1936
It is always interesting to welcome the Chinese New Year and as I write this, we are entering the year of the Golden Suckling Pig or 4669. It is better known as the year of the 35th Reunion for 1936. By now you have received Norb Hofman's tariff letter for June 14-17 in Hanover. Be sure to get your check off to Cliff England before May 15 for bargain rates. Jim andDaf Tracey are planning the trip east from Grosse Pointe, Mich., where Jim is an attorney. En route they will probably stop to see their first grandchild in Chicago who was born last October while they were vacationing in Europe. Jim is looking forward to seeing June and Mac Hill and Fran and Ken Ostrom—all of whom plan to be in Hanover for the festivities. Mac is embroiled in the mad world of Massachu-setts insurance as manager of Boit, Dalton & Church in Quincy. The Ostroms will have a longer trip from their home in Walnut Creek. Calif. Ren is regional manager for Morton Salt Co. in Burlin- game." He must also work with the Chamber of Commerce, for he writes that living in California is always a vacation and really semi-retirement.
The trip to Hanover will seem like a mere jaunt to those classmates who have been traveling the globe. Dr. Charlie andBetty Lehman deserted Williamsport, Pa., for Greece last year and enjoyed seeing Drs. Doug and Ruth Robertson during the vacation. The Lehman children are scattered these days with Charlie III teaching school in Carthage, N.Y., Judith with the Denver Children's Bureau, Beth in accounting with Peabody et al in Boston and Anne W. Lysaght bringing up her three children in New Jersey while her husband helps Ma Bell in New York City. While we are with the doctors, it should be reported that Dr. Gordon Brown has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Gordy has been on the staff as an attending physician and he has been associate professor of clinical medicine at both University of Illinois School of Medicine and the Rush Medical College, where he obtained his medical degree. Gordy and Rhoda have four children and live in Winnetka.
At our 25th Reunion Dr. Tom andMargie Monagan won the prize for the largest family and all present in Hanover. Tom is still practising in Waterbury, Conn., and Margie has Carolyn and Bernard in grammar school, Mary and Sheila in high school, Chrissie, Jane, Betsey and Bunny in college, Barbara teaching, Tom in the Army and (Jretchen and Ann married ... an even dozen. With all that experience Tom just had to be the director of pediatrics at St. Mary's Hospital. I think '36 has enough doctors to form its own chapter of the AMA.
Education is another popular vocation. Art Funk is professor of Humanities and History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Art attended the Congress of Historical Societies in Moscow last summer. He has put together a new course, "Involvement in Vietnam, which was offered for the first time at the University of Florida this winter. From Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dave Wilson writes that his main task as principal of the Hawthorne School is to figure out what is sound and what is "vogue" in all the new education trends. The professors get around as much as the doctors. Russ Capelle is back at his chair as professor of Government at the Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., after a sabbatical semester in Europe. The family toured extensively in the British Isles and western Europe, but spent the better part of three months in Paris where Russ did research for his book on French center politics. Since his return, he has completed a 20,000-word monograph on the subject. His daughter, loan and her husband, Carroll Collins, are operating The Border School in Canaan, Vt.
Those who have dealings with the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., should remember that Dave Fox is an associate director of that regurgitator of college board scores. Their daughter, Sally, is on leave from Oberlin College and studying in Paris this year. They hope to spend a vacation with her before she returns to the States.
Florida is the place to be. As I am writing this, the temperature has been near zero for three days straight in Connecticut. Forrest (Red) Riley is retired and living in St. Petersburg. During the summer months the Rileys make their home in Highlands, N.C. Another retiree in that area is John Davis of Asheville, John keeps busy as the v.p. of the North Carolina Mountain Club and member of the board of the County Central Health Planning. Retirement in '74 is the goal of Dick Holt and he plans to spend his time between Boca Raton, Fla., and Woodstock, Vt. You can't beat that combination. At present Dick is assistant vice president of American Tel & Tel in New York. His son Tom who has returned from Vietnam as a Marine Master Sgt. is studying at Colorado College for his law degree.
In Painesville, Ohio, both Ollie andMary Brown are engaged in department store merchandising at the Carlisle-Allen Co. Ollie is Division Merchandise Manager and Mary is bridal registrar and buyer of silver and china. They had a great time in Bermuda last fall with the Harvard Business School '38 group and are planning to join them on their spring jaunt to Hawaii. That's tough competition for Hanover in June. Walt Mosenthal has no interfering plans and will be in Hanover for the 36th. It won't be a long trip from Springfield, Mass., where he is extension program director of the YMCA. Walt is still singing and playing squash in his spare time.
The Metropolitan Petroleum Co. ap- pointed Gil Sykes senior vice president on January 1. In addition to new duties he will continue to supervise Supply and Transpor- tation. In December Gil spent three days in Santee. S. C., shooting quail and duck, then back to Dorset, Vt. If you are in the market for supermarket display equipment give Brint Schorer a call at the Benway Corp. in Holyoke, Mass. Brint recently joined the organization.
Don't forget to mark June 14-17 as reserved on your calendar for a splendid Hanover Reunion.
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