1934

Here it is March awready, and we're not even halfway through the batch of news-items sent along by good Ed Brown in January. Leave us proceed then, past SeyDunn (moved to Cortland, N. Y.) and Jake Edwards (moved to Key Biscayne, Fla.), to Bill Hastorf (locked into Port Washington, N. Y.). Reports Bill: Son Peter, a graduate of C.W. Post College and a candidate for an M.A. there, is now teaching special education classes in Guam and is writing his thesis on the basis of his experiences there.

Ed Hill of South Yarmouth, Mass., a man of few words, sends "greetings from Cape Cod. We leave October 27 [1971] to buy a winter home. You can enjoy the skiing in Hanover [Can you, Ed? Still? Wow!] I prefer golf."

Mac McClary of Constable, N. Y., is "thinking about retirement but not too seriously yet," but Hank Rose of Natick, Mass., really did it: "I retired on July 31 after 30 years of Federal government service—and I am now busier than ever with Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Rotary, and the Natick Personnel Board." And CarlVail announces he's moved to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., "after retiring at the end of June 1971, as a school psychologist in Hewlett, L. I."

A supplementary batch of Brown-ies discloses, among other things, that PaulEbbitts (Newport, R. I.) was apparently the only '34 at the Dartmouth College Seminar—"The Nature of New England II—A Retreat to Cape Cod." There were three books to read and discuss—excellent lectures by the faculty—a weekend of intellectual stimulation.

Laurie Herman (St. Petersburg/Tierra Verde, Fla.) reported in late October a "great reunion" at Providence, at the Brown game, with the Jocko Stangles,Jake Edwardses, and Kenney (?). Laurie, sales-and-marketing v-p for Times Publishing Co. in St. Petersburg, was cited by BobBrown's Editor & Publisher trade-weekly for 12/25 (in an item forwarded by ErnieBarcella) for promoting his Times and Evening Independent to box-car figures in the classified-ad category: 1.5-million in a year (one of about 25 papers in the U. S. and Canada to do that well).

Dick Wells, in far-off Wayzatta, Minn., thrilled to Bill Scherman's autumnal announcement of the Yale/Princeton gathering of "the friendliest class ever assembled." "Though the 1400 miles are too many at this time," Dick wrote autumnally, "we are certainly thinking of your enjoyment and lively fellowship. Our best regards to all from the great midwest." Nick and Alice Xanthaky made it to Yale, and Harvard, too—he from Salem, Mass., she from Greece after a two-week visit. Fred Wolf, of Wyncote, Pa., had a reunion of his own in the Caribbean, reported in this wise: Biggest recent excitement in the Wolf household was the marriage of son John ('70) to Mahala DeVaux in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on September 4. John's brother, Fred III ('68), was best man. and Fred III's father-in-law, Judge Frank Kaufman ('37), and yours truly completed the Dartmouth contingent. John is American vice-consul in Perth, Australia, where he and his bride are living.

Cancer research is one of the many vital causes supported by the Albany area United Fund-Red Cross Joint Appeal, which went over the top in November, raising over $2.3-million, under the chairmanship of our own Art Leonard. Citing him as "a quiet and modest man... worthy of the laurels," the Albany Union-Star said of '34's Bequest Chairman:

Mr. Leonard was faced with the task of meeting the greatest goal ever in a year of economic difficulty and substantial unemployment. That he worked with a will and remarkable perception is proven by the results. But, then, that is the way Mr. Leonard always works—with a deep sense of charity, without fuss, with a kindly efficiency. He is a citizen of whom our community can be proud.

Now, with deep regret, we must record the passing of three classmates: BobWiggins, on August 28; Earl Cameron, on September 14, and Don Sandy on December 18, 1971. To their families and friends, our heartfelt condolences.

And that's it for March. 'Ware the Ides of April—unless you filed early!

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