1941

In December, Windy Manley died in Riverside, Calif. There will be an obituary elsewhere in this or the next issue. And just as this was being written, word arrived that Jack Ripley was, killed in an auto accident nearly a year ago;I will pass on details as soon as I can get them.

The '41 executive committee convened in New York in January and conducted sundry business on your behalf, to wit:

1. Elected Bruce Friedlich class president to fill out the rest of the term of Stace Hill, who, as you know, resigned to take over the job of head class agent.

2. Started work on our 40th reunion, coming up in 1981. Chairing the reunion will be JordanGotshall, aided by Bill Clark as an on-the-scene associate in Hanover and Bud Hart as treasurer. And in charge of reunion giving will, of course, be veteran arm-twister DannyProvost. Mark your calendar now: June 1981.

3. Made tentative plans for a '41 minireunion in the Hanover area this fall, if possible on either the Harvard or Yale weekends. (Both games are in Hanover this year.)

4. Heard a treasurer's report. Lou Young said the final dues notices would go out in late January, so those of you still unpaid should have them by now. Payments, you know, go to the '4l treasury and are used chiefly to pay for ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions for all members of the class and to finance the memorial book program for deceased classmates.

A newspaper clipping revealed that Charles A.Merritt Jr. received that Department of the Army's Research and Development Achievement Award. Charlie is a supervisory analytical chemist at the Army Research and Develop ment Command in Natick, Mass., and lives in Swampscott. He was cited for "pioneering research on the effects of radiation chemistry in food and food components and helping establish a more firm understanding of the safety of the food irradiation process."

A couple of months back, I passed on a second-hand report that Dave Chamberlain was hospitalized. A recent letter from Dave told what it was all about, namely, a triple by-pass operation following a heart attack over Labor Day weekend. "Results are good and I'm now back to work part time, but still taking it slow .... My tribe is all grown and married. The results are a lawyer, a housewife-teacher, a minister, an insurance man, and a banker. Beyond that, 7-1/3 grandchildren."

A report on attendance at last fall's Yale game came from Sue Hall. Her list included Jupe Lewis and Fred Begole, "and we saw Bruce, Danny, Ed Acker, Bob Tepper, FelixLilienthal, Bob Darbee, Don Stillman. The game was terrible but the friendship good."

I returned from a week in Bermuda last November to find that I'd missed the chance for a reunion with Robbins Barstow. Rob had been in Essex, Conn., where we maintain an onshore base, to speak and show a film on whale conservation under the auspices of the local Audubon Society. "Dr. Barstow," said the newspaper report, "has become a major spokesman for the 'Save the Whale' movement at state, national, and international levels. In July he was an official member of the United States delegation to the annual meeting of the 23-nation International Whaling Commission in London."

We don't often have '41 weddings to chronicle in this space, but we do this month: BillBlanchard to Althea Eldredge Finlay, last July, in Fairfield, Conn.

I saved the best for last. A group of Boston women office workers brightened Dick Hill's Christmastide by presenting him with the "Scrooge of the Year" award for "underpaying and underutilizing women office workers." Shame, oh, shame!

For once there is more news than space. I'll work off the backlog next month. Stay tuned.

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