1936

It took 50 years of "Survival With Class" and at least three years of steady, studied, and feverish planning to assure that our '36 50th reunion would be the complete success it was, so it is entirely reasonable to expect reports of one sort or the other to pop up continually for some time. You all should have received by now the reunion supplement to "The Book." (Hopefully you unfortunate classmates who were unable to join us in our June Jubilee have acceded to A 1 Gibney's "offer to accept any donations" towards the cost of their book and supplement. This publication, which includes the Eddie Chamberlain speech, Paul Guibord's dedication remarks, Jim Lancaster's tribu te, many lists, many acknowledgements, and many pictures, is a refreshing bit of nostalgia, even if it does pertain to so recent an event.

In his final report of the '36 50th our re- union chairman, A 1 Gibney, went into great detail discussing the early years preplanning, the final planning action the year immediately preceding reunion, the seven days of actual reunion activities from Hanover through Spalding, and the months following. It is masterfully con- trived and can serve as a great guide to future 50ths (classes of 1939-1942, please note). Throughout the entire report it was ever apparent that much of the success of the whole operation was substantially the thorough performance to the last detail of each and every committee, working along and/or in concert with each other. Thank you, committee people, all.

We hope the duties as ringmaster in the reunion tent were not too strenuous for Paul Lynch. Paul complained at the time of numb fingers from too much piano playing, but after he got home he found an unfriendly tumor dictated radiation treatments, which have kept him close to home. But before he left the Hanover scene, he negotiated with the class of 1951 for one-half the cost of the tent decorations. Nice going, Paul, and best wishes for the return of robust good health.

Joe Millimet, to rest up after his command performance at the reunion seminar, took a small jaunt up to the glacier country in Alaska, but his seminar mentor, Clay Mellor, went the other way when he and Helen joined the Alumni Association caravan on a tour of the tourist-approved areas in and/or around Moscow. Clay is happy to be back in the States and eager to assume his new duties as head agent.

Hanover this summer was not free of the '36 influence. Jane and John Bowker, who were unable to break away from Naples, Fla., for the actual reunion, dropped into town to see how well it survived our 50th. Jack and Margie Trevlon and Willand Barbara Lee joined a large gallery of spectators at the Classic Golf Tourney at the Hanover Country Club. The Alumni College in August, an increasingly popular venture for alumni to reclaim a bit oCollege living, included in their 1986 roster Dick Allen and his wife, Charles Corwin, George and Nancy McCleary, DodieTaylor (Mrs. Richard H.) and Bob andTanna Fernald.

While many of us are engaged in vigorous thoughts on retirement and how to handle it Frank Kappler, having just put the Life anniversary book to bed, found it difficult to adjust to a life of leisure, so now has gone back on the payroll of Time Inc., working on a new publication of all things LEISURE.

We are sorry to report on the death September 6 of Eloise B. Gibney in East Longmeadow, Mass. June and I had dinner last April with the Gibney's in Stuart, Fla., and it was apparent then that her health was precarious. She was unable to take the fast pace of the 50th, but she spent long hours in her garden, the flowers from which were a colorful tribute at the service to a life of love for nice things. To A 1 and their three children, the class of '36 sends deepest and most sincere sympathy.

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