1921

Kogr Wilde forwards a letter from AllanKernan in Tiffin, Ohio, with interesting information about his semi-retirement. For twenty years Allan was superintendent of a private school for orphans—with an enrollment of 1000 youngsters from 28 states;— “the happiest years of my life” says Al. After that he was mayor of the home town for six years, and council president for two years more. Now, in semi-retirement he spends week-day mornings as a consultant to a building and loan association. He reports that “at last I am doing about as I please—afternoons and evenings, that is.”

Luke Boggess breaks a long silence with a review of his many activities over the past several years, one of the most successful being the raising of a fine family—now going into the fourth generation with two great-grandchildren. The grandmother of this pair is Luke’s daughter Margaret. Margaret’s husband, Joe Miller, who has been associated with Luke’s insurance business for twenty years, has now taken complete charge of it. Luke Jr. (better known as Jack) graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the same class as your secretary’s older son-in-law, and was in- volved, as chief engineering officer, in the initial construction of the guided missile reporting station out of Cocoa Beach, Fla. He later resigned from the Navy, and is presently associated with Westinghouse in Los Angeles. Bill, the youngest son, is still enjoying non-marital bliss, and is a consult- ing engineer in Lawrence, Kan.

Osborne Ward—known colloquially as either “C. C.” or “Bump,” has really brought us up-to-date on his perigrinations and quiescences since taking early retirement from the management of a small loan business eleven years ago. He and Lyla have made two trips to Europe and later a ’round the world cruise. After having lived most of his life in the Melrose, Mass., area, the family winterized their summer home at Essex, Mass., on the shores of Chebacco Lake. At the same time they are close to the picturesque fishing towns of Ipswich, Gloucester and Rockport. Son Carl, D’4B, who made his mark as an outstanding tackle for the Green in the late forties, works for Mother Bell in Springfield, Mass., and has two sons and a daughter still in the educational process. Daughter Carol has been living in Chester, Vt, for the past 17 years—close by to Springfield, Vt., where her husband works as a sales engineer for a machine tool firm. “Bump” says he has little excuse for not returning to his Fiftieth Reunion, thus making partial retribution for She nine that he has missed up until now.

B. Marsh Whelden, whose first name was incorrectly reported in the 1921 Aegis as Benjamin, explains that the B. stands for Belno, a name which he never liked because his school friends insisted on calling him Belle, thus causing many school-yard battles. Although Marsh established a record for longevity as an undergraduate, since it took him nine years to get his degree—he cannot lay claim to being the oldest living member of the class. This honor goes to HughPenney, who is five and a half years his senior.

A clipping'has been sent to us from a Tucson, Ariz., newspaper telling of the death of Evelyn R. Manning, the widow of our classmate Howell Manning, who passed away in 1966. The Mannings were the owners of Canoa Ranch, located at the center of Arizona ranching, and part of a land grant which included 500,000 acres. Howell was the son of General Howell Manning, who was responsible for bringing the Southern Pacific Railroad through Tucson.

After spending 38 years as manager of the Kalamazoo Civic Theater, Norm Carver has broken loose from the shackles of the stage and done a lot of western hemisphere travelling—from Michigan to California, then to Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America—ending up with a theatre tour flight to London and Paris. Upon returning to the States he appeared at the ’2O-’2l Class Picnic at Bob Burroughs’ Canterbury farm, and then to Hanover for the Alumni Golf Tournament which, unfor- tunately was cancelled. But he played anyway, and was pleased with his 82 stroke score.

Having retired as Clinical Professor Emeritus from the Harvard Medical School, Ben Tenney now has gone rural in the beautiful country town of Washington, in northwest Connecticut. This had been the summer home of wife Vaillant’s family for three generations, so it was a natural move. His present avocations are swimming, fish- ing, wood-cutting and “considerable poor golf.” He keeps his medical hand in as consultant for the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the U. S. Navy, and also for the Connecticut Department of Health.

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