1940

Dear Class:' Let's have a loud welcoming cheer for the cool days and nights of October. Where were you when we needed you back in August? StetWhitcher, who may hold the record for most Alumni College sessions attended, reports on last summer's Alumni College: "As usual, 1940 led all other classes in attendance. We were represented by JoeBurnett, Al Hessler, Rudy and BarbHorky, Doug and Amy Hunter, Walt andPat Kelley, and myself. Howie Zagor was on the list to attend, but I never saw him. Bob and Crosbie MacMillen appeared at some of the coffee breaks and John andCarla Manley dropped in at one of the informal hours before supper. This year's subject was "Leaders, Presidents, and Kings" and we ran that subject of leadership from the primates through the small hunting and gathering societies in the Kra Peninsula to Machiavelli, the Plantagenets in England, the Constitutional Convention in America, De Gaulle's Algerian problems, Kennedy and Johnson with Vietnam, and on up into Reagan's time. To me, the program was excellent all the way. Next year's subject will be China—the old and the new. I urge all of you to take a real vacation and take in an Alumni College! Best regards, Stet." Many thanks for the update, Stet.

Here's a quickie from Larry Cate: "Cruising on the Royal Viking around the British Isles in August. We'll be seeing you at the Davidson game. Genie and I looking forward to 1940's 50th!" Hear hear!

In early August Ben and Gene Bacon headed north, on their way to Maine. They stopped in Southold, L.I., for a visit with Bob and Didi Gensel. That's only an hour away, so Lee and I hopped the cross-Sound Ferry and made it a sixsome. All were in good shape and looking great. Much conversation plus a screening of some of Johnny Willets's movies, circa 1940. There wasn't a dry eye in the house!

Dave and Carol Davenport's son was married this past July, in Darien, Conn. Among the onlookers and well-wishers were Scotty and Loomie Rogers.

Class VP John Moore checked in via phone during July. We traded heat and humidity stories. All were reported well. A recent release from the College announced a conference during August, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. He was one of the founders of a work program aimed at helping farmers, a forerunner of the Peace Corps.

That's all there is for now. If you would like more, simply grasp your pen firmly and write: "Dear Dick . . . "

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