1943

With the advent of fall, I have found that a monthly deadline is facing me for this column - an aspect of being class secretary that was kept hidden to the last. In fact, I find I am completely beholden to all of you to supply me with news for the column. So start sending it.

If there are any of you who, through inadvertance or otherwise, failed to get biographical sketches into the 25th Reunion Book, send them now and they will appear at least one a month in order of receipt. For starters, Lew English has written as follows:

I entered the Navy in September, '44 and after training in California and Norfolk, fought the Battle of Flatbush as engineering officer of a Scout Observation Service Unit based at Floyd Bennett Field. In 1944, I married a hometown (Melrose, Mass.) girl, Connie Whitcomb. After the war, we returned to Melrose in 1946, where we lived for 17 years, bringing up three great kids, Andy, Sue, and Betsey, and going the route of all parents via P.T.A., Cub Scouts, Campfire Girls, etc. In 1963, after watching Melrose outgrow its capacity, we moved to Westford, Mass., where we live in an old tavern (with all the attendant joys and headaches of country living) on four-plus acres.

After the service, I went to work for Factory Mutual Engineering Division as a fire insurance appraiser, and still am commuting to Norwood as assistant field supervisor.

The whole family skis, and our winter activities center around Crotched Mountain in Francestown, N. H., where we are secretary and charter members of a ski club, keeping very busy during the season. Sue has been an instructor in the ski school for two years, and both girls have done some racing. We enjoy working with kids, and are quite proud of our junior racing program, which takes a good deal of our time.

Future plans after the kids finish school lean to retiring to New Hampshire and travelling.

Last month's column noted the marriage of George Munroe, our Class's current Public Governor on the New York Stock Exchange, to Ellie Bunin. For those of you who have not had the good fortune to meet Ellie, turn to page 250 of the 25th Reunion Book and take Jane Coffin off George's knee, move Ellie over from the next picture, take thy pen, strike Bunin and write Munroe.

Speaking of the Book, your editors were appreciative of the comments received and we suggest a photographic supplement from the reunion itself. So, all of you amateur and professional photographers with pictures from " '43's Greatest Spree," send them on, preferably with an identification of who's who attached, and we'll try to get out a reunion supplement.

FALL REUNION. As Charlie Donovan pointed out in this column in past years, an informal reunion is held each fall in Hanover. This year it will be held the weekend of October 19, which will feature the Brown game. There has been an ever growing turnout for these informal reunions, so get in your ticket applications for the Brown game and send Paul Young (c/o the College) a check for $25.00 to hold a room reservation. Our rooms have usually been at the Hanover Inn or the Norwich Inn with latecomers ending up at the Green Lantern. Let's have this year's turnout the biggest yet.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Henry Perley, better known as Hank Eagle, wrote to apologize for missing his planned return for the 25th:

Sorry I missed it. I'd paid the tax, done the packing, and was looking forward. Unfortunately, when reunion rolled around, I was back in Maine with a rough Moosehead Lake on one side and a sick automobile on the other. If canoes hadn't become extinct, I might have handled the lake; but automobile is child of Great White Devil in Detroit, who is plotting to bankrupt or kill us all. (General Motors speak with forked tongue.) It seems there was a blown head gasket, and the thought of nursing it through the White Mountains - or even the Boundary Mountains of Maine - made me shudder. Reluctantly, I had to cancel.

Please give my regards to all the men I'd hoped to see and couldn't. If civilization hadn't advanced from the canoe to the automobile, I'd have been there.

On the medical side, Harry Bishop has sent on a notice that Frank West has been made chief of the Hahnemann Psychiatry Service at Philadelphia General Hospital. Also, Doc Fielding was a speaker earlier this year at Framingham State College - subject, "Sex Education." Having in mind Doc's M.C. job at reunion, that must have been some lecture!

Other information notes that Tom Gerber has been named editor and assistant publisher of the Concord (N. H.) Daily Monitor and Seth Lyon, one of Holyoke's most prominent lawyers, has been named a member of the Holyoke Gas and Electric Commission. Bob Bradford, associate professor of English at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., will be on sabbatical starting early next year involving study in New York and Boston. Since my understanding of a sabbatical is that it is equivalent to "rest and rehabilitation," I suspect Bob's friends in those two cities can expect calls from him.

Keep the news flowing!

Secretary, 1001 Conn. Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20036

Treasurer, 530 Lowell St. Lynnfield Center, Mass. 01940