1962

Indian Hill Road Groton, MA 01450

In the consulting business, July and August are the dog months, when clients are on vacation and fat consulting assignments are few and far between. Your newly installed secretary has also begun to realize that class news also moves pretty slowly during this period, particularly after the very successful 25th reunion and yearbook data dump of June. The lull has given me the chance to read through the 25th year- book more thoroughly, and, as the preface indicates, the time spent has been handsomely repaid. If nothing else, read the three short paragraphs of the "In Memoriam"; it puts these dog days in perspective.

During the next several issues of the '62 class notes, I want to fill you in on the classmates who were not able to meet the year- book deadline. Any information would be more than welcome, either to Tom Komarek or me.

Chuck Allen has been kept busy with his Chicago-based business and family, although probably not in that order. Chuck is president and CEO of the Sloan Valve Company and has been active nationally in the Young Presidents' Organization. I recall activating a Royal Flush valve in the wilds of Bahrain and thinking fondly of my former roommate, Crash Allen. Chuck and his wife Jane (Jim Connaughton's sister) operate out of Kenilworth, Ill., with a contingent gent of three sons: Kirk, 18, at Lawrenceville (N.J.); Jim, 15, a sophomore at New Trier High; and Graham, 13, an eighth grader. While Jane is in the cellular phone business in the Chicago area, Chuck keeps tabs on elderly SAEs such as Cleve Carney and Bill Glenn ('61s) and Barry Mac Lean ('60).

Speaking of Jim Connaughton, he is also in the plumbing business of sorts, as a obgyn physician in Phoenixville, Pa. In addition to his medical practice, Jim raises Leicester sheep, llamas, and Bouvier des Flandres dogs. I gather that the dogs tend the llamas and Jim handles the sheep.

Culver Adams has his own architectural practice in Minneapolis, Adams Group Inc., which specializes in both commercial and residential building projects. His wife Jenny is both office manager and in charge of marketing for the group. Children include Sherry and Mark (both in college), Elizabeth (a high school senior), and Margaret (a junior). Family projects are an elderly—but rehabable—cabin in the lake country and a tree farm (need any Bouviers, Culver?). Culver couldn't make Hanover in June but Ross Kimmerle did bring back several bottles of Fritz's best for the Adams cellars.

Dick Centracchio, who did make it back for the Coors/Heartbreaker thriller, is in the stock and bond market in Washington, D.C. Bellamah Neuhauser Barrett is Dick's corporate shield after having worked for such biggies as IBM and Control Data. Dick's wife Noreen is vp of a government contracts and computer consulting firm. Home is McLean, Va., where Dick tries to keep up with the likes of Bruce Feldman,Al Dynner, and Tom Green. Long distance Centracchio spiritual guidance is regularly meted out to Tom Davies, Tom Ackland, and Marshall Potterton.

Attorney-at-law Arthur W. Hoover (of the Rochester, N.H., Hoovers) informs me that the first of the '62 mini-reunions will be held on October 30-31 in Hanover. That will be the Big Green-Yale weekend, and there's a block of reservations at the Pierce Inn. More about the details in the next newsletter. Keep in touch.