1934

It didn't beat the record attendance that turned out for our 60th last June, but 40 classmates, wives, and friends, including widows Lois Frankel, BerniceCohen, and Shirley Rosenblum, were here for our September mini-reunion. It was a happy gathering except for the final minute of the Penn game, when the team couldn't score from one yard out, and we lost 11-13.

Ed Brown set up two fine dinners, at Pierce's Inn and at the Wheelock Room. His and Barbara's astrophysicist son Bob recounted his experiences with the Hubble Telescope, and history prof Ken Shewmaker provided us with some little-known facts about the life of Daniel Webster.

The class's 1994 Alumni Fund gift, which shattered the existing record by more than $117,000, won kudos for Leadership Gifts Chairman Stan Smoyer and Head Agent BobEngelman at the fund meeting that was held at the same time as our Friday night dinner.

On the subject of records, you may be interested in what I recently discovered about '34 offspring. Three '34s have had five sons: DickEmerson, Perry Gilbert, and Bill Scherman, and three have had four: Vin Cerow, Charely Strauss, and Bob Engelman. Six of us have each had four daughters: Frank Lepreau,Nick Nanos, Bill Ramsey, Ted Germann,Hafey Arthur, and Bill Judd.

Les Lummis, our most distant classmate, wrote that he had Reunion in mind, but couldn't quite make the big trip from Guam. Les is still writing about ways to improve the nation's fiscal system too bad he hasn't found more sponsors to help him sell his ideas.

Two of my fellow Kendal residents who were widowed after their arrival here have found delightful second partners, one of them Herb Hawkes, whose new wife is Janine. They have another home in northern Vermont and plan to vacation there as well as outside the U.S.A.

All of you should have received the first update of the 1934 Class Directory, one year after its publication. The October newsletter included these new addresses and other changes. We will try to give you future updates at least every year, so keep me posted regularly on your own lifestyle and lifeplace changes.

7 Kendal Apt. 341, 80 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755