1952

The winter months and the cutbacks because of the energy problems are beginning to take their toll. The result is that we have very little class news to report. Hopefully, this is the lull before the storm as several college activities will be coming up toward spring. Most classmates get out to hear the Glee Club as they make their annual tour and we hope this season will be no different.

In December your secretary had an opportunity to talk at some length with Al Jackson by phone in Geneva. We had hoped to get together but travel schedules just wouldn't mesh. Al, as many of you know, took hundreds of pictures at our recent reunion and I was hoping to see the results of his work. Most of the pictures, as it turns out, have been placed in an album which Al keeps in Geneva. However, he has sent me what he calls his "rejects" and. if they are not up to his standards, the good ones must be fantastic. The pictures will be forwarded to SamWallis for a future newsletter.

We have also forwarded for newsletter publication a very heartwarming story in which Al Reich played a major role. Full details are too much for this column, but they involve a serious injury to an exchange student and the efforts played by various people to assist the young man involved.

While on that same trip referred to above, I did have an opportunity to spend a couple of hours with Dick McDonough in Hanau, West Germany. Dick, as reported earlier is managing the European Mail Order Division for The Singer Company and we visited him at his headquarters. This assignment involves responsibility over 250,000 agents selling in West Germany and keeps Dick and his staff on the go. As reported in our first announcement, Dick and his family are living in London which results in quite a commute.

From time to time the College sends notices of address changes to the secretary and this enables us to keep track of virtually every member of the Class. Perdically, these changes are passed on to the Class through the newsletter and about every three years we publish a complete new list. Based on the number of changes which have taken place in our class since the last complete list in August 1972 we will be publishing a new complete class list before mid year. Surprisingly, we are still on the move. In the past 18 months 107 members of our class have changed addresses. Discounting a few changes to correct errors and the expected movement of our career military classmates, this seems like an unusually mobile group of people. Some of the moves are major ones cross country or between countries like the recent one of Tom Fenton who was transfered by CBS News from Rome to Tel Aviv. On the other hand we have Jay Stahl who just seems to move around the Pan Am Building in New York. Jay is with Union Carbide Corporation and they keep moving him from floor to floor. Sounds like a floating crap game.

Also, in connection with these moves, we are certain some of these involve news items and we just aren't getting them all. Within the next 60 days we will be sending out questionnaires to selected members of the Class asking for news information. Hopefully, we will have your cooperation on this and, in addition, you will send us news reports of activities about yourself and your classmates. We will respect any instructions connected with these items.

In the meantime, keep the thermostat low, save gas, and pray for more snow.

Jerry and Nan Mitchell '51 are now RopeFerry Road residents and have taken overthe Dartmouth Travel Bureau locatedon Lebanon Street, Hanover.

Secretary, 40 Hamilton Lane Darien, Conn. 06820

Treasurer, 21 Ridgefield Rd. Winchester, Mass. 01890