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By the time you read this most of the 1967 football season will be behind us, but if it continues in the same pattern as the first two games it will have been a humdinger. If possible, there seems to me more spirit, more surprises, and more fun watching this year's team than ever. I hope a lot of you have had chances to see the team in action and some of our classmates in the stadiums.
Scotty Rogers sent me an interesting article he found in a Florida paper telling of the career of Dick Glendinning, author from Sarasota, whose writing has recently taken a new direction. Dick has discovered the lucrative juvenile field and has completed, or has in the works, four books in the "How They Lived" series about western settlers, circus people, trappers, and a lawyer-turned- illustrator of western life. I suppose this new clientele is even more exacting than the one for his first published article "What the College Man Should Wear" which he sold to McCall's Patterns while still an undergraduate.
£,J- auuuivi It was good to hear from Bill Blake after many years. His letter was written just before leaving for a six-month sabbatical in Europe. After some professional stuflf at London, Munich, Prague, and Budapest, he and Rosemary cruised the Greek Islands before settling into Athens for some writing. That's a prescription that I wish my doctor would order! Their boy is going to Reed which Bill can understand after living in Portland for eight years.
Another lucky guy planning a sabbatical, but of a year's duration, is Chet Garrison who is now visiting Professor in English Studies at the University of Stirling, which is a new school located between Glasgow and Edinburgh. On leave from the English Department of Oregon State University, Chet and his family will find living in a house built in 1583 next to a 13th century castle near to the ruins of a Roman camp quite different from life in Corvallis, Ore. 97331!
Pat Timothy, who must be the Class' highest ranking military officer (can anyone top Brigadier General?) is in direct charge of the 10,000 men at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. His students are captains getting advanced work, ROTC graduates get- ting basic courses, officer candidates, paratroopers, rangers, regular Army lieutenants, as well as various specialists in different fields. Pat has available for his use all of the most modern teaching techniques and equipment, and boasts of a high caliber faculty which turns out top level leaders for the finest army in the world today. We can all take pride in the dedication and knowledge Pat is bringing to this exacting post in his illustrious career.
Another of our military men, George Sheldon, retired as a colonel on August 31, after 26 years in the Army. His civilian duties are with Defense Marketing Service in Greenwich, Conn.
News of West Coast TV concerns two of our classmates. Mel Wax is now the director of public affairs for KQED, San Francisco's educational TV station. He will be "on camera" more now as he directs news programming, public affairs topics for special coverage, and broadcasts with Fred Friendly. Farther south, Jack Rourke continues to originate more TV shows than Nielsen can keep track of. If anybody wants a show produced, especially the ones that seem unworkable, Jack will take it on and end up with a smashing success. Jack and TV have been a steady duo since the early days but his talents first flowered on Los Angeles radio stations. He has been called king of the telethons for raising thousands of dollars for charities. His most recent coup has been in making a successful and popular TV personality out of Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles.
Harold Q. Hillman, better known to you and me as Hal, was .recently appointed manager of the Vehicle Division of General Motors Ltd. in London. His chief concern in this new job will be to promote the sales of Opel passenger cars throughout the United Kingdom. Since joining GM Overseas, in 1945, Hal has worked in Australia, Vene- zuela, and South Africa, all of which adds up to an interesting lot of assignments.
It was certainly good to get a nice newsy letter from Babs Bensinger (other wives, please note) saying Cfaud was too busy to write but they had decided it was time the clan was heard from. They are still having fun helping to run a ski area in the Poconos named "Camelback." Chud is vice president of the corporation and slips away from his thriving law practice in Stroudsburg as frequently as possible to check on things. The oldest of their five children, Charlie, graduated last June from St. Lawrence about the same time that Susan graduated from Vermont College. The other three girls are still in high school and brightening the home scene. Babs reports that Chud's open heart surgery last year was completely successful and he looks and feels better than ever.
It was sad to read in Perry Weston's recent note that Charlie Goodwin died the end of September. A complete obituary will be found in next month's MAGAZINE.
Hugh Schwarz has left the palms of Florida for the pines of Georgia where he is now director of corporate planning for the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. They had taken over Hugh's company, Minute Maid Orange Juice, a few years back.
There are eleven sons of our classmates in this year's freshman class. It sometimes gives you a jolt to meet these boys on the campus, because you can so easily see their old man of 31 years ago on the same spot. The classmates who now have an interest in the Class of 1971 are Ken Elliott, Sox Freeman, Russ Hanchette, Dick Mather, Jack Moody, Sid Phillips, Charlie Pinderhughes, Earle Reingold, Dick Seidman, Bud Swenson, and Ike Weed. Hope to see you all here in February for Freshman Father's weekend.
That's it for this month. Keep in touch so we can all get together at this page next month.
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