1949

A letter from Jay Evans, from Hampshire College, reports that after 12 years as an admissions officer in Hanover, he is now living a new life as director of recreational athletics at the college in Amherst, Mass. He tells of their interesting approach to athletics, which stresses participation rather than spectating. The college does not participate in intercollegiate athletics, but provides their students many opportunities to engage in different activities. Speaking of Hampshire College, George Day's son David is a student there. George sent him to Hanover as his representative during the fall reunion weekend.

Ed Heller writes that he has moved to Wellesley from Waltham, Mass., and is still with the same sporting goods firm. He is now vice president of sales and travels all over the world. He has a home in New London, N.H., so he gets to Hanover fairly often.

From Elizabeth, N.J., Larry Schaefer reports he is still holding down the position of vice president and secretary of Charles Schaefer & Sons, Inc., a full-line salt and chemical distributor. He is currently going through divorce proceedings and living at 25 Hickory Place, Apt. H-14, in Chatham Township, N.J., which is right next to his golf club, which he says is his inviting passion. He's available as an escort for parties, football games, or almost any other activity.

Quent Kopp is running for reelection to the board of supervisors of San Francisco. Rumors have it that he is doing an excellent job on the board and has become an important community leader. He is also quite interested in any contributions that any classmates might like to make to his campaign.

Jay Urstadt was in the news again. He has been elected a director of the Realty Foundation. He currently is chairman of the Battery Park City Authority in New York.

Sam Kilner, who lives in New Canaan, Conn., is quite involved with an ABC program in that city. He has recently coordinated a campaign to finance a program of educational and residential aid. It will support a group of teenagers who are brought to New Canaan, where they live in an ABC house and attend high school. The program has been very successful. Sam is involved with finance and corporate planning for IBM International. He covers South America, Japan, and Australia and obviously travels a little.

The Class adopted a new class project at the fall meeting which will be tested for one year. A maximum of 20 scholarships will be offered to freshmen who need help in covering the $40 charge for the Freshman Outing Club trip during Freshman Orientation Week. A large number of freshmen find that they cannot afford to go on this trip, and it appears to be a very worthwhile project, as the relationships that are developed during the trips contribute substantially to the solidarity of the freshman class. The College underwrites a few freshmen, but is only able to help a small share of those who apply. The success of this project and other ideas will be evaluated at the meeting during the fall reunion weekend in Hanover in 1976.

The class executive committee has been expanded to provide for more regional representation. The following men have been nominated and elected to fill these positions: Quentin Kopp, San Francisco; Ken McClain, Ft. Worth, and Slade Gorton, Seattle.

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