1943

We're moving up on the 30th and by the time you read this, the reunion will only be weeks away. Let's make it the biggest year ever and if you haven't advised Eddie O'Brien, please do so for his planning purposes.

As to news, Dr. Ed Porter has been appointed chief of the Department of Radiology at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Ed has been on the staff since February 1955, and more recently has also served as chief of the Nuclear Medicine Section.

Staying in the medical field, our own Doc Fielding has written a new book called "Pregnancy: The Best State of the Union." I wonder how the sales will be for '43s as against some of the younger classes.

Jim Elleman, chairman of the American National Bank and Trust of New Jersey, has been written up in the New Jersey papers with accent on youth. It is good to know that our Class is still considered young.

Out on the West Coast, Jack Troster writes that he had hoped to get to the 30th as well as visit his son, a '73. Business has intervened but he hopes to get into condition to practice for THE big golf match of the season vs. Jim Adams. Jack says he is holding out for 30 points since its our 30th Reunion. As your secretary has a 34 handicap, 30 points sounds perfectly fair.

Butch Coningswood has been elected assistant controller of Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc. He has been associated with Phelps since 1958 and most recently served as tax manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation, Phelps Dodge Industries coordinates the manufacturing and marketing operations for the corporation. Butch is a member of the Tax Executives Institute and of the National Association of Accountants. He and wife Lin live in Ramsay, N.J., with son Robert, 11.

The rumors about Bus Mosbacher becoming Ambassador to Spain unfortunately must be scotched. Bus has announced that he has withdrawn his name since, although he himself does not have business in Spain, his family has business interests there and he wanted to avoid even the whisper of possible conflict of interest.

The closeout is from Pres and EllenBrooks who last fall visited the Northwest—Glacier Park, Calgary, Banff, Jasper and a train ride to Vancouver, "probably first and last for our kids." Pres referred to it as "sort of a last fling with older boys who are junior and freshman in high school." Pres says it looks dim on chances to make the 30th because of school schedules in Cincinnati. Pres writes that Ellen is "a very busy gal as wife, mother and chief politician of the family," while he is doing the same old thing, "trying to pay the bills and still swinging a squash racket and golf stick when chance affords."

See you in June. Comin' through in '72.

Secretary, 1001 Conn. Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20036

Class Agent, 214 Harvard Ave., Boston, Mass. 02134