1929

Dave Cogan has moved down here to subur- ban Maryland after many years at Harvard. He was director of research of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital, a teaching hospital for the Harvard Medical School. After retirement he became a consultant at the National Institutes of Health and now has a permanent appointment on the staff.

Some more of your notes - Ollie Holmes: "Retired in 1970 after 33 years with the Frank G. Shattuck Co. (Schraffts), the last three operating the Downtown Harvard Club in Boston and having a blast come the H-D game every fall. You can guess I really made the place turn green. I have followed the Indians (pardon me - the Big Green) and hope and always root for the best.

"We have eight grandchildren ages 10-19 and all doing well. Would like to hear from George (Red) Kennedy (wherever you are) and all other '29ers - address Route 2, Meredith, N.H. 03253."

Art Clow: "We cruised around South America last winter and the Alaskan inland waterway this summer."

Fred Ingram: "Everything holding together in Beaver Falls. Have seen Herb and Betty Wollison from Youngstown several times this year. Sorry we couldn't make the Penn or Princeton games."

Ray Hedger: "I may have the dubious distinction of being the last '29er to be still working full time in N.Y. City, at least downtown. Herb Ball is next door to me at 100 Wall St. with Georgeson and Co., where he works several days a week. I'm still a V.P. at Sorg Printing at 110 Wall and would love to hear from any classmates visiting in N.Y. who have some lunch time free - tel. WH3-3040.

"I suffered a mild heart attack (If there is any such thing) a few weeks after our recent fall reunion and plan to cut down my working time next year, but I still enjoy the friendships the job keeps alive. Saw Hal Hirsch in Portland in the spring but missed him this fall - he was in Jugoslavia on a world trip."

Herb Bissell: "Am retired now from Honeywell and find retirement the prime of life as long as you have health and enough activity to keep the gray cells busy."

Carl Norden: "Like most retirees, I wonder how I ever found time to hold a job. My time gets filled up tending a part-time cattle and woods farm in Virginia while helping keep house in Washington and keeping up with the varied musical, theatrical, and politico-economic fare at the Capital. Much of spring was spent at Rochester, Minn., where my wife Ellen underwent repeated surgery. Closest we get to Hanover is Connecticut and Springfield, Mass., alas."

Ed Spetnagel: "Am just recovering from a hellish case of hepatitis which had me down for the count for six weeks - mostly confined to bed and upstairs. Jane and I were both completely pooped out. We normally spend six months in Boca Raton, Fla., and summer months at Lake Waramaug, Conn., but will be late in getting to Florida this year."

Joe O'Leary: "Returned a week ago from a vacation in the Bahamas. It was all the brochure says it is, and more too. May retire there one of these days."

I've done a little traveling too - out west with the Ski Club of Washington. Our first week was at Sun Valley, which I've heard about since 1936 but never skied before. Wide-open intermediate slopes with bowls and ridges, covered by packed powder. The second week was at Jackson Hole, where a ski area covers a rugged alpine peak with more than a 4,000-foot vertical descent from the summit to the base. For someone who started skiing out of Hanover in the 1920's, it was an amazing sight to watch skiers come down a narrow near-vertical slot between rocky crags near the summit. The headwall of Tuckerman Ravine looks like a practice slope compared to this type of alpine skiing in the Teton Range. Needless to say, the representative of the Great Class of 1929 stayed on the lower slopes.

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