1949

Dividing time between a picturesque home in Brandon, Vt., and operating for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Nashua, N.H., Howard"Pete" Wing responded with gusto to an October 16 telephone call from Hanover where I spent two delicious weeks at the Rockefeller Center for Social Studies. Pete sells life insurance and equities and sounds vigorous and redoubtable. Presently, wife Mary, who has long been active in New Hampshire Republican Party affairs (the Wings have a residence in Nashua), is recovering from September surgery, which keeps them close to Nashua. Two of the children are close at hand: Deborah, the eldest and a graduate of Windham College, lives in Proctor, Vt., with her husband, a pension plan consultant, and their two children; Melissa, who graduated from Green Mountain College in 1973, is married to a building contractor and ensconced in Brandon with one child and another "on the way." The youngest Wing woman, Heather, is a geologist, married to a geologist. Expectedly, both work for oil exploration businesses.

Abe Shalo, noted in our salad days for his unending supply of khaki pants (after all, he served in U.S. Army Intelligence in World War II and you know how

resourceful they had to be), graduated from New York University Law School after Dartmouth and has been a practicing lawyer ever since. Abe holds forth at 370 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, specializing in decedent's estates and real estate. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn (Abe lives but three blocks from where he was

born), he and wife Roxana, have one daughter, Sibyl, who will turn 16 in December. Sibyl attends Midwood High School, which has a long history of scholastic excellence, and is vice president of her class. Abe is active in B'nai B'rith and his synagogue, of which he is a director, and also presides with elan over the Midwood Civic Association.

Doug Thomson is president of Toy Manufacturers of America, the trade association of all U.S. manufacturers and importers of toys and games. His office is in Manhattan, and Betty and he. are domiciled in Woodbury, Conn., where Betty recently retired as regional manager of a large real estate firm. Doug deals with such subjects as tariffs and trade, consumer affairs, product safety, imports and exports, and spends much time in Washington, D.C., as an advocate of Association positions. A 1976 graduate of Hollins College, daughter Brooke is married and living in Hoboken, N.J., with her husband and young daughter. Son Alexander was a member of the varsity crew at Wesleyan, rowing annually against Dartmouth. Having graduated in 1982, he

works for the Old Stone Bank in Providence, R.I.

The sage of Wolfeboro, N.H., is in tall clover. On Route 28 every day but Monday, you'll find open the Parsons Furniture Company with proprietor DougParsons there to greet you. Doug and Grace have four grown children. In order of age, Lynn, a graduate of UNH, teaches grades five and six at a school near Exeter, N.H.; David, married, with a son and daughter, operates his own retail glass products firm near Wolfeboro; Duncan, who attended Colby College and also graduated from UNH, is a librarian at the Boston Public Library and is studying for a master's degree in library science at night at Simmons College; and Andrew, the youngest, after U.S. Air Force service, is working for Doug while preparing to join the New Hampshire State Police.

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