Class Notes

1928

DEC. 1977 OSMUN SKINNER
Class Notes
1928
DEC. 1977 OSMUN SKINNER

Lucky is a class secretary who receives a good response from a postcard questionnaire. Other than a request for up-to-date addresses, the only question on the card was, “I keep busy as follows:”

Don Benjamin “Volunteer work at two hospital gift shops, budget work at the Longmeadow Country Club, trying to keep well enough to recapture the eight handicap I once held.”

Wally Pollard of Memphis, Tess. “Red Cross representative at the V.A. Hospital (volunteer), yard work, garden.” Wally and Ginnie are good prospects for the 50th, since Wally’s brother Joe Pollard ’23 is longtime resi- dent of Hanover.

Dave Menard “Philatelist and part-time stamp dealer.”

John Noeltner “Some real estate work, gardening, furniture repair and refinishing, travel.”

Johnny Nixon “Insurance business and a few hobbies like Worrying About the Future of The Republic,”

Sully O’Sullivan “ Less golf, more piano. Jerry ’55 doing a great job running my company [steel mill consultants].”

Tim Paige “Entertaining family and friends and keeping a modest orchard in apple pie order.”

1 Topper Robinson “Volunteer at Cape Cod Hospital.” : Jerry Sloane (who moved to 6 Lynn Road, f’ort Washington, N.Y., after living and work- ing all his life in New York City) “Piano, volunteer work for disabled children,”

Curly Prosser “Active counselor for SCORE, helping to guide small-business en- trepeneurs; trustee of local hospital [Alice Peck Day in Lebanon, N.H.]; a director of Upper Valley Council; travel, cabinet-making, gar- dening.” Curly added: “Missed the dedication of Cardigan Mt. School’s Kenerson Gym- nasium and Parents Reception Center. We were away. It’s a gorgeous building, quite worthy of the donor [Jack Kenerson] and would do credit to a small college.”

Sherm Baketel “Trustee, N.H. Historical Society; Board of Governors, Warner House, Portsmouth, N.H. Also do grass-cutting and gardening.”

Homer Dodge, owner, General Store, New Boston, N.H. “Hunting and fishing.”

Buck Serrell “Loafing, hunting, loafing, gardening, loafing.”

Bill Hobson “Banking (one day/week), bridge, woodworking,”

Herm Schnepel “Still selling educational material to schools and libraries; wife [Margie] Alumni Fund Director, Vassar College.”

Pete Bennett “Golf, woodworking.”

Dick Brooks “Gardening, traveling.

Jimmy Montague “Writer, artist.”

Nick Carter “Gardening, golf, bowling, travel, tippling, and griping.”

Jerry Warner “Chairman of Far East Luncheon Group; vice president of Japan- American Society of Washington, D.C.; secretary of Diplomatic and Consular Officers- Retired (DACOR); volunteer with Washington International Center; photography; tennis.”

Jack Zellers “Volunteer work for Pequot Library, Wakeman Boy’s Club. Pequot Yacht Club, pro bono publico via People’s Savings Bank, home movies, HO trains in that order.”

Wally Carr “Antiques shop, Amagansett, N.Y.”

Wayne Van Orman “My claim to fame is that I am a good eater and a good sleeper. Besides that, I read, swim, and travel.”

George Bell “Keeping wolf from two doors, playing bad but consistent golf.”

Rappie Bavier “Management consulting for Bavier, Bolger & Goodyear, Inc., New Haven, Conn.; golf.”

Wes Patience “Self-employed accountant 35 hours monthly, gardening, Presbyterian com- mittees,”

Bill Treanor “Golf, loafing, minor garden- ing, occasional labor arbitration (for money), civic affairs.”

Dotty Russell “Golf, needlepoint, Dart- mouth Memorial Fund chairman; A-Z Horse Show, Arizona; Scottsdale Memorial Hospital fund raiser, assistant chairman.”

Dick Frame “Still practicing photography, Scouts, church, bird-watching, photography.”

Red Sanborn “Trustee, Maine Audubon Society; trustee, Maine chapter Nature Conser- vancy; travel; farming; skiing.”

Charles Magnaghi “Photography, travel.”

“G. 1.” Davis “Cows, motorcycles, golf, tennis.”

Baldy Emery “Dartmouth, redin, ritin & rithmitic (with the help of an electronic calculator to balance the checkbook).”

Irv Engelman “At the moment, hunting a job.”

Red Fauntleroy “Boating.”

Stretch Davis “Enjoying retirement, writing, directing plays.” Think Fiftieth!

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