1949
Happy New Year to all you Forty-Niners, wherever you may be from Lima to Labrador, regardless of the time, zone, or climate. Here there are eight football games scheduled over a three-day period, and if the tube stays lit we have the makings for a broken home. I have just finished a delicious pressed ham and cheese sandwich my better half slid under the door of the study and I hope to dash off a little class commentary between halves of the Cotton Bowl. I am sure that all this must be a little tough on Ann, but the sponsors are spending a fortune to telecast those games and it would be unfair to them not to watch. Besides, she'll have the children for three days, and they should be a great comfort to her. We were invited to a very nice New Year's Eve party last night at the home of Walt Lindenthal '50, and although there weren't any classmates present we did see Joe Scandore '47, Pete Bixby '51, and Bill Scher '56. Joe keeps in good shape playing paddle tennis during the winter months and still looks like he could belt a homer or two.
Class Chairman Bob Alden and I exchanged season's greetings on the phone last week, and he gave me a few tidbits. Samand Barbara Killner had a holiday blast up in New Canaan, Conn. Among those he saw were Gordon and Doris Thomas, Bud andLois Hughes, and Jay and Ellie Urstadt. The roads iced up while the guests were juicing up, and by the time they wanted to leave the front porch was as forbidding as the Hanover ski jump. Bob and Persis are avid skiers so this probably was a good warm up for their trip to Aspen in mid March. Incidentally, they introduced Bob and DonnaMuenzberg to a friend with a posh ski chalet near Stratton, Vt., and next thing you know old Muenzberg rents it for a week of skiing family style.
I want to thank all of you who sent holiday geetings. It was great hearing from you. It was a double treat receiving two cards from John and Joan Sweetland and to know they were that enthusiastic about our latest reunion. I noted a change of address for them to 4521 Sedum Lane, Edina, Minn. Would like to fill you in further if they'll make with the intelligenz.
A very nice letter came in from Bob Zieser telling us all how much he appreciated his recent selection for the Pick Axe Award and, at the same time, saying how sorry he was not to be able to make the trip to Hanover for the acceptance in October. Pat has been a mighty sick girl and travel for any real distance has been simply out of the question. As Bob puts it, "1965 just wasn't our year, medically, so '66 has to be an improvement." We sincerely wish it. He rattled off a lot of classmates from whom he had heard at Christmas but wondered about a few he no longer heard from, such as Warren Ornstein, Terry Maphis, and ArtWallace. You fellows could end all this wondering with a nice letter. How about it? Sum and Nonie Arneson write from Harwich on Cape Cod that their young son Richard is ready for the grammar school track team after a broken leg, and their beautiful blonde daughter Lee is a straight A student, reading Pop's old Dartmouth textbooks for the sheer mental exercise of it all. I wonder if Sum is still tooting on that trumpet and complaining that his lip is shot? The best music from his room came from his great collection of jazz records. Sum has been battling poor health for years; yet he stays right in there punching. He'd love to hear from his many friends, I know.
Handsome Jack Ransom didn't step over the transom or even through the Christmas wreath, but he and Sallie did send a card with a note of good cheer from IBM country, as did their Westchester neighbors Marcia and Dick Higley, the Urstadts, and the Huntingtons. New Canaan, Conn., neighbors Doris and Gordon Thomas and Ann andHerb Gramstaff also sent greetings from the nutmeg state. Our pals along the Jersey shore also were heard from - Mary andTom McManus, Cal and Denise Titus, and Paul and Ginny Bloodsworth. What a nice part of the country they chose!! It is the biggest growth area in our state today for a very good reason.
Barbara and Bob "Rocket" Reed sent a bright new quip of "Cheers Dears" from the oil center of Tulsa. Jody and King Ball sent a photo of their good looking group from Augusta, Me. Sue and Bert Rodman and Chesta and Dick Banfield selected attractive cards, as did the two Pauls, Erwin and Denecke.
The cards with nice long notes are just what we like. Lew Geer sent us his new address of 4389 Westover Drive, Orchard Lake, Mich. Dee and Lew are getting settled in a new home built to accommodate four growing youngsters. He heard the Dartmouth football games over WPON out of Detroit, I assume, and he feels that the organizer behind this project deserves a big pat on the back. Let the organizer consider his back patted.
Carolyn and "Zeke" Thurlow apologize for missing all the great Green activity of the past few years but let us in on the good news that a promotion at IBM will bring them back from Memphis to their native Chicago area. Zeke's old Joliet High School chum Bob Jackson is apparently already back in Chicago from Wausau, Wis., and enjoying his new work but darned if he'll tell us what it is. I saw him in New York in the spring, but he missed reunion. He hopes to make the next one, and we hope he and a lot of you others do too, for you missed a really great show. Incidentally, how's about some of you travelers coming by our New York office when you are in New York the way Bob did? Bob Pridham and I are with the Thomas Textile Company at 112 West 34th Street, New York City. We are right across the street from Macy's. Give us a ring when you are in town and fill us in on the latest news. Better yet, set aside time for a little lunch, and I'll nail you for that news.
Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N. J. 07078
Treasurer, 530 East 86th St., New York, N. Y. 10028
