1943
The informal fall reunion has come and gone, and those of you who missed should be kicking yourselves around the block. It was the biggest and best ever!
Some 43 members of the class of '43 (according to Tony Farrell's head count) attended - most with wives and some with children. Those on hand for some or all of the weekend, according to your secretary's memory and notes, included Pres and Ellen Brooks, Andy and Clare Caffrey, Charlie and Ruth Donovan, Jim and Rita Doucette, Tony and Kit Farrell, Bob and Pauline Field, Doc and Susie Fielding, Mike and Sally Frothingham, Bob and Thirsa Fuiks, Jim and Elizabeth Gilfillan, Bob and Susie Gray, Bud and D.J. Hall, Tus and Carol Hand, Phil and Shirley Jackson, Bob and Mary Kerwin, Ed and Dotty Lider, Hal and Beverly Lindley, Bill Maeck, Herb and Hilda Marx, Al and Jenny Mcßean, Don and Louise McCorkindale, Jack and Lil Meleney, Bud and Betty Miskell, George Mitchell, Ed and Lorraine O'Brien, Jug and Phyl O'Connor, Cal and June Osberg, Mort and Alese Pechter, Dick and Marie-Louise Pierce, John and Ann Pritchard, Don and Connie Reich, Bud and Phyllis Silverstein, Fred and Marge Stockwell, and Paul and Ruth Young. If I have missed anyone, I am sure it will be called to my attention and it will be supplemented in a later report.
There were surprisingly few last-minute cancellees, but they included Ernie andNancy Ball (who got as far as New York City), George and Ellie Munroe, and Busand Pat Mosbacher (who found themselves in Miami, of all places).
The weekend started with cocktails and dinner on Friday evening with the hard core closing up somewhere around 1 A.M. The next morning found 23 early risers at the 10 A.M. class meeting, which again set some sort of a record. In lieu of maintaining a class minute book which would only get lost, your secretary again reports on the meeting in this column, thus carrying on a long tradition established only last year:
The meeting was called to order by President Charlie Donovan at 10:07 A.M. or 7 minutes late, which everyone agreed was an improvement over last year's meeting which started 10 minutes late. The Secretary's Report was adopted as reported in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last year. It was then noted that a few copies of the 25th Reunion Book remain on hand and concern was voiced lest some of the class did not receive a copy in the mail. It was agreed that if a class member had not received a copy, he should - after reading these notes - so advise the secretary or forever hold his peace.
Treasurer Cal Osberg reported an accumulated class surplus as of August 1, 1969, of $9,880.24, or a decrease of $50.60 from last year. Included in expenses for the year was a $1,200.00 donation to establish a memorial book fund for deceased members of the class, the books to be suitably inscribed and made a part of the collection at Baker Library. Since this sum was designed to purchase books for those who have died prior to this time, it was moved and unanimously agreed that an additional $5,000.00 from the treasury would be turned over to the college for a continuing fund for this purpose.
Cal Osberg also reported that over the past year, 268 members of the class both had paid dues and made a contribution to the Alumni Fund; 78 members of the class paid dues alone and 58 members contributed to the Alumni Fund alone. Thus, in a class of 607 total living members, there were 203 non-participants. This was up from about 180 last year.
Cal's report was then followed by one from Eddy Lider, who reported on last year's Alumni Fund drive. Our class contribution was $41,170.00 which was very close to our goal, but with fewer contributors than normal. This is a sum which, up until about seven or eight years ago, would have won the prize for the largest class giving! President Donovan then exhorted the class to do even better in the future - like around fifty-thou.
Paul Young, who as usual received the thanks of the Class for doing all the work necessary for the fall reunion arrangements, reported that there were 21 sons of class members in the entering class of 1973 (the names and affiliations will be reported at length by Herb Marx in the "Clanging Bells"). And, in case it has slipped your mind, the class of 1943 matriculated just 30 years ago.
The meeting having closed on a high note, and Alese Pechter having assured on behalf of the wives that the meeting did not end before the "wives annual Hanover shopping spree" had ended, the Class proceeded to its customary picture at the '43 Memorial and thence to the Stadium to see the Big Green perform magnificently against Holy Cross. The day was a perfect one for football, and the consensus, without exception, was that the Big Green will indeed do well this year.
After the game, the assembled multitude of '43's foregathered at Kit and Tony Farrell's farm, which they so graciously made available for our annual cocktail party. Thus it was that Tony was able to give a head count on the attendees, which was 108 classmates, wives and children, or approximately one third of the total attendance at our 25th reunion! An usually reliable source within the college administration has indicated that the '43's have the biggest and best informal fall reunions of all the classes - so don't miss next year.
The Farrells' cocktail party was so successful that it required several rude remarks by your class officers to transfer the party over to the Tavern Room at the Hanover Inn, where dinner and subsequent dancing awaited - the latter continuing until 1 A.M. The weekend concluded with a brunch-type tapering off party at the Grays' farm in Acworth on Sunday.
Records were set on the weekend not only for number of attendees, but also for distance traveled. Bob Kerwin and bride Mary were in from Turkey; also Herb and HildaMarx brought as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Kurakawa of Japan with whom their son had lived for the past year. Final records were set in that the weather and the New England countryside were superb throughout the weekend.
At their annual conference last spring, the American Association of Industrial Editors elected Don Kingsley as president. A member of the organization for the past 15 years, he had previously served as a director, vice president, and first vice president. He is the man- ager of the corporatewide communications program for CPC International in Englewood Cliffs, N. J. With Sandy's help he also tries to manage their five children at 2890 Springhurst Street in Yorktown Heights, N. Y.
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