1928
Less than three months to our 50th! June 911 are the dates, and if you are decision shy, remember, this is your 50th — it won't come this way again. Bill Morton, reunion chairman, and his committee have been working for a year to take care of all the details for "The Last Hurrah," and a wonderful program has been arranged.
Just because you haven't been back to Hanover for a few years, don't be afraid people won't recognize you. There will be a hospitality committee to greet everyone upon arrival, and the name badges will be so large they can be seen at ten paces.
Plans for the 50th-year gift were started months ago and the year's end produced a number of fine pledges and gifts. Bill Morton, in his dual capacity as reunion and reunion giving chairman, and Jack Kenerson, class president, are working very hard together on that most important project for the Class.
Jerry Johnston is the man who put together the network of 200 radio stations that every Saturday noon from December to April constitute the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network. Seventeen years ago Jerry's advertising agency, G. H. Johnston, Inc., started his own network by buying time with stations all over the country affiliated with the existing networks as well as independents. He deserves a medal for helping to continue these wonderful concerts.
Bill Williams is still active as a manufacturer's representative, with time for woodworking, cooking, and elbow-bending on occasion.
The wide variety of hobbies pursued by '28ers never ceases to intrigue me. Take as examples Fred Cole's compiling crossword puzzles for newspapers, John Turkevich's chemical research and keeping abreast of Soviet affairs, Bill Ballard's research in experimental embryology, Gene Katz's tennis, travel, and population problem (which includes being president of Planned Parenthood of New York City), and Hank Moore's inventing.
Of course, all these people have more than one hobby, but it's interesting to note some unusual ones, like Hal Moody's "making jewelry," Mutt Jennings', Jack Kenerson's, and Hoyt Thompson's curling, Bob Winchester's and Dick Schmelzer's amateur radio, BobReid's mountain horse-pack trips, JohnLawrence's setting out crab pots off Sanibel Island and making deviled crab cakes, DonSolis and Elly Jones's decoupage, ScottyMiller's wine-making, Baldy Emery's, MiltHoefle's, and Dave McCathie's needlepoint, Dan Hatch's and Ed Lockett's rose-growing, Dusty Griffin's hunting a pack of bassett hounds.
After 40 years of stamp-accumulating, PhilOrsi has been spending eight hours a day-get-ting his U.S. and British colonial stamps ready for sale or auction. We'll have to tell him about contacting Jack Cook, whose business is appraising stamp collections and selling them as a broker.
Don Dodd has finally "wound up" his business in La Jolla representing textile mills on the West Coast — decided it wasn't worth the travel to San Francisco, Oregon, and Washington. So now he and Vel have time to enjoy life in La Jolla, golfing and swimming three times a week. Don's son lives on what is left of his Pennsylvania farm near West Chester.
After a number of meetings in Hanover, Curly Prosser and Herb Sensenig had the reunion arrangements all set, so Curly and Allene felt they could leave their Canaan, N.H., home January 12 for a month and a half in Southern California and Hawaii.
February 1 Al Fusonie started teaching again in Pompano Beach and feels fine, which is good news, indeed. After a routine physical last September he was rushed to the hospital for abdominal surgery. Instead of chemotherapy, he had a second operation after five weeks, and the doctors at Massachusetts General gave him a good prognosis.
GOLDEN ROUND-UP JUNE 9, 10, 11
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