1936
Gib Sykes, our Thirtieth Reunion Chairman, has had over one hundred replies from our Class. Just about fifty percent indicate they will be in Hanover on June 1316 to help make this the best reunion to date. Another 35 percent will probably attend. If we can maintain these percentages on the eighty percent yet to be heard from, there won't be much room on Tuck Mall for any other class. Don't delay in responding to the mail requests from our Reunion Committee. Indications are that there will be lots of children on hand - particularly the teens, and young adults. At the risk of repeating information already in TITHE, the following classmates have replied in the affirmative (most with wives and many with children): Gib Sykes, Norb Hofman, Ed Brooks, Harry Coronis, Vin Wentworth, Mac Hill, Joe Millimet, Dick Treadway, Paul Cleveland, Gene Tamburi, Hesty Hirst, Jim Stephens, Jack Morrison, Steve Stiles, Ray Reitman, Dean Gidney, Fred Wyman, Bill Macurda, Jim Tindle, Jim Tracy, Jess Gait, Jack Klauer, Phil Mclnnis, Brint Schorer, Jim Lancaster, Don Erion, Bill Ferguson, Ed Nilsson, Ross Woodbridge, Al Roberts, Bill Garlick, Hank Smith, Frank Curtis, Bud Horn, Joe Davis, Paul Guibord, Gil Balkam, Bud Soule, George Tillinghast, Barry Sullivan, Dick Dorrance, Paul Lynch, Brew Torrie, Bob Tyler, Pep Minte, Lou Benezet, Bill Hoffman, Forrest Thompson, Fred Babcock, Ed McGrath, Oliver Brown. And that's just the beginning!
Sam and Jane Morse have sent their regrets about reunion, but they have the most exciting excuse to date. Sam is the recipient of a Fulbright award to lecture at the "University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, for the school term starting February 8 and ending in October. His family will be with him and on the trip out have stopped at Hawaii; Tahiti and Fiji. At the conclusion of the school year they plan to complete their encirclement of the world by the way of Asia, the Near East, North Africa, and Europe. Sam has been granted a leave from his English professorship at Northeastern University in Boston. The second best excuse received for not being able to attend reunion came from Dave Putnam who will be sailing around the Aegean islands with his wife and children during those June days.
During this fall and winter many of our members have been busy on the speakers' rostrum. In Waterbury, Conn., Morrie Stein addressed a meeting of the Northwestern Connecticut Purchasing Agents Group on "Contract Purchasing." Morrie is president of the Torrington Supply Co. In Springfield, Mass., our treasurer, Jim Stephens, has been talking money out of his fellow citizens to make the current fund raising drive of the YMCA go over the top. Which reminds me to ask if you have sent Jim your class dues. I'm sure he'll credit it to the proper account. In October over in South Deerfield, Mass., Andy Schmidt, as president of the Pioneer Valley Dartmouth Club, was host to all Ivy League Clubs in the area for their annual Ivy Football League dinner. Perhaps Andy could borrow the Lambert trophy to display at the affair next year.
Marine Corps Brigadier General John G.Bouker assumed command of Camp Lejeune, N. C., in November. He was formerly director of the Marine Corps Reserve and served with the joint chiefs of staff. With the increased involvement of the Marines in Viet Nam, John's task in training our young men for survival in jungle warfare must be monumental.
Dr. Dan and Addie Barker's son, Bruce, recently announced his engagement to Margaret Hopkins of Fairfield, Conn. Margaret is a graduate of Green Mountain College. Bruce will graduate from Colby College this June and the wedding is planned for the summer.
Ken Wilson, chairman of the AVCO Corporation, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Sinclair Oil Corporation.
Louis T. Benezet, president of Claremont Graduate School and University Center in California, is spearheading a fund raising campaign which will collect $86 million over a seven-year period. This is to provide funds for the growth of the Claremont colleges, a cluster concept of education embracing Claremont Men's College, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, Scripps College, and the Claremont Graduate Center. Lou was instrumental in obtaining the initial grant of $5 million from the Ford Foundation which sparked the current fund drive. His goal is to make Claremont one of the prime learning centers in the country, eventually increasing the Claremont complex to ten institutions with the Graduate School and University Center providing the central services such as library and business offices.
During the rush of last-minute Christmas shopping and holiday confusion you might have missed an excellent article on Dante written by Frank Kapplcr which appeared in the Dec. 17 edition of LIFE. You should also read the biography of Frank, complete with picture, under the Editor's Notes in that issue. In his other editorial capacity with TITHE, the '36 Newsletter, he and coeditor, Dick Dorrance, have been combing their Kodak, Zeiss, and Leica snapshot files for those revealing pictures published in the last two issues. I talked to my lawyer, but he advised against an invasion of privacy suit. Oh, well, I really looked like that 34 years ago.
The King family including Donna King Conkling and her husband, Jim Conkling, along with their children and dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, etc. ended their current television series over Channel 7 on Jan. 1. However, I hope you had a chance to see them all on the Ed Sullivan Show on Jan. 2. Jim and Donna's youngest daughter was quite a scene stealer with her freckles and fine acting for a young lady of six or thereabout. She might be the Shirley Temple of the newest generation.
Check those college, high school and prep school graduation dates in June so you can make definite plans for reunion. A goodly number of us have commencement commitments - Don Robbins' son graduates from Dartmouth, Jerry King's boy from Duke, Mac Hill's son from Harvard, Tom Parker's daughter from Smith, my daughter from Green Mountain, Frank Kappler's son from St. Lawrence, and I'm sure you can add to this list. However, parents are used to unravelling such schedule conflicts for family planning. While mother is working on that, I'd appreciate some news or the latest family picture.
1936 Class ReunionHanover - June 13-15, 1966.
Pat Uhlmann '37 is pictured on his newhorse "Stagnant Water" just before thestart of a Thanksgiving Day Fox Hunt.
Secretary, 90 North Cedar Rd. Fairfield, Conn.
Treasurer, 139 Burbank Rd., Longmeadow 6, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
