1943

Mv apologies for missing the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for Class Notes, but through a combination of lack of communication from the Class and being absolutely swamped at the office, my data arrived just too late for inclusion. Accordingly the May notes (now June) read as follows:

The news this month is from all around since your secretary has been doing some traveling (according to his wife all the time). Starting in the northland, Dr. Harold Frost, who holes-up during the winters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., admits to still being chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital. When surprised with my phone call he admitted to having three children, a dog, a cat, a parakeet. 80 fish and one curious wife. (He subsequently explained the phone call.) He has passed through Hanover a couple of times in recent years and expressed regret at being unable to make the 25th last June.

Moving south down the Mississippi Valley to Memphis, Milt Binswanger says he is bounding back nicely from a coronary last year. His company, Binswanger Glass Company, merged into National Gypsum. Milt still runs the company and has lots of trips to Buffalo. By reason of his activities in the Glass Association, he has run into Allan Hardy - but not recently. He and wife Lenore, who celebrate their twenty-sixth anniversary on May 28, have a son Richard who graduated from Bradley University last year (now in the National Teacher Corps); a daughter Lisa Ann, a sophomore at the University of Indiana, and a daughter Barbara who is a sophomore in high school in Memphis. Milt inquired specifically about George Monroe and Jim Elleman whom he encourages to write.

Further south in Dallas a call to Chuck Arnstein found him out doing chores for the kids. Wife Barbara Jane invited me to call back which I was unable to do, but will make it next time.

In Houston I learned the sad news that Eddie Tuffly had passed away on Thursday, April 3, 1969. His wife Jane said that he had suffered a sudden massive heart attack. Eddie had been very active in civic and business affairs in Houston and was president and general manager of Krupp & Tuffly, Inc. which recently had been sold as a subsidiary to U.S. Shoe. Although more details will follow next month in the In Memoriam section, his widow Jane Campbell Tuffly resides at 7246 Crestwiek, Houston, Texas 77025. The sympathy of the Class certainly goes to her and their three children.

While in Houston I tried to get in touch with Bill Thaxton (who was Eddie Tuffly's roommate in Richardson Hall), but found him out of the city on a trip to Los Angeles. Bill is active as an investor and hopefully next time around well have more information.

In Atlanta it turned out Kelly Coffin and I crossed trips and he was attempting to reach me in Washington while I tried to reach him in Atlanta. Kelly's wife Janie passed on the information that there was to be a Dartmouth do shortly and assured me that Kelly would pass on all appropriate news for the Class.

Swinging into the far south, namely Miami, Jim Dunaway filled us in as to his activities (no biog in the reunion book). He has been in Florida since 1947 and is an interior designer. As he put it, he has done work from Curacao to Toronto and points in between and has done work with boats, houses, apartments, cocktail lounges, play rooms and even a fertilizer plant. He and his wife have two girls, one age 16 at Stone- leigh-Burnham in Greenfield, Mass., and another age 18, a sophomore in Hollins College in Roanoke. Of the five Alumni Colleges held in Hanover, Jim has made four, but his wife has made five, which is probably something of a record. He is active in the Salvation Army (on the advisory board) and is co-chairman of the Third Century Fund in Miami. As to other '43s in the area, he advises that Jack Behringer, who is "next door" in Fort Lauderdale, is still going strong in the investment business and still owns and operates Island House, a restaurant and nightclub in Freeport, Bahamas. He accuses Behringer of volunteering him as cochairman of the Third Century Fund, and that he in turn approached Stan Calder as a co-co-chairman. Stan, who recently has moved to Miami in the stockbroker business, demurred on the grounds that he is already committed as an agent for the Alumni Fund, so it appears we are well represented. Jim also has seen Walter Pettit who is manager of Burdine's Dadeland Store, one of the largest in the Miami area.

This month's column closes on another sad note in that Jerry Riley's mother (Mrs Bernard C. Riley) advises that Jerry passed away on March 12. An In Memoriam notice should be in the July ALUMNI MAGAZINE. His mother resides at 1306 Salem Avenue, Hillside, N. J. 07205, and his wife Peggy at 80 Bustleton Pike, Churchville, Pa. 18966. Again the deepest sympathy of the Class of '43 goes to them.

Charlie Donovan, Ed Lider, Cal Osberg, and I, together with our respective wives, attended the Class Officers' meeting in Hanover the first weekend in May. It was a very enlightening meeting (and in view of subsequent events, sobering) and we shall nil you in either through this column or through Herb Marx' newsletter.

As a final matter, the informal class reunion this fall will be the weekend of the Holy Cross game, so get your check for $25.00 in to Paul Young, associate treasurer of the College to reserve rooms. Remember the date, October 3-5. See you next fall, but don't wait until then to write.

Secretary, 1001 Conn. Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20036

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