1946

Dues and Don'ts

Hi, mob, all 900 of you. You are all on the mailing list this issue gratis. The plan to remind you about dues for this year, which also covers your subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. No coffee table is appropriate without the Big Green magazine. 1946 is so large that we have to have some tie to hold us together. These are "Dues and Don'ts;" let's have more "Dues."

Dick and Lucy Bowser, on vacation, are camping around in the Rockies, they trekked from Denver to Lake Louise keep in touch with your cardiac specialist Bowse. At Forest Hills this afternoon Hermie Obermayer, the Mickey Spillane of 1946, was spotted watching the play. He's with the Long Island FreePress. Keep an eye on new book announcements, he'll hit with one soon. Here's success early in life; Walt Snickenberger has just been appointed Assistant to Cornell University's President Malott. Snick and Mary and small Snick Jr. head for Ithaca this fall. Congratulations, Walt. Texas may be the future home of Joe Donahue, now Attorney Donahue. "Shipwreck" Kelley is with Home Life Insurance of New York in their Boston office. Kel and Nick just bought a home at Manchesterby-the-Sea. And more success in the insurance field: George Hopkins has just been upped to assistant director of group sales for Massachusetts Mutual. Good going, George.

Remember one of our best rock climbers, old Phil Osberg? Well, Os just got his Ph.D. and is now an assistant professor at Penn State. Bill Striker received his Master of Science degree from Tufts last June. Out at Western Reserve University, Len Gamniel received his Dr. of Dental Surgery. Chip Coleman passed his Jersey bar exams and is now with Patterson Cooper and Schaefer in Newark. I take it that $1 a week salary is up a bit now, Chip. BillStaley has just been appointed a foreign service staff officer with the State Department. His next assignment Iran. Mossadegh will now receive the Staley diplomacy. You know FrankGaughen always had a way with the ladies, now he exploits it as a sales rep for LadiesHome Journal, that fine woman's pub. Frank's working in Cleveland. Ray Barrett's just been elected vice president of the Springfield (Mass.) Credit Union.

Bop joke this bop musician gets in a cab on Third Avenue. The cab driver starts weaving in and out of the stanchions at high speed and our terrified bop friend says, "Drive the melody, please." These bop jokes are crazy.

Babies: Dave and Jean Weld had a little lady this August; her name is Gail. Hose is really selling that lumber now. Nick and"Popgun" Vorys had a small "Owl" George Nichols, in May. The big owl is nearing his M.D. at Philadelphia. Bob and Betty Leslie have a boy, their second entry. Bob Sandoe scared me right out of my old Navy workshoes with his birth announcement in official Navy style. Very clever, Bob. New baby is Mike, born July 23. Bob is a Lt. USMR, at Cherry Point, N. C. Bill and Rosemary Andre were delighted with their new daughter, born June 22 at White Plains, N. Y. Jim Wyckoff proudly tells of his two sons, Jim, born May 1951, and Peter, born April 1952. Good "Green" timber, big Jim.

Bachelors are becoming extinct among '46s. These are the summer's weddings. Mary Gray of Albany and Bill Rosenfeld; a very romantic wedding in NYC's famed Little Church Around-the-Corner. Denver, Colo., social life is hopping with Dave Chalmers' engagement and his early fall wedding plans, to Ruth Barnes. While sneaking more than my share of bridal refreshments at a wedding in Mt. Kisco, I spied Foxy Parker. He and Helen Walker from Bellport, L. 1., were married June 14. Helen attended Barnard College. Foxy told me what his business was, but that scotch erased my dutiful note of it. Rod Beach and Ann Franklin were married on August 23 in Noroton, Conn. Rod is working for his Ph.D. at Columbia. Our own Reverend, DonFitzsimmons, had a colleague do the honors when he married Mary Louise Allen of Win- chester, Mass. They are both off to England, where Don will be the preacher in Radlett, Herts. John Wolff and Rosalie Solvow were married in June. John is a Doctor now and will serve his internship at Temple Univer- sity Hospital. Candlelight flickered as Carol Shira and Bill Wallis were married this sum- mer in Framingham, Mass. Bill is with the Hope Rubber Cos. of Boston. And over in Newark, N. J., Lois Denton and Mike Marzano agreed to the life-together vows. Mike is a lawyer in that city. Larry Jones and Ann Greene of Scarsdale, N. Y„ were married this past spring. Larry is with the Dupont Cos. Joan Ross and Dr. Glen Arthurs are engaged. Glen graduated from Buffalo School of Medicine. Lea Morton married Mel Johnson in Cambridge this June. Mel is a doctor in the Navy California is their home for a while. John and Joan Alden have been honeymooning in Europe this summer and will live in Dedham, Mass.

Be a "Dues" not a "Don't."

Secretary, Indian Field Road, Greenwich, Conn. Treasurer, 4 Chestnut St., Melrose, Mass.