1935

Plans for '35's smashing 36th (or, if you prefer belated 35th) are rolling into high gear. Co-chairmen Johnny Wallace and Doug Ley gave a progress report to some eighty classmates and wives, gathered in Hanover Sept. 25-26 for our annual football weekend. They have appointed a raft of committee chairmen, and every detail is under control. So, start making your plans now. The dates: June 14-15-16.

Your scribe didn't make the fall bash this year, so you'll have to rely on the Tearbag for more complete details. That particular weekend found Betty and me at a board meeting in Bergen, Norway, a city that rivals San Francisco for its natural beauty. Enroute home, we stopped in London and lunched with Ben Harriman, who reported that his son, Edward, and family are leaving shortly for India to complete a Ph.D project on population.

We missed Margaret and Bo Fleming by a day or so. They were back in the U.S.A. "to see that our kids are raising the grandchildren right." According to Ben, Bo (having retired from Esso Europe) is doing some consulting work, and well prepared to make London his permanent home.

Upon our return, we found the mail box crammed with letters from '3sers who had answered my frantic appeal for news. (Won't some of the rest write voluntarily!) Amid the news about families and promotions was a heavy measure of sadness. We have lost two more classmates. Ralph Field and Jack Thompson died after extended illnesses. Also, Hank Diamond, Sid's wife, and Marie Upton, Dick's wife, have passed away. In behalf of the Class, the column extends our deepest sympathy to the bereaved families.

Ernie Draper has joined the growing list of '35ers resident in the Hanover area. Ernie took early retirement from Time, Inc., to handle fundraising activities for Tuck School, working under George Cotton's office of long-range development. Actually, Ernie and Holly are living in nearby Hartland, Vt.

Babs and Beg Bankart are grandparents for the third time, a daughter born to daughter Beverly. Their son graduated from the University of Denver in August. Reg had planned on attending a Southeast Asia advertising conference in New Dehli in November, but the trip was scrubbed for economy reasons and, as Reg phrased it, "They'll send someone from Bangkok, not Bankart."

Frank Specht has much to report from the Washington area. "Ran into two classmates on Connecticut Avenue the same day—Bill Bury and Karl Dollack. Bill still is with IBM and lives with all the wealthy people in Annapolis. Karl is a very prosperous-looking Washington attorney, but disagrees with this description. Occasionally, run into Chuck Dineen, an attorney with the General Services Administration. His son is co-captain of the Dartmouth track team.

"Bill Kreigf has retired from the State Department, and joined the academic world with some university in Florida. JerrySpingarn is very busy as Senior Advisor to the Arms Control Disarmament Agency. He and I own beach houses at Bethany Beach, and ogle the 18-year-old, bikini-clad blondes—until our wives put the blindfolds on!

"Bob Narramore was here on business in July and Hugh Wolff and I lunched with him. Hugh, incidentally, has a full beard like Abe Lincoln, and is Director of Strategy and General Research in the Intelligence Bureau of the State Department. One of his daughters is a junior at Radcliff; the other a junior at Bryn Mawr.

"At the Army-Navy club, I introduced Narramore to a couple of my FBI friends as one of the ten most-wanted men. They obliged by arresting him, but after a while we felt sorry for him and let him go. This dangerous man is still at large!"

Of his own family, Frank reports that he, Edith, and all three children flew to the coast and toured from San Francisco to Seattle. He and brother Ralph are looking forward to their annual family reunion at Frank's Bethany Beach home, in mid-October.

Also from Washington, Eddie Offutt (whom Frank describes as a "big wheel at HEW") reports that Dean Couper has retired from government service. Ed offered no word on Dean's future plans, other than to say Dean and Mabel would be attending the fall reunion.

Ed also reveals that Hugh Wolff's daughter Gretchen (that's the Bryn Mawr junior) has beei a valued summer worker in his office the past three years, and adds: "It would be an advantage if we could get more like her!"

Ed himself is traveling less, turning over more responsibilities to his junior staff. Only one daughter is home now, Jeanne, a junior in high school. Oldest daughter, Claire, is graduating from Johns Hopkins with her husband next June. Middle daughter, Evelyn, has just completed medical studies at George Washington University.

Soon to be rejoining the Washington group is Lowell Haas. He is transferring from United Air Lines Chicago headquarters staff to handle the business management functions for UAL's stewardess group there, supervising some 550 girls. Anybody envious? Lowell's daughter, Carol, and her husband, are moving to Mt. Hermon School in Massachusetts, where Marv will be director of student activities.

A goodly group of California '35ers attended the Alumni Seminar on "Minding the Revolution" at Yosemite National Park, this summer. Dave Smith, Brad Bradshaw, Bill Gahagan, and Don Richardson. Dave Smith writes that all vowed to attend the reunion in June and are busy expanding the California contingent. The biggest news in the Smith family is the arrival of a third grandson, who will carry on the family name of Parkhurst. The other grandfather is Arthur Jensen, until retirement Dean of Faculty at the college. Dave's youngest son, Bob, is at Stanford Business school, after a three-year stint with the nuclear sub "Robert E. Lee."

Ted Harbaugh reports on a most unusual experience in Japan. "In Tokyo, we visited Masao Kimura, who 25 years ago as Captain Honda surrendered to me near the town of Hentona on Okinawa, while the formal Japanese surrender ceremonies were taking place on the battleship "Missouri." Finding this man again was remarkable, but getting to know him as a friend was a rare experience indeed."

Ted and Kay have been learning Japanese, and found they could travel by themselves without difficulty. Currently, they have an 18-year-old Japanese boy, named Hideta Matsui, living with them on an exchange program and find the experience very worthwhile.

Quickies: Eddie Hinman named to the Alumni Council of Harvard Business School. Sam Parsons appointed area manager of the Hartford National Bank and Trust company, where he is a v.p. Hunt Harrison convalescing from an operation to repair "my defective plumbing." Dan Kerwin steps down as president of the St. Louis Kiwanis Club, after a busy year on programs to arrest the drug problem.

Secretary 840 Westcliff Deerfield, Ill. 60015

Treasurer, Apt. 323, 9820 Crawford Ave. Oak Lawn, 111. 60453