1935

More and more the successes of our children seem to make up the class news that gets our attention.

We are happy to note that the family name of Colton has not, after all, disappeared from the ranks of college administrators. Margaret, daughter of Ruth and George Colton has been appointed as assistant to the new Tuck School director of career counseling and placement, Roger F. Muller. Congratulations, Meg!

Bill and Philinda Krieg are pleased and proud that son Laurence has received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Michigan. To quote them, "Some said they should have given him the doctorate on the basis of his dissertation's resounding name alone, 'Phonetic Classification: The Acoustic Structure of Strident Fricatives.' Others claimed they'd always thought fricatives came fried and crisp in a carry-out box from Colonel Sanders."

From Dick and Betty Montgomery comes word that their son, Rick, graduated from Beloit and has returned there for graduate work.

Don Radasch and your scribe happen to qualify by reason of advanced age and full retirement for membership in a New Londonbased organization more or less aptly known as the "Country Squires." We tell you all this preliminary to reporting that this group recently heard a talk by the president of ColbySawyer College, Dr. Henry Nicholas Muller '6O. Nick, as we made bold to call him, is the son of our classmate Hank Muller, who died in 1974. He is making waves and attracting enthusiastic support as the leader of this educational institution, now a four-year college which in our day we knew as Colby Junior.

Space does not permit sharing with you fully the details of a Christmas letter from Kay andTed Harbaugh. They spent a marvelous three weeks in Japan on a trip to attend the wedding of an exchange student who had, a few years ago, spent ten months living with them in Toledo. A four-hour Shinto wedding was followed by a visit to the old resort, Kanazawa, on the Japan Sea. Since Kay teaches violin to young children by the Suzuki method, they also had the opportunity to observe the coaching and teaching of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki in the beautiful city of Matsumoto. Back in Tokyo they were able to renew with the Kimura family a friendship that first started at the end of the battle of Okinawa, was renewed twenty-five years later in Tokyo with the help of Sasaki Glass Company, and now has again been renewed with family members.

Ted and Kay were back home in Toledo in time to enjoy Christmas with their three sons, their daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.

Another peripatetic couple, Jean and Al Brush, not, apparently, content with a recent round-the-world trip, are off at this writing to Hawaii. They'll return to San Francisco and then go back to the East Coast by ship via the Panama canal.

Classmates and his many friends were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Tom Lane on Christmas eve. A funeral service held in Quechee was attended by class representatives Howie Croninger, Ernie Draper,Bob Hagev Don Hagerman, Put Kingsbury,Dick Muzzy, Don Radasch, and Peter Smith.

Those who attended our 1980 fall reunion will remember a cheerful telephone greeting from Bob Smith, who had just survived a serious operation for cancer. Unfortunately we must now report Bob's death in Vero Beach, Fla., on January 17.

More about these departed friends in the obituary section.

Three cheers for the Great Class of 1935! The Charles F. Moore award has been presented to Al Dodd, head agent of the "class with the best donor improvement." Al, with a big assist from Bob Naramore and all of us, managed to "improve donors" in 1980 to the extent of 92! Once again, congratulations to Al for his hard work and leadership.

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