1935

Constantly mindful that class notes come from some of you to be shared with all of you, I urge you please to do your bit!

I am indebted to Al Brush for sending me a recent clipping from American Banker, which is an article by Bill Chapman, executive vice president of the First National Bank of St. Louis. Bill deals convincingly with the confusion and “overkill” of some of our consumer protection laws.

That good and faithful reporter-treasurer Hall Colton brings us up to date on the Nashua scene. Howie Rowe has retired and moved into a condominium about a mile from Hall. Paid his class dues without needing a postage stamp! Walt Holmes serves as business manager of the city of Nashua. He says he likes the work managing the city’s finances in his city hall of- fice. Don Alexander is well on the road to recovery from a back injury sustained at his work.

It’s hard to keep track of Will Ogg these days. He and Fran have moved from a condominium to a new and beautifully located house in New London, N.H. They’re taking a few weeks for redecorating before heading to Florida for the winter.

Do you want to hire a plane or, better still, want to learn to fly one? Get in touch with the assistant to the president of Comerford Flight School in Bedford, Mass. Don Radasch, who used to manage a lot of travel for United Brands’s bananas, will take care of you!

I hereby acknowledge a photograph of Reyand Laura Moulton and Ken and Gwen Webster at the Websters’ summer home in Randolph, Vt. Quality was not adequate for reproducing herein, I mean the picture, not the people. Rey retires in December, moves to South Hero, Vt., and then leaves for Sarasota for the winter, “towing a loaded boat all the way.”

A welcome note from Rudy Pacht tells of see- ing Fred and Dottie Haley at their son’s wedding and watching Hal Ritter’s son Rob on a televi- sion game show. Rudy has also visited Lou andHarriet Bookheim at their new retirement con- dominium home in La Jolla. Ed Skillin take note!

Dick Meyers writes from his real estate office in Dallas. He has no particularly interesting news “since it has been all work and no play, the answer to which is obvious.”

Get a kick out of Dud Russell’s note to HallColton, “Good job. Who’s to complain? Complainers might inherit the job!”

Ted Huck retired last January and is com- pletely happy with lots of golf and yard work. Will spend three months this winter in Palm Desert.

Also I reveived a note from Bud Hulett in Key Biscayne. He has spent the summer in Florida fighting throat cancer with daily radiation treatments. The doctors think they have it licked. We wish him the very best of luck in an unpleasant battle. Bud has an open door for any old friends.

Harking back to our fall reunion, I want to share with all of you part of a letter to president Harry Ferries from our adopted and youngest classmate Peter Smith, director of the Hopkins Center:

“I would like simply to get down in a formal letter to you as president of the Class, and to the two classmates most involved, an expression of the deep gratitude my colleagues and I feel towards the Great Class of 1935 for its con- tinued and sustained encouragement of the work of the Center. In particular I would like to say how happy I was made by the warmth and enthusiasm of the discussion in the business meeting last Saturday morning; I have never felt more at home, and I was genuinely moved by the manifest interest of so many of those present in what we are doing.”

Do you realize that our advanced 45th re- union in June of 1979 will actually be a 44th? Bob Naramore has accepted the appointment as reunion chairman. With that information alone, you can be assured that this event will be fun not to be missed.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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