1936

Early April in San Francisco is a wonderful choice for a convention and the right opportunity to mix business and pleasure. The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) made this happy choice and '36 was represented by some members of the industry and a few hangers-on. Norb andPic Hofman were present to spread good-will from Newsweek magazine where Norb is director of sales promotion. Sumner Burrows, who is executive vice president of Haas Bros, of San Francisco, formerly served as president and chairman of the board of WSWA and is currently one of its directors. His wife Jane did her share in extending West Coast hospitality and was commentator for the fashion show presented for the conventioneers' wives. Ray and PegReitman were on hand since Ray is president of Galsworthy Distributors of New Jersey, purveyors of excellent vintages and fine spirits.

Norb, as chairman of our 35th Reunion in Hanover on June 14, 1971, took the opportunity to stir up some interest among other San Francisco classmates to make the trip east next year. Ralph and Helen Cockroft promised to give it serious consideration. Ed Drechsel will definitely be there. As a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from the West Coast, Ed has practically been commuting to Hanover for the past three years. This month he will be attending his last official meeting in that capacity. At home in Belvedere, a suburb of S. F., Ed is a town councilman and chairman of a committee investigating local drainage problems - shades of Earth Day and the Environmental Handbook, a 95 cent paperback which should be read by everyone.

Another reunion for 1971 is being planned by the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, Class of '38. On March 20 they will convene in San Francisco and then take off for a week in Hawaii. The 33rd Aloha Committee boasts some familiar names - Al Gibney, president of Albert L. Gibney Co. of Springfield, Mass., and only '36 grandfather of triplets, and Brew Towne, vice chairman of American Atomic Corporation of Arizona. John Sawyer of Darien, Conn., is a member of the group and is probably planning a West Coast business trip for "Scholastic Publications" right about that time. At any rate we hope their budgets will support Hawaii in March and Hanover in June.

On March 30 in Boston Eileen Anschuetz was married to Welbourne Walker Lewis 3rd of Boston. The bridegroom is a graduate of St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., and Harvard College where he is a Fellow at the Center for Applied Studies in Cambridge, as well as a lecturer in English and assistant to the president of Newton College of the Sacred Heart and a staff writer in the office of public information at M.I.T. He is the son of W. Walker Lewis Jr. of Dayton, Ohio, senior partner in the law firm of Smith and Schnacke and general counsel for the Mead Corporation.

In Nashua, N. H., Harry Coronis recently announced that Industrial Reproduction Inc. of which he is the president and founder will soon be merged with the Buckbee-Mears Co. of Saint Paul, Minn. When that occurs, Harry will become chairman of the board and his son, Lewis '62 will become president and chief operating officer. Harry has been our official class photographer for the past 34 years and he put his hobby to good use when he established Industrial Reproduction Inc. in 1963.

Our Alumni Council member, Dune Newell, has been named to the new executive post of vice president, corporate affairs at the Valley National Bank of Arizona. He had formerly served as vice president and head of the trust department. In his new position he will be involved in the study and development of financial programs to generate new sources of earning assets and new uses for them. Dune went to Phoenix in 1959 and joined Valley Bank. He had earlier been associated with banks in Boston, Portland, Me., and Toledo.

Skiers in Vermont had a great season this year and the snow lasted well into spring. On April 29 Frank Kappler skied at Killington on his way to Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. All the class officers except Chairman Gil Balkam were present for the excellent program on May 1 and 2. Gil was scheduled to attend but at the last minute his mother-in-law underwent emergency surgery in California and he accompanied Fran to her bedside.

The weather was beautiful for the weekend and the details will be fully reported in TITHE by editors, Kappler and Dorrance. Phil and Leslie McInnis opened their home for the informal '36 get-together and arrange the superb dinner which followed at the Hanover Inn. The attendance count was 35 classmates, wives and family members. Jack and Marge Teulon came up from Manchester, N. H., where Jack is director of the Manchester Industrial Council, a municipal developmental agency. Gil and Ann Sykes came over from Dorset, Vt., and reported that Bob Keeler was building a vacation home in that community. The Sykeses had recently visited Dr. Bob and Marti Ingersoll in Hollywood, Fla., and were impressed with the camper bus Bob intends to drive to reunion next June.

We have planned several informal reunions during the next few months and we urge you to join the festivities. On August 1 Laura and Tommy Thomas will entertain all who can attend our annual lobster picnic at their summer home at West Bath, Me. If you will be in vicinity and want the particulars, write to me or Pete Fitzherbert, 21 Beacon Ave., Auburn, Me. There will be a dinner after the Harvard game on Oct. 24 at the Ramada Inn in Cambridge. The Princeton game will be in Hanover on Oct. 10 and we have reserved Dexter's Lodge in Sunapee, N. H. Send your deposit to them now. A dinner reunion will also follow the Yale game. The particulars will be forthcoming in TITHE. Hope you have a fine summer.

Secretary, 160 Judson Rd. Fairfield, Conn. 06430

Class Agent, 28 Dunbarton Dr., Nashua, N. H. 03060