1921

Brad Richardson, who has spent a lifetime in Fairmount, Minn., has had a teaching career in the Fairmount High School, and as Superintendent of Schools in Martin County. He looks back to his undergraduate days as being the "best ever," even though he had long hours of work at the Hanover Inn under the watchful eye of Arthur P. Fairfield 'OO. Son Bill is presently associated with Dow Chemical in Sweden, and daughter Catherine is the wife of an attorney practicing in the home town of Fairmount.

Ed Luedke is interested in the SCORE program (a non-pay job for retired executives sponsored by the federal government's Small Business Administration). After having served in an executive capacity with several New York corporations Ed has finally come to "rest" in Orchard Park, a lovely suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. An announcement has been received of daughter Ann's marriage to Lt. Jon C. Olstad of the U.S. Airforce on December 27, 1969.

John Woodhouse recommends to classmates who want to get away from the crowds that they should consider northern Hudson's Bay country, which he and Ann visited last summer. John has been doing consultant work .for the Atomic Energy Commission of Canada, which activity took him to Winnipeg. He is also involved in a whole series of projects assigned to him by the University of Delaware.

Charles (Pete) Bailey keeps jumping around the country, but has finally taken root at Lighthouse Point, Fla. 'Tis a far cry from the old home town of Duluth, where the normal temperature for January is none degrees, to the land of the pompano with a mid-winter norm of 67°. Pete's only occupational hazard presently is that or having to listen to complaints from fellow residents in the condominium in which he lives, and where he is a member of the board of directors.

Hugh Penney, the Reverend, who is still active in his pastoral career as part-time minister in Acton, Mass., can lay claim to many records. He is the oldest living member of the class, is now serving his fourteenth parish, has eighteen grandchildren, and is the only classmate to our knowledge who was born in Ireland. His son, Hugh Jr. is following in his father's footsteps in the ministry.

J. Millard "Doc" Fleming, after retiring from practice in his home town of Elkhart, Ind., has luxuriated for the past six or seven years in San Diego, Calif., after spending a decade as director of Student Health Service at the University of Idaho. With his golf game temporarily restricted due to an operation Doc has taken up water color painting, which has provided him with many pleasant hours. He should get together with Guy Wallick who has also taken up the daubing hobby, but working in oils, where one can cover up mistakes more readily. Doc says he will be at the Fiftieth "if the Lord be willing."

Lorin (Goldy) Goulding is keeping his hand in as an independent contractor with the fire insurance firm for whom he worked for over a 41-year period before his compulsory retirement. He is still sticking with his natal city of Buffalo, and recreates with golf in the summer, and bowling in the winter. Daughter Marcia (Mrs. John B. Walker) is an assistant dietician at the Wende Home, with three children - one of whom is a sophomore at the University of Buffalo.

Lincoln "Abe" Weld has turned historian and lecturer, and recently gave an address before the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution on "The Founding of Dartmouth College in 1769."

Ing Baker has become a Down-East entrepreneur, with the organization of Harraseeket Enterprises, Inc., which operates a marine sales and service business in South Freeport, Me. The two Baker sons, Walton and Jeremiah, will be in charge; the former as office and sales manager, and Jerry supervising the yard, repair and marine services. Walton '4B will leave his post at the Society for Savings of Hartford, Conn., and move to the Pine Tree State. Jerry, a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy, and presently a deck officer in the Merchant Marine Service, will move his family to South Freeport from Bangor. Ingham shows no intention of leaving his Suffield, Conn., home and switching his affection from wooden nutmegs to pine cones.

Clarke "C.D." Bassett, since retiring several years ago from the banking business in Minneapolis, has evolved a most salubrious pattern of living which sounds most appealing. His Minneapolis home has been sold, and after having spent some time in itinerant travel to Europe, the West Indies and Florida, has now settled down with a summer place in Northern Minnesota — then migrating with the birds for the winter months to Scottsdale, Ariz., where Marjorie and "C.D." have a small town house type of home. Son J. Clarke '50 has moved from the old home town to the New York area, dealing with flour mill products. Daughter Susan has chosen to stay in the north-west in Fargo, N.D., with her four children. Other daughter Harriet, married to a colonel in the Strategic Air Command, is in Hawaii.

A lengthy and most interesting letter has come in from Joe Folger which brings us up-to-date on some of his activities since he left Hanover after retirement to live on Nantucket Island, better known to many as Folgertown. We started to call Joe an Island native, but research develops that he was born in Los Angeles where his father had migrated to try his hand at pomology. Like other fruit farmers in the Claremont area he "lost his shirt" when the water supply was cut off, and returned to Nantucket in 1900.

Son David '53 is assistant professor of geology and oceanography at Middlebury College, but still maintains his affiliation with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole, Mass. Dave is an innate surfcaster for the blues and the stripers, a throwback to his great-grandfather who could "stretch a forty-five fathom line" - which, translated, means between 225 and 270 feet depending on how far one can stretch his arms. Cap'n Joe's sister is living in Pasadena, Fla. She can be proud of her son Bob Folger Thome '41 who is professor of botany at Claremont College in California.

Besides philosophizing about youth and modernity in looks and dress - "clothes were intended primarily to keep the anatomy warm" - Joe reports on the Nantucket weather which is moderate in all seasons due to the ocean round it. In the winter of '68-'69 the first snowfall was on March 13, and up to Christmas of 1969 there had only been an inch or two of the white stuff which lasted less than a day. Joe concludes by saying "my Hanover shovel will undoubtedly outlast me."

As these notes were being completed we have learned of the sudden death of LeonBateman on Christmas Day at his home in Fitzwilliam, N.H. His obituary will appear in this, or a later, issue of the MAGAZINE. Our sympathies are extended to his widow and two sons who survive.

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