1952

We sent out an e-mail to every member of the class executive committee asking them what's going on in their lives. Most replied and here's what they said.

Ev Parker tells us, "Sally and I summer in Maine, winter in Tucson and in between we spend time in Concord, Massachusetts, our home town for 45 years. When we're in Tucson we see a lot of Barbara and Mac Dunlap. Each spring our old baseball teammates Logan, Barton, Metaparel, Boyages, Churchill and myself, get together for the Dartmouth-Harvard game in Cambridge. We always have a lot of fun."

From Vic Trautwein, "we're back in Rhode Island for the summer. Class member visitors have included Durot, Finerty, Montgomery and Russell. We had a mini-reunion of all Rhode Island '52s- Fitzgerald, Schochet and Slayton plus the Bucks, Katzes and Finerty from adjoining states." Vic is our class mini-reunion chairman and advises that every year there will be a mini in Hanover on the second weekend in October. Vic's also working on plans for mini-reunions in other locations such as Paris-London, San Francisco and Boston.

We asked Steve Mandel for a snapshot of his life and he replied, "My life here in Darien, Connecticut, is quite simple. Each week I play tennis three times plus one frustrating round of golf. I still serve on several boards whose members believe, erroneously, that I am indispensable."

Of the dozen or so '52 s who call the Hanover area their primary home,Drewryand Frank Logan are probably senior by reason of their 40 years of residency. About Hanover, Frank says, "There has been tremendous growth. Dartmouth has grown to be the leading liberal arts university in the nation and as a result Hanover has become a unique and increasingly affluent community with abundant educational, cultural, medical and recreational resources. We have no plans to move but the long, cold winters are an increasing challenge."

Bill and Maggie Montgomery also have a home in Hanover along with other residences in Carmel, California, and Harbour Ridge, Florida. Writing from Carmel, Bill says, "We've seen a number of '52s including Pete Zischke, Grove Bryant, John Bartlett, Lee Cliff and Wey Lundquist. I'm looking forward to our 16th annual '52 Christmas luncheon in San Francisco. Every classmate is welcome. Ray Buck's next newsletter will have the date and location."

Our class president Pete McSpadden reports, "Barbara and I are enjoying a life which includes summers on Pebnobscott Bay in Rockport, Maine, and winters in Connecticut. We travel to visit children and grandchildren in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Bozeman, Montana. A question: Is the class interested in a '52 trip either domestically or overseas?" Incidentally, Pete will be guest columnist for the next issue of these notes.

Skip Meneely tells us that he's recently returned from six weeks in the tiny, remote European nation of Montenegro. Skip does pro bono consulting work for the government sponsored International Executive Service Corps (IESC). The organization assists struggling businesses in struggling foreign nations. In this trip, his second for IESC, Skips assignment was to help an electrode manufacturing company located in the mountains bordering Bosnia.