1935
By the time you read this, head agent Al Dodd and his 75 assistants will be well along in the 1978 Alumni Fund campaign. Dick Montgomery has accepted Al's request to serve as a promoter of matching gifts, making sure that we miss no opportunities in this area. As you've no doubt read, for the next five years the Alumni Fund will be coordinated as an integral part of the Campaign for Dartmouth. President Harry Ferries has made the ideal choice of class coordinator in the person of George Colton. This makes a fine team deserving our full and early support!
Dick Montgomery reports the class was well represented at the Chicago annual dinner. ErnieDraper and Frank Cornwell were there on behalf of the C.F.D., along with Bob and IbbMorris, Jack and Bea Egan, and Grant andMidge Herman. Grant now has a successful consulting business in the graphic arts field.
After retiring from the glass business, Tedand Kay Harbaugh spent a month traveling in Switzerland, southern France, Italy, Austria, and Germany. Since Labor Day Ted has been working in the office of the Toledo Symphony, scheduling ensemble groups in their public performances. He promises to try to make it back Hanover way this year.
Charlie Cole retired in December after four and a half years with the Pawtucket Savings and Trust Company.
According to the Wall Street Journal, JimHughes, chairman of the finance committee and former chairman and chief executive officer of Diamond Shamrock Corporation, has retired. He continues as a director.
After Lou Bookheim retired, he and Harriet moved to California and settled in La Jolla. Within a month he was a college student again at the University of California at San Diego. Says his green 1935 reunion T-shirt would be a sensation there if he could only find it!
And now for a word from a wife who doesn't have a retired husband, yet. Elizabeth and Gordon Spencer are still in West Hartford and also keeping busy in volunteer work.
Cramp Carrick got by his 65th year all right and is "still working to stay even contra the peanut vendor." Work, however, seems to be reasonably interrupted by golf, fishing, and bridge.
Frank and Lila Wright have moved into a condominium in Hinsdale. No snow to shovel, large yard, but no grass to mow! Frank says he sees Bob Morris frequently. He's a busy member of the Du Page County Board of Commissioners. Also sees Ed Freeman, though he spends a lot of time in Naples, Fla.
Some people call it "semi-retirement." Like Bill Krieg, who, Philinda says, has been kept busy enough to suit him. He has completed a study on Bolivia's access to the sea for the Department of State and also has pinch hit occasionally for the chairman of the Latin American studies course at the Department's Foreign Service Institute.
Likewise, Spec Spengeman still services current clients and makes occasional sales but travels to England, Bermuda, and Antigua, along with Florida "stints."
Howie Croninger spends much time on photography working with color in his darkroom. He is treasurer of the Santa Anita Condominium but has time for golf, tennis, and travel in Mexico and the U.S. Mary is still raising champion Lhasa Apsos and is president of Club Canino Jalisciense!
Looking ahead to retiring from New England Mutual next December, Bob McLellan is searching for a retirement house on Cape Cod. He and Lois plan a trip to Florida in March.
Chuck and Carol Gillan spent ten days in Antigua in January. He does some consulting and volunteer work with the city and the Boy Scouts in Houston. All three children and five grandchildren live nearby. Plan on getting to Hanover this year.
Florida is so populated with '35ers they must meet frequently. Have a report from a group I think of as the "Sarasota 8," describing a Class of '35 bash. Ralph and Trudie Specht hosted brother Frank and Edith, Rey and LauraMoulton, and Ken and Gwen Webster.
Here's part of a clipping from an Amsterdam, N.Y., newspaper. An alderman addresses the city council regarding the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Mohasco Corporation: "I want to suggest for your consideration honoring a man whom we consider as 'Mr. Mohasco' and who has done many great and wonderful things for our community. It is my recommendation that on completion of the park, it be rededicated, to be known as Herbert L. Shuttleworth II Park." We're all justly proud of such a highly successful classmate!
Not too early to think of Hanover in the fall. Next reunion on the weekend of October 6 and 7!
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