1944

Our New Year's resolution was to get more "new" names in this space, and so, onward and upward.

Surgeon Jack Schultz is still putting in his 18-hour days at St. Joseph's Hospital in Patterson, N.J., and sees no end in sight. He's got more reasons for non-retirement than most of us, what with three kids, ages 13, 14, and 15, still in highschool, with college in the offing. Jack and wife Candy stay pretty close to home in Twin Lakes, with a modicum of travel or fancy doings. Candy does some real-estating on the side and is an emergency medical technician; in fact, she was out on ambulance duty the evening we called. Jack says he sees fellow surgeon Bill Stahl when Bill is on the lecture circuit.

Also in New Jersey Haddenfield, to be exact—are Ralph and Barbara Sitley. Ralph has been an executive most of his life with M. A. Bruder & Sons, one of the country's largest paint manufacturers. Ralph says he's in top form; he's happily busy keeping the homestead together; his five children are spread all over the U.S.; and he expects to retire within a year.

Dick Hull, a combustion engineer with United Aircraft, retired seven years ago from Connecticut to West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, where he'd been summering all his life, and where he and wife Barbara had built a retirement home in 1966. "We work hard on our couple of acres," says Dick, "and we get a lot of fishing, a bit of traveling, and the joy of having all three of our children also living and working on the island."

Dave Judson and wife Yvonne are currendy in Yonkers, N.Y., and commuting to jobs in nearby White Plains. Dave's watch company in Texas was merged out of existence a few years back, and so he returned to Westchester where he's now in charge of inventory control for the Addison-Wesley publishing company. He hopes to retire in two years and emigrate back to Texas

With hockey puck-offs in the offing, we called recent widower Jack Riley, who says life alone is the pits. After a lifetime coaching at West Point, Jack is retired in Marstons Mills, Mass., about seven miles from Hyannisport on Cape Cod. He said he was logging a daily round of golf into November and then taking in a lot of hockey games (two of his sons are coaching).

We also called Bill Harrison (the other third of the famous Riley-Rondeau-Harrison line) in Potsdam, N.Y. He's retired after a lifelong career as a professor of civil engineering at Clarkson College.

Finally, a nice long chat with JohnMcAllister, a most happy retiree from the lumber industry, in Arvada, Colo., near Denver. He was busy cleaning out his garage (three dumpsters worth) and shedding overweight pounds (three buckets worth). A recent highlight was the 50th high school reunion which brought back five of the six members of East High in Denver who came to Dartmouth: McAllister, George Kent, BobPetersen, Spence Baird, and Wally Olin. Only Frank Ebaugh, who died three weeks before the gathering, was missing.

Other deaths: Bill Duffy, September 22; Malcolm Corner, October 20; and Bill Fead, October 25. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

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