Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 30, No. 02 -- March-April 1952 - Archives ...

New Club officers, for a new Club — Muskegon^ Mich. — L to R, Leo L. Link, *43, Secretary;
George Gaaaon, Jr., '36, Vice-president; John Frederick, '28, Musk^on Foundation
Chairman; Jim Price, '43, Treasurer, and George Ludwig, '25, Present.
lr>' to anticipate except to say that this proj'cct
w being carri d on somewhat independently of
the reunion gatherins proper, since some who for
one reason or another will not be able to show
up here in June will nevertheless be eager to
contribute to the jubilee fund.
Some have inquired about the program for the
reunion week-end activities and have sent in
suggestions. The program has not yet been
worked out in detail, but there is an established
general pattern which will include, after
registration, the class get-togetlicr and dinner
or buffet lunch on Friday evening in the Morris
Inn (we'll be the first reunion class to benefit
by these facilities), the memorial Mass on Saturday
morning for the deceased members of the
class, the President's luncheon Saturday noon, and
the general Alumni banquet Saturday evening.
Any other special class activities will have to be
forced into this rather tight frame.
Col. Don Wilkins has noted that our ver>popular
classmate HD^ McCaffery, killed four
da>'s after Pearl Harbor, en route to the Pacific,
was probably the first Notre Dame casualty in
World War 11. Don's recommendations: "That
an appropriate memorial to Lt. Gol. Hugh Mc-
Caffcry be presented to the University by the
Class of '27 and dedicated as part of the 25th
Class Reunion. This memorial could take the
form of a i^Jigious article needed for the church
or chapel." Don suggests that a special committee
might be ^pointed to contact class members
on behalf of this memorial. Herb Jones would,
I'm sure, w*eIccHne any further suggestions to implement
this Hne proposal.
From Ray Kdky has come the following announcement
by way of the Alumni Office:
''Ra^inond J. Kdley, '27, an attorney and
justice of the peace in Grafton Tounship, Mc-
Henry County, has announced his candidacy* for
representative in the state legislature in Illinois
from the Eighth Senatorial District: ^fcHenr>%
Lake, and Boone counties. Mr. Kelley, a Democrat,
has practiced law in Huntley, Illinois, his
home town, for the past six years. Prevaously
he served his community as postmaster for sixteen
years. Primary: ^ril 8, 1952."
Frank Fendcf^ast, still highly enthusiastic over
the presence of little Susan Jane in the household,
\mtes that he's not sure that he can make the
reunion, but is still hoping. I notice that on
Frank's questionnaire there's a mention ol a
couple of books he would like to get published.
If there's an enterprising publisher in the crowd,
here's an opportunity for mutual advantage.
Vincente Gomez of Vera Cruz, Mexico, reports
a family of one girl and two boys. He also sends
on the addresses of Rani Flores and Fernando
Trcvino, for which we arc grateful. Vincente is
assistant chief of the consumers' department with
the Mexican Light and Power Co.
Vince Ball, whose son Eddie is a senior at ND,
plans to be back both for his son's graduation
and for our twrntv'-fifth. Vince owns and operates
a Men's Clothing Store in Plymouth, Indiana.
Clayte Lcroux, Assistant Personnel Director for
the Slonarch Aluminum Mfg. Co., Cleveland,
characterizes his three young offspring, two girls
and a boy. as respectively and prospectively a
debutante, an artist, and a "pistol." Clayte has
been ver\' active in local alunmi affairs and is
now tlic chairman of the Scholarship, Placement,
and Directory Committees. He sees Joe Sweeney,
still "fat and 5as5>-," occasionally John Ofancmns,
Ed Orlikowsld (in the abstract business], JcliB
Butler, and Stan LcchowidE, father of a numerous
family (9).
Bill Coyne is puzzled at the make-up of our
roster, wonder why the names of George Scsona,
Gene Halligan, Tony Rosas, 'Dog* White, Mike
O'Kecfe, Bucky Dabmen, aad Christy Flanagan
don't appear. I'm - not sure about all of these,
but some of them have evidently preferred to be
listed with the class in which they finished rather
than with their starting class.
Bill Kavanau^, former student manager, now
Washington, D. C, manager of the American
Cyanamid Co. and father of four boys, promises
to be on hand in June and to talk things up in
his territory. George Walsh, another Washingtonian,
is non-committal about the reuniotu
George -was in the Navy during the War and
earned a Presidential Unit Citation and four
battle stars. Walt McKenna, active as an administrative
assistant in the Detroit Area Coundl of
the Boy Scouts and with three daughters, might
do well to keep in touch with Bill Kavanau|^.
Arnold Petersdunidt is one of the several academic
members of the class. Arnold is serving
as both teacher and controller at present in the
University of Portland. He has a nicely proportioned
family of four children, alternately boy and
girl, the eldest, Ted, a freshman at the University
of Portland.
