1939

It's been a real old fashioned winter. Any way you shovel it, there's three feet of snow outside our window in March in North Carolina, so we weren't too surprised to hear from Bob Kaiser that Hanover has had a record 122 inches, and it's still falling. He and Ev may get tunnel vision driving down the street between snowbanks. Bob says his kids love the snow, and this has been the healthiest, most active winter the Kaisers have enjoyed since moving back to Hanover.

Our Class has the second largest contingent of alumni sons in this year's freshman class. We happily list,the following classmates mates who have sons in the class of 1972: BudBodge, George Boswell, Jack Cathcart, Arnie' Childs, Bill Cunningham, Jim Garnett nett, Jake Holland, John McKeever, Herb Mattlage, Bud Pratt, Dick Shaw, and Wyman Vaughan. Maybe the mothers , should get a great deal of the credit, but in each and every case^congratulationss, all hands!

As the Third Century Fund proceeds apace, a surprisingly long list of '39ers are actively engaged in its successful progress. Credit has been previously given to many of our number, but did you know that Art Larkin is on the national corporation committee? Jim Sampson is area chairman for Lancaster, Pa., and Baxter Prescott for Charleston, W. Va. The area committee for little old metropolitan New York includes Bert MacMannis, Dusty Rohde, Bill Carter, Dick Durrance, Jim McKeon, John Mecklm, Moreau Brown, and Sam Thurm. How can we lose?

Our Bob Kaiser wrote the booklet "Tax Considerations" which is the best-sellmg handbook on all the tax angles of contributing to the Third Century 'Fund and is used by all the workers. It's a good thing for the College that those guys up m Crosby Hall are so good at figuring the angles and the angels m rising money.

John Little of Melrose, Mass., was elected chairman of the finance committee at the annual meeting of the Melrose Highlands Congregational Church. John is the associate comptroller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will continue to serve as chairman of the endowment fund committee of his church.

The United States Trust Company of New York has appointed our Gus Littlejohn as president of the United States Trust Company International Corporation. Prior to joining the trust company, Gus was president of Deltec Securities Corporation of New York and executive vice president and director of Deltec Panamerica, Nassau, the Bahamas. He continues as a director of Deltec Panamerica, and we feel sure he keeps his mind on the business at hand at their annual meetings.

Out on the west coast Clem Burnap has been appointed vice president, marketing and engineering, Yuba Industries, Inc., San Francisco. He went to Yuba from North American Rockwell Corporation, where he held several positions in marketing, engineering, and research and development from 1958 up to the present time. He is a specialist in chemical, petroleum and nuclear plant engineering with broad experience in foreign plant construction development.

Bill Ormsbee of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a native of Penacook, N. H., has been appointed New England Telephone chief engineer for the Northern states, effective February 1. He has been serving as the company's engineering director of their construction program in Boston. Bill will be moving his family home to New Hampshire soon.

Loris V. Smith has moved to 4122 West Hawthorne Trace Road in Milwaukee. Bud Clifford, who has been transferred many times over the years, has found the end of the rainbow at Isla Verde, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Bruce Learned, last heard from in Lima, Peru, now makes his home at 1621 Golden Court, McLean, Va.

An interesting note from Jack Haverfield reports that he is spending all his time in his retreat in Lumberville, Pa. (pop. 300) after complete recovery from an attack of tuberculosis in his left lung. That old firehorse is anxious to get back in harness and is looking at several possibilities. He promises to be back at Reunion.

Bud Blunt says he made a lot of Dartmouth noise from the middle of the Penn side last fall but still couldn't coax the Indians to victory. Bud is looking forward to our Thirtieth in June when he will also be attending his youngest son's graduation.

Dick Brooks spent the last two years in Switzerland, the French part, where he could barely communicate by using his hands! They sold their Connecticut home and took off to live in places they had always dreamed of living. The experience was as fulfilling as they had hoped, but the old cartoonist is slipping back into our orbit gradually by way of an extended stay in a rented home in Bermuda, where the scenery is great, the golf pretty good, the friends fine but the weather leaves something to be desired. We thought Dick's cartoon with our March column was the greatest, and we especially liked his quotation "All the guys from 1938 and 1940 are coming up, too." We'll all be there, Brooksie.

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