1928

Esther Campion, Jim's wife, died April 21 at the U. S. Military Hospital in Seville, Spain, after having been flown there the previous day in a military helicopter. She and Jim had spent two weeks salmon fishing in Ireland, and were traveling in Spain when she was suddenly taken ill with what was later diagnosed as infectious hepatitis.

Esther had made a hit with everyone in Hanover following her marriage to Jim in 1960, and the Church of Christ was crowded with friends at the funeral services on April 28. She was past president of the Woman's Club and active in the affairs of the Church of Christ and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. Our Class will always remember her as the gracious hostess for our picnic at our last reunion.

We have all been saddened also by the passing of three classmates recently: AlCarpenter, Bill Goudy, and Sam Sammis. Our loss is reported more completely in the In Memoriam section. The Class offers its deepest sympathy to their families, and to Jim Campion and his family.

Earl Fain still maintains a home and office in Dallas, but says he does not work very hard at the oil producing business any more. He spends half his time on an old plantation, which he bought three years ago, at Yemassee, S. C. He raises cattle and pine trees, shoots duck, dove and quail, fishes every now and then, and rides horseback. His wife died 20 years ago and he has not remarried. He brought up two sons: Earl '55, is with Dominick & Dominick in New York, Jim is in Dallas after two years in Europe and is just entering the real estate business.

At its gathering at Swampscott, Mass., last month the American Association for Public Opinion Research presented its 1966 AAPOR Award to Hadley Cantril for exceptionally distinguished achievement. The citation read: In many respects he is the complete social scientist, having contributed equally to the theory of psychology, the method of opinion research, and the understanding of international tensions.

"As psychologist he showed us how social perceptions could be understood with opinion methods — as opinion analyst he showed us that the most extreme political tensions were within the range of study — as international scholar he was the first to demonstrate how large-scale opinion surveys could be used to further the cause of peace."

The Green Giant Company announced this month the appointment of Craw Pollock as senior vice president. Craw joined the company in 1960 and is head of its marketing division.

I Roy Myers gave his famous "Romance of Words" lecture in the senior and junior high schools in Troy, April 18 and stayed with us the night before. He left April 30 from New York on the "S.S. Oceanic" for another Grand Tour of Europe, this time as leader of a group.

Bill Williams called the other day from Philadelphia for Al Lathrop's address in San Francisco. Bill and Cyrene are going to California and want to be sure to see Al, with whom Bill roomed for four years in Hanover.

Lew Beers, after 35 years with N. Y. Telephone in Manhattan, has been put in charge of public telephone sales and development for Westchester and Rockland Counties. "From city to farm - like putting an old race horse out to pasture," he says, "but funny part is I'm busier than ever in my suburban assignment."

Wayne Van Orman, like many of us, has the travel bug. He and his wife go to Europe every year. They tried Turkey last year. They leave May 29 on a month's trip to Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Budapest, and Vienna. Van has a busy law practice in New York, and sees Court Keller more often than any other classmate. His son is a medical specialist in Boston and his daughter and son-in-law (Robert F. Brown) are on the faculty at Wheaton College.

Mary Kruming and James Gordon Douglas Jr. were married March 24 in Palm Beach and are living at 4 East 66th St., New York.

Glad to get a note from Feet Thurston, who lives in Wakefield, Mass., and has his office in Andover. He is a partner in Stewart, Thurston & Co., textile engineers. He says last year was pretty ho-hum except for a trip to Haiti on business and a short vacation in Antigua in November.

Cal Billings sends the good news that his younger son, Sam, has been accepted for the Class of 1970 at Dartmouth. He has been at Governor Dummer Academy for three years. Cal's older son, Will, reports to the Navy's Great Lakes Training Center on August 1.

Maxfieid Parrish's father died last month at the age of 95. His lush vistas and fairytale castles made him one of the most popular artists of the first three decades of the century.

The permanent '28 population of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood increased by 300% last month with the arrival of Chris Norman, former vice president of Standard & Poors Corp., New York City; GeorgeFrench, former works manager of GlobeUnion Inc., Milwaukee, manufacturers of automobile batteries; and Merrill Hodsdon, who had been with New York Telephone since 1929, most recently as manager of the 14th Street office. The "old residenter" in the area is Ham Hagar.

Another participant of this mass migration to the sunny south is Walt McKee, who has lived in Ann Arbor, Mich., for the past ten years. Walt's new address is Box 908, Marathon, Fla., which makes him a fairly close neighbor of Bud McKenney and his Theatre of the Sea. Walt has been the Regional Director for Latin America for the Ford Motor Co. - we won't know whether he has retired or not until he writes us.

The annual spring outing of the Class of '28 will be held June 10 at the St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, N. Y., thanks to an invitation extended by Bill Heep.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

Class Agent, Cove Circle, Piney Point, Marion, Mass. 02738