1951
Howdy once again, and it's nice to be back after the summer layoff. It seems that '51's have been busy as ever and some folks wrote in to tell us about it.
From the sound of things, the jolliest '51 gathering of late came off near summer's end up in Lake Bluff, Ill., where Bob Bowler engineered a class picnic for all in the Chicago and Milwaukee area. Bob's chronicle says that mixed with the beer by 22 classmates and wives were volley ball, touch football, blanket hockey and swimming in Lake Michigan, with and without suits (after dark).
Bowler notes that he's changed jobs, and is now with MacLean Fogg Lock Nut Co. in sales. He's also heard that in Hudson, Ohio, Dick and Greta Rogers celebrated the arrival of their third girl, Catherine Gardner, and that Pete and Shirley Bogardus will be parents in November.
In a recent copy of Business Week, there was a picture of Merle Thorpe and underneath a headline reading "Hottest Torch for Industrial Use." Turned out this described not Merle, but an invention that he and another Thayer School prof have cooked up to put the heat on things. Merle always seemed a cool fellow, but his torch goes beyond 20,000 degrees F.
In this political year, Ted Corsones is running hard for reelection as state's attorney in Rutland County, Vt., after spending the past two years prosecuting evil doers and sweeping court dockets clean. And another '51 pursuing the legal profession is Joe Manganelli, who's recently opened his own office in Utica, N. Y.
It also seems that the classmates in banking circles are getting their paws deeper into the nation's greenbacks. Sel Atherton has become assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Lewiston, Me., and Langdon Palmer is now an assistant treasurer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, residing in Verona, N. J. Further, Dave Leslie reports that while in the New York area on business, he had an oyster stew lunch with banker Bud Lang of Newark, and learned that Bud and wife are expecting.
A news clipping tells us that "youthful" Joe Welch has bought controlling interest in the venerable (80-year-old) Chase & Lunt insurance agency in Newburyport, Mass. Joe writes a personal note that mentions getting together with the Dave Halls, the TomBrowns, and Mike Harris. And from elsewhere we learn that Dave Hall also continues to prosper, having been appointed northeast sales manager for Kyanize Paints.
Watching the U. S. Supreme Court in these turbulent times will be even more interesting with the knowledge that Mike Heyman is now spending a year as law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren, after a recent hitch as clerk to Chief Judge Charles E. Clark of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. And also recently honored are Marshall Cohen, made assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard, and Bob Williams, who was awarded his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at lowa State. Bob, Barbara and two-year-old daughter Leslie Ann will be in Berkeley, Calif., this year, where Bob will teach at the University of California.
From Hanover come tidings that some fellow named John Sloan Dickey has named Ed Lathem assistant librarian of Baker Library at Dartmouth College. Must be a small place, but some people like it. Another fellow on the same track is Ray Mullin, who is now head librarian at Castleton (Vt.) Teachers College. Ray took his master's in library science at Simmons, and is also lecturing in English at Castleton.
Headlines in the romantic news result from the marriage of 01' Dave Hilton to Northwestern graduate Ginny Wallrich of Shawano, Wise., on August 2. Pete Henderson was best man, and Pete Bixby, Bill Halpin and Jim Bovaird came to see with their own eyes Hilton at the altar, and to help with the ushering. We hear Dave's writing so many policies that Northwestern Mutual has ordered a facsimile machine just to sign his name.
Other summer nuptials included the June wedding of Joan Prins and Dick Halloran, as predicted here in your all-seeing gossip column last spring. They're now in Philadelphia, where Dick's with the Business Week news bureau.
Out in San Francisco, Dr. Larry Kinnamon and Alice Johnson of Minot, N. D., were married June 21. Alice is a Holyoke gal, and also has her master's in education from Harvard. Also in June, Harriet Elizabeth Albert and Dave O'Neill were married in Mt. Lebanon, Pa. And Margaret McCormick of Pittsburgh and Frank Reynolds were wed in July.
Engagements we know about include that of Gerry Shaw to Joan Marie O'Leary of Milton, Mass., who's been a teacher in Meriden, Conn., since graduating from Boston College.
And a wedding this month is planned for Marie Wasik of West Rutland, Vt., and Dr. Giles Hamlin. Marie's been on the nursing faculty at Mary Hitchcock and Giles is currently resident in surgery at Boston City Hospital.
You can't tell me that this prolific class took a summer breathing spell from births, but the only one we know about is the arrival of fifth child, Jeffrey Stewart, to the Peter K. Littles, and that was months ago now. Put us on the list for your birth announcements, and drop a note now and then even when you're not expecting.
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