1942

February 1941. Joan Walter, Dick Hempstead's date, is Carnival Queen. Ted Lapres stars in the nets versus Yale in carnival hockey. It's the season when 1942 begins to take over the reins. The Jacko picks Matt Rapf as associate editor, and on the business side Army Stambaugh as business manager, Dex Richards as advertising manager, and Bob Smith as circulation manager. Smith is also chosen to fill Randy Gilpatric's spot on Green Key.

Bill Mitchell becomes the undergraduate representative on the College Radio Council, while Jack Tobin wins the ISU downhill. A couple of budding journalists, Bob Rodgers and yours truly, spend a week working on the Holyoke Transcript as part of Eric Kelly's journalism course. John Brewer is appointed a cadet in the Naval Air Reserve.

As fraternities start to elect their presidents for the next year, Dick Lippman heads Pi Lam, Harry Bartlett DU, and BudMcKinlay Deke. And that's the way it was, February 1941, fifty years ago.

Ruth and I took a post-mini-reunion trip to Hawaii for ten days in October. While on the Big Island of Hawaii for a two-day excursion to look at geothermal and OTEC energy production, I tried valiantly to reach Dr. AndyMorgan in Kamuela and Dick King in Hilo, all to no avail. I also tried to find JeanCoffinan, Ford's widow, whose latest address I thought to be Kailua, also on the Big Island. But no luck there either.

Mail at home brought Doug and BettyDuffy's Bethesda Art Gallery Collector's Catalog, a thing of beauty. Doug retired from the CIA recently and on his visit to the Champlain Valley last summer, he told me that he was helping Betty in her gallery (P.O. Box 722, Glen Echo, MD 20812) on a fulltime basis. The catalog features American Fine Prints from the 1920's, thirties, and forties.

As a result of a nice chat we had with Chuckand Melvina Herberger at the mini-reunion, the mail also brought a copy of Chuck's Three Centuries of Centerville Scenes, Vignettesof a Cape Cod Village, published last year by the Centerville Historical Society. If you want to get the answers to such questions as "What did Captain Myles Standish do for Centerville?", "Flow did Hollywood leave its mark on Centerville?", or "What is Centerville's connection with Walter Lippman?", you will want to get your hands on this intriguing, interesting, and well-written book. Earlier Herberger books were published in 1972 and 1979.

I hope you had a nice holiday season and are enjoying your winter, wherever you may be spending it.

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