1947

There are jottings from all over this month, thanks in part to notes sent along with payment of class dues, together with some cards returned to a grateful correspondent.

Doug Palmer writes from Hopkins, Minn., that the beauty of Minnesota in the fall reminds him of Hanover. Employed by General Mills for 29 years, Doug has the challenging position of director of engineering for packaged foods, operations division. A Palmer daughter is married, another is at the University of Arizona, and a son attends high school.

The family status of Ben Brewster is this: one MIT son married; a daughter graduated from University of New Hampshire; a daughter at Tufts and a son in the fifth grade. Ben is still at Colonial Brass Co. with John Davis '29.

Former roommate Art Goodwin is in his 29th year with Graybar Electric Co., serving as branch manager of the Syracuse office since March. Before that, Art was in operations.

After home leave in the United States, JohnRogers has returned for another two-year tour of duty with the Agency for International Development in Panama. His job primarily is to teach people in rural communities to raise a variety of nutritious vegetables in order to improve their daily diets. His goal is to establish 200 active community gardens by June of 1976. At last count he had reached 111. John is also working on a potable water project which will provide running potable water to 200 rural communities and hand pump wells to 1,200 small hamlets. John reports the family is all fine.

From North Conway, N.H., Bob Schroeder has nothing new to report: just that he's enjoying retirement very much with lots of golf in the summer and skiing in the winter. He'll be the first to admit it's a great life.

Word of a "new lease" on life, both personally and professionally, comes from NormanSissman. Early in the fall he married Charlotte Tejessy and they live in a large and lovely pre-Revolutionary farmhouse in Princeton, N.J. and since June, Norman has been professor of pediatrics and director of pediatric cardiology at Rutgers Medical School. Double congratulations!

Henry "Harry" Powell, president of Peoples Stores, reports from Tacoma, Wash., that their newest store opened in August - Federal Way, Washington, so there are now seven stores in Washington. In celebration, Harry and wife Shirley went off to Lake Tahoe for a week. Since being transferred from Wilkes Barre, Pa., the Powells have decided the great Northwest is what they've always been looking for.

Although Bill Post has nothing exciting to report other than that he is a grandfather, he wants it known he'd like to hear from classmates who might remember him - especially those in the old V-12 program. His address is 7A Fairway Road, Flying Hills, Reading, Pa., 19607.

A card from Bob Owens has news of job and family. Bob is now major account manager for Redactron Corp., which at the time of writing was soon to be a division of Burroughs Corp. Redactron, located in Hauppauge, N.Y., is a manufacturer of word processing systems. One son Owens is a field engineer for a San Diego firm, another attends Cortland State, son No. 3 is a freshman at Syracuse, and a fourth is a freshman in high school. Did we forget anyone? Oh yes, daughter Kathy, a third grader.

Although not all cards and notes have been acknowledged, I do want to get in a few words about Dick Shribman's talented and enterprising undergraduate son Dave '76 who, in working for Dartmouth's sports information office, did much of the writing for Dartmouth's football programs. Those of you who attended the games are familiar with his stories. For those who didn't, be assured he did a heckuva job. (As a sample, the program for the Penn gave was devoted to the 1925 Dartmouth team which won the national championship and of which Grantland Rice wrote, "The Dartmouth attack took its place among the greatest in all football history ...") Dave has had stories in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Montreal Star, and the Buffalo Evening News, as well as other newspapers and magazines (including, as undergraduate editor, this one. Ed.) and, of course, is planning to launch a career in journalism.

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