1948
Since we have had scarcely any warm weather during the summer months in the New York area this year, it seems hard to believe that tall is here; the children are already going back to school and the Dartmouth football season is about to begin. It is also time for your new class secretary to complete his homework and inform you '48's about the activities and whereabouts of your classmates.
I think congratulations are in order for our class agent, Russ Carlson. By achieving 96% of our class objective in the Alumni Fund Drive, we came closer than ever to our goal. Only 15 more contributors and we would have hit the magic number. Next year I am sure that '48 will go over the top for the first time.
Barb and I enjoyed a very pleasant gettogether about a month ago when Bobo and Barbara Russell drove down from Saugerties for the day. John and Pat Hathaway who live nearby in Chappaqua, and Warren Kimball '44 joined us in the evening for a barbecue supper.
As the class has been exceedingly active over the past few months, I had better begin telling you some of the most recent news of our classmates. Even though we have been out of college for ten years, there are still a few men who are still running. At this writing, alas, three more have been caught. On Saturday, June 28, Francis Rimbach was married to Joan McElroy in Providence, R. I. Joan is a Bryn Mawr graduate and is currently a teacher in the Ashburnham, Mass., schools. Francis runs the Rimbach Insurance Agency in Fitchburg. Francis and Joan are planning to live in Ashburnham. On the same day, Ed Nadeau took Marion Murphy as his bride. Ed and Marion will live in Queensbury, N. Y., where Marion, a graduate of State University Teachers' College in Plattsburg, used to teach. Ed is associated with the law firm of LaPann and Reardon in Glens Falls, N. Y.
One of the most stalwart class bachelors who seemed to enjoy the celibate life finally succumbed during the summer. Announcement was made in July of Walt Cairn's engagement to Mary Connolly of Marblehead. Mary is a Bradford Junior College graduate. Walt and Mary plan to be married in September and you can be sure that there will be some Dartmouth '48's assisting.
We have received word from Colin andAnn Stewart of the birth of a daughter, their first child. Colin's going to start training little Elizabeth in his favorite sport, skiing, so the whole family can ski together. Ann's a ski enthusiast, too. She is from Ottawa and studied sculpture in Boston prior to her marriage. Colin is one of Boston's leading young architects and is associated with the firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott.
It looks as if Pete Jowise is doing very well in his job. Pete has just been promoted to manager of the Photographic and Duplicating Departments at Shell Development Company's Emeryville, Calif., research center. Pete is living in Lafayette, Calif. He received his Master's Degree in Physics at Colorado College and then took further graduate work in the same subject at the University of Vienna and at Innsbruck under a Fulbright Fellowship. He has been working with Shell since 1954.
Another of our classmates of whom we can be proud is Dr. Sam Katz. Sam has just obtained the distinction of being appointed Pediatrician-in-chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He is also a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and is doing research in tissue culture with emphasis on infectious diseases at the Children's Medical Center. In addition to his medical training at Harvard and in the Boston hospitals, Sam received training at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London.
Earlier in the summer there was an article in the Worcester paper about Al Clark, now a math teacher in the Ware, Mass., High School. Al was one of 54 teachers in the United States to receive an eight-week scholarship from the National Science Foundation to study at Oberlin College.
The Investment Analyst Association of Tulsa, Okla., has chosen Jim Carroll as president for the year 1958-59. Jim worked for the National Shawmut Bank in Boston after finishing Tuck and then moved to Tulsa three and a half years ago as investment counselor for the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. Should any '48's in the vicinity of Tulsa have some money to invest, be sure to contact Jim for some sound advice.
Lou Springsteen has recently moved back to New Jersey and has been installed as Minister of the Trinity Reformed Church in Old Tappan. Lou was ordained from the New Brunswick Seminary in 1953. He and his wife have a son, Howard, who is two years old.
Rev. Dick Ruggles, who so ably conducted our Memorial Services at reunion last June, has moved from Norfolk, Va., to become Minister of the Summerville, S. C., Presbyterian Church. We wish Dick all good luck in his new position. With his usual enthusiasm, I know he will contact all Dartmouth men in the area so that from now on Russ Carlson should have no worries in that section of the country.
After completing his medical training last year as Chief Resident in Obstetrics at New York Medical College, Metropolitan Medical Center, Harry Wood has moved back to his home town of West Hartford and hung out his shingle at 10 Dale Street. Any '48's in the area with prospective papooses on the way ought to have their wives contact Harry.
I had a very pleasant chat with Bud Gedney the other evening. Bud and his wife, Virginia; son Chip (Austin Jr.), now six years old; and their daughter, three, moved to a new house in Mamaroneck, N. Y., after leaving an apartment in the same town where they had lived for several years. Bud says he is enjoying the spaciousness of his new home and hopes to be able to do some weekend gardening. During the week he is an account executive with the Ted Bates Agency in New York City, spending most of his time on the Whitehall Drug account.
Earlier in the summer I spoke to FoxieParker who is now living with his family in Pound Ridge, N. Y. Foxie is fortunate enough to be working in Danbury in an engineering concern so that he doesn't have to commute all the way to the city.
Before the next issue I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the Yale Game on Nov. 2. Don't forget the '48 picnic before the game in the parking lot. This will be a great opportunity to see some of our classmates and also to see our Green team slaughter the Yalies.
Secretary, 110 Old Farm Rd. Pleasantville, N. Y.
Treasurer, 120 North Lincoln Ave., Niles, Mich.
