1953

Dear Classmates, 1953 was really in town again for the class executive committee meeting. Present were our impresarios, Don and Lillian Goss, Gus Allen, Put Blodgett, Tom and Arlene Bloomer, Phil and Nancy Beekman, Dick and Connie Giesser, Bob Callender, Norm Carpenter, Bill and Betsy Chamberlain, Jim Cobb, Dick Dunham, John Dodge, Fred and Val England, Harlan and Anne Fair, Bob and Carol Henderson, Fred and Elaine Hitt, Dave Halloran, Elsa Luker, Ron and Liliande Lazar, Bob and Gail Malin, Bill McCarthy, Mark and Bobby Smoller, Dave and Bonnie Siegal, Don Smith, of course, Chuck and Donna Reilly, Bob and Anne Simpson, Jack Zimmerman, myself and Mollie and apologies to any I've missed.

Norm Carpenter won the long distance prize, closely followed by the Harbour Ridge, Fla., crowd—John Dodge, who developed that fine place, the Beekmans, Malins, Zimmermans, Simpsons. Of course all these folks have another house or two and only the IRS knows which one is home.

There were nail-biting basketball games (both of which Dartmouth won), followed by hockey games both nights, so by the time lunch was over it was time for early dinner. But under the firm hand of our leader, Goss, we did a lot of work too which Norm Carpenter will describe in the newsletter. I was stuck with taking notes, and there were so many ideas going around, I could hardly keep up. No one was caught napping.

I can tell you that this Harbour Ridge thing is getting out of hand. Phil Beekman said he had a party there last year and 57 classmates came. There is serious talk of a mini-reunion there the next year or two, which will promote some more address changes. Cobb tells me you get a Yamaha golf cart with every condo.

Howard and Connie Clery are spending most of the winter there. Charlie and Jackie Fleet go over there in the summer from New Orleans to cool off.

The week before we'd seen Bill and Jean Vitalis. Bill was in Hanover as a director of the new Ledyard Bank. Paganucci is a director too. Bill grows some mighty fine apples at their farm in Cornwall, Conn., and if it gets too cold they go down to Florida. Guess where?

We've had some moves and retirements lately. The Bloomers and our youngest legacy, Tom Jr., have just moved into their brand new house in Skaneateles, N.Y., right on the lake. Tom retired from IBM and is working on a computer project at Cornell part time. I'd missed Denny Spiedel when I tried to reach him at Control Data in Minneapolis. I caught up with him gazing out of his new condo at Lake Point Tower in N. Palm Beach, Fla. He was watching about 200 boats and thinking about replacing one he'd had a while back. He's retired for the time being. To bring things full circle, he was leaving the next day to visit the Zimmermans.

Fred Pollard has changed from his financial consulting business to go into consulting with the growing regional CPA firm of Wayland, Davey and Looney in the Syracuse N.Y., area. A lot of the consulting is on the inside doing peer reviews.

Burt Dorsett was going to come up to our Hanover meeting, but had a painful leg problem and couldn't make it. He's about to change his office location in N.Y.C. Dorsett McCabe is an investment counseling firm, and Burt says he's well ahead of the S&P 500 for the last ten years. Jack Newton would have come but has just had an operation in Boston.

I am sorry to report that Wally Bass, George Keagle, and Marvin Klein have died.

K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766