1943

Although his particular chore may be completed by the time you read this, one of our class members has played a significant role in the news recently. Arbitrator Paul Hanlon was chosen by President Carter as chairman of the three-person emergency board to investigate the issues in the festering dispute between the Norfolk & Westeran Railway and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. A strike between the railroad and the union had spread to many other railroads as well, prior to the President's appointment of the emergency board and subsequent court proceedings to halt the strike. Paul is a nationally prominent arbitrator and has served as chairman of four earlier railroad emergency boards. Paul and his family live in Portland, Ore.

When Mort Pechter and I were roommates, among his many interests were photography, swimming (miles of it, off the Long Island beaches), and biology. Well, we are what we were. Read on from the local press:

"A series of underwater photographs by Morton, Alese, and Todd Pechter of Roslyn is currently being exhibited at the Bryant Library. Morton and Alese Pechter are a husband-and- wife team who became interested in underwater photography as a speciality while on a Caribbean vacation. With their son Todd, who is entering his junior year at Lafayette College, they took courses in scuba diving and learned the basics of underwater photography by reading books and articles and the time-honored method of trial and error.

"In addition, Todd went on to become a certified scientific research diver, and has traveled as part of a research photographic and diving team in Antigua and Barbados. As a result of their hobby, the Pechters have become deeply interested in the conservation and protection of the vast underwater wilderness. They are active members of the Cousteau Society and the International Oceanographic Foundation."

News of the other Pechter sons: Stuart '73, a dentist, is undertaking postgraduate periodontics study at Boston University, where brother Jay is a third-year medical student. Richard '75 is in his third year at New York Medical College.

Louise and Don McCorkindale sent their regrets for the annual autumn get-together: "Fall reunion in Hanover is one of our favorite weekends of the year, so we are very sad to be among the missing again this year. As it is we have a 'double-header' that weekend, with parents' weekend at our daughter's college (she's a freshman at Green Mountain in Vermont) and a wedding back here in Holyoke Saturday evening. Don't take us off the list and hopefully we'll be there next year."

As to the Yale weekend (by now, we hope a happy memory for many of you), Dorothy and I will also be among the absent, since she participated that weekend in an antique show in White Plains - a serious step in her new career, which she loves. Look to the SweetRefrain for a full report from the O'Brien.

Dr. Walt De Lany has moved from Kingstree, S. C., to Danville, Va., which no doubt bespeaks a career change we'd be delighted to hear about.

The ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S obituary notices tell of the sad passing of two or our most active and colorful classmates - Sparky Adams and Warner Willcox. Doug LeResche writes that Gerald Peterson and Ralph Trovillion represented the class at Sparky's funeral. To the bereaved families, the Class send its deepfelt sympathies.

The Class has lost another strong rooter and ardent admirer. The birthday cards which you have been receiving were faithfully sent out each week by my 83-year-old mother, and when she came across a familiar name, she never failed to mention it to me. After a full and active life, she passed away peacefully in September. Somehow, we'll try to get the birthday cards going again.

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