1944

Incidental (Accidental) Research Department: There can't be a soul lamongst us that doesn't react to the name Lloyd K. Neidlinger, the dean of the College both before and after the war, when we had three-named presidents, Ernest Martin Hopkins and John Sloan Dickey.

Ah, but is there a soul amongst us who can come up with Neidlinger's middle name? Well, the next time you want to win a drink at a bar, it was Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, Kellock having been his mother's maiden name.

Nice to see John "Jock" Brown in May, east from California to see family and friends in the Hanover area and environs. And a belated update: last summer Jock was invited by the University of Tel Aviv to do a paper on "Hellenic and Judaic Arts" at a conference at Delphi, Greece, and he and Emily combined that trip with a European vacation. Jock has also had another book published, Israel and Hellas, comparing at length classical Hebrew and Greek texts. A labor of love and long, long years.

In April at Hopkins Center we saw the wonderful and moving documentary film on the 10th Mountain Division, TheMountain of Fire, and some 35 members of that famous outfit were in the audience. They were called on stage at film's end, to a standing ovation. It was a privilege to be there.

Among those on stage was WynnUnderwood, Vermont lawyer and judge, who says hunting and fishing are taking up his happy retirement days. Wynn didn't get to Italy with the 10th because of illness, but his best friend, Joel Coffin, was killed on the terrible assault on Riva Ridge in March 1945. As far as I can tell, LenLandry and Jack Stephenson were the only other '44s in the 10th, and Jack was transferred out of it into OSS. Another belated update: a clipping sent to me by Don Burnham which shows LeonardRieser last fall in Chicago moving the hand of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock three fateful minutes closer to midnight... now 14 minutes to midnight. With 35,000 nuclear weapons in America and Russia, no new arms reduction treaties, the gap between rich and poor, and a booming arms trade, "the world remains an exceptionally brutish place," Leonard said.

Also,in a Christmas letter, Ric andDorry Bradley recount their holiday trip to Chile, sightseeing but mostly seeing their daughter and two grandchildren. The oldest grandchild is a piano prodigy and already knocking out Beethoven, Bach, Bartok, and Chopin at local concerts. You remember that Ric himself wrote a lovely piece for choir and orchestra just a couple of years ago.

Retired Tucson lawyer Bob F. Miller says he has finally sold his house there, and that he and Diane are now in an apartment in La Jolla, Calif. Still on the agenda is "a downsized pad" back in Tucson for the winter months.

We assume you have all marked your calendars for the October 3-5 minireunion in Hanover. Thursday lobsters in Lyme, Friday pick your own place, Saturday tailgating, Fordham in football, and scrumptiousness in Quechee.

More deaths in "the family": TomKuneau, Bill Seekins, Dick Ettinger,Bird Partridge, and Alex Gillespie. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

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Leonard Rieser moved the handof the AtomicScientists'Doomsday clockthree (ateiulminutes closer tomidnight. Fritz Hier '44

Story by Jim Hardigg '44, p.33