1956
For most of the class, this year or next will be our 50th year. By the time this is printed, 35 classmates will have reached the half-century mark. In this and forthcoming issues, classmates whose birthdays fall in successive months will be saluted. If any of you are trying to hi your age, please advise. A computer in Hanover provided the information.
Eighteen classmates were born prior to 1933- Richard Abelson is a lawyer in Plains, N.Y.; Bruce Benson lives in Washington, D.C.; and Ken Bridge is a national bank examiner working out of Lebanon, N.H. At Rutgers University, Yong Suk Chae is a professor of civil engineering; Irving Clark is in Maineville, Ohio; and Jose Demori is listed as a resident of Venezuela. At last word, Sam fry was in Helsinki as a Foreign Service officer; his Foreign Service colleague, Marion Gribble, was across the Baltic in Copenhagen.
In Belleville, N.J., Dave Haight has clicked by 50. Robert Hall, a psychologist in Sudbury, Mass., has probably analyzed the event. Presumably, Josh Hill, the College editor at Dartmouth, ignored it entirely while do-
ing a crossword puzzle. Peter Huhn celebrated his 50th somewhere in the Pacific (?) with the U.S. Navy, and Bill Lary in Peterborough, N.H. At the Avon Old Farm School in Connecticut, Frank Leavitt probably had trouble with his class on his day.
Other pre-1933 classmates include HaroldMege of Bethesda, Md.; Richard Ruel, a doctor in Livonia, Mich.; Bernt Stigum, a professor at Northwestern; and his brother, Egil Stigum, who sells life insurance in Nashua, N.H. Egil speaks for all with his hope that "we will continue to tackle the world and we will be back together in the year 2006." (We'll be in our early seventies then, by the way.)
Strangely enough, no one in the class was born in January or February of 1933. In March of this year, Dan Hansche celebrated his 50th. He and his wife own a bookstore in Union Lake, Mich. Bill Norton passed the half-century mark in Ithaca, N.Y. At the College of Charleston, S.C., Norm Olsen, an English professor, noted, "Teaching college-aged kids has kept me at least feeling young one of the early symptoms of impending mid-life crisis!" Dave Perry, a TWA pilot was reportedly high on his birthday, perhaps during a tour with Saudi Arabian Airlines in Jeddah. Mark Tobin is with Xerox in Phoenixville, Pa.
In April, Peter Hussey, celebrated his. birthday as executive vice president and general manager of his own manufacturing company in North Berwick, Maine. Jack Robinson, as president of Robinson Reminders in Westfield, Mass., must have written the following on one of his handy-dandy pads: 'I do not contemplate total retirement at any time . . . I'll take on the 50's when they get here."
Five classmates were born in May 1933. Cy Field, at last contact, was a professor of geology at Oregon State. The president of Copper and Brass Sales Inc. in East Detroit, Mich., is Bill Howenstein. Joe Obering lives in Denver and Wes Smith in Sherman, Conn. Steve Swenson in North Conway, N.H., is a school psychologist.
june birthdays were celebrated by Kent Kane, executive vice president of the Backwoods Equipment Company in Colorado Springs.His comment on life in general: "It's a struggle!" In Wellesley Hills, Mass., Art isnearby in for Xerox. Phil Patrick lives ear Marshfield Hills. Bill McNamara quietly in Fort Smith, Ark.
The only July birthday provided by Hanover is for Crighton Hart, who lives in Overland Park, Kans., where he is chairman and director of Alpine Shops Inc. An interesting aspect of his work involves consulting with school dis- tricts on using "outdoor situations for behavior modification."
August will be a busy month for '56 50th birthdays. Peter Fay will celebrate his in Virginia Beach. Len Johnson, as executive vice president of the Teradyne Connection Systems in Nashua, N.H., will build yet another large bodyplane, whatever that is. In Rahway, N.J., Dennis Minely is director of purchasing for Purolator. Down in Lexington, Ky., Jim Molloy will celebrate with a mint julep, no doubt. Down east in Farmington, Maine, CharlesMurray will sell another piece of heavy equipment from his own firm. Robert Rosenbaum will turn 50 in Santa Monica. Those of you who wish to send a card to Hendrik B. Van Rensselaer Jr. should address it as follows: The Yacht N Flute Yacht Yard, Annapolis, Md. It will be forwarded by bottle!
On to September, Bob Brazelton will turn 50 teaching an economics class at the Universi- ty of Missouri in Kansas City, instilling in his students "a pragmatic combination of laissezfaire and savoir faire." Darryl Bridson in Stony Brook, N.Y., and Bill Buchanan .in Delray Beach, Fla., will reach 50. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., Perry Gresh will put together yet another oil and gas exploration syndicate. His thought for the day: "Strive harder to implant the concepts of economic and political freedom the two go hand in hand."
Nine classmates will hit 50 in October 1983. Elliot Danforth will reach the half-cen- tury at the University of Vermont, where he is a professor of medicine. Down river at Windsor, Alex Evarts will pass the day as an attorney. Red Fitzsimmons will turn gray in Dayton, Ohio, where he is a producer for NCR Audio Visual Services. Lloyd Kay, in Fairport, N. Y., and Carl Marshall of Maineville, Ohio, will celebrate quietly. In N.Y.C., Leo McKenna will most likely conclude a multi-million-dol- lar financial deal during the day and hope that the Cleveland Cavaliers win one in honor of his birthday that evening. In Moscow, Vt., DaveStackpole is a lawyer. Howard Webber will celebrate his 50th in Princeton, 111. In Camden, Maine, Russ Brace, Chairman of Abso- lutely Everything, will celebrate his 50th birthday with great dignity, befitting the occa- sion. Russ offers some sage advice in keeping with the day: "Don't look back (it will make you shudder); look ahead. It's got to be that 'older is better.' "
Happy birthday to you all!
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