1947

I should hope that by the time this appears in print most of our ice and snow will have melted into memory. But you haven't forgotten, have you, the frigid days of late January - the icy roads and the mercury close to zero? That's the way it is as this is being composed.

So, appropriately, let's begin with an item about someone on Winter Street. Hal Clayton, who lives at that address in North Andover, Mass., has been appointed by Gov. Michael Dukakis to the University of Lowell board of trustees. Hal is treasurer of Clayton Hosiery in Lowell and vice president of Lowell Institute for Savings.

From Emmaus, Pa., Harley Timbers forwarded a message along with his class dues. He is now a 30-year veteran of Western Electric, while Elaine is "the best librarian in Emmaus." The Timbers' daughter Jill, a graduate of Smith, has an "au pair" job in Finland until May when she'll begin working on a farm. Last summer she worked for Reynolds Aluminum in Hamburg, Germany. Meanwhile, young Brad declined a Dartmouth acceptance and is freshmaning "far above Cayuga's," wherever that is.

Another interesting update comes from PeteTownsend in Berkeley Heights, N.J. After 19 years with other firms in research and commercial development, he's been in business for himself as a consultant since 1972. And his offspring are doing very well, thank you. Janet, a summa cum laude graduate of Tufts, is in her third year at Harvard Medical School. Martha, a graduate of Lycoming College, is self-supporting (!!). Andrew is a senior in wildlife management at South Dakota State University. Amy is a freshman in nursing at the University of Colorado, and Becky is in high school. With all that, Pete says he's still 15 pounds overweight and "hanging in there."

Our London correspondent, Bud Nossiter - well, he's also the Washington Post's - writes that oldest son Dan is back at the University of Toronto after a long hiatus. Joshua is a sophomore at Dartmouth and Adam and Jon are both at the American School in London. Bud takes occasional, jaunts elsewhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Classmates and their friends living in or visiting New England should try to drop in at the Matthew Marsh House Restaurant located in a beautiful 1812 Federal building in downtown Portsmouth, N.H. Co-owners are Bruceand Joanne Cunliffe who moved back north from Austin, Tex., in time to savor one of our toughest winters in years. The proprietors promise an excellent mix of "Olde New England" and continental cuisine and are soliciting visits from '47s.

From the law office of Len Bjorklund in Sausalito, Cal., comes family news. Pete's in the fifth grade and Amy's in third grade. Their mom Marilyn keeps a loving and watchful eye on them as volunteer librarian at their school. And to top off the bicentennial year, Len was elected vice president of the Marin Bar Association for 1977 (president-elect for '78).

Bob Dodson is another of the Class's world travelers. Now he's in the Middle East on a two-year assignment for the State Department as regional attache for technical service, based in Bamrain and covering an area extending from Morocco to Oman. His job is to promote the outflow of technology from both government and private sources into development projects of countries in the area, particularly the oil-producing countries. He points out that this is not "foreign aid." His work involves only projects paid for by the receiving government. His family remains home in Wilton, Conn., but fortunately he is able to get home from time to time to see them.

Joe Marsh, Waynesburg College prexy, spent a few days in Hanover last summer and writes also that he saw Walt Peterson with other college presidents and trustees at a meeting of the Association of Governing Boards in St. Louis last fall.

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