1951

Top news of the month is a social note - a great oak has fallen from the ranks of 51 bachelors. That is to say that 01' derson will be taking himself a wife May 9, right about the time you're reading this. Pete has yet to inform us of this impending event himself - doubtless wishing to avoid any panic on the stock exchange. But our spies report that it's for sure. Petes intended is Nancy Nichol of Muskegon, Mich., and that's where the wedding will be.

There was a '51 blast in Chicago in honor of this event, thrown by Dave and Ginny Hilton. Among the celebrants were Tom and Fran Barnett, Jim and Joan Culberson, Bob and Jean Bowler, Herb Knight (in from Little Rock) and Jim Bovaird (in from New York).

The New York location is a new one for Bovaird, by the way. He's recently been transferred there by Armstrong Cork, but finds various attractions to bring him back to Chicago weekends.

Also from the midwest area we hear that Pierce McKee has left Sears Roebuck in Salem, Ohio, and moved to Dayton, where he's joined the Top Value (merchandise stamp plan) organization. Understand the move was a tough decision, for the McKees were very fond of Salem.

And we hear that Dick Rogers is roaming the heartland as advertising representative for MacLean Hunter Publishing Co. (trade journals in concrete and aggregate held). Hudson, Ohio, is home for the Rogers and three daughters.

Back in the Chicago area, Bob Crossley has been promoted to industrial relations manager of the big International Harvester plant in Rock Island, Ill. Bob has been with Harvester since graduation, and until the big step up was assistant industrial relations manage! at the company's West Pullman works in Chicago. He, Joan and three children live Chicago Heights.

Another upcoming wedding, set tor summer, concerns Don Rider and Suzanne Roberts of Stamford. Conn. Suzanne is a graduate of Dana Hall, Stephens College and the Eliot-Pearson School of Tufts. Don, veteran of a hitch in the Air Force, is now with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

First word we've heard of Stan Shipper, in a long time tells us that he is back home in Florence, Ala., and partner in a firm with offices in Florence and neighboring cities.

George Biggs is making a name for himself these days as" director of the forty-voice Messiah College Choral Society of Grantham, Penna. The group was off on a 2,000-mile tour of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana during the spring college recess.

Bob Pack, certainly the most active poet in the class, has a new book of poems, entitled "A Stranger's Privilege," coming out this spring. Bob has been an instructor at Barnard College since 1957. and was invited back to Hanover recently for a Tower Room reading of some of his work Bob's poetry appeared earlier in another book, The Iron of Toy." He has also written a critical work on Wallace Stevens and co-edited an anthology of new poets.

Up in North Wilkesboro, N. C. (where the} have more stills per acre than anywhere else) Tack and Betty Sutton are the proud parent, of new daughter Katherine Elizabeth, born Feb. 27. And a call from Jack a few days age brought the good news that they're planning to become neighbors of ours here in Char lotte.

In dosing we hear that: Jack Burgess is established as a pediatrician in Rock Island, Ill.... Jeremy Lindsay is a partner in the General Market Co. of Seattle, Wash. Frank O'Neil is distant manager of Pittsburgh Glass Co. office in Brooklyn.

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