1947
Within the month, George Ferrarese's Newsletter should carry a report of the very successful Harvard-Dartmouth gathering in Boston after the game.
Announced in August is the engagement of Miss Mary-Hope Minton, soon to receive a B.A. degree from Tufts College, and Bill Scollard, now attending the graduate school of business administration of Harvard. Recently engaged are Miss Deanne Elizabeth Muenzer, a harpist, and Jiggs Fuller, now with Boys'Life magazine. Miss Ann Prescott Hosmer of Belmont, Mass. is engaged to Wilbert Greenlaw.
Lloyd VanLunen is teaching the seventh grade in Framingham, Mass. Bob Wallis, Ensign USN at Pensacola with Manny Benero,lien Tice, and Keith Robertson, has successfully landed his trainer six times on the decks of the USS Cabot. Bob's next assignment will be at Corpus Christi, and after graduation from advanced training, he will report for fleet duty.
The former Miss Doreen Anne Thackeray and Bob Prochaska were married in August in Ossining, N. Y. After a wedding trip to St. Louis, Mo., the Prochaskas will live in New Brunswick, N. J., where Bob is on the faculty of Rutgers University and working for his advanced degree in Chemistry. On September 10, Miss Beryl Simmons and Alan Bagni were married in St. James Episcopal Church in Amesbury, Mass.
Miss Charlette Davies was married in early September to Jordan Eskin. The bride is a graduate of Smith College. Ushers at the wedding were Alan Gasner, Gerry Phillips, and Al Bildner. Jordan is at the Yale Law School.
Visitors at the Hanover Inn during the past month were Alan Gasner, Larry Goodman,Mr. and Mrs. Bob Albrecht of Winona, Minn., Ronald Schiavone, Norm Falkin, Pete Costich,Al Hall, and Tom Gustenhoven.
Bob Frank, back from a summer trip to Europe, has returned to Ann Arbor, Mich, to continue his study of law towards his LL.B. degree. Bob speaks of seeing Tom Leggat and his brother and Bill Goode at the Embassy in Paris during his summer trip.
Fred Flindell tells quite a story. In September, 1947 he received a B.A. degree from Yale in music and then returned to Hanover for a year's piano study with Lydia Behrendt. On February 7, 1948 he married Susan Reinoehl, a senior, then, at Swarthmore College, and finally left Hanover to study philosophy at the Yale Graduate School. Last April Fred gave a piano recital in Concord, N. H., and now plans to teach music after receiving the Bachelor and Masters of Music, offered by the Yale Music School. Fred and Susan have one daughter, Carolyn Jean, born on the 28th of December, 1948.
Bill Fetzer is working in Wyandotte, Mich., as assistant to the Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. CottonJohnson is married and working for his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics at Harvard.
Russ Fraser is a graduate student in English Lit. at Harvard, working for his Ph.D. Russ is married and has a 17-month-old daughter, Karen. Jack Garry is in his 4th year at Harvard Medical School, looking forward to his coming internship.
Chuck Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Samuels and Mr.and Mrs. Jess Chadwell enjoyed a short reunion in Washington, D. C. on the weekend following Labor Day. Chuck has recently returned from Central America and will be working this year as a mining engineer in West Virginia. Leo and Cathy Cunningham are living in Kansas City and were visiting relatives in Washington.
Charles Osborn is a junior engineer for the Standard Oil Co. in Cleveland. Gerry Slattery is an accounting clerk for Western Electric Co. in New York City. Lloyd Smith is a building contractor in Great Falls, Mont. Pete Townsend is an instructor in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. Ralph Rath is working for Mergenthaler Linotype Cos. in Brooklyn. Bob Russ is a bridge designer for the Connecticut State Highway Department. FredSistare is a clerk for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Springfield, Mass. FranklinWuerfel is working for Gremmel & Wuerfel in New York City.
Way back in May, Sandy Gross wrote of his engagement to Miss Roberta Davis of Edmond, Okla. Sandy is still doing advertising work in New York city for Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell, and Bayles, says he hears from Joe Eisaman occasionally. Ed Davidson is working for a short period in Washington, D. C. As a geologist for the Mineral Deposits Branch of the Geological Survey, he is a technical reviewer for the present, but soon expects to become a field man, working on potash deposits in Carlsbad, N. M. Ed is married and has a young daughter, Denise Jennifer Davidson.
Art Diemer is working for Carbide & Carbon Chemical Corp. in the Construction Department in Charleston, W. Va., and hints of losing his single status in the near future. BillWallace is working for his M. S. in geography at the University of Wisconsin and hopes to continue towards his Ph.D., eventually planning to teach at the college level. Harley Timbers tells of spending the summer of '47 working in Wyoming before settling down to work at Western Electric Co., Inc. in the purchasing department. He speaks of seeing Howie Doolittle and Lawrence Steuber at an Alumni Club dinner; Bernie O'Shea at Ralph Power's wedding. Others Harley has seen within the past year are Cotton Johnson, Pete Estin, IggyLohse, Norm Falkin, Art Wilson, and SkipO'Rourke.
Norm Fink worked during this past summer in the legal department of Remington Rand Inc. in N.Y.C., is now attending Harvard Law School and, upon graduation this spring, hopes to work around Boston or New York. Bob Price is living in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. and working for Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. in N.Y.C. and seems to be quite busy. JulianSchmer is in a training program at a New York advertising agency, expecting during this year to attain the status of account executive.
Dick Wetherhead is doing geological wellsite work in a developing oil field near the Venezuelan border, southwest of Lake Maracaibo. Dick seems to enjoy his life in the wilds of South America, not particularly disturbed by the Matilone Indians who live around them in a not too civilized manner.
On the 15th of September your secretary and his wife traveled to East Orange, N. J. at the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. AI Bildner to spend the evening in their comfortable apartment with Norm Falkin and Fritz Alexander. The purpose was to talk over the organization of the class within the area of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Classmates in that area have already heard from the committee; they can help the committee by showing their support in answering queries and forwarding suggestions.
Secretary, Apt. SK, 115 Stuyvesant Pl., Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Treasurer, 37 Jason St., Arlingtdh 74, Mass.
