1930
Our Chicago class meeting, scheduled for December 1 and 2 at the University Club, is being enthusiastically received by those living in the Midwest as well as a considerable number in the East who have always had a travel advantage for our New York and Boston meetings. As Fred Seibner has explained in his guest news letter, a class meeting will be held at 3:30 on Friday followed by cocktails and dinner. On Saturday morning, Fred will host a breakfast to be followed by an opportunity to continue discussion of business matters. Wives are cordially invited to join us for dinner and breakfast. It's not too early to indicate your intent to be present, so drop a line to me, to Fred at Falmouth Foreside, Me., or to Newell Rumpf, Box 755, Chicago. Newell will be handling the arrangements there.
Closer on the horizon is the tailgate party after the Princeton game on November 25. Rally around Shaw Cole at the ROTC building south of the stadium. The Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia will sponsor this pregame get-together. Jim Mitchell will be glad to arrange an after game dinner at the Peacock Inn. If you are interested, let him know promptly at 69 Kensington Avenue, Bronxville, N. Y. Paul Poehler was unable to make the Woodstock meeting for an unusual reason. He and Mary were off to Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Hawaii with the Continental Squares, a square dance group of 96 people. Walt Dresser, the squire of Calais, remarks that he "saw Nelson's art exhibit at Seal Harbor but I'm going to vote for him just the same." Herm Sander's three daughters are respectively Martha married to Lt. Stephen Martin USN, Mary, a senior at Cornell, and Nancy, a sophomore at UNH. Lt. Col. Clark Deniiey, who will retire next January reports that Bill Doran recently entertained a group of classmates at his home in Alexandria. This was a follow-up to a similar affair at the Jaspersens in June in Washington. Bud French had a pleasant visit with Len Schmitz in Charlottesville in September and was low net in the Virginia Apple Open.
Ted Wolf is conducting seminars in Europe on maintenance stores and inventories and both Betty and he find that being paid for traveling is an ideal arrangement. FredScribner generated a lot of fan mail after his first venture into news letter writing. You tell me how he finds the time what with serving the Republican National Committee and spending ten days as a delegate from Maine for the National Convention of the Episcopal Church in Seattle. He must be running for something. Jack Dobson takes exception to Fred's thesis that the incidence of illness among class members is related to a weariness from struggling to make both ends meet in the 30's. Rather he feels it's the corporate struggle of the 60's that just doesn't permit us to relax or engage in any more violent exercise than golf or to work a three or four hour day more befitting our years. Paul Duback of Milwaukee sent a congratulatory note on the news letter. We hope that he and Natalie will join us for the Chicago meeting. Peter Schuster, Brown '66, is a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Mildred and Ed have moved to Flower Hill in Roslyn, N. Y. Peter Keene, Bob's son, will join his father in the photography business as soon as he completes his military service a few months from now. G?ne Zagat's daughter, Cornelia, who graduated from Smith, was married in September to Timothy Eland, a Brown graduate now working for Young and Rubicam. Alex andCaroline McFarland toured the Canadian Rockies this summer and visited with Chuckand Dee-Dee Faye in San Francisco.
Harry Dunning will serve as chairman of the Major Gifts Committee of the Third Century Fund. Harry Casler, after a long hitch in Saigon, has returned to the Washington area. Second son, Sandy, will be at school in Salisbury, Conn. Bob Bottome spent the month of June in Europe on a business trip and then joined Margot in Spain for a vacation tour. He describes things in Caracas as hectic and busy. BobChittim is regional manager for Chase Brass, handling five branches from Minneapolis to St. Louis. Bud French had a nice note from Paul Maguire, my roommate for freshman and sophomore years. He and Mary are living in Miami Beach.
Ira Thurmond owner, Red Rock Ranch, Elk City, Okla., had this to report to Bud. "Naturally my first love lies in my native state Oklahoma U., but I know you know that 'ole Datmuth is running a nose-to-nose close second. I made a lot of good friends while I was there and you were one of them. I've often wanted to go back and retrace some of my tracks, but the expense and distance have always been in my way. I'm not exactly a pauper, but every time I get in the mood it seems like we need some new machinery or a couple of high powered bulls or something in my line of operations. I eat good, sleep good, hunt and fish all I want, and worry not! After I left THE BIG GREEN I led a rather hectic scholastic career. I led off with O. U., then USC, back to O. U., then to Hill's Business College in Okla. City, and finally wound up in Cumberland University Law School at Lebanon, Tenn. I tapered this spree off by learning to fly and getting my commercial pilot's ticket. I had a wonderful opportunity to get in on the ground floor with TWA, but the open spaces beckoned and I dropped all that.
"I've been here in Elk City since '33. Of course my family helped settle this neck of the woods and I've more or less called this home since I was born. I married in November '39, have one grown daughter, and two grandsons."
Ed Meyers is traffic manager of Fromm & Sichel, now resident in the Marina district of San Francisco after moving from New York about two years ago.
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