1928
The Bridgeport Post of Feb. 11 carried a picture of Jack Zellers with the neVvs of his being elected a vice president of the People's Saving Bank. Jack, who joined the bank in 1964 after retiring from Remington Rand, is manager of the Southport office.
After 41 years of traveling for the American Pad & Paper Co. in eight western states and Hawaii, Bob Reid just retired. And what is he planning—taking trips to places he has missed. He is getting his affairs in order so that hg can take off when the spirit moves, to visit Canyonlands, Utah, to float down the Colorado River on a rubber raft, etc. He plans to get a "motor-home" so he doesn't have to get reservations. Santa Monica, Calif., will remain his home base.
Don Dodd, a farmer outside West Chester, Pa., says, "We still have a freshman son at Lafayette and an unmarried daughter. This, with inflation, makes retirement seem a good distance away. We do however enjoy your news items on the more fortunate members of our class and are getting some very good ideas for future use. Allen (17) decided he was ready for college at the end of his junior year. This gave us little time to find a place for him and came as quite a surprise. Having spent all his life on a farm, he wanted to be near a city;—and girls. So Helen and I are beginning to sell off the farm bit by bit."
Our challenge two issues ago to hear from the '28ers who are still working brought a lively response from JohnTurkevich, who is the Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton. John says,
Retired? No, certainly not for four and onehalf years. I am still very active in my enjoyable professional life. This is my 41st year at Princeton—which you Dartmouth Green lads will never believe, is a delightful place to work and live. After thirty years, of teaching freshmen, the administration gave me a breather for two years, but I shall be doing it next year again. I am still teaching a graduate course and in addition have my usual tomplement of five post-doctorate fellows—young professors from U. S., Japan, France, Germany who have been sent by their governments to study for two years with me.
My research activity is tied up with atomic energy, electronics industry, pollution problems, Just finished a tour of duty with Brookhaven National Laboratory as chairman of their Advisory Committee on Reactor Engineering and Applied Science.
I have a sabbatical this coming term, which I shall spend at Princeton doing research, at Brookhaven looking at some applications of my chemical techniques to medical problems, and lecturing at French, Belgian, and Swedish universities. In May expect to go on U. S. sponsored lectures to Bulgaria and Roumania.
My church work is very satisfying. We have Eastern Orthodox chapel services on the campus every Sunday and I went last May to the Soviet Union and had the unforgettable experience of preaching to over 6,000 at a Sunday liturgy in the 16th century cathedral of the Monastery of Zagarsk just outside Moscow, and also in the cathedrals of Leningrad and Kiev.
Mila is active as professor of Russian Literature at Rutgers and chairman of her department at Douglass. We are not retired - we are busy. Why don't we see you and my other classmates?
Charley and Mary Proctor retired Feb. 1 to 6 Oak Road, Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz, Calif., after 32 years at Yosemite National Park where Charley was purchasing agent and director of winter sports. Our former Olympic skier says, "I still ski, but gently. Had cataracts removed from both eyes and now have trouble seeing the contours of the snow surface. For most other things I can see well."
Woody Houghton retires April 1, and as he says, he has had two months to tell his successor everything he has learned in 40-odd years. He is a vice president of the Provident Institution for Savings in Boston. For some time the bank has used a radio tape in which the public is urged to "ask Mr. Houghton."
George and Marion Davis of Glens Falls, N. Y., wrote from Sarasota, Fla., that they were celebrating their 40th anniversary, George's 65 th birthday, and his retirement from the payroll of the Glens Falls Insurance Company. George had been chairman of the board of this company until it merged recently with Continental Insurance Co.
It is with sadness that we report the death recently of Ted Schwartz of Nanticoke, Pa., and Moc Gray, former superintendent of schools in Bristol, N. H. The In Memoriam section of last month's issue reported the deaths of Kewp Munson,Don Lowe, and Spencer Piatt, which we neglected to mention in these notes. Our deepest sympathy goes to their families.
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