1947
Having served as Class Agent for the previous four years, it is with great regret that Al Bildner finds it necessary to resign. Bob Snedaker has agreed to assume the responsibilities and duties Al relinquishes. We can help Bob in his first year as our Class Agent with a prompt response to his coming efforts with the Alumni Fund campaign.
Bob and Robbie Vodson are the proud parents Of Philip Abbott Dodson, their second son, born in Geneva, Switzerland, this past August 4. Don Scholle was a January visitor at the Hanover Inn. Rev. John Mansfield, a curate at St. Anthony's parish, Woburn, since his ordination three years ago, has been transferred to St. John the Evangelist parish, Swampscott, Mass.
Mike DeSimone is running for a seat on the school board of Fairview, N. J. He is in the plumbing and heating business there, and is attending evening classes at N.Y.U. FredRuoff is newly appointed executive director of the New Britain, Conn., Red Cross Chapter. He has served as Red Cross representative in Maine, assistant field director at several Army posts in Germany, and as field director at Port Lyautey, French Morocco. He has also served at Ft. Meade, Md., and Quantico Marine Base, Va.
Ted Platz is recently engaged to Miss Joan Marie Van Valkenburg. Ted is presently with the Chase Manhattan Bank, was with the Air Force in Korea as a fighter-bomber pilot and as a jet instructor. The former Miss Beverly Ann Cote was married in Belmont, Mass., January 28, to Joe Kincaid. After a wedding trip to a ski lodge in Aspen, Colo., the Kincaids planned to make their home in Maiden, Mass.
Bob Albreclit continues with W. T. Grant Co. as a buyer, living in New Rochelle, N. Y. Perry Anderson is district manager with Lenox Inc., manufacturers of fine china. The Andersons live in Wellesley, Mass. AndyAnderson continues as cost accountant with Dennison Mfg. Co., Framingham, Mass. ChuckBarker is an insurance claims adjuster with Industrial Indemnity Co., Los Angeles, Calif.
Manny Benero is with New York Hanseatic Corp., NYC. Clayton Birdsall continues in his practice of dentistry in Haverhill, Mass., living in Atkinson, N. H. Bud Blaisdell is a project engineer with New England Division of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working in Boston, Mass., living in Hingham, Mass. Wallace Bradway is assistant cashier of the Monadnock National Bank in Jaffrey, N. H.
Vic Bruin is chief of the Cardio-Pulmonary Lab at the V. A. Hospital in Albany, N. Y. Buck Buckingham continues with Pratt & Whitney as an engineer in Hartford, Conn. Bill Caryl is section chief with Wilsey & Ham, living in Phoenix, Ariz. A fine letter from Dick Gates tells of the birth of his third son on February 8. Dick graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School, then was recalled by the USMC, and is now working in Madison. Wise., as a lawyer, doing mostly trial work. Dick's third son, David Allan, is named for Allan Norris. Allan was our first classmate to be killed.
Bib Coffey is a mechanical engineer with Southern California Edison, living in Los Angeles, Calif. Leo Cohen is president of Knollwood Development Corp., Branchville, Md. Hank De Angelis is a research physical chemist at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Bedford, Mass. Ralph De Fonce is living in Trumbull, Conn. Art Diemer is a project engineer with Carbide & Carbon Chemical Co., South Charleston, W. Va. BobDorian is director and manager of Almacen "Deportes" in Guatemala, C. A. Dave Ehrlick is a designer with Kennecott Copper Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Joe Eisaman continues his advertising work in California as a partner in the firm of Eisaman & Johns. Bill Garfield is a missionary with the Evangelical Alliance Mission in Chicago, Ill. In 1952 he did Christian missionary work in Japan. Bill Geber is an assistant professor at St. Louis University Medical School, Dept. of Physiology, in St. Louis, Mo. StanGeller is sales representative with Columbia Narrow Fabric Co. & Peace Dale Braiding in NYC. Harry Goodman is treasurer of The Ormond Shops, Inc., NYC. Harry Graves is an engineer with Ward Cabin Co., Houlton, Me. Poncho Guilderson is a sales representative with Jos. T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., living in Lebanon, N. H. Bill Harding continues with the National Credit Office, Inc., Boston, Mass. Tom Harrington is teaching civics and health in Holyoke, Mass.
Russ Hathaway is advertising manager for The Spectator in Somerset, Mass. Jim Holway is senior engineer at NGMU-22 NOMTF White Sands Proving Grounds, Las Cruces, N. M. George Howard is a registered representative with Harris Upham & Co., NYC. Cotton Johnson is an assistant professor at the E.E. Dept., Syracuse University. Carl Kaufmann is an editorial assistant, in the publications division of the Public Relations Dept., E.I. du Pont in Wilmington, Del.
A meeting of the Class of 1947 Executive Committee, all past and present members invited, was held at the Dartmouth College Club in New York City on Saturday morning, March 17. A brief report will be included in next month's notes, with more detail in coming class newsletters.
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