1952
With this issue of the 1952 class notes, our sixth year as members of the Dartmouth alumni family comes to a close. Our sixth year has been a memorable one in our accomplishments as a class and as individuals giving to the Dartmouth alumni program the support and leadership she needs in communities across the land.
In the past issues we have mentioned many classmates now serving as officers of their community alumni clubs. This month, thanks to Bruce Cole '53, we can add Paul Loo's name to this ever-growing list. Paul, Bruce writes, is the secretary of the Alumni Association of Honolulu - Paul's also with the Federal Housing Administration as chief mortgage analyst in Honolulu.
The gentleman from 1953 also writes that Skip Crawford was married on March 29 to Nancy Lambert in Central Union Church in Honolulu. Skip, a Naval officer, met Nancy in Honolulu. Nancy, a Honolulu girl, was graduated from Stephens, Class of 1949. Thanks for the information, Bruce Cole '53.
Two recent weddings in the Greater New York area are of interest to 1952. Al Davis and Mary Davidson were wed in mid-April in Larchmont. Ev Parker was best man and among the ushers were Harvey Kelly and Gil Upton. The honeymoon trip was to Bermuda, and the newlyweds are now living in Marblehead, Mass. A wedding announcement received recently tells of the April 26 marriage of Fran Chisdes and Carol Lauer in Summit, N. J. Fran and his bride are now living in Manhattan.
Three classmates, according to the news clippings, are determined to reduce the bachelor contingent in the class. A fall wedding is planned for Dick O'Neill and Patricia Barbour of Orange, N. J. Pat is a graduate of the Paine Hall School - Dick is with the American Can Company.
Attorney Ed Blair has announced his intention to wed Joanne Pawlikowski of New Haven, Conn. Joanne, a graduate of Albertus Magnus College,, is a continuity writer for a New Haven television station. They too plan a fall ceremony. Dave Duncombe and Sarah Morton of Katonah, N. Y., will beat them to the altar - Dave and his bride-to-be have made plans for a June wedding. Sarah attended Mt. Holyoke, then was graduated from Antioch College. Dave's now the chaplain at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn.
Rita Watson, Red's wife, wrote to tell all that Richard Paul Watson arrived in the Watson household on January 17. He joins brother John Jr., 2, in keeping things hopping at home for Dr. Red. On July 1, Red becomes chief medical resident at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
Jim Binder spends about eight months of each year on the road traveling for the family wholesale jewelry manufacturing business. Jim notes that the snowdrifts in upstate New York and New England made life mighty rugged for the traveling man this past winter. When not on the road, Jim's with wife Cathy and son Ken at their home in Leonia, N. J.
Ted Stampfer is now with the University of California's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as a chemist in the weapons division. The weapons division, I'm told, is concerned with engineering design of test and prototype nuclear systems, and also prepares actual pilot-model devices for firing at the Nevada test site and at Eniwetok.
Herb Drury has a grant from the Esso Foundation for work at Wesleyan University this year. Next year he'll be studying at the University of South Dakota on a grant from the National Science Foundation.
John Mathews is another 1952 honored by a fellowship award - he's received an award for graduate study by the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. John is a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he holds a B.D. degree, is married and has two children. He'll use his grant for further study of the New Testament at Princeton.
Doc Dey was awarded a Master of Arts in teaching by Harvard, and up north from Doc, in Concord, N. H., to be exact, Dort Bigg was selected by the New Hampshire State Attorney General's office to hold down the position of law assistant.
Captain Jim Ketchum has been assigned by the Army as a resident physician in neuropsychiatry at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D. C. Jim went on from Dartmouth to get his bachelor's degree from Columbia and his M.D. from Cornell Medical College.
Eight classmates packed bags and baggage and made long hauls to new homes in recent weeks. I won't try to report the scores of address changes "not too far" from the mover's old address, but I hope to catch the long hauls so that class members, and members of other classes, in the mover's new community will have the opportunity to bid the newcomers welcome. Chicago area classmates will have the chance to see Dave Griggs, transplanted from New Jersey to 620 Lakeside Drive, Golfview, Hinsdale, and Chuck Cory, now at 203 Elmwood Ave. in Evanston.
In the New York area now are Bob Ash, 232 Beach 139th St., Belle Harbor, L. 1., N. Y. (formerly up in Elmira), and MikeSmith who has come north from Charlottesville, Va., to live at 25 Rockwood Drive in Larchmont.
Craig Hausman has forsaken Pennsylvania for Dearborn, Mich., Apt. 255, 2890 Monroe St. From Natchez to New Orleans went Joe Pierson, now located at 508 Hestern Ave. Jim Wittenberg is out in San Francisco, Ill Sutter Street, after living in Minneapolis.
Henry Chapman must have heard the call to armed service duty. A recent address change passed along to me from Alumni Records shows he has moved from Schenectady, N. Y., to Box 211, Moody Air Force Base, in Valdosta, Ga.
Since my address records are as good as the College can keep them, I'll be glad to supply any address information on class members for you. Cost to you: a little information on your own activities, etc., jotted down with the request.
Have a darn good summer!
Dartmouth men at the wedding of Bob Henderson '53 and Carol Traylor last fall. Standing (l to r): Don Bigham '53, Tom Kelsey '53, Fred Carleton '53, Ray Freud '55, Charlie Jacob '53, Marv Klein '53, Dick Hall '53, Tom Bloomer '53, Frank Casalvieri '53, the bride and groom, a Harvard man, Dave Cudlip '55, another Harvard man, Jim Cobb '53, Chuck Kettering '53, Ed Traylor '44, Howie Clery '53, Fred Whittemore '53, Fred England '53; crouching: Jack Crisp '54, Jim West '53 (rear), Jim Adams '54 (rear), Jay Davis '54, Bill Brooks '54, Mike Messore '54, Ted Spiegel '53, John Kingsland '53, Bob Callender '53, Phil Fast '53.
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