1942
May, 1939. Our first of four lovely springs in Hanover. Our first Green Key weekend, with Larry Clinton and Jimmie Lunceford battling each other in the big dance in the gym, while the Barbary Coast played for the 1942 dance in Thayer. Phil Lee, taking time off for a game of bridge in North Fayer, came up with the perfect hand, 13 spades. Bob Fitch (baseball), Dick Craw (track), HalEckardt (tennis), Doug Riley (lacrosse), and Mel Figley and Winner Martin (golf) led the spring Pea Green teams. A wonderful, warm Hanover spring, 50 years ago.
When I closed out a month ago, Ruth and I were headed for Portugal. Our twoweek visit to the Algarve was warm, fun, and interesting, but I ended up with something akin to pneumonia or flu and plenty weak. I was greeted, upon my return, with the first avalanche of class survey returns that came soon after Ad Winship sent the Questionnaire out. The returns will give class officers something to mull over, compile, and disseminate to the class.
Buzz Cassidy writes he is enjoying life in a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Lancaster, Pa. He says he is contemplating joining other '42s with newly fabricated hip joints. A trip through Virginia and North and South Carolina was in Buzz and Kathie's spring plans. He adds he is trying to build an on-going relationship with two undergraduates as part of the program Prexy Winship sent to the class during the winter.
Ev Johnson, out of Auburn, Ala., reports that he is working part-time, in retirement, on a twice-weekly 24,000-circulation newspaperin that Alabama college town. Ev says he still has an active pilots license and does a lot of flying (but only in good VFR weather).
Scotty Matthews, crediting a personal computer with giving him a glimmer of hope of catching up on what must be done, operates "an executive search practice" out of his Greenwich, Conn., home, "finding clients and then finding the octagonal people to fit into the clients' octagonal holes."
Jack Scolaro, writing out of Tequesta, Fla., reports on a three-month trip to southern (I call it "almost") Vermont this past summer, visiting Hanover many times and seeing Chuck Drennan, who lives in Brattleboro.
Dr. Stu Finch writes that he is back in the U.S. (Haddonfield, N.J.) after two years in Hiroshima. Stu doesn't miss the $4-acup coffee and $20 movies. He is now involved in the development of an office of research and promotion of continuing medical education at Cooper Hospital in Camden.
The Indian Springs Way (Wellesley, Mass.) bunch chimes in with two reports John Williamson from a hospital where he is recovering from by-pass surgery ("After a few weeks of rest I expect to try for another 20 years of golf and travel."), and Dave andJane Sargent from Longboat Key, Fla., where the first week of a belated retirement produced '42s Dick and Peggy Rugen,Wally and Barbara Farr, Tom and SueBlankley, and Joe and Mary Nason.
Huntley and Ginia Allison checked back in from a five-week tour to New Zealand ("The best trip we've ever had.") and Dick and Jinie Nehring are back from a jaunt to the Bahamas. Dick adds that the Nehrings spent a delightful time with Jakeand Moanie Davis in Harwichport last fall.
Clippings received include one telling of a surprise roast in Tulsa to honor Sid Patterson's 16 years of leadership in the Up With Trees program in that Oklahoma metropolis. Another detailed Commander EdStafford's efforts in the defense of grandfather Robert Peary's claim to discovery of the North Pole. Ed also authored an article in the September National Geographic on a reunion with his Greenland cousins. A third clipping reported on 71-year-old Merrill McLane's hockey exploits with a bunch of 40-year-olds in suburban Washington.
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