1934

140 North Broadway #F-12 Irvington, NY 10533

Looking back at the Princeton game, we were honored to have 34 on the scoreboard, but it landed on the wrong side. That was the time of our mini, and it was a fine gettogether. You'll know from Bill Scherman who was there—all the regulars including the Gene Orsenigos of course. Nick Nanos was up from Florida, Jack Gilbert without his piano, Jack McCoy back for a second year in a row, Junie Kneisel sitting next to granddaughter '90, Ed Marceau eating apples from his own orchard. Wives were all there. Most had dinner at the Hanover Inn and ended the evening at Ed and BarbaraBrown's where we sang "Happy Birthday" to our youngest classmate, Stan Silverman.

Friday night we had our clambake with the class of 1933. In addition to renewing old associations with those mighty lords, we had magnificent lobsters served to our Smoyer Lounge tables. I showed '33 a printed postcard from that era which starts: "Piddlers of the lowest class, Elfin runts at wisdom's door, Ailing goops with manners crass, Groan before the sophomore!" You'll see the card at next reunion.

Prior to the Hanover reunion, many were at Ascutney Mountain Resort to help plan our 55th. Reunion chairman Bill Wilson covered the general format, and we then discussed the various options and pledged we'd all be there. The gathering was a real winner. Twenty-one members of the executive committee and their wives attended. The newest members, Helen Clark and Molly Heston, were there to help our widow contact. Chairman Moe Frankel pointed out the high spots of 1934's past year in laying tracks to roll smoothly to June 12-14, 1989, the date of our 55th Reunion.

Oscar Gohn was at Ascutney, coming from his Bloomington, I11., home and reminding us that is also where Richard Hovey was born—not Bloomington, lnd., as was reported in an article last year.

Charles and Helen Strauss are happy with their shift to Charlottesville for retirement, but they move around checking out their three sons and have had extended visits to France. Not everyone moves when life requires a change. Bob Korns tells me it's been a long adjustment since losing his wife, but he's staying in his familiar upstate area. Leland Hunt, our only career pastor, has retired officially but still preaches on an interim basis in Connecticut, despite six bypass operations, flying each time to Milwaukee for the surgery.

When I called Howie Rosenblum one day he had to get out of his swimming pool, but wasn't wet—just cleaning the pool. He and Shirley are staying in Westchester where he's still active with his shopping center business, but now getting help from a daughter who he has strategically located in Thetford, Vt., with necessary home equipment to do the jobs.

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