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Material is a bit short this month. I have been trying to get in a lot in earlier columns to encourage a positive response to the reunion, in a sort of subliminal way.

Calbiochem, producer of biochemicals and chemical diagnostic reagents, has elected Eugene Catron to the board of directors. Gene, a general partner of Shields and Co. Inc.. is a director of Borman Food Stores, In., Chris-Craft Industries and Waldbaum, Inc. A former member of the Hoover Commission for Reorganization of the Federal Government, he resides in Long Island, N.Y. Gene has a rare combination of postgraduate accomplishment - an LL.B. from Yale and a certificate of graduation in business administration from Harvard.

Some further information on classmate Don Allen who was saluted in last month's Wah Hoo Wah column: the new Director of the Division of Natural and Physical Sciences at Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y., was previously Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Science Division at the State University of New York at Albany. From 1963 to 1965 he was science department consultant for the SUNY-Ford IKP Project in Bandung, Indonesia; in the summer of 1966 he was staff associate on the Advisory Council, College Chemistry, at Stanford University; and spent last summer at LSU in Baton Rouge on a postdoctoral fellowship in neutron activation analysis. Don got his Ph.D. at Yale and is the co-author of two books.

Doc George Hahn reports on his continued work with HOPE as chairman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and chairman of the Research Division. Unfortunately in his travels to Ceylon he developed dengue fever, which he classifies as just one big backache. George plans to be at reunion, and I'm sure will have many interesting stories to tell us about his experiences in this tremendous effort.

We have received advance notice that Marv Chandler, chairman Northern Illinois Gas Co., is being honored by receiving one of the Horatio Alger Awards for 1968.

Dr. Frank H. Westheimer, professor of chemistry at Harvard, presented the 42nd Annual Priestley Lecture Series in March. Frank received his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard, was a National Research Fellow at Columbia and professor of chemistry there before going to Harvard in 1953 where he was chairman of the department of chemistry from 1959 to 1967. In 1944-45, he was research supervisor at the explosive research laboratory of the National Research Committee and for his work was awarded the Army-Navy Certificate of Appreciation and the Naval Ordnance Award. Last year, Frank was named to the President's Science Advisory Committee.

Our congratulations in the advancement department go to J. Warren Moore who was recently named senior vice president of American Airlines and a director of Sky Chefs, a subsidiary of the carrier.

Our congratulations in the nuptial department go to Joseph G. Byram who married Mrs. Eleanor Fuller recently. Joe is a vice president of Lionel D. Edie & Co., investment counselors and economic consultants in New York.

Some news has come to me indirectly, which is a good route especially when it involves another classmate. John Prentiss of Hudson, Ohio, wrote me as follows: "While in Hawaii, I saw the enclosed article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of 4/23." The article states that Reuel Denney, professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii, has been awarded one of the nation's top honors for his poetry - the literature award of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences. Reuel was to receive the $2500 poetry prize in New York, May 18. His first volume of poetry, published in 1937, was "The Connecticut River," a landscape of New England under pressure of the Great Depression.

In 1961, Reuel went to Hawaii as a visiting professor of American Studies at EastWest Center. That year he had published "In Praise of Adam," a volume of short lyrical poetry. In 1957, he wrote "The Astonished Muse," a criticism of American popular culture, movies, television, sports, architecture, journalism and comic strips. He is working on an opera tentatively called "Home of the Feather Cloak," based partly on Hawaiian history. Congratulations, Reuel - come to reunion so that we can all exchange views.

Except for a wrap-up report on our reunion, this is my last column. Thank you, gentlemen, for your letters and cards - your words provided the basis for the column. I was but the amanuensis, the scribe. I'll see you at reunion on June 17-19.

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