1936
The Dartmouth-Penn football game on October 11 in Hanover was the occasion for another '36 informal reunion at Dexter's Lodge in Sunapee. It was a pleasant and relaxing weekend made more enjoyable by the glorious colors of the autumn foliage and the performance of the Big Green. After the game Chuck and Lois Aaron, innkeepers at Dexter's, served cocktails and a buffet dinner to their guests and all other '36ers in the neighborhood. The fine weekend was upstaged by Al Gibney who had just become the grandfather of triplets. His daughter, Susan, gave birth to the three girls at Newport Navy Hospital and the babies had a combined weight of over twenty pounds. Susan's husband is a member of the U.S. Navy stationed in San Diego. Eloise couldn't join Al in Hanover - she was too busy running the nursery in Longmeadow, Mass.
Dr. Tino and Martha Lando came over from Schenectady, N. Y., to join the group and have a vacation from his psychiatric practice. Their daughter, Patricia, is attending the University of New Hampshire on a graduate fellowship in microbiology. She graduated summa cum laude from Potsdam University in New York. Their older girl, Elissa, is employed in Albany by the State of New York, while their son, David, is at South Bend, Ind., working toward his graduate degree from Notre Dame in aereo engineering. Ed and Helen Higbee were on hand for the second year with their daughter, Jan. Their son, John '69, is teaching math at Cheshire Academy. At the box lunch al fresco in Phil and Leslie Mclnnis' backyard before the game, Helen wore her husband's '36 senior blazer. It must have had tender loving care, for mine was chewed up by moths in 1937. Fred and Marnie Babcock took advantage of the weekend to pick up their daughter, Courtney, at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield for the trip to Hanover. It was encouraging to see the younger generation mingling with their parents and other '36ers. There are times when the gap is not that great.
Although Brint and Doris Schorer are faithful in attending '36 affairs, they were anxious to be off the following weekend to Virginia to visit their son, David '62, who has returned to this country after many months of service in Bangkok. He is presently employed by the State Department in Washington as a management analyst. While circulating at the cocktail hour in Dexter's Barn, I learned what was happening to other '36 families. Dr. Bill and Ann Sicher's son, David '67, has completed his military service and is working with Bache & Co. in New York City while working for his M.A. in the evening. Joe and Libby Millimet have built a vacation home on Jamaica for island living. At the awards dinner of the Financial World Magazine in late October, the gold medal for excellence of annual report to stockholders was bestowed on the Singer Co. The report was prepared by Case-Hoyt of Rochester, N. Y., represented for many years by Ross Woodbridge. On October 10, 1970, Princeton will play, Dartmouth in Hanover and Chuck Aaron is holding all accommodations for '36. Get your reservation and $10,00 deposit in early.
Bax Fullerton has been named sales manager of the new Cleveland Turning Machine Division of Warner & Swasey Company. This new division will concentrate on building the W/S standard and numerically controlled turret lathes and single spindle automatic been with Warner & Swasey since 1942 and had been director of marketing. He and Eba have four children, and their youngest, Baxter Jr., is a member of the Class of 1973.
Dr. Lou Benezet, president of the Claremont Graduate School in California, has resigned his position effective July 1, 1970. On that date he will accept the presidency of the State University of New York at Albany, which is one of the state's four major university centers established in 1962. During his tenure at Claremont he has worked diligently to make the cluster college concept a reality with close cooperation of the educational establishments in the group. He established the Human Resources Institute at Claremont which founded an ethnic and urban studies center.
Another educator, Dr. Len Mead, had a travelling summer. His daughter, Susan, visited with Len in India. He met her in Hong Kong and they stopped at Bangkok and the Taj Mahal on their way back to Delhi. They returned to Boston via Frankfurt, Paris, and London. While in the States Len attended the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association in Washington and even managed to squeeze five days in at his home in Castine, Me. Len is now back in Delhi looking forward to the beautiful weather and roses on Christmas Day. If anyone is around Delhi, "his latchstring is out for wayward '36ers."
Sam and Jane Morse and their son, Sam, have been in Japan since September. Sam is on sabbatical from his post as English Professor at Northeastern in Boston. He is on partial Fulbright fellowship at the University of Kobe and has been appointed the first Megumi Visiting Professor in American literature. In October Sam and his son journeyed to Seoul where he delivered a lecture to the annual meeting of the American Literary Society of Korea. Sam has two books in the hands of publishers - one is a study of Wallace Stevens and his poetry, the other is an original volume of his own poetry, "Sea Sums" illustrated by the Japanese artist, Fuku Akino.
The Capelle brothers are in the news. George Capelle is trading Portlands. He has resigned his post as chief engineer of the Public Works Department of Portland, Me., to accept a position with a consulting engineer firm in Portland, Ore. Russ Capelle is professor of history and government at Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. He has just published a small volume of his impressions of World War II entitled "Casablanca to the Neckar." If you would like to relive these years, send $1.50 to Russ and he will get a copy off to you. Dick Spong had offered to review it, but it had already been done by someone else. (You will find it under "Briefly Noted" in this MAGAZINE'S Book Review section.) It even reminded Dick that he had started a similar project some years back and he is now rereading his war diary. Who knows - this might hit the press, too.
In San Francisco on Dec. 28 Miss Lynn Burrows, daughter or Sumner and Jane Burrows, will be married to David Bunin, assistant attorney-general of California. Lynn is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, while the bridegroom-to-be was graduated from the University of North Carolina and the George Washington University Law School. Sumner is executive vice president of Haas Brothers, sugar brokers.
At Merganthaler Linotype Co., a division of Eltra Corporation, Briant Patterson has been appointed manager, graphic systems sales. Briant has been with Merganthaler since 1939 and took graduate work in printing and layout at New York University. In Wilmington, Del., Walter Mertz was named a senior vice president of the Wilmington Trust Co. where he has been associated since 1940. He is a a director of the Carnation Company, California, director and treasurer of the Children's Home, Inc. and the Wilmington Child Guidance Center, Inc.
Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a wonderful, peaceful 1970.
Manchester Union LeaderPaul Urion (l), president, presenting the1938 medallion to classmate John Nassikas, new Federal Power Commissionchairman.
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