1943
TWELVE YEARS LATER: Better face it, men. It's been 12 years since the class of 1943 assembled on Hanover plain. Germany had invaded Poland a few weeks earlier. At times it may have seemed like yesterday. A little more thorough reflection reminded us, however, that quite a few things have happened in those 12 years. Take this past summer, f'r instance. A few less bachelors. A few more babies. New jobs for some. Returns to the armed services for others.
The departure of Rod Wolbarst from his job as publicity director for the DCAC was reported in the regular news section of the July issue, but we want to take "official" recognition of it in the class notes column. Rod has joined the public relations department of Yale and Towne (hardware mfgs.) in New York. He, Lee, and Susan Jane are living in Mamaroneck.
Word has arrived that six other '43ers have been called back to military service, ErnestBall, Mike Diaz, Russ Feuerhan, Al Hardie,Bradley Morse and Fred Wallis. (For other news about Hardie and Wallis, see Weddings.) Navy Veteran of Anzio, Southern France and Okinawa, Ernest has been serving on the USS Kimberly with a New York fleet post office address. Fred is also in the Navy. Mike has been recalled by the Army, Russ by the AilForce and AI by the Army Signal Corps. Bradley is once again a chaplain in the Air Force.
Further news of Lt. Bob Fuiks, whose recall was chronicled in May, says he is aboard the USS Fremont, also out of New York.
And to round out this communique, we have word of three pre-Korean veterans, Captains Art Cohen, Dan Kramer and WilliamMilmore. Dr. Cohen has returned from the European theater and is serving at the Station Hospital, Fort Ord, Calif. Somewhat tardily we report that Dan has been serving with the 618th A.C. & W. Sq., Miho Air Base, with a San Francisco APO address. Capt. Milmore (one of the class' West Point graduates) and Mrs. Milmore visited his home in Swampscott (Mass.) in June. After three years in Japan and Korea, he has been assigned to Fort Sill, Okla.
Bob Meservey, formerly of Hanover and New York, has an Army address (Fort Belvoir, Va.), but we assume his work as an engineer with the Radiation Branch ERDL is of the civilian variety.
New members of the married men's ranks are Pres Moore and Fred Wallis. Pres was married June 23 in the Little Church Around The Corner, New York City, to Nathalie Clair Hague of Toronto, Can. Clark Moore was best man for his brother. Nathalie is a member of the New York Junior League, and the Amateur Comedy Club and a graduate of Havergal College, Toronto, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. On May 8 Fred was married to Bodil Ammitzboll in his hometown of Durango, la. They are making their home in Laurel, Miss.
In June we reported the engagements of Al HarcLie and Don Kersting. To complete the record, Al was wed to June Carlson in Montclair, N. J., August 4, and Don was married to Doris Joyce Alverson June 30, in First Presbyterian Church, Mansfield, O.
Engagements were announced in July of Pharmacologist Jim Gilfillan and Investment Analyst Pres Brooks. Jim's fiancee is Selma Elizabeth Wurtz of Short Hills, N. J., who is a graduate of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa. Both are employed by Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research, Rahway, N. J. Pres was scheduled to be married September ag to Ellen Munroe of Brookline, Mass., member of the class of 1950 at Skidmore.
The stork report this month concerns the Mel Fenichells of Arlington, Va., the Bud Lassers of Jamestown, N. Y., Smed Wards of Media, Pa., and the Edward Youngloves of Deerfield, III. A son, Peter Condon, was born to Patricia and Mel June 30. According to our records it's their first. A daughter, Elizabeth Kay, arrived at the Lassers May 14. (Son David is now three.) Alice and Smed are parents of a daughter, Cynthia Lawrence, born February 13. The Youngloves' third daughter was born August 3 in Evanston.
Three '43 scholars who completed courses this year are Frank Hartmann, Johnny Wynne and Bill Zeitung. Frank received a master's degree from Harvard Business School June 21 and John got his B.L.S. degree from St. John's University June 13. The Zeitungs returned in June from Paris where Bill has been studying the history of art for the past three years at the Sorbonne. Specializing in Byzantine art, he received the degree of Docteur-des-Lettres. During the summers he and his wife toured Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. In an interview with his hometown newspaper, the Meriden (Conn.) Record, Bill said French production had increased during the past three years, but prices had also risen. As for politics, the DeGaullists appeared to be about as bad as the Communists.
A nice letter from Bill Moseley had to be held over during the summer. We quote, in part:
"My career since leaving Dartmouth has been no more chequered than those of our classmates. Navy at Yorktown, Va., and then Manila, P. I., for six months on shore patrol duty after the war was over. Nothing heroic there. Then, married in 1944 to a Washington girl, went to work as reporter for the Washington Times-Herald in 1946 and quit in 1950 to take my present job as plant editor for the Ford Assembly Plant at Somerville (Mass.).
"Actually the job is a combination editor, reporter, photographer, public relations man, speech writer, company representative at dinners, etc., chief cook, bottle-washer and nursemaid to 1500 of the toughest (and touchiest) labor force in U. S. industry."
Bill reports seeing Tom McManus when he drives in from his Ford dealership in Wayland. He also lives close to Bob and NancyWight in Winchester.
Direct word from Class Treasurer StanPriddy found him and brother Al '42 in Texas last spring. (Indirect word via Farmer Mead revealed that Stan spent part of the summer sailing in England.) Stan said he saw Ed Tuffly going down a street in Houston in an automobile, but didn't have a chance to look him up. He also reported being indoctrinated with Texas philosophy of optimism—"nobody ever loses—everybody always makes money, and, consequently, the world—Texas, that is —is a wonderful place."
On the medical front: Dr. Brad Copeland is a clinical pathologist for N. E. Deaconess Hospital, Boston. He, Buffie, and daughters are living in Needham. Dr. Paul Harvey has forsaken Boston City Hospital for work in his native town, Youngstown, O. Back from an AEC project in Japan, Dr. Dave Hoffman has been at the VA Hospital in Albany, N. Y. Dr. Charlie Kane, having completed his training at the Cleveland Clinic, has opened an office for the practice of internal medicine in Brockton, Mass. Another former Cleveland Clinic-ite, Dr. Fent Lane is a physician at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.
Still with Connecticut Mutual, Kelly Coffin has left Hartford for the New York office. He and Jane are residing in Jackson Heights. Belatedly we report the move of Textileman Graham Conklin early last year from Baltimore to Atlanta. It's all in the same company, Turner Halsey. Richard Foley is with Grenda Cafe, Ann Arbor, Mich.
From railroad equipment to surgical dressings, Atty. Bill Remsen is in the legal department of Johnson 8c Johnson, New Brunswick, N. J. Bill Robinson of the Westfield (Mass.) Robinsons is advertising manager, Southampton (N. Y.) Press. Tony Rud is a reporter for the Berkshire Evening Eagle in Great Barrington, Mass. Diplomat Howie Thomas is an Assistant Cultural Officer for the State Department in Paris.
And now for a program note about next month's column: Have you heard about Newsman Herb Harrigan's recent trip to England? What did City Planner Johnny Reps tell Herb in Ed Bock's London flat? Who is Ariel Bock? Read "A '43 at the 'gi British Festival." Coming in November. Don't miss it.
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