1948
As the autumn season once more swings into sight, as Indian Summer again appears on the horizon, your class secretary for once in his life finds the mailbag bulging with '48 news and this in spite of the excellent and lengthy Newsletters written over the summer by Bob Herrick. This is certainly something to write home about, so here goes.
Firstly, Class Agent Bob Russell, his assistant agents, and those members of the class who participated certainly deserve a hearty vote of thanks for their help in aiding the College in its most successful Alumni Fund drive in history, when 17,375 contributors gave a total of $671,147.15 to Dartmouth, of which 274 members of '48 gave $2,643.68. This was 1948's best showing to date, 75% of our objective which may indicate we've still got some life in the old class yet, since 65% of the class contributed this year, as against only 52% last year. With reunion coming up this June, maybe we can get the old spirit really livened up by the time next year's drive comes around.
Marriage bells were ringing mightily this past summer in the ranks of the class. Those aisle-goers that I know of who took the long trek to the altar —and this is certainly not a complete list included the following: Jim Fitzgerald, Bob Pillsbury, lan Macartney, Jack Tracy, Bill Wheeler, Ed Kelley, Harry Shaw, Kenny "Hanlon, Woody DeYoe, and Dick Donahue. My information is lacking in most cases, but I'll set down what is available. Congratulations to all of you!
Lt. Jim Fitzgerald became the spouse in August of Anne Marie Saunders, a graduate of Boston College School of Nursing, of Quincy, Mass. They are now living in Quincy. Bob Pillsbury's wife is the former Ruth Hazel Morris of Newton Highlands Mass. The wedding was in August, and the couple now reside in Pennsburg, Pa., where Bob is teaching in the Music Department at Perkiomen School. Lan Macartney, the woman-hater, finally succumbed last May when he took Carla Mae Hampton of Worland, Wyoming, as his missus. They now live in the oil city of Casper where Mac is a geologist with Standard of Indiana. Legal eagle Jack Tracy in August took the vows with Miss Ann Wellington of Worcester, a Smith graduate of last June. Engineer Bill Wheeler Carried Miss Rosanna Martin of Lynbrook, N. Y., in June, and the couple have settled in Rockville Centre, L. I., where Bill is associated with the consulting engineering firm of Chester Voorhis & Sons. Dr. and Mrs. Ed Kelley became man and wife in June. She is the former Ruth Elizabeth Reynolds of Wellesley Hills and Wellesley College. The Deep South, New Orleans, is to be the couple's home. FBI-man Harry Shaw took Miss Myrna Hulett of Santa Maria, Calif., as his wedded wife way last May in Evanston, Ill. After a wedding trip to Miami and Havana, Harry and Myrna settled down in Chicago. Woody DeYoe took in May a Registered Nurse as his bride, the former Margaret Susan Fisher of Coral Gables, Fla. The wedding was held in Paterson, N. J., and Woody reported four days later to Fort Lewis, Wash., in preparation for duty in the Far East. Long honeymoon. Margaret is now on duty in a Paterson hospital. In early June, Kenny Ha Jon, whom I had seen earlier at a wedding in May, was married to Antonia Parkman of Beacon Hill, Boston. After a wedding trip to Martha's Vineyard, the couple settled on the Hill's West Cedar St. Dick Donahue is not actually a husband as of this writing, but Dick Leggat tells me that the rising Lowell lawyer and school-board reformer is to join Miss Nancy Custer Lawson of New Britain, Conn., in marriage on 19 September, only two weeks away. The event should have taken place by the time this column goes into print.
Though marriages were plentiful this summer, the ranks of '48. bachelors took a further potential thinning through attrition by announced engagements. In July, for example, the parents of Miss Sally Joanna Spero of Woodmere, L. I., announced the betrothal of their daughter to Tuckerman Ravine ski fiend, Al Epstein. Wedding bells are planned for this autumn. Don Gilmore of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Research Department is engaged to Miss Catherine Toner of West Newton, Mass. Catherine is a Marymount and Katharine Gibbs graduate. Again, a fall wedding is planned. Another prospective groom is JimDuffy, whose engagement to Miss Jeanne R. Cassidy of Watertown, Mass., was announced by her parents early in August. Jeanne is a graduate of the Manhattanville School of Nursing and did postgrad work at Columbia. Duff is now with the Chicago office of the American Brass Cos. Fall nuptials. Also have available the bare fact that PaulHackett is affianced to Miss Nancy Jane Cullen of Larchmont, N. Y., but no further details. And so ends the primrose path review for this month, except that I wish those others of you involved in this department during the summer would let me hear about it. Thanks a lot.
