1956

Valiant Reunion Chairman Tom Harper called from Kiawah Island not long ago to say that he had recruited a very solid nucleus of helpers for the upcoming reunion but could use additional volunteers. The theme for the reunion, if I got it straight from Poon, will be "Come to Reunion Bury the Hatchet" or, perhaps, vice versa. In any case, be there. And that means you, Cy Field.

Cy is still suffering the traumas of department chairmanship at Oregon State. I have some advice for him. Quit! Norm Olsen just did it, after 19 years, and he couldn't fel better about it.

Flint Ranney wrote recently, sending four of the Daniel Webster/Dartmouth College postal stamps for my identification of someone in a Wha-Who-Whisper photograph. Since I have never won anything before in my life, I suppose I should be grateful for four sixcent stamps, and I am until I realize that I can't even mail a first-class letter for that.

Paul Merriken '55, who continues generously to send me news of classmates, forwarded an announcement from Robert W. Baird & Cos. that Robert R. Slater had been elevated to a senior vice presidency with that firm. Congratulations, Bob.

Last report from our leader had ClemMalin meeting with Bill Webb, Russ Brace, and Jim Breeden in Hanover in mid-April to discuss the Alumni in the Schools program. It will be interesting to see how that develops.

The rest of the news this month is all bad. The Alumni Office has informed me of the deaths of three classmates. On July 7, 1990, Peter Barry Shoresman died from a postoperative hemorrhage in Champaign, Illl. One of only eight in our class to receive a senior fellowship, Pete got his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1963, then taught secondary and continuing education at Wayne State University.

Fenwick Howard Salter died in an automobile accident in Oregon on Christmas Day. A mechanical engineering graduate, he worked as a consultant in San Francisco before joining the Shell Development Company's technical staff in Emeryville, Calif.

On February 19 William Andrew Faunce died at his New Jersey home. Bill received his master's degree in administration from Temple University and served as principal of the Atlantic City High School from 1964 until 1989. At the time of his death, he was associate director of secondary schools for the Middle States Association of Secondary Schools.

The class sends its best wishes and sympathy to the family members of each of these classmates. They will be missed.

That's all for now. 'Til next time.

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