What a great 70th reunion! I write this two weeks later but almost two months before you read it. Peter Cardozo (with Susan’s important help) will do his usual super job in Thirty-Nine Out in naming who was here and what we did. In this limited space I will simply say that 16 class members, six widows and a total of almost 50 attended. Included was Hal Ripley ’29, with wife Mary, who celebrated his 80th reunion with us. “Rip” is 102! Our profound thanks go to the College, especially Jennifer Casey, assistant director of class activities, for taking such great care of us.


At our class meeting I named the six classmates who had died since the printing of our 70th reunion class directory last February. Most recent was George Hanna, baseball star in our college days and class president from 2000 to our 65th reunion in 2004. Fred Upton reported that he attended George’s moving memorial service September 24, which featured a cornet solo of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” to mark his youthful baseball prowess and love of the game. Our heartfelt condolences go to George’s wife, Shirley, and children Tom, Susan, Kate and Lucy and their families.


To Peter’s complete surprise, I presented a glowing accolade recognizing his distinguished service as 1939’s newsletter editor that had been adopted by the Class Newsletter Editors Association just a week before our reunion. The class immediately adopted this same citation as our own thankful tribute to Peter. 


—Robert L. Kaiser, 37 Rayton Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-4320