In the academic field at least six '48s gained advanced degrees last spring. Bill Ivins and Bill Jones each received his long-worked-for M.D., the former at Harvard and the latter at the University of Pittsburgh. Bob Huke, following his return from Burma, received his Ph.D. in June at Syracuse. According to FrankStern, Bob taught at the summer session of the University of Cincinnati and will be teaching at Dartmouth this fall. Lou Spring-steen graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary with the degree of B.D. in June, and had the rare thrill and honor of being guest preacher in his own hometown church, the First Reformed Church of Newtown, N. Y., one Sunday shortly after graduation. Ed Leede was awarded his M.B.A. by Harvard Business School in June, and is now believed to be working for an oil processing firm. Hugh Blalock received an M.A. from Brown in sociology on May 30, and wrote his thesis on Cooperation in Small Groups. FrankStern also obtained a Master's from Syracuse in geography (of whom more later).
Some '48s are being fortunate enough to return to the Hanover Plain. Dr. Bill Ivins and Dr. Bill Cummings, for example, are interning at Mary Hitchcock, and are living with their wives in Sachem Village. Bob Huke was mentioned above, while Frau Hummel is believed still to be at Tuck. Slightly less permanent repatriates were MortSmith, Tom Crook, and wives, who visited the Inn during the summer.
Ran into the alumnus father of "T.T." Metzel in Hanover in May, and he gave me the following account of the singular activities of his "boy." T.T. spent a year in a one-room schoolhouse in Beulah, Wyoming, where he taught six grades and seven kids. Among other things, a good trout stream was located twenty feet from the door (no pun intended). Last year he moved to Buffalo, S. D., in a trailer complete with guitar, record changer, pistol, and shotgun, and there worked as one of three teachers handling 54 students in the local high school. Rugged work, too, as some of the students were over 18 years old and thought themselves physically mightier than T.T. After a couple of good scraps, however, his authority was established for good. Sounds like an active life in the open West for an individualistic '48.
Back to Europe has gone Jerry Wensinger. He was awarded a difficult-to-obtain Ful-bright Scholarship, and will study this year at the University of Innsbruck in the heart of the Alps of the Tyrol, Austria. A more beautiful location I can't imagine. Another European returnee is Frank Stern. He, his Norwegian wife, Inger, and their 2-year-old son, Richard Olay, are now back in Oslo for a visit. Frank spent the summer in the Industrial Research Dept. of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rwy., in Huntington, W. Va., not far from the haunts of Lanny Brisbin.
Dr. Jerry Lucey, resident physician at Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, until July of 1955, received a Bowen-Brookes Scholarship from the New York Academy of Medicine for his work in clinical medicine. He and wife Jane are expecting an addition to the family in November. Their first, daughter Colleen, was born in 1950. And speaking of children, the PhilJohnsons were left a boy by the stork in April. Their first. Name, Lawrence Philip. Congratulations! Class of 1974, Phil?
Dues time. About the time this issue gets into the hands of its readers, we '48s will receive an urgent request from Class Treasurer, Johnny Fenno, for a payment of $4, to cover our subscriptions to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE as well as provide a little cash for the almost nonexistent class treasury. I can't emphasize enough how important it is that Johnny receive this money promptly from each of you who receive the MAGAZINE. Separate and additional billings cost plenty. We've paid no dues since graduation, so the four simoleons seems a very just amount. Also, Jim Schaefer and his committee* will need a bit of cash to help in shaping up next June's Reunion. So, how about digging deep and helping out John, Jim, and '48 as a whole. Thanks a lot.
Before closing, I'd like to mention that I have seen a few '48s in and around Boston during the spring and summer. Among them were Walt Cairns, Dick Leggat, Jack Boggia,Colin Stewart, and Howie Hirshberg. Walt works for Browning Torch and Worcester Taper Pin in Worcester; Dick is a lawyer for the Navy in the Fargo Bldg.; Jack works as an engineer for G.E., and lives with his family out in Lexington; Stew finished his second year at Harvard Architectural, and is now touristing in Europe; Howie works for his father's shoe firm in Pittsfield, N. H., and went on a month's ski trip in Switzerland last spring.
That's it for now. See you next month when I'll be located in Pittsburgh. Hope to hear from some of you out that way. Drop a line when you have time.
Secretary, Norwich, Vt. Treasurer, 1802½ North 7th St., Terre Haute, Ind.
