1951
By now each of you should have received a letter advising you that "The Spirit of '51 Is Coming Back" to Hanover for our 25th Reunion, Thursday through Sunday, June 17-20, 1976. PLEASE SEND BACK THAT REPLY POSTCARD IN TOMORROW'S MAIL IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. I sincerely hope that your reply will be a resounding "Yes, I shall be back and bring my family with me."
We need your response for planning purposes and to set the Reunion tax. We shall have certain fixed costs, whether we have five or 500 of the '51 family back for Reunion; so that the more who come, the smaller the price per head. COME BACK AND BE KIND TO YOUR LOYAL CLASSMATES' POCKETBOOKS.
Let me try to seduce you with nostalgia about what was happening 25 years ago in November and December of our senior year.
In football, we beat Yale, 7-0, in the Bowl in a downpour, with the late Bob Tyler making the lone score. We were 14-7 over Columbia in a game in which Bill Roberts starred. Then came disaster. Cornell trimmed us, 24-0, at Ithaca; and Princeton, 13-7, in an icy monsoon. Nonetheless, "Mo" Monahan made All Ivy; and JohnClayton made 'Colliers' (remember that magazine?) All East.
Other '51 sports activists included BillLeshure in soccer; captain Bob Hustek in basketball; and Paul Simel, Dick Hulbert, and Bill Flanagan in squash. Dick Pugh copped a Rhodes scholarship; and the debaters, including Mike Iovenko and Russ Dilks, won their second Tufts Tournament in a row.
The Nugget showed Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie, The Fuller Brush Man Was aGirl, and King Solomon's Mines. At a higher cultural level, the New England Opera Theatre presented Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, the Handel Society performed Bach's "B Minor Mass," and the Players did Saroyan's The Timeof Your Life with Bill Mulligan and WarrenPfaff in the cast.
For House Parties, the Daily D ran the following headline over three pages of date lists: "Orgy-Porgy, Ford and Fun, Kiss the Girls and . . . Make Them One; Boy with Girl ... at Peace; Orgy-Porgy Brings Release." A Columbia game special reported that Eisenhower had resigned as president of Columbia to be replaced by Lion Football Coach Lou Little and that Hanover Police Chief Andrew Ferguson had banned Jacko.
There was a special overnight train to Chicago for Christmas vacation. (I recall that some Cleveland residents woke up to find themselves in Daleytown.) A grey flannel suit cost $50 or $60 at Serry's. Bermuda in the spring (2-7 days) started at $138 - all expenses included (booze?). Thanksgiving Dinner at the Hanover Inn came to $3.25 for adults; $2.50 for children under 8.
In the outside world, the Chinese swarmed over the Yalu River into Korea, and we evacuated the Pyongyang area. George Bernard Shaw died at age 94, while Puerto Ricans failed in an attempt to assasinate President Truman at Blair House. Tom Dewey was reelected for his third term as governor of New York State.
Returning to the present, Air Force Colonel Bill Renner should be back at SAC HQ in Omaha by the time you read this. His new job is personal representative of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to the Joint Strategy Target Planning Staff. It entails coordination of NATO defense plans with U.S. defense plans. Bill is "definitely" coming to the 25th, probably with spouse. He reports that marriage is imminent with Barbara Hurst from Lancashire, England.
From 1968 to 1971, Bill was stationed at Offutt AFB, Omaha. In December 1971, he started his third tour of duty in Vietnam, that time as an Inspector General with the Army. He traveled extensively on the ground, and met and lived with Vietnamese most of the time. In December 1972, he was assigned to the U.S. European Command at Stuttgart, West Germany, as Chief, Special Weapons Division, Plan and Policy Directorate. That assignment involved staff responsibility for nuclear weapons policy, and operational planning and programming for the European defense theater.
Drew Matthews retired from the Marine Corps in January 1972. He then served as director for real estate for the Lutheran Church in America and was based in Chicago. When the office moved to New York, he stayed to become executive director of Central Area Naperville Development Organization ("Can/Do" - a great acronym), which is involved with downtown revitalization of that city, which is even older than Chicago.
Drew and wife Vivian have three boys: Kevin, 18; Mark, 16; and Terry, 12. Drew is a member of, and news editor for, the local Lions Club, a Boy Scout committeeman, real estate broker, member of the Society of American Military Engineers and the Marine Corps Association, and active in his church.
John Boardman now lives in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and is president of AHMAC (American Health Management and Consulting), which he describes as "a modestly sized health oriented consulting firm." John formed AHMAC in conjunction with faculty members of Penn's Wharton School. The firm is principally involved in the development of prepaid health care programs, and generally in organizing and financing health care services.
John's previous career was in hospital administration, and organizing and financing health care systems, most recently from 1962 to 1972 with the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Denver and Los Angeles. He and wife Nella have six children: Jay, 22; Mia, 20; Andrea, 17; Amy, 16; Tina, 14; and Molly, 11.
Dave McDonough is now attache at the American Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. Most recently he spent four years in Washington after almost nine in overseas posts in Togo, Brazzaville Congo, Algeria, and Paris. While in Washington, he had a year at the National War College and earned his Master's in International Relations. His thesis concerned Soviet-U.S. competition for energy resources in the Persian Gulf area, throughout which he travelled, meeting with nine chiefs of state to discuss Middle East problems.
Dave has three children: Kevin, 18; Alison, 17; and Claudia, 11. He doesn't expect to be able to make it back for the 25th, but does offer a guest apartment in Rabat for visiting classmates. "The climate is ideal and the hunting superb if you like quail, woodcock, ducks, pheasant, rabbits, wild boar, etc."
Ted Hazen is an associate professor of chemistry at Texas A&M. From 1963 to 1972, he was a research associate at MIT. Ted and wife Anne have three children: David, 14; Blyth, 12; and Teddy, 10.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF: Reunion Chairman "Buck" Scott was elected a director of I-T-E Imperial Corp., succeeding Brad Smith '25. "Buck" was with ITE from 1954 to 1970 in various capacities and had served on the board from 1967 to 1970. . . . The New York law firm of Brown, Wood, Fuller, Caldwell & Ivey sentenced its partner Ed Tolley to a second tour of duty in its Paris office starting September 1. . . . Dick Hulbert and wife Debbie, married in June 1974, had daughter Katharine arrive on June 7, 1975.
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