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Kathy, is a freshman at the U of New Hampshire.
Beth says her father attended his 50th
Reunion at Cornell last year; she's now looking
forward to our 25th.
Sally Lockwood Bradley completed some
courses she was taking at Cornell and worked
for a while as executive housekeeper at the
new Sheraton Inn in Ithaca. Now she is cafeteria
manager in the Ithaca School District
lunch program (feeding 600 kids lunch every
day!). She lives at 702 N. Triphammer
Road, Ithaca. Sally's son, Jonathan, a Cornell
student, was married on Nov. 26. Sally made
the three-tiered wedding cake and her daughter
Cindy was flower girl.
Robert T. '44 and Alice Kincaid Cochran
are very pleased that their oldest son, Fletcher,
has been accepted at Cornell for next
year. The Cochrans live at 249 Kent Place
Blvd., Summit, N.J.
Beth Brockway Doe has a full-time project
restoring her early American country
house in New Hampshire. She is doing most
of the work herself but photographs of the
house and the setting show it to be well
worth the effort. Her address is RD 2, Box
158, Meredith.
Betty Jane Francel Graham writes that
her daughter, Tolley, is a freshman at Northwestern
U, president of her pledge class, and
very happy with college life. Bill '42 and
Betty Jane live at 912 Pontiac Rd., Wilmette,
111. The John Klitgords (June Gilbert) seem
to keep busy even with all three children
away at college. June does church and hospital
work; John has been sick, but is better
now and working hard for a new library in
their town, Lima, N.Y. (Their address is
7347 E. Main St.) Needless to say, they
spend some time on the road visiting their
three children at three different colleges,
Mansfield, Rhode Island, and Penn State.
Lawrence and Betty Ann Bischoff Swezey
sent a photograph of their eight handsome
children. Too bad they're way out west and
we can't see them in person. They live at
4107 Briarwood Way, Palo Alto, Calif.
Virginia Farley Hughes has the same old
address but a brand-new name. Ginny was
married on April 9, 1966, to Robert Wetherill,
'41. They live at 120 Golf View Rd,, Ardmore,
Pa. Ginny's son, Garry, lives with
them, and is a sophomore in high school;
daughter Christine is in college.
It was great to hear news from so many of
you at Christmas, but remember "Christmas
comes but once a year" and we'll need more
news to keep this column coming. Why don't
you "sit right down and write your class a
letter . . .?"
-Caroline Norfleet Church
'44
Men: J. Joseph Driscoll Jr.
8-7 Wilde Ave.
Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026
No news is no NEWS. That's the explanation
for no '44 column in the February issue.
But things are looking up. The '67 dues are
beginning to roll in to John Meyers, and he
has already sent notes from classmates that
will keep me in material for a while. Keep
those personal notes coming. There are only
so many Cornell functions that can be covered.
They provide some good material to
report, but news about you is the basis for
this column. General news about Cornell is
better covered by others. Your correspondent
has a '44 bias that he can't overcome; at
least, until he is impeached and convicted, or
otherwise removed from office. (Thanks to
Professor Gates, I still differentiate between
impeachment and conviction.)
Anyway, that '44 bias is carried into the
report of the dinner on Dec. 5 honoring 30
years of great service to Cornell by head athletic
trainer Frank (Doc) Kavanagh. Bob
Ready was the dinner chairman, and staged
an affair that feted Doc in a manner that was
much like his Irish wit. Lou Daukas, Charlie
Robinson, Bob Dillon, Bill Whitney, Dan
Morris, and your correspondent joined Bob
Ready in paying tribute for the class. Coach
Carl Snavely was a featured speaker, and
was thoroughly enjoyed by some of the members
of the great '39 and '40 teams - Hal
McCullough, Walt Matuszak, Howie Dunbar,
"Pop" Scholl, Bill Murphy, and Walt
Sickles. The high point of football at Cornell
in our years certainly had to be their 21-7
victory over Ohio State in 1940. Fred Westfall
'45 and Joe DiStasio '48 were among
others present who played a lot of football
when most of us were in school.
From the sidewalks of New York we turn
to Donald E. Bruce at Calle 4-168, La Rambla,
Ponce, Puerto Rico. Don enjoyed the
20th Reunion two years ago, and has returned
to the States three times since then.
Last summer he and his family picked up a
new car in Detroit, spent a week vacationing
at Lake Michigan, then took a circuitous
route back to his mother's farm at Charlottesville.
