1947

Gleanings from our recent class survey. Karl Becker writes from Short Hills, N.J., that his career, and his education, began in July 1943 with V-12 in Hanover, and carried on for 28 years. He saw sea action in WW11, went through the "peacekeeping actions," and through Vietnam, all on active duty with U.S. Navy. He retired as a captain. His travels were virtually everywhere, at no charge, naturally.

He and Mary Jane managed to raise two sons, and this group has increased by four grandchildren. Karl has been immersed in community work: president of Protestant Community Centers Inc. for four years and chairman of Community Agencies Corp. for three years, both of these being non-profit agencies in Newark, N.J. He has been a tutor, mentor, day-care worker, Head Start worker, and did group-home projects. He served on two separate terms as church chairman, an elected office. He is continuing to serve locally in volunteer programs and in church activities.

And through it all, there has been another thread of interest: philately. (He also collects stamps, Harley.) Karl was for 20 years an auction describer for..a major stamp-auction firm. Your scribe can attest to his fine artistic taste, as his survey response came with five stamps, worth a total of 29 arranged in a symmetrical pattern, employing colors of earth and leaves, and with a Love symbol, all neatly canceled. I saved them for their beauty. Karl is immensely happy and grateful to the Almighty for his own many blessings, foremost of these his family. He who blesses is blessed.

Bill Gerber is another of our many medical people. He has been on the faculty of medical schools at U-Minnesota, St. Louis University, University of South Dakota, and Georgia. He served on a drug abuse council.(I'm sure he's agin'it.)

Dr.Bill's achievement is a patent awarded for a method for preventing birth defects. This sounds as though we ought to make more of a deal out of it, but that's all I have. Retired since 1991, as professor emeritus, Bill is now paying good money to revisit all the places Uncle Sam's navy took him for "free."

Arnie Weber writes that in his early years in the textile industry he created and produced, in his factory, the world's first men's knit dress shirt, and introduced it at Bloomingdales in 1956. Moving over to foods, Arnie's R&D lab in New Jersey developed the first freeze dried coffee, and also instant soup. He still feels, however, that his greatest accomplishment is the "manufacture" of twins,twice!

That's our notes for now; it's sugarin' season. See you soon.

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Arnie Weber created and produced the world's first men's knit dress shirt. Ham Ghase'47