1935
Spring vacation trips and more retirements dominate the mails this month!
Jack Parfitt "Just back from Afghanistan - incredible country! Enroute, photographed the volcano in Iceland. Still practicing (medicine) in Manchester, N.H. Same wife, five children, and three grandchildren."
Don Hagerman, on a spring trip to Florida, "Saw Helen Hinman; Ed was in New York. Phoebe Stowell, Randy's widow, was at Sugarloaf in February. Wayne Geib's son graduates from Holderness this spring."
Business took Marge and Dave Buxbaum to Los Angeles, where they attended the annual Dartmouth Club dinner with Rudy and Helen Pacht. Then on to Hawaii for a week. Rudy writes: "Dave and Marge now boast ten grandchildren, the youngest only a couple of weeks old."
Art Bamford reports "Just back from a month loafing in our house on Key Bisnixon, only to read on your column that old Hulett is down there. Will have to ask Bud how long we've been unaware neighbors" (About nine years, as I figure it Art - Ed).
On the subject of Hulett, Bob Bowman adds "Tell that old rascal with the arthritic hip that the climate of Key Biscayne will do his hip no more good than the windy draughts of Crosby Hall. Much better would be a total hip replacement, such as I had last year. The process is simple, the pain trifling, and the results exquisite. Back on crutches in two weeks, a cane in three, and raising all sorts of hell in four. In six months, rock climbing and hiking five miles in the Utah deserts." (Doug Ley please note, in case those acupuncture needles lose their magic.)
Of his own family. Bob reports that the nest is bare and he and Jean have moved into a smaller house. "One daughter in New York working for Esquire, another married and in Canada, and the third in Boulder working for a mountaineering outfit and in love with the Rockies."
Shelley and Bobb Chaney took a grand circle trip to the Southeast, New England and back to Minneapolis. By the time this appears, you will have read a detailed report in the Tear Bag. I'll only add this footnote on his visit with our conewsletter editors, Dero Saunders and RegBankart.
"I caught up with Dero at his favorite haunt, 'The Players.' Thespian atmosphere, loaded with memorabilia. Forbes is booming, and Dero is busier than ever - if possible. He's thinking about enlarging his farm in Pennsylvania. In fact, an auction 'down on the farm' will keep him from Class Officers meetings in May.
For some time before Reg and Babs moved to Heritage Village, we had been discussing it with them. A fabulous layout, which will contain 2,500 condominium units when complete. The Bankarts have a 3-bedroom unit, and for the first time Reg has a place to display his B.C. bronzes and a collection of rocks and semiprecious minerals which he's been working on since age nine."
Retirement News: After 33 years with Weyerhaeuser (New England Region Manager), Dave Goldman stepped down April 1. "Betty, daughter Jane, and I have decided to stay here in Simsbury, Conn." Al Zimmerman also concluded a long career with one company (37 years with Sears Roebuck) "Now a part-time volunteer with U.S. Small Business SCORE (Senior Corps of Retired Executives.)"
Bob MacLaren notes "The phrase 'time to retire' is becoming meaningful. Just bought a pad in the South, north of Delray Beach, Fla." Ted Everhart has also bought a bought a new beach house, at Virginia Beach, but retirement is farthest from his mind, "Paradoxically, one needs more and bigger homes after the children (4) grow up and leave. Work too interesting to retire. Also, busy with various civic activities, including being a trustee of Old Dominion University."
Ted O'Brien, who settled down in Naples, Fla., for his retirement, writes "Work few hours in local hospital. Mostly read, garden, golf, and swim. See no '35ers except Sy Millstein, who vacations on nearby Sanibel Island.
We have lost two classmates this month, both to cancer. Fritz Beebe, board chairman of Newsweek and The Washington Post, died May 1 in New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. In California, Brad Bradshaw, a long-time employee of Lockheed, succumbed April 11.
Bill Short, who wrote about Brad said: "Brad and I played tennis for years at Lockheed. He was a great competitor."
Of himself, Bill reports, "Putting in long hours at Lockheed. Hope to win a share of the space shuttle program. Don Richardson, who has retired from Philco Ford, is spending 30-40 hours a week producing talking books for the blind." Bill concludes with the interesting thought "Our retired and semi-retired classmates could provide some fascinating insights into where to go, what to do, in those golden years." How about it? Good excuse to write!
Business Briefs: Dan Cotton has joined the Julien J. Studley commercial real estate firm in Boston. A long feature on Bunky Knudsen in the April 5 Wall Street Journal. He really has had to fight staggering odds since taking over White Motors. The WSJ pays tribute to his inspirational leadership.
Notes from fellows we haven't heard from in years. John Bruce Ross, not to be confused with John Roberts Ross, continues his medical practice in Jacksonville, Fla., and reports "Four adult children who have now finished college. Two grandchildren."
Ofay Allen gave up his offices as Orange County (Vt.) clerk and judge of probate back in 1965, and now practices law in Bradford, Vt. He and Julie have built a home near Thetford. Their son is working for the American Red Cross in Washington.
San Parsons continues as vice president of the Torrington (Conn.) office of the Hartford National Bank. His older boy, Class of '62, is now getting his Ph.D. in Far Eastern studies at the University of Hawaii, after a stint teaching high school in Hue, Vietnam. His younger boy, a graduate of Lehigh, is at Proctor & Gamble.
Sid Diamond, now quasi-retired in Tucson, writes "George Colton was here in January to address our annual dinner meeting, and I had the pleasure of introducing him. Saul Deitel, who is a member of our class although he did not graduate, has just been elected president of Myerson Department store. Advertising Age recently brought out my book 'Trademark Problems and How to Avoid Them,' which is a compilation of my columns in the magazine."
Colton also accompanied President Kemeny on his annual trip to Chicago. Frank and LilaWright, Ed and B.J. Freeman, and Betty and I were on deck. Don Koehler was prevented from attending by high priorities. He married off his baby daughter, Nancy, that weekend in Boulder, Colo. A popular weekend! On that same day, in Wellesley, Mass. Dick Muzzy's daughter Ellen was married to Lt. John Farnham, USN.
Baker Library recently received a handsome gift from Owen Fairweather. It's a set of volumes comparing labor relations systems in the United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, and France with the United States. Owen is a recognized authority in this field, and compiled the volumes summarizing a study sponsored by ITT and the University of Michigan.
A couple of final reminders. The Alumni Fund needs your help. Send in your check today! ArtBamford reminds anyone visiting New York that '35ers meet for lunch at the- New York Club the first Monday of every month. Also, they're organizing a picnic enroute to the Yale game next fall, at the 1-91 rest area, just across the Vermont line. If interested, get details from Bob Naramore.
Have a fine summer. See you next fall!
One of the Walker Evans photographspresented to Hopkins Center by the Class of1935 is "Sharecropper's Wife, Hale CountyAlabama," taken in 1936.
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