John Carey of Toledo reports a very full public
life. John has been successively a member of the
Ohio House of Representaitves, vice-ma>-or and
mayor of Toledo, and is now judge of the
Court of Conunon Fleas and president of the
Common Pleas Judges Association of Ohio. John
has one son, bom last March. Another judge,
Malcolm Hatfield, of St. Joseph, KHchigan, is
completing his fifth term .is judge of the Michigan
Probate Court, twenty years in all. Besides
doing much lecturing throughout this country and
Canada, Malcolm has authored two books.
Jim Coogan sends a brief account of his career
since graduation, first in the export field, both
traffic and sales, then as Assistant Export Sales
Manager for thtt Carter's Ink Company, Cambridge,
Mass. In 1937 he set up a dry cleaning
plant in Fall River, with branch stores in neighboring
cities. Two years after Jim returned to
civilian life he sold his business and moved to
California in semi-retircment, from whicli he
emerged in 1949 to enter the Naval Ordnance
Test Station in Inyokem, California. Jim is
married, has no children; does not expect to be
able to make the reunion but promises to be
thinking of the gang.
. BiD Cooguk at Fall River, Mass., has a sun
at ND' and a daughter married and living in
South Bend. Bill has two grandchildren, but this
will not prevent his attending the reunion; they
are probably part of his reason for coming west.
Bill k»t a son, a Naval Pilot, in 1944.
Along with his questioimaire, Jim Brown, of
Sinringfield, Massachusetts, sends in some news
^d a st^estion:
''Only a short time ago I saw a very good
bound book issued by the alunmi of Princeton
CoUege for their ten year class reunion. This
same procedure is carried out at the end of
every ten years and a larger volume is published
for the silver anniversary. All of the class
members who have responded to the questionnaire
sent them are listed in this book with their
address and the position they now hold.
"If our class could afford to print a similar
book I believe that it is one of the few ways
of knowing where our former classmates are and
what they are doing. It is a good feeling to be
in any of the cities in the United States and
know that you can call a fellow Notre Dame
man. It is one of the definite advantages of
graduating from a nationally known school. Spiritually,
we have received the greatest wealth and
materially we have realized the friends who can
help us advance.
"I see Bemic Gaiber, class of 1928, quite often.
He lives imty a few miles from me in Katonah.
JaaMS J. O'Comior, '27, is located in the Appraisers
Stores in New York.
"Sunday I attended the Annual Breakfast of
the Notre Dame Club of New^ York City at the
Biltmore Hotel and of course I sav^- many of our
mutual friends who are also planning to attend
our Silver Anniversary in June."
Bin Heam also took advantage of the blank
side of the questionnaire to write a letter and so
• make life easier for the class secretary. BUI
writes:
"Dear Frank:
Writing to you about the reunion in June
certainty brings back memories of the days whm
we were fireshmen and I first made your acquaintance
along with C^ WekJi and Sam
Fnaaa — the Avon Trio. I certainly enjo>-ed the
trip back in '47, after nineteen years of absence,
and I am looking foru-ard to the one in June.
"Last week I had a note from Dan Cimninghan
asking me to help in rounding up the bc>*s
from this area — and to his surprise I am going
to do what I can in that matter. T correspond
with John Brinkman regularly and he will be
down I'm sure. Had a note on a Christmas
Card from John Foley up in Rutland, Vermont,
and he hopes to make the trip. My ex-roommate.
John E. SoUivas, gave me the same news on
his- card, too.
"As for myself, the going has hern pretty
much as that experienced by others. There have
been i^ and downs since 1927 but all in all I
can't complain. Last stmimer I finished up six
years with the Veterans' Administration in the
New York Regional Office, where I was Asst.
Chief of the Advisement and Guidance Section,
but as that program drew to a close I have
embarked upon a program that is as unr lated
with that field as one could choose.
"I am now busy getting a place in shape to
open an Auction Bam ivhere I hope to develop
the country type of auction that has come into
such favor aroiind here since the war. I must
tell you that I have been a devotee of this line
for the past twelve years, so it's really a case
of trying to swing the avocational into the vocational.
Aside from haring my own business (?)
one of the strong considerations w:is how to avoid
commuting to New York.
"As you can see I have not become expert vvith
the typewriter but let me assure you that it Is
better for you to bear with it than to have a
bout wtih my writing. If there is anything you
bdic%*e I can do to help out besides working with
Dan please let me know. If there is a per capita
expense 'fund for the reunion let me know and
I shall remit."
The shortest and most 'spirituous'- suggestion so
far for a successful reunion is that by Walter
(Red) Smith: "Scotch!"
There is finally a letter from Dan Cunningham,
our active mobilizer of the Metropolitan ar'-a and
best correqwndent. At the risk of duplicatin?
some of the nev^-s in this and the preceding '27
column I give Dan's whole newsy epistle:
"I have been in touch with quite a few of the
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