1964
The great spring exodus from Hanover to the South is occurring just as the slump season is arriving. The students celebrated the first day of warmer weather last weekend with a giant snowball fight which enveloped the northern end of campus. Thad tried to calm the herd but was met with a barrage of airborne flak and wisely withdrew. Only the arrival of dusk dampened the spirits of the hundreds of participants. Snowball fighting will surely be added to the characteristics that comprise "ungentlemanly behavior."
As spring arrives so do engagement announcements. Roger Aaron writes that he and Miss Ginny Altman are getting married in August. Ginny graduated from Mount Holyoke last year. Rog is still at Yale Law School and will graduate this June. He writes that Bill Barnet is stationed in Munich, Germany, as a lieutenant in the Adjutant General Corps.
I got a letter from Ray Neff that is dated August 1966 - the Etna Post Office must really be getting slow. He reports that BillFisher was married to Miss Ellen Neugebauer of Hong Kong, British Crown Colony, in July. Ushers were Ray and Dune Hughes. Bill has graduated from Harvard Law School and is now pursuing a graduate program in Political Science at the University of Wiscossin. Other short notes: Richard Neely has completed his second year of law school at Yale. He spent the summer working in the law offices of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander, on Wall Street. Dave Hope and Len Green are in their third and final year at Harvard Law School. Larry Schwartz received his M.A. in education in June last year and is teaching history at Spring Valley (N. Y.) Senior High School. Gerry Shaye received his M.B.A. from Columbia last summer and will begin a tour of duty with the Peace Corps this year in Latin America. Ray writes that he is presently in his third year of graduate work at Harvard in Biostatistics and Computing.
Hugh Savage became engaged in January to Miss Susan Stark. Hugh is working for Metcalf and Eddy, engineers in Boston. In a change of pace, I have a notice here that Bob Mac Arthur presented a talk recently on "A Guitar Setting for Holy Communion." Bob explains how he became interested in the guitar in a religious setting at the Berkeley Divinity School where he is a senior seminarian.
Ivars Bemberis writes, "I'm currently getting an opportunity to practice my sanitary engineering at home - with the arrival of Scott Bemberis on December 21." Ivars and his wife Jeannette are now living in Augusta, Ga., while he is stationed at Fort Gordon with the 42nd Civil Affairs Company. After finishing his thesis at Thayer last summer Ivars and Jeannette toured the U.S. for six weeks visiting with Greggand Sue Campbell in Olmstead, Ohio; Sueand Paul Drenkow in Seattle; and Jan andLarry Laster in Cincinnati to mention a few '64's.
Don Mutterperl writes that his wife Nancy gave birth to a son - John Michael — on Jan. 4, 1967. John has already been registered as an applicant for the Class of 1988.
The subject of babies reminds me of a contest WKBW in Buffalo, N. Y., is conducting. I'm not sure of the exact name of the contest but the object is to be the parents of the last child born in 1967. Anyway, WKBW is announcing "plan ahead now" and admonishing "only one entry per person," etc.
I got a long letter from the Dartmouth contingent out at Michigan University organized by Dick Mandell but with a number of contributors. Ken Ritchie writes that he is in his final year at Michigan Law and plans upon graduation to take the Pennsylvania Law Boards and go into the Army. Tom Maddux is working his tail off getting his Ph.D. in history. John Lane arrived in Ann Arbor this semester. He spent two years in the Army in such places as the Caribbean and Vietnam. John is working for his M.B.A.
Secretary, Moose Mt., Etna, N. H.
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