1935

The return to Hanover is always exhilarating, but especially in the fall when nature splashes the landscape with its riotous colors. Some 60 classmates, plus wives and assorted children, shared the experience, as '35 descended on the College for the fall football reunion, October 3-5.

For some, like Janet and Chuck Moon,Jean and Charlie Sewell, Ed and Alice Neff and Holly and Ernie Draper, it was their first fall reunion. For Yank Price it was an occasion to introduce his new bride, loan. Also, for Kelly Hamilton to present his Millie. Eileen and Bud Cahoun flew back from a 25th anniversary in Bermuda, and then helped Ruby and Ralph Field celebrate their 34th in Hanover.

Don Richardson again drew long-distance honors, flying in from the coast. JohnnyWallace, one of our regulars, couldn't make it. He and Helen were in Hawaii for the Bankers' Convention. Shelley and Bobb Chaney were joined by their youngest (and cutest) daughter, Mary, now through college and an airline hostess. Hilda and Lowell Haas were joined by freshman son, Freddy and his Mt. Holyoke date. Phyllis and Charlie Nayor brought along young Nancy, who is starting to blossom into a charming young lady. Betty and I had Ricky in tow, who came primarily to see his freshman brother, Warren, but tolerated the old folks, especially when the men played football with him.

The Class Meeting and Saturday night program were highlights. (Our 38 to 6 victory over Holy Cross had to be discounted, in the light of the hepatitis epidemic, although the Big Green did look big, powerful and fast.) Much of the class meeting centered on the Class Memorial Fund, honoring deceased classmates. Our last project was an original work for the Glee Club, and Director Paul Zeller acknowledged that this will premier in a concert in Hanover, November 14. Fred Mebel urged the class to sponsor a modernistic fountain, now on loan to the College, between Hopkins Center and the Museum, and the proposal was turned over to the Memorial Fund Committee for consideration.

Saturday night brought an interesting confrontation between students and alumni. Dero Saunders arranged for a panel discussion on "The Positive Side of Student Rebellion." Undergraduates told of their work with "Outward Bound" and "ABC" with Negro youth, Indians, in the Jersey City Ghetto, in Appalachia, and in poverty areas of Maine. The resulting discussion may not have closed the generation gap, but it was enlightening.

In case you haven't checked lately, we're reaching retirement age, and the Class is making news on several fronts. Bunky Kmidsen, while not exactly retired, has left Ford and continues to collect on his $200,000 contract while he evaluates other offers. Art Allyn sold his White Sox to brother John, so that he and Dorothy can travel and indulge their hobbies. Dorothy, incidentally, suffered a stroke last winter but is now sufficiently recovered to travel.

Bo Fleming, who has headed Esso's European research operations for five years, has retired in London. He and Margaret plan on living abroad, commuting to New York to see children and assorted grand- children. So, you world travelers, look them up when you're in London. They're in the phone book.

Bob Busey has retired from General Electric. Tom Swift has given up his poultry business and will enjoy the good life. MerceCurtis hasn't retired exactly, but has had a bellyful of Manhattan. He and Marion have moved back to Cape Cod, where he still will keep a watch over sales for the L. B. Evans' Son shoe company.

More grandchildren! Jean and Al Sherwood dashed back from reunion for the christening of their first granddaughter, born to son Steve and his wife, Betty. Steve has one year to go at Ohio Wesleyan, while younger son, Peter, turned down Dartmouth for Yale, where he is a freshman. TomWilson has a second grandchild, born to daughter Jane and her husband, David Collon. Young Tom '66 is back safely from Viet Nam, after a year and a half of duty as an army captain. Bob Morris' oldest son, Kim '63, now advertising director of Dictaphone, made him him a grandpop some months ago. Bob also reports that sons Geoff and Rich are both through college and embarked on careers. Daughter, Courtney, is a high school senior and pondering college choices.

Gwen and Ken Webster flew to London this summer to see their first. Ken adds that another married daughter lives in Ann Arbor, one son is in the Navy and the other at Boston Law School. Ken still keeps busy in the woodworking business. By now, Scotty McPherson should have the grandchild expected momentarily, when his postcard was written in late May. (Sorry, Scotty, not to have reported sooner.) Both his married daughters are in Minneapolis. Another daughter and son are in College.

Eddie Hinman has recently been elected a director of USM Corporation, a worldwide industrial manufacturer. He is president and chief executive officer of International Paper Company. In 1936, right after graduation from the Harvard Business School, he joined Canadian International Paper Company, the principal subsidiary of International Paper, and attained his present position in 1966. One of his three sons, George, is a member of the Class of 1971.

A newsy note from Jim Higgins brings us up-to-date on several classmates: "Saw Harry Deckert in St. Louis in mid-Septem-ber. He is as young-looking an ex-room-mate as I have ever seen. February found Jim Hughes, Eddie Hinman, and me sipping Scotch in Jim's suite in the Waldorf Towers. I'm back in New York, as director of the occupational health and workmen's compensation division of the N. Y. medical society."

Wayne Geib, Skip, and their two sons again attended Alumni College, the fifth straight year, along with the Floyd Marksons, also in their fifth year. Wayne reports that his older boy, Tim, is off to Holderness School. Wayne himself is, perhaps, the lead- ing pathologist in South Dakota, and serves on the staff or as a consultant to some nine hospitals, besides running his own clinic. He adds: "One of the hospitals is right across from Al Clark's office, so I see him occasionally."

Jim Coppeto, a doctor in Waterbury, Conn., is perpetuating the family's medical tradition. "My son graduated from Yale '66, Dartmouth Medical School '68 and is now a junior at Harvard Medical School. My elder daughter is teaching High School French and Spanish, while my younger daughter is studying operatic voice."

Jim Morrison, another of our medical elite (an obstetrician in Waltham, Mass.) writes: "Oldest son doing graduate work. Second in Peace Corps in Africa. Third in High School. Daughter is marrying a New Hampshire English teacher. We still climb the New Hampshire mountains as often as possible."

Important industry recognition for FredHickok. He's newly elected vice president of the New Hampshire Association of Sav- ings Banks.

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