1953

The football season is drawing to a close. We've had some outstanding class get-togethers every weekend. I think it will be better to write all the details in the Newsletter.

The sons and daughters of '53 are well represented in the freshman class of 1979. What could be a first, came about by sheer luck of the draw. Dave Donovan's daughter Kim is rooming with Bernie Sudikoff's daughter Julie in North Fayerweather. How about that?

Ron Scheman is the assistant secretary general of the Organization of American States for International Relations.

Massachusett's governor, Michael Dukakis, has initiated an economic plan for the state that is under the direction of Dick Giesser who is in the office of Economic Development and Manpower Affairs. The plan is designed to give a coordinated helping hand to businesses already in the state rather than placing quite as much emphasis on bringing in new companies outside the commonwealth. They hope to create as many as 50,000 new manufacturing jobs in industry over the next five or six years. The idea will be to create a task force of existing state employees to visit companies regularly to smooth their way when possible wherever state government is involved. Basically it will be a matter of red tape cutting and persuading industry to expand when it can.

Jack Hall has accepted the presidency of Pikeville College in Pikeville, Ky. It is a four year liberal arts school in the coal mining area of eastern Kentucky. Jack says that it is a striking contrast to upstate New York where he was assistant to the president of Cornell. The people are absolutely terrific; the challenge is a real one, and all of the Halls have settled in happily.

Rudi Haerle continues the "Sociology of Sport" as one of his research specialties. He just had a chapter on baseball careers published in Sport and Social Order written by Ball and Loy and published by Addison Wesley. Rudi is still teaching sociology at Middlebury College. He has been college hunting with his children lately and has seen Stan Westberg, Al Collins, and Dick Goodman.

Bill McCarthy was elected president of the board of trustees of the Gilman School in Baltimore.

Fritz Harrell took his daughter Meg, age 11, to the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, N.M., this summer. He attended a "scouting skills" conference with a group of 48 men and two women. There has been an obvious lack of enthusiasm for the three-year-old New Scouting Program. It tries to be all things to all people and therefore winds up being way below the originally intended mark. The conference was called to see if putting renewed emphasis on the original Scouting Outdoor Skills promulgated by Baden-Powell might inject new vigor into scouting. Fritz was very enthusiastic about the prospects. For recreation, he and Meg climbed a 9,100 foot peak. While he was proud of his daughter, he was really pleased that neither his feet nor his legs were a bit sore the next day. A year ago, Fritz took his sons and some other scouts on a 100 mile mountain wilderness backpacking trip also at Philmont. This year, John, age 17, went to Philmont alone for a 15-day, 150-mile hike with the Kit Carson Men.

Pete Reich stayed with us in Cleveland in September. Pete is in industrial real estate sales for Coldwell Banker. This New York Stock Exchange company is one of the largest industrial real estate companies in the world. He and Louise and their three children live in Pasadena.

I also had a chance to visit for a few minutes with Bob Michael in his spacious office at Stapleton Airport in Denver. This is one of the busiest airports in the country and also one of the most profitable. It is totally unsupported by local funds. Bob is the general manager.

That's all the news we have for now. How about taking a minute and letting us hear from you.

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