1942

The class has lost four good men since the last writing of this column: Mat Beecher, Ira Berman, Harry Bond, and Ed Milliken. Bob Kirk will write proper obituaries to appear in this or a subsequent issue of this magazine. Alex Fanelli, EdHawkridge, Dave Heald, Bob Kirk, BobSearles and your secretary attended the memorial service for Harry held in one of the Hanover locales he liked best,, the Sanborn House library.

The retirement wave continues through our class. Bill Dorrance writes, "I'm probably getting ready to retire next summer, sometime after the fifth of July. We've bought a home in Hendersonville, south of Asheville (the Dorrances now live in Wayne, Pa., where Bill practices medicine). We love the area and are looking forward to it."

Bob Wilson writes, "We have sold our house in North Carolina and are building one in Killingworth. We are temporarily living in a condo in Madison, Conn. During the move I came across some pictures taken by my brother of our graduation in 1942. Typical brother my face does not appear in any of them." Accompanying this column is the one picture where your secretary recognizes the most faces. Did we really look that young?

Bob "Hound Dog" Garwick sent in a great color picture of himself and RogBaker taken in Bob's Houston office. "Roger has been partnering with me in the drilling of some wells here in the Houston area, and while visiting his daughter in Houston he came by to discuss the joint operation." The picture, unfortunately, would not properly reproduce in the magazine, but it showed both men to be in fine fettle with no trace of a grimace because of falling oil prices

Merrill McLane made the front page of the prestigious Wall Street Journal. He is one of the participants in a growing sports phenomenon old-timer hockey. Most of these guys should be watching their hearts and not the puck, but they just don't seem to know how old they are. Consider this clip from the piece: "Altercations, of course, do sometimes erupt. The No-Stars are still talking about last winter's flare-up between Merrill 'Mac' McLane, 68 years old, and a player 25 years his junior. Mild-mannered Mr. McLane, incensed about being swatted in the pants with a stick, was throwing roundhouse rights and lefts until he was subdued by teammates."

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