1956

Bill Behrens called to let me know that he was also in the famous record-setting '56 Pensacola Flight School class of 29 members highlighted in the January column. Harry Nutting wrote of his inclusion as well as Jack Welborn and Roy Raja.

That makes 17—who were the rest? Chuck Soule is staying busy subsequent to Ms recent retirement from Paul Revere. He has joined the faculty of the American College in Bryn Mawr on a parttime basis as an executive-in-residence. Lee Gammill is a trustee of the American College and has recendy been appointed to the board of Vanguard Airlines. The press release welcomed him to the Vanguard team with his "significant cross-functional expertise."

Charley Murray is joint chairman of a campaign to raise $1.5 million for the Farmington (Maine) Public Library and the Mentor Library at the University of Maine. He retired in 1993 and returned to his hometown, where he serves on the board of directors of the Western Maine Agency on Aging, is a trustee of the Farmington Historical Society, and leads a weeldy Bible study at the Franklin County Jail. Bill Tell retired from Texaco on January 1 after 34 years with that firm. He is credited with being a "pivotal leader in developing effective strategies and programs to address government actions that would have impacted Texaco adversely." Bill took an active part in the litigation with Pennzoil in the mid-1980s, settling this dispute on terms much more favorable than would otherwise have been possible.

Bert Whittemore has sent along a picture of Pete Lauterbach, Sam Hull, himself, and two beautiful young ladies that he claims are his daughters standing with a '56 banner in front of a construction site for a New Hampshire State Lottery building in the snow somewhere in the woods. He implies that he is doing the building, but we'll have to wait for developments to clarify.

Gordon Davenport of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., has had the new community stadium in Chattanooga named after him. That is all I know right now, but I plan to find out the full story and report; there cannot be too many D alumni who can lay claim to that distinction! Sorry to report that Barbara Hill passed away shortly before Christmas after a brave bout with cancer. She was a great help at recent reunions and an inspiration to Josh and to all of us. We shall miss her in Hanover.

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