1952

Charlie Blakemore was at the Yale weekend in Hanover and the Columbia festivities in New York, both of which we missed, and provides the following report. Bill Breed's Model A truck led the '52s in the Friday night parade followed by a small gathering in Blunt Alumni Center to view the bonfire. Thanks to Frank Logan for the Blunt picture window arrangement. The disappointing Yale game was followed by a large '52 dinner at the DOC Outing House, which Dickand Caroline McDonough organized. Coach Buddy Teevens '79 was a bit down after the Yale game, but did stop by briefly to chat with his dad's classmates about his confidence in the future. The Friday night gathering before the Columbia game enjoyed a reception for President Freedman and dinner dance at the New York Public Library's Main Branch. Class members at the Yale weekend—all twos except HerbDrury—Ackers, Braces, Breeds, Daniels,Davidsons, Fiertzs, Guilds, Heaths, Jankowichs, Logans, Montgomerys, McDonalds, McDonoughs, Norths, Parkhursts, Russells, Squires, Weidmans. GailSanderson also turned up. She has recently converted the Stonecrest Farm in Wilder, Vt„ into a bed and breakfast. Apparently, she's not too interested in '52 business because the rooms have twin beds.

Seen in New York were Harvey Kelley, the McSpaddens, Mandels, Romans, Rosenwalds, Watts. Somehow Harvey arranged a few refrains of the alma mater of Manchester Central High for President Freedman and him. The game was too close and a scary win.

My last game was Brown in Hanover. Remember two things about the contest. First, a left hander quarterbacked the whole game. No Harry Agganis yet, but he's only a sophomore and shows some promise of better things to come. The other thing was the ridiculous experience of being prevented (by a color-coded gatepass system) from crossing from the visitor to home side at halftime. What a way to kill the fly on the elephant's back (freshman halftime antics)! Athletic department take note!

Harry Goldsmith and George Hibben informed me simultaneously of Al Reich's visit last summer with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The photograph shows Gay and Al with the Pope. According to the literature which accompanied those communications and the material sent by the National Organization On Disability (NOD), Al Reich, who is president of NOD, made the trip to enlist His Holiness in speaking out on the goals of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons by issuing an encyclical on "mankind and disability."

I have the sad duty to report the recent deaths of Jose Baroso (Sylvania, Ohio) and Al Baxter (Princeton, N.J.). More about these passings in a later issue.

I have a healthy backlog of other classmate news for the next issue, but thought I'd pass on a new "early retirement" twist. My own experiment with ET is over and I have agreed to stay on to my normal date in 1991 with a new agenda of responsibilities at Price Waterhouse's national office in Manhattan. Edythe and I are excited about the move to the Big Apple in the spring of 1988.

Support for the disabled. Last summer Al Reich '52, president of the National Organization on Disability—with his wife, Gay—urged Pope John Paul II to speak out on "mankind and disability."

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