1943
If you've been yearning for a Hanover winter and that crunch of feet on snow bit, be glad you didn't make it this year. JimElleman and I faced 35 below temperatures for several January days while attending Alumni Council meeting. That's cold, dry or not. Can't remember it being that cold twenty-five years ago. Tony Farrell, Norwich farmer, politician, and entrepreneur, usually evident on Main Street, was nowhere to be found. And Paul Young saw the College's (and his own) heating bill zoom.
You'll like the new Hanover Inn. Very attractive. Rocking chairs on the porch will be available for traditionalists. The builder - our own Phil Jackson and his Jackson Construction Co. Phil knows the Hanover scene and before he finishes may leave as much of a mark as Eleazar. The Leverone Field House is one of his labors of love. Shirley and he can now rejoin the class gatherings. No longer will they be asked when the Inn will be finished. It's done and done beautifully.
Sid Hazleton retired from his long career in the military service and joined the Internal Revenue Service in Portsmouth, N.H. This info from the elder Sid, who retired from the College physical education department and still looks great.
When someone has been silent for ten years or so, it's nice to hear from him. Hank Garlick admits it's been too long. Hank flew in the Navy for about four years, became a paving contractor, and now heads a Youngstown, Ohio, company with hot mix plants and paving spreads servicing northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Wife Pat and he have four children — Kathy, 23; Liz, 17; Ginny, 16; and Henry Jr., 11. The Garlicks will be in Hanover next June.
There's getting to be a Bill Seidman paragraph in this column each month. He makes news. Roger Evans, distinguished secretary of 1916, collaborated with classmate Cliff Herold sending a clipping on Bill's award of the Man of the Year in Grand Rapids. 450 citizens turned out to acclaim Bill for his outstanding record in business, finance, politics, and education. He has been honored by Western Michigan University with a doctor of laws. And now he's devoting full time to the Romney campaign. With all his acclaim and fame, he has a charming wife Sally and six children. Count on seeing them in Hanover next June, political convention or no.
The Bing Crosby Golf Tournament brought 30,000 West Coast golf fans to the fairways and sly publicity to Jim Adams, Redwood City realtor. Natives call it the Crosby Clambake, and what fans carry with them range from beach towels to snow chains. Big Jim and friends had a transportation problem with all their loot. One Dartmouth guy, Dr. Noel Sankey '56, was hit on the chin with a golf ball for the long count of 24 stitches. Chuck Feeney, celebrity in his own right, watched Dick Remsen '42 contend strongly for Pro-Am honors. Clarisse and Jim are committed to attend reunion. How about you?
Pity the poor classmate with a name like Mouldy. But that's what Dick Proctor calls Jack Behringer, now well known as a Florida statesman and confident of Gov. Kirk. When the snow gets up to here, I think of our poor Florida classmates lucking it out in the winter. Remember DougRoot from freshman year? He's found his niche as a prominent Orlando TV personality. And there's that south Floridian, Norm Askey, who's been keeping American Standard up to standard all these years from his Miami base. Stan Calder finds Florida much to his liking and invites all his classmates, especially the secretary, to visit him for two or three weeks next winter.
Nuclear-powered ships and jet engines in ships make exciting transportation developments. Mike Diaz made the press when one of his American Export cargo ships with jet engines crossed the Atlantic at 24 knots. And Mike's ads on Caribbean cruising makes us want to leave Dullsville this winter ... Chuck Arnstein has that confident, Merrill-Lynch executive look in the Dallas Times-Herald. ... A little heavier than when ... but who isn't?
Wonder whatever happened to Forrest(Hacker) Daniels. Believe he is a food broker around Boston. There was a guy who brought color to the Hanover campus long ago.
Anyone else with political fever? ... JohnAltorfer, who was at our fall reunion year ago last fall, is making a strong bid for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. In 1964 he ran second among the seven Republicans on the state ticket, outpolled only by Charles Percy. Old Peorian Art Heidrich tells me that Peoria townsmen are giving a big testimonial for John to send him on his way to Springfield. He's quite a guy. Among his personal accomplishments was founding and developing the Pioneer Industrial Park of Peoria, the largest private development in the Midwest, 630 acres for 50 industries, 2000 people and $l2 million payroll. John sounds like the enlightened kind of Republican needed to win votes. And Illinois needs him.
These wives plan to attend the reunion ... Mitzi, Katie, Patsy, Roz, Peggy, Suzanne. Lois, and Freda along with appropriate mates Gil Augenblick, Burrows Barstow,Stan Calder, Jim Capps, Charlie Dorkey,Doc Fielding, Jim Hooker, and Fred Richardson. Over 115 have signed up including John Jouett from the Virgin Islands.
Bob Gray needs pictures and biographies to complete the 25-year book. You must have something interesting around which he could use. Send them as your contribution to the improvement of culture.
Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa. 19464
Treasurer, 60 Little's Point, Swampscott, Mass. 01907
