't seen enough of during the years. We went to "West Wind Village" to see Bill and Jane Huffman and their four attractive children who have vacationed at Bob's place many times. The good doctor from Cleveland and his tribe will be on hand next June for the festivities. Bill and Jane also take winter vacations to the tougher ski areas to keep in shape for their summer mountain climbing.

That's it for now. I can almost see the bottom of the shoe box so take pity and help fill it up again!

Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 78 School St., Concord, N. H.