1941

So our 40th is now history. As soon as the dates are set for the 45th, I'll let you know. Meanwhile:

The University of Tennessee's Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis went all out in May to honor Gene Stollerman, leaving after 17 years at CHS as chair of its department of medicine to become a professor of medicine at Boston University. The ceremonies included a "Gene Stollerman Day," complete with roastand-toast banquet, and the announcement that a new facility being established on campus would be known as the Gene H. Stollerman Clinical Medicine Library.

"A place where young people come to acquire and sort out knowledge and senior staff come to explore new pathways in science," said the University spokesperson, "is a place which should bear Gene Stollerman's name." It will also bear Gene's smiling face they commissioned a portrait of him to hang in the new library.

Also in May, according to a document in my possession, the annual meeting of Edgcomb Steel of New England Inc., convened in Nashua, N.H., and proceeded to (1) declare its 94th consecutive quarterly cash dividend and (2) reelect Dutch Cotton to the board of directors.

And Dick Hill was in the papers again over the summer. He was named vice president of the International Monetary Conference at that organization's meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. That means Dick will move up next year to the presidency of the IMC, an association of international bankers, government central bankers, and finance ministers.

On the debit side of the news, we received belated word over the summer of the death of two classmates: Cam Hosmer of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and Gordon Randall of Omaha, Neb. Obituaries will be in this or next month's issue.

The bills for 1981-82 class dues should be in the mail by now, so here's your chance to rebuild the class treasury after the reunion blast and, by filling up all that white space on the back, let the rest of us know what's happening with you and yours. In clearing the decks for the new fiscal year, Lou Young found and passed along one last batch of graffiti from last spring, to wit:

"Will be retiring the first of April," wrote Jack Bowe from Bernardsville, N.J. "I'm starting my new house on Seabrook Island, S.C., in March and will be spending the major part of my time there going to be my own general contractor."

Etty Hamilton, listed in preliminary reports as among our reunion attendees, says she enjoyed two trips abroad last year, including a QE II cruise to the Caribbean. Son Jeff teaches at Concord, Mass., Academy and is a tennis pro at Nantucket summers, while Jon was busy being sports editor of the Daily Collegian at the University of Massachusetts. He's a senior this year.

From Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., Nick Carter cryptically announces that "Doris and I are broke but fine!" Added that they had just enjoyed a visit from Gretchen Krieger.

Werner and Ruth Neudorf sent regrets that they wouldn't be able to make it from Seattle to Hanover . for reunion and asked to be remembered to everyone. Werner has been retired for five years from high-school teaching and coaching, but "am living in semi-retirement, working at landscaping and substitute teaching."

And finally, a literary note gleaned from my summer reading. If you'd like to know what Bill Cashel, Ma Bell's chief financial officer, does in his working hours, get a copy of The BiggestCompany on Earth, by Sonny Kleinfeld, and look on pages 38, 52, and 221-224. (A fascinating book, actually, even if you don't give a hoot what Bill's up to.)

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