1934

We have passed through another winter—not as cold as our senior year. Did you recall that one was the second-coldest in 50 years? Nowadays '34s shift locales whenever cold winds arrive. Retired now from bookkeeping and accounting William Hackley and wife Adeline juggle their mail between Portland, Ore., and Mesa, Ariz., with family Christmas in Huntington Beach, Calif. Marty and BettyJohnston give equal time (minus one day) to Napa, Calif., and Lake Tahoe, Nev. He is still active in the investment field, when not playing tennis or duck hunting.

Sol Jacobson likes retirement from the chores of a theatrical press agent. Their problem now is deciding whether to bunk down in family homes in the and Key West, or settle down in New Hope, Pa., or their Manhattan base.

Bill Barnet is still active in his textile business, but his center of operations shifted to Spartanburg, S.C., so there's extra travel now. That must have warmed him up, so he agreed with Mary to go all the way to Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It was a cultural awakening. They saw Sigrid Raphael in California en route.

Jim Ballard has been retired from Diebold for some time, and now from his post as professor of marketing at Western Carolina U. Now it's a retirement center he and Lucille like very much in Black Mountain, N.C. He's handled a walking problem very well and there's lots to do.

Dr. John Wholey, retired in Holmes Beach, Fla., finds time to play piano with local dance combos on occasion, a pleasant reminder of his freshman year as our Com mons pianist and the six he spent as a musician before medicine took over.

Roger Manternach, still in the Hartford area after a career in photo-engraving and commercial art, has shifted into real estate management and set up a woodworking shop in Simsbury. Another '34 still active in real estate is Walter Welch, in his hometown of Evanston, Ill., probably glad this winter he was not back on air force duty in Alaska even though cross-country skiing is a favorite. Bob Foster also has had real estate, along with insurance, as his vocation, but he's retired now to tennis and family watching in the Concord, N.H., area.

Surprising word from Riette Kahn. Al's book "The Matusow Affair," published posthumously, won the Boston Globe Literary Press Competition for non-fiction in 1988! She promises we'll see a copy on the table of 1934-authored books at Reunion.

And that of course leads me to remind you that June 12-14 should be on your calendar.

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"The Good Class"'34 UP and coming... to the 55th!JUNE 12, 13 & 14, 1989