1950
A touch of yellow and a flash of red have suddenly appeared on the maples. The change signals the advent of the football season and enhances my anticipation of the Penn game. Hanover and the surrounding countryside will be adorned with the full panoply of colors on that weekend.
Many stretches of superhighway in the North Country run among the foothills or along high ridges. The purpose of this planning was to avoid the farms and villages in the valleys. Only by accident does the same plan afford the chance to emerge from a cut or round a curve and discover a vista unfolding for miles. When the fall foliage reaches its resplendent heights, the panoramic views are breathtaking.
The win against Mass in the first game promises another good season. How good remains a mystery. Hopefully, Jake Crouthamel's continuing success will soon pale our memories of Blackman. The AAA's (the current euphemism for Jayvees) also won over Army with the help of a not-so-lonely end named Bill Carpenter. The 1959 Black Knight has long gone; the current version, who caught a 31-yard pass for the winning touchdown, hails from Hindale, Ill., and is the son of Bill and LindaCarpenter. For obvious reasons Bill (Sr.) plans to revisit the campus this fall, especially for the HC and Penn games, despite any pressures arising from his newly formed transportation consulting business.
HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson has Assistant for International Affairs. Previously he served as Executive Assistant to Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey. Now he will be responsible for advising the Secretary on the Department's involvement in international affairs and for the coordination of the international components of the Department's programs. He has the background for this position, having served the State Department as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for the Near East and South Asia, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Oxford, England (where he received a PhD in Indian History), and in New Delhi, India, and as a provincial public affairs officer with the U. S. Information Service in Vietnam and Lebanon.
A disconcerting aside: most of the members of this year's varsity were born after 1950. Those touches of gray are real!
When he can steal away from the beach club in Rumson, N. J., Bill Abernathy finds numerous demands for his time. The first, of course, is his wife Pat and their two children. His duties as president of the Sanitary Supply Co. and the Monmouth Plumbing Supply Co. also challenge his ingenuity. In addition he is a member of the Board of Health and, so important in Jersey, the Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission. With the series of tropical storms causing so much havoc and leaving such beneficent conditions for breeding mosquitoes, Bill may not have had quite enough time left for a round or two of golf.
The links in Kansas City often find the president of Hallmark Cards relaxing. Don and Adele Hall have two teenagers, Don Jr. and Margaret, and a younger son, David, to keep up with. When the golf season is over, skiing takes over. In Missouri or Kansas, Don! When the greeting card business slows down, Don fills his time with the Civic Council of KC or the Chamber of Commerce. He is a director for a number of organizations, including the stimulating Midwest Research Institute.
A long letter from Chuck McCaleb reports the news and recalls some memories. He now lives in San Jose and has recently married Joyce Fleckner. His family now numbers five—Don, Nanci, and three Fleckner's, Kurt, Jana, and Craig. Chuck drives off to work as a technical writer with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at UCal. He is a member of the San Jose Human Rights Commission and the County Council of Churches. Besides working for his MA in sociology he exercised his avocation as a part-time historian as the author of "The San Jose Railroads." Chuck would like to hear from Sam Rogers, PhilPearson, and John Carleton with a note addressed to 7050 Via Ramada (and so would I to fill in the gap).
The petroleum business is favored with the labors of a number of classmates, including Gene McCabe, a market planning associate at Mobil. After toiling through the day in Manhattan, Gene suffers the indignities of the Penn Central to return to Westport. There he is greeted by wife Alin and four energetic children. Gene admits, that another full-time, year-round job is repairing the damage to house and yard caused by the children, three boys and a girl, and their friends. But he does find time to ski in the winter and play on links and courts during the summer. Water skiing conditions his legs for the slopes.
Tidbits here and there: Bob Shnayerson, the new editor of Harper's, was elected to the Advisory Board of this Magazine by the Class Secretary's Association. Mass Mutual Life Insurance sent EdNoyes, its district claim manager in Chicago, to sales management seminars. Senator Hiram L. Fong of Hawaii named Dr. Cal Sia to the National Advisory Council on Child Health in recognition of his outstanding record in medical and community service. Next month's suspense list contains Herluf (Dan) Olsen, PeteShaffer, Paul Van Orden, and DanFeatherston. Ed Tuck's latest note includes the fact that Owen Smyth has been promoted vice president in the pension division of Provident Life. And FrankHarrington is promoting inns; more later.
If the four-day week sounds like paradise, talk to Harry (Pete) Hall. As president of Kyanize, a paint manufacturer, Pete bought the proposal of his production manager and experimented in a plant in Everett. The results: higher production from uninterrupted operations, increased employee morale, and reduced absenteeism. With more production both sales and profits increased. All that and three days off a week. Petes' company was one of several cases in an article in the New York Times Magazine.
Time runs on. Keep your Thanksgiving feasting in bounds. The real snow is still a good month away.
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