1951
Well, gang, the finishing of this column will mean the end of another year for me as your secretary. I'd like to thank those of you now who have written us. It's a great help and a great feeling to hear from you scattered '51ers. We hope you'll remember to drop us a letter or a card over the summer months. And remember that a year from now - and how time flies - we'll all be readying ourselves for REUNION. Hope to see each of you again on the Hanover Plain.
Speaking of old Hanover, Mary and I last month headed for Dartmouth and the annual Secretaries Meetings. Needless to say, it was great to be back under the shadow of some fantastic college day memories.
We hear that Joe Boissy has just been awarded his Master of Arts degree during the annual winter convocation of George Washington Univ. John Woods is now out of the Army and employed by the John Swenson Boat Works, in Jersey City. John and family are living in Upper Montclair. Football ace Bill Roberts has been signed by the Green Bay Packers. Billy, whom you'll remember gained 528 yards for Dartmouth, has been in the Marines since 1954.
MORE ENGA CEMENTS ... David McDonough was lucky enough to persuade Miss Marcia Waterous to become his Mrs. and the wedding is planned for July. Marcia is a graduate of Smith, and Dave is now a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve. And it will be a June wedding for Dr. Robert deNapoli and Joan Ferreri. Joan is a graduate of Teachers College of St. John's University, and is now on the faculty of the Polk Street School. Bob is a graduate of Harvard Medical School; he interned at North Carolina University's Hospital and now is serving a residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Neurological Institute. Miss Rosemary Rossing and Dr. Stephen Biddle are to be married in July. Rosemary is a graduate of the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, and Steve of the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Another recent engagement is that of Marcus Heljer and Inez Caig of Castle-Douglas, Kirk Cudbrightshire, Scotland, where the wedding will take place September 7. Inez is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, formerly taught Latin and English in Dumfries Academy, and is now tutoring in San Rafael, Provence, in southern France. Marc (who no longer uses the first name Sturdevant) is working for a graduate degree at University College, University of London.
ON TO THE WEDDINGS ... Gwendolyn Williams and Dick Spencer were married April 8 in Garden City, L. I. The new Mrs. Spencer is an alumna of the Skidmore College Department of Nursing, and Dick grabbed his last degree at the University of Southern California Medical School. Dick is stationed in Newport, R. I., with the Navy Medical Corps. Soon it will be Mr. and Mrs. for the Frank Ulrichs, who are to be wed in May. Mrs. Ulrich-to-be is the former Joan Donnelly, and as you know, Frank is a It. (jg) in the Navy, stationed at Newport, L. I. Another Navy man, Lt. Roy Reynolds took Miss June Elder for his bride back in March. The couple honeymooned through the Valley of Virginia, and at present, Roy is serving aboard the USS Northampton. Scarsdale, N. Y., was the scene of the wedding ceremony of Miss Frances Bogardus and Bill Lang, who were married there April 8. Mrs. Lang was graduated from Skidmore, and Bill is with the National Newark and Essex Banking Co., as well as being a lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserves. Leila Deutsch and Nathan Jacobson were wed in March. Leila received her B.S. degree from the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Michigan, and Nate, after four years in the Air Force is now attending Rutgers University School of Law.
This one has a fairly familiar ring, but hoping we haven't given you the dope on Mr. and Mrs. Hank Moyer before, here goes.... The ceremony took place in March, on a Sunday evening, in the Terrace Room of the Plaza hotel in New York. The Moyers were lucky enough to honeymoon at Montego Bay in Jamaica, and are now making their home at 1680 York Ave., N.Y.C. Records show that Hank is a life insurance specialist.
A nice note in from Tom Parker tells us that Tom and his family (which consists of wife, Marian, Peggy, 4, and Tommy, 5 months) are living in Arlington, Va. Tom is working for Woodward & Lothrop, a large department store, and after a chain of promotions is now a shoe buyer. He mentions that there are "always a few" in his icebox, which sounds like a standing invitation to any '51s in the neighborhood.
Wes Blake and John Sater were members of an Ohio State University expedition to the Arctic in March. The party went to make observations at a remote glacier camp, forty miles north of Thule, Greenland, for the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Establishment of the Army Engineers. Wes, as you might remember, is a graduate student in geology at Ohio State, and Sater is a PEC with the 1st Engineer Arctic Task Force. Both guys will be members of another expedition to the camp again this summer, with the same man, a Professor Goldthwait of Ohio State, in charge. We see by the company newspaper, the Winchester News, that Dick Reed has been promoted to the assistant to the vice president and general manager of the Winchester-Western Division of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. Wife Joan and son Tim must be pretty proud of their old papa. DaveHilton is now with the N.W. Mutual Insurance Co. in Chicago, go Dave boy.
We were very pleased to hear of the elevation to senior pastor of our own Dick Bucey. Dick had been assistant pastor of the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church of New York City, which is one of the largest congregations of this type in the country.
It's rumored that Herb Knight fattened up his expense account on a recent trip to Mexico, under the auspices of Standard Railway Equipment Co. of Chicago. Herb was even able to prove to his company that a straight line was not the shortest distance between two points and consequently returned via New York City. That's what a Tuck School diploma will do for you. Apparently the trip was so lucrative that a new 36' sailboat will be terrorizing the shores of Lake Michigan this summer. Haven't noticed yet, but this should put Herbie in a fine spot to pirateer some cargo for the Alumni Fund.
By the way, have you sent in your check as yet? Gary Mansur and his cohorts are attempting to push the market and the givers into new high ground. The cause is unquestionably a fine one, there is no doubt of the need, and it certainly is not so important how much you give, just so long as you appraise your position and the College's fairly, and then give what you can.
Have a nice summer. Drop us a card and pictures of anything unusual or even routine. However, don't forget to include yourself in the picture, since the policy is to only publish pictures with the 51er included as at least one of the characters; the others can be anyone of any age, in any condition.
Gary H. Mansur '51 received the John R. Mason Trophy at the Boston Alumni Fund dinner for being the outstanding head agent among the ten youngest classes in 1955.
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