Class Note 1946
Issue
This will get to you in mid June so if you haven’t remembered the Alumni Fund, the last date to contribute is June 30. President Tom Adams is confident we’ll make our goal. Thank you all. Found Bill McManus in Long Meadow, Massachusetts. He is long retired from Massachusetts Life Insurance. He’s from Springfield, Massachusetts, so he’s not moved very far from the home base. Has five children and for himself reports good health and enjoying retirement. Old friend Dick Nylen now in Sarasota, Florida, long retired from the DuPont Co. Dick came out of Worcester, Massachusetts, then in Bronxville, New York, now for many years in sunny Florida. ’Round the girdled earth they roam. Reports good health and renewed some great times spent in Hanover in the fall of 1945. We had some other men with DuPont. Jack Howard, for one, and Joe Quig. Joe, where are you? Called your number in Delaware. Was advised phone disconnected. Joe, please send me your phone number. Thanks. A little further to the west and I found Jack Novascone in Escondido, California. No, I didn’t know where it was either. Jack retired from the Simmons Co. And I must ask your indulgence about some déjà vu that concerns Jack, the late Frank Ettari and myself. One early September day in 1942 I set out to go to Dartmouth. I was taking a night train out of New York, either Penn Station or Grand Central on one of those famous trains that went to Montreal by way of White River Junction, Vermont (garden spot of America). I was a bit terrified, never having left the wilds of Asbury Park, New Jersey. But I met up with Jack and Frank on the train so here it is—met two classmates before even enrolling in Dartmouth. And fast and good friends they remained. Frank came out of New Rochelle, New York, and Jack from South Orange, New Jersey. How well I remember that trip and I hope you’ll forgive my small personal recollection. I trust you are all well. For myself not so well: My wife, Judy, suffered a severe stroke in late February and is still hospitalized. Some of you have met her at our mini-reunions. And we’re doing that again this year on October 28-30. And think 65th! That’ll be 2011 and our final big reunion. With sadness I must advise the death of classmate Martin Brusse on November 5, 2009. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family.
—James M. Coleman Jr., 578 Navesink River Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701; (732) 741-5079; jscmonmouth@aol.com
July - Aug 2010
This will get to you in mid June so if you haven’t remembered the Alumni Fund, the last date to contribute is June 30. President Tom Adams is confident we’ll make our goal. Thank you all. Found Bill McManus in Long Meadow, Massachusetts. He is long retired from Massachusetts Life Insurance. He’s from Springfield, Massachusetts, so he’s not moved very far from the home base. Has five children and for himself reports good health and enjoying retirement. Old friend Dick Nylen now in Sarasota, Florida, long retired from the DuPont Co. Dick came out of Worcester, Massachusetts, then in Bronxville, New York, now for many years in sunny Florida. ’Round the girdled earth they roam. Reports good health and renewed some great times spent in Hanover in the fall of 1945. We had some other men with DuPont. Jack Howard, for one, and Joe Quig. Joe, where are you? Called your number in Delaware. Was advised phone disconnected. Joe, please send me your phone number. Thanks. A little further to the west and I found Jack Novascone in Escondido, California. No, I didn’t know where it was either. Jack retired from the Simmons Co. And I must ask your indulgence about some déjà vu that concerns Jack, the late Frank Ettari and myself. One early September day in 1942 I set out to go to Dartmouth. I was taking a night train out of New York, either Penn Station or Grand Central on one of those famous trains that went to Montreal by way of White River Junction, Vermont (garden spot of America). I was a bit terrified, never having left the wilds of Asbury Park, New Jersey. But I met up with Jack and Frank on the train so here it is—met two classmates before even enrolling in Dartmouth. And fast and good friends they remained. Frank came out of New Rochelle, New York, and Jack from South Orange, New Jersey. How well I remember that trip and I hope you’ll forgive my small personal recollection. I trust you are all well. For myself not so well: My wife, Judy, suffered a severe stroke in late February and is still hospitalized. Some of you have met her at our mini-reunions. And we’re doing that again this year on October 28-30. And think 65th! That’ll be 2011 and our final big reunion. With sadness I must advise the death of classmate Martin Brusse on November 5, 2009. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family.
—James M. Coleman Jr., 578 Navesink River Road, Red Bank, NJ 07701; (732) 741-5079; jscmonmouth@aol.com