1930

Ed and Arline Brazil, returning from a month's holiday with Ed and Liz Butterworth in Jamaica, found their mail box jammed with reunion acceptances. It looks already as though more than 300 people are planning to be in Hanover from June 15-18, representing 148 classmates. We are especially pleased to learn that Jean Carnell, Babs Allyn, Gretchen Boyles, Lois Jeremiah, Alma Smith, Shirley Talcott, Frances Ziegler, and Lola Keating will be with us. MiltMclnnes will shortly give you a name-byname run down of the attendants.

Here is a sampling of the kind of pleasant and interesting people you will meet at reunion. Nels Flanders writes "I retired as vice president-finance of Amerace Corporation in 1967 and have since been teaching Corporation Finance at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Fran and I have bought and restored an old house in Montague, 10 miles north of Amherst, and are enjoying small town life. I've been busy, though - learning how to teach.

"Children all grown up and away - Steve in London, manager of London branch Bank of New York; the youngest, Jane, in Los Angeles, and only Judy reasonably near by in Framingham. She is married and there are only two grandchildren."

Gordon Granger is "hoping to be at the reunion. Cay, my wife and beloved companion of 33 years, the mother of our three sons, died a year ago. I have married a childhood friend of hers who I'm sure misses her as much as I do. It will indeed be good to see you and so many of the others whom I have not seen for many years. I'm now the president of the First Barrington Savings Bank - a relatively small but, I hope, vital institution. Perhaps it is a strange occupation for a Thayer School graduate but I do have two sons who are practicing civil engineering in Great Barrington."

Wilton May is not quite so sure that he will make reunion but his letter is nontheless pleasant and interesting. "Statistics. One wife all these years, two children, two grandchildren. For big D worked on Alumni Fund some years and made an effort for the T.C.F. Effort-wise I still work making men'swear worsted fabric. Still in business in spite of the Japanese and other Far Easterners. Put forth some effort in behalf of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as director or v.p. for quite a long period and always optimistically.

"We rattle around in a very comfortable joint we built 15 years ago with a delightful view of one section of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We miss New England at times. Get back occasionally, eat a few Mcintosh apples and have a standing lunch order at Jimmy's in Boston for poached Finnan Haddie."

Fran Horn reports that on a recent trip he visited with Ellie Gilbert and Bill Fieldcamp in Houston and Barbara and JessLichter in Mexico City. Jess appears to have chosen Mexico as a permanent resident and this is his story.

For the past twelve years I've been managing a vinyl plastic fabricating plant in Mexico City for Sirco International Corporation which, incidentally, has just gone public.

My wife Barbara and I have three daughters. The eldest, Kathy, is taking her master's at the University of Arizona with the aim of teaching emotionally disturbed and under-privileged children. My second, Susan, is graduating from Washington University this month, having completed the requirements for a degree in three and a half years, including a junior year at the University of Madrid. She spent a summer working for Catholic Relief Service and became so interested in that type of work that she's looking for a job with some organization involved in social action. The youngest daughter, Elizabeth, goes to French Lycee here in Mexico.

Most of the Americans here send their children to college in the States, and very few of the kids come back to Mexico. They find the economic and social opportunities much greater in the States.

Barbara has been active in the usual round of charitable activities, but recently decided to go into business, and has became a travel agent. A couple of years ago we bought a house in Cuernavaca, where we hope to retire some day. However at present we are living in an apartment in the City.

I hope to make it in June, but at the moment I'm not sure.

Mort Collins. "During the '50's I sold the Blair Manufacturing Co. in Springfield, Mass., and formed the Morton B. Collins Co. with franchises from about 15 lawn and garden equipment manufacturers to wholesale replacement parts in New England, N. Y., N. J., and Pa. In 1965 I sold this company and started taking life easy.

"Since 1968 we have had a winter home in Delray Beach, Fla., where we spend 6 or 7 months. In the summer we are in Suffield, Conn. I have had an interest in antiques for many years, and enjoy being a trustee of the Conn. Antiquarian and Landmark So- ciety."

The following letter is a museum piece because I don't believe that Kirt Meyer has graced this column for many years. "My new job at Macy's as senior vice president and regional director of sales enables me to have my office in White Plains — 25 minutes from here and no New Haven R.R, commuting. It also from now on will allow me to spend more time on one of my two hobbies - gardening, vegetables (my wife, Mildred, is known locally as 'the lady with the flowers'). The other; closely related is gastronomy and I belong to three French gastronomic societies. Despite this I weigh just eight pounds more than I did when I left Hanover - and last week at the N. Y. chapter dinner of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, a white tie affair, my tails purchased in 1928 or 1929 fit perfectly."

If you haven't, send your acceptance to Ed Brazil.

Secretary, 56 Jennys Lane Barrington, R. I. 02806

Treasurer,6 Emerson Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181