1943

Top news this month is the election of George Munroe to president, Phelps Dodge Corp., New York, giant international mining and metal manufacturing company. George is one of two Rhodes Scholars in this class (the other, Jerry Blanchet). While attending Harvard Law, he played professional basketball in the NBA with Boston and St. Louis. Later he was a lawyer in the office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany and a justice of the United States Court of Restitution of the Allied High Commission for Germany. He's been with Phelps Dodge since 1958. Son Taylor is preparing for Marine Corps and son Ralph attends Woodberry Forest School. Chairman of dynamic 1943, George has been very active in class and alumni affairs, carries a tennis racquet when he travels and carries his success with the modesty that has endeared him to his friends. This distinguished achievement really deserves congratulations from us all.

Letters from the Shetland Company in Salem could either mean I won a pony or a fine Shetland floor polisher, but they really mean that Bob Lappin is sending me notes classmates sometimes enclose with their class dues. If you haven't sent The Lap your $7.50 for membership in this group, do it. He'll start writing you notes.... Jim Donahue, quiet redhead from White River, is with Ford's Lincoln Mercury Division on the West Coast as General Field Manager. Mary and he have raised James, John, Susan, and Thomas with James being a member of Dartmouth '70. The Donahues live in Edmonds, Wash., somehow found the route east to take a Caribbean tour this past summer.... The 107th Worcester Music Festival in May included Relly Raffman's "Jubilate Deo," written for chorus and brass choir. Guest performers included Eileen Farrell, Isaac Stern, and Mary Costa. ... Chet Solez, following his career with the Veterans Administration, has moved from Avoca, N. Y., to Providence as head Cardiologist at the VA Hospital. Janet and he live on the station. Chet is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Children are Kim, who followed her mother at Oberlin, and Wanda.

Bob Gray, busy Washington attorney, Naval Reserve pilot, and now New Hampshire farm owner, strikes out confidently in his new role as editor, 1943 25th Year Class Book, planned for that great reunion a year and a half from now. He's requested from each classmate a short autobiographical sketch (500 words), photographs of family, college and reunion shots, memorabilia, and editorial/productions suggestions. Tough project. Here's your chance for immortality. Let's help him at Room 501, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, Washington 20036.

Brad Copeland has been associate pathologist at the New England Deaconess Hospital since 1951. Buffie and he live in Brookline. Recently Brad was honored with appointment to the Pathology Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.

If it rains and it pours, it must be Morton's Salt. And Morton means Geddes Carrington, promoted to president, Morton Quality Products Division of Morton International. Haven't heard much from Geddes since he was a member of the Ledyard Canoe Club and a letterman on the track team. Wonder if he knows that Dan Peterkin, top man at Morton, once was president of Howard Aircraft, builder of a colorful WWn Navy plane.

Back in the First Naval District, Boston, after a long tour in Teheran, Fred Wallis is househunting and planning to retire from the USN in June, 1967 after 25 years. He reports seeing Jim Wells.

Good to hear from Henry Perley, remembered as Hank Eagle, who has had a career as schoolteacher, writer/editor, ad man, and currently writer/editor in East Hartford, Conn. Hank lived five years in Cincinnati and Grand Rapids, recommends giving the midwest back to anyone but the Indians. In Maine he smelled an historical rat, started researching the Revolution, now has an opus ready for a publisher. Doc Preece gave him a valuable research assist even though it took the British division of Britannica to do it. They were old English Honors students. In between, Hank has managed a hunting camp, traveled in a canoe up lost rivers - and he says nothing much has happened really.

By this writing John Reps must be back at Ithaca after his Fulbright fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies in Holland. He researched a book on Dutch city and regional planning plus lecturing. John is professor, department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell's College of Architecture. His honors include Guggenheim and Eisenhower fellowships.

See you in Hanover on November 4-5; Columbia.

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