The Bruce family is planning another
stateside vacation this July, including a
trip to eastern Canada and Expo 67 in Montreal,
and a stop near Augusta, Ga., where
Don has 350 acres of recently purchased
woodland (not the Augusta National Golf
Club, I trust). Don completed 10 years of
service with Commonwealth Oil Refining
Co. in January. He would welcome calls
from any '44s who visit Puerto Rico.
Out where the tall corn grows is our writer
of fiction Kurt Vonnegut. He is a lecturer in
fiction at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and
was featured in the June 1966 issue of the
Iowa Alumni Review. The former managing
editor of the Sun didn't limit his college attendance
to Cornell. "I went to college for
six years, never flunked a course, and never
got a degree." Kurt enlisted in 1942, and was
sent to Carnegie Tech to study mechanical
engineering. Later, infantry needs were
greater than graduate engineer needs, and
Kurt went overseas as a scout with the illfated
106th Division.
Captured by the Germans, he was sent to
Dresden for work details as a contract laborer.
He was there on Feb. 13-14, 1945,
when British and American heavy bombers
carried out a raid that left the city burning
for seven days with the loss of an estimated
135,000 lives. British journalist David Irving
has described the terror in his book, The Destruction
of Dresden. Kurt, other American
prisoners, and their German guards, escaped
in the shelter of a buried meat locker. He is
now working on Blue Monday, which fictionalizes
his experience as a prisoner of war.
Kurt has observed that the themes of this
book are the first that he has not been able
to laugh at in his career as a writer.
On a more cheerful note, the year 1967
was welcomed in by a party at the home of
Tom and Alice (Kincaid) '43 Cochran in
Summit, N.J. The class was well represented
by Tom, Russ Kerby, Seton Henry, and two
Philadelphians, Pete Miller and your correspondent.
Older Cornellians present were
'43 s Cliff Whitcomb and Harry Wheller.
And the class is well represented on the list
of Cornell Fund Chairmen. Included are
"Skip" Paul, Binghamton; Charlie Haynes,
Detroit; B. Noyes, Darien-Stamford; Ray
Van Sweringen, and Jim Russell, New Jersey.
Many others are working at the Tower Club,
leadership gift, and all-class levels in their
areas. Perhaps they should contact Connie
(Double Pay) Cosgrove, one of Treasurer
John Meyers' favorite classmates. Connie
paid his 1966 dues twice, but will "try like -
to avoid that this year."
And Bob Ready, like John Meyers, is concerned
about support. John's Cornell family,
according to the alumni records, is 1,158
'44s. Bob and Ann (Grady) '45 have only
nine Cornells - two graduates (themselves)
and seven potentials - in their family. But
Bob says that he has to work day and night
Cornell. He took over the Howard Johnson
to get ready to send the classes of '7X and
'8X to Cornell. He took over the Howard
Johnson Motor Lodge, New Brunswick, N.J.,
in December. When planning hotel reservations
in the Princeton-New Brunswick area,
don't forget Bob Ready's personal Cornell
scholarship fund. Present student costs in
the endowed colleges are estimated at $3,600
per year. On that basis, Bob and Ann can
look forward to $100,800 in education expenses
for seven four-year students. Is there
any better reason for staying at Bob's motel
- except the quality of service?
'46
Men: Richard E. Turner
2 Ridgley Terrace
Jamestown, N.Y. 14701
William B. Richardson is a design engineer
with the R.E. Darling Co., of Gaithersburg,
Md. They are the manufacturers
of specialty products for the aerospace industry.
Bill received an invention award in
May 1966 for his work on a rocket-propelled
cluster weapon. He, his wife Faye, and their
two girls and son live at 1107 DeVere Dr.,
Silver Springs, Md.
James Beckett Jr. is a plant manager in
Tyler, Tex. Jim, his wife Jane, and their five
children live at 700 Windsor PL, Tyler.
John T. Collinson was named asssistant
general manager of Chesapeake & Ohio/Baltimore
& Ohio railroads. He joined B & O's
engineering department shortly after graduating
from Cornell.
Dr. R.F. Brodsky is chief engineer with
the Space General Corp. The Brodskys live
at 192 E. Radcliίfe Dr., Claremont, Calif.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has
announced that Burt Schultz has joined the
public relations staff of the firm and will be
responsible for radio and television publicity.
His headquarters will be in New York.
Melvin C. Magidson ranked fifth nationally
in percentage of quota achieved in the
fifth annual sales campaign of the National
Life Insurance Co. of Vermont. He is an associate
of the Atlanta General agency of
National Life.
Dr. Walter F. Ballinger II has been ap-
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