1947
Whether these past summer months were spent at work or at play, we hope they were enjoyable.
Friends of Tom Grimley will be sorry to read the account of his death published elsewhere in this MAGAZINE. His suicide came as a surprise to his friends.
Reports of marriages and engagements during the summer months have been many, and no doubt there are others of which we have not heard. In August, Miss Bette McKernan, a graduate of St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in Paterson, N. J., and now on its staff, was engaged to Ralph Powers, now attending Tuck School. Recently engaged, and with plans for marriage in September, are Miss Mary Louise Williamson, a graduate from Hathaway Brown School and from Ogontz Junior College and attending West Hill School in Boston, and Hal Clayton, now attending the Tuck School.
Miss Joanne Margaret McCarthy, a graduate of the College of New Rochelle was recently engaged to Paul Miller, presently attached to the USS Maltapon i. Engaged in April were Miss Martha C. Tucker and EdRoundy. Miss Tucker is a senior at New Hampshire University; "Roundy" is now completing work for his Masters Degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. In July, Miss Joan Aline Lebson and AI Bildner were engaged; A 1 is now at Tuck School. Engaged during May were Miss Barbara Ann Schmid and Lt. Richmond vanden Heuvel, presently stationed at Quantico, Va.
Married in Auburn, Maine in July were the former Miss Sally Ann White, and Ed Byrkit. Ushering at the ceremony was Rube Samuels. Ed and Sally plan to live in Pittsburgh this fall, where Ed will continue his engineering career. At East Orange, N. J., Miss Gertrude Evans became the bride of Dwight Smith. The bride is a graduate of New Jersey College for Women; Dwight is with the Boston and Maine Railroad. In Plymouth, Mass., Miss Anne
Piatt Withington was married to Ben Brewster. After a wedding trip to Bermuda, the couple plan to make their home in Plymouth
At a June wedding in Worcester, Miss Verah Claire Eckmeder became the bride of RichardCotton Johnson. "Cotton" will continue his graduate studies at Harvard this fall after a summer in Hanover. Miss Joan Catherine Mattucci was recently married to DuncanMacfarlan. On return from a wedding trip to Florida, they will reside in Glen Rock. On the scene as an usher was Kent Tice III. Married recently in were the former Miss Dorothy Ruth Blair and John "J.A." Anthony.
At this writing, Hank Spiers should have returned from his planned trip through Europe this summer. Hank sailed on the Queen Mary in June for Britain, France, Belgium, and possibly Spain. Richard Backus, having received his Masters Degree in Wild Life Geology from Cornell, is a member of a small party which will study wildlife in Newfoundland this summer. Dick will go to the University of North Carolina this fall to study for his Doctor's Degree in Icthiology (the science of fish).
Bob Foote is a graduate student in architecture at Yale. John Halpin has recently finished a nine-month Federal government interneship training in Washington, D. C., receiving practical training in government administration in public affairs. John was assigned the National Housing Authority and the Bureau of the Budget, and now is in Hanover at the Pubhe Affairs Laboratory in the Baker Library.
Vacationing in Greenville, Maine this summer is Newsletter Editor Bill Yakovac. Bill is looking forward to his final year at medical school. Willis Caryl plans to live in Portland, Oregon. Hal Johnston is instructing in mechanics at an extension of the University of Illinois. Alan Zeller is Third Officer on the SSFlying Cloud, a cargo vessel bound around the world. Among other ports, he expects to touch at Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Korea, and Yokohama. Bob Schoonmaker recently ac cepted employment with Eastman Kodak Rochester' New York, joining the Kodak Office Division.
Bruce Bryer is with the American President nes in San Francisco. Jim Rudolph is spending several years in France, studying at the Sorbonne and vacationing at Cannes between sessions. He plans to travel through Italy, Austria Greece, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and ngland. Bill Garfield is attending Fuller Theological Seminary, training for the Christian ministry or missionary work.
Chuck and Marie Langley are the proud parents of Cynthia Anne, born June 17,1948. Gerard Slattery is a cost accountant for Western Electric in Watertown, Mass. John Amorosino is a salesman for the Victor Safe & Equipment Cos. in New York City. Bob Frank »v/ ftUdent at the University of Michigan. mi Geber is attending Graduate School at Indiana University. Bob Keane is instructing at Thayer School. Ens Steve O'Leary is stationed on the USS Stribling. Doug Palmer is a milling foreman for General Mills, Inc in Lodi California. Dr. Charles Tourtellotte is interning at Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Ed Adjemian vacationed briefly at home in Toledo, taking leave from his researching at Rutgers. Sam Brody, recent honor graduate in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School, soon plans a trip to Europe. Roy Chenderhn travels through the midwest as a representative for prefabricated plumbing and heating installations for domestic housing
"Disgruntled '47 voters" should note the 1947 column in the December 1947 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. AS stated there, the members of the class executive committee elected by those members of the class who had left the campus before June 1947, were: JimBiggie, Fritz Alexander, Manny Bevero, and Pete Estin.
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