1925

The annual fall meeting of the Class Executive Committee was held in Hanover the weekend of the Penn game. The meeting itself was held in Reed Hall on Saturday morning and other group activities included cocktails and dinner both Friday and Saturday nights in Alumni Hall of Hopkins Center and luncheon Saturday noon in the Tavern Room of the Inn.

Present at the meeting were Charlie Moore, Lane Goss, Larry Leavitt, Bill Jenkins, Eddie Roessler, Herb Talbot, Frank Wallis, Ed Burns, Ford Whelden, Mott Garlock, Eddie Pease, Coop Rhodes, Bob Meginnity, Bob McKennan, George Zahm, Ed Ober, Ross Beatty, Pete Haffenreffer and Doug Archibald.

Others in town for at least part of the weekend were Don Hunt, Bill Pugh, Bob Weinig, Ralph Tucker, Lang Spring, Curt Abel, Ken Montgomery, Frank Kennedy and Dick Colton. The majority were accompanied by wives and we also enjoyed the presence of Dr. and Mrs. Jack Stewart '39, who were guests of the Talbots', and the Wheldens' daughter Gertrude, her husband Barney Hull, and their daughter Dena.

The treasurer reported that the Class is solvent, with an increase in the surplus during the past year. It was voted to add $2,000 to our Memorial Book Fund to provide sufficient funds to purchase all books that will be required in the future.

The date of the fall meeting next year was set for October 7, the day of the Princeton game. Write it down on your calendar now.

It was announced that Stephen C. Morelli '73 has been selected as the current 1925 Scholar.

And a final announcement before adjournment covered another achievement of a Great Class: we reached the million dollar mark in Alumni Fund giving this year, being the first class to do so.

Carl Wilder Smith, for many years a resident of Augusta and a State of Maine official, retired in June and now lives in the old home town of Cutler, really way down east.

Another happy retirement note came some time ago from Pete Blodgett who reports he has never been busier or had more fun "traveling, fishing, hunting, raising and training English setter bird dogs, lobstering, cutting wood and doing all the things a guy like I am should be doing."

Paul Hommeyer retired from management activities four years ago when his eldest son took over the insurance agency. He is now fully retired, although he still has an office address, and spends the summers at his lake home in Minnesota and the winters in either Mexico or Palm Springs. Sailing, hunting and the enjoyment of eight grandchildren keep him busy.

Perk Fitch wrote last summer about his enjoyable retirement which started three years ago. Plainfield, N. J. is still home but from spring to fall it is Shelter Island Heights, N. Y., in a place the family has enjoyed for 28 years. He finds he has "too many suits and white shirts, 13 grandchildren, and one great granddaughter. The oldest grandson enters Middlebury next month. He is quite a skier. Too bad he wouldn't go to Dartmouth, but the guaranteed coed population was too much of a drawing card." Perk's son, Charles P. IV '63, returned this year from Viet Nam where, he was a pilot in the Air Force. His rank is Captain and he plans to make a career of the Air Force.

Lou Kimball suffered a heart attack early in September just after arrival in Fort Myers, Fla., to visit a daughter. He had good care and responded well and, based on recent reports through various classmates, is recovering at his home in Jacksonville.

Bill Sleigh was honored in October by the town of Marblehead, Mass., for his outstanding service to the town as chairman of the Marblehead Finance Committee, from which post he recently retired.

Ron Honeyman has become vice president of Linden B. Bowman Realtors in Portland, Ore. He has been prominent in both management and ownership of warehouses, downtown property and farms.

Secretary, China, Maine 04926

Treasurer, R.F.D. 2, Box 71, Dover, N. H. 03820