1937

This month has brought to our class the ultimate in sadness, the passing of two of our well known and respected classmates, Gi St. Clair and Pete McLane. Gi passed away January 7 and full details will be found in the obituary section of this or a subsequent issue. The news of Pete arrived only today by card from Bill Rotch as we were about to prepare this article and will therefore appear in another month's MAGAZINE. As you know, Pete was Patty Rotch's brother and our report of his brain tumor operation last summer indicated recovery aspects of a remarkable nature. In fact, we had a note from Polly McLane only two weeks ago significant in its appraisal of Pete's amazing progress and newsworthy for details of their active family. We feel, with all due respects, the class will be interested. We quote:

We had a great trip to St. Croix in November with the excuse for the trip that our oldest son, Andy '69, was at the Peace Corps Training Camp there and is now in Tchad, Africa, on a well digging project with HQ at Fort Lamy or Fort Archambault. Son Bruce is in third year at Penn and Doug a freshman at Hiram College in Ohio. Young Greg is at New Hampton. Pete and I had a trip last August to Audubon Camp at Hog Island, Me., where Doug was working and in October spent a weekend with him at Hiram. Pete's main project was continuing work on Indian artifacts dug up in 1968 by the Amoskeag Falls site on the Merrimack river. We have been trying to catalogue and label this large amount of artifacts and get more carbon datings. I believe this is the oldest Indian material so far identified in New Hampshire.

A card to Connie Schuck brought forth a copy of their Christmas news letter with a note that although his intentions were always good it took the card to get him off his butt. Connie and wife, Sam, took last year off from his teaching job at Buffalo State for a nine-month leisurely trip to California and Mexico in a 26-foot Airstream Travel-all. They rented their house and car to a visiting professor from Norway and took off for San Diego where they own a three-acre retirement site in Fallbrook. Most time was spent there but two months were taken up touring about seeing friends from Stanford sabbatical days including time in Mexico. Of current interest is their son, John, being signed by 20th Century Fox to be featured in the movie MASH, now released. He followed that with another feature role in "Moonshine War" and two "Gunsmoke" episodes (shades of JohnMeston). Peter is married to an attractive Korean girl named You Me, whom he met in the army, and is a senior at Syracuse. Youngest Rob is head of Speech and Hearing Services of the Dunkirk (N. Y.) public schools and working toward his master's.

Noting that Jack Sheffield showed a NYC address as well as one in the Bahamas, we pried him loose with a card request for updating. Although he claims immunity as "President of the World's-Lousiest-Personal-Correspondence-Club" we found that he wound up the Andros Utilities Corp., an 800,000 acre development in the Bahamas, two years ago - referring to it as a completely James Bond affair abounding with intrigue, good and bad guys, the trench coat set, and attache cases in hot hand while vaulting seven foot fences, etc. Now back in N. Y. he's on the look out for something that will provide at least as much satisfaction as money but finds too many leads preferring to "do people" rather than "do business."

No doubt some of you are familiar with the trials of the U. S. textile industry due to foreign competition and now the shoe industry here in New England faces the same. We were surprised to hear a recent radio news interview with Hal Gould wherein he told of the closing of his 60-year-old Hannahsons Shoe Company in Haverhill, Mass. Hal tells us he decided on a re-structuring because the reduced tariffs under the Kennedy round made the long-term outlook economically unsound, especially comparing labor costs abroad with here. They are now involved in producing shoes in Italian and Spanish factories and distributing them in this country. He and Sally had just returned from three weeks over there (business and sight-seeing) and he expects to return shortly.

Notes from here and there. William and Mary College in Virginia announce DickNewman appointed chairman of the department of Fine Arts. Chick Koop, Surgeon-in-Chief of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, was guest speaker at the annual Camden Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. This function is similar to the Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington and open to various mayors and their guests. Kindness of Lyman Milliken '27 we have a clipping from the Annapolis newspaper of the engagement announcement of Priscilla, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dillon to Edward Paul Reisch of Wyoming. Cal and Fessie Eldred's son (CP the 4th) was married to Cynthia Selman of Glen Ellyn, Ill. A quick note from Bill Falion reported on the dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of New Canaan with Bob Blackman as principal speaker. Dave Camerer presided as out-going president and also at the speakers' table were Carl and Corkie Ray.

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