1949
Today starts the Labor Day weekend and also brings the first football bulletin out of the Hanover hills, as practice began just yesterday. Doesn't seem possible that the fall is here, especially with the hot baseball race in the American League going on around us, but it is time for my first notes of the new year, so prepare yourselves. . . .
Perhaps the first items to report date back to the. two class functions we held in June in the New York and Boston areas. Both met with fine success and moderately good attendance, and I'm only sorry more of you didn't get to join us. On June 3 in the Dartmouth Club in New York the following attended: Dick and Marcia Higley, Bill and Ginny White, Russ Palmer, Charlie Eaton, Paul and Margery Woodberry, Dana Miller, Bob Alden, Judson, Blakely, Ritchie Hunt, Dick Wallace, Herb Gramstorff, Dick Bandfield, Harry Ewing, Fred Briscoe, Ed and Marjorie Clogston, Bob and Virginia Hill, Clayt and Frances Morey, and Skip and Evelyn Muller, as well as me. We had a fine time, and one of the most interesting features was the distance a few of those guys traveled to make the evening - Charlie Eaton came up from Morrisville, Pa., and Harry Ewing and Fred Briscoe flew down from Hartford. All arrangements at the Club were made by Bob Alden, and I'd like to repeat my thanks to him for the work he did.
The following week up at the Red Coach Grille in Boston we had a similarly fine time, though a smaller gang. Pat and I drove up and met the following: Bob and Donna Muenzberg, Bob and Barbara Reed, Bert and Sue Rodman, Summy and Nonie Arne.son, Harv and Suzanne-Martha Chandler, King Ball, Jack Whelden, Harry Ewing (again down from Hartford - this time en route to Maine for a fishing trip), Spud Parsons, John and Eileen Borys, Bob and Jean Swift, and Doug Parsons. Several of these too traveled many miles, as King Ball drove all the way from Augusta, Maine, just for the day, while the Doug Parsons' came down from Wolfeboro, N. H., and the Harv Chandlers down from Concord. The details of this occasion were worked out by Bob Muenzberg, to whom I repeat my thanks. I consider both affairs a success, and only regret more of you couldn't help us celebrate.
In July Pat and I went out to lunch with Dave and Mimi Vogels, who had just returned from three years in Japan. Dave, a captain in the Air Force, is en route to a new position that of Camp Adjutant at Sampson A.F.B. in New York State. He hopes to conclude his law studies either at Cornell or Syracuse while up in that region. The Vogels have a .son David, aged about one, as I remember.
Back in the spring I got a letter from PeteNew out in Columbia, Mo., announcing he wouldn't be East in June as he'd hoped, but that his duties as instructor at the University of Missouri would entangle him from attending the New York dinner. Pete was scheduled to marry in late June, so I presume he is by now all acclimated to his new status.
Got a card in June from Ed Nickerson, who's with the Associated Press in Baltimore. He announces his impending marriage (on September 16) to Miss Bee Davis of Baltimore.
Also got a card in July from Hanover from Rank Lashmet, who, with his wife, was visiting Dartmouth for the first time in seven years. They left their 2-year-old son with his family in Massachusetts while they toured four New England states. Rank lives in the Chicago area. They stayed at the Hanover Inn on July 14.
Other Inn visitors this summer were Peterand Mary Ann Costich of Westbury, N. Y., in June, Bill Mackey of Detroit, and Bob andDonna Muenzberg of Cochituate, Mass. in July-
If you read this in time, and plan to attend, I'd like to repeat my invitation to a Seabreeze Party at the Zeisers' house following the Brown game here in Providence on October 8. We are having Open House for all classmates and hope you'll be there. It, and the Yale game, are the only Southern New England appearances of the Green this fall, so I hope attendance will be good here. It should be a close game, with both squads unknown in Ivy League ranks. Our house is an easy walk from the stadium. Incidentally, the R. I. Dartmouth Alumni Organization will have a big tent on an adjoining field where lunch and refresh- ments may be enjoyed before the game, so why not meet there?
By the time you read this, too, you may be in possession of the Alumni Directory on which Carl Struever has been working so diligently. I believe you'll find Carl's done a great job on this and the book should be of interest and use to each of you. The financing of its printing is, of course, being borne by the Class Treasury.
