1949

68 Country Club Drive San Francisco, CA 94132

This month's column should be entitled "From the Sublime to the Ridiculous."

He's a key cog who keeps the College ticking. He's an habitue of Blunt Alumni Center, where he deals with a myriad of Alumni Fund responsibilities. He's SamSmith, who with his wife, Barbara, are the parents of six children, Catherine, Cynthia, Tamara, Dawn, Jeffrey, and Karen. Equally as important, Sam and Barbara have a new granddaughter, Alaina Jaye Smith, born last year to daughter Catherine, a 1976 graduate of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and Andrew J. Smith, a member of the class of 1975 at the College. (Apparently Smiths stick together.) Sam and Barbara visited granddaughter Alaina, Catherine, and Andrew in Spokane, Wash., last July. Sam reports that Carl Granger, who is practicing rehabilitation medicine at Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., has recently published a new book on his specialty.

An allegedly scurrilous Christmas greeting card has apparently been distributed by our classmate, Gunther Perdue, the Canestoga, N.Y., onion rancher. It depicts classmate Jay Urstadt in a naughty but nice pose. Jay asks that the record be clarified for those classmates who received the revelatory holiday greeting. Urstadt represents that one night in 1951, Tom Swartz and he, then in their final year at Tuck School, returned to Chase Hall from White River Junction where they had been "collecting data on the effects of alcohol on female farm workers." An explosion was heard. Upon rushing to the lavoratory across the hall, they discovered the facilities had been demolished, with porcelain spread "all over the place." An accident had occurred: someone had ignited a cherry bomb and attempted to extinguish the fuse in the facility. The explosion damaged one of American Standard's best known products. As Tom prepared to photograph the calamity for the Building and Grounds people, Jay bent down for a closer look. Suddenly, his belt broke and at that very moment Tom snapped the shutter. Urstadt claims that the picture was forgotten by our class jester. Apparently, that goniff had access to our class records, and with the aid of a few others sent hundreds of the reproductions on greeting cards to classmates. Jay asks forgiveness (it was Gunther "Perpetrator" Perdue who did this) and promises he will deal with the responsible criminals accordingly. If you wish more details (who would!), write him.

Dick Snedeker is a dentist, practicing in White Plains, N.Y. Anne and he have three children, including two daughters who graduated from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts, respectively.