1939

Since our last we have lost two of our number and the Loving wife of a third. Doc (Gramp) Rehor died suddenly of a massive coronary on November 26, and Alan Davidson did not rally from triple by-pass surgery and succumbed on December 28. (See the obituary section). In early December Bill Tomkins lost his wife Lois after a brief illness. Bill and Lois were married 38 years ago, just one year after Lois had graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1941. They have three children, Douglas '65, Joan '69), and Barbara (Beloit '74). Another tremendous gap has been left in our class "family."

Bobby Jacobson recently received the National Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, being honored for "distinguished service in the field of human relations." (See photograph on the following page.) Let no one suggest that the class of '39 hasn't made some massive contributions along the rocky road of life that we have traveled since our days on the Hanover plain.

On Harbor Isles in Port Richey, Fla. (P.O. Box 434), resides Otie Mudge, who writes that he has new friends and a pleasant home on a canal with quick access to the Gulf. All this after a lifetime of teaching, social work, and serving as director of Camp Idlewild in New Hampshire. Otie says they had a good visit from Ed and Barbara Wells last March and are expecting another this March. Also, he reports that Carol Lee and Jim Feeley and Lainie andHank White have been through for a winter visit. Otie's two youngsters are well-scattered, a daughter living in Los Angeles and a son on St. Thomas in the Virgin Isles, where he has been for 12 years.

Irv Naitove has once again been signed up as one of Jim Corner's hardworking agents, and in the process he passed on word that his "bionic hips" installed three years ago have left him pain-free for a lot of hiking, climbing, and skiing. Irv regrets missing many recent reunions at which he used to be a regular, but says that his work as a consultant keeps him too frequently on the road during those scheduled conclaves.

Clem Burnap, the peripatetic who never rests, is currently on a special project in Monterrey, Mexico, for Kaiser Aluminum, for whom he serves as special project manager for the reduction plant engineering division.

The class of 1939 has recently acquired a new seal, designed by Dick Brooks with a large assist from Lou Highmark, who came up with the Latin motto. According to Lou (and who is more likely to know?) a free translation suggests that it says, "Always a close-knit group wherever we may roam (or wander)." You can't say it better.

We have been holding a few business cards collected from our swing through Virginia last fall. One was presented to us by Al Loberg, who heads up Alden Associates, specialists in business mergers in Neavitt, Md. Another features Bert MacMannis' latest connection, which is "Robertsco of Connecticut," a whollyowned company operated out of his home in Darien, makers of fine television programming. His product earns top ratings on the PBS circuit. A third is the La Fayette Travel Agency, the product of Roy White's wife Millie, who does business in Lexington, Ky. Roy is, we understand, a sometime helper. Seen in the local Darien press, another picture of JunieMerriam, this one billing him as a re-elected treasurer of the Darien Library. He looks as young and rugged as ever, and we'd like his secret.

Yvonne Goldstein, widow of the late MaxGoldstein, has remarried to Miash Neiditz, and they reside at 345 Auburn Rd., West Hartford, Conn. 06119.

Bill Buge has moved out of Illinois to 1013 Bloomington Dr., St. George, Utah 84770. Royal Hassrick, long the rancher from the open plains of the West, now resides at Rt, #1, Upper Dummerston Rd., Brattleboro, Vt., almost back to the womb. Bill Guilfoil is doing his doctoring in the V.A. hospital, Spokane, Wash. 99208, all the way from Huntington, W.Va., which was his last known address. Don Lawder moved from New Jersey to 186 Bergen St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217. And finally, John Lee left Tempe, Ariz., for Apartado 5-188, Guadalajara Jal, Mexico.

Jack Renchard (right) and some of his friends and relations recently took a Dartmouth Alumni College Abroad junket through the Adriatic and the Aegean Seas.

Robert Jacobson '39 recently received theNational Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

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