1937

On a closer examination of our 25th Reunion book, I found four additional classmates who practiced medicine. They are George Andrews, Willis Bennett, Thomas P. Jacobs, and Robert M. Miskimon. Total 40. George Andrews related that he spent a week with Dr. Albert Schweitzer and staff at the hospital in Lambarene, Africa. He learned that they had rooms for psychiatric patients, but George was the first psychiatrist who had ever visited; so this was unique for them and for George.

I promised the names of classmates who practice law. Here they are: Carl Amon, Harry V. Bamford, Charles Bassett, Stanley Berenson, Charles Blaisdell, Rowley Bialla, Franklin Butler, Benjamin Cardozo, Claude Clark Jr., William C. Clay Jr., H. Douglas Cochran, Arthur J. Cohn, Richard F. Cooper, Vivian P. Edwards Jr., George S. Elmore, Walter F. Heer, Lester S. Hoyle, Frank A. Kaufman, Robinson E. Keyes, Joseph W. Kiernan, Robert C. Koury, Frank V. Louden Jr., Latta McCray, Donald C. McKinlay, Thomas F. Moran, Morgan F. McGuire, George E. Mackey, Bruce W. Manternach, Sherman A. Murphy Jr., Paul N. Olson, Robert E. Olson, Addison M. Parker, Edward B. Peterson, Thomas W. Prentice Jr., Harold B. Putnam, Ralph C. Putnam Jr., Eric Rafter, Frank B. Sanders, William M. Sayre, Charles E. Schaaf, Edmund L. Shea, Jerome B. Sherman, Paul R. Smith, William H.Timbers, and Edward D. Wynot.

Fran Fenn, head agent, writes on March 7 that we have already received $71,090 in gifts from 87 members of the '37 family toward our goal of $85,000. There is still time to send in your Alumni Fund contribution; pledges and cash are due by June 30, 1998. Newsweek magazine reports that Chick Koop and David Kessler, the former commissioner of the F&D Administration, have emerged as the unofficial arbiters of the huge tobacco settlement. In the March 16 article Newsweek states that Koop met Bill Clinton in the general store while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard on Labor Day weekend. Chick told Clinton, "Be firm on getting the documents," referring to the demand that Big Tobacco reveal its controversial history. Clinton agreed. The next month he parroted Koop's line and demanded full industry disclosure.

In a lighter vein, mini-reunion is on October 2 & 3, 1998.

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