1945

As your new class secretary I managed to write my first column for the September issue by devoting all of it to the 30th Reunion of our Class last June 9-11. However, the time has come to bring you news of classmates, who, if they (or their spice) haven't written giving me news of themselves, deny me the distinct privilege of bringing you news of them. So write already! This October issue should reach you about the time of our mini-reunion in Hanover October 17-19. If you didn't plan for it this year, try to make it next fall. About 45 classmates (no pun intended), plus wives and other friends, spend a happy carefree two days up there which includes a football game and dinner at some exotic spot such as the DOC House.

Speaking of reunions, John White passed on to Don Cole, your former distinguished secretary, who passed on to me a letter from Col. John Callaghan who wrote, "I wish I could attend our 30th Reunion, but I just can't seem to break away. We are expecting our daughter Lucy to return from a teaching assignment in Colombia, South America, about that time and also want to fit in a visit with our yearling (second year going into the third) son John at West Point. We are proud of these two and have another coming along to do just as well (a daughter Elizabeth, 14). Your own youngster (John White's) has taken on quite a subject for her thesis. I hope she finds that any army's hard core of professionals would eventually oppose a tyrant, regardless of the country in which the tyrant flourishes. We loved Germany and suppose she does too. Our latest stint was for four years - in Heidelberg. I am in charge of Military Personnel at Headquarters Army Material Command. Am still a colonel and it is likely I will retire as one in 1976 - the 30th anniversary of my commissioning at West Point. Hope to visit Hanover in the fall and am most regretful that I can't make it for the 30th." Hope to see you at our mini-reunion, John.

Elliot Goodman who did attend our 30th with his wife Norma and son Roger, has written TheFate of the Atlantic Community published by Praeger for the Atlantic Council of the United States. In his definitive study "Professor Goodman stresses the fact that Atlantic unity has never been more urgent than it is today in a time of precarious nuclear politics and economic crises which threatens the stability of the world order. He displays a striking talent for relating problems of Western organization to the sub-stantive, political, military, economic and monetary issues facing the Atlantic community." Elliot is professor of political science at Brown University where he has been teaching courses in the 'politics of the Atlantic Community, world communism, and Soviet politics.

Jerry Ogden '65, currently assigned to the American Mission in China as First Secretary, kindly sent along a picture of him and JohnHoldridge standing at the gate of the United States Laison Office in Peking, where John was Deputy Chief at the time the picture was taken. We givearouse to John who was recently named ambassador to Singapore by President Ford.

I saw Eliot Mover at the Red Sox-Orioles game at Fenway Park in Boston on August 5, where visiting Jim Palmer kept the ol' home team from showing their winning form. Eliot said that his wife Helen was home from the hospital and recovering nicely from the back sprain that kept her from attending our 30th.

A letter arrived from Rameses Hatshepsut whom I hadn't heard from in ages. He is living in Cairo, Egypt, where he has taken over his forefathers' business. He writes, "Cairo used to be as quiet as a tomb but is now a bustling modern metropolis and educational center. We are concerned about the state of affairs in the Middle East today and hope that we can regain the lands that have been taken from us. My heart goes out to my Native American brothers whose land was taken from them and never returned, but I have great faith that eventually we will achieve a just and equitable peace over here." His letter ends on a hopeful note, but that hope is a shuttle one.

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