1949

A telephone call to John Sweetland in South Duxbury, Mass., about three months ago produced a recorded message. The voice was female; it recounted the fact that Debbie and John were about to marry. What the hell is going on here, your scribe asked himself? The mystery was unraveled a week later when John caught up with me in Sacramento and revealed that it was not he who was marrying sweet Debbie, but his son John. In any event, son John married Debbie last January, and father and son have opened a health consulting business in Boston.

John and Joan reside also in Longboat Key, Fla., which is near Sarasota, and John is occupied with health consultation services throughout the United States. Their daughter Karen is a member of the administrative staff of the new family business and elder son Jeffrey is employed by Texas Instruments in Austin.

A highlight of John's career is the teaching of problem solving and decision making in the Graduate School of Hospital Administration at the University of Minnesota several times a year. Instructing in blocks of a week at a time, six hours per day, John for 30 years has obtained a genuine bit of stimulation from such labor of love, which he performs as much as five times annually.

Speaking of Sarasota, John Adler and wife Viola also reside much of the year there, while John continues to operate Adler-Truelick Associates, a management consulting firm (what else?) in Greenwich, Conn. John and Viola are surefire attendees at our 40th Reunion in June. How about you?

Nellie Abrahamsen reports that his dad, his son, and he enjoyed "immensely our trip to Sweden in September." Nellie's father is 85. They visited relatives whom they never knew existed. Nellie also plans, with wife Kay, to be in Hanover for Reunion. He expresses wonderment that it is almost 44 years since he and I first met in Professor Francis Childs's English I. Who will ever forget our introduction to those deliriously robust tales of Chaucer?

One of the better reasons—out of hundreds to attend our 40th Reunion will be the seminar "Great Issues for '49" on Wednesday, June 14, at 10:00 a.m. We'll have three specialists from the faculty discussing Russia, China, and the Near East. The first hour will cover all three, then you'll be able to select one of the three areas for more detailed discussion, in a smaller group led by the professor with special ex- pertise in the area. Plenty of time for ques- tions and answers, and a real opportunity to come away with your own expertise signif- icantly raised. We offer thanks to MikeMcGean for making all the arrangements, but, at this column's deadline, have just learned of Lois McGean's tragic passing and must offer condolences as well. Although details were not available at the time I pre- pared the column, I have also learned of the death of Edmund Patrick White Jr., who lived in his hometown, Concord, N.H. Ed- mund prepared for Dartmouth at St. John High School and served 59 months in the U.S. Army, being discharged as a staff sergeant before joining the class in November 1945.

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