1953

The '53 Winter Carnival weekend in Hanover was a great success. Chuck and Donna Reilly, Elsa Luker, Ron Lazar, Bill and Betsy Chamberlin. Put and Marian Blodgett, John and Barbara Kennedy, Dick Dunham, Jim and Shirley Cobb, Dick and Connie Geisser, Dave and Bonnie Siegal, Tom and Arlene Bloomer, Don Smith, Jack and Jody Zimmerman, Harlan and Ann Fair, Dave and Jeanne Replogle, Don and Lillian Goss, Al and Nancy Collins, and Mollie and I were there. This was a great opportunity for all of us to (finally) have a date for Winter Carnival. Correct me, but I think the only wife there who was at W.C. when we were in College was Elsa Luker. The basketball team obliged by giving us two last-play-of-game victories over Yale and Brown. Lest you think this was all frivolity, Put Blodgett signed up Profs lan Lustick and Kevin Reinhart for a spellbinding seminar on the Middle East which explained the Arab perspective quite well. Whatever his faults, Saddam is Man of the Year for Middle East Professors.

Dick Geisser heads the Massachusetts Port Authority and says his highest priority is antiterrorism in the subway and at Logan Airport. Chuck Reilly, our Wharton finance professor, notes a decline in his students headed for Wall Street. Jim Cobb says there's no recession in Golf, but if there was his enthusiasm would blow it away. Our manufacturing consultant, Jack Zimmerman, who serves clients all over the U.S., has found the perfect one: Pitney Bowes, five minutes from his home in Darien. From his perch at One Beacon St., Boston, Dave Replogle, vice president for Houghton Mifflin, makes deals for textbooks and other education products all over the world.

The Cobbs tell me they are planning a trip to Australia and New Zealand with the Simpsons (Anne is a native) and the Hendersons this fall.

With Banks crashing regularly, it's nice to know the new Ledyard Bank in Hanover has $6 million in cash, all raised privately, and no bad loans since it won't open until May. (Please keep in line, folks). Two of the Bank's founders are Paul Paganucci and Bill Vitalis, who comes over from his Connecticut orchard once a month. Congratulations to these anti-recession warriors.

After a long and successful career, GeorgeKrall retired as vice president and general manager of manufacturing for the aircraft engine division of General Electric in Evendale (outside Cincinnati), Ohio.

I received a lovely card from Boyer (Chris)Chrisman postmarked Grand Jet, Colo. He's on a month-long ski tour of Crested Butte, Telluride, Purgatory, Wolf's Head, and Taos. .. the very best of the not-so-well-known areas.

When you pick up The New Yorker Magazine at the doctor's office, forget the cartoons and look for one of BurtonBernstein's articles. He's been a staff writer there for 34 years. In addition he's written eight books (working on #9) as a free-lance writer, including a book on the Middle East and the definitive biography of James Thurber, his associate at the New Yorker. He tells the young writers he teaches at Yale that if they can imagine doing anything else but writing, do it and they'll eat much better. If they can't, well then stick with it for 10 or 20 years and they might make it. Good advice, Burtie!

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