I have no good news to report except that I spoke to president Lou Oldershaw and he’s doing fine.


On the flip side, we have two deaths to report. Kenneth Alton McDonald died November 19, 2012. Ken was very active while at school: He was in Palaeopitus, Green Key, DOC, Cabin & Trail and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After graduating he was an isolationist until Pearl Harbor, when he joined the 10th Mountain Division (with me) and served with distinction in Italy. He was a lawyer who left the East and eventually settled in Seattle, where he established himself as defender of the downtrodden. Ken was on the Alumni Council (1962-64) and reunion committee (1999) and served as a national research development program screener (1989-90) and class agent (2002).


Richard Binge Baldauf died September 14, 2012. After school he served on the battleship USS Massachusetts from 1942 to 1945 and received seven battle stars. He wrote poetry before and during the war, published an English grammar and taught English frequently at a local college.


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—Andrew Ruoff, 19149 SE Sea Turtle Ct., A102, Tequesta, FL 33469; (561) 747-1783; aruoff@bellsouth.net