1939

Since our last we have lost Roy Demmon and Mike Daley, Roy passing on December 15 and Mike on January 13. We are beholden to Roy's ex-roomie, Jim Donovan, for advising us of Roy's death and to Key Blatchford, who lives not far from Roy in Northfield, 111., for some of the details. A1 Ley, a childhood chum, sent us the sad news on Mike and mentioned that he had attended the funeral services in Longmeadow, Mass. (Obits will appear in either this issue or one following.)

There is hardly anything that one can salvage from such sad news, but it is a consolation of sorts that it gave us the opportunity to talk with both Key and Al on Ma Bell's instrument. Both are well and active. Key hopes to be on hand for the 45th; Al is still fighting a question mark on the subject.

We had a nice note from Kay Haverfield, thanking us for our letter on Jack's passing and recounting the fact that she visited her sister in Pittsburgh recently, was then going on to visit friends in Florida, and had scheduled a trip to St. Croix in March. She passed on her appreciation for the many letters that she has received from '39ers.

From Clem Burnap, we quote from a note detailing his latest: "For the past two years I have been in charge of business development for two consulting engineering companies, a general civil and a structural engineering firm designing tanker and coal terminals and offshore platforms Russell Associates. Seeking a design build capability, I have secured a position as corporate manager of marketing services for Dillingham Construction, who has divisions doing heavy construction (tunnels, dams, docks); industrial (building oil field modules, treatment plants, large pump stations); commercial (hospitals, large highrise buildings, and hotels); and international (presently active in Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Turkey)." But he adds that he and Elinore hope to see most of their friends back East at reunion.

In mid-January, George Hanna was nurs- ing one of those pesky flu bugs and used the inactive period to read up on a few back "New Hampshire Law Weeklies." In the pro- cess he discovered a picture of Stan Brown seated before his associates of the firm of Brown and Nixon, looking the part of the old legal curmudgeon that he obviously must be. Also pictured was Jean Upton, wife of attor- ney Fred Upton, caught in the process of pre- senting a brass rendering of the Scales of Justice to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. No mention as to why Fred didn't put in an appearance. We have to assume that George has long since shucked the bug and is rolling along on all cylinders by now.

A few weeks ago we received a copy of a February 1983 Boston Globe article entitled "The Great Glovskys," and featuring a picture of seven of this distinguished legal clan with our Henry Glovsky looking full of wisdom in the lower left-hand corner. The article suggests that Glovskys have become lawyers since Henry's father Abe passed the bar in 1917. Most have passed four years on the Hanover Plain as preparation for their careers. It has possibly been unreported by these columns over the years, but let it now be known that Henry served in the sixties as a state senator and was pushed for attorney general under Governor John Volpe, a temptation that he eschewed.

Dick Baldauf and wife Sue can be found these days either at 143 Beebe Acres Road, Falmouth, MA 12540, or 52 Pearl Street, Englewood, Fla. Dick's son is a doctor, and his two daughters are married. Among them they have presented Dick and Sue with six grandchildren, at the latest count. Dick was last employed with the Hartford Insurance Group and now spends extensive time and care on maintaining his property. For hobbies he sports some unusual pursuits, woodburning, carving, and related work, along with genealogy.

Phil Beaulieu has retired from teaching for the town of Halifax, Mass., and declares his new avocation is "traveling." He and wife Robbie have had five children between them, three of Phil's, and if my counting is correct, they share some 15 grandchildren. Phil admits that he does a lot of general repair work around the home, which is commendable indeed. For exercise he prefers the locomotive activities of walking and swimming.

We close with an encouragement. Sign up now for the big 45th if you haven't already; send in your reunion-year gift to the Alumni Fund; and drop us a note with your latest news. We've hit bottom.

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We're 45 in '85 June 10-12, 1985