1951

Any day now, all classmates will receive by mail direct from the College housing reservations for our 55th reunion, June 12-15. Our assigned housing is in McCulloch Hall, one of the four newer dorms that make up the Wheelock Cluster across from the gym. McCulloch guests have one bath for each two rooms, and air conditioning that will be turned on if needed. A number of classmates, preferring motels to a dorm, have already made reservations at the Days Inn or Fireside Inn in Lebanon or other hostelries close by. For any questions, contact reunion chair Loye Miller (P.O. Box 5462, West Lebanon, NH 03784; 603-298-5878; loyei@ verizon.net).

Other official business in this reunion year includes the following: 'At the executive committee meeting held in Hanover on October 22 class president Henry Nachman appointed Bob Hopkins to act as chairman of the nominating committee for class elections prior to our 55 th reunion. The slate to be nominated includes class president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and 12 members of the executive committee. If you have names you would like to submit to the nominating committee, please send them to: R.W. Hopkins, 6 Pilgrim Road, Darien, CT 06820. The other members of the committee are Bill Boynton, Dave Batchelder, Pete Henderson, Buck Scott and Joe Welch."

Our own Walter Bush came to Hanover to drop the opening puck at the December hockey game with Harvard, honoring his incomparable contribution to the sport (he's in six hockey halls of fame). He brought luck, as the Green roundly upset the Crimson, 5-1.

Not with us at the fall mini was Dave King because of his marriage on that weekend to Mary Ann Papinski. He did the same smart thing I did—marry on your brides birthday and reduce the important dates in your calendar to just one. They plan to sell his place in Mundelein, Illinois, and move permanently to his newly winterized home on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Now on a flash back to 1955's October issue of DAM we learned that "after a three-year tour of duty as a lieutenant in the Navy, Roy Ireland took the fatal step with Miss Anne Loeb in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ireland attended Centenary Junior College and graduated from the Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia." From then to now Roy became Blake, enjoyed a long career with Raytheon as a consulting scientist and with Anne embarked on an exciting avocation, African wildlife photography. They just returned in September from their 11th African trip together. In that same issue of DAM scribe Dave Leslie noted, "Norma Ann Vlasek, an instructor at William Rainey Harper Elementary School, is the fiancee of the Rev. Richard Bucey, assistant pastor of Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church." Yes, they did many in December 1955, had three children and seven grandchildren and Dick still ministers to a flock in Hudson, Ohio. They are celebrating their 50 th between Christmas and New Year's on a cruise, surrounded by all their children, spouses and grandchildren.

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REUNION June 12-14 2006