1944
Nice things regularly happen to class secretaries. Last June, for example, we dined and wined with Bob and Louise Petersen, at the Hanover Inn, the first time we'd seen Pete in almost 45 years. He is' the senior member of the South Coast Radiological Medical Group, located in South Laguna, Calif., a post he's held since 1957, and he's still going strong. "There is something new and exciting going on in radiology every day, and I'm forever studying and learning."
Incidentally, Pete came to Dartmouth from East High School in Denver, as one of six freshmen who made the long trek to Hanover that year. The other five were Spence Baird, Frank Ebaugh, George Kent,John McAllister, and Walt Olin. A sexy set of sextuplets if there ever was one.
And then, George and Nancy Troxell trekked north to get away from New Orleans summer heat and they gave us a month of July summer pleasure as occupants of our log cabin in Cornish Flat. Lots of lolling and ponding, reading and golfing, in true vacation style. En route they visited with med school doctors George III in Durham, N.H., and Jeff, who is interning in Salt Lake City.
And not leastly, we were among the 35 recipients of Stan Barr's third annual lobster feed at Pierce's Inn outside Hanover. WinMartin listed all the happy slurpers in his July newsletter.
Not so happy last April was Ray Zrike, who made the front page of The New YorkTimes under the headline, "Frequent Flyers Crying Foul as Airlines Change the Rules." The story said: "For the past seven years Raymond W. Zrike went out of his way to fly Trans World Airlines, and last month it was about to pay off: he passed the 90,000- mile mark, enough to get two free first-class round-trip tickets to Europe. That is, until TWA notified him it had raised the requirement for that award in its 'frequent flyer' program to 110,000 miles, effective April Fool's Day."
"Some joke," said an angry Ray Zrike, and his ire was picked up by ABC-TV, NBCTV, CBS radio as well as the InternationalHerald Tribune and Time magazine, "As a result of the article," said Ray, "I received letters from friends whom I haven't heard from in years, including a classmate in the 5th grade in grammar school and TomStreeter, Dick Tarlow, and Don Bumham."
We had a warm call from Bill Reinman, Youngstown, Ohio, who has been fighting a heart problem for the past 15 years, mostly from a wheelchair. "I'm rolling along," he said, "buoyed, of course, by my wife and four kids and their families."
A letter from Frank Parker: "We had a visit at our winter home in Key Largo, Fla., from my old roommate, Dr. Paul Livingston. He recently retired from the Veterans Administration in California, where he had been a chief urologist. With Frank was his new wife, Betty, who is a retired V.A. nurse.
From a local Boston newspaper: "Former state senator Stanley J. Zarod of Indian Orchard has been named Polish Elk of the Year and will be honored by the Springfield Lodge of Elks May 13. Stanley's father, John, was honored in the same manner in 1967, marking the first time in the lodge's history that father and son have been so saluted."
Present at Roy Alworth's funeral in March were Ralph Bogan and Don Donahue, who flew up to Duluth from Chicago.
From Budge Griffin, Milford, N.J., former navy pilot and longtime administrator with Union Carbide: "I was saddened to hear of the death of Roy Al worth. He and I were roommates our freshman year in New Hampshire Hall and we later lived on West Wheelock with Ray Hensler and TomMiner. I saw Roy during my business career as our Linde Division produced jet piercing machines used by the Alworth mining companies on the Mesabi Range.
"I'm keeping busy flying the country for free on a 'Space A' basis: C-9s, C-12s, Hercules, Globemasters, P-3s, and even one trip on a Saberjet from Moffett to North Island."
Not nice news from Ormond, Fla., where Bob Eshbaugh's wife, Kitty, died May 19. Our sympathies. That's it. Blessings.
Lovejoy Hill Cornish Flat, NH 03746
