1935
In April Polly and I started off on a trip to Washington and San Diego to visit our first grandson, born to daughter Ellen Farnham and John. Class news unexpectedly began to develop in Logan Airport, where we bumped into Boband Henrietta Hage about to take off for six weeks in Spain.
While visiting old friends in Washington, I was able to talk with Bill Krieg and thank him for recently arranging grad school interviews for our daughter Martha. Unfortunately for us, Bill and Philinda were leaving the next morning for a vacation in Sarasota. Hope I have them sold on our fall reunion!
We enjoyed a small gathering of classmates at dinner with Ed and Alice Neff, who were shortly leaving for a tour of England. They're still thinking of building on their lot here at Eastman sometime. Lowie and Hilda Haas were there, having just celebrated their 35th anniversary. Lowie says he has now been with her longer than he had been with United Airlines before retiring after thirty-four years in 1971. The significance escapes him, me, and perhaps you, too! We were joined by Ed and Gin Offutt fresh from celebrating the birth of another grandchild and a visit to Ed's 87-year-old mother in Massachusetts. Ed enjoys retirement and working on a nationwide history of the Offutt family. Hugh and Cia Wolff were there also. Hugh is still working in the Congressional research service on foreign and national defense affairs. He retired from the State Department in 1971 and is contemplating a second retirement if he can find a way to keep busy. Dean Couper has done some traveling lately to Arizona and Massachusetts. Keeps busy doing accounting work for some local firms.
Frank and Edie Specht were unable to join us, but I'm indebted to our regional chairman for more Washington class news and hope to see them at the time of son Tom's Dartmouth graduation. Lex Schnee is in the office of Congressional relations at the State Department. Has been there since 1959 except for four years as deputy chief of mission in Rangoon. Chuck Dineen toured the country last winter and boasts he is the only member of our class to visit the L.B.J, ranch and Plains, Georgia. Any challengers? Karl Dollak is still actively practicing law and, like the rest of us, doesn't look his age! A card from Ray Hannoosh discloses he retires from the Air Force on June 1 after 28 years in the Pentagon. Will now spend more time spoiling his very new granddaughter! So there you have my edition of "Washington Week in Review."
On to San Diego, where in the course of our stay we had a very delightful luncheon visit with Ed and Hazel Skillin. You could hardly think of a more beautiful place for retirement than their home in La Jolla. Dick Montgomery always told me a class secretary's best friend is the classmate's wife. No exception is Dwight Foster's Helen in Wilmette, who supplies the following welcome news. Dwight expects to retire next year as vice president of personnel for Continental Bank. Daughter Marjorie is pursuing a doctorate at Northwestern; son David, a Princeton grad, is a master of arts and college placement director at Dwight's alma mater, Deerfield Academy; while daughter Julie, a Colorado graduate, is planning to start on a master's in sociology. Helen herself is much involved in continuing education at Northwestern. She and Dwight love to travel and have done much in both Europe and Asia.
Consulting in the printing and publishing fields keeps Grant Herman busy - not to mention a youngest still in college!
Fritz and Madeline Hormel had no more than planned on attending our fall reunion when a Johns Hopkins intern asked permission to marry their daughter. Wedding on reunion Saturday. "Man proposes, daughter disposes, so we won't see you 'til next year!"
Cramp Carrick is busy with his insurance agency in Syracuse but finds time for bridge tournaments, golf, fishing, and duck hunting. Sounds like a happy combination if the proportions are right!
Link Washburn retired last June as director of the quaternary research center at the University of Washington but continues working in the frozen ground (?) laboratory and is ever more involved with national and international scientific committees.
Dan Kerwin represents several companies in the business promotion field. He doesn't expect to retire unless forced to do so by ill health. Has kindly consented to continue paying taxes to support all the rest of our generation of social security recipients! Plans to see us all at the fiftieth, since "only the good die young."
The month of June brings the retirement of Don Hagerman, the dean of New England preparatory school headmasters. Don has served at Holderness School for more than 25 years. During this time the school has tripled in size, and Don has seen more than three quarters of all the students ever to attend! Ninety-nine percent of the students go on to college! Selected by Sports Illustrated to the silver anniversary ail-American football team, Don brought a balance of physical as well as intellectual development to Holderness. This quotation says a lot about our classmate/educator: "I tell them that what is important in life is not whether you fall down, but how you pick yourself up."
Last call for Alumni Fund contributions!
See you at fall reunion Friday afternoon September 23!
Let me hear from you so you can hear from me in the October issue! Have a good summer!
Secretary, High Wood Way, Eastman P.O. Box 87 Grantham, N.H. 03753
Head Agent, 311 Drummers Lane North Greene House Wayne, Pa. 19087
