1950
With the thrilling victory over the Crusaders only a few days old, we're looking forward to large turnouts of Fifties at the ball games in the coming weeks and glowing reports of small and large reunions all fall. It should be a good season, and we'd like to know who you bump into, but right now let's saunter over to ...
THE HITCHING POST According to the engagement announcement, it was a late August marriage for John Dunlap and Barbara Earle Lehman in Cape May, N. J. The bride is a Vassar alumna, and the folks should now be settled in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
On August 7 in Seymour, Conn., Bill Wilestook his vows with Mary Elizabeth Waterman.Chalk up another for the Vassar clan! CharlieRichardson was best man and Al Mitchell wason hand as an usher. Will received a Kramerfellowship for graduate study and is workingfor his doctorate in geology at Columbiawhere the little woman won a Master's lastyear.
"Somehow it was erroneously reported that I was at Tuck," writes Hammy Gates. (Ed. note: gonna have to get a new set of spies, I guess!) "After graduation, I spent three years in the Army, and upon discharge a year ago went with the Carpenter Steel Company. Came to Buffalo in November and have been selling ever since. Met and courted Anita Taber during that time and we were married August 20. hud Truscott and Bill Balderston were there for usher duty. Lud is now in Germany with the artillery, and Baldy returned to Philadelphia and Philco, I run into Nels Graves,Bill Dann, and Carl Reed frequently and have seen Ed Hale, who is with one of the local newspapers. All are behaving well."
In line with giving you world-wide coverage, our next item eminates from gay Paree. Ooh la la! On August 19 there. Miss Nancy McConnell, originally from Worcester, Mass., became Granville Seward Austin's spouse. Nancy pays homage to Smith and Rahar's, not necessarily in that order. Red is assistant press officer in the foreign service with the United States Government in Saigon, Indochina.
In Portsmouth, N. H., Don C. Hall wed Joan Sandra Seabring September 18. Joan attended Hood College and was graduated from George Washington University. Since Uncle loosed his grip on Don, he's been cracking the books at Wharton.
WALKING THE LAST MILE As you all probably know, we copped the Alumni Fund Little Green Derby again last spring with our largest-ever dollar total and a whopping 513 contributors, thanks largely to the herculean efforts of Class Agent Glenn Fitkin. We're happy to report he recovered enough energy to woo Marion Keene Glover of Philadelphia and their engagement was announced August 19. Marion got her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke and during the last two years has been a teaching fellow at Dartmouth. At Dartmouth? Aha!!
Overseas again to Oslo where Tor Arneberg and Jean Marie Overhysser of Hartford, Conn., planned an October smorgasbord and nuptial joust. Jean graduated from Middlebury and has been with A. F. Klaveness and Company in Norway's capital where Tor's advertising manager for the A/S Freia Chocolate Company.
Dated a week after the above item, on Sep- tember 11, it was revealed that Kent Mitchel and Elizabeth Lorenson Rich of Haverford, Pa., were scheming for the future. Miss Rich is a senior at Wellesley.
Final love note this time concerns Miss Judith Ann Reilly and Dan McCarren, a couple of East Orangers. A spring wedding is planned according to the info promulgated September 18. The prospective bride was graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Purchase, N. Y. Dan is with Boyle-Midway, Inc., a division of American Home Products in NYC.
Congratulations and best wishes, kids!
INFANT INFO....Several nervous lads intimated new additions were due in their households as autumn approached, but so far the only joyous tidings received came from Dan and Beverly Olsen who welcomed Deborah Ann August 28. Debbie tipped the scales at 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Welcome, honeychile!
GRAPEVINE REPORTS....Len Radio is working for NSA in 805t0n.... Pete Bucklin has taken up assistant professoring at Boulder, Colo., after getting his MBA from Harvard last June. Got to be pretty noisy on his uke over the summer, and that's no rumor.... Last spring Bob Oliver was a student in Phoenix, Ariz. No further dope on his activities.. Still on the long, long trail to a Ph.D. in phil is "Scat" Luce at Michigan.... On the other side of teacher's desk, Per Jan Ranhoff is giving chalk talks at Pomfret School in the Nutmeg State.
