1946

Head Agent Tom Adams and his crew of agents are closing in on our goal of $160,000 for the Alumni Fund. By the time you read this, I know you will have come through with the necessary dollars to insure a second-straight over-the-top effort. Thank you all for your generosity.

More than 400 were expected to attend the V-12 reunion July 16-17.1 wasn't in the program, so I can't give a first-hand account. I'd appreciate any of you who attended sharing some of the highlights with me. I know nostalgia will reign, and the usual exaggerations, fabrications, and downright untruths will run rampant. That's what reunions are all about. However, I doubt there were many re-enlistments.

I tracked down a few guys I hadn't talked to in many moons. Dale Armstrong from Pittsburgh reports that he is now fully retired. He had put in 35 years with U.S. Steel and then a shorter stint with Rouge Steel Company. He and Gloria spend about seven months of the year in Naples, Fla. At this rate, future reunions might well take place in the Sunshine State. Dale reports his golf game is not all it should be. (First honest golfer in the history of the class of 1946.)

I spoke to a couple of 1942 Richardson Hall colleagues of mine: Crawford Murray (I couldn't resist that) Campbell, known as "Whitey," and Henry "Hank" Kurschwitz. Whitey's still by the waters of the Minnetonka in Minnesota. He's doing a bit of brokering though he spent most of his life working in the paper business. Says his golf handicap went up to 8. Good grief! Are there no 90-100 shooters in the class? Hank has been hanging out in Bethlehem, Pa., since 1965. Lie's still in the chemical business with a firm named Rhone-Poulenc. His wife, Dorothy (a Mary Hitchcock nursing student), went back to school and now runs a landscaping business. No, she doesn't cut lawns and hedges, you chumps! She designs them. Good to talk to you Hank. Call me next time you're in Farmingdale, N.J.

John McClintock's newsletter gave you the details on our mini-reunion, slated to lack off on October 28. But the Saturday luncheon? Where? Alas, not at 33 South Park Street, where it was hosted for 21 years by Bob and Jackie Kimball. The Kimballs are moving to West Lebanon July 1, and Bob says the new digs can't handle the '46 hordes. Let's hear it for the Kimballs' 21 years. How many drinks on rugs, cigarette holes, and muddy feet did we thrust upon them? How can we ever thank them?

With sadness I have to give you news of the passing of three more of our classmates: John Howard Kornblith, Theodore Walter, and Duncan Gibson. We extend our sympathy to their families.

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