1928

Winning distinguished citizenship awards is nothing new for Hollis Carlisle, treasurer of Carlisle Hardware Company of Springfield, Mass. His latest award was made by the National Municipal League at a dinner in Springfield.

Joe Smith's daughter, Joan, and Robert J. Broderick of the U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Va., were married February 19. Joan attended Bucknell and the Berkeley Secretarial School in White Plains, N.Y. Her sister, Marcia, graduates from Bucknell in June and in July will marry Bob Walin, an ex-marine and a graduate of St. Lawrence University, who is now with Shell Oil Company.

Columbus advertising executive, Ed Atkinson, has assumed the editorship of the "Ohio Archaeologist," quarterly publication of the Ohio Archaeology Society, as one of his extracurricular jobs. Any other archaeologists be- sides John Brew and Hollis Carlisle?

Charlie Kammire of Bath, N.Y., is putting two more children through college: Carl is a senior at Rensselaer Poly where he was one of forty out of 800 seniors to make Tau Beta Pi, engineering honorary society; daughter Louise is a sophomore at Syracuse University.

John and Ludmilla Turkevich have written "Russian for the Scientist" (Van Nostrand), a series of twenty lessons with exercises for biologists, chemists, physicists, and aeronautical engineers.

Jack Carson was recently re-elected president of the Aspen Ski Club for his third term. Jack and his family moved to Aspen in 1956.

Ted Meltzer is Chief of the Publications Branch of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington. He says his current activities in Bethesda are trying to understand politics, chopping wood and bird-watching. He and Jeanne are going to Europe this summer. Hammie Hammesfahr says they are planning a trip to Europe this spring. Also Europebound in June are Hank and Helen Graupner and their two children — if you happen to be in Munich late in June you can find Hank at the Hoffbrau Haus. Bill Graupner stands second scholastically in the First Form at Lawrenceville School; Sally is in the tenth grade at Chapin School in New York.

Mutt Jennings keeps busy with his duties as Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and "spending 24 hours a day trying to sell my house so as to move into a smaller one."

Don Benjamin's middle daughter's husband, Ens. D.W. McGregor, has been assigned for three years to Lua-Lua-Lei on Oahu; his oldest daughter's husband is completing his education at American International College in Springfield after two years in Alaska. Don is planning a trip to Hawaii.

Hank Gere has just been made Commodore of Wequaquet Lake Yacht Club in Centerville, Cape Cod, and, like George Davis, has bought a farm in Vermont. Hank's farm is in Vershire. His son Bill is a Tufts Engineering School junior, David is at Leicester Jr. College and plans on going to Babson; Christine is a drummer in the Needham, Mass., Junior High band.

Merrill Hodsdon, in his 31st year with the New York Telephone Company, now manages the 14th Street office in Manhattan - where you must be adept at speaking pidgin Yiddish, Chinese, and Spanish. His son Ed graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1958 and has had a year at Westminster Choir College. He wants to get into social service work but has been stymied by not having a master's in sociology. Bill, Drew University '55, is now in his third year at Boston University School of Theology. His wife (since August, 1958) is getting her P.H.T.— Putting Hubby Through. Bill has already been accepted by the Arizona-California Conference of the Methodist Church.

Tavey Taylor, San Francisco attorney, writes, "Nothing ever happens to us except when Herb Russell visits San Francisco. He and Al Lathrop and I attended our annual alumni dinner at the University Club last night."

El Drake's daughter Debbie was married in Palo Alto on November 28, he and Adelaide went out for the wedding. Her husband is a third year law student at Stanford. Debbie graduated from Stanford in 1959 and is working at Calpac in San Francisco. Bob Drake is a freshman at Colorado State University at Fort Collins.

Harv Fisher's son is at the University of California at Berkeley Dusty Griffin is planning a trip to Lexington, Va., in April to visit his son, Nat, who is a freshman at Washington and Lee.... Bill Carrico is looking forward to a vacation on Water Island, one of the Virgin Islands - don't forget to say "hello" to Norm Nash's widow who lives there.

Wally Carr's daughter Penny graduates in Tune from Green Mountain College and plans two more years of college; daughter Pat married Alan Walden and lives in Washington, D. C. Natalie is breathless as usual running from one civic job to another. Wally completed the three-year course of the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers - and admits it was difficult to get back into harness as a student.

Dick Rendell traveled around the country with Khrushchev last fall for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Then in October he was sent to England for the British elections. His wife Pat traveled with him, and they visited Denmark and Scotland also. They spent Christmas week in Hanover, N.H.

John Phelan Jr. '63, freshman hockey team captain, with hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah '30. John is the son of Jack Phelan '28.

Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.

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