1945

Welcome back to the '45 column - trust that you managed to survive the usual summer problem of too many college-age offspring and their numerous friends confusing the home routine.

This is the year - our 30th Reunion is scheduled for June!! Moe Frye and group will keep you informed as plans mature but plan now to join the group in Hanover. '45 reunions have been tremendous in the past and besides there'll never be another 30th!!

Vic Smith is now general manager of Turner Construction Company's Cincinnati territory. Vic has been with the firm since 1947 serving in the firm's eastern region as well as in the Columbus and Cincinnati areas. His most recent post had been operations manager in Cincinnati and he has been a vice president of the firm since 1970.

A letter from Gary Gipson '74 brings us both his thanks for receiving financial assistance in the form of the 1945 Memorial Award as well as an interesting report on his work. A senior fellow, Gary's research topic was "the Marcus Garvey movement with special emphasis on its international aims and influences ... Marcus Garvey was an early twentieth century panAfricanist thinker and organizer." Gary had done much work in this country on Garvey and continued his studies in West Africa. He closes his letter thusly: "Let me end by thanking you and the Class of '45 for your financial help. I would also commend your foresight and concern for the level of output of your undergraduate brothers at the College. The money will be well managed and I shall do all in my power to produce a piece of information that will allow us to say that it was well invested." The award to Gary was $500. This most worthy award is financed by class dues - how about doing your part to further undergraduate education.

Bob Mayo brings us up to date with "Sold my house in Millis, Mass., and moved to a townhouse in Waltham last September. After a winter vacation in Bermuda, I opened my office as a consultant in computer systems in Chelmsford, Mass. Found a note from RuthLeggat (John's wife) under the windshield wiper of my car last week - she noted the '45 sticker on the window. Hope to see John for lunch soon."

The following '45s made the news pages during the summer ... Sandy Daniels was one of 'he U.S. airmen greeting a Yugoslavian couple who had hidden nine airmen in their Yugoslavian home during World War 11. Bill Merrill was the prosecutor in the Erlichman case. Jack Hemingway made Newsweek with the following: "At 50, Jack looks somewhat like his late - father especially around the moustache - and shares Papa's love of the outdoors. (Jack) has a wife and three daughters and teaches Spanish and French in a Ketchum, Idaho school. He walks into a bar at the edge of town (wrote his interviewer), the men along the counter nod. They know him. And the black haired waitress knows his drink, a red beer - tomato juice and beer."

Fletcher McDowell, not content with being executive assistant dean and professor of Neurology at Cornell Medical School, has also been appointed director, chief executive officer, and professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Burke Rehabilitation Center, White Plains, N.Y. Ed Harte, editor and publisher of the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times has become chairman of the board of the National Audubon Society. Ed has been active in conservation work for several years. He was chairman of the committee which wrote the country's first offshore oil drilling code, was president of the country's first municipal oil-spill clean-up association, and had served as an Audubon director and chairman of its executive committee.

Bill Portman reports that son Rob will be a freshman this year in Hanover. Ray O'Crowley, Air Force colonel, is now commander of the 308th missile maintenance squadron, at Little Rock, Arkansas.

REMEMBER THE 30THSEE YOU IN HANOVER IN JUNE

Four members of the Class of 1944 had a hand in the June 29 dedication of the new ShermanFairchild Physical Sciences Center: (from l to r) Walter and Connie Burke, Alex andBetty Gillespie, Vice President Leonard Rieser, and Fritz Hier.

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