1955

This is the last call for the Fabulous Fifty-Five Tenth Reunion. The dates are June 18-20 at Hanover and we hope that by the time you read this you'll have already made your plans to join over 200 classmates and their wives for a wild weekend of fun. cocktail parties, picnics, dances, and reminiscing.

A reminder that the cost is just $50 per couple, $3O for stags and advance payment to Dr. Richard Hastings, Norwich, Vt., would help in the committee's pre-planning and pre-paying.

Last call, so send in your reservation card and check before you forget it. A final pre-reunion newsletter later this month will fill you all in on the final details and will include a special memo to wives on what to bring and wear.

For those of you who believe Web Wilde, in Nassau these past three years, has wangled the ultimate in living, a personal investigation indicates you may be right. Web and his delightful Welsh wife, Rosemarie, whom he met in Nassau and married just over a year ago, live in a pleasant, modern apartment a stone's throw from the beach, where daily swims in the crystal-clear water are in order most of the year. If they're too tired for the two-minute walk to the beach, a fifteen-second stroll will reach the apartment building's swimming pool. The balmy air has brought out previously-unknown artistic talents in Web; for his apartment he has produced a striking impressionistic oil painting of a native sailing vessel and a mural of a clown's face, imaginatively and creatively done with various-colored postage stamps received in Web's office from all over the world. Despite these splendid accomplishments, Web denies that he will become a permanent Nassau artist-in-residence.

Web is assistant treasurer of Fram Filter International, with an office exotically located above the Carib Bar five minutes' drive from home. This arrangement seems to be superior to commuting for an hour by train, bus, or subway. Web is the company's only officer in Nassau, which is the firm's headquarters for tax reasons, and he holds the fort with the help of three office girls, carrying on correspondence with Fram Filter licensees and sales agents in many foreign countries. Web figures he may be in Nassau another year or two before being transferred.

Colin and Lee Hunt have been annual visitors to Nassau, and Web reports they've had quite an influence on the Wildes' way of life. For instance, Colin discovered that the choke in Web's Volkswagen didn't work because it had no cable, and so Rosemarie now opens the back end every morning and manually operates the choke so Web can start the car. Auto repairs are often a problem, says Web, and there are other shortcomings: last winter was severe, with temperatures dropping to the 50s, and the stores have limited varieties of clothing and household goods, so an occasional shopping trip to Fort Lauderdale is in order. However, considering there's no income tax, no capital gains tax, and Fram Filter, like other American companies, pays an extra allowance for the high cost of living there, the Wildes seem to be tolerably well situated in Nassau.

Bob Wool rarely seeks publicity in this column, but a chat with Huntington Hartford on his Paradise Island just off Nassau confirms that Bob is still in New York running the Inter-American Committee, Inc., which he founded. Bob formerly worked for Mr. Hartford as editor and associate publisher of Show magazine.

And speaking of Show, the magazine's former West Coast correspondent, Lou Miano, is now back in New York as a production associate at ABC-TV.

Elsewhere on the job front, Dick Blodgett was promoted by International Business Machines from financial services manager at the San Jose, Calif., laboratory, to a similar post at the systems development laboratory in Poughkeepsie. Dick, who graduated from Tuck, assists the lab manager in financial control of the laboratory and is responsible for the lab's financial operations.

Newell Stultz, an assistant professor at Northwestern University outside Chicago, will shift next fall to Brown University, where he'll be the expert on Africa. He recently answered questions about South Africa on a Chicago television interview program, and is writing a book on the Transkei, a South African area which has been given limited native self-government, as co-author with noted African authority Gwendolyn Carter, formerly at Smith and now head of the African studies program at Northwestern.

Doctors here and there: Dick Flagg, a Navy lieutenant, has retreated from Honolulu to San Leandro, Calif. John Forline is in the Bronx and Bill Wesselhoeft is in Norwood, Mass. Ralph Miller has completed his Army stint of research in Washington, D. C., and now is in Boston.

Joe Eigner, who's an assistant professor of microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, received a $40,000 grant for research in genetics. Bernie Carpenter, a research fellow in medicine and pathology at Harvard Medical School, returned to home territory in February to speak to the Everett, Mass., Kiwanis Club on "The Impact of Current Medical Research on the Practice of Medicine in the Future."

Joe Herring, vicar of the Episcopalian Church of the Transfiguration in Towaco, N. J., has taken a rather unusual public stand for a clergyman. In New Jersey, where the minimum drinking age is 21, there's been considerable fretting about young people crossing into New York to drink because liquor is legal there at 18. New Jersey officials have been urging New York to boost its limit to 21 also, but Joe asserts that instead New Jersey should lower its drinking age - all the way to 16. In an interview with the Newark Evening News, Joe said much teen-age drinking stems from a "prohibitionist mentality" of many people. In Europe, he said, alcohol is common and is served with meals, but "we on the other hand have made it a forbidden fruit, so youngsters at the rebellious age go out and get drunk, more or less as a status symbol." Joe admitted in the interview that some of his parishioners think his opinion is "way out."

Dick Barr married Nicole Savoye, February 13 in New York. She attended Swiss and French schools and Katharine Gibbs secretarial school in New York. The Barrs are living in New York, where Dick is president of Richard Barr Woollens, Inc.

Jack Hodgson is teaching at Yale, and among the class's numerous lawyers, HankMaretz is in New Haven and Ross Shumaker is in Shorewood, Wis,

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