1929
November's mail bag is full of news, much of it from foreign, residing, and peripatetic 29ers traveling all over the globe. Most are back home by now, some by water and more by air.
With Halloween only two days away, the Broomstock Flying Brigade will be out in force with their flying robes and pumpkin laser pilot system.
Jack Blair has retired and moved from New Canaan, Conn., to Tryon, N. C., building a house in that "lovely community" on a wooded hillside surrounded by dogwood facing the Blue Ridge Mts. He's seen a lot of John Bryant about 25 miles away in Spartanburg, S. C., and he reports him fully recovered, looks great, and back on the golf course.
Bill Dodge has retired from his post as director of PC Research Center in Sterling Forest. An International Paper Company executive, he was project manager of the Manhattan Project during W.W. II and headed, "a highly secret federal research program which produced the atomic fuel for the first Atomic bomb." He's been active in professional and civic activities in the U. S. and Canada as member of Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry: Education Committee of American Paper Institute; Canadian Research Management Association; and Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. He is a director of Tuxedo Memorial Hospital.
A letter from Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands from Ed Felch opens "still enjoying the perpetual summer of our Pacific Atoll Paradise. Punctuated our first year with month 'down under' at Christmas time in New Zealand's spectacular gardens, mountains—Australia a little too U. S.'y—Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa & Pango Pango fascinating & interesting—but our bit of Micronesia still seems the greatest place to live we have ever seen. No pollution, crime, snakes, mud, lightning storms, tornados, drug traffic, or earthquakes. Friendly natives with a lot to teach us."
He reports son Edwin P. III '60 has just been admitted to the Illinois bar after attending John Marshall Law School, graduating with Juris Doctor degree, and topping both day and night school divisions. Congratulations to Ed P. III and '29s best wishes for a long and brilliant career at the bar.
Bob Hazard income tax specialist who handles, with the help of his wife and two talented and pretty women, twice as many families as people in Class '29. His payment is "largely in gratitude, is an ego builder, a coin of great value to us who realize too well that our total faculties are the wane." The Hazards spent three delightful weeks driving around the Alps, visitng Zurich, Venice, and Amsterdam in September.
Joe Piazza writes that his son Peter has turned after a two-year assignment aţached to U. S. Embassy at the capital of Cambodia. Ed Phelps reports he is still in Putney Vt, as Superintendent of Schools of Rutland, Southeast Supervisory Union.
Dick Hunke retired in May from the Federal Reserve Bank of N. Y. after 42 yrs. They took a three-week trip to Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Istanbul. Ed and Kitty Howe also spent three weeks with Jake and Betty Shaeffer on a tour of Greece Turkey, and Yugoslavia—and returned just in time to greet their sixth grandchild.
The big event of the fall was the reunion Columbus Day weekend with a record turnout of 29ers filling Shady Lawn Motel and a big attendance at Saturday nights banquet in Hopkins Center. The executive committee met at 9:00 a.m. in Sillsbury with 19 present—Barto, Black, Brittan, Bora Brown, Bulkley, Chinlund, Clow, Cavanagh. Cornehlsen, Fitzpatnck, Monohan Moxon, Redding, Ripley, Ramage, E. K. Walsh, and Jaquith. A synopsis of the meeting will appear in Harry Baehr's 29 Up Green Sheet.
"The Princeton Game in the afternoon was spectacular and brought a big turnout of 29ers The Coles, Swopes, Roses, Orrs, Andres, Tuckers, Hustons, Fosters, Shutes, Bells, Sharpes, Jeffreys, Armstrongs, Wilsons were some of them. We missed the Jack Hubbards who were in England, also the Nighswanders who were in Europe, and many others.
Just before we left Hanover, I received a small clipping containing the notice of Sara Fisher's death at her summer home in Fairlee on October 8th. She was survived by her son James D '54 and her daughter Sara, Andrews University of Vt. '56. '29 has suffered a great loss in her passing and our hearts and our sympathy go out to James and Sara. The Fishers will be remembered as long as 29ers' minds and bodies return to Hanover and the North Country.
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