1941
The October issue of class notes carried a brief announcement of our first annual fall reunion scheduled for the Lake Club in Spofford, N. H., on Princeton weekend. Unfortunately, printing or mailing delays resulted in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE being delivered on the Monday following Princeton weekend. To any of you who would like to have attended and didn't get the word by mail or word of mouth, all we can do is apologize and promise to try to be earlier with the announcement next year.
Despite the lateness of the announcements, which we know reduced the attendance, the reunion was a magnificent success. The weatherman cooperated to give us three of the finest fall days imaginable in New Hampshire. The foliage cooperated by being at peak color on the day of the game. Our hosts at the Lake Club cooperated by providing us with wonderful facilities for the weekend. Finally, of course, Princeton cooperated by losing, 31-13.
Those who got to Spofford included Jane and Court Young, Shirley and Phil Hall, Leta and George Kruger, Betty and Dick Darby, Kathy and Bruce Friedlich, Janet and Norm Locke, Polly and Dick Hill, Barbara and Monk Larson, Sue and Mouse Hall, Nancy and Marston Gibbs, and Caryl and Dutch Cotton. Snuffy Smith told us that over 60 men of the class had tickets for the game and we know that some of those who missed the party did so because they had made prior plans. It is suspected that some of the group also cancelled out after they found we had only rush seats. To any who did this I can only say that they made a mistake, because by planning to arrive a little early the group was able to get excellent high seats in the end bleachers, and saw a great deal more of the action than was possible from the reserve seats allotted to the class two years ago. Also we got to see the pre-game warm ups and rituals which many of us never had seen before.
A weekend reunion of this sort is bound to result in many stories, some of which are probably best left unrecorded. Others, however, should be noted. While few, if any, of the group were up and about to attest to this, it has been reported on reasonably good authority that Court Young went swimming in his undershorts at the crack of dawn on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. When last seen heading west on Sunday, Court seemed none the worse for the experience. It was also learned that Mouse Hall has been doing a little "moonlighting" from his job with the advertising agency, and is now qualified to serve as mate on a charter fishing vessel operating in the Long Island Sound area. Polly and Dick Hill were late in arriving on Friday night because Dick was the featured speaker at the 36th New England Bank Management Conference in Boston on Friday afternoon. Dick's address was covered by all of the Boston news media, and Polly reports that Dick has not lost his capacity to blush furiously when the occasion arises, for while preparing to leave for Spofford, he saw himself on television and turned beet red standing alone in his own house. Specific details are lacking, but on the return bus trip from Hanover, Nancy and Marty Gibbs were observed to have a first class tug of war over a jug of whiskey sours. Ultimately peace was restored and they appeared to share the jug on a mutually agreeable basis.
Others from the Class who were seen in or around the stadium in Princeton Saturday included the Billings, Jack Bowe, Bruce Brown, Ez Crowley, Harry Douty, Hank Frechette, Russ Garfield, Jordan Gotshall, Don Hanks, Bob Harvey, Ed Marlette, Bill Steel, Don Stillman, Ed Stone, Red Taft, Al Van Wie, Dick Whittier and, of course, Snuffy Smith. To any who are omitted from the above list, your Secretary can only apologize. In a crowd of 16,000 it is a little difficult to find everybody.
Turning now from pleasure to business, early in September it was announced that Chuck Bolté had been named vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this capacity, he will have all responsibility, under the president, for the Endowment's programs. Following graduation, Chuck volunteered for the British Army and fought in the African campaign. After retirement from the Army in 1943, he became a military writer and broadcaster for the U. S. Office of War Information and in 1944 helped organize the American Veterans Committee of which he was first national chairman. In 1947 he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a B.Litt. degree in Social Studies. In 1949 he joined the staff of the United States Mission to the United Nations as an advisor on Security Council and General Assembly affairs. In 1952 he was named executive secretary of the American Book Publishers Council. He joined the Viking Press as vice president in 1956, was elected a director in 1960, and executive vice president in 1961, the position he held until joining the Carnegie Endowment. Chuck is a director or trustee of several organizations including the New World Foundation, Operation Crossroads Africa, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America. He is the author of two books, "The New Veteran," published in 1945, and "The Price of Peace: A Plan for Disarmament," published in 1956. He has also contributed articles to many periodicals. Chuck and his wife Mary and their three children live in Riverside, Conn.
Dr. Jerry Donohue was appointed professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania effective September 1, 1966. Jerry is on leave from Pennsylvania during the 1966-67 academic year during which time he will be working at the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. After graduation he received his M.A. degree in Chemistry from Dartmouth in 1943 and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1947. In 1959-60 he was senior postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He served as senior research fellow at Cal. Tech. from 1947-52 and as a Guggenheim Fellow at Cambridge University in 1952 and 1953. He was appointed assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California in 1953, became an associate professor in 1954, Professor in 1958, and in 1963 was named chairman of the department, serving in this capacity until his present appointment. Jerry is married and has two children.
The following, I am sure, will be covered more fully elsewhere in the current issue, but those of you who attended Tuck School and have not already heard the news will, I am sure, be saddened to learn that Dean Herluf Olsen '22 died suddenly of a heart attack in mid-September. Those of us who got to see him and talk with him at the Tuck School luncheon during reunion were all impressed with how well he looked, and I know we will all remember the few moments that we were privileged to spend with him that day.
Correction: The October notes reported the arrival of Sue and Mouse Hall's latest tax exemption as June 30, 1966. In the interests of accurate reporting, I must tell you that Mary Evelyn was born on July 30, 1966.
Following the practice commenced last month, there are listed below the address changes received from Hanover: Arnold W. Bartlett, 19 Robin Road, Plainfield, Conn. 06374; Harrison Butterworth, Phillips Lane, Route 4, Athens, Ga. 30601; George A. Guest, 232 Park Street, New Canaan, Conn. 06840; J. Alan Jasper, 33 Randall Avenue, Ocean Park, Me. 04063; Morton McGinley, 304 First National Bank Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80902; Winthrop L. Manley, 3889 Wayne Court, Riverside, Calif. 92504; James P. Maxwell, Route 1, Box 87A, Carbondale, Colo. 81623.
If the deadline for this issue had not come after the Princeton game, it is likely that these notes would have .been among the shortest on record. The bottom of the barrel has been reached. Please, please, gentlemen, send me something, anything!
Lorraine and Ed O'Brien '43 brought all the little O'Briens to Alumni College.
Secretary, P. O. Box 547, Nashua, N. H. 03060
Treasurer, Steeple Chase Rd., Devon, Pa. 19333
