1949

FIFTEENTH REUNION - June 17-20

The annual fall 1949 visit to Hanover was as usual wonderful. The weather was Indian summer and the football was successful. King and Joanne Ball, Bob and Pat Zeiser, Mike McGean, Bob and Pers Alden, John and Winnie Stearns, Dick and Chesta Bandfield, Bud and Lois Hughes, Tom Swartz, Jay and Ellie Urstadt, Bert and Sue Rodman, Bob and Donna Muenzberg, Clark and Jane Church, Herb and Ann Gramstorff, Punchy and Doris Thomas, and the writer made up the crew. The officers and executive committee met at Great Length Friday evening and decided weighty issues. The most important of these issues was Intriguing Plans for the coming reunion.

Saturday we helped the football team regain some of its Princeton-marred reputation. Then we banquetted and paid tribute, with speeches and the Gold Pick Ax Award for the year, to Dick Bandfield, a man whose dedication to his duties as our Head Agent has been truly of the first order. The care and energy which he has invested into organizing our class have been the most important ingredient in raising us from low mediocrity to the top of the heap in our service to the College through the Fund. Important things are accomplished with such all-out effort, and it was satisfying to all of us to have the chance to recognize Dick Bandfield's amazing results and the work that went into them.

John Stockwell has accepted the position of executive vice president of Children's Hospital of Minneapolis. For the past five years John has been with Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he directed the program and development of a 103-bed hospital which has 52,000 clinic visits in its children's medical center. John, who also has seven years of experience with a 678-bed general acute hospital in Providence, R. I., will be developing plans to complete the future Children's Hospital of Minneapolis for the community within approximately two years.

Ort Hicks, our man in the USIA, has moved his practice from the America House in Darmstadt to the America House in Cologne. This is a refined public relations business that Ort and Joan are in.

Doug Stevenson is in Minneapolis investment banking. He has moved from the Northwestern National Bank there to the local office of Kidder, Peabody. Doug is big in rugby, helped found the sport in the Minneapolis area.

Maurie Cole is spending most of his days in New Jersey courts. He has been elected a member of the International Association of Insurance Counsel, so I assume he's before the judge as a lawyer rather than litigant. The Coles have two boys and imminent expectations of a girl.

Ed Snoke is doctoring feminine reproduction problems on the west side of Detroit, down among the steel mills.

Jim Braunworth is one of our New York advertising men and has a new home in Upper Montclair, 175 Summit Avenue.

Chris Bugge is still prospecting for oil in Norway. You may find him in the district of Oslo known as Slemdal. Jegerveien 11. He is saving his spare oil for the trip to Reunion.

Tom Dempsey is now with the Gardner Advertising Co., University City, Mo., which, I think is adjacent to St. Louis.

John Daukas has made quite a move: from the presidency of the Middlesex Optical Co. in Connecticut to an assistant professorship of economics, at Miami University, the one in Oxford, Ohio.

Bomber Ray Drake is still menacing the enemy somewhere west of San Francisco. Write him c/o the 39th Bomb Wing, APO 64, San Francisco.

Jep Ellingwood never stays long in one place. He's with some kind of government aviation thing and has moved from Orlando, Fla., to Saxonville, Mass.

Robert J. Evans, one of our agents in the Dartmouth administration, has a new home on Reservoir Road.

Ted Barnett has been boosted from associate copy director of Foote, Cone, and Belding's San Francisco office to vice president in that advertising organization. Prior to self-employed venture in New York City as proprietor of "The Cup and Spoon," an after-theater coffee house on 56th Street, Ted worked with Foote, Cone, and Belding as an account executive and copy writer in the Chicago office. Before that he had been with N. W. Ayer agency.

Emmanuel Metz, although he won't sit still long, never leaves Manhattan. He is editing something, and doing it at 150 East 56th.

Ray and Nancy Rasenberger, having begot so many kids they ran out of space, have a new location: 7417 Haddington Place, in Bethesda. Ray is a principal in his new Washington law firm.

Ernie Beattie has emigrated, with Elaine and the boys, southward in New England, from Auburn, Me, to Wayland, Mass. Ernie is in some kind of textile business.

Fred Briscoe has a new home in West Hartford, 79 North Main Street. Fred is Sales Manager for Pan Am in Hartford.

Dick Eckhart, of bur sizable petrogeological team, is prospecting for oil on behalf of the Sunray Oil Co. in Shreveport, La. Dick and Betty were previously located in Houston.

John Gallup, our man in fine paper (Strathmore), is now living in Longmeadow, Mass. John and Paula moved from West Springfield.

John Griffith, diplomat, has been discovered by our radar moving around in the shady clouds of foreign intrigue from one unknown póst to another. At any rate, you can write to him c/o American Consulate General, APO 669, NYC.

John Harder is California insurance (Paul Revere Life). He and Susan are now to be found in Encino.

Chuck Hayward, tank commander, is taking one of those fancy courses they give the military. For this purpose he has relocated Barbara and the children in Norfolk (Class #36, A.F.S.C.).

Dick Hook, peripatetic banker, has given up Swarthmore for Cambridge, Mass. (71 Fresh Pond Lane).

We have few architects, one of whom is Bill Marden, practicing in the Albany area. Bill and Joan have moved to a new home at 66 Mosher Rd., in Delmar, N. Y.

Secretary, Eastman Kodak, A & OD 5-16 CW Rochester, N. Y. 14650

Treasurer, 182 Main St., Wenham, Mass.