1945

Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia, N.H.: A person purporting to be (and even confirmed as) secretary of the class of 1945 lies abed here with a broken leg in a plaster cast. Hospital officials would say only that operational procedures were routine and the secretary was resting comfortably. A voice in the background, however, was heard to moan, "Don't believe it." A spokeswoman close to the secretary stated that he was a victim of the "zigged-when-should-have-zagged" disease or what is perhaps more commonly known as the "fell-down-the-back steps" syndrome. She went on to say that only in very rare cases does this result in any permanent mental impairment.

Shortly after the accident, however, the secretary's office was the scene of a sophisticated, covert operation. Local and state police were baffled by the fact that the only missing items were papers reporting doings of 1945 classmates. The F.8.1, was requested to enter the case.

A couple of items were recovered through the ingenious use of red dye in the packet. They have been forwarded to the D.A.M. staff, whose analysis follows:

Robert B. Cate, a staff scientist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, was recently awarded the Lockheed Corporation's highest award for technical excellence, the Robert E. Gross Award. A specialist in automated crop inventory systems, Bob has been employed by Lockheed Engineering and Management Services Company in Houston since 1977. Previously, he served the Department of State as vice consul in India and Brazil, the National Security Council, the United Nations in British Guiana, and as regional director of the Latin American Soils Project for the University of North Carolina. Bob earned his master's in 1960 and his Ph.D. in 1971 from North Caro- lina State. A native of Manchester, N.H., Bob now lives with his wife Katharine in Nassau Bay, Tex.

The only other piece of news this month conies from Fred Chamberlin, who reports that he and his wife Peggy were in Hanover last October. (He notes that he was born in Hanover and lived there for 19 years.) "Picked up an alumni directory," he writes, "visited a few old friends, and really enjoyed the fall foliage throughout New England all a part of our three-month vacation from our regular positions here in the San Francisco Bay region."

Hope you all have a good summer; see you again in this space in the fall.

Robert B. Cate '45, recent recipient of a scientific award, is one of the classmates highlightedin this month's 1945 class notes column.

Robert M.Schaeberle'45,left, chairman and chief executive officer'of Nabisco Brands Inc.,received Pace University's 21st Leaders in Management Award and an honorary doctor ofcommercial science degree at a dinner held in New York in April. Schaeberle, also an alumnus ofPace, is pictured with Pace President Edward Mortola and is holding an engraved Steuben bowlpresented to him.

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