1928
If you live in the East or can get there in May, don't miss the annual '2B golf outing and dinner which will be held at the Ridgewood, N. J., Country Club on Friday, May 21. Mark the date on your calendar! We are invited back thanks to Chuck Bruder, now in Europe on a business trip. Reunion chairman Hank Walker, who thinks of everything, will even provide transportation from New York if you let him know in time. His address is 20 East 74th St., New York.
This is the time of year when it's nice to get away from the snow (yes, it is snowing tonight in Troy), so Mary and I are looking forward to two weeks in Puerto Rico. A card from John and Peggy Phillips says they like Naples, Florida. ... Craig andEleanor Haines are vacationing at Cambridge Beach, Bermuda. ... Rick and HildaRickenbaugh hope to fly from Denver to Eleuthera for a bit of sun. Ann Rickenbaugh Kelsey is back in Washington after three years in Damascus; her husband, Andy '50, is with the State Department. Hilda's big interest is raising collies and golf.
Al and Virginia Carpenter of Basking Ridge, N. J., are working on plans for a house they will build soon in Stuart, Florida, where they hope to retire in 1966 (or 1968 at the latest). Al went with Johns Manville right after graduation and is now assistant controller.
After ten years of soft living in apartments, Johnny Waters bought a Cape Cod cottage in Glastonbury, Conn., and is "breaking my back doing-it-yourselfing." He is an account executive with the Peck-Adams Advertising Agency in Hartford.
Phil MacKown has moved from Florida to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia; Phil is a representative of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft.
Don Dodd says he feels about a lap at least behind the majority if not all of our class, with a son just 12 and a daughter who is a sophomore at Wellesley. You've got lots of company, Don — Ed Flanders' son is only three, Don Norris' youngest daughter is eight, Bert Stern's daughter is six, and so on.
Harry Jewett, a scientist at the Brook-haven National Lab, is a railroad buff (any others in the class?). With a banker friend from New London, who also prefers trains to planes, he spent a weekend in January riding a freight train from New London, Conn., to White River Junction and back, with the approval of the Central Vermont Railway. They missed seeing Jack Phelan at the Hanover Inn as he had gone to the hockey game. Harry enjoyed viewing operations from the locomotive and the caboose.
Bill Williams' son, Bill Jr., is the author of a musical comedy which is being performed April 7, 8 and 9 by the Weston Friendly Society in Weston, Mass. Three years ago the Society produced "On the Fence," another Bill Williams musical, which was a success financially as well as artistically. Gross receipts from four performances were $19,000 with a net profit of $6,000 donated to Waltham Hospital. Bill is with the First National Bank of Boston, having started there in 1957 after graduating from Kenyon College.
Bert Stern has a new job, with International Hotel Supply Co., a division of Sheraton Corp. of America. His hobby is attending lectures at Harvard on Philosophy. His daughter is in second grade and his son, Louis, is assistant professor of marketing at Ohio State, and has just been appointed by the President to serve as principal economist on a food distribution study in Washington, D. C.
Heinie Heitman died Feb. 12 of pneumonia, after having suffered for months with liver trouble. A notice will be found in the In Memoriam section.
"It's so exciting I can hardly write" was the start of a letter from our Peace Corps son, Scott '64, written on arrival at Namsche, Nepal, a Sherpa village at the base of Mt. Everest. "I made the trip alone from Chainpur in seven days — walking from six a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — a total of 126 miles over several 12,000-ft. passes. Since I had no porter, I had to carry some emergency food but mostly I lived off the land. Around 9 a.m. I'd stop in. a Sherpa house and share their morning meal. Then at night I'd do the same thing. Several times I slept out with porters on the trail. Tomorrow I go to Tengboche Monastery (14,000 ft.), closer to Everest, for two days." It was comforting to receive a letter from Kathmandu, saying he had reached there safely. He is teaching English in a high school in Nepal, but took advantage of a school holiday.
Paul and Jane Amiable were given a big surprise party by their friends in Danbury, Conn., on their 25th wedding anniversary Feb. 6. Inasmuch as I was Paul's best man, I was in on the deal and had the pleasure of talking to them during the party. Their eldest daughter, Jane, Skidmore '62, is a Systems Engineer with I.B.M. working out of the Bridgeport office. Elizabeth, 19, a sophomore at Colorado Women's College at Denver, has been winning gold medals on the ski slopes and has her eye on the next Olympics.
Our sympathy goes to Sam Dennis, whose wife, Elin Tier Dennis, died Feb. 22 at the Washington, D. C., Hospital Center of a cerebral hemorrhage. Elin was a native of Gardner, Mass., and was graduated from Smith.
Lew and Anita Beers have announced the engagement of their daughter, Sue, to Michael Sherwood, Yale '64, now at Stanford Law School. Sue attended Cedar Crest College and is with Newsweek Magazine in New York.
Penny Carr, daughter of Wally and NatalieCarr, was married Feb. 27 to Geoffrey Wheeler of Yarmouthport, Mass. Penny graduated from Green Mountain College and studied in Paris. Jeff graduated from U.C.L.A. and is an editor of "Construction Equipment and Materials."
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haserot '10, whoreport Joe's keen interest in the College.
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