1944
We were enjoyed to palaver on the phone with our old Syracuse chum, Norm Simpson (our fathers were friends at Syracuse U. a thousand years ago). Norm and the family were fresh in from t,heir annual summer vacation at Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks. The old tromboner was tootling a happy note having finally won the trophy in the open-hulls sailing category after a dozen years of seconds.
Norm is still earning bread in outdoor advertising. Daughters are as follows: Debbie, Holyoke grad, is working for Prudential in New Jersey; Ann is a dean's-list senior at William Smith College; and Libby, 15, is a high schooler.
We also plugged into Al Peterson, another New York upstater (that's stater, not starter) who practices medicine in Binghamton. Unlike Norm, Al has decided to keep his feet dry and so has sold his boat, a 42-foot cruiser kind of af- fair. And Al's daughters: Christine is a singer, currently in Anchorage, Alaska; Linny teaches school just down the road in White River Jet.; Marty is a musical therapist in Connecticut; and Amy is just across the river where her hus band attends Vermont Law School.
A few columns back we reported that Carol Ranger had hit the golf jackpot with a hole in one. Ha, we have another such distaff feat, namely by Jeanne Hensler down there in Richmond, Va. Anyone else out there?
A friendly note in from John Lesher out there in Weyerhaeuser country, state of Washington, informing that he has remarried and would be heading east to show off his bride to his mother. He couldn't quite coordinate things with our 35th reunion, but hopes to do better with the 40th in 1984.
Karl and Betty Musser also missed our June reunion, but for a different reason. Karl took early retirement from Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Cos. and returned to work as benefits manager for Boston Edison Cos., and how do you take off three weekdays just after you've started a new job?
We haven't seen Wynn Underwood over in Middlebury, Vt., but we keep reading about his superior court judgeship in the local press.
A Fairleigh Dickinson University press announcement tells us that Clemintine Rabassa, Greg's wife, has a book published. It's a study of Ecuador's foremost writer, Demetrio Aquilera-Malta. Clem got her Ph.D. at Colum- bia and is a professor of humanities at Medgar Evers College, City of New York. She has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hays, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
A press clipping: Dick Ettinger, founder of the Wadsworth Publishing Co. in California, has been elected chairman of Allyn & Bacon, Inc., a Boston textbook publisher.
Who says you can't go home again? Ohioan Bud Welch, after years and years with Yellow Pages in Wisconsin and Alabama, has been pulled back to Dayton headquarters, as executive vice president, of course.
(Remember the Two Black Crows? "How do you spell Ohio?" "O-H-ten.")
Summer may be by but Needle Allen is still just lolling around in his hammock. He writes: "For the past two years I have been immersed in building two businesses one, a money- market trading business in N.Y.C., the other a venture-capital business, in Minneapolis, focusing on energy projects, oil and gas drilling programs, lease investments, solar energy, coal conversion, and methanol projects located in various parts of the Mid- and Southwest," In between marshmallows, he is president of the board of trustees of his old prep school alma mater, Berkshire School, in Sheffield, Mass. The Kiwani (is that plural of Kiwanis?) of Birmingham were fortunate last June to have Bill Turpin as their guest speaker. All Bill had to do was hang-glide down the ether from his home in Boone, N.C.
Another son, another news clip, another marriage: Jack Riley's son, Mark, married to Linda Prusinowski, the end of July.
Up the road from Bronxville came lawyer/ judge Carl Eldridge with son George for interviews and a look at Dartmouth. It was fun showing them a bit of the countryside, including my own.
A nice, deserved thing has come Frank Martell's way. He's been elected vice president and president-elect of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. And that's a pretty decent honor down there in the old nation's capital.
It came to our attention at reunion that Don Pfeiffle had ten, count 'em, ten grandchildren. Can anyone out there top that? Let us know . . .
It has been a very sad thing writing Andy MacDowells obituary. He was a very special fellow. A hug and a tug to Kitty and their three kids.
That's it. Blessings.
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