1945

Ah, Spring! Ah choo! But never mind. June's soft balmy breezes will soon be upon us, and Reunion beckons the faithful to a fun-filled frolic of friendly Forty-Fives. Prepare! The hour and day approach. Many are working with devotion and diligence to make this a memorable occasion. Don't procrastinate, cooperate. Let us know you're coming.

The above exhortation may seem a bit exaggerated, but seriously, sensitive Joe Michael, our rabid reunion chairman, will be heart-broken if you don't appear. In sheer devotion, he's spent untold hours and effort in planning the gayest extravaganza possible. He wants every classmate to come and has prepared a multi-faceted program which should appeal to every conceivable interest. He, of course, realizes that a few, like DonAsh, Superintendent of Operations for Afran Transport Co., a Gulf Oil subsidiary, in Naples, _ Italy, will have difficulty making connections, but even Don, when he reads of Joe's promotions, may well feel a trip to Hanover this June is necessary. Executive committee member Jack Burroughs, who has been promoted to district manager of the Standard Register Company's Rochester, N. Y., office and must leave Worcester Mass., and travel west of the Hudson River for the first time in his life, will be at reunion. You just couldn't keep him away. Joe also knows that the new senior vicepresident of C. J. LaRoche and Company, Paul Caravatt, is so intrigued with what Joe is preparing that he can hardly wait to see if it s really true. Paul and Laura will probably be there on Wednesday, to get a running head-start into the festivities. Joe is plying the north woods of Washington, where Weyerhaeuser Company's board has just elected splintery Bob Looniis as treasurer of that company. Bob has been pining away for Hanover and wood dearly love to make the trip. He looks like reunion timber to me. In Palo Alto, Calif., Bob Paulson, special representative in TV sales for Precision Instrument Company, a job in which Bob will perform technical sales and service of Precision's 75-pound portable television recorder, is contemplating a June trip east, riven in San Antonio, Texas, where DavidStraus, President of Straus-Frank Co., is busily engaged in making that city a tourist attraction par excellence, word of the big reunion is legion. As chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's Tourist and Development Committee, Dave has been instru mental in developing programs in San Antonio which he hopes will make that city a tourist caPital for Latin America and the U.S. Southwest. Joe Michael hopes that Dave will take a tour of the Northeast this June.

I could go on for hours, for there are literally hundreds; of people all over the United States who are eagerly anticipating Joe's June jamboree. If you live within a thousand miles of Hanover and don't come to reunion, Joe will be distraught; if you live further away and can't make it, Joe will be morose. So you see, you've gotta' come.

Secretary, Middlesex School Concord, Mass.

Treasurer, Box 725, Elyria, Ohio