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Frank Cornwell is retiring from Monsanto to take a key position with the College. He'll be director of the Trustees Committee on Resources, and-will take up his responsibilities January 1. Frank and Ruth will be moving to Hanover shortly, after living the past four years in London where Frank was chairman of Monsanto, Ltd. He had worked for Monsanto for over 20 years, and, prior to his European assignment, headed all marketing activities for the company.

Europe has been the mecca for several classmates this fall. Jean and Al Ritchie report while you were living it up at fall reunion, we were leading the good life in Vienna." Chuck and Betsy Brown also picked the same time "to re-visit scenes of years ago, particularly Paris where we were married 25 years ago October 11." They also spent time in Bonn, where they lived when Chuck was a correspondent for Newsweek..

Bill Bury spent ten weeks touring the continent, "including three very delightful weeks with Brother Roger '27, cruising slowly from Athens to Dubrovnik. Circumnavigated Scorpio, but no Signs of Jackie!"

In a report on the international convention of steel executives, held in Munich this fall, Business Week reports that Charlie Baker gave the steel biggies a jolt. Charlie, who is secretary - general of the International Iron & Steel Institute in Brussels, predicted that Japan will add 43-million tons of steel making capacity in upcoming years, at a time when Europe is standing still. It really shook up the meeting!

If you saw a familiar face on ABC-TV's special feature on football injuries, it was our own Dick Schneider. For the past ten years, as professor of neurosurgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Dick has been working to help prevent head and neck injuries on the gridiron. The result is a new-style football helmet, with less rigid outer shell and a pneumatic double inner-liner to cushion the impact. Players in over 40 colleges and high schools, are wearing prototype models now. Within a year, this new headgear will be in fullscale production for football, hockey, and other contact sports. For Dick, this is a labor of love, and all royalties will go to support further research at Michigan's Neurosurgical Laboratory.

Sometimes progress isn't progress. GardnerCushman writes that, after 35 years, he had moved up to fourth name on his law firm's 45name letterhead. Then, this past spring, they merged with another law firm of equal size. Now there are so many names they no longer list them. On a more positive note, Cush's youngest son Robert 11, named after his brother Bob, class of '39 graduated from Dartmouth in March, and was married this summer. This gives the Cushman family its first third-generation alumnus.

From Frank Van Kirk a newsy note about children and word that he and Phoebe celebrated their. 25th wedding anniversary in September. Their daughter is finishing her Master's in Pediatric Physiotherapy. While Frank Jr., after a summer of cutting down orchards with chain saw (farmers in the Chico area are shifting from apples to grapes), is resuming his medical technology studies, preparing for paramedical work.

While we're in the medical department, BobBowman, happily is recovering from a detached retina operation. "My eye began bothering me, while visiting our married daughter in Western Ontario this summer. Whether from helping them put siding on their house, collecting blocks of soapstone from an abandoned quarry for carving figurines, or catching bass, I can't say. Wound up having cryosurgery. Expensive vacation!"

Now that he has recovered from hip surgery, Bud Hulett has become "a regular Marco Polo. Just returned from a trip around the Horn - not South America, but Key Biscayne to Sanford, Fla., to Washington, D. C., via auto train. Thence to Detroit and back to Key Biscayne. Had drinks with Ernie and Polly Hedler in their lovely new apartment, in Hudson, O."

A feature article in the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune reveals that George Goodman has sold the 25-store home furnishings chain he founded 35 years ago with a single, struggling store,, and he and Max plan to retire to Palm Beach, Fla. George was a pioneer of the modern merchandising concept of combining floor coverings, drapes, curtains and accessories in a single one-stop specialty store.

Don Richardson, who won his climbing irons years ago in Cabin and Trail, is back on the trail. "Have taken to hiking, after all these sedentary years. Lead groups nearly every weekend for the Sierra Club. We have more than 200 miles of trails (mountains, lakes and seashore), just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Am enjoying it no end."

Professor John Hurd writes of a memorable musicale this summer, in which Ted and KayHarbaugh and son John '66 participated during Alumni College. "Ted played the flute. Kay was really marvelous on both violin and viola, and helped us all play better than we ever had before. John played the viola, to which he turned after his violin was stolen in a bus station while returning from a sojourn in Germany."

A recent issue of the Tearbag reported on the musical prowess of Lowell Haas' son Fred. Daughter Jody also is following in pappy's footsteps. Lowell writes "she's blowing happily on oboe, flute, and piccolo in various bands in her high school." Lowell himself continues to fly about the country to play saxophone in the UAL Clipped Wings Combo, a group affiliated with United Air Lines retired stewardesses. Lowell has been made an honorary member of Clipped Wings, an honor he shares with Pat Patterson, UAL's founder.

In a long note, which he stressed was not for publication, Len Shortell reveals that he and Rose have moved to Lessburgh, Va., to get back to the simple life. "Downtown is like Hanover was. Our pastor called us by name the second Sunday we attended mass. Here, we are under no pressures, thank God!"

Len's daughter Lois is vice president of Analytic Planning Corporation in Washington. His older son Fred, is "in Fort Lauderdale doing various things. Brian is the only one married, and we have him to thank for Kevin Patrick Shortell, our only grandchild."

Earl Arthur reports that he and Jane "had a great visit with Dick and Ruth Potter, recently. They were in Charlotte for a medical meeting. Dick practices in Petersburg, Va." Earl keeps busy, and young, adapting his firm's new computer capability to the latest pension laws.

As this was written, news was received that Herb Steams died October 20 in Mansfield, Mass., where he had operated the century-old family business, W. L. Stearns Stationery and News Store. The Class extends its sympathy to Margaret and her sons.

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