1936

The response to my request for updating the Directory files and the secretary's backlog of vital statistics has been great. If you haven't replied, you will probably find the card stuck in with the Christmas cards awaiting listing for next year or with the bills from Christmas awaiting payment. Two pre-Christmas weddings must be mentioned. On Dec. 12 in Islip, L. I., Diana Peck, daughter of George andMuriel Peck, was married to Robert Kelly of Burlington, Vt. The bride is a graduate of Colby Jr. College and Katherine Gibbs School in New York, while the bridegroom graduated from Middlebury and received his master's degree from the University of Vermont. He is a partner in the firm of Thompson, Prahl & Kelly, CPA's in Burlington, the Thompson of which is no other than LaForrest Thompson. This is now a firm with good solid '36 connections. I'll have to check on that fellow Prahl. George Peck is president of Peck & Hale, Inc., manufacturers of cargo securing devices in West Sayville, L. I.

In Massachusetts on Dec. 20 the Brook- line Country Club was the location for the wedding of Susan Emerson to Ensign Roy Coppedge, son of Roy and Nina Coppedgre. The bride is an alumna of Centenary College and taught kindergarten at the Park School in Brookline. The bridegroom is a graduate of Harvard '70 and is currently stationed in New Orleans. His father is vice president and general counsel of National Distillers and Chemical Corporation.

During the holidays there arrived a most informative letter from Tom and JeanLuey. It was enclosed with a Christmas card sketch of their lovely old house in Kalamazoo, Mich. As manager of the Boxboard Research Association, Tom travels quite a bit and during last year visited Florida, Spain, Majorca, Portugal, Colorado Springs, and New York. In between he managed to be elected to the local school board. He has been involved with ecology and states, "We are currently eating some excellent beef that had processed waste paper as a main part of its diet. Someday you too may be eating a byproduct of the paper mills."

Another interesting letter arrived from Cliff and Pearsie Porter from Port Washington, L. I. Cliff is tax partner in a New York law firm and recently finished a detailed analysis of one aspect of the new income tax law which has been published. Pearsie is president of the Port Washington School Board which must be a demanding job these days. The Porters had a pleasant beachcomber existence on Sanibel Island, Fla., during October. The Porter girls are all off on their own. Mary graduated from Wellesley last June and is in Washington where her sister, Lee, is ecologically involved as an employee of the President's Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality. Lynn Porter Bodman is the mother of two and living in Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Joe Bishop is Professor of Law at Yale and has been authoring many articles on law for the layman. In the spring Atheneum will publish a book of short pieces on law and lawyers titled "Obiter Dicta." Either the March or April Esquire will carry a piece on William Kunstler and Joe is hard at work on a book on military law. His son, Joe, is a student at the Taft School where he played J.V. football this past fall.

Another aspiring author is Ed Drechsel, mayor of Belvedere, Calif., and regional editor of U. S. News & World Report. Ed is having a hard time keeping the local tax rate down. Meanwhile he is still working on his catalog of ship mail markings to be published in London when he is ready. Dick Brister has deserted the horse-opera for the contemporary scene. After publish- ing half a dozen western novels, he is hard at work on fiction for the now crowd. His daughter, Barbara, a Wheaton graduate last June, has left home in Harrisburg, Pa., for a year sojourn in Valencia, Spain.

Before we leave the novel, mention should be made of Dr. Norm Simon's son, Roger '64, whose first novel, "Heir," has been made into a movie about to be released by United Artists. His second novel is "The Mama Tass Manifesto." Sounds like a familiar subject of large magnitude. Norm's daughter, Wendy, is a Yale graduate student and her sister, Martha is involved in the UN Pilot Project of Student Coalition for Development. In addition to practicing radiotherapy Norm is professor of radiotherapy for environmental medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He also acts as consultant for various governmental agencies on radiation safety.

Still in the literary world but moving to non-fiction which strikes close to home, Dan Doan's daughter, Ruth Doan MacDougall, is the author of "The Cost of Living" published in January by Putnam. Dan is a member of the Bill Plante Realty in Laconia, N. H., if you are looking for a country hideaway. In August he spent eight days in a canoe paddling down the Allagash. This winter he is trying ski touring. I'm for anything that avoids those lift lines.

At this time of the year the Florida addresses seem so inviting. From Vero Beach Al Butler writes that he is up to his eyeballs in civic affairs as well as being president of the Butler-Turner Advertising Agency. His son Perry '64 is the owner of Perry's Restaurant in San Francisco just in case any of you fellows around the Golden Gate want to take the little woman out tonight. The Butlers boast three grandchildren by their daughter Louise Johnson of Wilton, Conn. Their other daughter, Margaret, is at home in Vero Beach.

In Rochester, N. Y., Bob Paterson is vice president of Chemical Sales Corp, but he is planning a 2½-month vacation. After an ocean voyage to Africa by freighter, there will be a camera safari through Kenya and Uganda. The trip home will be by air to Istanbul and Vienna. Since Bob intends to make our 35th Reunion, we'll get his views on the velte.

If you have survived the first semester college grades and paid the second semester invoices, maybe there's enough left for a winter vacation. If so, have fun. If not, ho hum.

Secretary, 160 Judson Rd. Fairfield, Conn. 06430

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