1935
Last month's issue gave you a short glimpse of our newly-elected class president, Len Bryant. This month, here is a brief story about our new class treasurer, R. Putnam Kingsbury. Put and his wife Louise now live in Keene, N.H., having returned to Put's birthplace from Minnesota after his retirement from the Mayo Clinic a year ago at age 65. Their four children are scattered — Minnesota, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Following graduation from Dartmouth and receipt of a master's degree from Tuck School, Put obtained his C.P.A. certificate while with Haskins and Sells for five years. Then he spent five years with Time Inc. in the controller's department before joining the' Mayo Clinic in 1947; there, he eventually attained the positions of controller and treasurer. While at Mayo, he was actively involved in community positions with the Chamber of Commerce, church, golf and tennis clubs, and Rotary and — as a special privilege — he chaired the first-day-of-issue activities committee for the Drs. Mayo postage stamp in 1964. Currently, Put is a trustee of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. We all salute such a worthy successor to Hall Colton!
Received a very welcome and interesting letter from Rocky Rockwell recently. Rocky retired last July from 29 years as a professor of government at Hamilton College. He says,
"After getting in shape in the Adirondacks, where we have a vacation home, my wife Heidi and I went to the Canadian Rockies for four weeks. We ran an Alpine Club of Canada hut at Lake O'Hara, just the other side of the Continental Divide from Lake Louise. The hut is ringed by mountains 9,000 to 11,000 feet high. We put in a lot of climbing. Thanks to superb weather, Heidi pulled off a real tour de force by traversing the entire ridge of Mt. Victoria (which is the mountain in the classic view from Lake Louise). I put in the best rock climb ever — an 1,800-foot face which was at an average angle of about 75 degrees, with a number of almost-vertical pitches on the route. It was a splendid overture to retirement — or unemployment, as I prefer to think of it." Rocky's son, Win '70, is on the staff of President Kemeny's Three Mile Island Commission.
Neil Roberts has retired as chief executive officer of Colorado's second-largest bank holding company after 41 years in banking in Denver. He is now involved in a management consulting firm and has just agreed to chair a $10 million campaign for the Children's Hospital in Denver. This expanded hospital will serve Denver and ten Rocky Mountain states. And they call this retirement?
A couple of clippings of note: Emil Petke has been appointed coroner of Litchfield County, Conn. New Hampshire Governor Hugh Gallen has appointed Harold Silverman to the Maine- New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority. Al Dodd has moved to Osterville, Mass. Communiques from our very effective head agent will come from Box 181.
We note with sadness the passing of Jack Parfitt in Manchester, N.H., on September 8.
Occasionally, we- have news of ourselves. September 29 was the date of the first wedding at Eastman at the home of Dick and Polly Muzzy. Daughter Martha was married to Robert Nilsen in a beautiful outdoor ceremony. The newly weds are off on a trip to Hawaii, then Japan — immeasurably aided by the fact that Bob is being sent by Polaroid to an International Standards Conference in Tokyo and Martha's sister Ellen and husband live in nearby Yokohama! What a way to set out in matrimony!
As I'm writing this while resting up from the wedding, plans are going forward for our fall reunion next weekend. George Colton tells me that about 100 people will be on hand for two dinners, the class meeting, and the Holy Cross game. Hope you made it!
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