1942

Your class officers and executive committee, including in all Messrs. Rugen,Encherman, Britton, Arico, Burns, Weinberg, Russell, Bond, Hartranft, Corwith,Buckelew, Caproni, Stambaugh, Kirk,Higgins, Allison, Kreter, and your secretary, met October 11 as part of the autumnal "mini-reunion" to see how the class has fared over the last six months and to set course for the next six.

The most important contribution was made by treasurer Caproni, who gave out an income statement which proved that the last dues increase had returned the class to solvency. Encherman and Kirk, who put' the reunion together, had added a Saturday night class dinner at the Norwich Inn to the regular Friday night affair. They were proud to announce that the second get-together drew better than the first. One might guess that the Saturday night experiment will become a permanent fixture of future mini-reunions.

Charlie Weinberg reported that the class alumni effort had fallen short of the $100,000 target and wondered if retirement of so many of us was the cause. Regardless, Charles threatened, "This year's goal remains the same." The subject of our next legitimate reunion, the 45th, which will occur in 1988, came up. We'll need a reunion chairman and a gift-giving chairman for that effort. We also will need a nominating committee and a slate of new officers between now and then. If you have any ideas, forward them to President Dick Rugen or your secretary in care of the Blunt Alumni office in Hanover.

Among the"new faces" at this fall's mini was Bob Brower, newly retired from a career in selling. He sold for Union Camp for 17 years. Before that it was Owens Corning Fiberglass. Bob now lives in Richmond, Va., and plays golf "five days a week." Army Stambaugh retired from Howard Johnson but couldn't stay out of the kitchen. He now owns two restaurants

in the Boston suburbs and works seven days a week on computers to keep everything straight. His wife, Rickie, is busy in suburban real estate.

Bill Russell lives in Bradenton, Fla., and has used his retirement hours to become a Life Master bridge player. His deep tan bespeaks of tennis four times a week and many hours on his bicycle on which he does the family shopping. Wife Nan gleefully reports that he's also good at cooking and cleaning. Seen at the football game among others were Herb Swain and Proc Paige. The latter reported that he was selling his printing business and heading for retirement, although he would continue as an active member of his bank board. Art Cox made The NewYork Times again with a comment on the Reagan-Gorbachov summit meeting. Art directs a project on requirements for United States-Soviet coexistence as being sponsored by the American Committee on East-West Accord, a public-policy organization.

The class has been notified of the loss of two members in recent weeks: LouieC. Cargile Jr. of Texarkana, Tex., and Frank Malavasic Jr. of Pompano Beach, Fla. Appropriate obituaries will appear in subsequent issues of the magazine. Mean while the class sends its sympathy to the survivors.

The next mini-reunion will be October 24, 1986. Don't miss it.

Classmates Bob Frondorf, left, and Nels Nelson, center, joined John Bowers '41, right, athis home on Walloon Lake, Mich., for a summer mini-reunion.

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