1951
Carnival time is just past, and we lost to Middlebury again. But the spell of the North Country was there as ever, for anyone fortunate enough to get back. Jean and George Biggs, Dune and Milly Booth went up the weekend before (from their homes near Barrington, R.I.) for a visit in Vermont, got over to Hanover Saturday. "The ice statues were just going up ... the weather was lovely and there was about two to three feet of snow — we had a delightful trip," writes Milly.
Speaking of snowy places, Jim Wylie is anxious to make contact with any classmates up Alaska way. Western Gulf Oil Company is packing geologist Jim off to Anchorage for a two-year hitch, and Margie and the two youngsters (three years and three months) should be joining him by the time you read this.
And Bill Brooks also would like to locate some '51's in his new home —but he, going only to Pittsburgh, has better prospects. Bill's been a merchandising salesman for Texaco in the Albany, N. Y., area since 1958, is now commuting between his home in Delmar, N. Y., and Pittsburgh, where he's become Texaco's district representative (oil company jargon for assistant district manager) until he can line up a new home for wife Skip (Dorothy Redfield, Colby '51) and sons Don, five, and John, three.
After four years in Glenwood, Minn., JerryStaton moved to La Crosse, Wis., last August, as minister of St. John's United Church of Christ, to find he was one of four Dartmouth alumni in town. Jerry says he gets quite a kick out of hunting waterfowl, bagged his first Canadian goose last fall and used it for a tasty Thanksgiving dinner. The Staton family now includes a son, four, and daughters, three and one.
Jerry Underwood, now living in Cedar Grove, N. J., and selling for the Atlantic Lumber Company, reports on his progress since '51: "Enlisted U.S. Army, entered as a private, exited as a corporal. In between I was exposed to a year of Russian in Monterey, Calif., and quantities of beer, etc., in Germany." Then came Tuck School, followed by the present job, marriage to Doris and two little boys. The location is handy. "Have managed to stagger through the last four Dartmouth-Princeton games," says Jerry.
Another fellow who says he makes the Princeton game is Sam Sparhawk, who's been laboring in securities analysis for the Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia for three years. Sam spent two joyful years in Korea after graduation, followed that up with two years of law school, married Wilma two years ago. Other Sparhawk activities include "investment club, poker club, bridge club, martini club."
From John Rheinstein (and Betty, Bruce, and Leisel, the dachshund) comes an interesting card: "After 1951 — three years with the Navy, and then three years at the University of Chicago where I got my Master's degree (in physics) and got married in 1956. Then I had the chance to write my thesis for the doctorate at an institute of the Technische Hochschule here in Munich, Germany - so for the past two years have been living in the land of great beer. I have also been teaching physics at the Munich branch of the University of Maryland. Also had a son here - a true beer loving Muenchner. Hope to be finished in the next five or six months, and then shall return to the U.S. and start working for a living."
Sel Atherton, now vice president of the First National Bank of Lewiston and Auburn up Maine way, regrets that he sees few '51s - "if they only knew what a good life it is!" Sel has two daughters, is pulling for the next arrival (due in June) to be a son.
Another fellow who likes it in cold country is Bill Boynton, who writes that he's financing graduate work in English at University of Colorado by working as a cattle rancher east of Boulder. Only complaint is that all this and family (son nearly two and baby daughter) keep him too busy to ski.
Al Wright, on the other hand, is down where it's warm - a mechanical engineer in duPont's Savannah River Plant at Aiken, S. C. Al says he's spending his time "trying to keep a wife and three children (two girls and a boy) happy and out of trouble — play golf and tennis when possible."
As usual, there's lots of news of the medics. Buz Sawyer reports that he's finishing up a three-year residency in eye, ear, nose and throat, in Columbus, Ohio, plans to settle down to private practice there next July. Recreation for Dr. Sawyer means romping with son and daughter (third child expected this spring), restoring an antique jalopy, practicing judo and occasionally skin diving in the Florida keys - for such catches as a 150-pound Jewfish.
Also expecting in the spring is Dr. VinceAlbo, who has opened a practice of pediatrics and hematology in Pittsburgh, after graduation from University of Pittsburgh med school in 1956, internship in Cleveland, residencies in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. Vince and Kathryn already have boys, two and four.
Dr. Jerry Block reports he is "1) Unmarried - no prospects; 2) working too hard and long as chief resident in neurology at Mt. Sinai Hospital; 3) missing Japan and lazy Navy life; 4) disenchanted with New York; 5) seeing good friends Mr. and Mrs. HowiePhillips frequently - saving factors."
These are busy days for pediatrician JackBurgess, who finds himself often as not working from 6:45 a.m. to 11 p.m. out in Rock Island, Ill. The Burgesses, including twoyear-old son, moved into a new house in January, expected another youngster momentarily and confidently predicted another son. Were you right, Jack?
Dr. Paul Simel is still paying his debt to Uncle Sam with a hitch at Fort Sill after a residency in ophthalmology at Yale-New Haven medical center. He reports wife Hally Lee (graduate of Dana Hall, Centenary Junior College and Parsons School of Design) and two young sons are coping admirably with tornadoes out on the plains.
And hospital administrator John Boardman is still at it in Pairiesville, Ohio, where he's associate director of Lake County Memorial Hospital. The arrival of daughter Amy last summer put total at four for John and Nella, a boy and three girls.
Dave Phillips has been leading an interesting life with the Foreign Service in South America for the past two-and-a-half years. He's now motion picture and radio for the embassy in Santiago, Chile, after two years at the embassy in Lima, Peru.
We have insurance news from scattered points. Bill Fraser has moved from Hartford back to Albany, N. Y„ as general agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company. And John Sargeant reports that he's busy raising 'four daughters and running his own insurance agency in Winter Park, Fla.
It's good to hear that Bill Merkle has become personnel manager of the Hotel Corporation of America, after joining the company only last June. While working for the government, Bill established the first executive development plan for American and French employes of our government in France, then went back to Dartmouth to go through Tuck School.
And another praiseworthy promotion takes Pete Henderson to Cleveland where he'll manage the Inland Steel plant, after a hitch as general foreman of one of Inland's operations in Milwaukee. Pete and Nancy are expecting their firstborn this spring.
Any of you interested in skiing have undoubtedly noticed that Dave Lawrence is coach of the U.S. women's ski team which seems to have a chance of chalking up a fine record in this year's Winter Olympics, at Squaw Valley.
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