1948

It's good to be back with all you '48's again after a wonderful summer here in New York. It is fortunate that the days are now shorter and I must stay indoors when I come home in the evening. Otherwise, I'm afraid my summer evening activities of gardening or golf would force me to neglect my duty of keeping class news flowing to all of you. Incidentally, I had a pretty good summer on the links this year. However, I find that without more delay I had better wade into the pile that has accumulated since our last issue.

At long last we have caught up with our old pal Don Pendas. Don is sales communications manager for the pharmaceutical division of Chas. Pfizer, with offices in midtown Manhattan. Don and Phyllis live in an apartment here in New York which they occupy with their one-year-old son Stephen.

Al Clark, who is mathematics instructor at the Ware (Mass.) High School, was granted a National Science Foundation fellowship at Yale this past summer for a six-week course for high school teachers.

I talked to Bernie Somers early this summer a short time before he moved to California. Bernie, who has been attached to the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled in New York, will become assistant professor teaching students in Rehabilitation Curriculum at Los Angeles State College. I hope Bernie, his wife Leo, and their two children find a pleasant life out there.

Another classmate who surprised everyone by moving to the land of the sun (no offense meant to those from Florida) is my predecessor at this job, Bob Herrick. Bob and Timi moved to La Jolla, just north of San Diego. Bob is an independent food broker out there' if any of you might want to distribute your food products in that great growing area.

Just to prove the center of population is moving westward, we find Hugh Ettinger, who was a cave dweller here in Manhattan while he did security analysis at Merrill Lynch, now becoming an analyst with Investors Diversified Services in Minneapolis. Investors is the largest mutual fund in the country, so Hugh just went from the big to the bigger where he should do very well.

Paul Twomey has double reason to break into print here and also to be proud of himself. In May, Margaret produced Mark, the fourth little Twomey and second Dartmouth candidate. Then in July, Paul was appointed Controller of Raytheon's distributor products division. This division supplies dealers with tubes and other electronic components.

Frank Wuerfel has been appointed director of sales planning for the Burry Biscuit Corporation in Elizabeth, N. J. Before joining Burry Biscuit, Frank was sales representative in the metropolitan area for the Crown, Cork and Seal Co., and prior to that was associated with the Scott Paper Co., in Chester, Pa. Together with his wife and two sons he is living on Knollwood Road, Mut*ontown, Glen Head, N. Y.

Our famous Reunion Chairman, Rick Landon (in case you don't remember, he was the barefoot young man wearing long white pants lying prone under the '48 tent with an unlighted cigar protruding from his mouth whom you saw as a last remembrance as you departed from our 10th reunion) has been elected Secretary of the Association of Publishers Representatives. I'm sure the Association will now substantially increase its entertainment budget.

While talking to Bill Terry on the phone earlier in the summer he informed me he was now working for the Kudner Advertising Agency as print media buyer. He still lives in lower Manhattan.

Bill Winter is working for the government and living in Lucerne, Switzerland. He and Marly have a daughter, Jacqueline, who is one year old.

Last spring Don Gilmore served as guest speaker at the 15th annual meeting of Future Springfield, Inc. Don's timely subject was "Economic Development Organizations in New England." Don is regional economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Jerold Lucey just received a special fellowship from the National Institutes of Health Division of Neurological Diseases. He will be on leave of absence for a year from his position as Professor at the University of Vermont Medical School where this year he was voted teacher-of-the-year by the graduating class. During the year Dr. Lucey will do research and study with Dr. Claude Villee of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School.

There was an interesting article recently about Ken Young in Newsday, a paper in Long Island. Early in the summer Ken suffered a heart attack while playing golf. About a month later he had recovered sufficiently to score the amateur low net in the pro-am weekly tournament in Long Island.

It's nice to be back thinking about Dartmouth once again. Next month I hope we have a big pile of news.

Secretary,110 Old Farm Rd. Pleasantville, N. Y.

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