1939
In reading the alumni notes from classes that had fall reunions we noted that all the secretaries commented, with relative degrees of good humor, on the poor seats they had at football games in Hanover. It would seem to be a good suggestion to start alumni plans, therefore, to enlarge the stadium. Is there room enough on the far side to duplicate the home side? With home-and-home arrangements, with interstate highways, and with that center of activity, the Lebanon airport, it appears that even bigger crowds will be able to reach Hanover in the future. What say you? This is just a suggestion, and there must be weighty arguments against it.
Gordon McCoun is now with Braniff International with offices at 1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W., in Washington. Colby Howe has chosen a beautiful new address at 168 Avenida Mira Flores in Tiburon, Calif., and we can assure you that this has nothing to do with the flower children. Shag Hatch has settled down to teach at the Georgetown Central School in Georgetown, N. Y. JackGray, who last checked in from Sweden, is now lord of his castle at 849 Arlington Road in Redwood City, Calif., and we assume he's now closer to the head office of the Bank of America. Bob Bryant, whom we were glad to see at the fall reunion, now gets his mail at 311 Prince Street in Alexandria, Va., while the family has a taste of U.S. life before they are off on another government mission. Frank O'Brien has moved to 1020 Hillside Ave., in Plainfield, N. J., where he is a prominent attorney in between rounds of golf and is a senior partner of the firm of O'Brien, Devlin and Shaw.
Pern Pleasants, the sales manager at Sylvania Electric Products in Danvers, Mass., has moved to Glover Landing at 22 Skinner Head in Marblehead, Mass., which we just read is one of the twelve most attractive towns in the country. Cleveland residents should look up John Sullivan, your new neighbor at 67 Charleston Square. He's a staff engineer with Richman Bros, and is an expert in the clothing industry.
A note from Harriot announces that the Joe Urbans now live in a highrise apartment at 1010 Memorial Drive in Cambridge during the week and commute to their new house in Osterville, Mass., for weekends and vacations. They saw the Holy Cross game in Hanover and walked to the Harvard game, which was one of the best games of football they've ever seen. They say it's a great feeling having their second son at Dartmouth.
Bill Cunningham writes that at the Yale game he had a cocktail reunion with Bob Dickgiesser, Duke Lyon, Lou Bradley, Don Wheaton, Horton Wainright, Mac MacGilpin, and Armando Chardiet. That's a potent group, and it's too bad they didn't have more to celebrate. Cunningham pushes mortgages for the Bronx Savings Bank and is currently trying to drum up some business with the boys at 666 Fifth Avenue! Good luck!
Jim Feeley, our strong defenseman and hockey captain, writes from Stuttgart, Germany, where he has been since Feb., 1966, and brings us up to date on his family. Now a brigadier general in the Marine Corps he writes with pride that all three of his children are now out of college. His oldest girl Constance from Stanford now writes for the "New Yorker." A graduate of the University of Virginia, son Jim is district manager for Standard Register in Glendale, Calif., is married and has one daughter. Youngest girl Sara graduated from the University of Colorado, married, and is teaching school. Her husband is in his final year of five in the school of architecture at the University of Arizona, and they reside in Tucson. We salute Inger and Jim, who have just cele- brated their 26th wedding anniversary, and congratulate them for having an outstanding American family in every sense of the word.
Speaking of heroes, we read with great interest a story in the Times recently about Schilling Manor. When the Air Force Base named for Dave Schilling was deactivated, the Pentagon wisely established there a village for dependents of all services, mostly with big families. There the wives can share their problems with each other, especially the loneliness at the end of the day when Daddy returns home in most communities. They have a great deal of fun and activity, and I think Dave would have liked that.
A handsome announcement has arrived from Webster Groves, Mo. Mrs. G. M. Ruth announced the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to Mr. Philip Henry Wentworth in the Presbyterian Church there. Our best wishes to the young couple and our congratulations to Betty and Phil Wentworth. If you need a new wallet, Phil recommends the Prince Gardner line. It may be a bit late to exchange an unwanted Christmas tie for one, but it's worth a try.
We had a good, warm letter from WinNaylor, our sartorial expert on Norfolk jackets. He says he read with great amusement our report on our fall reunion, "and not just because you described me as looking like Sherlock Holmes. For the comparison, I feel flattered, although I haven't solved any cases, just polished off a few." Win spends a lot of time in the British Isles, as he has a daughter married to a Scotsman and a grandson to whom he'd planned to send a pony for Christmas until Santa Claus got shot down by the parents. Win plans to visit the boy in February. He says that Moose Wyman and Joe Batchelder and he laughed themselves all the way from Hanover to Boston after the fall reunion. And that is as it should be.
There is a little old newspaper in Maynard, Mass., called the Assabet Valley Beacon, which may at times be hard to pronounce. In any event, they ran a story in the late fall about our John Haartz, the auto fabric king of Acton, who has been elected a corporate member of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries in Boston, the largest voluntary non-profit and non-sectarian agency in New England serving the handicapped and needy. John is also a member of the board at Holderness School, and his hobby is the restoration of antique cars.
Readers of this column have watched Walt Martinson go right up the civic ladder in his home town. Now he's been elected president of the Quincy, Mass., Kiwanis Club. He's still a director of the Chamber of Commerce there and treasurer of the house corporation at Gamma Delta Chi in Hanover. He belongs to a string of associations of Public Accountants and is an active member of the Masonic Lodge, the Knights Templar, and the Salem Lutheran Church. To all the tributes to Civic Leader Walt, we proudly add our own.
A beautiful columnist in a Wayne, N. J., paper did a "story in depth" on the AndyRuoff family on the occasion of their moving from Smoke Rise to their new home in Salt Lake City. Well-known in New Jersey as an orthopedic surgeon, Andy has accepted the nod to be associate professor of surgery at the college of medicine of the University of Utah and will be chief of orthopedics at the Veterans Hospital and assistant surgeon at the Shriners Crippled Children's Hospital. Wife Evelyn said, "Andy has always wanted a training program for upcoming orthopedic surgeons where he could pass on what he's learned in his 18 years of practice. Thank goodness he picked such a pretty place to move to." The Ruoffs have two children. In the Air Force, Jeffrey, 22, has been stationed at the Forbes Base outside of Topeka, Kan. Daughter Pamela, 19, is a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire. We should think the family will like Utah, and we know that folks out there will love the Ruoffs.
We hope you all have gotten off to a great start in 1958. Charles Dickens wrote, "Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has many, not on your misfortunes, of which all men have some." Good advice.
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