1946

I was going to entitle this column "Keeping Up With The Joneses." We have seven Joneses in our class, but I was only able to contact Brad, Kim, and Ted. Commander Ivor, Jim, Lawrence, and Bob, I tried to call you, but no success.

Brad Jones is retired from the paper-box business, 14 years now, and lives in West Southport, Maine. He spends his time working on houses. Does a little sailing and is planning a trip to Hawaii to visit with a daughter who is a nurse there.

Kim Jones is uncomfortably close to Harvard, living now in Cambridge. Kim retired from teaching at Noble & Greenough Prep School. He taught French, something he says he picked up in Gay Paree. Though he's been out since 1989, he still teaches parttime at an adult school in Chelsea, plays tennis, and says he's playing better than ever.

I talked with Ted Jones out in Bloomington, Ind. After years in business he took over as business manager at Indiana University. He's been retired from that for six years. He has two sons, one a doctor, the other a lawyer. And Ted, I love you. You have reaffirmed my faith in honesty and integrity. Ted admitted to having a 24 golf handicap. You other Joneses, I'll catch up with you next time.

Paul Malinowsky is living in West Hartford, Conn., and is now retired after 26 years with Connecticut General Life Insurance. But he's still in the life insurance, and now he specializes in merging small lifeinsurance companies. Not quite sure how that works, but Paul does and he says he's doing well at it.

I finally caught up with old buddy DickNylen. Dick's on the Cape at South Yarmouth, Mass. Said he sees Bill Riley now and then. Dick was with DuPont a mere 35 years and retired in 1986. He plays a bit of tennis and, yep, you guessed it, an 11 golf handicap!

Tried to get Dave Weld, but he was watching the Yankees and Red Sox. I talked with wife Jean instead, and she related that Dave's still in the lumber business, helping his daughter run it. The Welds winter in their North Palm Beach home. A little closer to home I found Jim Lucey, just down the road in Belmar, N.J.Jim retired from General Foods four years ago and has been on the Jersey Shore ever since.

The College advises that our own FrankEttari was honored as Class Bequest Chairman of the year last May. Nice going Frankand thank you, all you bequeathers. I attended a high-school reunion (not mine, class of 1943) and saw Mai Johnson there. How you graduate high school in 1943 and graduate class of 1946 in college, I haven't figured out. Truly a coup de maitre. I don't really know what that means but it sounds good, and with that I'll say arivederci.

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