1951
From the concrete canyons of Gotham comes an SOS — on a post card, yet. It says: "We are lunching at '21' and have found the bill beyond us. - Help! Send money by messenger! If no messenger on hand - a carrier pigeon." Signed: Jay Wolf and Warren Pfaff. Adds a P.S.: "We are not old enuf for a 10th reunion!" Nope. But let's face it. Another year and we all will be. Anyway, that explains the presence of two becob-webbed characters in the "21" bar — just the '51 contingent of Madison Avenue.
Lots of us wonder from time to time why we don't just chuck it all and head back for the good life in Hanover. And Jack Skewes, taking the bull by the horns, has done just that. By appointment of President Dickey, he becomes assistant business manager of the College, and he, Connie and two youngsters, are probably back on the Hanover scene by now. After graduation, Jack was in the Army for two years, and commanded an intelligence unit in Korea. He went back to Tuck School later, worked for Scott Paper Company and most recently with Stanley Tools, where he was division superintendent in New Britain, Conn. At Dartmouth, Jack will assist business manager Richard W. Olmsted '32 and will have considerable responsibility in the building program now underway.
One of the youngest winners in the Ford Foundation National Faculty Research Fellowship competition for 1960-61 is Ed Mansfield, assistant professor of economics in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology. He will stay close to home in Pittsburgh while doing a year's basic research on the role of technological advances in economic growth. Ed, who took his Ph.D. at Duke and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, is director of Carnegie Tech's research project on "Innovations and Technological Change."
We understand that Bill Terry is knocking around the world quite a bit these days as a unit production manager of Louis deRochemont Associates, the film company. He crossed the Atlantic four times in connection with the filming of a windjammer film, twice on board a full-rigged sailing ship; participated in filming the Lebanon crisis, the coronation of Pope John and the Brussels World Fair.
Time for another report on our progeny. Fred Brown, still in personnel for Sylvania at Woburn, Mass., reports the arrival of Tim- othy C. Bown to join his big sister Elizabeth and big brother Charlie (and dog named Snoopy - good grief, Browns!). Jim Bovaird reports that the Al Moris and the Bob Larigans have both also just had their third, and Bovaird himself is expecting the first arrival anytime now. There's also a new face at the Bob Bowlers' house in Lake Bluff, Ill.— Nancy Elizabeth was born January 27. Dick andNorma Miner are pleased with young Robert Hinton, who joined his brother Bobby last November - the Miners are now in Philadelphia after eighteen months in Toronto, and Dick is still monkeying with the big electronic brains for Remington Rand Univac.
Charlie Breed observes, "I seem to be surrounding myself with women" - Beverly Ann arrived to join her sister Debbie last December. And the Breeds have a further reason for rejoicing - after moving about every two months for two years, Standard of California has allowed Charlie to settle down in a house in Billings, Mont.
The marrying bug is still biting, too. Joe Caldwell and Marcia Thompson of Croton, N. Y., were married in January. Marcia is a June graduate of Syracuse. It'll be a June wedding for Ralph Watkins and Alexandra Hubbard of Oyster Bay, L. I., an alumna of Wheaton. Ralph is a mainstay of the Kodak Public Relations Department in Rochester these days and does considerable free lance writing about automobile racing and skiing according to a report from our Kodak correspondent Jack Berggren, who's a statistician in computer work there himself. Another engagement announced is that of Reed Badgley to Judith Ann Prior of New York City, an alumna of Holyoke.
Readers of the "San Francisco Examiner" recently were treated to the picture of a handsome, suave young man in tux, highball in hand, making gay conversation with his date. The picture was captioned: "They could have danced all night - and did at Spinster Gala Ball." The gay blade was none other than Herm Christensen.
Our Alaskan colony grows. Last month JimWylie was asking for whereabouts of other '51's there as he planned a move to Anchorage. Now we hear from Les Viereck who, with wife Teri, is teaching at the University of Alaska. Teri instructs in Zoology while Les gives courses in Botany and Ecology and works on botanical research for the university. Sixmonth-old Roddy rounds out the Viereck family, and can watch mommy and daddy ski off to school every day of the winter. Before heading North last spring Teri received her Ph.D. in biology at the University of Colorado. Les lacks only his thesis for the same degree but found the call of the Alaskan faculty irresistible.
Another fellow with Alaskan interests is Earl Brabb, who has a new job as geologist for the Alaskan branch of the U. S. Geological Survey. This means two to three months of summer field work in Alaska during the summer and Earl will lead an expedition down the Porcupine and Yukon Rivers this year. But the rest of the time the Brabb family, including nineteen-month-old daughter Robin, is together in their new home in Menlo Park, Calif. Earl passes the non-working hours working on his Ph.D. thesis and battling to get authorities to save a choice redwood area from the woodsman's axe.
Bob Wilbee reports he's "currently grinding out an internship at the U. of California in San Francisco - no mean feat after spending several years between college and med school refining ray taste for good dry martinis." Art Worden and Ruth are in Buffalo, where he's a sales engineer of heating and air conditioning control systems for Johnson Control....Dave Saxton and family are leaving du Pont and Wilmington for Chicago where he will be a management consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Dave tells of a recent visit in Detroit with Casey and Donna Mckibben "he is selling more space than 'Design News' can put between covers."... DaveWhite is in New York, working at Rockefeller Institute on his Ph.D. in microbial genetics while wife Sandy seeks her doctorate in biometries at Columbia. Says Dave: "Living on a meager stipend in Manhattan, so am against all Cadillacs and Madison Avenue ad men, for underpaid researchers and teachers and for universities that give teachers enough time to do research." ... John Burnett has left the General Cable Corporation and joined Western Plastics and Rubber in Richmond, Calif.
If the daughters keep arriving, some frustrated papas may lead the move to make Dartmouth coed. Bob Byall (now assistant secretary of Broadview Savings and Loan and head of the company's branch in Bay Village, Ohio) and Mitzi have three daughters. And it's three likewise for Dick and Greta Rogers, who moved into their first "mortgaged castle" in Hudson, Ohio, last summer. Dick's an advertising salesman for "Modern Plastics" and "Modern Packaging," travels to Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati. "No potential Big Greens in this pack," he says, "but maybe a Carnival Queen (heaven help her date!)." Allen and Kay Odell follow precedent with two daughters, but have also a potential pea green freshman in five-year-old Dan. Recently appointed assistant district office manager for Firestone in Oklahoma City, Allen reports high point of the winter for the whole family was a twoinch snow - a rare sight indeed in those parts.
Here in Washington we Millers have enjoyed catching up with the various '51's in the area, but are sorry to find them leaving almost as soon as we catch them. Had a most pleasant evening with Dick and Toni Barnes only a few days before his recent departure from Washington and the AEC for New York. They're living in a Yorkville apartment and Dick is managing editor for the monthly magazine of the Atomic Industrial Forum Inc.
A few nights later we saw Don and Barby Rand, only days before they shoved off for Don's next Navy duty station in Japan. And shortly thereafter Dr. Rog Shannon and Martha were here. But Rog finishes his radiology residency at George Washington hospital in June and heads for Air Force duty in Spokane, Wash. We almost hesitate to look up anyone else. A visit with the Millers seems equivalent to a ticket out of town.
Walter Bush Jr. '51 poses with a member of the Japanese Olympic hockey team at Squaw Valley, California. Walt was "official time keeper" for the hockey events.
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