1942

Dick Deverian wrote in from Florida recently with some football memories. "In the summer of 1935, Red Blaik, accompanied by Dean Neidlinger '23, visited my father. They were on a goodwill tour and were told by my father's classmate, a football great instrumental in getting Blaik to coach at Dartmouth, to have the first drink in Rochester with my father. That was when I met Blaik. My father told him if he beat Yale (remember the famous Yale jinx which lasted 52 years?), he would remember him. Blaik said, "We'll beat 'em," and we did, 14 to 6. First time ever. My father kept his promise. A fine Kerman rug football in tan background in the center, 1935 on top of the ball, and D-14 in green. Blue Y-6. Bottom of ball Indian profile. The whole rug was framed under glass with an inscription, 'My compliments to Coach Blaik of the team.'

"This was in the trophy room at Dartmouth until Blaik went to West Point and took it with him."

In addition to keeping busy playing golf, Dick writes that he has three step-grandsons living with them. "So the three boys are with us. We have kind of mixed emotions. Love them but not easy at our age. But not easy for them either. Thank goodness they are healthy, handsome, talented, bright, and athletic."

Joe Palamountain of Skidmore fame writes as follows: "While once in the dim, dark past I believe I wrote the class column you now grace, if memory me correctly which it does less and less these days this is the first time I have ever written to the class editor.

"When a member of our class writes these days, it tends to be about retirement and health, and alas! I am no exception. This fall the Skidmore board of trustees and I agreed that a presidential tenure of 22 years will be enough, and so midnight of June 30, 1987, will see me dragged, kicking and screaming, from my office. This will leave me with the personal problem of decompression and of finding other uses for my time. Accordingly, I was pleased and flattered to be elected a member of the various boards of directors of the mutual funds comprising the Value Line family.

"In mid-December I was successfully operated on for cancer of the prostate. A part of the procedure called for the permanant implanting of 46 radioactive seeds. While a Geiger counter still chatters alarmingly when pointed at my vitals, and pregnant, women and children are advised to scatter at my approach, the half-life of the implants is nearing, and I do not glow in the dark. I returned to full speed a few weeks later."

Ernie Grinnell called to say that he was two and one-half years into his retirement from being number one on the Frisco and loves it. Golf, when St. Louis weather permits, takes up most of his time, but he does do "good" by serving on the board of the local mental health unit and participating in Bar Association seminars on real estate reassessment, etc.

Much of his time is taken up in refurbishing antique toys, straightening out his checkbook, and doing things his secretary used to do for him. Currently, he's an advisor to the St. Louis group, which is working on plans for a light rail system for the city, starting with old and abandoned rail lines.

Ed Spiegel, the only St. Louisian classmate seen recently by Ernie, is busy well south of the border, playing golf at Del Ray.

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