1953

What a great reunion organization Fred Hitt hath wrought. No tern has been left unstoned. In June at his office Fred held a reunion committee meeting with John Springer, Don Goss, Don Smith, DickFleming, Bernie Sudikoff, JackZimmerman, and John Kennedy present. Bernie is treasurer, and Dick, Don Bigham, and Seth Carpenter are on food and rum. Paul Corcoran, Larry Lewis, and PeteWagner are providing Indian trinkets and favors (in return for some of the rum); Don Goss and Dick Blum are developing the Great Issues program—of such significance that the whole thing is tax deductible. Tireless Don is putting together a great class book with DaveReplogle as publisher (Get your biographies to Don fast!) and also handling the memorial service with our Reverend A.S.McGuire.

Bill Chamberlin and Al Collins are running the auction, a great success last time. RussCook and I (more likely Margie and Mollie) are on decorations, and Bill Murray and I are on publicity. There is even a leisure time committee consisting of Jack Zimmerman,Put Blodgett, and Bob Simpson, but it might get cancelled for lack of leisure time.

The biggest effort of all is on attendance, chaired by Dave Siegal and Tom Bloomer, with Dick Goodman, Fred Gieg, DickLowenthal, Woody Spurgeon, and a very large supporting staff including Curt Bury rounding up the expatriates. Curt is with IBM in England.

We aren't getting any younger, but we have some influence left. There was Bill Beutel, the Democratic Convention anchor on New York Channel 7 explaining the New Covenant to some of us who had dozed off. Jack Patten is another TV personality convincing us to read Business Week rather than watch TV He has a new house in construction at Stowe, so we hope he'll be through Hanover more often. Pete Bridges was so exercised over the prospect of President Perot that he's been actively campaigning for Clinton. He is with Shell Oil in Houston. Dave Cost was honing his writing skills at a Vermont College seminar in Montpelier in July. Pen 3; Sword 2. Chuck Stone still trains generations of young skiers, including some real competitors, at Buck Hill in the Twin Cities, trounces those half (or maybe a third) his age in golf and tennis, and remains the machine-tool guru of the Midwest. Elsa Luker was president of Vermont-New Hampshire Planned Parenthood, remains active in it, and is a trustee of Vermont Academy. Charley Buchanan is a trustee of Skidmore, along with Chuck Kettering's sister Susan Williamson.

Saw Phil and Helga Fast during a flight layover in Boise in June. They'd just been east for their daughter's graduation from Northfield-Mt. Hermon and a side vacation at Dave Florence's Vermont condo. Phil has his own highly-regarded investment counseling firm in Boise, plays a lot of golf, and has a lovely vacation home in Sun Valley, upon which his friends and large family frequently descend.

Don't forget 1953's 40th Reunion, June 14-17, 1993! See you at the games this fall.

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