1935

The Great Class of 1935 set a record at the Class Officers Meeting in Hanover at the end of April with 11 men on hand for the sessions. President Harry Ferries, Secretary Dick Muzzy, and Treasurer Hall Colton were there together with appointed officers Head Agent Al Dodd, Special Gifts Chair Ed Offutt, Bequest Co-Chairs Al Brush and John Wallace, C.F.D. Coordinator George Colton, Reunion Chair Bob Naramore and "Tear Bag" editors RegBankart and Dero Saunders. An impressive showing made doubly so by the addition of almost all wives. Reg and Dero will have told you much more of the events of the weekend. A couple of honors came our way with the election of Hall Colton as the representative of the Treasurers Association to the Alumni Council and of your secretary as vice president of the Secretaries Association.

There was much time for discussion among ourselves regarding fund-raising and our 44th reunion. Note the dates, June 11-14, 1979, and mark them down now on your calendar! BobNaramore is chairing this great good time that you must not miss.

I also cheated Charlie Cole out of some 37 years of service in our March issue, and I must make amends. Charlie retired last December after 41 and a half years with the Pawtucket Institution for Savings and Pawtucket Trust Company. He had been senior vice president since 1968, director of the trust company since 1959, and trustee of the savings bank since 1956.

Dud Russell retired in April as director of transportation for the Minneapolis Grain Exchange after 42 years in the milling and grain industry.

Sometimes it's refreshing to hear about a classmate who isn't retiring. Dan Cotton was recently appointed vice president of Julien J. Studley, Inc., a national and international real estate brokerage and consulting firm. Not allowing his talents to go to waste, Dan has been chosen to chair the town of Cohasset's office space needs committee.

Bill Gahagan sent a copy of the certificate of honor presented to him by Mayor Moscone of San Francisco at the dedication of the Robert Frost Plaza in that city. Bill was a featured speaker as president of California Friends of Robert Frost.

Picked up a little other New England news when I recently joined Hall Colton at lunch in Nashua with three other residents, Don Alexander, now with Hampshire Manufacturing Co., Walt Holmes, business manager of the city, and Phil Hastings, a mortgage officer of the Bank of New Hampshire.

We number a genuine politician among us. In retirement from Lockheed after 32 years, Bill Short ran for and was elected to the council in Monte Sereno, Calif. He says it was a close race, but climbing all those hills in town while knocking on doors also helped his conditioning for the "Bay-to- Breakers Run." Didn't say who won that! Bill and Tia recently spent some time with Tom andRuby Swift and plan to spend some with the rest of us at our fall reunion.

Faithful reporter par excellence DickMontgomery reports that Ed Mitchell hopes to move into his condominium at Boynton Beach, Fla., in August. On a recent five-city five-day trip, Dick missed several classmates, but a talk with Neil Roberts confirmed the "spectacular growth of his banking empire." Dick's son Warren '73 (currently a doctoral candidate at M.I.T.) expects to work for Bell Labs while his wife joins the faculty at Northern Illinois University. Son Rick, a Beloit sophomore, was one of 18 chosen for a fall term in London.

"Just to keep the record straight," Dave Johnson sent me an important letter last month. "In looking at the 1935 Winter Car- nival photograph appearing in the April issue of your class notes," reads the letter, "I immediately spotted the familiar physiognomy of my brother, Blake '36. Norbert Hofman, rakish tilt to the horned helmet notwithstanding, is an impostor. Blake also lives here in Chatham, and he quickly confirmed that he was indeed the messenger of the gods those few short years ago." Apologies for making Norb an unwitting impostor and for leaving out Blake!

And now about that fall reunion reservation for October 6 and 7. "Let George do it!"

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