1943

Plans for the class's 45th reunion in Hanover next June 13-16 are rounding into shape. Chairman George Graham reports the good news that Doc Fielding tentatively has agreed to make a stage presentation similar to the one that was the highlight of our 40th reunion in 1983.

George also reports that Bodie Mosenthal and Dr. Bob Liming have agreed to handle meals for the reunion. The meals will include at least two cookouts, one at Storrs Pond and the other at the Bema, and a big class dinner at the Hanover Inn dining room.

George also has lined up the three new dormitories across from Alumni Gymnasium Morton, Andres, and Zimmerman (built by Phil Jackson, of course) as headquarters for the reunion. The dormitories are air conditioned.

Incidentally, Eddie O'Brien reports that Doc Fielding is increasingly active on the theatrical circuit. He's now doing voiceover narrations and has a lead part in the play The Odd Couple this fall in Milton, Mass.

Eddie passes along the news that he's now living in Providence, R.I., and is associated with a firm that does specialized writing and drafts resumes for job-hunters.

Dr. George H. "Skag" Burke retired September 30 as chief of radiology at Franciscan Hospital in Rock Island, III., and he and Ethel have moved to Caswell Beach, N.C. Scag also gave up his post as president of the Illinois Radiological Society. The Burkes searched up and down the eastern seaboard for four years before deciding to settle at Gaswell Beach, just south of Wilmington.

George Mason reported to subscribers of his Costa Rica Report that he underwent intestinal surgery in July and is now recovering. Another Costa Rica enthusiast is Al"Ducky" Drake who wrote me a nice note in April that I just unearthed from a giant mound of paper on my desk. Ducky says he's been to Costa Rica three times and that it's "a beautiful country (with) friendly, intelligent people and some great opportunities."

Charlie Cusack writes from Sunriver, Ore., that he and Con Young got together during the summer with Wayne Eves '44 and their three wives. Charlie says he and Barbara plan a three-week trip to Florida in January and hope to see Hex Harrigan, BobGrant, and the Youngs at Con and Miv's winter home in Marco Island, Fla.

Marie and Bob Andree have bought a winter place at Palm City, Fla., and expect to go down there next month. Bob underwent three heart operations last year and has turned his Ithaca, N.Y., oil business over to son Bob.

A couple of classmates with similar last names met during the summer in Maine. Jack Walton of Louisville, Ky., who owns a summer place at Boothbay. Harbor, got together with H. Bailey Walten of Baltimore, a '42 who switched to our class, and also is a Maine summer resident.

Nora and George Graham spent two weeks in the Soviet Union the latter part of August. George reports the trip was "strenuous," and that the Soviets astounded him by not pawing through his luggage on arrival.

Sad to report the death on August 23 of C. Walter Howe, an emeritus professor at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md., of cardiac arrest. He leaves four grown children. An obituary appears in the back.

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