1948

Once again fall is approaching and I hope all of you enjoyed your summer holidays either at home or at the seashore or mountains. We spent a week in New Hampshire this year. During our stay, we traveled from the top of Mt. Washington to the beach of Kennebunkport, and even spent a day in Hanover. We found the town as busy as Winter Carnival weekend with all of the various programs offered by the college in full swing coupled with the many visitors passing through the town.

During the summer, Commander RoyWilson was transferred by the Navy to the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Md., after having been stationed at the Norfolk Naval Base. Roy and Frannie have a son, Harry, twelve and a daughter Carolyn, ten. Now that they are stationed in the East, I hope they can make reunion next spring as we haven't seen the Wilsons since the tenth.

Walt and Mary Cairns moved to another house in Marblehead this summer. Walt is still with Arthur D. Little, Inc. as a consultant and from what I hear one of the most active sailors on the North Shore.

After working at corporate headquarters of Cummins Engine Company in Indiana for the past year, Ray Richard has moved to London, England, to work with the company's English subsidiary. England should be an interesting experience for the Richards after having lived in many diverse parts of the U. S.

The Chase Funds, a mutual fund organization, has transferred Vice President EdMcLaughlin to Los Angeles. Ed, Joan and their three sons are becoming accustomed to the California way of life in Los Angeles suburb, Sherman Oaks. I'm sure Ed finds California a growing market for mutual funds and not too unpleasant a place to live.

During the summer, Ray Howland was appointed a trustee of the University of New Hampshire, the first of our classmates to receive an honor of this type as far as I know. Ray lives in Strathem, N. H., where he raises registered Black Angus on his Evergreen Farm. Ray is a vice president of the Easterns Tool and Stamping Company, in Saugus, Mass., and president of Frontier Development Company. He and Virginia have three children, Carol, twenty, who is now married, Jeffrey, fifteen and Cynthia, thirteen.

Among several newly appointed divisional vice presidents in the marketing organization of International Paper Company was Lloyd Krumm. Lloyd has been moving up the line in the company very rapidly in the last few years and we look forward to seeing him continue the same progress as time goes by.

Anybody need a dishwashing machine? Well just write Dave Meeker in Troy, Ohio, and then wait for your Kitchen Aid and the bill. Dave is treasurer and was recently elected a director of Hobart Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of kitchen equipment including Kitchen Aid and a fine company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Not to be repetitious, I also believe Dave is the first '48 to become a member of the Board of Directors of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. If this bit of random information is fallacious, I hope the wounded one will please yell. Dave and Helen have two sons, Dave and George, and two daughters, Laura and Susan.

Also, doing a good job of keeping track of the money is Gil Shattuck who was recently named assistant controller for Warner Brothers, Slimwear-Lingerie division in Bridgeport, Conn. Gil and Sissi have two children and live in Woodbridge.

Early next year Phil viereck will publish his fourth book, a history of early exploration along the Atlantic Coast. For his third book "The Summer I Was Lost," illustrated as are all his books by his wife, Ellen, Phil received the Thomas A. Edison Foundation National Mass Media Award "for special excellence in contributing to the character development of children." Phil has just been appointed principal of a three-school elementary complex in Bennington, Vt. He is also a director of the 1966 Ford Foundation Summer Project in Bennington.

Marvin Axelrod is achieving fame on the links again. His picture was prominently displayed in the Boston Herald this summer as the leader in the Belmont Country Club member-guest tournament. From the article, Marv was pretty tough this summer. I wish I would have had an opportunity to play with him.

Because of his reputation as a quality control expert and position as vice president of the American Society of Quality Control Engineers, Shant Chebookian, assistant to the vice president of Polaroid, was chosen to be the feature speaker at the Rhode Island section of the American Society of Quality Control last spring. Shant and Rosanne live in Waltham with their two children Richard, thirteen, and Sama, nine.

About four months ago, Bill Matthews was transferred by General Motors from their plant in Bristol, Conn., where they produce ball bearings, to another of their facilities in Huron, Ohio. Bill had been a technical supervisor at the plant in Connecticut. He and Mary have four children.

I received notification Gordon Winkler and his family have returned to their home at Glencoe, Ill., after a stay of about two years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Gordon was working for the U. S. Information Service.

After the change in regime in Cuba, we lost track of our classmate Jose Suarez for several years. We have at last learned that Jose and his family escaped the oppression in their homeland and are now living in Miami, Fla. Jose is a professor of Marine biology.

The General Electric Company has moved Jim Matoon from Boston to New York where Jim is a field sales manager. He, Nancy and their two sons are living in Wyckoff, N. J.

Unfortunately, as the years go by, the task of reporting the passing of our classmates will occur more frequently. You will find in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent issue obituaries of Marvin Hader and Hugh Kerwin. Marv died suddenly of a heart attack in June and Hugh died in April in St. Louis after a long illness.

In order to close on a more pleasant note, I hope the Big Green is still undeflated by the time this arrives and I see some of you at one of the games.

Forty-niners Ann and Tom Swartz withBob and Joyce Pridham enjoyed the NewJersey surf and sand flies this summer.

Secretary, 110 Old Farm Rd Pleasantville, N. Y. 10570

Treasurer, 2 Garlock St., Canajoharie, N. Y. 13317