George L. Earle, Jr. ’36, division\u00a0manager for Earle Rentals, is affiliated\u00a0with the Rotary Club, the\u00a0Newcomer Society in North America,\u00a0the Hi-Twelve Club and the Traverse\u00a0City Shrine Club. “Kunnock” writes,\u00a0“Upon graduating from OWU, I took\u00a0up residence and work in Oakland,\u00a0Maine in a family owned company. I\u00a0left Maine because of sickness in 1967\u00a0to live first in East Grand Rapids,\u00a0Mich. and then came north in 1968.\u00a0Too much strength and mind were\u00a0used up in business and community\u00a0service while in Maine and I had to\u00a0slow down.<\/p>\n
“I hear regularly from Bill\u00a0Pickering ’34 and John Mitchell ’36.\u00a0While I was in Phoenix, Arizona two\u00a0years ago, I tried to contact Jack Carter. However, the number that\u00a0was in the 1974 Membership Directory\u00a0was discontinued and I just don’t\u00a0know where he may have gone. Upon\u00a0returning from the far west, we\u00a0stopped by to see Bob Beckett ’39. He\u00a0was my roommate in 1935. It was our\u00a0first personal visit since 1939. Last\u00a0year I picked up the Detroit Free\u00a0Press and read that Bill Metzel ’53\u00a0and his three children were burned to death in a fire at his home in\u00a0Rochester, Mich. His wife survived.\u00a0“On a trip east, we stopped by in\u00a0Canton, Ohio to try to find Howard Wiant ’35. He is a methodist minister\u00a0in that community. We could only get\u00a0as far as talking to his secretary on\u00a0the telephone. I have also wondered\u00a0what may have happened to Victor\u00a0Weller’36 who lived in the Delaware,\u00a0Ohio region. I’ve lost contact with Ken
\nLockwocd ’36 and Don Wright also.\u00a0“I had a nice visit with Burt Elder\u00a0’33 a couple of years ago. Burt was my\u00a0‘big brother’ while I was a freshman\u00a0and I have always held him in high\u00a0esteem. The last time that we had\u00a0seen one another was when he visitedme in Maine dwing the early sixties.<\/p>\n
“As for my personal life, we are very proud of our daughter, Mayrene, who graduated from Northeastern University in 1974. Her first teaching job with a BS degree in PE was at Wellesley College. Her borther, George Ill, is ten years older than Mayrene and shares the same birth date. He is an engineer with Faye, Spofford and Thorndike in Boston. So our two children are ‘downeasters’ and we are fortunate in being able to visit them at least twice a year.<\/p>\n
“I believe that Dick Kinney ’34 will confirm that I gave myself to our fraternity while I was in school. I wanted to bring the group together. Those days will always be the most remembered because I didn’t have the worries connected with working. I had much free time to enjoy frater\u00adnity life. Dick Kinney was a member of the same high school fraternity that l belonged to.<\/p>\n
“College life has changed. We, of the older generation, are not too well accepted by the present group. This is not unkind thinking, but just a reflection of the change in times. Yet, I cannot forget the days when I knew Francis Shepardson, Bill Dawson and Bob LaFollete of Wisconsin who came to OWU and our fraternity house at 54 West Lincoln for a visit with the younger generation. And who can forget that deep voice of Senator Borah?<\/p>\n
“I still carry on many friendships that started out in my boyhood and continued through OWU. I had many friends and have kept in touch with them as best I could with my available time. My life has been wonderful because of this. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” George and his wife, Eva, can be reached at 2202 Munson at Avenue B, Traverse City, Mich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
George L. Earle, Jr. ’36, division\u00a0manager for Earle Rentals, is affiliated\u00a0with the Rotary Club, the\u00a0Newcomer Society in North America,\u00a0the Hi-Twelve Club and the Traverse\u00a0City Shrine Club. “Kunnock” writes,\u00a0“Upon graduating from OWU, I took\u00a0up residence and work in Oakland,\u00a0Maine in a family owned company. I\u00a0left Maine because of sickness in 1967\u00a0to live first in East Grand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-winter-1976-theta-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}