1944
Right off the bat, a splendid letter from Tommy Douglas.
"I'm now retired. Thought I'd go stark raving mad, but find it's not too bad as long as there are projects around the house. It just takes all day for what used to be an hour's work . . .
"Seems a million years ago since Chapel Hill and those great Naval cadet days. Then again, it was only yesterday. But then I look at the body and it sure as hell isn't the same, and nor can it do the same things.
"Sue and I plan on coming back for Sue's 40th reunion at Colby this June. That should get us in shape for our 40th in 1984.
"Recently spent a week vacationing in the Bahamas with Bob and Bea Harris. Bob is a tiger on the tennis courts, but I have to report that the girls beat the devil out of us in bridge..
"I see Dan Donahue once in a while between his busy days and travels as president of Gordon Jackson and the various boards he serves on. Dan tells me that Ralph Bogan was recently made chairman of the board of National Security Bank of Chicago.
"Sue gave me a home computer for Christmas and I'm still playing with it. My typing speed is now three words per hour, so I'm a slow study."
Hardwick Caldwell, semi-retired or whatever you are when you keep an office and a phone number at a bank in Chattanooga, has also been remembering Navy Air Corps days. He wrote to Williams College where a lot of the old Whitey Fuller V-5ers snapped their first salutes, and a Williams archivist produced a full roster of the Dartmouth Company B. Names, ranks, and serial numbers provided upon request.
Then, not to forget old Navy Air Corps hawk Bill McElnea, he's back up in the blue again. He retired from Caesar's World last year and is now a partner in a new airline venture called Firstair. It is scheduled to begin operations this spring with daily luxury flights between New York and Los Angeles and New York and Miami. Only 20 to 30 passengers per refurbished Boeing 727 in a living-room atmosphere for eating and such personal services as telephones, hair stylists, secretaries, and conference rooms for in-flight meetings. Most appealing of ail is no airport waiting rooms: You get limousine service right to the plane steps.
You can go home again with the John Furfeys and George Perts, according to a note from Trudy Pert, who reported on a wedding. "Our son, Dr. James Pert, married Donna Hills in Middletown, Conn., and in the wedding party were John Furfey, Jim Pert '46, John Barker '46, and George Pert '44. George and John were roommates, as were John Barker and Jim." Got it?
We don't have too many details because it's an event still to come at this writing, but certainly half of New England will be turning out for the April 27 testimonial dinner for Melrose High School hockey coach Henry "Snook" Hughes, who is retiring after 35 years as Melrose coach. His teams have won two eastern Massachusetts and three New England championships.
Rob Riebow provides an update. He is still with Corn Products Company selling to commissaries and exchanges all over the world. He and second wife Joan are looking forward to retirement in late 1985, after which "we will hastily beat our way to the sun belt never to return to good old metropolitan New York, never again to see another snowflake, never again to spin wheels in ice and slush. We're going to Florida." Where they'll be playing golf— Rieb would rather slice a golf ball than a filet mignon.
Rob's son, Rob '76, is a first lieutenant in the Air Force, flying twin-engine jets out of Chandler, Ariz., and daughters Nancy and Linda are married and living in Rochester and Atlanta.
Leonard Rieser is on a year's sabbatical, and he and Rosemary were last heard from at Stanford and heading west. When he returns, Leonard will need an over-sized name badge to carry all his titles: provost and dean of the faculty emeritus, Sherman Fairchild Professor of the natural sciences, and director of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding. Try getting all that on one lapel!
Speaking of lapels, we want to put a nametag on every one of your lapels come June, 11-13. 1984, the date of our 40th reunion in Hanover. So's you'll know whom to thank for the time of your lives, here's our reunion committee: Bill Hale, chairman; Russ Burdge and Tom Miner, reunion activities; Penn Frost and Phil Penberthy, attendance; Fritz Hier, class publication; Bill Craig, reunion fund drive chairman: and Dave Eckels, treasurer.
That's it. Blessings.
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