1941
XXXVth REUNION, June 12-15, 1977
Responses of those coming to the Reunion have been mailed in from as near as Topsfield and as far as Tulsa and California, per chairman Dutch Cotton. A goodly number have signed up for the golf and tennis tourneys. Those coming need to send back Dutch's reunion return envelope with payment and details on number in party; and also mail the dormitory accommodation form to the College.
The Class's special Alumni Fund effort for the reunion year is to date running weakly, according to reports from Hanover. A few '41s are bumping up their gifts ten and twentyfold, according to the Alumni Fund office. Pledge payments may be extended to January 31, 1978, thus giving two tax years for reunion contributions.
The importance of reunion-year fund campaigns, Source of 47 per cent of all Alumni Fund dollars, may be shown thus: last year the Class of 1951, at its 25th, raised $258,000, a rousing leap from $40,000 in 1975; the Class of '36, also last year, gave over $370,000 at its 40th, a bonny jump from $50,000 the year before. Where are we? The gents looking at you from your mirrors every morning before breakfast have the only answer.
A clip from the advertising trade press a while ago gives something of an update on Gened'Olive. Per the jacket of his book, Chiara, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1957, he had been a newspaperman and worked for information agencies of the federal government in Europe in 1950-54. After working for Foote, Cone & Belding and J. Walter Thompson ad agencies in San Francisco, he joined the latter's New York office.
In 1959, Advertising Age reported, he went on special assignment for the ad agency in Paris. He also worked for the Robert C. R. Mullen publicity agency in Europe - its cover as an agent for the CIA was blown several years ago. Various people questioned by the publication indicated Gene was one of a number of admen associated in some fashion with the CIA. The language is circumlocutory, but there seems little question that Gene was in service, in a manifestly Damoclean period. (Thanks to RedTaft for sending in this item.)
We had dinner recently with Ed and BettyMcMillan and Ez and Elinor Crowley, and one of the first warm nights of the spring led us to sit on the porch in high summer fashion, trading stories and banter in an easy, good-humored atmosphere. Ez continues with Raytheon and lives near Boston. As earlier reported, Dick Jachens is bringing a passel of pictures taken in undergraduate days to show at the reunion. Dick welcomes photos of the time from anyone coming up for the fun. (Deponent hath a few sports shots given him by Rich Fisher, from the old Press Club days, and is bringing them in June.)
Changes of address: Alden Boyd, 3106 Barnard Ct., Fairfax, Va. 22030; J. William Anderson, c/o J. Anderson, 453 W. 22d St., New York, N.Y. 10011; Fenwick C. Atwill 11, 1600 Oak Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 55112; Jason B. Baker, Pinetree Estates, Haverhill St., Rowley, Mass. 01969; Francis M. Boutin, 1517 Castle Rd., Odessa, Tex. 79760; Ralph L. Colton Jr., 101 Tanglewood Dr., Lansdale, Pa. 19446.
Richard C. de Cou, Crosswicks, N.J. 08515; William Hahn, Dreams Landing, Annapolis, Md. 21401; John D. McMaster, 14-25 Plaza Rd„ Fair Lawn, N.J. 07410; Robert C. Miner, Forest Rd„ Hancock, N.H. 03449; Malcolm F. Scott, Franklin College, Via Tesserete 10, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland; Jackson W. Morton, 288 Canterbury Dr., Ramsey, N.J. 07446.
Many of these '41s are coming to or have been to a reunion, giving rise to recollections of good times and unscheduled activities over the years: laughter until it brought cramps and tears with Walt Kuhn, Frank Simpson and John Twist at convulsively funny stories by Tenner Gordon about his career in Nebraska; Chuck Bolte playing a low-down piano late, late in the tent, then bundling Mary Bolte and I off to True's Brook for a pre-dawn swim and talk about writing, reporting and doing books and such; a two-minute arrest by the Hanover Police when Marston Gibbs and I attempted to make off with a ponderous, unyielding piano; MiggieKenworthy's high kicks at a rousing dance. More to come.
Around here, bunches of neighbors tap their maples, speeding the proceeds to the nearest sugar house. Here they render it into sugar and syrup, brewing up that choice New England nectar. We caught the scene not long ago, to enjoy this sign of spring and savor the maple's distinctive sweetness while the great stove and pans happily banged and thumped away amid clouds of steam. The taste was exceeded only by the general joy of the moment - I do wisht all of you fellers could of ben along - you'd of liked it.
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