1925

Our reunion left your scribe with the feeling it was altogether too brief and that one should be held every year. Two and one-half days is insufficient to permit reminiscing with all those with whom one would like to spend more time - particularly those who do not get back to Hanover very often. Which reminds us that the class executive committee will be holding its annual meeting at Hanover, Friday evening, October 8, the night before the Penn game, and that anyone who is in town will be welcome to attend the meeting.

While this individual kept his nose to the business grindstone all summer with weekend diversion at golf, many of you without question left home for vacations with children or grandchildren. Unfortunately, most people who take vacations forget to bring a pen with them; so we have nothing to report on this score.

Sadness crept into the class picture in August. During a period of two weeks three deaths were reported. Sherm Barnett finally lost a valiant ten-year struggle with cancer; Hens Jones succumbed to heart failure and Bill Gardner passed away suddenly, presumably also from heart failure.

Pete Haffenreffer III has been elected a director of Falstaif Brewing Corp., which acquired the Narragansett organization as a subsidiary, July 15. Charley Fitch has been elected secretary and treasurer of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, having been general sales manager since 1961. BillBoies has retired from the presidency of the Connecticut Bankers Association. Bob Hardy has been re-elected to the Alumni Council for a second two-year term, beginning July 1, as a representative of the Southern States. He is a member of the Council's Committee on Enrollment and Admissions. BradSmith delivered the commencement address for the College of Insurance in New York last June.

Bill Sleigh's daughter, Kevin, Smith '62, was married in a ceremony at Marblehead, Mass., on July 10 to Bert R. Whittemore '56.

Tubby Washburn reports, in response to an inquiry, that he got fed up with working and retired December 31, 1964, to Florida "where I don't have to shovel snow." He was unable to attend our fortieth because he was in the midst of completing the construction of a cottage with a swimming pool and a couple of guest rooms which constitute an open invitation for "some of the gang to drop in and pick an orange." His new address is Box 2034, 6429 Winkler Rd., Fort Myers, Fla. 33901. Alex Hollenbeek reports his firm, Hollenbeek and Co., has been designated by the Atomic Energy Commission as consultants to the Western New York Nuclear Research Center for the commercial project in the nine Northeastern states covering their newly developed wood-plastics combinations.

Lawrence C. Marshall has been elected a director of Grand Union Company, the retail food chain. Hi Russell, vice president of Baird & Warner, realtors, has assumed full responsibility for supervision of his firm's entire management operation. Hi has been with the outfit 38 years. Pete Kelsey while en route home from reunion stopped off at Upper Montclair, N. J., with son, Pete, for the purpose of baptizing his first grand- son (offspring of son, Tom).

Bud Neilson has taken an important assignment as a recently appointed member of the New England Regional Manpower Advisory Committee. This is one of a group of committees — one national and eight regional — established by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the U.S. Department of Labor to study and identify manpower problems. Bud is also on the Associated Industries of Massachusetts Advisory Committee on Human Relations and is a director of the Massachusetts Safety Council. The New England Telephone Company, which provided this news information, also thinks of Bud as vice president, secretary, and treasurer of that firm.

Tom Carpenter served as moderator at a seminar of the Mental Health Association of Westchester on the topic "Drinking, Drug Abuse and Tobacco," possible hazards for teen-agers, at which Lesley Gore, teenage recording star, was a panelist. Walt VomLehn wrote from Virginia that "we are still busy trying to fit the remaining contents of our former basement, two floors and an attic into the basement and one floor of our contemporary colonial ranch-type home. We are located at an elevation of about 2,000 feet, surrounded by mountains and we love them!"

Two address changes: Harry Clarke, 731 Park Ave., Manhasset, N. Y. 11030 and Jimmy Martin, Box 292, Escondido, Calif. 92025.

Secretary, 225 Wyman St. Waltham 54, Mass.

Treasurer, RR. 1, Box 134, Chester, N. J.

Bequest Chairman,