1939

Sadness again for '39. Ed Oppenheim wrote from Oklahoma City that his good wife Barbara had passed away September 5 due to cancer. We shall miss her at our fall reunion. I still have a fresh image of Ed and Barbara walking, arms entwined, as the late afternoon sun cast its final shadows. They were returning to Bob Kaiser's house, after the Princeton game in Hanover ... across Chase Field, then ducking under the pines and out of sight.

This will be stale news when you read it, but it came too late for last month's deadline. Whit Cushing is displaying some of his paintings in the reading lounge at Bonnie Oaks during the October 13-14 weekend. Whit has had a change of address, but still resides in Palm Beach. He can be reached at 265 Atlantic Ave., Palm Beach, Fla. 33480.

Paul Winship, vice president for development at Bennett College, Millbrook, N. Y., was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Alumni Council at their annual conference in St. Louis. Paul also accepted a one-year term as chairman of the National Committee for Two Year Colleges, which represents member private and community colleges on the council. He also serves as a charter trustee of the Berkshire School, a hop-skip-and-jump to the south of your scribe in Massachusetts and as a trustee of the Dutchess School in Millbrook.

Al Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Company, was named head of the maintenance campaign of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in late August. The campaign which opened in September raises funds for the federation's 130 medical, social service, recreational and educational agencies. Al has an army of 15,000 volunteers working under his aegis, which gives a pretty good idea of the size of the job he has undertaken.

Your correspondent has been busy trying to root his son and namesake, R.S.J. Jr. into the Massachusetts State legislature, and probably by the time you read these words, the die will be cast. Truth is the 5th Berkshire district is 50% Democratic, 40% independent, and 10% Republican. By an odd quirk of fate, Dick is running on the Republican ticket, having already won the primary by considerably better than a two to one majority. We're not hanging by our thumbs.

John Atwood can now be addressed at 3610 Hamilton Ave., Wayzata, Minn. 55391, where he is still in the printing and lithography business.

Charlie Davis whom we reported on last month as having moved to a professorship at Yale, can be addressed at home at 25 Morse St., Hamden, Conn. 06517.

Our successful money-raiser, Robb DeGraff wishes to be reached in suburbia, because his address is now Box 203, Montchanin, Del. As far as we know, Robb is still working the advertising vineyard with Dupont.

There has been a correction of minor import in college files for Dr. Harland M.Deos. Seems he lives at 4651 Nickels Way (not Nickelsway) in Sacramento, Calif. 95825.

Other address changes: Henry J. (Bud) Griswold to 73 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. 02108; Ken Langmuir to 10375 Wilshire Blvd. #3-E, West Los Angeles, Calif. 90024; John Litchfield has forsaken Illinois and headed out west to 3450 East Pershing Rd., Lincoln, Nebraska 68502; Fred Underbill has made a minor adjustment in Sycamore, Ill. 60178, and moved in at 711 South Main 213-A; Col. Myles Weston is now at Apt. 37, Bldg. 22, 2381 Ecuadorian Way, Clearwater, Fla. 33515; and Ev Woodman who we reported on in October is at 1429 Montague Dr., Vienna, Va. 22170, where he heads up the Nature Conservancy. Mrs. Romeyn Prescott, who had been living in Huntington, N. Y. as Mrs. Elbert Matthews, has recently moved to 598 Bridge St., Dedham, Mass. 02026, and apparently resumed her original name.

And with this, we have reached the bottom of the small bag of news at our disposal. We hope to have a larger volume for our next, as we would expect to be reporting on the fall reunion at Bonnie Oaks, plus any Christmas-tide items that come our way.

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