1951
'51 OUT!!!
The cry rings out in the ear of memory as the plane takes off from Keene. As it gains altitude, you can see a front moving across Vermont. The next thing you know, you can't see a damned thing – except snow – out the window. The plane circles, and you think that you're going back to Keene. The pilot comes through on the PA. Yes, the ceiling is good enough to land at Lebanon; but the course has to be changed. Then you remember that a DC-3 has no radar and begin to suspect that he circled and changed course to avoid ending up unexpectedly on a mountainside.
The plane starts its descent. Finally you see the ground below and the Connecticut River. You get off into a snowstorm. You hear once again the crunch of snow — instead of the squish of slush. The next morning you learn that it was 20° below that night.
There won't be any snow, and the flying and driving will be easier, in June, June 17-20 to be exact. It will be late spring or early summer in Hanover, depending upon your definition of terms. It will be Reunion time; and '49, '50, and '51 will be there.
Can you hear the call ringing through the dorm - '51 OUT!!! As of February 5, 74 classmates had and had charged out of their rooms with a resounding "Yes." 116 more were thinking about it with a "Maybe." Almost 400 classmates hadn't responded at all. Let's get on the stick. We've got to show those upperclassmen ('49's and '50's) that '51 has "gear."
Beginning with this issue and through the June column, classmates who have said they are definitely coming will have their names printed in ALL CAPITALS in news items and those who have said maybe will have their last names only appear in capitals.
While in Hanover recently, I had the pleasure of visiting FRANK, Anne, and four junior-size SMALLWOODS in their new home in Norwich. Framed in their living room picture window is Ascutney towering over the valley. Frank's new book, a result of his Faculty Fellowship year, had just been published by Bobbs-Merrill. Its title: "Greater London: The Politics of Metropolitan Reform." Price: $2.95 paperback.
Our classmates apparently aren't being sufficiently PR conscious. The clipping service this month yielded only three items. Worcester, Mass., physician Ed LANDAU has been named an associate of the American College of Physicians. A specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology, Harvard M.D. Ed has done research work under the Worcester Foundation of Experimental Biology.
Hibernia National Bank of New Orleans has named Hunter White a vice president and manager of its oil and gas department. A Tulane law grad, Hunter was a vice president and director of South Shore Oil and Development Co. before joining the Hibernia staff. He is a member of the Petroleum Club of New Orleans and a Director of Delacroix Corp., the Lake Charles Naval Stores, and the American Creosote Works.
Dick Eigner and Beverly Israel, whose engagement we announced a few months back, were married in Seattle on December 26. On February 8, the Philadelphia airport was fogged in, so I had the time to read the New York Times with more than usual thoroughness while I cooled my heels waiting to take off. On an inside page I encountered the familiar face of BERL BERNHARD, who was the subject of that day's Times' personality profile. It seems that Berl just can't keep his fingers out of the civil rights pie. He's now executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which will send 150 volunteer lawyers to Mississippi to represent civil rights workers.
This is where this column would end this month but for your response to my recent postcard mailing designed to increase the size of that select group of 360 classmates whose names have appeared in this column since last Reunion. I like to send postcard acknowledgments of news received and will do so as soon as I can determine when your item should appear.
Jim BONNAR reports from California that he is Manager, Estimating and Special Process Production for Hexcel Products, Inc. in Berkeley. His company is the world's largest manufacturer of "honeycomb" (I thought bees were), primarily for use in the aerospace industry. Jim and wife Dolor have an adopted son, Steve, 9, and a daughter, Karen, 19 months.
Al Folger is an artist, he paints. He has two daughters, Martha, 14, and Anne, 11. Lcdr. Dick Ellis (from Mass.) is a career Navy man. He is now Project Officer, Supply Policy Division, at the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept., in Washington. He and wife Barbara have two children, Kimberly, 8, and Pamela, 5.
Bachelor Jay WOLF is New York head of the actors' department of Artists Agency Corporation, fourth or fifth largest talent agency in the country. In addition to meeting and tending to the personal needs of "show biz" people, Jay reads scripts, finds jobs in theatre, television and films for clients, negotiates contracts, attends rehearsals and out-of-town tryouts, etc. His job also takes him to Europe to see London shows and acquire English clients.
NATE JACOBSON is a solo practitioner of law in Maplewood, N. J., holding a degree from Rutgers. Wife Leila taught art in a junior high school until Nate was admitted to the bar. Now she spends her time raising their two daughters: Sara, 6½, and Rachel. 5. Nate is vice-president of Temple Beth El in South Orange and a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Jewish Education Association of Essex County, as well as counsel for the Maplewood Board of Adjustment.
Kit Fuller is Product Manager with the Birds Eye Division of General Foods. He, wife Carolyn, and daughters Katie, 4, and Pam, 2. have just moved into a house in New' York's Westchester County. If you want something to wash down that food, try Brace Foster, Advertising and Sales Promotion Manager for Taylor Wine Co. Brace and wife Gillian have two children, Graham, 3½ and Deirdre. 1½.
Bob BYALL is manager of the Rocky River Office and an assistant secretary of the Broadview Savings and Loan Co. in Cleveland. He and wife Mitzi recently added a boy, Jimmy, to their family of three girls, Lvnne, 11; Robin, 9; and Lisa, 6.
In addition to selling general insurance, Jim Lowell is a state representative from Canton and a vocal member of the Appropriations Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly. Reapportionment will shortly cause his seat to disappear. Jim wife Barbara also have a brood of lour: Jim Ill, 11; Mark, 9; Jennifer, 6; and Jeffrey, 3.
BOB LARIGAN bis in group insurance with Marsh and McLennan, Inc., insurance brokers. He and wife Judith have three boys: Mark, 8; Christopher, 7; and James, 5. KayAdams is a project engineer doing research and development in paper coatings for International Paper Co. He and wife D' have three children: Bill, 12; Kit, 11; and Jay, 6.
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