1932

This is being written on October 4, at which time the gist of your secretary's report, spelled p-l-a-i-n-t, is that the month just past not only has not been productive of contributions to this column, but has been damned unproductive. I shall get the postcard system going forthwith, but those who are already minded to share any items of news, comment, reflection, or opinion with your classmates are asked not to wait to be asked.

What correspondence there has been has accompanied class dues checks to JackPyles, and for a good bit of that you are referred to Mark Short's current newsletter. However, Mark has generously shared the wealth by sending on to me a part of what Jack forwarded to him. Thus I am able to report, on behalf of the Hon. MiltonAlpert, Judge of the Court of Claims, Albany, that his son Bruce, class of '69 at Hanover, has moved with bride Marianne to Sachem Village for senior year and will be applying to medical schools - his father accordingly soliciting our prayers. Milt writes of adjusting to his new judicial career: "Right now I'm working on the last decision for trials conducted during the first half of year. So I ought to be finished before I start my trial assignments in September. I find the career of a judge to be quite challenging and demanding, but invariably rewarding." And a squib from the Class's most recently (I think) married member, Joe Byram, mentions lunch with Morry Hubbard at the Union League Club in New York, where Morry, as chairman of the house committee, took him on a goodly tour of the premises. Also to Jack, from Al Gerould in Philadelphia:

I am still here after 15 years as chief of the Central Building of the Free Library of Philadelphia. My principal outside activity for the last few years since it expanded eastward has been the Sierra Club, which I joined in '35 when I lived on the Coast. It is now so much a national organization that it has over 6000 members on this coast and over 200 in eastern Pennsylvania alone. [And puts out breathtakingly beautiful books that I cannot afford even at the special pre-publication price of $20; so I cut the color plates from the promotional brochure and tack them on my office wall. J.R.B.] We spent our vacation canoeing the Border Waters of northern Minnesota with the Club. On the way back I had a chance to talk to Shel Reed on the telephone. Ned Stanford '31, who is my dad's successor at about three removes as Director of the University libraries, showed me around his new building. Pete Knight put us up on our way through Cleveland, and we heard all about his far-flung family. Look for another article by his son Chris '65 in an early National Geographic. Our daughter Susan graduated from college this spring, Rosemary is due to do likewise in '70. The twins, Steve and Sarah, not till '75, the year I retire!

I have a clipping that could well be from a Boston paper telling of the marriage of Susan Peale Todd, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Barnard P. Todd of Wenham, Mass., to Mr. Kenneth Andrew Wolfe Jr. of Havertown, Pa., presently a student at the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge.

Also at hand is a communication from Clarence Willey, who teaches psychology at Norwich University. Clarence and wife Florence toured England and the Continent for seven fast-moving weeks last summer. He reports that motor coach travel provides an admirable balance of urban and rural scenes, and also trains one to remember with 100% accuracy the room number in the previous hotel. High points - literally and as experience - were the Scott Tower in Edinburgh, the dome of St. Peter's, and the Jungfrau. The tour culminated in a week in Amsterdam, with "a modest contribution" to the 16th International Congress of Applied Psychology. The modesty may well be in Clarence rather than in the paper he presented; one wishes he had told us its subject.

I called our prexy Howdy Pierpont to see if he had any class news, and learned that he is stirring up a project or two on our behalf - but feels that anything said about them now would be premature. He has taken the first steps toward arrangements for a class dinner in New York, as well as promoting the idea elsewhere around the country.

Last Saturday evening I journeyed to my old home town of Ridgewood, N. J., to attend the 40th reunion of the class of '28 at Ridgewood H. S. One of the pleasures that made it a pleasant evening was finding there two others of the four of us who in September of that distant year made the trek to Hanover, switching allegiance from the Old Red and White to the Big Green - Johnny Kingsland and Al Rice. John, long an attorney with Liberty Mutual and presently in their East Orange office, will soon transfer to the company's new office at Saddlebrook, N. J., where he will be the attorney-of-record — i.e., No. 1 legal man. Al - who incidentally was president of that Ridgewood class - started up his own law firm in New York some three years back.

From the office of Alumni Records comes the sad news that Harry Wilson died on July 9. Our sympathy goes to his family.

I was trying the down-memory-lane trick of recalling who had been my predecessors in conducting this column, and finally appealed to Miss Nancy Elliott, who runs aforesaid office with - as one soon discovers in this job - great capability. While Miss Elliott does not take oath as to its infallibility, you may be interested with me to recall what seems to be the rundown: ChuckOwsley led off, as the secretary we elected in '32; then came Ed Marks, 1937-42, followed by Carlos Baker, who held the post of Secretary-Chairman in the 1942-47 period. Mike Cardozo took over in 1947, JohnWright in 1952. Al Zinggeler was elected secretary in 1957, but Fred White took over somewhere in there - I have an October '60 issue wherein he was doing the column. Jildo Cappio succeeded Fred in 1963. Any errors of omission or commission?

Among the papers I inherited with this office is an almost-year-old clipping from the "St. Louis Globe Dispatch" with this lead sentence: "U. S. Rep. Thomas B. Curtis (Rep.), Webster Groves, would have an even chance of being elected U. S. Senator next year, no matter what Democrat runs against him, according to a poll taken for Mr. Curtis." Inquiry has developed the information that Tom is making the try for the upper house. Missouri correspondents please cover. The election of 1968 will be history by the time you are reading this. Let us conclude with a purely parochial, strictly a-political wish of good luck to all members of the class who are running for office.

Secretary, Orchard Hill Road Westport, Conn. 06880

Treasurer, 2914-44th St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016

Bequest Chairman,