1937

In September we had the pleasure of dinner at Eileen and Crawf Hinman's house. The occasion was a visit north by Bernice and Phil Conti, who always try to stay a few days with them. Ed Casey with sparkling humor and snow-white hair was there too. He is still vice principal of the Natick Junior High School. The Contis were heading for the Olympics, where naturally Phil was interested in the track and field events. As the drinks got rolling so did the reminiscing, including the comical story Crawf told about the fraternity brothers gathered around to "help" Phil don his first rental tuxedo, convincing him under protest that a necessary accessory was a jock strap. Crawf now spends some time in lower Maine, where he is registered to practice. He has a residence there and is looking forward to unloading their tremendous house in Jamaica Plain. Nothing definite yet, but he can commute to Boston.

Chick Koop attended the Vermont Right-to-Life convention in September and addressed the group on "Reflections on the Sanctity of Life." He has also written a book, The Right to Live,the Right to Die. Adding to his history of remarkable surgical skill, he corrected the problem of a baby whose heart was outside by expanding the chest wall to make room and also freed the child from an artificial lung. For all his international fame as the doctor who separated the Rodriguez Siamese twins, he modestly told someone at the time that he had performed a similar operation years before and only got a two-inch write-up in the papers.

Notes from Horizons. Monk Amon while at the Olympics suddenly heard a voice from the crowd say, "Hey, Monk." It was Fred Bunce. Liz and Lem Bowen bought a house in Hanover (now being rented) looking toward his retirement from Burroughs, where he has been since graduation. Fred Forsch has joined the investment counseling firm of Gilbert M. Haas & Company in New York as executive vice president. He and Lillian have given up skiing in Aspen, calling it too much jet-set, and now go somewhere in Utah. Fred Asher's Lifetime Nursery Products business is growing. He made a deal with TWA and American Airlines to have his gift catalogues placed in all seats as reading material. He now offers twenty-seven varieties of fruit tree.

Gene Jones sold his plastics machinery business in Sherborn, Mass., calling himself retired. With his appearance and boundless energy he could almost pass as an undergraduate. He and Ruth plan to world-travel, visiting snorkling spots like the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Among his past achievements is the inspection of that Japanese submarine which accidentally scuttled itself at Truk Island during the war. You may have seen the film documentary done on it by someone else on television. Jud Smith married that delicious girl named Beth, whose former last name we forget. They were much involved helping at our fall reunion and both were all smiles - all the time!

It was great having the opportunity to visit with Mary and Harry Schultz at the Horizons program in Hanover. He was chosen to fill in our group on the library and Sanborn House, which was most rewarding. When he applied and was accepted to teach in the English department in 1948, he found his true love. And with Baker Library next door, he's like a kid with a permanent free pass to the ice cream parlor.

Dave Sampson runs a mail-order cloth business on Long Island called Fashion Fabrics, Inc. Costs only four bucks to join and get all the listings for materials for the home-sewing people. Mort Berkowitz handles his advertising. Bud Butterworth, author of The Enormous Egg, says he continues to gather royalties from it while being an English professor at Hartford College for Women, about 200 undergraduates. Bill Heroy has left the world of business to teach economic geology at Southern Methodist. He is brushing up on the job now and starts in January!

Not that you will not be hearing lots about it, but we have already had one long distance call asking for the dates of our fabulous 40th reunion. It is June 13-16. If you prefer to stay at the Inn, write to them. Their rooms are first come, first served.

Oh yes - MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY 40th NEW YEAR.

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