1943

For most of you the end of the summer means end of vacation, sending children off to school and getting back to the old routine at the office. For your Class secretary it means that and more—namely deadline time for the Alumni Magazine class notes. So keep remembering your class secretary and Herb Marx of the “Clanging Bells” and send on the news. We can’t print it if we don’t have it.

Since the Alumni Magazine is being printed on a new schedule and by a new printer, it should reach you approximately the first of the month, thus giving time to alert you again to the ’43 informal class reunion in Hanover on October 16-17, the weekend of the Brown game. We are looking for an even larger turnout than last year (a record year). As before, there will be class dinners on Friday and Saturday nights, including a combo for dancing on Saturday night. Our Saturday morning executive committee meeting (everyone who attends for the weekend is automatically on the executive committee) will be a busy one since President Charlie Donovan plans to cover our Alumni Fund performance, a permanent special class project, review the class subscription program to the Alumni Magazine and review class dues collection and what to do about 128 classmates who since 1962-63 have neither paid class dues nor contributed to Alumni Fund activity. Contact Paul Young at the college for your room reservations (including a $25.00 deposit).

Kudos to Kelly Coffin who has just been elected a member-at-large of the Alumni Council for a three-year term. His joining George Munroe and Connie Young on the Council may well give ’43 the largest representation of any class on the Council.

Most of the news this month is from New England. Starting at Keene, your secretary had a long visit with Mayor Bob Clark who is doing an outstanding job. Not only does he have a good press, but even the local residents make unsolicited nice comments about him. Your secretary’s own observation was that the Keene Airport and its facilities are the best in New England north of Boston.

Further south in Springfield, Mass., BobAtkinson, a partner in the law firm of Bulkley, Richardson, Ryan and Burbank, was elected to the Board of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Bob and his wife Lucy live at 17 Oxford Road, Long- meadow, together with their two daughters. Bob has been extremely active in local community affairs. Thirty miles south in Hartford, Conn., A 1 Hardie has been appointed assistant vice president, Group Division, of Aetna Life and Casualty. His current address is 70 Hillsboro Drive, West Hartford, Conn.

Further to the east, Relly Raffman of Barbary Coast fame, has been named Clark University’s first George N. and Selma U. Jeppson Professor of Music. Relly, chairman of the Clark University Music Department, has been on the faculty since 1954.

Our own Harvard professor Stan Bolster, a resident of Lexington, Mass., was the recipient of the Horace Kidger Award at the annual spring meeting of the New England History Teachers’ Association held at Provi- dence, R. I. The award is made to someone person in New England “who has made an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history and/or the social sciences in the secondary schools or colleges and universi- ties of the region or who has done meritorious work in advancing scholarship in these fields.”

The last bit of news is from Washington where Captain Bill Alexander has just taken over an assignment in the Office of Plans and Policies for CNO. He and wife, the former Anne Boyle of Westminster, Md., are now living at 1615 Forest Lane, McLean, Va. 22101. Bill’s last duty assign- ment was in Coronado, Calif., where he had been CO of the “U.S.S.- Okinawa,” an LPH (for you non-Navy types, that’s an amphibi- ous assault ship and for you Air Force types, that’s a helicopter carrier) and then on the staff of COMPHIPAC. Since his arrival in Washington he has run into Phil Bowie.

The only other news from Washington is that Bus Mosbacher, Chief of Protocol, is on the West Coast in connection with the President of Mexico’s visit. Next month we’ll try to have the real inside story on the waiters vs. waitresses controversy, but don’t hold your breath until then to send news.

Secretary. 1001 Conn. Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. 20036 Treasurer, 530 Lowell St. Lynnfield Center, Mass. 01940