1930

Greetings! These words come to you as they were written on a rainy, foggy day in late August on the Maine coast. We can only hope that the presses will have squeezed out all the moisture!

From a phone call we know that farther down the coast, at Squirrel Island, Randy and DotFawcett are with their son Dick and family at this time. We have had very pleasant contacts with the Fawcetts over the years; Dick used to fly-fish on our brook in Reading, Vt., when he was at Dartmouth, and his wife had been counselor for our daughter, Marti, at a summer camp.

In a book published by the Brown AlumniMonthly under the title of Gentlemen Under theElms, a review of several outstanding retired Brown professors, we find tribute paid our own Dick Parker. It is said of him that "only he drew smiles from the provost at budget time," apparently referring to his chair in Egyptology.

At its 25th annual clinical conference in June, the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society made a special award to acknowledge "with grateful appreciation the creative and nourishing role of its founder, Donald Shaskan, M.D." Sincere congratulations!

In earlier issues we may have confused you as to who and where Jean (Jaspersen) Batdorf is. She is alive and well and very happy at 1545 Warner Road, Meadowbrook, Pa. 19046, telephone 215/884-0969. Mrs. Harry A. Perkins Jr. is now located at 435 Freeway Drive, Napa, Calif. 94558, telephone 707/224-3485. We are sorry to report the death of Oliver Lilley's widow in Sarasota.

In case you don't look in the "Give a Rouse" column of this magazine automatically, you might want to note in this or the next issue a recent honor for Bob McClory.

The obituary column this month contains a tribute to Herm Schneebeli by Bob McClory. Herm suffered a heart attack at the Scheie Eye Institute, where he was waiting for his wife who was undergoing eye surgery. He died later in the day at the nearby Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.

Herm came from Lancaster, Pa., and prepared at Mercersburg Academy, where he was an honor graduate.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key, and Casque and Gauntlet. He was manager of the football team, vice president of the class in our junior year, and a member of Round Robin, D.C.A.C., and Theta Delta Chi. He received his M.B.A. from Tuck in 1931.

Leaving Tuck, he joined Gulf Oil and ultimately purchased a distributorship in Williamsport, where he and his family resided the balance of his life. Over the years he served his community well, taking positions of leadership responsibility in major fund drives, the local bank and hospital, the Y.W.C.A., the local chamber of commerce, Lycoming College, and, particularly, his church.

He also served his country well, as a captain in the Ordnance Department during World War II and as a representative of the 17 th Pennsylvania district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1960 to 1977. He served on a variety of House committees and at retirement was the ranking Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee. At the time of his death, several Representatives paid sincere tribute to him, including Allen E. Ertel '58, Herm's successor in the House. Also, Vice President Bush wrote, "I really loved the guy and respected him as well. Herm taught me a lot he was my senior, by far, on the Ways and Means Committee, but he always had time to lend a helping hand, to help me learn. He was a caring individual, a man whose friendships were strong and firm, a class guy all the way around."

Herm leaves his wife Mary Lou, two daughters, and five grandchildren. The class appreciates the extent of their loss.

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