1949

I trust everyone had an enjoyable summer and was able to spend a few days enjoying a change of pace at the beach, in the mountains, on the golf course or tennis course, or what have you. I managed a few days in Maine this summer at my daughter's graduation from Colby College. I didn't run into any classmates there but did have a brief reunion with GeorgeDay and his family at Logan Airport on the way home. George, Ann, and their three children plus a friend or two and their faithful dog, Rocky, were embarking on a short camping trip in Maine. I guess they survived for I have heard from George since. I also managed to have a nice visit with Dick Andrews's mother in Portland, Maine.

The summer has produced a few letters, several from classmates we haven't heard about in a long time. For example, Dick Moulton writes that he has been enjoying Florida living for four and a half years after 20 years in New Hampshire and Vermont. He is associated with Allen Lott '40, in the business of selling and installing ceramic tile for homes, offices, or whatever. He is located in Vero Beach, Fla. His wife Virginia is employed as a public-relations director. Number one son is married and living in Vermont, and number two still has one more year at home before going to college.

Brayton Meyer reports from East Aurora, N.Y., that several small businesses which he started a few years ago are keeping him busy. He is quite concerned about the things the Carter administration is doing and saying. To take his mind off the situation he has turned to vegetable gardening. He claims to have been the 1976 Champion Amateur Vegetable Gardener in his hometown. He specializes in beets, carrots, and brussel sprouts and will take orders for same, but only in car lots. He recently promoted a World Team tennis match in Buffalo between the New York Apples and a USSR national team which proved to be a successful venture. He states that he would rather play the Soviets than fly them. He would like to know where his old foreign-service buddy, DaveRaynolds, now hangs his turban.

A clipping from the Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder said some pretty nice things about Dr. Nathan Gottschalk. He is director of the Pioneer Valley Symphony which recently closed their 38th season with a tribute to Nathan. The article states, "Surely the orchestra has grown and flourished under Gottschalk's leadership. It most certainly has become an entirely different organization from that which sprouted here in 1939."

Our ex-congressman from Vermont, DickMallary, writes from Long Meadow, Mass., that he continues to find his work as vice president of the Farm Credit Banks of Springfield interesting and rewarding. He has two children at UVM now and two ready to enter college in a year or two.

Mike McGean wrote a nice letter from Hanover bringing us up-to-date on his activities. He has two daughters in college at Princeton, Skidmore, and Williams. (Most of us have problems getting our kids into one eastern school.) Geoff is still home swatting tennis balls with the old man. Lois, whose college career he interrupted with their competitive skating activities, is attending Dartmouth one course at a time and hopes to come up with a degree one of these days. She also runs their large ice skating club where they both teach. He reports that the College is in good shape except for the fact that her endowment is terribly inadequate for the long pull. The time has come to try to do something about it and we will all be hearing more about that during the months ahead. He is looking forward to seeing all his classmates again in June at our 30th. He claims it will be the ultimate.

Bob Muenzberg, who is chairman of our "Thunderous Thirtieth" also hopes that everyone will start thinking about the big event. We will be in Hanover with the classes of '47 and '48, so we should be able to renew many old acquaintances. You will be hearing a lot more about this, I am sure.

Irl Marshall, my neighbor and fellow chemistry major at Dartmouth, has returned to Duraclean International in Deerfield, Ill., to head a new expansion effort of the international organization of carpet and furniture cleaning specialists. Irl will be general manager and will focus his attentions on new marketing and promotional strategies intended to enlarge the company's capabilities. He left this company after 12 years in 1961 to start a new career at Montgomery Ward in Chicago. He spent 16 years at Wards and now has returned to Duraclean which his father founded in 1930. His youngest daughter is in the Class of 'BO, his oldest daughter is married, and his son just finished graduate school. Another daughter is a junior in college. Irl and his wife are quite involved in musical endeavors in the Chicago area.

We just received an accounting of LouMulkem's activities. He and his wife Dorothy and their 14-year-old daughter are living in Tokyo where Lou is executive vice president in charge of the Bank of America's Asia Division. He is responsible for the bank's activities extending from India to Guam and from Korea to New Zealand and has been involved in international banking since joining the bank back in 1948. He has held various positions, mainly in the Asian Division, and has moved around that half of the world quite extensively. He was elected senior vice president to head the Asia Division in 1968 and was elected executive vice president in 1975. Anyone who ventures that far from home ought to stop in and see him.

That's all for now. I will be looking for you all at the mini reunion in Hanover on October 21-23. Punchy Tomas is leading the parade of '49ers again in the homecoming parade and will need as much support as he can get.

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