1933
Bob Fox in his latest Newsletter told of plans for a '33 reunion the weekend of October 9 in Hanover (Penn game). I hope you will give serious thought to making plans to be on hand. Many, many members of our class haven't been in Hanover and this would be a wonderful opportunity to see what has been happening there and to renew old friendships.
I see Carl Rugen occasionally — and apropos my opening remarks — he said he would be in Whitefield, N. H., in June for a Travelers' convention and expected to spend a few days in Hanover which he had not seen in more than ten years! Carl and Jan are still city dwellers and live in Brooklyn where they have been many years. Carl is an insurance broker in the Travelers' office on Fifth Avenue.
Rep. John S. Monagan led a foreign affairs subcommittee trip to London, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, Prague, Budapest, Athens, Madrid, and Lisbon in November and December. They recommended a thorough review of East-West trade policies and felt expansion of trade in non-strategic goods could "serve the interests of our foreign policy." They also reported on their feeling on the subject of Khrushchev's removal from power. (This note courtesy Marcella Teahan.)
Dr. Eugene Kaplan is chief of pediatrics at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and has recently accepted the position of medical director of the Happy Hills Hospital, a special pediatric hospital for convalescent anl longterm medical care to children of Maryland. Gene is president of the Maryland Pediatric Society and Associate Professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
In addition to sending along the above information about Gene, Page Worthington writes that while having lunch with HankSmith in the House dining room, they had a chance to chat with Representatives JohnMonagan, Herm Schneebeli '30 and Gaylord Freeman '31. Hank is making good progress in settling in on his new job. Page also tells of an enjoyable evening spent with another of my old (and I mean old) water polo buddies, Manny Sprague, and of phone conversations and personal encounters with other Baltimore '33ers Charlie Schafer, Joe Searing,Ned Lord and Bob Swinehart. Sure appreciate your letters, Page.
Publication and my sources of information time lags do funny things. Last month I reported Gordon Ferry Hull 3rd's engagement and before my notes even arrived in "Hanover his marriage had taken place on Jan. 30 to Miss Barbara Kelly.
Dick Lyon was general counsel of the 1965 Inaugural Committee and chairman of its law and legislation committee.
Fran Harrington was elected a director of the Worcester Federal Savings and Loan Association.
George Rideout sent me a note telling me he also had a chance to see Hank Smith in Washington when he was down there attend- ing a Presidential Prayer Breakfast. Roger Babson founded and endowed the Open Church Foundation in 1940 to encourage the daily opening of churches across the nation for meditation and counseling. Among George's other responsibilities, he looks after the activities of this foundation. (I receive clippings almost weekly of newspaper reports of speeches that George makes all over the country and don't know how he finds the time or has the ambition.) Thanks, George, for taking the time to write me.
On a recent quickie trip to Worcester, I called the Erlandsons and spent the evening and night with them before heading back to Westfield. Norm is winding up the business of Lewis Shepherd Distributors, a manufacturers' agency business he has had for 25 years and now will be a "senior salesman" for Lewis Shepherd in the Boston area. Norm and Marg's daughter Peggy and her husband Peter Brightman and two children are at Tabor Academy where Peter teaches. Their daughter Dorothy is teaching French in Weston High School.
Having mentioned Page Worthington above, perhaps you would like to know a bit about him and his family. He and Marge were married in 1959. Marge's three sons Richard, Charles, and Tyler are 18, 16, and 12. Page is in charge of public relations and public affairs of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland. He has been active in many trade associations including Better Business Bureau of Baltimore, Association of Commerce, Baltimore Convention Bureau, Advertising Club, Baltimore Economic Development Commission. He has been President of Baltimore Kiwanis Club and on the Boards of Maryland Heart Association, Baltimore Health & Welfare Council, Baltimore Goodwill Industries, Community Chest, American Red Cross, Y.M.C.A. and Salvation Army. I have told you previously of his many Dartmouth responsibilities. Page is another real great citizen from the Class of '33!
Ginney and I had a surprise call one night from Holyoke, Mass., from the BillTeahans and the Jeff Davises who were having their own little '33 reunion. Sure was glad to hear later that Jeff and Bea arrived safely back in Middletown!
Let's dig deep for the Alumni Fund.
Robert Ryan '32, film and stage star, played the chief role of Abraham Lincoln inthe pageant commemorating the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's second inaugurationMarch 4, 1865. On the east steps of the U. S. Capitol he delivered the inaugural addresscontaining the famous passage, "With malice toward none, with charity for all,with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finishthe work we are in ...
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