1944

The large word these days involves our 35th REUNION on June 9, 10, and 11, 1980. You've been getting fair notice in our newsletter and from reunion publicity head PhilPenberthy, and you'll be getting it from this corner, as well. So block out your calendar and sign up with Tom Miner and his merry men of the reunion committee.

Re cigarman Penberthy, he's not only running reunion publicity, he's also running for office. There's scarcely an unrung doorbell or an unkissed baby in his hometown of Norwalk, Conn., where Phil's been campaigning for city councilor. Meanwhile, son Cleve '70 is just down the street; he lives in Stamford and is dean of students at a Westport high school.

The second largest word from the hills harks back to the '44 mini-reunion on October 26-27. Dartmouth didn't exactly punch the stuffing out of Cornell, but '44 did punch into the ticket office, tail-gates, and the DOC House - 83 strong at the latter. Too many names to mention, but I will give the roster of those who attended the executive committee meeting Saturday morning (the gratis coffee and doughnuts undoubtedly contributed to the swollen ranks): Ezz and Pat Hale, Dave Eckels, Ben Jones, Dick Mayberry, Bill McElnea, Bob McLaughry, Tom and Mary El Miner, Jack Jenness, Stan Barr, Russ Burdge, Warren and Nancy Leopold, Joe Vancisin, Homer Bogart, George Cummings, Clark and Barbara MacGregor, and Fritz Hier. Now if that isn't a four-star, Girl-Scout-cookies group, I never heard of one.

Earlier in October, Ed and Sue Eubanks came to town and surveyed the place from a room-with-a-view in the Hanover Inn. They were combining a little time off with an engineering business trip that brought them from their home in Pasadena to Toronto.

Not far behind was Tampa radiologist BillGatlin, making a sentimental journey north with his new wife, Lois. "We were married two years ago," he said, "and I've just now gotten around to showing her the glories of New England." En route, the Gatlins stopped to see little Nick Daukas, the New Haven ophthalmologist who gave them his weekend place in Westerly, R. I., for a couple of days, and Dick and Jane Sweet, who live in Portland - Connecticut, not Oregon. Dick is an orthopedic surgeon who is just as much at home fishing, farming, or chopping wood.

Oilman George Troxell and his wife Nancy are on the move again. With second son Jeff interning at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, it made sense for them to go from the Netherlands to Scotland via Hanover. Odeco oil-drilling business took them back to New Orleans first, where oldest son George is a criminal lawyer, and then came the stopover in Hanover. They were planning five days in Portugal on the way to their new assignment in Aberdeen.

Down there in Concord, N.H., can't-say-no Horace Blood has been named to chair a $22-million fund-raising campaign for the Concord Hospital. Horace has been a lifelong resident of that city; also a member of the American Board of Otolaryngology, he has served as president of the Concord Hospital Staff and of both the YMCA and the Rotary Club.

I chatted recently with that old capistrano Brand Beacham, just as he was about to migrate south again. He and Bessie were leaving their summer digs and real estate business in the Bronxville-Greenwich area and heading for Vero Beach, as they do every year.

Marty Shea keeps a suitcase at the ready, traveling as he does for Morgan Guaranty Trust of New York City. He hit the West Coast a couple of times this past year, as well as making business stops in France, Belgium, and Italy. He also spun off for some vacation time in the United K.

Speaking of Belgium, as we were, a press release just in tells us that Jim Bodine, formerly vice president and general manager of Johnson and Johnson's dermatological division, has been named president of a newly-formed J&J affiliate, Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. of Beerse, Belgium. The new company will be based in New Jersey, which is just right for the Bodines because that's where they've been living all along.

In case you missed it in the Sunday Times, sharpshooter Jack Haffenreffer led the alumni to a 216 to 200 win over the undergraduates in an October 6 trap shoot in Hanover.

Further chips off the block: smart kids following in the footsteps of their brilliant fathers include Dan and Arline Donovan's daughter Mary Ellen, awarded a three-week stipend for study this past summer at the prestigeous Breadloaf Writing School at Middlebury College (she's a reporter for the local Valley News), and Fred and Iris Cohn's son Jim 'Bl, inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society and named winner of the Phi Bete prize for the highest academic rank at the conclusion of five terms.

That's it. Blessings.

This Tucson trio - Robert F. Miller '44 (center) and sons Michael (right) and Kim'76 - is believed to be the only Tucson family with a father and two sons activelypracticing law. All three graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law.

311 McNutt Hall Hanover, N.H. 03755