1942

It's not too late! The fall mini-reunion is the 21st and 22nd of this month, and the more the merrier. There will be a class executive committee meeting in Ad Winship's Crosby Hall office at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, followed by a cocktail-dinner party at the D.O.C. House beginning at 5:00 p.m. A short rest, then the usual picnic in the Winship's back yard on Saturday, and off to the game, with the Big Red of Cornell as the enemy.

Records seem to be set and then broken by '42, and we've now done it again. Buzz Cassidy and Warren Kreter set up a team of hard-hitting class agents and said team set to work on a hard-hitting class. Result: 1942's 35th reunion giving set an all-time College record for a 35th with 376 classmates putting $221,871 in the College safe! On a grander scale, Ad Winship and his crew turned in a new record by leading the entire alumni body to a grand total of $4,715,735. A "very well done" to all hands.

It was a busy summer in Hanover and I saw the following '42s in town: Al and Lois Bisson,Doug Stowell, Frank and Joan White, and Frankand Marian Malavasic, which reminds me of an incident involving Frank at the very beginning of our 35th reunion. I was standing in front of Massachusetts Hall trying to look knowledgable, when a camper pulled up driven by Frank who asked, "Where can I beach this so I can off-load my gear?" I knew that Frank had recently retired from some 30-odd years in the Navy, and as I had spent four years in the same Navy, I quickly translated "where can I park and get rid of my bags?" I knew the answer so I shared it with him. I saw Harry and JaneBartlett about a week after reunion and they were on their way to Montreal. As they said, "A week late for reunion and a year late for the Olympics, but everything else is pretty much on schedule." Bob Strasenburg was in town with two charming daughters so the older might look at the College and vice versa. Dick Higgins sent a cryptic postcard from Cuba, which I hope he will translate on his next visit to Hanover. Huntley and Ginia Allison were in town for their fourth summer of Dartmouth Alumni College, giving Huntly the distinction of attending Dartmouth for eight years.

Newspaper articles have been a bit scarce but for openers: Bax Lanier has been elected vice president for property management of Stokes and Co. (in Denver). He joined Stokes in June after more than 26 years with the American Foreign Service. Paul Vaitses, a director of the Greater Fall River (Mass.) Area Chamber of Commerce was a recent guest speaker at the Taunton Rotary Club. Don Meads recently became chief operating officer of Certainteed Corp., at the same time retaining the responsibilities of chairman and chief executive officer.

Last month I introduced you to Joe and MaryNason, recently of Micronesia, and thanks to Dick Rugen I can share excerpts from a letter from the happy couple. "June 30th - up at 6:00 a.m. (Hawaii) to get all of us to the airport by bus. We took off at 9:00 a.m. to cross the Pacific. We made seven stops enroute leaving off volunteers at Truk, Marshall Islands, Ponope, Kwajelain, Yap, Palau, Guam and then on to Saipan. The Chomorro home assigned to us leaves much to be desired. It is very crude, made of wood with a corregated roof. Several small rooms, but very little furniture. There are big cracks in the floor, walls and ceilings which are condusive to letting in various species of wildlife such as mice, cockroaches the size of mice, gekkos, huge moths, ants, flies, etc. There are no windows or screens on the house, just shutters which close when there is a bad storm or typhoon. Our house never goes under 95 during the day or 85 at night. Every day we have language classes in Chomorro from 7:30 to noon - six days a week." And it goes on. Sounds like a rather rough life, so more power to them! Incidently, they enjoy mail (so do I) which will reach them at Peace Corps/Micro, Box 586, Saipan, M.I. 96950.

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