1957

This is the beginning of the fifth publishing year of the 1957 Class Chit-Chat. Who, I say, who among us has made his mark in the world or who has altered the course of history? If you haven't made your mark as yet don't be discouraged. The joint's in a turmoil and apparently such ferment allows the younger, more active lads to rise to the top quickly. I don't know what brought on that deluge but before we get on with this family meeting I would like to publicly thank every member of the class for the magnificent accomplishment in the Alumni Fund and to offer our congratulations to Tom Schwarz in his role as the principal brain trust.

The summer has really been hot around New York. People who come in from California speak of the wonderful weather there. Bob, Jennifer and Dottie King, who were New Yorkers only for a short while, managed to get Bob's firm, Shearson, Hammill, to send them to the fine Western clime. The Kings are now living in Menlo Park and Bob commutes to San Francisco. Another who was bitten by the bug was Duncan Barnes, the Sports Illustrated man. Dune and Miss Anne Fiske were married late in May in a wedding where Ernie Arnold '55 was the best man and Dick Lanahan was one of the ushers. Dune and Anne then spent a three-week honeymoon touring the West. Now Dune says that the West lives up to the advance billing.

We're happy to report that Kwanha Yim has been appointed an instructor in the department of government at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He is now teaching courses dealing with American government and comparative governments. For the past two years Kwanha has been an instructor in Dartmouth's Great Issues course. Also congratulations should be in order at this point. According to a recent news clipping, Kwanha planned to marry Miss Elizabeth Ellen Donovan of Boston in September. She is a 1959 graduate of Wellesley.

Also in the writing business is the world traveler Chris Wren, who has been both east to England and west to Korea. Chris is working for Look magazine and, at present, making mysterious predictions about the coming football season. Chris writes that "Dick Duncan, Gary Gilson, and I just finished up at Columbia Grad. School of Journalism, after a very grueling year on the Columbia campus in the suburbs of Harlem.

"Dick Duncan graduated with high honors and Gary Gilson graduated with honors, which is a pretty fair representation for the class. Dick was also one of three graduates to be awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. The award is viewed in journalistic circles with the most profound respect and awe, and the best thing that I can say about it is that Dick deserved it. Gary is going to work in a terrific job as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Journal. It's a good job and he worked hard to get it.

"What other bit of scandal have I picked up? Oh yes, when I was down in Chapel Hill, N. C., in the beginning of May, I ran into Llewelyn Diplock. Lew is studying for his Master's in City Planning at the University of N. C. Frank Andrews is in the final stages of getting his doctorate in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan. Wally Ackley and his wife, Chickie (a Mount Holyoke graduate), became parents on March 23 with the arrival of their first Edward Sterling Ackley (known to ths neighbors as "iron lungs" Ted). Wally, whose main job is that of diaper changer, according to the announcement that I received, puts in his spare time working for an accounting firm in Boston."

Possibly there will be a new Long Island resident in the person of Bob Ohl. After spending two years in the Navy's Operation Deepfreeze to the Antarctic and two years of graduate work at the University of Penn's Wharton School to now begin a banking and commuting career. The banking career is with the Chemical Bank, New York Trust Company. Also on this island John and Muriel Benisch have had a new daughter Susan, their first, born August 9.

Skip Traynham who, after spending a year at Oxford thanks to a Reynolds Scholarship and just finishing the course of study at the Episcopal Seminary, Alexandria, Va., wrote a wonderful letter in which the following news appeared. Skip will be working in the St. James Episcopal Church in Baltimore for about two years and then will begin a tour of the various churches of the area. Skip also discovered that if you live in an area long enough you will find that there are people around whom you know. There appeared practically next door a Dartmouth family in the person of BruceTaylor and just across the river Joel Levy is living and working for the FCC in Washington.

Well, glad to have you back in the harness again and I will look forward to next month when you can catch up on all of the marriages and births that this class has accomplished over the summer time.

Happiness to all, Skip.

Secretary, 91 Bradley Place Mineola, L. I, N. Y.

Treasurer, 119 South Broadway, White Plains, N. Y.