1935

This is August, and except for obituaries I have not a shred of new information to fill the column. It makes me feel like the class secretary who, exasperated at the absence of news, wrote in his column: "Let me beg you, before it is too late, to remember that nothing helps a class secretary so much as promptness in sending him your obituaries."

The quote is from correspondence exsecretary Bill Mathers had a few years ago with bogus classmate Fred J. Zukal. Without getting into the Zukal matter (any questions to Mathers), Bill said the secretary was wife Myra's grandfather, Yale 1885.

To continue: the College has notified me of two deaths since my last report, Dick Eberhart, February 14, 1997, in East Darien, Conn., and Rudy Pacht on July 2, 1997, in Los Angeles, Calif. With the help of George Colton death notices on both men have been prepared, but it could be a while before they are published. From what I hear from Hanover there is a backlog of more than 100 obits from all classes waiting for space.

I found it interesting, and in a sense threatening, that in the data received about Eberhart the Alumni Records Office confused him with the noted poet Richard Eberhart, even included news clips about the latter. The class of 193 s's Dick Eberhart had an extensive career in real-estate management, and at graduation gave his address as Chesham, N.H., not far from where I live. I must run that down for most everything else about Dick is connected with New York City.

This is not a pleasant task, believe me, to work up the final word on classmates' careers; on the other hand it does invoke nostalgia and happy memories to read, for example, that Rudy Pacht (quoting from his hand-written comments in an alumni questionnaire) earned "$1 per night, and all the ice cream I could eat, on concessions," that he was an "agent for a laundry," and "getting off probation" was his undergraduate priority. Interesting stuff for a man who became a prominent Hollyood lawyer.

So it goes, let me hear from you guys who are living.

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