1951

This month we're indebted to Joe Welch, that leading citizen of Newburyport, Mass., for the following rendition of a spirited journey to the Cape: "Dave Hall (the Melrose one), his brother Harry '50 and I (and I think our wives were there too) drove down to Truro where Tom Brown has taken up residence. Tom owns the Sea Side Village, a beautiful motel on the shore road to Provincetown, and has just moved into his handsome home down there - and quite a place it is, with four bathrooms and all of them in working order. Dave, by the way, has just swept into office as Melrose's 'most progressive alderman'— God only knows what he promised them."

The letter from Welch had hardly arrived when Dave Hall himself dropped a card to recount his election - despite Joe's skepticism we're sure Dave was truly the people's choice - and to mention that he also had a swell vacation in Hawaii recently. Dave's still district sales manager for Kyanize Paints, and he and the missus are expecting a second child in July.

Other '51 folk have new arrivals on the way. Maternity day is due in late May for Nancy and Pete Henderson of Cleveland. And July will be the big month for Dr. Dick Horsewell in more ways than one. He and Cynthia expect their second then, and Dick also expects to begin practice that month at the Linville Memorial Clinic in Columbia City, Ind., after a two-year fellowship in GI diseases at Duke. May is the month, too, for Nancy and Pete Frederick (their fourth) who are still living on Stove Pipe Road up in Voorheesville, N. Y.

As for recent arrivals already on the scene, the Bill Funks are one up on the income tax man, for second son John came along last December 30 - and Bill reports that the subsequent snows on the Funk farm's acres near Moweaquea, Ill., were the heaviest in forty years, and left everybody completely snowbound for two weeks ill March. In Port Washington, N. Y., proud parents Jim and Elaine Bovaird welcomed first child Anne Elizabeth March 15 and Jim is telling friends "she bats right and throws left."

One engagement to report this month Hugh MacBrien has persuaded Patricia Swenson of Short Hills, N. J., to say yes. Patricia graduated from Western College in Oxford, Ohio, and is with Welcome Wagon International in New York, where Hugh is practicing law.

From Good Luck Plantation way down in Glendora, Miss., massa' Whitey Hand pens a note about his family (two daughters and a son) and farm. "In addition to raising 500 acres of cotton and 500 acres of other crops, we've started into the egg production business with 5,000 laying hens and 2,500 more on the way. Believe it or not, all 5,000 hens wear glasses and we have the best production record in the area.... We haven't bought a Cadillac, but we bought a two-row cotton picker that cost as much as three Cadillacs. I tip my hat every time I go by it."

Time for a rundown on our medics: Had a pleasant evening just last week with Dr. Al Holt and Marie, who were down for a convention. Al's an anesthetist (gas passer, if you will) at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover, and the Holts are looking forward to late summer completion of their new house on the south slope of the Hanover Plain. Dr. John Q. Marshall writes that he hopes to get into private practice (internal medicine) in '61 after finishing present residency at Boston Veterans Hospital and putting in a year at the New England Medical Center. John and Eva live with their two sons in Billerica, Mass. Dr. Bill Michener is picking up a Master's degree while serving a pediatrics fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He, Roxie, and two children find life pleasant, got over to Minneapolis for a weekend with Dr. Ace Mueller in February. Dr. Til Gyorgy, Cindy and two-year-old son are in Lancaster, Penna., where Til's finishing up a surgical residency prior to reporting for Navy duty this summer. Dr. Ed Landau is about to start his fifth year of residency ("ugh!" quoth he) in Worcester, Mass., and plans private practice there afterwards. Though he's now at Boston Veterans, the family (son and daughter) has already settled in Worcester.

And lest we slight other aspects of the medical professions - Nase Hurowitz operates an apothecary with his dad in Worcester. ... Howie Read moves from teaching (University of Pittsburgh) and consultant work in hospital administration in Pittsburgh to Lawrence, Mass., where he'll head the administrative staff at Memorial Hospital. ... Jock McIntyre is on the administrative staff of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester after getting his Master's in hospital administration from the University of Chicago in '55. He reports that Charlotte and the three little McIntyres are thriving in Rochester, and a frequent visitor is Dr. Tyke Miller, associate chief resident in surgery at Strong Memorial.

Ady Berger reports from vacationland: "Have just completed building up a subdivision of over 61 houses under the name of Pasadena Homes in West Hollywood. Fla. Now we have purchased an additional 101 lots and hope to do the same thing. The Florida sunshine agrees with my wife Helene and son Mark (two-and-a-half)." For '51 travelers, the latchstring is out at Chez Berger in North Miami Beach.

Elsewhere in the business world, Dick Bacon has been named district manager for the Harris Seybold division of Harris Intertype Corporation. Wife Nancy, a Skidmore grad, reports that all Bacons including son Dick Jr. and daughter Debbie are high on Texas. The whole family journeyed to Houston to visit Vince and Izzy Marriott who are now expecting their third child and getting ready to move to Baltimore.

Moves seem to be in the air. Jim and JaneCulberson have shoved off from Chicago for Winston-Salem, N. C., where Jim will be with the Wachovia Bank. And Kodak is bringing Al Karcher from Chicago back to Rochester. After hearing Al hold forth at a farewell party, Windy City associates aren't sure whether he goes as president or chairman of the board.

Two fellows, each unaware of the other, write in from Bridgeport, Conn., bemoaning the fact that there aren't any other '51's around. Chuck Fitzsimmons is a cost reduction supervisor for Bridgeport Brass and he, Carole, their son and daughter live in nearby Milford. Bob Hustek, coaching basketball at Bassick High in Bridgeport, chalked up an 18-4 record last winter. The Hustek marital status? - "Lonely!"

Couple of other guys also remain sportsminded. Dick Hulbert livens up his Manhattan bachelor's existence (Chemical Bank) by serving as secretary of the Field Hockey Association of America, got a nice trip to Belgium last year for a meeting of the International Field Hockey Federation. And Bill Leshure, also single, coaches soccer, wrestling, and baseball, teaches history and English at Suffield Academy in Suffield, Conn.

Funny man Bob McCabe writes on a card slugged Sing-Sing: "I've been away for awhile." But it's more accurate to say that he's going away for awhile, for we learn from other sources that Bob will leave his assistant news editor post at the World Telegram and Sun for a Fund for Adult Education fellowship (at Harvard) studying China and Southeast Asia.

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