1944

This "first" at Class Notes writing is a little like a canoeist trying to take over from the captain of the "Queen Mary." How do you follow in the footsteps of that nonpareil Twitch Miller, that combination Hemingway and Faulkner, Thurber and Benchley? How, indeed?

Not by beginning with an apology, but I've got one anyway. It's to Clint Gardner, whose gracious and touching eulogy to our Class dead at Reunion was left out of my reunion write-up in the July issue. Time and space collided with a copy deadline and just mention of Clint's service got left out. It shouldn't have; and by way of redemption, let me get in a commercial: do your Christmas shopping early at the Gardners' mail order establishment, Shopping International, across the river in Norwich, Vt.

I should have a raft of as yet unrecorded reunion tid-bits, but I'm hard put to remember them. One item must go into the archives, however: at our final banquet Saturday night, two girls showed up in identical dresses. And not only that - they had the same last names! They were Pat Barrett, wife of Allen, and Joan Barrett, wife of Bill. Bill writes that he has a photo of them which I'll surely include in the Reunion Supplement.

Lack of space in July also prevented inclusion of the names of the members of the new class executive committee and let's get them in print. Twenty-three men, our largest committee ever, will be serving the Class for the next five years: Stan Barr, Allen Barrett, Homer Bogart, George Bruce, Tom Douglas, Jim Donnelly, Max Edwards, Dave Eckels, Wayne Eaves, Chuck Glines, Jack Jenness. Bill McElnea, Bob McLaughry, Clark MacGregor, Twitch Miller, John E. Morse, Ted Mortimer, Bird Partridge, Chuck Richardson, Art Saul, Joe Vancisin, and Ray Zrike.

At least two men changed jobs about reunion time, but made it clear to their new employers that any change had to be accommodated to reunion time in Hanover. Both headed west: Dick Ostberg left Sylvania after 15 years to become vice president, industrial relations, for Kimberly Clark in Neenah, Wise.; and Dr. Bill Trier left his professional post at the U. of North Carolina for a new one at the U. of Arizona. He is an associate professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the new College of Medicine. And the Dean there is none other than Monte DuVal.

Jack Jenness will take office the first of next year as a national vice president of the American Society for Training and Development. He elected to his new post last spring at the group's 25th Anniversary Conference and is currently a regional vice president. Since 1966 he has held the position of manager of training and development at Levitt and Sons, Inc., Lake Success, N. Y. previously he was corporate director of management development and training for American Bosch Arma Corporation. He has been an adjunct assistant professor of business administration at Adelphi University, Garden City, N. Y., since 1962.

Your secretary is still choked up over the reception accorded the 25-Year Reunion Book. The kind words from those who made it to Hanover were deeply appreciated, and among those who sent gracious notes but couldn't get to reunion were: Fred Graf, Keene, N. H., sales manager. International Narrow Fabric Co.; Walt Olin, Denver, sales representative, Manufacturers' Agency, who was having another go at fatherhood; Lem Arnold, Van Nuys, Calif., assistant program manager, US (X) Project - Lockheed; Bob Riebow, Manhasset, N. Y., director of government sales, Corn Products Co.;Sully Sullivan, Englewood, N. J., president of Barnes & Noble; Dr. Don Burnham, a psychoanalyst in Bethesda, Md.; Fred Potter, retired in Dover, Mass.; and Bill Turpin, a foreign service officer in Washington. Bill's wife, incidentally, had a serious operation just before Reunion and that prevented him from being in Hanover and a member of our panel discussion.

I also received touching letters from two widows. One was from Mrs. Francis G.Reilly, Fran having died last February; and the other was from Mrs. Emmett J. Sittar, who was married to Joe Larimer until he died in 1952.

Other bits and pieces. "Needle" Allen, the Wall Street warrior, was seen back in Hanover for a day in July just a month after Reunion. He was shepherding his tribe and two French exchange students from Paris. Vacationing on the Cape, he drove over to show his foreign guests "the best college in the country." ...Cy Thompson, Rank Zerox in Zurich, sent a telegram regretting that he couldn't be with us in June, but he showed up in Hanover in August with his wife, Phyllis and two boys. Son Noel was having a look at Dartmouth, among others; son Christopher works for an ad agency in Zurich. En route to the north country, Cy saw George Bruce and Chuck Glines. ...

I kept poor track of '44's registered this summer at the Hanover Inn, but a late August entry was Bus Benner and family. ... Jim Lang went from Hanover in June to Miami Beach for an extended family vacation and wrote back: "You can give it back to the flamingos." Our own moon-shooter has to be Dick Allenby, who is NASA's assistant director of Lunar Exploration and whose sleeping bag in Houston in July must have been all but untouched.

Lem Arnold and tribe riding the rails this summer before the rails disappear, east from Vancouver to Montreal on the Canadian Pacific, with appropriate stopovers (Lake Louise, etc.) and depositing kids at Hotchkiss and Smith, respectively.

Included in recent address changes are Bill Paine, who has forsaken Massachusetts for Florida and who writes: "I'm now with Mortgage Corporation of America, which specializes in financing shopping centers nationally ... the ginger on the deal is living on the water and owning a boat... and my two married daughters are here... And Tom Trott gives witness to the best of two worlds when he says, "A ski instructor in Sun Valley in the winter and sailing in Maine in the summer - 'the unbeatable combination'."...

Beyond all this, in the notes-from-all-over department. Hank Marshall has been named vice president of the A. G. Nelson Paper Co. Bob Kaatz is the new group vice president of Apache Corp., an organization which includes five Minneapolis companies operating in the aerospace and computer industries.

Buck Brandt is still in the business of encouraging our wives to spend more money on cosmetics and perfume and still climbing upward. He has recently been named president of Scandia Cosmetics and Tuvache Perfumes. He has been with both companies since 1967 and was formerly vice president and general manager. Before joining those companies, he was vice president in charge of sales for John Robert Powers. He started his cosmetic career with R. H. Macy's department store in New York and then became cosmetic buyer for Bloomingdale's store.

Dr. Eric Barradale, beyond checking teeth, has been elected a director of the Catamount National Bank in Vermont. AlexGillespie, has been appointed secretary and general counsel of American Smelting and Refining Company ... he lives with his family in Greenwich, Conn. Prof. Greg Rabassa, at Queens College, N. Y., spoke on "The Negro in Brazilian Literature" at the U. of Nebraska last spring.

And that's it from Hanover this time around. May I end this with a long, loud appeal for postcards from near and far, as you stay at home or travel, for news of yourself or classmates. I can't promise prose that will keep old men from the chimney corner and children from play, but I can't promise anything at all unless you all stay in touch. I don't ask that you forsake that drink at whatever lounge or waiting-room it may be; I only suggest that you mix a line with a lime. Please write. Blessings on us all.

Secretary, 309 Crosby Hall Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasurer, 815 E. Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45419