1936

Last month I received a list of regional class agents from Frank Curtis but it was too late for inclusion in that column so I'll start off with it this month with the suggestion that if any of you want to volunteer for the Alumni Fund drive - even though it has already started - any of these men will welcome your help. Keep in mind these regions frequently include a wide area of several states. Norb Hofman, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Jesse Gait, Dover, N.H.; Mac Hill., Wellesley, Mass.; Joe Wool, New London, Conn.; PepMinte, Ossining, N.Y.; Dick Holt, New York, N.Y.; Bob Fernald, Green Village, N.J.; ClayMellor, Philadelphia, Pa.; Ross Woodbridge, Pittsford, N.Y.; Barry Sullivan, Fairfax, Va.; Dick Morton, Hilton Head Island, S.C.; Al Momenee, Harper Woods, Mich.; Jim Gidney, Kent, Ohio; Niels Nielsen, Danville, Ill.; RoeThompson, Albuquerque, N.M.; Bill Curtis, Boulder, Colo.; Bill Stimson, Bellevue, Wash.; Jim Pearson, Scottsdale, Ariz. Along with these men are thirty-odd assistants and I know they would all welcome your help! Contact any of them or Frank Curtis.

Bill Wyman, our class travel advisor and leader of last year's successful 1936 Reunion in Greece reports that plans for the 1936 African Safari are well along and material will be mailed shortly. Dates are August 17 to September 3 roundtrip from New York. Buz Chapin, president of Adventures Unlimited, the travel agency for Abercrombie & Fitch, has made land arrangements and will be along. He is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable on African travel. A highlight will be "three nights in luxury tents in our own encampment with gourmet foods and wines to boot." The group is limited to 20 - costs and other information are available from Bill at 93 Main St. Concord, Mass. Both previous '36 trips have been rated highly successful by the participants.

Occasionally when going through some of the secretary's back files I find some statistics that interest me and on the chance that some of you may also be interested I'll pass them along. When the Class graduated the College presented 490 diplomas, the largest in the College's history up to that time. There were 657 men listed who had been in the Class for at least some period of time. Since graduation about 60% or less of the total have paid annual dues reaching a high of 69% in 1951 when we celebrated our 15th Reunion. At present we have about 63% out of a total of 541 living graduates and non-grads. There are a few who are lost or specifically have requested not to be counted in the Class but we are better than the other classes in the '30s and also of almost all classes. Hope we can keep it this way and perhaps even improve with our 40th Reunion year coming up next year.

Col. Tom Lane, who retired in August 1973 after 32 years in the Army Medical Corps, wrote a note of sympathy for Bob Ireland and echoing Bob's advice to us all. Tom lost his wife Edwina two days after Christmas. Tom went into the Army in June of 1941 when he was a medical intern and served 26 months in the Pacific and again in Korea in 1950-1951. In both of these wars, he was a parachutist Battalion and Regimental Surgeon. He jumped from 1942 to 1958 when he fractured his neck. During his career he went to the Army War College, had a pleasant tour of duty as Army Surgeon in Panama during which time he had a chance to tour South and Central America when things were inexpensive and unexploited. He spent time in the late '6os in Medical Combat Development devising hardware and tactics, and had a second tour of Europe as Army Surgeon which also included Africa. He returned to San Antonio in '71 until retirement. Tom has two daughters whom he hopes to take trayeling with him. He also hopes to make Reunion next year which will be his first time back since '36. Hope he makes it along with a lot of others. He added that he wanted to put in a plug for R.O.T.C. whose pay of 25¢ a day at that time still was of great help in his getting through medical school.

I have a list of class offspring at the College in addition to the five in the Class of 1978 listed in the November issue. Class of 1975; Terry, son of Norman Allen; Jesse, son of Jesse Gait; Jonathan, son of Eugene Kern; Frederick, son of John Knowlton, and Christopher, son of StanOsgood. Class of 1976, Nina, daughter of DickDorrance; John, son of Nox Howard; and John, son of Bill Stimson. Class of 1977 has only Susan, daughter of Dick Knight.

Calendar of upcoming '36 events; May 2-3 Class Officers meeting in Hanover, dinner at the D.O.C. Saturday night for all '36ers who can come. August 2, lobster picnic in Maine. August 17-September 3, 1936 Reunion in Africa. October 10-12, Reunion at Stone End Lodge, Sunapee, N.H. June 14-17, 40TH REUNION IN HANOVER 1976.

The Bema in Corinth is the background for 1936 in Greece. On the reunion trip, from l.George Brown, Gib Sykes, Bill Wyman, Pete Fitzherbert, Rod Ladd, and BasilCoutrakon. Missing were Harry Coronis, Niels Nielsen, and some relatives.

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