1941

By the time these class notes reach you in the December MAGAZINE, the Ivy League football season will have long been ended and either Dartmouth or Princeton or both will be at the top of the league. The reason I mention this is because the winning football team has brought out large numbers of alumni to the games during October and we had a chance to see a great many '41s especially at the Yale Bowl. Being in a spot where news was just not coming in, your class secretary decided to drive to Cambridge and see the Harvard game with the hope of bumping into some classmates. Unfortunately we sat in with a large group of Harvard people and didn't get to see a '41 although reports later confirmed that among those to see the 14-0 win were Bob Ramie,Unc Richardson, Ed Lamer, Bob Leske andEz Crowley.

The following week at New Haven a whole gang of '41s showed up to enjoy the 70 degree sunshine and a great Dartmouth rally in the fourth quarter. A section of the parking lot was reserved for a pre-game picnic, but on arrival there we found a soccer game in progress and were forced to change locations. This caused some confusion but most people got together either before or after the game despite the fouled up parking situation. Among those at the game were Oscar Israel, Pete Coombs, Phil Hall, Jim Jacobs, George Seel, Red Taft, Dick Krolik, Julian Koenig, Burt Hedin, Bob Darbee, Monk Larson, Larry Barnett, Lee Trudeau, Bob Harvey, Bill Galbraith, Red O'Connor, Chuck Bolte, Tom Willers, Felix Lilienthal.

We had a chance to chat with some of the fellows and their wives like Clelia and RedHlggins. Red is now living in Lido Beach, Long Island, having recently taken an important post as assistant to the president of Reeves Instrument Co. which is located in Garden City, L. I. Red's primary function is marketing in addition to over-all management supervisory chores. We found Chuck Hadley and his wife Roz at the game again this year and they drove over from their home in Mountain Top, Pa., where Chuck is engineering manager at the RCA plant. Dorothy and Jack McMillin attended the game with Buzz and Janet Willis. Billand Ginny English came over from Naugatuck, Conn., where Bill is industrial engineering manager in the Footwear Division of U.S. Rubber Company.

Eddie Acker reports that he saw Ev Stevens who runs a large knitting mill, Abbott Woolen Mills, in Wilton, N. H. The mill turns out fine fabrics for Brooks Bros, and Hickey-Freeman. Ed reported that there's a talented tailor nearby who'll take cloth purchased at Ev's plant and custom-tailor a suit at very reasonable prices. Must try that some time.

Don Hanks has been supervisor of the town of Salem, N. Y., since last May as an appointee. Don is well known in this part of the world as a leading dairy farmer and in 1963 he received the Ford farm efficiency award as the outstanding dairy farmer in the U.S. During the past year Cornell University made a film of the Hanks' dairy operation which has been shown on television and is available for showings at organizational meetings. Don is state director of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association and president of the New England Milk Producers Association, Salem branch. Among other things, he is a director of the Cambridge Valley National Bank. There very likely was an election in November since the Salem Supervisor post is an elective office and Don, we're sure the wise people of Salem must have voted you in for two more years.

Here are a few little items overheard here and there. ... Hank Frechette is president of Kingsbury Machine Tool Co. in Keene, N. H.; Bernei Burgunder is vice president of M. Kahn Department Stores and that's got to be in Baltimore, Md.; Bob Barr who runs his own construction company is also an overseer of Thayer School. ... WarnerBishop, in New York to visit his daughter at Briarcliff, attended the Class Executive Committee meeting and looked sharp and fit ... someone mentioned that Doug Atwood was back home in Connecticut for a few weeks last spring with his wife and son, Ken. Doug is a field representative for CARE and has been in Algiers for more than three years.

Having promised the Reunion Chairman to say a few words about the 25th Reunion coming up next June in every column I write until then, let me say that plans are really moving ahead. Decisions have been made about special reunion clothing but this has to remain top secret for the moment. The Class Executive Committee met in New York on October 29 and spirit, enthusiasm, and morale are high. It should be a wonder-reunion. Lew Johnstone came in from Cin- cinnati, Warner Bishop from Cleveland, John Bowers from Detroit, Ed Larner from Boston, Dick Hill from Boston, Stacy Hill from Lake Forest, Ill., and Bob Thomas from Abingdon, Pa., - all to help move the reunion plans along the road to success. Thanks go, too, to the guys running our 25-year Gift Program - Bruce Friedlich and Danny Provost. Saw them at both the Yale game and the Columbia romp.

So much for this month. That just about sets a record for number of classmates mentioned in one column - but it has been a busy month and there should be lots more to report after the Princeton weekend. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you wonderful guys (and gals, too!).

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