1940
Hanover has been blessed with the smiling faces of a large group of returning classmates during the past month. They have come on business and they have come on pleasure and it's been wonderful to see so many of them and their young-looking wives.
Sam Williams, with Lorraine, came up from the Garden State to impart his experiences as a successful newsletter editor to some other struggling editors. Sam has had a lot of names from Fred Porter indicating reunion plans so if you want to check up on whether your freshman roommate will be here next June, or the guy down the hall who borrowed Nugget money from you one night, write Fred with your own acceptance and check up on the other two also.
The Alumni Council a week later was the prime mover for getting Stu MacPhail here from Minneapolis and Don Rainie up from Concord. As he has for the past three January meetings of the Council, Stu came a day early so we could have a day on the ski slopes together. I guess we lucked out on the weather again this year and Suicide 6 was never better with packed powder be- neath and an indigo sky above. Stu was getting ready for a family ski vacation in Montana in March when he and Janet will show the four boys how it should be done.
Ben Bacon and Dick Bowman and Genie and Lee came into town on the next wave to mix a lot of business with a little pleasure. They are respectively the publisher and the editor of the 25-year book and were in town to collect some information from the archives on recalcitrant classmates who hadn't returned Jim Scott's questionnaire. You'd better make sure to send in the latest word on yourself unless you want to trust to luck and their interpretations of what makes you tick. Ben and Dick and I had a few runs at the Dartmouth Skiway so I was able to pick up a few more pointers from these experts.
The next weekend brought Loomie andScotty Rogers and Mevie and Eb Cockley all the way from Cleveland to join Gina andDiz de Sieyes, Patsy and Jack Little and Lee and Bob Lake. We caught up to them several times and talked reunion plans at a fast clip at every opportunity. This is bound to be the best planned reunion in history! All of the friends whom I've mentioned above are definitely coming back to Hanover next June and if you can smell a bargain you'll be here too.
Glenn Miller Band Returning
If for no other reason you should plan to be here in order to dance to the Glenn Miller Orchestra again just like we did at our Junior Prom. Yes! that's right! CreightHolden was put in charge of the Saturday night banquet and he has gone all out to make this feature of the weekend an event unparalleled in reunion history. He has signed up the 16-piece contingent who will play all the good old songs just as they did for us back in 1939, and following our banquet in Alumni Hall (which will be full of surprises too) we'll roll back the carpets and have four hours of "Tuxedo Junction and "String of Pearls" and the other goodies you've been longing for again while you were learning the mashed potato from your daughter in the living room. You'd better mark that date with Ray MacKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra on your calendar right now. And don't forget your best gal- there'll be a moon too!
Maybe you read in the paper too that BobRaclin has become a general partner in Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis to head their Chicago commodity department. He has had similar responsibilities with Bache out in the Windy City. Johnny O'Shea is combining merchandising with banking over in Laconia where he was recently elected vice president of the Laconia National Bank. He will continue on as president of O'Shea's Department Store. Another merchandising man with a big, new job is Herbie Landsman w hom Federated Department Stores has just made its executive vice president for divisional services. This title will put him in control of store planning, area and economic research, divisional research and planning, electronic data processing, and engineering and development methods.
Another new executive vice president is Bill Rearden who will be in charge of the Reinsurance Division of Towers, Perrin, Forster and Crosby in the city of Brotherly Love. For a year he has been president of a subsidiary company and a director of TPF/C. Will and Mary with their two children live in nearby Villanova.
Sid Harrington, with about 19,000 logged hours of flying time, pilots a 707 half-way around the world and return every other week. His usual pattern includes stops in Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Ankara, Tehran, and Beirut before heading back. And you think that you've got problems getting from Greenwich to New York! Connie and Sid have three daughters who are starting to paper a room with blue ribbons won in various horse shows.
Art Ostrander has written he hopes to be here in June although it is a bit uncertain in timing since he's looking for a business connection - the "right spot" to take the place of the one he resigned last month.
Atwell Smith must have found the right spot for himself because he has just been appointed director of industrial engineering of Giffels and Rossetti, a Detroit-based architectural and engineering firm. He joined the firm in 1946 and for the past seven years has been a project manager. Bud and Elizabeth live in Birmingham with their three children, Patricia, Stephen, and Elizabeth.
If you are around New York City on March 4 hie yourself over to the Dartmouth Club in the Commodore Hotel for the stag dinner Hugh Dryfoos has scheduled for the class. Most of the local stalwarts will be there and hopefully enough of the traveling salesmen with a '40 sticker on their luggage will learn of it and swell the ranks.
The Suffolk County Medical Society has a new president in the person of Dr. RobertUnangst who will direct the affairs of the 810 members for the next year. Bob is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is on the staff of Huntington Hospital.
Executive V-P's seem to be the "in thing" this month. I've just gotten the word that Bill Reid was upped to that lofty pinnacle by the Torrington Company. He was elected a director in 1959 and has most recently been a vice president in charge of the needle and international divisions.
The responses continue to come in containing promises to enter items in the 1940 Hobby and Craft Show and the list so far indicates this will be a first-class affair. If you have something your hands and talents have fashioned, whether it hangs or drapes or just sits, let me know how much space to allocate to it. You'll be amazed and proud of our classmates when you see the collection. How about your own efforts?
That's all for this month. Keep in touch.
Secretary, 5 North Balch St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 64 North Main St., Concord, N. H. 03301
