1944

Keeping up with the Joneses? Not in '44, you don't. You keep up with the Browns, the Davises or the Smiths. Because that's what the Class of 1944 had the most of. Six of each, to be exact, six Browns, six Davises (plus one Davies) and six Smiths. If you want to carry the count a bit further, we had five Aliens, Clarks and Morses and four Campbells, Joneses and Wilsons.

And would you believe we had four Prices and three Rices? Well, we did, and we have, and here they are, alphabetically:

Ed Price is a physician/pathologist who left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Chevy Chase, Md., in 1970 for a new job with the Department of Pathology at Denver's Presbyterian Medical Center. With him, of course, went wife Judith and the couple's three small children.

Gwilym "Bill" Price, now a judge in Pittsburgh, only stayed at Dartmouth freshman year. He transferred to Allegheny College, served in Army ordinance (Europe and the Pacific) and got a law degree from Dickenson College in 1948. He practiced law in Pittsburgh until 1963 when he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He and his wife Nancy live at 340 Shadowlawn Ave. in Pittsburgh and they have a son who is a junior at the University of Delaware and two high school daughters.

Howie Price is still with the Veterans Administration and is regional office director in the Philippines. Daughter Pam and son Tom both went to college in the U. S.

Walter Price is a pediatrician living in Newport News, Va. with wife Pat. There are three children, Walter, Susan and Jeffrey, and Susan is currently upholding family New England background by her presence at Mt. Holyoke.

Then, we turn to the Rices.

Ernie Bice is executive vice president of Loewi & Co., investment bankers, out Milwaukee way. His two kids came East for college: John is a Colgate graduate and daughter Kathryn attended Garland Junior College in Boston.

Dick Rice, manager of projects for Jackson & Moreland, consulting engineers, now has a vice president as part of his title. His son Stephen graduated from Hartwick College and went on to graduate work in English, while daughter Judy, a Bates graduate, is now married.

Bob Rice also got the title of vice president in 1969. vice president legal, for Halliburton Services, an oil well cementing company in Duncan, Okla. Son David is at the University of Pennsylvania and second son, Robert, is in grammar school.

That's this month's installment of keeping up with the Prices and the Rices. We'll get to Browns and Davises and Aliens and Clarks another time.

Further on the subject of oil and Oklahoma and new titles, Bob Riggs in Tulsa switched derricks in 1969 and is now president of Regional Surveys, Inc., a geophysical oil exploration company. He was also president of the Tulsa Community Service Council 1970-1971.

There is a strong project afoot to put artificial turf in Leverone Field House. Know what I just found out? WalterEricsson's uncle was Nat Leverone the fellow who donated the building. Walter is project manager and assistant to the president of Arthur G. McKee, an engineering contractor, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Daughter Nancy is at Ohio Wesleyan and there is a son Jim.

Bud Baker, Volkswagens in Columbus, Ohio, was through Hanover in March with son Lorenzo III, looking at colleges. They were driving, of all things, a Volkswagen. It was Bud's first trip back to Hanover since the war.

Gene Kinney, last seen in this space two years ago, appears again by virtue of being named to the new post of senior vice president, administration and public affairs, of Chicago's Zenith Radio Corporation. The new position has been designed to strengthen the company's participation in public affairs and to develop plans for new facilities and more effective use of present real estate holdings. Gene will also be responsible for Zenith's television and radio stations.

Last year, Greg Gabassa was nominated for a National Book Award in Translation for Garcia Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude," but he didn't make it. This year he didn't have anything going, but through some quirk of publishers' coinciding schedules, he just may have four or five translations competing with each other. The first, "Leaf Storm and Other Stories," by Marquez, came out in April to splendid reviews. Not to be outdone, Greg's wife Clem got her Ph.D. with distinction last year from Columbia, and now has a fellowship given by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

June 11 should see eleven '44 fathers on hand, and cameras at the ready, to see their sons graduate. They are: Art Allen, son Art; Jim Averill, son Bob; BurtonBickford, son Larry; Don Davidson, son Jossi; Tommy Douglas, son Paul; ChuckFoster, son Mark; Merle Hagen, son Doc; Ezz Hale, son Kip; John Shapleigh, son John; Jack Shearer, son Mark; and JackWheeler, son John.

This is the last column until the October issue. Have a dandy summer. Please send me vacation postcards from near and far. Blessings.

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