1942

April 1940. The war in Europe expands as Hitler's legions blitzkreig Norway and Denmark. Closer to home, DonFrothingham is named assistant manager of the DOC and head of the 1942 Winter Sports Council. A wet spring keeps sports teams indoors, but when Jeff Tesreau's nine does play, Dick Burns,Jack Zimmer, Bill Parmer, and BobDewey are sophomore starters. An April spring, 1940. Fifty years ago.

My project this month, in the absence of news from the class, has been to call those classmates who are listed in Dick Lippman's latest class directory as the only '42s living in their respective states. No mail next month and I go to two-classmate states.

Down East, Maine's sole '42, Judge JimErvvin, is still at it in his one-man law practice. "Part time has turned to full time," Jim reports. His practice has grown so much that he has three legal assistants and is looking for a young partner. Jim says he is pleased by what he thinks is "less stridency" from Hanover.

Still living on the family farm in Atlantic, lowa, is Charlie Hunt. Thirteen years ago a stroke left Charlie's left side paralyzed. His sons have been running the farm which has been in the family for more than a century. Charlie will be moving shortly into a smaller townhouse so that one of his sons can move into the family place.

Out in Kansas, Joe Chasnoff in Shawnee Mission has gone from ladies retailing to retail consulting as he slips into partial retirement. Joe reports that he is in good health and looking forward to an August trip to the Black Sea and Italy.

I got into big numbers in Utah, where Ted Dunn in Ogden reported that he and his wife have a combined total of 20 grandchildren. Ted moved from Los Alamos in 1980 when his first wife, Eleanor, had to get to lower altitudes for health reasons. Eleanor died in 1984 and, after being "on the loose" for a year, Ted remarried. Ann, his second wife, brought ten grandchildren to the union to join Ted's ten. "Birthday and Christmas presents are our biggest budget item," Ted says. Ted is busy doing tax returns for H & R Block. He is also working on a book detailing the research and advanced degree work done by the people at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory where he spent many years.

Bob Cook, who over the years has filled Baptist pastorates in Pennsylvania, California, and Oregon, retired to Reno, Nev., three years ago to be near a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren. A second son is in the Army in Berlin and Bob and Betty are planning a summer trip to Germany to see him and meet a new daughter-in-law.

I couldn't rouse Eustis "Pat" Reilly in Metairie, La., or Dr. John Crenshaw in Bondurant, Wyo. I'll try them next month. A call from Dutch Schaefer brought the sad news that Dr. Dick Maxwell died in late January. Dick had suffered from cancer for several years and had just entered a South Carolina hospital for another operation. Our sympathy goes out to his family.

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