1942

Charlie Hunt of Atlantic, IA, telephoned to see how your secretary fared in the cross-lowa bike ride (fine) and reported that he is getting along well as a retired corn and cattle farmer. He and his brother used to farm some 4,000 acres of corn and soy beans and ran nearly 3,000 cows as well. Now their sons do the farming and Charlie works on retraining the muscles which suffered from his stroke.

He said that his wife and daughter were in Europe this summer, floating up (or down?) the Danube, while listening to accompanying professors comment on the passing scene. Charlie wishes that any classmates touching down at Des Moines or Omaha would let him know, for it would be no problem for him to come into the airport from Atlantic and meet them. His only recent caller was Ira Berman, who arrived with two live Boston lobsters.

The last time your secretary saw classmate Hugh Corrigan was on the old 20th Century Limited, rocketing up the Hudson River, heading for Chicago. Hugh was in the bar car, returning to duty after resting up (at his home in New York) from the Guadalcanal campaign. He looked just like a Marine Corps poster. And 41 years later, Hugh has borrowed a typewriter and sent the following message: "The article in the June 1983 issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE - "In Ledyard's Wake" by Jean Korelitz '83 – elicited some fond memories of a similar trip made over 40 years ago. During the spring break of 1940 three '42ers Art Huck, Dan Seacord, and yours truly paddied (and portaged) from Hanover to Long Island Sound. There was a fourth member in our party, whose name and class I fail to remember. Aside from nice memories, I dredged up a photo of this trip one Dan Seacord." (The photograph is reproduced for your enjoyment near this column.)

Hugh now lives in Ithaca, NY, but just what he does there remains a mystery. Maybe we'll have more on old pal Corrigan next time.

Yours truly ran into Alex Fanelli at a Hopkins Center water cooler recently. Alex reports that he heats his house there in Hanover with six cords of wood and sunshine using no oil at all. This is something which should be inspected first hand. Alex also reported that he. visited Craig Kuhn in Pittsburgh, where Craig is still busy practicing law and playing vigorous tennis, despite a three-way heart bypass operation a few years ago. Congratulations, Craig.

Phil Moon, a senior vice president of the National Bank of Detroit, has been elected president of the Bankers' Association for Foreign Trade (BAFT). Phil, who joined the bank in 1945, has headed the international division since 1973 and presently is also serving as chairman of the bank's Canadian subsidiary and as president of the bank's Edge Act Corporation. He has been actively involved in the BAFT for many years, serving on various committees and, from 1977 to 1980, as a member of the board of directors and the executive committee.

Harry Jacobs's name has popped up again, this time as chairman of the board of directors of the National Defense University Foundation. This is a tax-exempt charitable and educational organization that provides funds for additional educational activities for personnel attending the National Defense University, located at Fort Lesley J. McNair. The foundation, for example, make available non-appropriated funds to bring foreign scholars and statesmen to the university as visiting lecturers.

Herb Englert has been named president of the Fanny E. Rippel Foundation, a large national health care organization that operates out of Madison, NJ.

A note from Charlie Weinberg's wife Judy came in during the summer, saying that Charlie has had successful surgery and is now nicely on the mend. We are delighted to learn this. Charlie did a heck of a good job on the Alumni Fund for our class and deserves a better reward than time in the hospital.

A card from Gutz Curtis came in, reporting that "our mobile training base is anchored near St. Louis, west of St. Louis proper. I tried to call some of our classmates when I was near a telephone, but most of them were out golfing or something. I did get Ed Spiegel, and he said that he would say 'hi' to the rest of the resident '42s for me."

This month's column ends on a sad note with the announcement of the death of Dutch SchaefFer's wife Ann on June 15 after a long illness. Ann was a dinner companion of ours at the mini-reunion last October and was as charming and courageous as anyone we've ever seen. She deserved better. Our sympathy to Dutch.

A member of the class of '42 recently wrote hisclass secretary with recollect mis of a canoeingexpedition some years ago and enclosed thissnapshot of classmate Dan Seacord from thetrip. Details of the reminiscences are in the1942 column.

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