1939

It is my sad duty this month to report the passing of three classmates. Mel Peet passed away on July 29; Dick Hadley died on September 21; and Bob Kalaidjian died in the Stamford, Ct., hospital on October 22. (See the obituary section.) It is distressing to lose four good men in as many months (Charlie Gluek died this past July, as reported last month). Death visits too many of our number who are in the midst of leading productive lives.

Should we need any further reminder that time has a way of moving on, the Holyoke press's "25 Years Ago" column notes that Roger (Moose) Dudis hung out his shingle in that city on August 1. after graduation from Albany Medical School and a residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

Jack Goldman met with the top officials of the New York Life Insurance Company as one of 25 elected members of the Agents Ad- visory Council this summer. He has had innumerable awards since joining the company in 1965, one of the more imposing being his election as a member of the industry's Million Dollar Round Table. Jack is. also vice president elect of the Evanston Rotary Club and serves in a similar capacity at Temple Jeremiah.

In the banking world, Citytrust of Stratford, Ct., announced that Bill Goodman, president of Shepard's Inc., has been named to its Danbury region advisory board, and Bill Risley has been elected to the board of directors of the First National Bank of Litchfield. Bill serves as a trustee of Taft School, the Litchfield Country Club, the East Cemetary Association, and until recently was head of the Northwest Connec- ticut Chamber of Commerce.

Jack and Lil Cumming, back from a tour of southern France, are hosting Bert and SallyMacMannis in Rhode Island for the Brown game. Which reminds us that Math and your scribe spent a pleasant week with the MacMan- nises in Bermuda at the conclusion of a family gathering in honor of Bert's 60th birthday. Somehow we learned that Bert picked up the family tab. A nice gesture for a sexagenarian.

Perhaps it didn't hit the largest headline in the Dartmouth, but it is a fact that the Dart- mouth fishermen did outcatch Harvard and Yale, despite failing to retain the international trophy in the annual university sports fishing competition. Team captain for the Green was none other than one Arthur (Buddy) Ide from Minneapolis, class of 'BO, who we figure has to be related to '39er Art Ide.

Considerable space in the press has been devoted to author Jerry Beatty, who writes mostly space adventure books for the young market out of his home in Waquoit, Mass., on the Cape. Jerry, complete with beard and top hat, was pictured at his typewriter in the piece we caught. And not far away, Lew Joel was featured in the New Haven press upon the an- nouncement of his retirement after 40 years in the Clinton school system. Lew has the longest tenure of any superintendent in the State of Connecticut on his record, and has seen his system go from 300 pupils up to the current 2700.

Larry and Jane Vulte missed the fall reunion to attend a pilot's reunion (the lOC, Inter- national Order of Characters) at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. We have just learned that Howie Nopper, nicely recovered from a heart attack some years ago, is a world traveler. A few years ago he put in some vacation time in Russia, and now he plots to find a way to Red China. In the mean- time he spends much time on the golf course with Kev Fay out La Jolla way.

We would like to suggest that time is running out to send your reunion book questionaire to O'Brien Boldt, 178 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N.J. 07631. Failure to do so will make his effort a shabby one, and '39 deserves better; so does Obie. Also, Bill Webster is get- ting faint about his massive slide presentation featuring pics of classmates in various ac- tivities. This for the 40th reunion coming up this June 11-14. Wells Bates is planning a dan- dy, one you'll not wish to miss. So send Web those slides or snaps at Box 148, Old Saybrook, Conn. 06475.

And in the meantime, a Merry Christmas to all. >

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