1943

Old Ernie Sauls, long in our missing files, misdirected a card to Pottsville: "Your days as secretary are numbered, Pal. Next year v new I'd name will emblazon the column star volunteer except Myra and I are arting a new hoop business in East Cadiz, nt make reunion. Our busy season." Old Ern is right. Missing 92 deadlines in ten years is enough of a record. Time to pass the baton. But it has had its joyful moments.

The 1943 25th Year Book must now be on the press. Editor Bob Gray, red penciling on his unique roll-top desk, closed the moton law practice and moving his office. Some biographies were tremendous. To complete blanks and minimize the missing. Bob and 1 -spent a full day together writing missing biographies. Source material could be outdated; so if we have you with the wrong wife, children, and job, we are, as they say, most regretful. You had your chance to submit anything you wanted.

36 classmates gathered for the pre-reunion meeting at the New York Yacht Club, March 13, hosted most generously by BusMosbacher. The best turnout ever in the unusual setting of the club's dazzling trophy room. Attending: Bill Ahearn, Gil Augenblick, Dick Bugbee, Roy Coningswood, Graham Conklin, Mike Diaz, Jim Doucette, Mel Fenichell, Bob Field, Mike Frothingham, Jim Gilfillan. Bob Grant, Bob Grimshaw, Bud Hall, Bob Higgons, Larry Johnson, John Keefe, Stan Lambert, Hugh Lena, Herb Marx, Bob McQueen, Bus Mosbacher, George Munroe, Alex Nagle, Mort Pechter, Don Reich, Dave Schirmer, Bob Scott, John Shaw, Rod Wolbarst, Fred Woodward, Larry Noble, Charlie Edison, Bob Ehinger, and C. D. Later, eleven of us dined in a New York version of a Texas steakhouse four floors below the street. Congenial group.

Bob Ehinger, lean and trim, has moved to New York from Los Angeles with Western Electric. Searching a home in New Jersey.. .. Charlie Edison came in from St. Louis to buy merchandise for the large Edison Brothers Store chain, managed to make the gathering - even fed your secretary breakfast next morning. . . . Bob Scott looked the way an executive jet pilot should — tan and handsome. He flies for Crown Cork and Seal, Philadelphia. Once he was a banker, but the call of the wild blue was too much for him.. . . Hugh Lena, New London surgeon, made the long round-trip trek to be with his friends Bob Higgons me4rchandises products for Carter-Wallace (he's filled your house with them) from his Park Avenue office.. . . Jim Gilfillan lives on Staten Island, works for Merck and Co. in Jersey, and is considering moving to the Garden State. ... Bob Grant, former Marine captain and long-time sales executive with Socony Mobil Oil, lives on Long Island, is very active in Scouting. Nice to see him. . . . Gil Augenblick is much involved in the cold storage business in Jersey City. ... HerbMarx is in personnel relations with General Cable Corp. in New York. ... John Keefe, Yale lawyer, is in the factoring business with John P. Maguire Co. in NYC. ... BobGrimshaw hopes he'll need a Victor Comptometer to add up all the advance reunion payments sent him. He's our reunion finance man.... John Shaw is with Coats and Clark, the textile people.

Bob Field has fired the opening gun in this year's Alumni Fund campaign. Don't be misled by rumors; the Fund is definitely on this year. Remember, every gift you make, cash or pledge for 1968 or 1969 payment, counts to the $600,000 gift we expect to present to the College on June 22 as the total giving of 25 years by this class. Suspect several guys reading this column right now have $100,000 worth of good securities or property or money they could give to the College. There are sound approaches for making substantial gifts, and Bob McQueen or Bob Field will make the arrangements exactly as you want. Is there a better way of giving than giving to your own College?

Reunion Chairman Frank Hartmann took a brief March junket to Switzerland, then a side trip to South Africa, and an exploratory survey of Australia - around the world in exactly thirty days on the magic carpet of Acrilan. Frank has organized something for everyone in Hanover, June 20-23. Send in your registration.

Jerry Blanchet has departed the Washington scene after 14 years to become assistant to the President. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Nancy and he are living in East Setauket, Long Island with their children Gorette, Sylvia, Nicholas, Martha, and Sarah. ... Al (Ducky) Drake has returned from Hawaii to settle in Los Altos, Calif. He is with the commercial real estate division of Cornish and Carey in Palo Alto. . .. John Goode has joined the advertising staff of Yankee, Inc., publishers of Yankee Magazine, The Old Farmer's Almanac, Cape Cod Compass and other publications. John lives in East Dover, Vt. ... John Altorfer is in the thick of the Republican battle for nomination for governor in Illinois. If you have relatives in Illinois, tell them to mark their lohn Henry for our John Henry Altorfer, who just may be. the next governor. ... See you in Hanover in June.

1943 25th ReunionJune 20-23, 1968

Cover Boy: Hardie Caldwell '44, president of Modern Maid, Inc., and his self-cleaning gas oven were featured in theFebruary 1968 issue of MPM Magazine.

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