1940
Hearing from former roommates is always a pleasure, so you can imagine my double joy to hear from two of mine within a few days of each other recently. Luckily we have kept in touch these last 27 years so it wasn't a matter of the lost is found, or even a sudden remembrance of a freshman year debt, but even after a couple of years of only Christmas cards it is good to gauge the changes and catch up with new details. One such letter, from Bill Duncan, chronicles the busy life he and Lois lead in Deerfield, Ill., from whence he trains in daily to the Chicago Loop and Pickands Mather & Company for whom he has worked since graduation. Having three school-age daughters was the big incentive for going onto the local school board a year and a half ago. Bill finds this extracurricular job very interesting but demanding, as I'm sure all of you who have so served can attest.
Another roommate heard from was JimKuhns who has pulled up stakes in Dayton where he was born and has moved to sunny California and a new job. He has gone from manufacturing pipe fittings to being a staff assistant to the vice president of Garrett Corporation somewhere in that Los Angeles megalopolis. He wrote of surfing each evening after work, which hardly anyone does in Dayton, and all in all, it seemed like a wise move. Since neither of these two characters got back for our 25th, I am serving notice on them right now - and your roommates, too—that the 30th will be here before you know it and they'd better be here, too!
It must have been that kind of a month - when roommates are rampant, I mean because Bud Czerny wrote from Tucson about seeing Ted Bovill, his ex-roomie when Ted and Josephine appeared in Arizona for the Western Orthopedic Association meetings. Bud was also anxiously awaiting the arrival of Lew and Janet Chipman, also a med school roommate, who were touring the west. Since Bud hadn't seen Lew in 20 years he was anxious to compare waist and hair lines. Let's keep this thing going and tell me how many of your roommates you've contacted — by mail or in person - lately.
Our Class has produced many competent and popular authors in many fields. Some of the ones who have recently come to light are Dick Glendinning, Louis Schlivek, and Page Smith. Dick's newest history book is "Men Who Opened the West," which he co-authored with Wyatt Blassingame. Sally, Dick's wife, who is a writer herself, calls it "a good honest book of American history for American youth." One of the chapters is about John Ledyard which gives the book another Big Green tinge as it traces the heroics and the aspirations of the men who moved westward to develop our country.
Lou's book, "Man in Metropolis," deals with the people in our presently bludgering cities and came about when Lou, a fine documentary photographer as well, started to translate into human and visual terms a study made by Harvard on the New York metropolitan area. He traces the history of a family who owned a brownstone house, which was being torn down across from the housing development Lou knows about. By chronicling the daily lives of a dozen or so people in the city he skillfully illumines what it is that makes a city - what binds it together and what drives it apart.
Page's book is also about cities and, as befits an historian, their place in history. He has called it "As a City Upon a Hill: the Town in American History." The American town is unique and Page has shown why it is and how it came to be. Like Dick, Page reaches back to his college environment for one of his case studies - Hartford, Vt., which is a neighbor of White River Junction. With Christmas staring you in the face, may I humbly suggest to any and all wives who might be reading this, you should purchase all three of these books for your husband, and I know you'd never make a bigger hit when he opens his stocking.
Joe Sudarsky has been getting his feet wet politically by being campaign chairman for a Connecticut State Senate hopeful. It would appear that Joe himself wouldn't have time for politics unless they can put more days in the week - he's been vice president of the West Hartford Town Council, director of the Red Cross, member of all the possible bar associations, president of the Loomis Parents Association, and a partner in an active law firm where he specializes in family law and probate work. He and Edith have two girls and a boy.
On the first of October Pat Timothy became a Brigadier General, which ranks him first among our military classmates, and was made assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Pat, although only with us for one year before transferring to West Point, has a host of friends in the Class who will be thrilled and proud of this fine honor. He has had a distinguished career, both here and abroad from World War II to the present, and has a chest full of medals to prove it, including the Distinguished Service Cross. Congratulations, Pat, and good luck with your new assignment.
Bill Harriman is still overseas, but at a new address. He is now found at Sinclair Somal Corporation, Box 16, Mogadiscio, Somali Republic, where he expects to discover the first oil in East Africa before too long. His two older sons are in the latter years of college in this country and both expect to be married before long.
Bobby Weil became a cover boy when "The Cotton Digest" pictured him on their magazine. He is a third generation cotton broker in Alabama and was president of the Cotton Shippers Association in 1964. LouisRose is a new member of the faculty at Belvidere School, located at Chelmsford, Mass., where he is teaching Russian. JackLittle is the chairman of the newly formed White Shield Oil and Gas Company, a producing company with oil wells in Texas and gas wells in West Virginia, and lots of money wells in New York. Jack also has an investment advisory service, so if you're still looking for a Christmas present look him up at his new offices at 76 Beaver Street in Big Town.
The shoe box is empty so make an early New Year's resolution to write Old Mac. Happy holidays to you all and keep in touch. See you here next month at the same spot.
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