1938
We all received some time ago a class letter from President Clark Barrett and Head Agent Dick Holt. With the 1979 fall football season fast nearing its end — at least it will be by the time you read this — it seems in order for all of us who possibly can to plan ahead to attend "Amazing 38's" 1980 mini-reunion, scheduled for the Harvard game weekend (in Hanover next year), Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18. Further details will be reported in the months to come, but fall class gatherings/ reunions, mini- or maxi-, are great, and the more attending, the merrier.
Ted Thorne kindly alerted me to Ev Wood's highly successful running of the information booth on Campus for the Hanover Chamber of Commerce this past summer. Ev was "serving as ombudsman to the community's many visitors," as Ted put it. What a fine post-graduate (40-plus years post-graduate) project for Ev to have undertaken! The College News Service ran a story on Ev's career, and it surely makes impressive reading. To quote from that article: "Ev is one of the few American Navy flyers to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross from the RAF for his 70 combat missions over the North Atlantic in anti-submarine action. Later, during the Cold War, he piloted freight into Berlin as part of the historic airlift that stemmed Soviet imperial designs of the late forties. He also taught Afghans how to fly and himself flew the 'hump' in peace time and mercy missions in Viet Nam to help the victims of a war he deplored. In between these special missions, he flew international routes around the world for Pan American, living variously in Berlin, Paris, Kandahar (Afghanistan), and Hong Kong." Our saludos to you, Ev, for a truly outstanding career!
As has been written in this column before, it is inevitably sad to have to report the equally inevitable shortening of 38's list of living classmates. The obituaries of Frank Doane,Jock Grether, Duke Krum, and Stan Sheldon will appear in later issues of the Alumni Magazine.
Our class's highest-ranking jurist, FrankNewman, an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, was written up at some length in a late-summer issue of the Christian ScienceMonitor. To the uninformed layman (your secretary), the judicial hassle therein reported seemed to involve a conflict in jursidiction, and maybe a resulting conflict of interest, between the court and its members on the one hand, and the state-appointed Commission on Judicial Performance, on the other. "Unmoved by charges of conflict-of-interest, Associate Justice Frank Newman has refused to disqualify himself from deciding whether the investigation of the State Supreme Court should be made public," the Monitor article read. Without knowledge of the legal background or ramifications, but with unbounded confidence in the integrity and Tightness of the judicial members of our amazing class, your secretary urges, "Hang in there, Frank!"
Correspondence with classmates — I'm grateful for it and would welcome more — connotes a continuing trend toward retirement and the South-Land. The Ammarells were recently "driving around western North Carolina in search of nice retirement area." And a letter from Adrian Weiss (just received and much appreciated; thank you, Ade) puts it this way: "We finally decided to forsake northern winters for the Sunshine State and are now comfortably set in Kendall, Fla., on one of the many canals here. Shivering northerners passing through are welcome to our company, pool, and one of the extra bedrooms anytime." The Weisses' address is 7240 S.W. 109 Terrace, Miami, Fla. 33156, Kendall being a Miami suburb. Woody Woodman sent me a change of address, from 2217 Sunset Drive to 1002 Red Maple Road, but still in the city of Bradenton, Fla. 33507.
A classmate who hasn't moved to Florida, or fully retired either, is George Lynch of Sturbridge, Mass. George holds the position of executive secretary at the Sturbridge town office. A long article in the Worcester EveningGazette is high in its praises of his achievements. George, a retired American Optical Corporation and Rathbone Corporation executive, works a nominal four-and-a-half- hour day, five days a week, in and out of the Sturbridge selectman's office. "He has brought maturity and common sense to the office," one town official is quoted as saying. Another notes, "Things have really come together since George started on the job." The article states that many of George's activities and duties take him out of the office and that his local business traveling is done on a Honda 500 motorcycle, of which George is an ardent aficionado.
R. Manning Brown Jr. '38 (left) and JackS. Goldman '39 recently completed theirsecond year on the 25-member agents advisorycouncil, representing 11,000 agentsof the New York Life Insurance Company.
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