1941

By now you should all have received Chairman Jordan Gotshall's first communique on our 40th reunion. The dates mark 'em and save em are June 15-18, 1981, Monday through Thursday. Details are still being shaped up, but the morning line calls for College and class cocktail parties and dinners, a class business meeting, golf, tennis, picnic, and, of course, plenty of time for conversation and catch-up in a fully equipped class tent.

Gotch and his Hanover agent Bill Clark are, as advertised, soliciting ideas and suggestions from one and all, so send them along and stand by for further advisories.

An early-summer letter from Sue Hall reported the arrival of grandson Frank Hall III last fall. Also: "Met Monk Larson in church last Wednesday. He and Barbara never change, although Monk's mustache has slipped to his chin and is a beard. I see Larry Kryle at the hospital frequently." (That's presumably Nassau Hospital Sue does volunteer work there and Larry is an internist in the area.)

Enclosed with the letter was a Newsday clipping telling of Brodie Bjorklund's son Hank's graduation from law school from Hofstra University, the same campus where he used to toil through workouts as a New York Jets running back until 1975. Now he's with a Manhattan firm and it's his wife Victoria's turn she started law school at Columbia this fall.

In Danbury, Conn., Bob Sieburg lays claim to the record for youngest 1941 children: "Have been married four years to my delightful English-born wife Jane, and we now have two children, two and three years old. Can anyone else match that?" Well, can anyone? I warn potential challengers that Bob can parley his bet into a real tough one he not only has two toddlers, but also nine grandchildren by previous marriages. He is in the condo and apartment business and also manufactures testing and research equipment for the metallurgical field.

A long overdue update comes from Red O'Conner, who in January will have logged 20 years of service with the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. For the past few years he's been a vice president and general counsel. "Still do a lot of traveling, on business and vacations, and in May ran into Roy Rowan at the Dallas airport. Also still do quite a bit of speaking on my favorite subject federal, state, and local laws regulating solicitation of funds for. charitable purposes before such organizations as the National Association of Attorneys General, National Health Council, and National Society of Fund Raisers. Daughter Debbie is a senior at Queens College School of Music and during the past two summers has violined her way through Europe with student orchestras."

Phil Hall has acquired a winter condominium at Longboat Key, Fla., and plans to be in residence at 48Q5 Gulf of Mexico Dr., Apt. 204A, in November and from January through mid-April. The rest of the time he's in Meriden, Conn., and passes along a lengthy feature story that appeared in that town's newspaper about his old roommate, Dave McGaughey of Wallingford.

The story, headlined "Fires, Emergencies a Challenge to Town Fire Surgeon," was a tribute to Dave's 30 years of extra-curricular service to the town. During office hours, he's with the medical department of Connecticut General Insurance, which he joined in the fifties after a stint in general practice. Othertimes, he's on the CB radio in Car Four, responding to medical emergencies, sometimes auto accidents, and sometimes serious fires where he'll be called on to aid victims or firefighters or both. "Since the 19405," says the paper, "he has helped rescue workers save lives and has helped save the lives of rescue workers." The town fire chief rates him "very close to irreplaceable." (Dave got his start in firefighting, of course, at Dartmouth he was a member of the undergraduate fire squad.)

Last spring the mail brought a copy of a new book, How to Speak Official Chinese: Manualof Modern Mandarin in the New Romanization, compliments of the author, none other than Chet Williams. It's designed to help travelers cope with basic activities like asking directions, changing money, or ordering meals, and Chet hopes to promote it, among other places, with corporations that do business in the People's Republic. Chet spent several years in India in the early seventies managing a teaching program for the University of the Pacific, and is now at East Texas State University in Texarkana. Wife Beverly travels for Photo Corporation of America, so they bounce around the area with a trailer, combining her business travel with camping and sailing. On the side, Chet is partners with son Scott in a foreign-car service and parts business. A daughter, Marcia, lives in Bangalore, married to an Indian engineer-manufacturer. On the day Chet wrote last, she was due to arrive back in the States for a. visit and to introduce him to his new tenmonth-old grandson.

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