1950

By the time you read this copy you'll know whether the M Squad from New York broke Babe Ruth's home run record, and maybe you couldn't care less, but as our initial deadline approaches Roger Maris has just poked number 52 into the short rightfield area of the stadium. The degree of excitement has been heightened for our family since our new source of bread-and-but-ter, Statistical Tabulating Corp. of Chicago, has been using its data processing system to calculate the odds each day on whether the 34-year-old standard will be surpassed. You may have our New York manager on the NBC Today show; if so, you'll recall the company name and that's our new affiliation (as assistant to the marketing vice president) ... so perhaps we can turn our attention to the doings of other '50's beginning with those who are at . . .

THE HITCHING POST

It's been a long time since we had as many as half a dozen nuptials to record in a single issue. During all of last year there were only four weddings, so this is a bumper crop. The first event, chronologically, took place last April 8 when Mac Grant married Mrs. Lynn Ballentine Coleman of Rocky Mount, N. C. The bride attended the University of North Carolina and Wesleyan Conservatory of Music in Macon, Ga.

Henry Jaeger and the former Gayle Abouchar of New York and Barcelona, Spain, were married May 6. Hank is assistant production manager of Simon and Schuster, publishers, and his spouse is a book designer with Charles Scribner's Sons.

Another ceremony in Manhattan was performed two weeks later, May 20, tying the knot for Robert C. Ferguson and Mary Ann Punchur of McKeesport, Penna. Bob is with Bache and Co., investment brokers, in New York.

Seven days later across the continent in San Francisco, Miss Charlotte Helene Durkee of Staten Island became the bride of Dr.Ben Maeck. She graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and has been administrative assistant at the University of California Hospitals in San Francisco. Ben got his M.D. at Vermont and interned at St. Luke's in New York City. Following a registrarship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, he completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Columbia Presbyterian in New York and now practices around the Golden Gate.

It was practically a reunion when JackHarned married Jill Fitz Randolph Walker in Old Lyme, Conn., July 29. Attired in the uniform of the day for wedding party members were Bob Waterman, John Mac Donald,Bob Mcllwain, Bob Kilmarx and Rog Atwood '49. Furthermore, half a dozen more classmates found their ways from other points of the compass including Mai Hill, Ben Johnson, Clift Whiteman, Rennie Brighton, Rick Millar and Frank Harrington. Jill is a student of design at Pratt Institute and an alumna of Bradford Junior College. Jack jacks up sales as a partner of Glore, Forgan and Co., Wall Street investment bankers.

George Harris and Maureen Louise Reilly became a team in San Diego on August 12. Elaborating details are lacking at press time.

RATTLE PRATTLE

The boys outnumber the gals this month, four to three, which is still a lot better ratio than we used to have in Hanover. Eldest of the list is Linda Carol, daughter number two in the Clarke Nash household. She arrived December 6, 1960. Her dad left the business world to become director of the government contracts program at George Washington University Law School.

Another future femme fatale was born in April and lives at the tepee of Jim and KayStevens. Emily must be quite a winner for Jim says even two-and-a-half-year-old Tommy likes her!

Last of the lassies to report is Jill Katherine, new arrival on May 20 for Tom andBarbara Warner. Jill tipped the scales at seven pounds, six-and-one-half ounces.

"For your readers who have been waiting breathlessly to hear what the Laings would come up with is this," write Jim and PatLaing, "It's another boy, the sixth in a row! Named Andrew Barry, he joined five brothers and a sister on May 7." Jim thinks his position on the faculty of a boys' school may have some bearing on the matter.

Eight days later Bob and Joan Mcllwain welcomed son number two as John Swenson Mcllwain weighed in at seven pounds, sixand-one-half ounces. Checking back two paragraphs, it would appear as if Crash and T. Warner eat the same brand of vitamins.

"This is number four in our tax exemption corps," proclaim Ben and Betsy Johnson. Finally got a boy, too: Eric Benjamin, eight pounds and an ounce, June 6.

