1935

The September mini-re-union was a great success with 75 in attendance (37 alumni, 32 wives, five widows and one honorary). Al Ritchie's son Dennis, from AT&T Bell Laboratories, led us through a brief history of computer operating systems with particular emphasis on the fascinating development of UNIX. Fortunately, we will not be required to take an exam—multiple choice or otherwise—on the subject. On a slightly lower intellectual level, we had cocktails and dinner at the Coolidge, during which a '90 graduate artist drew a number of revealing caricatures. The football team temporarily regained its touch by thrashing Lehigh 33-14. Dinner at Alumni/ae Hall featured Mike McGean '49, the secretary of the College, as the principal

The class meeting was well attended and included many reports and lively discussion. Yank Price reviewed all important events during the past year. Bob McLellan did an excellent job of explaining how the treausrer keeps his books well-balanced. Don Radasch emphasized the high academic standing of the many athletes now enrolled as students, ranging from a 3.0 average (for the football team as a whole) to a 3.45 (for the women's Ivy League basketball champions), and even higher for many individual athletes. Ruby Field gave a detailed account of how she handles the difficult job of corresponding with class widows. Al Brush,Reg Bankart, Don Hagerman, and BillFitzhugh each reported on his own area of expertise.

Guy Briggs' son was instrumental in producing the new GM Saturn line of compact cars designed to be fully competitive with comparable Japanese models. Wiley Hubbell has just returned from a long trip by boat, train, and bus all over Washington and Alaska (without once bumping into Earl Arthurs). Bob and Ann Neill also took an Alaskan cruise, but more interesting is Bob's report that even after four hip replacements he has lost only SO yards off the tee. LowieHaas has sheepishly admitted a major goof: the first line of his autobiography in JimBolt's booklet stated that he was married on Friday, March 13, 1942, but failed to even mention that his bride was HildaBarnes. After 48 years they are still happily married which certainly proves that Friday the 13 th does not always bring bad luck.

In September I reported that we had 411 living alumni, and Jack Rubin asked how many were graduates. The College shows only 403 alumni still alive (295 of the 518 graduates and 108 non-graduates). I even heard from Kirk Liggett, who was one of the 691 who matriculated but graduated with several others in 1936. Obviously these numbers will undergo substantial changes in the next few years.

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