1933

'33ers continue to be recognized for their leadership positions. Bill Lang has received the honorary Executive Award of the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management. Only five honorary Executive Awards have been presented by the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management since its inception in 1941.

Ed Foley has been named chairman, chief executive officer and treasurer of Foley Machinery, and president and treasurer of Foley Towlift.

The Explorers Club has awarded its president, Hoby VanDeusen, its certificate of Honorary Membership in recognition of his outstanding services to the world of science, especially through the extension of the disciplines of the domains of his expertise to the remote areas of the world through the additions to the knowledge of the world and of its natural inhabitants, and in grateful appreciation of long and patient hours spent on the manifold problems of the Explorers Club.

Kent Rhodes has been named first vice president of the Readers Digest and was recently named chairman of the board of trustees of Outward Bound, Inc., an educational experience for young people. He is a past chairman and executive committee member of the Magazine Publishers Association, and in 1971 was appointed by President Nixon to serve on the United States Postal Advisory Council.

Having commented last month on the herculean efforts of Bob Fox as Newsletter Editor over a period of more than 20 years, writing hundreds of thousands of words for our information and enjoyment, I failed to recognize Bob's building and repairing support to Babe's established project of decorating old tins "n" boxes "n" furniture with cutouts and trimmings and finally covering them with varnish. This was graphically related by Boston Herald's Virginia Bohlin in a special feature "Woman at Large," published last July 23. Babe turns discards into dollars through her hobby which she calls "'decorating with cutouts (a form of decoupage)." Bob repairs second-hand furniture and other items that Babe paints and decorates and sells through the Womens Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. How is this for a husband and wife team effort?

Another class officer about whom little has been written is your former class secretary, JeffDavis. Since his recent retirement as Business Manager of Holderness School, Holderness, N.H., Jeff and Bea have had an eventful summer entertaining all nine of their grandchildren (plus mothers and two sons-in-law) who assembled at their cottage in Clinton, Conn. Their activities have included fishing in Long Island Sound, swimming, sailing and all the other shore activities. Jeff and Bea spent September resting at the cottage, and have since returned to Plymouth, N.H. for their fall and winter activities.

Jeff has also passed along word of having seen Bob and Mary Jo McDonald, who are living in a neighboring town, Madison, Conn. Bob is now the owner of a hardware business, as a sequel to his extended service as an account executive with J. Walter Thompson Company in New York and with the Foreign Policy Association, and is enjoying his new activities and life in general in a small town.

Mel and Ruth Katz have realized their goal of a second home on Dutton Hill on the edge of the ski-area and golf course at Quechee Lakes, Vt. This is in addition to their home in Hewlitt, N.Y., and we hope that they will be spending more and more time in the Hanover area.

Secretary, Box 302 Norwich, Vt. 05055

Treasurer, 9 Will Merry Lane Greenwich, Conn. 06830