Class Note 1949
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
With our 70th reunion a month away (September 27-29), ’49ers have to tell the College if they intend to be there. Alphabetically, I lead the list and will celebrate my 92nd birthday with Bob Baum, Bill Bellows, Joel Berson, Bob Fitch, Peter Gish, Slade Gorton, Ed Grant, Dale Jacobson, Joe LeBlanc, Bob Rooke, Jim Smith, Tommy Swartz, Doug Thompson, Ray Truncellito, Skip Ungar, Paul Woodberry, Jim Zafris, and, I hope, a few more of you. Jim Mytton and Nick Sheppard are maybe’s.
Cheers! For the first time in the 10 years I’ve been writing this column, all our classmates remain on this side of the grass.
After Joel Berson, Tommy Swartz, and I attended Jay Urstadt’s 90th celebration last October, I wrote that Jay was our youngest classmate. Then, Skip Ungar, with a January birthday, replaced him. Bill Ballard read that and called to say he thought Fred Smith deserved the youthful honors, which Fred confirmed. He was only 15 when he entered with us 49ers in March 1945 and didn’t turn 16 until the end of June 1945.
Fred spent his career with the U.S. State Department in a variety of assignments around the world, including writing a 600-page legal treatise still used for guidance. After retiring at 70 and moving to New Hampton, New Hampshire, he worked until three years ago as a consultant helping negotiate treaties, among other projects. Unfortunately, Fred’s poor health will keep him from reunion.
George Day has moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to an assisted living home near his daughter in Minneapolis. He spent most of his academic career as an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa. George has been a regular at class reunions, but isn’t sure if his mobility and vision problems will allow him to make it to Hanover. Keep trying, George!
Lou Harris is still going strong in White Bear Lake, Minnesota (near St. Paul). Retired from practicing law with a specialty in ground transportation, Lou keeps busy with book club and church activities.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)
Cheers! For the first time in the 10 years I’ve been writing this column, all our classmates remain on this side of the grass.
After Joel Berson, Tommy Swartz, and I attended Jay Urstadt’s 90th celebration last October, I wrote that Jay was our youngest classmate. Then, Skip Ungar, with a January birthday, replaced him. Bill Ballard read that and called to say he thought Fred Smith deserved the youthful honors, which Fred confirmed. He was only 15 when he entered with us 49ers in March 1945 and didn’t turn 16 until the end of June 1945.
Fred spent his career with the U.S. State Department in a variety of assignments around the world, including writing a 600-page legal treatise still used for guidance. After retiring at 70 and moving to New Hampton, New Hampshire, he worked until three years ago as a consultant helping negotiate treaties, among other projects. Unfortunately, Fred’s poor health will keep him from reunion.
George Day has moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to an assisted living home near his daughter in Minneapolis. He spent most of his academic career as an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa. George has been a regular at class reunions, but isn’t sure if his mobility and vision problems will allow him to make it to Hanover. Keep trying, George!
Lou Harris is still going strong in White Bear Lake, Minnesota (near St. Paul). Retired from practicing law with a specialty in ground transportation, Lou keeps busy with book club and church activities.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)