1956

The great news: your class is nine months away from the best reunion yet! The great class of 1956 will hold its 40th on June 11-14, 1996. Chairman Tom Rosenwald has been recruited to see whether he can top the 35 th, building on his experience with the 30th and the lessons learned from watching the masterful team from the 35th in action. We want everyone there, so put it on your calendar now!

More good news: Tom Holdorf is running for a seat on the Winneconne Village (Wise.) Board, where three candidates are vying for two seats. Tom is manager of marketing and field service at Thermo Electron in Kaukauna.

Al Peyser retires September I as CEO of Cable & Wireless Inc. Al co-founded TDX Systems in Tysons Corner, Va., in 1975, and sold it to giant C&W in 1978.

Lee Gammill has been elected executive vice president of New York Life, having taken up residence in the Big Apple several years ago. It is good to see Lee and Jane in Hanover and New York after all those years on the West Coast.

Roy Raja has lived in Lincoln, Mass., for 35 years and is running for a one-year term as treasurer and a three-year term as tax collector in that town. Roy is running on a platform of "outsourcing" [sic] some clerical activities, more personal computer use, and consolidation and simplification of financial systems.

Gordie Davenport has received the University of Tennessee 1995 Distinguished Service Award. I don't know much more about Gordie except that he lives in Lookout Mountain, Tenn has an '81 son, and controls most of the food going to fast-food restaurants in the southeast.

Kirby Fowler has retired from his post as president of the Flemington National Bank in Flemington, N.J., after 20 years with that institution.

The bad news: There is a bi-partisan movement in Congress to forge a constitutional amendment to protect the flag from desecration. This has come about as a result of the Supreme Court's decision striking down laws in 48 states which made it a crime to physically harm the flag. I want the flag respected as much as anyone, but hate to see the Constitution amended in order to do so. Why can't the Supreme Court show a little common sense and logical interpretation of the Constitution and let stand those good state laws which did the job?

The sad news: Word has been received of the death of Creighton Hart in June 1994 in Kansas City. Our class had few All-American athletes, but Creight was one of them, for swimming, in 1955. He will be missed.

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