1939

It hardly seems possible, hunching over the old portable, rapping out next year's notes. This year doesn't seem over!

Another touch of sadness to report. JohnLarrabee, who was with us through our freshman year, died of a heart attack, in his home town of Williamsport, Pa. You've been apprised of the sad and sudden death of Dot Darby, wife of Walt. She'll be missed in the Green '39 community. Also tragic was the death by drowning of Bozoand Jane Noland's oldest daughter, Martha Jane (Mop) Noland, this past July, in Newport News, Va. We'd had the pleasure of hosting Mop during a gala wedding weekend of her younger brother in Pittsfield some years back. She was a fine young person.

Speaking on the Harlem Renaissance and the new emergence of black writers at the University of lowa this past year, was our own Charlie Davis. Charlie was the director of Afro-American studies at lowa, but more recent intelligence indicates he has moved on to Hamden, Conn., where he has joined the Yale faculty. Gordon King, vice president and director of the Hanover Shoe, Inc. has been re-elected treasurer of the Direct Selling Association, a composition of 100 of the nation's leading manufacturer's and distributors of products sold directly to consumers' homes.

We've wondered where Ev Woodman would light, after resigning the top post at Colby Junior College. He is still a president, but of the Nature Conservancy. It's purpose is to preserve environmentally significant land, and it draws its support from the public. Irv Naitove has been promoted to senior vice president of the Chemical Bank in New York. Walt Darbyhas just firmed up a new legal concern entitled. Darby, Healey, Stonebridge and Whelan, who do business at 19 Rector St., New York, N. Y. 10005. John Kelleher is on a sabbatical leave from Harvard faculty, and according to Fred Upton who has seen him, he might be in Hanover for our fall reunion. Les Graves has been working for Reynolds Metals in Richmond, and recently embarked on a new corporate enterprise, though not so avidly that he can't touch base with the home he still owns in Pelham, N. Y. and get in a bit of golf at the Westchester Country Club. This last sleuthing is with the compliments of our super-sleuth, Prexy MacMannis.

Moreau Brown, since 1954 administrator of General Electric's educational support program, has joined the Council for Financial Aid to Education as a vice president. He will consult with corporations to encourage their aid to education programs. Moreau's earlier career had been directly in education, as Director of Admissions at St. Lawrence University and Assistant Dean of Admissions at New York University.

A note from Hank Conkle reports from Cashiers, N. C., that receipts from the shop keep climbing annually, as they have for the past 27 years. They too, expect to be on hand for the fall reunion. Hank has been elected to the Standing Committee of his Episcopal Diocese, and to the Episcopal Foundation of North Carolina. As such, he'll be a deputy to the next national church convention. Not at all surprising when you realize that Hank was shrewd enough to talk the presiding Bishop Hines into summering in Cashiers each July where he doubles as pastor of Hank's small but lively church. Son John Conkle should be out of the Navy this winter after two tours of duty on a carrier off Vietnam. Having picked up the Japanese language, John is thinking about settling in Japan at the end of his tour.

Before we get to the scads of address changes over the summer, words of praise are in order for Robb DeGraff, his hardy workers, and all contributing classmates who came up with a whopping 103.3% of our dollar objective in the Alumni Fund effort. If it hadn't been for our low participation index (62.8% and the lowest in our Derby) we might have hit the Derby wire a winner after leading most of the spring.

Now for those addresses: The widow of John Bates, Mrs. Jack Dee, to 34 King Rd., Wayville, South Australia 5034; J. Moreau Brown, Box 325, Bedford Hills, N. Y. 10507; Henry Britton from Farmington to Box 456, West Hartford, Conn. 06107; Clem Burnap, still in Alameda, Calif. 94501, but at 657 Tarrytown Isle; Whit Cushing left Royal Palm Way for 265 Atlantic Ave., Palm Beach, Fla. 33480; Herb Flack to 1545 Bahama, Titusville, Fla. 32780; John Gaul to Box 142, Tropicanna Dr., Route 10, Fort Myers, Fla. 33901; Bill Greene's office address to Hampshire Plaza, 1000 Elm St., Manchester, N. H. 03101; Colonel Robert Hall to Student Det., MFSS, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234; Royal Hassrick from Surry, Va. to Hampden East, 8000 East Girard St., Apt. 701, Denver, Colo. 80231; Warner Kiefaber to 361 Wellesley Way, Dayton, Ohio 45459; Art Larkin, Route 116, North Salem, N. Y. 10560; Dr. Al Ley, 110 Highland Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 14850; John Olmsted, Mountain Creek Apts., G-68, Chattanooga, Tenn. 37405; John Parke, R.F.D. 1, Shelburne, Vt. 05482; Lt. Col. Harry Peterson, Box 394, Tryon, N. C. 28782; Jack Schrage, Apt. 319-C, 1405 E. Central Rd., Arlington Heights, Ill. 60005; Dick Varey, Route 2, Laconia, N. H. 03246; George Walden, Route 1, Box 500, Eloy, Ariz. 85231; and Ted Wolfe, Fligh View Circle, Long Pond Farms, R.D. 1, Marstons Mills, Mass. 02648.

And that's what happened over the summer. See you in November.

Secretary,777 West St. Piftsfield, Mass. 01201

Treasurer, 390 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022