1956

It is hard to believe that our 40th Reunion is but four months away. Those of you who have not answered in the affirmative tive to the invitation are missing out on the time of your life.

More than 150 classmates have thus far agreed to show up, and the events planned for June 10-13 in Hanover are spectacular! So don't miss it. Hanover will be beautiful and so will all the people there. I absolutely, positively, unconditionally guarantee that you will not be disappointed.

Bob McKay will be there, and will tell us in further (detail the battle he has been waging with the city fathers of Potsdam, Germany. It seems that the house where Harry Truman stayed in 1945, where he met Stalin, where he approved the use of the atomic bomb, was going to be designated as a memorial to the horrors of Hiroshima. "When you think of what Truman did for postwar Germany, such as the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction and the 1948-1949 Berlin airlift, which saved the city from Soviet blockade, then you can understand our upset at the Potsdam city council's unfortunate media event and its crass, one-sided distortion of history." Bob is trying to find the seed money from American corporations to buy the mansion and turn it into a proper Truman memorial. He adds that it is unfortunate that its address, 2 Karl-Marx- Strasse, is not likely to attract potential American money.

P.O. Box 1031, Burlington, NC 27216-1031; (910) 226- 7216

Bob McKay is battling to prevent Germany from designating the house where President Truman met Stalin in 1945 as a memorial to the horrors of Hiroshima. TOM HARPER '56