As of January 1, Jake Jaquith has joined the law firm of Bowditch, Gowetz and Lane as counsel. This is the largest law firm in Worcester, with 28 lawyers and a total staff of 80. In this way Jake hopes to expand his service to his clients by providing better coverage for their needs. Among his first visitors in the new office was Herb McCreery, who is now semiretired but is considering a new position.
Our class is well represented in Sarasota; BillAndres was there recently and learned that Frank Williams and George Kennedy are serving as president and vice president, respectively, of the Dartmouth Club.
Bill and Joan McCaw have moved to Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn., after his retirement from many years of distinguished service in U.S. and U.N. agencies. He entered the Federal service after seven years with General Electric, and served in such key posts as chief of the Unemployment Compensation Division in the Social Security Board and coordinator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor. After inter-allied service during the war, he began his U.N. career in 1950 in international assistance programs for underdeveloped countries. From 1955 till 1970 he was the deputy controller of U.N., administering peacekeeping forces in the Middle East, Gaza, Congo, Lebanon, West New Guinea, and Cyprus. Later he was in charge of the U.N. famine relief program in Asia. He recently spoke to the Men's Club of Heritage Village on "Serving the U.N. in Bangladesh and Some Other Places."
Charlie Dudley is back in Lebanon. N.H., after a successful roundtrip to Florida on the autotrain. He reports that he waited up to an hour and a half for a dollar's worth of gas in some towns. In Washington he saw Percy Russell, and back home he frequently runs across Joe D'Esopo, Dick Black, Ed Chinlund, and Joe Piazza. Charlie gets out on his touring skis once in a while to get in to his camp near Croydon and check things over.
Dick Brown sends the sad news that his wife Mary lost a five-year battle with cancer in January. Archie Crowley performed the service and Dick Eberline was there. All of us send our warmest sympathy in Dick's great loss.
Tom Maynard has bought a home in Portland and expects to settle down there, except maybe for winter trips south.
Al Starrett summers at his lake cottage at South China, Me., with his three children and their families, and spends the rest of the year in Atlanta. He is now a professor emeritus, having retired after 38 years of teaching math at Georgia Tech.
Hal Beloin is another recent retiree. He has disposed of his real estate interests in New Britain. and he and Kay moved to a condominium at Spring Lake Village, Southington, Conn., where they have found a congenial group of neighbors.
Paul and Evelyn Babcock have sold their home in Milton, Mass., and are now living in their winterized summer home on Ossipee Lake, N.H. His son and family are only 50 miles away in Portland.
On a recent ski trip to Aspen and Vail I was pleased to see red and blue flags on the slalom courses bearing Hal Hirsch's White Stag emblems; they brought back recollections of Hal ski-joring at breakneck speed through the snowy streets of Hanover many years ago.
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