Stu and Nancy Sayre have their second son, Stuart Carter, born August 15. The lad bowed in at eight-and-three-quarters pounds joining Steve, nine, and Libby, seven.

War whoops and wah hoo's for all of you boys and girls, young and recently young!

INKADENTAL INTELLIGENTZ

Needless to say, three months without a deadline to meet have allowed some small accumulation of news, views and clues to pile up here, although it will dwindle quickly no doubt. One of the clippings shows HammyGates and Kent Calhoun '52 accepting the champs' cups for winning the 40th annual Memorial Day Invitation tournament at the Country Club of Buffalo. This was the third time they'd teamed up in the event and their fifth round victory was a decisive four-and-three win. Since being runner-up a year ago, Hammy and Anita Gates have moved to new quarters in Lewiston, N. Y., a suburb of Niagara Falls where Ham works for the Marine Trust Company.. . . Another banker, Bill Sholten, has been named an assistant cashier at the LaSalle National Bank in Chicago. .. . Down in Cincinnati, JimHutton reports he and Virginia have three children, Marianne who's six, Sarah aged five, and James P., one. Jim's midwest territory includes six of W. E. Hutton and Co.'s twenty offices. Occasional communiques and confabs emanate from Gary Earle and Dixie Vaughn.

In the literary and editorial fields, freelance writer Frank Gilroy is now residing in Pacific Palisades. . . . John Wulp, magazine editor and free-lance photog, has had three out of five plays produced. Latest thespian interest for John has been "Red Eye of Love," a play now at the Living Theater in New York where it has received considerable critical acclaim and attention. John directed the show, did the sets and all the photographs. . . . Watching a filmed report to Fortune magazine advertisers, we thought we saw a familiar face. It was. Steve Mahoney recently joined the editorial staff there. . . . Last spring you may have noticed a bit on Bill Stone in the front of June ALUMAG. His book called "A Guide to American Sports Car Racing" sounds like a must for latter day hot rodders. . . . Out in San Francisco Dave Taylor is president of the photo-lithographic printing firm, George Reproduction Company. Dave saw Alex andTwinks Hoffman in New York a dozen moons ago, Gene Carver and Dave Bull more recently and more locally.

Si Morand has advised you of our financial status for the year past and solicited your fin for '62. One of the major outlays, you know, is paying for your subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at two-and-a-half bills per. Although you may have serious doubts that these meanderings revealing the location of your long lost roomie warrant such a surcharge, the front of the book carries worthwhile information and discussions which surely are worth a carton of smokes annually to you. Why not send Si your dues right now?

The General Electric Co. has announced the appointment of Larry Batty as manager of the western district of the Silicone Products Department. Prior to receiving the promotion, he was a product planning and sales development specialist in GE's rubber market development unit. His new office will be located in Downey, Calif. While living in the Waterford, N. Y., area Larry was an active member of the Edison Club, the Dartmouth Club, and the Niskayuna Little League.

Frank Harrington, class chairman, has generated a really vitalized program for '50 affairs this fall beginning with the informal reunion in Hanover for the Brown game and Dartmouth night on the Columbus Day weekend. The following Saturday in Worcester there'll be a cocktail party after the Holy Cross game at the Yankee Drummer Inn. Next comes Hah-vud in Beantown, again with post-game libation planned. If you survive three in a row, make the jaunt to New Haven, November 4. where the traditional picnic will be held in the traditional rain. You get a three-week recuperation and budget breather before Tiger Town to-do. The gory details of each function will be circulated in time for you to make specific plans . . . but don't wait to get your own guzzlin' group lined up.

In the next few months you'll get a request to reveal your deep dark secrets, primarily for transcription into the class records. If you care to, we'd genuinely appreciate stories about you or your chums for the column, too! Bazig requirement, it should be "fit to print" a la N. Y. Times. Let's hear from you ... and you'll hear from us next month.

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