1949

At this sitting a goodly number of you are making your mental plans anent attending the fall mini-reunion which will be history by the time you read this column. A great weekend has been planned and it promises to satisfy the nostalgic mental meanderings of three of our classmates who are returning to Hanover for their first troduction to the 1949 fall experience. Lee Bronson is making the incredible trek from Alta, Utah to do a snow dance; Charlie Schuetz is joining us from the Windy City; and Bill Perkins is escaping the smog of New Jersey in a valiant attempt to clear his lungs and partake of the splendors of oxygen.

The weekend portends great activity due to the fact that final touches on our 25th Reunion will be placed on the canvas. Hopefully, the dates are already indelibly imprinted in your minds — June 13 through June 16, 1974. Why not plan now to block off a portion of your vacation? Take a week or two weeks and enjoy a Hanover holiday in conjunction with a trip to the Maritime Provinces, the rocky coast of Maine, or Cape Cod. Remember this is the only 25th - and remember, at graduation, how we all felt that the 25th'ers had the most fun. Fly now and pay later!

At the executive committee meeting, after Bud Hughes has portrayed his plans and arrangements for your hedonistic and intellectual pleasures over reunion weekend, Herb Gramstorff will expound on the Reunion Yearbook. Early biography returns are filtering in with promising results except that some of you seem to be bashful about your current visages - never fear - wrinkles, creases, gray hairs and bald pates will find much company. Herb will probably complain about the scarcity of old snapshots; at least he did to me a few days ago and Doris and 1 spent one entire Saturday evening examining the dusty archives. A small bonaza was our reward - take the time and check your pictorial memoirs - not only does it make an interesting evening but Brother Herb will reward you with everlasting love.

With one of our early yearbook returns came word that Ray Bankert had been recently appointed manager of product cost and margin analysis for the finance operation of General Electric's Steam Turbine-Generator Products Division. As such Ray will (and currently is) be responsible for profit management and cost estimating for the division. In these days of economic controls we should all offer our condolences to Ray, who, when he completed Tuck School in 1951, had never heard the evil words "Phase . Four." One thing is certain - the numbers guys are taking over the world!

A brief word from Tom Swartz relates the passive one-upsmanship for which he is famous. Tom and Ann had just returned from a trip to Bermuda where they attended the National Football League Licensing Convention. Tom, of Thomas Textiles, makes mini sweatshirts for NFL Properties, Inc. IRS take notice - doubtful that Tom won't take credit for a business trip. Other than rub salt into open wounds, Tom did relay the fact that Harv and Jane Nolan had recently opened a new travel agency in Hazlet, N.J., entitled "Polaris Travel Service." Perchance they can arrange our 30th reunion on Antarctica!

Last month I wrote about Al Wagner's new position as president of a newly formed subsidiary of the Boston Company. Since then I have been blessed with the opportunity of having Al beg for a room for the fall weekend - result: we now know slightly more about his move. Al's new company is in the business of managing fixed-income funds (nanely bonds) and in a scant five months has picked up the management of 60 million fund dollars from one national union welfare fund and one municipal employees retirement system. Goal: one to two billion in fund management. At current running rates Al should be retired in five to seven years!

Recently, a sad clipping was sent to us from Paul Woodberry from the Valley News dated August 20, 1973. It reported that our undereraduate conscience. Nelson Wormwood, had passed away in North Brookfield, Mass., at the age of 83. it is doubtful if any of us can relate anecdotes of our dormitory years without mentionina "Wormy." He had an uncanny sense of smell for after-hours dates, illicit liquor, and other skullduggery. Hopefully, our antics prolonged his life He was a good man - hopefully, we shall all live as honest lives as he!

Louis A. Buie has made the recent returns with , report that he was recently appointed chief of staff at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn. Lou had been a staff member at the same institution since 1960 and apparently has always kept his love of the Land of 10,000 Lakes. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1953 and thereafter interned at Hennepin County General Hospital in Minneapolis followed by a five-year surgical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a one-year stint as a member of that august staff.

Being president of Samsonite Corporation's Luggage Group since 1970 wasn't enough for Dick Hanselman. Unable to cope with the rising interest rates he obviously went politicking and was successful. Quite recently Dick was elected to the board of directors of Northeast Colorado National Bank. Anyone looking for seven percent mortgage money should direct his missive in the Denver direction.

One of my retainer spies recently observed a grotesque occurrence in Fun City. While dining quietly in an alcove he observed a boisterous and non-sedate group winging it at a nearby table. The fearsome five were reunioning again - namely, Jim Krentler, Dana "Deke" Jackson, Charles "Jay" Urstadt, Sam Kilner, and a 1948 interloper with equally strong vocal chords, Dirk Kuzmaier. Overheard was the news that Deke was changing jobs but not professions and would soon open an office for Kuhn, Loeb and Company in San Francisco. The finale was as grotesque as the revelry - Jay arranged for Sam to be transported back to the IBM parking lot in White Plains in Jay's private limousine where Sam jumped from the shiny and liveried Cadillac tube into his pick-up truck for the commute home!

Rumor has it that Gunther Perdue has already made plans to journey from some obscure spot in the world to our 25th. He is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with all of you - don't disappoint him!

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