1949
Hardly seems possible but here we are toasting one another with the bubbly stuff once again, congratulating our fat friends on their business promotions, and kissing their Spying wives on looking so damned well in spite of a marathon existence with numerous horrendous offspring. Yes, we've turned still another page on the calendar, and it truly seems like only yesterday when we were filling our trays in freshman commons, listening to the peal of the Baker Tower bells on V-J night, and watching the ski jump at our first Winter Carnival. We have a sharp recollection of so many happy days as well as moments of scholastic anguish that it just doesn't seem possible that we are entering our eighteenth year out until we take on our son and his friends in a half court basketball game or shovel out the driveway after a near blizzard. Only then do we grudgingly acknowledge the fact that we have "matured" somewhat and that most of us have compounded the situation by not staying in the best of shape. The strongest recommendation I can give you for the new year is to put yourself back on the track to physical fitness. It wears me out just watching my wife do all those Canadian Air Force exercises, but she tells me that she really feels better for them. And if she wouldn't insist on stoking our kids with so much delicious rich food I might be a resistance fighter at the dinner table myself instead of a fat and forty blob.
Inclined to sit and disenchanted with the taste of Metrecal it is my delight to welcome you into the new year with a melange of totally unrelated bits of information about your classmates. After working this news beat for almost two years I am still pleading for news from each and all of you. I don't care where you live or what you do, whether you're well heeled or down at the heel. Make a resolution to let your classmates in on your latest doings.
Take a tip from Quent Kopp or SladeGorton, both West Coasters who air mailed us a few frothy facts. Quent furnishes us news of the birth of a second son, Bradley Jay Kopp on last September 18. Quent and his wife Kaye also have a son Shepard, now two, and the boys are already applicants for admission to the classes of 1986 and 1988 respectively. The Kopps recently bought a house right in San Francisco at 450 38th Avenue and would love to see or hear from their many friends. Their latest class directory was left back at the tent during reunion so they are hoping I can scrounge up another. I'm not so sure that the fellow who made the elephant disappear on Garry Moore's show last night didn't have an easier task to perform. You will recall the fact that Quent was our first Gold Pick Axe award winner on the strength of his extraordinary activity span, both in New York on the Waterfront Commission and in San Francisco in a very active law practice. He is a prime mover in the Democratic party and was co-chairman of Pierre Salinger's campaign for U.S. Senator.
Slade Gorton follows up the latest news with the information that he is now Majority Leader in the State House of Representatives, thanks to a good redistricting bill and a kind electorate.
In a very detailed news release from the University of Colorado we learn that George Day has been named the recipient of the first George Fullmer Reynolds Fellowship. George has been an instructor in the English department and has been working on his doctorate since 1962. His major area of study has been in American literature, and his dissertation is on Thomas Wolfe and Yardis Fisher. George and his wife Ann have three children, and she works for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
Marsh Belding, of whom we recently wrote, a Chartered Life Underwriter out of Grand Rapids now associated with the Kenneth Mouw General Agency, spent a week back in New England at a seminar conducted by the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont in Montpelier on employee benefit plans. While Marsh was enjoying Vermont, Doug Thomson was returning to the campus at Harvard Business School for their sixteen-week executive development program.
The National Committee for an effective Congress has a new executive director. He is our own Russ Hemenway. Russ has a long and varied background of public and political service extending back to several years in the U.S. Foreign Service as well as the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson. The Committee was founded in 1948 and endorses liberal candidates for Congress. Handsome Russ always was an effective speaker even in his undergraduate days. In fact, he did a pretty good job of imitating Billy Eckstine in his vocal rendition of "Sophisticated Lady." And speaking of the ladies, he always managed to have a local beauty on his arm while the rest of us were resigned to shuffling cards for our only heart action.
Now to our annual moment of joy, the thoughtful Christmas cards which you send us from all corners of this great land of ours, some with scribbly little messages of long standing friendship, an occasional one with news of great pith and moment. Take the one from Doris and Gordon Thomas, for example. The card itself reads, "Rooms for the Fall Class Reunion weekend are scarce for '67. Reserve with me now." This is good information and I warned all of you last month that you had better contact him soon with your reservations. But out drops, a smaller card tucked inside and I am already telling my wife that we've been invited to another Yuletide festive when I begin to read. The card says, "A new littlest angel for Christmas." You guessed right!!' Her name is Alix Elizabeth, and she was born on December 12. Congratulations to the proud parents.
A nice card came in from Sumner andName Arneson out of Harwich, Mass. I know I speak for the entire class in wishing this fine couple all things good in 1967. Jack Avery isn't even a classmate but he's, a '50 roommate and friend of many of you. I'm exercising an unexplored prerogative by thanking him for his card and the handsome family portrait. The Dick Bandfields and the Paul Bloodsworths both sent colorful cards, as did Clarke and Jane Church from snowy Canada. It was good to hear from rug merchant Paul Denecke out Minneapolis way, as well as Paul Erwin and his attractive English bride Cathy. We miss out on the letter F but pick up a note of cheer from Ann and Herb Gramstorff, as well as a suede-covered beauty from our old. friends Ed and Betty Grant up Worcester way. Barb and Jim Huntington sent along their greetings, as did the Tom McManns family from the Jersey shore where he is the new president of the Dartmouth Club of Monmouth County. Also heard from were Donna and Bob Muenzberg, only a stone's throw from that great colonial reproduction,. Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. Ribbon tycoon Claude Offray and his lovely Gloria sent a most attractive card from Summit,. N. J. Bob and Joyce Pridham, Sally andJack Ronsom, Barbara and Bob Reed, the Sweetlands, and the Art Wallaces, all fellow Chi Phis sent greetings, Reed with a newsy letter I shall outline next month and Sweetland with a splendid family photograph I'll; also run. What would an alphabet be without a Zeiser to complete it and close the book on such a fine collection of good wishes from the good guys and gals.
Rounding out the news of the month are the following flash items: The Marshfield, Wis., medical clinic has been fortunate to add our Dr. Kenneth Dickson to its staff; Ken is a pathologist who has been in residence at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for the past two years. Ken and Mary's new address is 811 Adler Road. Al Quirk, Deputy Director of Admissions at Dartmouth, was named chairman for the state of New Hampshire of the American College Personnel Association, a 6000-member national professional group. Dick O'Brien has been appointed district marketing manager for Everpress in Atlanta. Ray Grinold, living in Wallingford, Conn., just completed his work as chairman of the Industrial Employees Division of the local United Fund appeal. Ray is operations manager for the Wallingford Steel Company. Happy New Year, you all!!
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