1951
While the ALUMNI MAGAZINE took its annual summer layoff, the faces of '51 classmates were showing up all over the pages of various other publications.
Take an August issue of Parade, the magazine supplement that you find stuffed in so many Sunday newspapers, for instance. There was an article there headlined: "Mr. and Mrs. America — The Young Parents - Here's How Family Life Looks At The Age Of 30."
The fellow in those pictures looked familiar, and sure enough - Parade's Mr. and Mrs. America at thirty turned out to be Les andHap Richard. Through text and a spread of pictures, the Richard family life was analyzed from joys to hopes to problems - and right down to Les smoking his cigars in the garage because Hap doesn't like them in the house.
For those who missed the article, the Richards live in Portland, Me., where Les is a lab man testing and developing new chemical coatings for paper for the S. D. Warren Co. They have two small sons - rambunctious David, three, and placid Tim, six months - and the whole family looks mighty attractive in Parade's pictures.
Another newspaper clipping that came over the transom tells of the fast-growing Leyghton-Paige corporation that's just gone into a new building in Spring Park, Minn., outside St. Paul.
You may remember that the firm's dominant personality, and only full-time executive, is vice president and production manager Dave Wiggins. The brainchild of seven Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. scientists, Leyghton-Paige got going in earnest two years ago, grossed $23,000, $45,000 and foresees $250,000 for this year. Dave's averaging a move to larger quarters about once a year, and has seen the public snap up $170,000 worth of corporation stock. The products include power packs for model railroads, smoke detector fire alarm systems and complicated timers.
Another '51 to make a splash in print lately is Woody Klein, who created quite a stir with a first-person series in the New York World Telegram and Sun on the life of a slum dweller. He lived for weeks amid squalor to gather his material.
And Dick Pugh has blossomed as author of a book. A lawyer in New York, Dick collaborated with Dr. Wolfgang G. Freedman of Columbia in bringing out the volume entitled " Legal Aspects of Foreign Investment."
Here we are eight years past graduation, yet classmates are still getting married with such regularity you'd think we were still a class of bachelors.
Bob Blume and Frances Pishny made it a Fourth of July wedding, and then honeymooned in Monhegan, Me., before returning to New York, where Bob's with the National Foundation. Frances hails from Fort Worth, Texas, is a graduate of Tulsa, an accomplished concert pianist who has studied in Rome, and is currently organist and choir director at Lebanon Methodist Church.
It was an August wedding for Kathryn Allen of Manchester, N. H., and Pinky Pffaf. A '56 graduate of Wellesley, Kathryn also did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. They were married in Manchester.
Warren Stearns and Mary Sears of Elkins Park, Penna., were also married during the summer, in Germantown, Penna. Mary studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Warren is currently an industrial engineer with Manning, Maxwell and Moore, Inc. in Bridgeport, Conn.
Donald Rider and Suzanne Roberts were wed at Wellesley, Mass. Suzanne graduated from Dana Hall, Stephens College and the Eliot-Peterson School of Tufts University. Don's now with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Dr. Peter and Mary Dallman are living in Boston, where Pete has a fellowship at Children's Hospital, after a wedding trip to Europe. The former Mary Fenner of Rowayton, Conn., Mary graduated from Smith in 1956. They were married in late spring.
Jim and Elaine (Tobin) Bovaird went to Bermuda for a honeymoon after being married early in July. You may remember we noted their engagement in this column last spring. They're now residing in Port Washington on Long Island. Jim's with Armstrong Cork in New York.
And Ted and Ruth Anne Hazen are at home in Jamaica Plain, Mass., after their wedding in late spring. From Hancock, N. H., Ruth Anne graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. Ted's working toward a doctorate of biochemistry at Harvard.
That's all we know about weddings, except that there are more to come. Recently announced is the engagement of Pete Cummings to Arabella Gay Gerber of Fremont, Mich. Arabella graduated from the University of Michigan in June, and they plan a November wedding.
And there will also be a wedding soon for Dick Mason and Olive Dove of Monroe, N. Y. Olive graduated from Mills College and has been a teacher in the Monroe-Woodbury schools. Dick's with the Kalco Graph Corporation in New York City.
New arrivals logged in to classmates since our last column include a daughter, Valerie Lise, to the Bob Leavitts and a son, Jeffrey, to Dr. and Mrs. Floyd Parks. Floyd writes that he's left the U.S. Public Health Service (he was head of Indian health for western and southern Nevada) and entered a surgical training program at UCLA. He reports run- ning into Wes Nutton (practicing law) and Tom Hatchett in the Los Angeles area.
From elsewhere, we hear that Jeff O'Connell has torn himself away from the Boston area and is an assistant professor of law at lowa University. He teaches half-time and devotes the other half to a research project for the U.S. Department of Agriculture - a study of the impact on the individual farmer of his contracts for crops with large food producers and processors.
And speaking of crops, that's the crop of news for this month. Drop us a line.
At the March wedding of Hank and Shirley Sanders '51 in Cambridge, Mass., were: (back left to right) Charlie Hood '51, Joe Welch '51, Carter Hoyt '22, Bob Leavitt '51, Blake Ireland '51, John Ferguson '51, Don Morse '51, Horton Chandler '18 (front —left to right) Ernst Zwick '58, Jim Eldredge '51, Tom Corcoran '54, and Stew Sanders '56.
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