1956
First, our thanks go to Dick Marsh for turning out these columns faithfully since Commencement, 1956. My efforts to assemble this material for the current issue bring back memories of the nights before GI journals were due. One comment before I get to the news. The class executive committee is meeting in New York City on September 13 and will undoubtedly come up with various plans to retain the unity of our class. From the secretary's point of view, having learned that our treasury is not exactly overflowing, I should like to place much of the burden of supplying news on you rather than to spend too much money on general mailings from here. If your name has not appeared in this column within the last ten or twelve months, could you send in some news? A postcard will be fine, and use my Hanover address.
The '56 Hanover welcoming committee is assembling for the fall term now. TedBremble, Nancy, and Ricky are beginning their third year here. Despite the Portland paper's report that they will be at Bowdoin, Ab Oakes, Cynthia, and a little Abner have just joined us in Hanover. Ab takes the position of freshman soccer, hockey, and la- crosse coach. Dick Groeneveld and Val will be here shortly when Dick starts work and advanced study with the math department, and Ken Fesenmyer will be back this fall to finish his undergraduate work. Another pleasant surprise was to find Dave Gleason and his wife back in town with Mary Hitchcock Hospital after receiving an M.D. from Michigan. So far as I know, this makes up the Hanover group for the coming year; and, although we do not enclose our addresses or promise accommodations, with four home football games, we look forward to an extended '56 reunion.
In academic achievements, congratulations are due George Records, Pete Walker, and Walker Peterson, who completed their under-graduate work at Dartmouth last June; LeeSmith and Bob Faulkner, who have finished Tuck School; and Tiny Strong for perseverance to continue on to Harvard Law School after Tuck.
John and Bill Kustrup received their medical degrees at Georgetown University and are beginning internships at the St. Francis Hospital in Trenton. Dick Thorp received his M.D. from B.U. and has started interning at the Cornell Medical Center in New York City, and Lee Richardson became a doctor at Ohio State on June 10. DaveRubin and Don Sokol received M.D.s at Johns Hopkins and Tufts and will be interning at Duke University and the Philadelphia General respectively; Herb Kleber finished his M.D. at Jefferson Medical College and is an intern at the Health Center Hospitals in Pittsburgh.
Fred Johnson has received an NDEA fellowship to study for a master's degree in Russian Area Studies and Slavic Languages and Literature at Indiana University, andDick Keesey has received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Brown. John Higgs finished Penn Law cum laude, and his wife Helen presented him with a second daughter on graduation day. He is now with Sullivan & Cromwell on Wall St.
George Cohan studied at Wesleyan during the summer on a grant from the National Science Foundation. He is on the faculty of the Staples High School in Westport, Conn. Gordie Lenci writes of psychology courses and sailboat races. He has a good position at Suffield Academy along with several other Dartmouth alumni. Paul Ford has his doctorate in education from Harvard and is now living in Framingham and working with the Wayland school system.
The most publicized '56 of the last few months has been Dick Benoit, who with his wife Judy and son Christopher appeared in major articles in the Boston Herald and Windham County, Conn., papers in May and June. The emphasis was on fortitude. Dick has now finished Tufts med school and came out in the top quarter on the National Board Exam. He became a LTjg early in the summer and is stationed at the Chelsea Naval Hospital. Through Dick's time at med school, Judy worked as a nurse.
Congratulations are also due Sid Devorsetz for his appointment to the litigation and claims bureau as an assistant attorney general for the state of New York and to Bob Danziger who has become sales manager for Bunny Bear, Inc., a Boston furniture firm. Leo McKenna, living in Concord, Mass., has taken a position in the sales department of the American Enka Corporation.
The engagement and marriage list is a long one and space is running out. From what I can gather '56s are doing OK. Here's the latest: engagements: Dick Abrams (Columbia TV) and Pat Wertheim; Jack Jowett (Peat, Merrick, and Mitchell Accounting Office, Buffalo) to Jean Clother; Andy Merrels (First Lieut, in the Army Reserve) to Karen McLeland; John Allen (working for his doctorate at MIT) and Anne Chase; Bob Barry (studying Eastern European Affairs at Columbia) and Margaret Crim; Bob Gile (aide to RADM Mendenhall USN, Potomac River) and Charlotte Pillion; and Herb Hamilton (LTjg in the Naval Air Reserve) and Elaine Wallace.
'56 weddings this summer: Hank Pratt and Ann Vilas, Jack Hubbard and Daphne Lawrence, Ross Campbell and Judy Weaver, BillWoodson and Audrey-Gene Dubow, DennyPalmer and Dawn Detwiler, Pete Bernard and Kitty Davenport, Roger Bensen and Anne Weir (captain and crew for a fantastic yacht cruise in the Caribbean), Ted Rowe and Elizabeth Woodbury, Ed Apt and Beverly Jones, Dave Dennison and Barbara Cummins, and Henry Jaenicke and Ann Brosseau.
That's it for now; see you at the home games.
Secretary, 21 Lyme Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 242 Nassau Blvd. Garden City South, L. 1., N. Y.
