1939
They said the weather had been damp and mean on the Hanover plain. That is, until the '39ers started checking-in on Friday afternoon, September 19. In all, eighteen classmates formed the society. Bonnie Oaks served as our headquarters, and Lake Morey presented an engaging tableau with early morning mists dancing across its surface, giving way to a warm, late-summer sun along about 10 a.m. They came from all points, with Rog Stanwood getting the solid gold loving cup for having traveled the longest distance. He was on a business trip as a Veepee of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., all the way from Houston, Texas. But he planned so well that he had the weekend with us in Hanover. Then there was Bob and Betty Winton down from York, Me., George and Shirley Hanna, Walt and Dot Darby, Jack and Billie Coulson, Dick and Charlotte Hawkins, Walt and Doris Martinson, Wes and Anne Goding with daughter Minity and friend Rosemarie Love, Jack and Lois Kuhlke, Al and Peggy Tishman, Moose and Priscilla Dudis, Hugh and Trudy McLaren and daughter Patti, Doc and Chip Tower, Sam and Happy Hird, Bert and Sally MacMannis, Dick and Math Jackson, and our übiquitous locals, Bob and Evie Kaiser, and Howie and Jane Chi vers. Bob Kaiser was our organizer and so well pleased was the group that arrangements have been confirmed for next fall, over the Princeton weekend, for a repeat performance. Hardly the kind of an affair to miss.
The highlight of the weekend was, of course, the football match at Memorial Field, which at this date is past history.
Suffice it to say that things went extremely well for the green with a smashing 42-6 victory of Boston College in a "practice game." (Tish explained to the ladies that we were just "practicing at being spectators.") We'd be a fool to suggest what the results of the game might portend, for you'll be in possession of the facts by the time this piece is digested. Instead, I'll skip lightly over a few intelligences I collected during the weekend; things like Rog Stanwood's report from the great State of Texas, where he communicates on occasion with Jack Schrage and Jim Powers. Rog headed west from his native Needham, shortly after graduation in '39, but having recently served a term' on the Alumni Council, he is not foreign to Hanover. Yet, he confessed a satisfaction in our fall affair, because it gave him time to get down to cases with his classmates. We learned of the appropriate appointment of Jack Coulson by President Nixon, as First Deputy Commissioner for Indian Affairs. Jack left for Washington, D. C., on October 1, although he'll be commuting weekends to his home in Long Is- land. He was honored at a surprise dinner in West Islip, L. I. on September 26, by friends and business associates. Al Tishman passed on the news of Bob Howe's new promotion to president of the Real Estate and Construction Div. of IBM, a move up the ladder from director of marketing. Bob has been with IBM since graduation. And guess who is serving as Chief of Staff for the hospital ship "S.S. Hope," who took off for a ten-month teaching and treatment mission to Tunisia in mid-September? Our own A! Ley, that's who! Doctor Ley has recently been serving as a Professor of Medicine at the Cornell Med. College in New York. Hugh McLaren was recently featured in a TV show out of New York, in his capacity as Assistant Superintendent of Schools in New York City. He gave us the low-down on some of the problems he's trying to lick in the big city's continual squabbles in the Brownsville section, among others, in Brooklyn. We tuned in on Sam Hird's saga which suggests that he sold off his textile business in New Jersey about three years ago, and has launched into a new and exciting field of educational tools and aids. This he has done through the formation of a small company entitled Edukaid, in which he serves as president and ace salesman. But before we leave Bonnie Oaks and the memories of a most pleasant fall reunion, we should mention that Mert and Alma Tarlow were seen in the environs of Hanover, but heading for home to pressing engagements, after having established their daughter in Dartmouth as one of the 70 female students. Lisbeth is taking her senior year in Hanover as a transfer from Smith.
Catching up on a bit of summer news, Moose and Betsy Wyman saw their daughter Ann married to Philip Bertland in early September. On a matching of cards, JockLynch and his wife captured a mixed foursome in the Country Club of Darien's final golf tournament of the season. A letter from Whit Cushing thanks the class for its cooperation in housing his art show in the class tent over the June reunion. He further speaks of a similar show in early October at Colby Junior College, arranged through the offices of its president, Ev Woodman.
In the food service line, Bill Deal has advanced to Business and Industry Group Vice-President of ARA Services, Inc., of Philadelphia. He is now in charge of the company's operations in the Mid-Atlantic region, South, and West. Before his promotion he was vice-president and general manager of the Mid-Atlantic region. ARA Services provides food and other services for industry, schools, government, and airline installations in this country, Canada, and Latin America.
The Utica Press gives evidence of the election of Sid Berge as a director of Utica Duxbak Corp., manufacturer of sporting goods, a company for whom Sid has been selling since 1963. J. Moreau Brown, an administrator of educational support programs for the General Electric Co., has been named associate secretary and associate administrator of the G.E. Foundation in Crotonville, an event that took place this past March. Herb Hirschland was pictured in the "Newark Evening News" to mark his ascendancy to president of M. & T. Chemicals, Inc., a subsidiary of American Can Co. Herb joined M. & T. in 1941. Rog Harrison has been appointed as manager of alcoholic beverage advertising for Holiday Magazine. This from an item sent us by Hank Conkle which was dated May 12. And Clem Burnap was appointed VP of marketing and engineering of Yuba Industries, Inc., of San Francisco last February. You'll have to admit, though we may not be too current, we are tenacious.
Maury Costin reports that he has an active surgical practice around Boston; a daughter at Lake Forest College; another at NYU, and two sons at Andover. He registers a negative view on co-education at Dartmouth. Ben Eckerson writes as of May that he recently left editing the Labor Department's "Dictionary of Occupational Ti- tles" for the challenge of Computerizing Employment Service operations. This all in Washington, D. C. On the military front, we have a splendid newspaper picture of the presenting of the colors to Col. A. W. Alexander who took over command of Fort Meade, Md., last July. And finally, a more recent clipping dated September 23, which recounts that Joe Batchelder was one of a trio to be elected to the Transit Advertising Association's Hall of Fame. A fine honor for Joe who twice had served as chairman of the Transit Ad. Association. Joe is currently board chairman of Batchelder Co. of Peoria.
Happy Turkey-Day to all!
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