1935

As I calculate it, we're all at least 60. The kids have left the nest. At least one-third have retired. Others still in business are pretty much masters of their fate. So, there's really no valid reason why you can't sneak away for a long weekend this fall and join the gang at our fall reunion in October.

Reg is sending out all the details in a Tear Bag. which you "should have by now. So don't delay. Fill out the postcard and send in your motel deposit - today! We had over 100 back last time, and a half-dozen first-timers agreed that they never should have waited so long. It's a great experience, and if you haven't been back you're missing something.

We lost a respected, and dedicated, classmate this month. Tom Wilson, who served so ably as our bequest chairman, succumbed to a long illness on March. 3. He had worked with General Motors since 1942, and served in several executive capacities, most recently in charge of GM's real estate activities. A more complete obituary will be found in the obituary section.

I'm indebted to Frank Specht for a newsy letter on the Washington clan, which gathered for a club dinner in mid-March. Frank writes that Dean Cooper "is living the luxurious life of a retiree, and expecting his second grandchild momentarily." Lowell Haas was fresh back from a trip to San Francisco, where he and Hilda celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary. Hugh Wolff is still in the foreign relations action of the Library of Congress and justifiably proud of his musically-talented son. Young Hugh is assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, is a classical pianist and has won special awards from BMI for three straight years.

Frank also reports that Jerry Spingarn is now with the National Planning Association, a research group. Ed Neff, who is with the Republican Congressional Committee, "has his problems these days because of circumstances beyond his control". Frank runs into Al Schnee occasionally in a friendly adversary capacity, as both lobby on Capitol Hill. Al is with the State Department and Frank with Schenley Industries and "we have diverse opinions when it comes to taxing alcoholic beverages."

Three classmates received impressive accolades this month. Bunkie Knudsen was named "Man of the Year" by Cleveland's Sales and Marketing Executives association. They hailed his "imaginative management" in revitalizing White Motor company, since taking over as chairman in 1971. Al Dodd's work as director of Pennsylvania's Insurance Consumer Information Services was cited in the March issue of the United Slates Review. While the magazine Interaction describes Al Zimmerman as one of the Busiest retired men in the nation. He is doing double volunteer duty with SCORE and RSVP, besides teaching at Bryant and Stratton Business School on the side.

The spring mail brings recurring reports of empty nests. Al Sammis writes that both boys are now in Boston, one married and the other in law school. "This is how the wife and I get away to the Caribbean." Russ Erwin writes that Kay has joined him in retirement, having "turned the key for the last time on Ding Dong Nursery School in June. Now, we are busy in the antique business, specializing in primitives. Our last offspring, 20, is a sophomore at Oneonta State (N.Y.); the oldest three are married."

Win Garth reports that all their chickens have flown, too. "Four through college and married, three to go. Our cold storage warehousing business has been good, and we do some business with a subsidiary of Canagra, with whom Don Rogers is now associated. Rarely see any '35es except Bucks Weil. Our best to all the old men!"

Mary and Don Waggaman also are feeling a new freedom. "Our four kids are all out of college, and two are married. Our youngest Don Jr. will be married in June and when he goes the last chick will have flown the coop. We now have two grandsons, both red heads."

Ed Freeman writes "Both daughters have finished college. Son Joe about to begin, but where is uncertain." Bill Mathers reports that they, too, have only one child left in school. Bill has just moved his law practice to Rockefeller Center and adds "for a downtown country lad, it's quite a change."

From Bill Bonner's wife Charlotte comes word that Bill is now International Administrative Service Manager for the Torrington Company. They're based in England, but Bill travels the continent. Despite England's unending series of crises, Charlotte reports that life where they live (Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth) wasn't nearly so bad as friends back in Connecticut were led to believe.

Our long-distance travelers this month are Howie Croninger and Paul Van Anterpen. Howie and Mary went around the world on a "somewhat belated, but so stimulating, second honeymoon." Paul might just have well girdled the globe, too, for he covered 30,000 miles in six weeks. While his main destination was Australia and New Zealand, he got off the beaten path. On a side trip to Fiji, he participated in a slightly drunken Fiji wedding (not his), and in Thailand flew 500 miles north of Bangkok, where the natives still live as they did centuries ago. Stopping off in Tokyo, Paul reports that either orange juice or scotch (one ounce) now costs $3 at the better bistros. Doesn't give a guy much choice, does it?

Cliff Mills' daughter Letha is a chip off the old block. She has just been accepted at Dartmouth Medical School, certainly the first class daughter so distinguished. A real smart gal, with a 3.8 average at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ralph Lazarus' son Dick is being married May 26th to Kathy Green, a Smith graduate. They'll live in California, where Dick is director of admissions and student affarirs in Stanford's graduate school of business. Hall Colton reports that his daughter Sydney is running the occupational therapy department at Mt. Auburn Hospital, in the Boston area. Her husband is administering a methadone and drug addition program, sponsored by Boston University.

Scotty McPherson, now retired from the paper business, is building a home at Cape Haze, 10 miles wouth of Englewood, Fla. His youngest daughter graduates from Ripon in June and his son, now out of the Air Force, is finishing up at the University of Wisconsin. So, there will be little to hold them up north when fall rolls around.

Our new honorary classmate, Peter Smith, passed through Chicago on college business and brought news that Sid Diamond and his new bride were at the Tucson club dinner. Peter affirms she is charming, and was quite thrilled to be attending her first Dartmouth function. Better plan on fall reunion, Sid, so we can officially welcome her into the Class.

All the rest of you, too, let's make plans for fall!

Huff Huffman '36 pushes pedals in Ohio,both as a bike builder and chairman of theDayton River Corridor Committee nowplanning a $30 million project of bikepaths, walkways, apartments, and plazas.

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