Now into some social items of the summer. .. . Weddings: Paul Woodberry of Waban, Mass., and Margery Ann Brennan of Arlington were married in May. They will live in New York City. One of Paul's ushers was JimH. Smith.... Harv Chandler of Concord, N. H., was married to Suzanne-Martha Piper of Framingham, Mass., in May. Harv is with the Public Service Co. of Manchester JayHaft of Mamaroneck, N. Y., was married in June to Ellen Priscilla Siegel of West Medford, Mass. The Hafts will live in Cambridge. Jay is studying for his Ph.D. at Boston University. ... Bob Bellemare of Bennington, Vt., was married in June to Ella B. Doyle of Lynn, Mass. Bob is plant accountant for the General Electric Co. in Ludlow, Vt. ... Bob MacArthur of White Plains, N. Y., was married in August to Joan Galley, also of White Plains. Bob is participating in the sales engineering training program at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh John Stearns of "Wilton, Conn., was married in July to Winifred Clarke Anthony of Palm Beach, Fla. John is practicing law in New York.... Gordon "Punchy"Thomas of Rye, N. Y., was married in June to Miss Doris Aakervik of Seattle. Punchy is with the Travelers Insurance Company in Los Angeles.
Engagements of the summer Ed Rector of Los Angeles to Cheryl Rose Kyle of Los Angeles.... Herb Gramstorff of Harrison, N. Y., to Miss Ann Hill Doyle of Garden City, N. Y....John Balatow of Wynnewood, Pa., to Esther Hyde Smith of Buffalo, N. Y Peter Brown of Easton, Conn., to Miss Carol Newcomb of Falmouth, Mass HowardWellman of Jamestown, N. Y., to Caroline Alexander Weymuller of Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. ...John W. Parker of Manchester, Conn., to Miss Nancy Seymour Jewett, also of Manchester.... Ed Heller of Brookline, Mass., to Miss Phyllis Lee Rubenstein of Hartford.
Baby announcements of the summer All date back to May. On May 11 a baby girl, Nancy Ann, was born to Bert and Sue Rodman. ... On, May 12, a son, Weston, was born to Russell and Annabell Wolfertz. ... On May 21, a daughter, Sandra Mary, was born to John and Nancy Stockwell here in Providence. ... On May 31, a second son, Scott Meade, was born to Dave and Kay Strasenburgh in Rochester.
Into Miscellanea as space allows. ... ConniePensavalle has been appointed backfield coach at the University of Rhode Island, replacing John "Chipper" Chapman '50, who leaves for a similar post at Connecticut. Connie has been football and baseball coach at the North Attleboro, Mass., High School, having several outstanding teams there Dr. Gordon"Spud" Parsons, an osteopathic physician, has opened a general practice in Hyannis, Mass. Spud received his osteopathic training at the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy. With him in Hyannis are his wife, Lorraine, and baby daughter, Elizabeth.
Bill Davis was recently appointed as administrative assistant to Harrison C. Bristol!, vice president in charge of the steel strapping division of the Stanley Works in New Britain, Conn. ... Ens. George Hartmann was graduated in May as a junior officer from the O.C.S. School at Newport. He is now at Port Hueneme in California A graduate of the Accountable Officers Course at the Marine Corps Supply School at Camp Lejeune, N. C., in June was Capt. WillardMerrill. ... Ed Martel of Worcester, Mass., has circulated nomination papers for publicoffice position of councillor-at-large in that town. ... Howard Wing has been appointed sales manager of the Boltaflex special sheeting division of the Bolta Products Co. of Lawrence, Mass., a division of the General Tire & Rubber Co.
Nick Sheppard was awarded the degree of LL.B. from St. John's University School of Law. ...Dr. Bob DeForest has completed his residency at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and plans to enter the U.S. Navy. He will report at St. Albans, N. Y Irl Marshall of Northbrook, Ill., has been appointed general man- ager of the Duraclean Co. of Deerfield, Ill., an international chain of rug and upholstery cleaning and mothproofing service businesses. ... Samuel Katz has been named a teaching fellow in Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical 5chool. ... Robert Huke, who for the past year has been an instructor in History at Dartmouth, has received a Fulbright-Smith-Mundt Grant to teach at the University of the Philippines. They are starting as Asian Study Program there, and his job will be to help set up this program and to teach economic geography of Asia Henry Williams of Dalton, Mass., heads a seven-man Commission of the Pittsfield Girls' Building Fund. The Commission will supervise the construction of the girls' center and the camp lodge Owner and manager of the famous Clark Tours of Guatemala is Jimmy Clark.
That's it for now. Don't forget the October 43th date here in Providence.
As administrative assistant, William R. Davis'49 will work for The Stanley Works in theoffice of the vice president in charge of the steel strapping division. He is a Tuck-Thayer graduate.
Secretary, 230 Arlington Ave., Providence, R. I.
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