1953

Leaving the warm weather of Harbour Ridge, a month later 1 ventured again out to Aspen. Dave and Peggy Cost and Chuck and Nancy Stone had been there two weeks earlier from Minneapolis, where Chuck runs the only in-city U.S. ski area, Buck Hill. Gene and Nancy Gabianelli and Charley and Charlotte Buchanan had huge family entourages. They'd also been at Harbour Ridge. Ted and Audrey Speigel had an elegantly planned round of social events including a big party at Moose on the Loose, their beautiful pad on Red Mountain. ButchEdgar took in Dave Florence and myself at his condo at the foot of Ajax Mountain. He's had the place for 25 years. I have to add that this group is out there skiing hard every day, not just lolling around in bars.

I assume the same high activity level prevailed with the group of Cliff Evans, ChrisChrisman, Ed Kidd. and Jack Smith on their annual ski trip to Steamboat Springs, Breckenridge, Vail Pass, and Copper Mountain.

At a time when most of us wish we were 60 again, Gabby tells me he's not 60 yet, and neither is Norm Carpenter. Are there any more of you out there who came to Hanover at age 13?

The Wall Street Journal carried an article about George Graboy's forthcoming retirement on September 30 as CEO of Citizen's Financial Group in Providence, a unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Citizens is a large and healthy bank now poised for expansion in New England.

HRE Properties, a New York-based real estate investment trust of which Jay Urstadt '50 is chairman, announced the appointment of Bob Douglass as a trustee. Bob is vice chairman and director of Chase Manhattan and is the bank's customer planning and development officer as well as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Botanical Garden, and, of course, the College.

Stan Westberg is still with Nook & O'Neil Inc., the industrial materials handling company he purchased 25 years ago in Cleveland. He has survived this recession as well as others and is now cutting back his schedule to three days a week so he can spend more time on his farm. Which is harder work, Stan?

Far from retiring, Abdul Bahrani is just hitting his stride at Proctor & Gamble after 35? years there. He just won P & G's first Industrial Engineering Achievement Award for developing the production system for an important new product.

Our Skipper of the Pescadore IV; DennySpiedel, who transported the "boat people" at Harbour Ridge, now has a second house at Harwichport on the Cape, so perhaps he can do the same for us up North.

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