1942

October 1939. Into our second year we are greeted by the new experience of fraternities and the rush season and 335 of us are pledging to 22 fraternities. On the athletic front the football team went through October with a 4-0-1 record, including a win over Harvard and a scoreless tie with Navy. The soccer team was 2 and 4, while the cross-country harriers won one meet and placed third in a triangle run with Harvard and New Hampshire. October 1939. Fifty years ago.

Request for copies of the class survey results brought telephone calls from JackHarriman in Los Angeles and CharlieBrown in Carlisle, Mass. And a letter from Doug Duffy in Bethesda, Md.

Our erstwhile class president of Peanuts fame reported that he is now retired, but severe arthritis has kept him from his golf game which he had played so well for so long.

Doug Duffy wrote that a New England trip planned for June had to be cancelled when a severe windstorm in the Washington area deposited two large trees on his house, causing extensive damage. Doug said he expected to see old roomy Brad Bates this fall. Doug reported that Brad is suffeing the aftermath of brain tumor surgery.

Sid Bull called from the Cape to extend an invitation for Ruth and me to visit. Sid noted that class treasurer Ted Arico and Barbara are frequent visitors to the Cape in their RV. Sid and Dickie are headed for a motor trip through the Far West in September, but expect to be on hand for the mini-reunion in September.

I will be undergoing open heart by-pass surgery in late August. Dick Lippman, who himself got a scare in August from a "coronary incident," will be filling in for me in this space in November.

If the October issue of the Alumni Magazine is out when I think it will be, you'll be reading this before our mini-reunion on Yale weekend (October 13-15). I hope to see a lot of you at our class meeting on Friday afternoon and at the class dinner (with 1941) in Alumni Hall on Friday evening.

Finally, a late report from Hanover brings word that Bob Emerson passed away on August 8 in JFK Hospital in Edison, N.J., after a long illness. The class extends sympathy to Bob's widow, Janet.

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