1932

Before leaving Florida for our vacation in the Northwest Pacific area, we had a telephone call from Bill Maikinney, who was going to be a judge at a daffodil show in Stuart, Fla. Bill, although fully retired from business as the "ultimate in light bulbs," keeps very active as a permanent master judge of The National Chrysanthemum Society. He grows, shows, and judges chrysanthemums and daffodils and is an accredited judge of The American Daffodil Society. From light bulbs to flower bulbs!

Bob McGuire Jr.'s family was recently written up in the Washington Star in a special four-part series headed, "Four Families Look Back On Their Washington Lives." Each part covered a different era of Washington life, ranging from the Civil War to present times. A most interesting story, and we quote a small part of it relative to Bob's oldest son Mickey, who unfortunately died as a result of an automobile accident in 1971: "Mickey attended his father's alma mater, Dartmouth, where he studied Russian and traveled the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in a special program. After graduating in 1958, he studied at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and in 1961 received his master's in international relations from John Hopkins University. That same year he joined the Peace Corps, and following a stint in Pakistan he earned a doctorate in political science at Colombia University. He then taught political science and black studies at Dartmouth." Bob is still working in his family's funeral home business in Washington D.C., and, inspired by the unusual life of his son Mickey, continues to serve in many community activities. As Bob says, "In D.C. one can't afford to retire." He looks forward, as we do, to his attendance at our 50th reunion.

Mike Cardozo sent us some news about Professor Bill Levi, who, he says, "spoke so eloquently at our graduation and has become very distinguished in the rarified world of philosophy." Bill wrote Mike that he had retired from the David May Distinguished University Professorship at Washington University and had enjoyed being this spring's Mellon Professor at Tulane. Bill reports, "I have generally taught one semester in St. Louis and spent the other either in Venice or Vienna, where I do most of my writing."

When Bill Kendall sent us his questionnaire duly filled in earlier this year, he included a small bulletin called "Skilling's Mining Review," which emphasized some sophisticated equipment for the unloading of coal from railroad cars. Bill, being a retired topnotch expert on railroads and especially the ones that haul coal (like the the Norfolk & Western, where he was president for many years), we were not surprised when he advised us of his present activities. Bill says, "Self-employed; shed organized responsibility eight years ago, resumed activity in areas of my own choosing and am staying with it because it's enjoyable. When my associates become tired of me, I'll probably quit." His present activities apparently relate to the sophisticated coal machinery, which he describes as a great opportunity for expansion and a "stimulating" subject.

The accompanying photograph of a group of happy classmates at the mini-reunion held in early May at the house of our prez JohnZimmerman in Stonington, Conn., speaks for itself. Note that Howdy Pierpont, our illustrious "man of many seasons," is the only one holding a glass empty at that! We owe this good black-and-white picture to Howdy's charming wife Dottie, who recently reported that they had spent several weeks in Wyoming and Colorado, which included an arduous tenmile hike in the Grand Tetons.

Some of your secretary's last summer activities included a long-delayed 115-mile hot air balloon trip in southern Florida, which was a 70th birthday gift from his son Conrad, who is constantly looking for something to give him that "the old man hasn't done!" Also a fourday canoe float trip with younger son Eric '68 down the Upper Missouri River in northeastern Montana, passing the beautiful White Cliffs that were so well described in Lewis and Clark's journals. He and his wife Addie spent one week of Elderhostel courses at the University of Washington in Seattle, with visits to and royal treatment by Jack and Kit Eliot and Al Boncutter, and finally another week of similar Elderhostel courses at the University of Montana in Missoula, rounding up a very interesting summer vacation. Your obedient servant,

A 1932 mini-reunion last May at class president John Zimmerman s home in Stonington, Conn., brought together this beaming bunch: (back row, from left) BillLieson, Max Saltzman, Ed Smith, John Zimmerman, Brownie Dickinson, Dick Hazen;(front row) Joe Boldt, Gus Zimmerman, Howdy Pierpont, Dan Gage, and Max Wolff.

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