1942

There will be plenty to talk about at our 25th Reunion, so kindly refrain from withholding, for that exciting weekend, vital statistics and word of major accomplishment or triumph. As a matter of fact, the program will permit little time for idle chit chat — which leaves this column as a most effective vehicle for spreading good news to an interested audience.

My corps of informants has managed a minimum of production: Bert Anger has been elected export manager of Nicholson File Company and vice president of Nicholson Export Company, a subsidiary. Bert attended the University of Zurich and became a market specialist for Nicholson in 1954, specializing in sales transactions to Europe. Company headquarters are located at Prov- idence, R. I. Roy Corruthers has been elected vice president of CBK Industries, Inc., of Kansas City. This is a holding company with interests in apparel manufacturing, printing, and building materials. Harry Edgcomb has announced his candidacy for membership on the Short Hills, N. J., Board of Education. Harry has resided in the community for 35 years. Three Edgcomb children have attended or are attending the public schools of the district.

Bob and Margaret Blood forwarded a copy of their Christmas greetings which took the form of a letter - a most informative and interesting one - including contributions by their four children. Portions are quoted for your enlightenment:

The discovery of a malignant tumor in October was swiftly followed by two operations - the second lasting six hours. Though the operations were successful (with the added precaution of three months of daily cobalt radiation treatments), the ordeal brought Margaret and me face to face with death. Living now seems like a resurrection of the body.

These past few years, my major concerns have been expressed through Quaker channels. Summers we have lectured at an alumni camp (where we learned to sail), directed a Friends Service Committee Family Camp at Pine Mountain, Ky.; and in 1966 will teach marriage and family relations at Pendle Hill (July 3-24). Inspired by a week-long return to Japan last September for an international family seminar, I hope to spend my next sabbatical (1967-8) teaching at International Christian University.

Teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has been halved by a three-year tour of duty as associate chairman of the department of Sociology. My strategic position has not prevented the department from dropping my functional marriage-preparation course (too interdisciplinary and too practical) but the Education School (and perhaps Psychology) will provide new auspices and the University promises increased financial support in response to heavy student demand. I hope your crises end as happily."

Margaret adds: "Bob's sickness made us more aware of the need to love and enjoy life and people now and not to put it off until tomorrow. Because we're at the age when the responsibilities which suit our individual capabilities tend to pull us too often into different directions (geographically only), David Mace speaks to me when he warns: 'I would ask you to remember that your time is, after all, your life. As the moments tick by... you take time to work and time to play, time to eat and time to sleep, time for personal interests and time for social responsibilities. Surely, in all this wealth of time which is yours, you can take time to keep in love.'"

These are truly words to think about. We trust that Bob's recovery has been rapid and complete, and look forward to seeing the the Bloods in Hanover in the spring of 1967.

Harry Jacobs joined up with Bache & Co. in New York in 1946 upon his return from World War II service as an Army Air Corps pilot. Last month he was elected to the post of Executive Vice President of that large investment firm. Harry is the former president of the Investment Association of New York, a former governor of the Bond Club, a governor of the Association of Stock Exchange Firms, a governor of the Investment Bankers Association, and a trustee and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Greenburgh Savings Bank.

Several '42s recently spent a pleasant weekend in Hanover on the occasion of Freshman Fathers weekend. Among those seen were Hank Coleman, Bob F. Wilson, Phil Moon, Ed Hodgson, Al Bisson, Ernie Grinnell, Ed Spiegel, Jack Williams, and Harry Jacobs.

Our roving Hanover reporter also reports that on a recent trip he saw several classmates: Dick Silver, returning to Akron after visiting his son at Kimball Union Academy; Eustis "Pat" Reily, southern gentleman, who is up to his ears developing a new household chemical for the New Orleans firm which bears his name; Bill Lain and Dr.Bob Williams, Houston lawyer and Baylor Medical School professor of microbiology respectively; and Sid Patterson, vice president of Patterson Steel in Tulsa. All are healthy and hoping to make our 25th in 1967.

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