1937

June is clean-up month. We have a number of cards. Duke Clark writes from Keene, N. H., his three children no longer fit that description - in fact, he has two grandchildren. Youngest daughter at Lesley College; another, 22, a medical secretary in San Francisco; his married son is with the Associated Press in Fargo, N. D. Duke will be installed as president of the Keene Rotary Club in July if not black-balled (he says) and continues in the insurance business with brother Bob '43 who is Mayor of Keene. He sees Dick Cooper now and then. Al Sutter wrote from Virginia that he and Ruth were planning to attend the Apollo 13 launching with Chuck and Margaret Hotaling. Dr. Don Bauer moved last January from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Hollywood to begin practice of radiology in Los Angeles at the Queen of Angels Hospital. Says he, "The city man returned to the city after twenty years in small communities. Back from clear air and skies of 4000 feet amid the Cascade Mountains to the auto fumes and sea-level dampness. Who can explain why men do this?"

Wife, Grace, writes for George Snyder that he had suffered a severe stroke three years ago and is unable to write. He is making a fair recovery - can walk, shave, and speak reasonably well but no use of his right hand. They sold their farm and both went into teaching (paid better) in order to help their twins through Dartmouth and Cornell. Now George can no longer work but enjoys the water-front and ship-yard activity in Essex Conn., where they live.

Fran Gray, formerly executive director of the Winchendon (Mass.) Housing Authority and living in Rindge, N. Ft., moved to Reading, Mass., where he joined Claude Miquelle Associates as business manager. As architects they have done mostly private homes but are moving more into apartments and condominiums with land planning and development. They have kept the Rindge home planning eventually on moving back. Jerry Sherman writes his N. Y. law practice provides little by way of news for us except his firm is busy with co-operative housing which is sweeping New York. Jerry says Charley Blaisdell gave a fine reunion party recently at his office for their law school class (Columbia '40) also he and Jean spend weekends at their country place in Ridge-field, Conn. (Jerry, that is). Dex Smith's card says simply "No news is good news" so we surmise from his firm handwriting he is healthy, busy, and retains his sense of humor.

We've had two short notes from Bill Fallon. He and ML took a business trip to the West Coast but also to see their son and married daughter in Colorado. While in Denver he called Don McKinlay to find that he and Helen were about to take a three-week vacation in Europe. Don is chairman of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and has had to give up almost all other activities as the job is so demanding. Don says Bill Geraghty remains the perennial bachelor out there.

We note Fred Laughton has joined the Third Century Fund team in the New Jersey area. Charley Schaaf writes from California he has for the past several years been VP and division counsel for the aircraft division of Hughes Tool Company. Last January he married Mrs. Jonell Witter after being a bachelor for seven years. They settled in Mandeville Canyon near Los Angeles. He saw Fred Vogt who was visiting from Copenhagen last summer and Charley and Eric Rafter have threatened lunch together for ten years without success. From Lowell, Mass., Brad Varnum tells us he underwent major surgery baffling the doctors with a marvelous recovery. He called it a repair job better done now than later. Although he missed skiing this season he will be ready to tee up for golf.

We dropped into the Old Colony Trust in Boston to find Charley Pingree looking no older or wiser but maybe slightly greyer. He claims to live such a patterned life it never provides news. He asked me what I knew about John Maloon. Nothing. So Charley grabbed his phone, got a hot line to J. C. Penney in New York only to be informed John left the company a year ago. Maloon 54 where are you?

Bos Bosworth was named a director of Cutler-Hammer Inc. in Milwaukee and, we are sorry to report, he and Marion separated last July and divorced in January.

Marsh Roper says ten classmates attended the N. Y. fund kick-off dinner in April. Falion, Berkowitz, Fran Evans, Al McKenzie, Jonathon Coggeshall, Don Miller, Prescott, Ray, Camerer, and Fred Forsch.

The Wool Bureau in New York issued a press release that Bob Woodruff has been named director of public relations. He was for ten years a member of Dupont's advertising department, associate editor and editorial writer for the News-Journal newspapers in Wilmington, Del., and fifteen years a member of the Monsanto public relations department. He joined the Wool Bureau last year. We ran into Bob Ross on the street. He is now controller and treasurer (plus other jobs) of the G. K. Hall Company in Boston, publishers of library indexes and catalogues. He had a very serious bout with hepatitis a few years back which he says darn near finished him but we can tell you he appears quite healthy now.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schultz announced the engagement of their daughter, Mary Ermina, to Stephen Wood of Miami, Fla. The April 18 New York Times carried a picture of a very pretty bride, Mrs. Michael Viener, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. RobertMarschalk of New Canaan. Conn. Bob is president of Richardson-Merrill Inc., a pharmaceutical concern.

Bill Heroy has resigned from the class executive committee due to starting work last February at Southern Methodist as VP Finance and professor of Geological Sciences which he describes as quite a change after 29 years in industry. He feels he must adapt his schedule to the more limiting one of SMU. Fred Asher has been appointed to fill this vacancy and he signifies he is delighted to accept.

My heartfelt thanks to this great class of 1937. You have kept this secretary so well supplied with news I never once had to resort to local telephone calls and therefore apologize to the Boston area if any here feel neglected. See you next fall.

Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Class Agent, Champion Packages Co. 245 Park Ave., 33rd Floor New York, N. Y. 10017