1950
Those of us who journeyed to Harvard's stadium on October 22 can't say we didn't get our six bucks' worth of fine football. Unfortunately, however, the Crimson rooters got a fine bonus on their investment - even those who dealt out their fivespot and single to obtain standing room on the roof.
Maybe Bud MacDonald was up there too; he had every intention of being on hand as part of a visit to the east from San Rafael, Calif., but we didn't spot him. If he wasn't looking down from above, probably the highest point was conquered by Fizz Nichols, who reportedly was in the TV booth. The "rank and file" sat fairly high up, though — on the 5-yard line or thereabouts; HerbRay blew in from the Windy City, while other non-Bay Staters present included Sherm Clough, Newc Eldredge, Paul Canada, Howie Weston, and Ben Shaver. Had Ben and Gordon Pinkham not disbursed sours so liberally before the contest, your writer's vision might have taken in more countenances than it did, but among the local celebrities present were Bill Sapers, Bob and Don Ayres, Court Cross, Bob Burrill Bruce Parker, Skip Fauver, Jim Moore Harry Hall, Pete Reilly, and Joel Leavitt.
An October business trip to the west coast produced some newsworthy items. Leading the list are two birth announcements. The Pete Bucklins of Berkeley, Calif., welcomed aboard number two child and first daughter, Rhonda Weylene, on October 2, 1965 while the Bud MacDonalds checked in their fourth boy, Thomas Briggs, on February 15, 1966. Pete teaches marketing at the University of California; a tour of the campus with him provided ample evidence that Cal has a great number of students whose appearance and actions are far different from those usually read about in the newspapers, though some of the latter were very evident also; Pete's good wife Weylene candidly observed that the spot I'd arbitrarily selected to disembark on Berkeley soil en route to their home was in the LSD zone. Honestly, I didn't indulge... but rather had spent an earlier part of the day with Bud Bray in his Wells Fargo Bank office in Sunnyvale discussing the tight money situation and stuff like that. The Bray family, now five strong, thoroughly enjoy their Menlo Park environment. Also in the San Francisco area, specifically at quarters in the Presidio, I visited Phil and MariaGross and their four children; Phil is handling Army ROTC administration for an eight-state area.
Time problems prevented further personal visits with classmates, but by phone it was learned that the George F. Jewetls are leav- ing their city of San Francisco abode for "a place with acreage" in nearby Marin County, namely Skyland Way, Ross, Calif.; mail goes via P.O. Box 735.
Fritz offered me the sound advice - well, at least it saved money - to stay away from the North Beach tourist traps, but a much better event came up anyway, namely a great party thrown by Art Young '46 and his bride Jane, which was well attended by others who once frequented the Hanover Plain, including Pete Bogardus and Hank Mueller, both '51s. Whereas Art and Pete now claim California as their own, selling mutual funds and Polaroid cameras respectively, Hank was in town from Appleton, Wis., for a College of Surgeons meeting.
The more birth announcements, the better, says Jack Beatty, who's a manufacturers' rep in the toy business, selling swing sets and the like from the offices of Silvestri & Beatty, 1355 Market St., San Francisco. Also in the sales business near the Golden Gate is Arnie Oss, who handles a three-state area for the Northwest Paper Company. The Oss home is 3087 Gloria Terrace, Lafayette; we're pleased to advise that Arnie had substantially recovered from a lengthy ordeal with a complicated broken leg problem.
Another refugee from more inclement weather conditions is Palo Alto resident Dave Bull, Esq., who commendably fills the billet of Alumni Fund Class Regional Agent. Gene Carver was squiring some Metropolitan Life people around for Western Investments while I was in town, but when it comes to trying to shake more mortgage funds out of us already fully-committed lenders it's a 24-hour-a-day enterprise!
More on the California, Oregon, and Washington fellows next month; we'll let them bask in their sunshine or shake off the raindrops, as the case may be, while surveying other areas.
_ From the nation's capital, news has arrived of Clarke Nash's new casebook entitled "Federal Procurement Law," published by George Washington University. This 850-page volume now is in use at most law schools. Clarke is associate dean of the law center at George Washington, where he is responsible for graduate studies and research; he and Sandy live at 3318 45th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016.
Don Meenen has been promoted to manager of systems and programming for Merck, Sharp & Dohme. 306 Baker Road, Ambler, Pa., is home for the Meenens, who count seven heads at the dining table these days. Larry Batty has been appointed manager of the chemical process industries market development operation of General Electric's Silicone Products Department, Waterford, N.Y.; now that I apparently have gotten those words together in the proper sequence, let's try some for Dave Donahue, whose activities down Naugatuck, Conn., way are concerned with the latices and colloids sales group of U. S. Rubber Company's chemical division. This involves responsibility for the national coordination of carboxylated latex sales to the carpet and fabric coating industries. And here on the local scene, a mystery has been solved about the disappearance of Webb Gault's name as byline on the financial columns of the Hartford Courant - he's been named Sunday editor of the same paper.
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