1955

This fall's political wars have provided lots of fuel for Dick Hogarty's fire. Dick's the number two administrative assistant to New Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams and is running the Senator's home-state office in Newark. Though Mr. Williams is not a candidate this year, he's been "helping out," as Dick puts it, in the Democratic campaign, both in New Jersey and elsewhere. Dick has accompanied the Senator on several of his speaking trips, has assisted in speech writing, and has even represented his boss on some occasions when the schedule was heavy. In more normal times Dick's principal duty is legislative research in matters affecting New Jersey. One such project was the status of urban renewal in Jersey's cities, and when he sought information from the Federal official in Philadelphia in charge of New Jersey programs, it turned out to be Bernie Fulton.

Dick has also been pursuing what has become an annual task, preparing for our unofficial reunion cocktail party after the Princeton game. It will be in the Chestnut Street firehouse, as before, and Dick promises two bars this year, one at each end of the firehouse. Though we can't be absolutely certain about the football team, the party promises to be another winner.

Lunch hour in Newark has brought Dick in contact with Buck Kuttner, a lawyer who's also involved in Democratic politics, mostly in Jersey's huge Essex County; Neale Clapp, a probation officer; and Dick Blanchard, who's with his father and twin brother Bill in a 100-year-old family construction company which ranges all over northern New Jersey. More news on Buck: he's engaged to a home-town gal, Cathy Ledner of Irvington, N. J. She graduates in February from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and they plan a spring wedding.

And while on this oft-recurring subject, Ed Willi, his heart still at sea, has become engaged to what looks like the entire Chilean navy. His gal is Maria Cubillos of Vina del Mar, Chile, daughter of a navy captain and granddaughter of an admiral and a captain. Ed, after four and a half years in a different navy, returned to Tuck and is now with the Overseas Operations Division of General Motors in New York.

The next step in the process: Nick Kotz married Mary Booth of Mathiston, Miss., on August 7, in Washington. Nick is with the Des Moines Register, and Mary, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and the University of lowa Graduate School of Journalism, is on the staff of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. And, after leaving you hanging last month about Marty Friedman's planned wedding to Adele Bernstein of Barnard and Yale, we can now safely report that they carried out their plan.

Some new bankers have turned up in New York after completing classroom work in June. Woody Goss, who dashed home to Brooklyn Heights in the middle of reunion to await the arrival of his first heir, is with the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company. He and Nancy named the baby for Woody's grandfather, Edward Woodworth '97, the first president of the Glee Club. Woody received an M.A. from the University of Virginia business school and is now taking night business courses at New York University. He reports seeing Herb Lightstone, who "works upstairs," Tom Schoon-maker, since June traveling around the New York Central system as a trainee for the road, and John Le Fever, newly married (to Edith Gavronsky of Hunter College) and starting as an editorial assistant on the New York Herald Tribune's "Today's Living" section.

Scott and Dorothy Rutherford, with two small boys in tow, have settled in West Orange, N. J., as he starts the training program at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. Scott completed his course work at the University of Michigan for an M.A. in economics and plans to finish the thesis by June. He's delving into international coffee price stabilization.

Scott relayed news of classmates who were at Michigan last year. Skip Pessl, a teaching fellow in geology, is deeply involved in a foundation-supported project on Greenland which has required spending a good deal of time on that inviting resort island. Milo White received a master's degree in history in June and is now teaching at Ann Arbor High School, after similar work in Kalamazoo. John Dinan, who was required by the medical school to shave his woodsman's beard, also carried off his sheepskin in June and is now interning in Portland, Me. Scott reported that "everybody in Ann Arbor knew John Dinan."

Chuck Hunter, now a securities analyst with the Bank of New York, spent two years before the blackboard with the Naval ROTC unit at Oregon State at Corvalis. He, wife Judy and daughter Carol, a year old, returned to their native eastern habitat last summer, alighting in Orange, N. J. Chuck's also pursuing NYU night courses, working toward an M.A. in finance.

Jim Cavanaugh left General Electric to enter the University of Chicago's Theological School. He was in Kansas City and was active in church work there. Another churchman, Joe Herring, is keeping very busy as the only assistant to the rector in the largest Episcopal church in New Jersey, St. Paul's in Paterson. Joe says he enjoys preaching and is handling two services each Sunday, delivering a total of 35 sermons in his first four months after only four practice sermons in three years of seminary. He also ministers to shut-ins at home, in hospitals and mental institutions. Now a deacon in the Episcopal Church, Joe will be ordained a priest in December.

Our class poet, Dave Wang, is now in San Francisco. He spoke last summer at a books and art gallery on "The Merging of Poetic Traditions, East and West, from Li Po to Gary Snyder," with readings in Chinese and English.

Mike and Lois Ellovich had a second child, Karen Dale, on September 21. Mike finished up at Trinity College in Hartford and is now a psychologist for the Superior Court of Connecticut and in private practice as an educational and psychological consultant. In court he occasionally sees Bill Delana, a corporate lawyer in Hartford, and he also has encountered Ted Storrs, who's with Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. in Bloomfield, Conn. Mike commutes from Hartford to New York one night a week, working toward a Ph.D. in clinical psychology

That's all for now. See you at Princeton — all of you east of the Mississippi, at any rate.

Secretary, 44 Martindale Road Short Hills, N. J.

Treasurer, Norwich, Vt.