1935

As I put this particular set of notes together in late August, I'll try to cover some of the things of interest to the Great Class of 1935 since you last heard from your secretary in June.

We can all share in the pride of President Len Bryant as he reported to the executive committee that we once again received Honorable Mention for Class of the Year. Particular emphasis was on our accomplishments of continued success with the Class of .1935 Lecture Series and fall reunion, a strong widows and dues program, substantial gains in an alreadyimpressive Alumni Fund drive, and strong overall communications. I may say here, what Len would not, that much of this success can be traced to his forceful and effective leadership.

Later in the summer came the impressive inauguration of President David McLaughlin '54. On hand, of course, were Trustees Ralph Lazarus and David Smith. In his farewell remarks as a retiring trustee after ten years, Dave was able to announce an endowment fund of a million dollars given by three non-alumni parents from northern California to establish a distinguished professorship in the name of John G. Kemeny. Seen in the large crowd were both Coltons, Kingsbury, King, Croninger, Hage, Radasch, and Tomlinson.

Hanover Holiday brought Bill McClarin, John Howe, and Hobe Griffin back to town. Class gatherings of locals with whose names you're perhaps all too familiar were held at the homes of John Gilbert, Al Brush, and George Colton. We wish we saw more of you more often!

We play the familiar refrain of Alumni Fund success thanks to all of you. The leadership of A1Dodd and Bob Naramore has resulted in another Green Derby win in our division with a record of over $110,000 116 per cent of our objective with a participation level of 113 per cent. If you can't figure that out, write Al!

Now let's get at the news from here and there. Ray Hannoosh in Washington (Annandale, Va.) is "semi-active in a partnership building a couple of houses a year in West Virginia. Interest rates and tight money a problem."

Jim Le Sure is "too busy enjoying 'retirement' to do all the things I had planned. University of Hartford decided they were too shorthanded to get along without me so I've been working two or three days a week and having fun doing it."

Like Hall Colton, A1 Brush, and probably many more of you, Dave Goldman, in Simsbury, Conn., has, for the past six years, been a volunteer business counselor for SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives. He has found it stimulating and says "it's a good feeling to have someone thank you for your help." He suggests you think about doing it, too.

Wiley Hubbell, now in his eighth year of retirement, made two trips abroad, one of three weeks of driving all over France and then another covering Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Two granddaughters in Roanoke, financial consulting, civic work, and trips to and from Kiawah Island leave a little time for tennis and golf.

A note from Rudy Pacht tells of a couple of visits from Jim and Marian Berkey and a week's trip to Yosemite, the Hearst Castle, and Monterey. Rudy concludes: "I have accommodations for all '35ers here and I hope to see some soon!"

Here's a little late reporting on a note from Harry Ackerman. He had been working on a two-hour movie for CBS television which was left high and dry by the strike, along with a halfhour comedy for ABC. Philosophically, he says, "I can think of worse things to do than relax and read scripts and books." Harry's wife, actress Elinor Donahue, was co-starring in a play in St. Petersburg this summer with Gavin Mac Leod of Love Boat.

A quote from Bob Bowman out there in Lincoln, Neb.: "My POSSLQ insists on finishing out her teaching career while I'm finishing out my third year of retirement. That's what you get when you marry a gal five and a half years younger along with three lovely daughters."

Good correspondent Dud Russell and Bet managed to vacation by cruising on the two largest passenger ships still in active service, the Norway in the Caribbean last spring and the QEII on a return from a trip to Scotland and England this summer. Expect to see Dud at our fall reunion and hear more about the retirement he seems to enjoy so fully.

Link Washburn, though retired from the directorship of the Quaternary Research Center, which he established at the University of Washington, still maintains space at the center as unofficial consultant. He steps down from chairing the Polar Research Council of the Academy of Science, but maintains his connections with INQUA and AMQUA, the international and national quaternary associations, as well as with various other polar-oriented groups. He expects to initiate a five-year frost action research program at Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, in Canada's north, with Tahoe acting as field assistant again.

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