1961

It turned out to be a pretty fall weekend, with the leaves just turning and the air just warm enough to sit in shirtsleeves for the Holy Cross football game. I'm talking, of course, about the first class mini-reunion the first weekend in October. It won't be the last, because those of us who got there had so much fun.

Some stream-of-consciousness notes from the weekend: Hartley Webster talking so loud in the lounge at the Holiday Inn (our headquarters) that the entertainer wondered what he had in his pipe (tobacco, but it was vintage Hartley).... Bill Haynsworth scurrying around for a cop to open up the Smoyer Lounge so we could start the cocktail party. ... TomMcDonough introducing his fiancee Nancy Hocking to everyone (they were married the next weekend). ... Dick Wright driving in for the game and party from Montreal. ... Hartley dancing with everyone's wife. ... RonWybranowski's muttering that he felt it after one of the Green got a dislocation during the game ... Class seats high up in the east stands so it got warmer, rather than colder, as the game progressed (a change from those shivering fourth quarters of decades past). ... Some, such as Cartter Frierson, looking markedly unchanged but others of us having lost our hair or turned gray ... And the beards! We were virtually unbearded in our Aegis pictures, but today beards have become quite common.

Besides the post-game cocktail party, we had an informal gathering in the lounge at the Holiday Inn on Friday night (where the dancing took place), a class meeting on Saturday morning, a Bloody Mary party on Sunday morning, and hiking for some on Sunday afternoon. You'll read more about the class meeting in the next newsletter, which Bert Rowley said he plans to have out by December. There are, however, a couple of things worth noting here: Jim Watson won the fraternity competition among class agents, after 20 of 22 Sigma Nu brothers pledged, for 87 per cent participation. Hank Eberhardt suggested that those looking for suitable memorials for deceased classmates might consider donating to Baker Library so the library could obtain books in the classmate's own field of interest. President Gerry Kaminsky noted that our next reunion is in 1982, but that plans are afoot for BillHaynsworth et alia to put on a couple more mini-reunions in Hanover between now and then; arrangements are also going forward for mini-reunions in the Southeast and the Midwest and on the West Coast.

And I shouldn't fail to mention the wives, who added measurably to the weekend. Those present included Karen Webster (Hartley), Anne Haynsworth (Bill), Jackie Kaminsky (Gerry), Pam Rowley (Bert), Steffi Levy (Larry), Wendy Weiss (Elliott), Lois Rich (Vic), Janet Sax (Dick), Margie Jasperson (Rick), Kathleen Wendell (Bob), Joan Wybranowski (Ron), Suzi Reno (Jack), Patty Frierson (Cartter), Sally Dinan (Dennis), Nancy Shure (Bill), and Barbara White (John). Also present were numerous children, including two boys belonging to John Schlachtenhaufen, whose wife couldn't come. Art Johnson had Ellie Rittman with him, and several others also had dates.

We've talked about some of these folks in recent issues, but others we haven't said much about recently. John Schlachtenhaufen, for instance, is still with Xerox, but now he's one of the company's three marketing managers. He's responsible for sales of the machines to small companies (Mom-and-Pop size) worldwide, which he finds tremendously challenging and stimulating. Elliott Weiss is teaching law at the Cardoso School of Law at Yeshiva University. Tom McDonough works with emotionally- disturbed children in Boston. Larry Levy is in real estate. Dick Wright teaches business administration at McGill University. Dick Sax is a neurologist out in California. Cartter Frierson is in computer systems, consulting in a company that bears his name in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jack Reno reports that Tony Wattleworth is making good progress and is out of Massachusetts General Hospital.

News from the back of Vic Rich's dues statements: Nearing the end of a year's leave- of-absence from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, H. Dutton Foster reports that "leisure is a viable lifestyle." He's been living in St. Paul, Minn., "painting and drawing a lot." Skiied in Birkebeiner cross- country ski race in February, finishing in five and a half hours, more or less, and rode trains in Mexico with his wife Caroline in January.

Tom Mealey: "A little updating — got remarried on New Year's Eve 1977 aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach to Patricia Elwell of Rochester, N.Y. I have been awarded Dun and Bradstreet's presidential citation for sales excellence for 1978. I am still participating in the Naval Reserve, now at the rank of commander, as commanding officer of a reserve unit supporting the submarine tender USSProteus."

Doug Hopton: "After many years of moving around the world with Mobil Oil Company, we decided to settle down in the U.S., in a very exciting city, Minneapolis, which required a job change. Am now director of international marketing for Medtronic Inc., a leading company in electronic health care devices such as cardiac pacemakers."

News from notes to Bert: David Steinberg came in 75th in the Boston Marathon, and he ran two blocks backward!

David Zuckerman: "Once a teacher (English and math), now a psychologist and teacher/trainer of counselors and group leaders learning to survive exposure to resistant, messy, noisy, problematic adolescents. Clinical director and a founder of the best treatment program for such kids in Massachusetts ... maybe nationally. Overweight, divorcing, feeling 40, and not yet successful enough, not yet dead."

Steve Dale: "Made vice president at New England Merchants National Bank in Boston a year ago — run the bank's 'profit planning' department (budgeting, cost accounting, profitability analysis, etc.). Getting married in August (second marriage). Play piano in a Dixieland band on weekends — band's called Hot Ginger." Steve didn't provide his wife's name, but that wedding has presumably taken place. Steve also reports that he attended DaveSkuce's 40th, "held in an old lumberyard, complete with bluegrass music and homemade wine."

More from notes to Bert and news notes in next month's column.

Personal note: I'm to receive the award of honor of the Carolinas Hospital Public Relations Society for my series last December on health care costs. The award is not a journalism award, having been previously presented to Marshall I. Pickens, who chairs the board of trustees of the Duke Endowment; to Joseph I. Waring M.D., a Charleston physician and author; and to William Moore, associate editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times.

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