1936
Dartmouth-Yale game is just ahead this weekend and undoubtedly there will be quite a few '36ers there and at the Fairfield Inn afterwards. I haven't heard anything as far as attendance at the Harvard game but there were many classmates and wives in Hanover for the Princeton game and I'm sure Tithe will be out with details before you read this. The choice of Stone End Lodge for the executive committee meeting was proven to be a good one with 20 members of the Class at the meeting Friday night and more than 50 classmates, wives, and children present after the game with Princeton. In brief Treasurer Ed Higbee, reported that 61% of living members paid dues last year, the Class is in pretty good shape financially, and the Memorial Book program for deceased members of the Class has provided Baker Library with 92 volumes as of this date. Frank Curtis believes that a greater effort will improve our performance in the Alumni Fund drive next year, and the revised Class directory will be going to the printers in the near future.
Of considerable interest was Bill Wyman's report on the result of the Tithe travel questionnaire with a 20% return and principal interest in Portugal. There was sufficient interest in an April trip to that country so that Bill is going ahead with plans. Details will be forwarded to those interested, or if you missed the questionnaire or are now interested contact Bill Wyman at 91 Main St., Concord, Mass.
It is quite evident from the mail and cards I've received that travel is of interest to many of our classmates and a number of trips are planned or have already been taken. The Class of 1938 from the Harvard Business School plans a European trip for their 35th reunion and Bob Burr and Ted Whitmore hope to go along. Bill and Abby Niss who now live in Portland, Me., are co-chairmen (or is it chairpersons?) of the Portland United Fund residential campaign covering the city and ten towns. After the campaign they plan to go to Bermuda for a vacation in early November.
Fred Kneip lives in Winnetka with his wife Ray and youngest son Ed. Fred Jr. is a lawyer in New York. Fred and Ray recently returned from a great vacation in the British Isles with their daughter Ronde who works in London. Bob Paterson and his wife Catrina live in Rochester, N. Y., as do sons Robert H. '64 and Andrew. All three work for the family chemical business of which Bob is president. Bob and Catrina had a wonderful trip last winter with another couple—flew to Amsterdam, Istanbul, Beirut, Bangkok, and at Singapore boarded a ten-passenger freighter for Hong Kong, Japan, and then to Vancouver and home.
Doug Robertson, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Mt. Kisco, N. Y., just returned from a medical tour of Russia. His wife Ruth and daughter Edythe also accompanied the group during the three weeks including Moscow, Kiev, Sochi, and Leningrad. Although it was interesting Doug reports they all cheered when the plane landed in the free world at Helsinki. Jamie, the Robertson's eldest, has a Masters in Geophysics at the U. of Wisconsin and expects active duty in the Army Reserve next year. The two youngest, Jean and Susan, hiked 1,500 miles on the Appalachian Trail this past summer and "were fed and bathed nicely in Hanover" but he doesn't say by whom.
Walt Malby, who has been with Alcoa since graduation, has a new job as manager of Resource Recovery. This involves his traveling all over the country relative to Alcoa and ecology. He and his wife Rolande find their house pretty big without daughter Suzanne around but I suspect three grandchildren make it seem pretty small when they visit for awhile. Our Tim Co-editor Dick Dorrance will be in Brazil for three weeks beginning December 15 visiting Abbie's family. He says he isn't sure how he'll enjoy a warm Christmas.
John Parish, who recently retired as a vice president of St. Paul Fire Insurance Co., St. Paul, Minn., has been elected an international' comissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and this takes John an his wife Zib to all parts of the world visiting the world associations connect with the world Scouting Movement. leave shortly for the Far East again covering 17 major countries on a trip all around the world.
Colonel Tom Lane, Surgeon, HQ Fifth Army is finishing his Army career next fall when he retires. He and Edwena have three daughters teaching in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. On a note to Ed Higbee, Tom said he might like to try being a cruise ship physician and wondered if anyone in the Class had any leads or experience. If so, pass it along to Tom.
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