1949

According to a wonderful old. Thanksgiving anthem, the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh over the white and drifted snow, but I'll guarantee you that the old lead sled in my garage is going to have yours truly behind the wheel and mama and the kids all polished up and tied down when we make the Hanover run this coming June 19. Forty Nine's twentieth will not be missed as long as we don't run out of tire patches and enthusiastic kids. For you men of indecision, a phone call to GordonThomas direct to his business office (914-967-4747) right up to June 15 can put you and your family right into the reunion picture and the fall class weekend next October 9 and 10 as well. We expect to have close to five hundred people under the class tent if it rains, and that my friends is a lot of humanity. Don't let little things stop you from coming.

Quent Kopp has three little things all under six years of age including a new daughter to hold him back, but he won't be denied the chance to join us all the way from San Francisco. By the way, Quent has finally rounded out his Gold Pick Axe Committee for the fall presentation with the addition of Dana Jackson and Lou Mulkern. Don't forget to send him your nominations at 351 California Street, San Francisco, Calif. The usual end of June deadline has been moved back to July 31 just this time only.

It seems rather appropriate after six years of writing this column on planes, trains, motel desks, and the old dining room table to tell you that I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. My fondest hope is that you will all continue to make newsworthy contributions to your lives for my successor. Rather than to leave you with a swan song, I would prefer to tell you a different kind of bird story. Classmate Maurie Cole made the Atlantic City papers recently when he accidentally clobbered a Canadian goose flying fifty feet up after it took off from the Brigantine Country Club. The local Kiwanis Club gave him a plaque for the first goose ever landed on the golf course. The greenskeeper took the goose home and ate it, and Maurie is still afraid he may hear from the conservation department for landing a goose out of season.

While we're on the subject of newspapers, I am sure that you will all be pleased to learn that classmate Roger Atwood has been chosen assistant advertising manager of the New York Times. His is currently embattled with the typesetters' union. The union is employing slowdown tactics which have already cost the newspaper two million dollars in lost advertising revenue at this writing.

From blue grass country comes a letter written by Tom and Sue Towler. Tom was named vice president of marketing for Peyton, Inc. in Louisville. The firm is a non-food merchandiser for general merchandise as well as health and beauty aids for many national food and drugs aids. They've been in Louisville almost a year and the entire family loves it.

We do not as yet have anything other than a photograph and a caption in the New York Post, but Dick Hanselman has been appointed president and general manager of Samsonite Corporation's luggage division. Dick was a vice president of RCA in Indianapolis when I spoke to him just a year ago. I believe Samsonite is located in Denver.

Bruce Crawford also was in the papers recently. The Worcester Gazette ran a photo of him with the news story that he has been elected second vice president in charge of group sales for State Mutual Life Insurance Company of America. Bruce has been with this firm since graduation and has advanced steadily while moving from Philadelphia to Buffalo and then to Boston. I have it on good authority that we'll see the Crawfords at reunion.

I just received a newsy letter from ConPensavalle. My information that he was recreational director for the Brook House in Brookline, Mass., was not quite accurate. He has a counseling office there on a private basis. Con is executive director of Counseling Consultants, 99 Pond Street, Brook House, Brookline, Mass. He continues to work with alienated youth and families with severe social problems. He has made great strides with the drug problem as it affects the youth of the community. The family will see their daughter Margo off to Briar-cliff this coming fall, and son Jay at five feet eleven inches is a sophomore quarter-back at Moses Brown School in Providence. He apparently has the height to see down-field which Con would have given his eye teeth to have had. Sylvia, 12, Beth, 10, and Dana, 4, round out the group.

Dr. John Doukas, associate professor of economics in Miami University's School of Business Administration, has been awarded a fellowship to attend the 1970 Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers for two weeks in June. The aim of the course is to give teachers useful practical banking knowledge. Doukas has been teaching at Miami of Ohio since 1963 and received his master's and doctor's degrees from Purdue.

Final news items for the month just received show Thayer Kingsley recently elected a vice president of Doremus and Company, a New York-based advertising and public relations agency. He has been with the firm since 1965 as an account executive.

The mail bag is empty, and my wife has just called to tell me that the sun is over the yard arm which means that sour hour is upon us. We do hope to see many of you at reunion, and a final thanks to all of you for these recent years of forbearing readership.

Secretary, 15 Twin Oak Rd. Short Hills, N. J. 07078

Class Agent, 62 Highland Ave., Roslyn, N. Y. 11576