1951

Just a few days before my copy deadline for this issue, I received the first mailing on our advanced Fifteenth Reunion program, June 17-20. Enclosed was a return postcard on which to express your intentions re attendance. If you've already sent back the card, I hope you said "yes." If you haven't, do so pronto; and place your "X" in the first box, the one which says "yes."

Plan to take the wife and kids, too; and visit the New York World's Fair en route. Al Karcher is making all sorts of arrangements in connection with the Fair. Al sent me a photo, which I hope appears with this column, of himself and seven luscious Kodak (or should I call them Karcher) girls taken at the Fair. This picture should serve two purposes: (1) to stimulate interest on the part of the class bachelors, who had better plan on seeing the Fair on the way home, otherwise they might not get to Reunion; or (2) if you're married, to convince your wife that she had better go along.

On to the news! And we start with our newsmen. After five years as a Washington correspondent covering Congress, Lyndon, and Barry, Loye Miller has been named Chicago Bureau Chief by Time. Wife Joan wrote on their Christmas card that Loye was then already in Chicago, commuting back to the family in Washington on weekends, and that they expected to move to Winnetka about February 1.

Business Weeker Dick Halloran is back in the States after two and a half years in Japan. Dick landed a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Advanced International Reporting and has since September been pursuing his specialty, East Asia, at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He and wife Carol added to the family their third child and second daughter, Catherine Anne, on September 27.

Christmas cards brought news of three additional births. Jean and Roger Johnson's third child, second girl, Helen, arrived on March 8. Alan Hillyer Loehr Jr. arrived October 17 to make it four for Al and GerryLoehr. Dave and Susan Saxton also added number four, their second daughter, Heather, on April 12.

Tom Flack married Margaret Dorothea Heber on October 24 in Oak Park, Ill. The only other detail I have is that Tom's new wife hails from Caterham, Surrey, England.

Speaking of pictures, this year's Christmas cards brought forth some unusual '51 family groupings. On the subject of pictures, we'd like to have more of them and also to see some variety. But remember, the shot must include a classmate; without him, a picture of members of his family does not qualify for publication.

Last month we reported that Air Force Captain George Dimon had received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. We can now report that George has been assigned to Headquarters, Air Force Systems Command, at Andrews AFB near Washington as an electronics engineer. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1952 and holds an M.S. in electrical engineering under the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology program. George's wife Kristjana is an Icelander.

Up Beantown way, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes have promoted Brookie Dodge to vice-president in charge of New England Industrial Centers, of which CC&F has 13. He holds a Harvard M.B.A. as well as a Green B.S. in civil engineering. Brookie was with Polaroid before joining CC&F in 1959. He is also Director of the Wildcat Mountain Corp. and president of the Wildcat Mountain Ski Club.

Dwight Allison has become a partner in the distinguished Boston law firm of Good-win, Procter & Hoar. He was also recently named to the aviation committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. So the next time you've got a gripe about service at Logan International Airport, first complain to, then retain, Dwight.

Sel Atherton is the new president of the Dartmouth Club of Berkshire County, Mass. That item led us to peruse the list of Alumni Club Presidents and Secretaries published in the College's recent Alumni Officers Address List. We found four other 'sl presidents and one secretary. The latter is Bill Miller in Phoenix, Ariz. The other prexies and their clubs are: Jack Lotz, Jacksonville, Fla.; Joe McDonald, Palm Beach, Fla.; Dick McFarland, Northwest (Minneapolis); and Dr. Will Wolfe, Grand Rapids, Mich.

From out in Pasadena, Calif., wife Muriel reports that John Sargeant is not only doing very well with the Helmich Insurance Agency but also has a most inter- esting extracurricular activity. It seems that he and another guy are leaders of a Troop of teenage Girl Scouts, of which John's oldest daughter is a member. (Had I only known of such opportunities back in those days when I was Scoutmaster of a Troop of Boy Scouts!)

I've got two more stops to cover to wind up my report on the 1964 "Floating Reunion." In Greensburg, Ind., I had a chat and lunch with Jack Burnett. Jack manages a new Crown-Zellerbach plant which converts polyethylene film into bags, etc., and imprints them to the customer's needs. He and wife Eloise, a "cow girl" from the Idaho-Montana border country, have two daughters, aged 5 and 6.

After Tuck-Thayer, Jack worked for Maxon Construction in building a gaseous diffusion plant for the AEC at Oak Ridge. He was then with General Cable in New York, Perth Amboy, N. J., and Emeryville, Calif. He next joined a small plastics reprocessing firm in Richmond, Calif. After working for C-Z in San Leandro, Calif., in industrial engineering for the converting division, Jack helped to plan the plant which he now runs.

My final stop was in Columbus, Ohio with "Buz" and Jan Sawyer. Buz is in private ENT (translation: ear, nose, and throat) practice and is also an assistant professor of otolaryngology at Ohio State. The Sawyers have three children: Sandy, 11; Steve, 9: and Jay, 4. Also on hand for the evening were Jim and Micky Tobin. Jim practices law in Ohio's capital city. The Tobins have a brood of four: David, 9; Bruce, 7; Patty, 5; and Betsy, 3.

I won't be taking Reunion around tne country this year because we've got a real one going on back in Hanover. Don't forget the dates, June 17-20. I'll see you there!

Kodak's Al Karcher '51 and his lovely friends invite Al's classmates to stop in atthe New York World's Fair going to or coining from '51's 15th Reunion in June.

Secretary, 2107 Fidelity-Phila. Trust Bldg. Philadelphia 9, Penna.

Treasurer, 2422 Yista Terrace, Cincinnati 8, Ohio