If your G.I. insurance ran out, browse here for possible assistance in setting up a program. Ben "Red" Shaver is a group annuity sales representative in Atlanta.... John Fallon works for an insurance firm in Warwick, R. I... Bill M. Miller is an agent out of Shelton, Conn Dick L. Johnson is with the Hartford Insurance Company.... And Paul Rouillard has just become a partner in a firm in Saratoga Springs. Nice going, lad. Oh, yes, Paul wants I should tell you that Frank Dickinson has a limited supply of the super-duper Indian paperweights left over from reunion. For those who (a) want a souvenir, (b) want another souvenir, or (c) need one more charitable contribution for the income tax folk, Frank will postpay one or more at a buck and a half each from his factory at Box 65, Ogunquit, Maine. Hurry, hurry!
"For a little catching up on Stuart," pens Stu Sayre's wife, "he's working as a procedures analyst for General Electric. We're a family of four with Steve, age 2,1/2, and Libby, 6 months." The note came from Scotia, N. Y.
Ray and Nancy Peppard wished to correct the report that they'd been in Mon'real for med school. Ray got his M.D. at the University of Vermont where they've returned while he continues in anesthesiology. The year in between was back in Hanover for interning. ... Glad to note that Don Russell got his M.D. at Tufts last June. Ditto for Don Freund from Temple, and also for Art Lee from Meharry, who's interning in Atlantic City.... A couple of others whose degrees were awarded last spring were Pete Irving (Harvard) June 17, and Hank Meijer (University of Cincinnati). ... Still on the grind is Bill Weissman, at Jefferson in Philadelphia, who found time "between visits to Hanover over the summer to drop into the New York D Club for a malt.
Which reminds us, if you are in town of a Thursday evening waiting for the little woman to finish a shopping spree, or picking up a date for dinner, or just too bushed to catch the 5:31 local, that's the night the Fifties have their unofficial sessions at 37 East 39th. Visiting firemen please show, too. One week there may be two guys and another week two dozen. See you there!
In one evening we saw Bill, Norm Olesky,Chuck Gardner, and Jack Brodie. Norm's still in the pajama biz (no free ducats to the play of the same name, however) and Jack is with Reynolds Aluminum in their sales depart- ment. Chuck was talking about fall parties, which we hope come off, and especially about picnics before the Yale and Princeton games. He also reports Bob Thomson with Robert Gair in the paper field.
Ancient history almost is the good word that Smiling Ted Remsen has been admitted to general partnership in Jas. H. Oliphant & Co. and will represent them on the Stock Exchange. Others concerned with financial matters (aren't we all?) are Andy Wilde who started with Lybrand, Ross Bros., and Montgomery, October 1, and Scott Probasco who's doing very well with the American National Bank in Chattanooga, washing and pressing the bills, polishing the silver, emptying ash trays, etc.
Next month, Chicago Consequentially.
The Class was shocked and saddened by the loss of two members last summer, RogTillson and Bill Wheeler, and extends condolences to their families in their bereavement. See the In Memoriam section.
WEDDING DAY IN THE GRAND TETUNS: An early morning picture of Alan Winslow '49,his bride, the former Peggy Jeanne Cottom, and members of the wedding party back from picking wild floioers for the afternoon ceremony August 22 in the Chapel of the Transfiguration inGrand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming. Photographed by the groom's father, Basil L.Winslow '20, were (l to r): Miss Gay Hawkins, maid of honor; Alan Winslow and bride; RobertMcConaughy III '50, best man; and Gay's young brother, guest at the local ranch of Robert E.McConaughy Jr. '21. Alan, former employee of the national park, is teaching assistant in landscape architecture at the University of California this term.
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