1942

Your secretary, stuck with a two-day business meeting in New York City, had the good judgment to call class treasurer Leo Caproni and his wife Joanna in advance to suggest dinner. We met in a delightful little restaurant called Wilkinson Seafood at 83rd and York where the fare was excellent and the company even better.

The Capronis had recently celebrated their "115 th" birthday by traveling to Italy on a search for Caproni roots. They found one, one cousin in Tuscany in the hill town area of Italy, north of Rome and south of Bologna. Beautiful country.

Leo, as did many of us, flew in World War II. Unlike the rest of us (your secretary anyway) Leo had an opportunity to "fly" a 747 recently. Actually it was in today's version of the Link trainer, a perfect simulation of the real thing, in which Leo had a chance to do "circuits and bumps," as we in the RAF used to term them. Leo says that the thing is so realistic that you can even hear the tires screech when you touch down. He said he did two circuits, the second one perfect.

Leo is still teaching. Joanna is a VP of Simmons Market Research. For rest and recreation they drive five hours to their home away-from-home in Truro on Cape Cod.

Harry Edgecomb, who used to head Edgecomb Steel, is now a banker, with Chemical, and until recently was in international operations, traveling all over the world. Now he is more domestic. Demonstrating that entrepreneurs come at all ages, Harry is now trying in his spare time to get a new business off the ground, one in international steel purchasing.

His wife Phyllis reports that they Jive in a nice old house in the country with two dogs and three cats. Their oldest child, as with many of us, is now 40, and the grandchildren are pushing up into the teens. Phyllis states that her only problem is a slight feeling of guilt for enjoying her garden, bird watching, and volunteer jobs to the extent that she has no time for a "real job."

Charlie Brown says that he, too, is taking a chance. He has moved from machinery to real estate development. He is developing his area of Massachusetts to meet the needs of the high tech companies which have "made our part of the world so important in recent years." (Charlie's part of the state is the northeast corner).

The way Charlie tells it, he got started in a small way in the Lake Sunapee area. This whetted his appetite for risk, so he bought a hill with fantastic views and started on $32 million worth of top line condominiums. Working with Charlie is his son Peter '75.

A one-liner from the Huntley Allisons announces the marriage of their daughter Perry to Michael Schunk in February. We called Mike De Sherbinin to see how things were going in the fourth estate. We got a house sitter who said, "He's on vacation in California, with his wife, I think."

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