1956

A few weeks ago I found a note on my desk signed by Jim Breeden saying, "Jeanne and I were through Hanover today. ... We are in Boston now. I am curate at St. James', Roxbury." Then, on September 26, the Boston Traveler carried a picture of Jim and a story of four Boston ministers jailed in Jackson, Miss., for defiance of that city's segregation laws. Jim has been released oil bail with a trial scheduled for May or June, 1962. (Give him a break on the class dues, Flynn.)

A letter from Joe Obering reports having seen soldier Mike Zissu in Munich just about a year ago. Joe goes on to say that FreslOman is living in Denver with his wife Jane and daughter Margaret in a house of their own made possible by Fred's having his own thriving business as a consultant to other businesses on accounting, advertising, etc. Chuck Ray sells hospital supplies for Will Ross, Inc. Chuck and Ellen moved to Denver a year ago after "a government spon- sored three-year vacation in North Africa and Spain." Joe goes on to say, "Mr. and Mrs. Dave Duane were in town about a. month ago for a geologist meeting. Dave is teaching at the University of Kansas and working on his Ph.D. He has published a paper... in the bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the most widely read earth science publication in the world. Gringo Hirsch was through Denver a few months ago. It seems he decided to . . . leave Brazil. His application for naturalization brought a return mail letter from his new uncle tapping him for a brown gown in the new space age army. He was just finishing this ordeal and headed for B.U. Law School when we saw him." Joe also mentions seeing Ken Fortin. Ken is a design engineer for Dictaphone Corporation in Denver. Ken's wife Carol Ann is teaching school in Denver.

D'ck DeVoto received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Thayer and last spring completed his doctorate in geology at Colorado School of Mines. He and June and their son are now in Tripoli with the Libyan Branch of Mobil Oil of Canada. Ed Leja completed his tour with the Massachusetts National Guard and is associated with the James P. Moriarty law office in Springfield. Bob Dumont is a director and past president of the Greater Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce. He began working for New England Life Insurance in 1957, was promoted to personnel assistant in 1958, and has just become employment relations supervisor for the company. Pete Rosazza was ordained into the priesthood at Notre Dame Cathedral in France. Pete was trained at St. Thomas Se-ninary in Bloomfield, Conn., St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, and San Sulpice in France. He is now at St. Francis Church in Torrington, Conn. KenLink complrted two and a half years as assistant pastor of the Old North Church in Boston and left early in the summer with his wife for a nine-week tour of Great Britain, where he led a work camp in Whalley Abbey and preached at a Congregational Church. Ken studied at Boston University School of Theology and took twelve weeks of training in pastoral counseling at the Boston State Hospital.

No one seems to have heard from FlintRanney recently, but according to the Nantucket Inquiror and Mirror, part of his senior thesis on "Whaling and Nantucket — The Decline" was made available to visitors this past summer. Pete Rath, Myriam, and son and daughter have been living in Millington, N. J., while Pete finished the Army Information School at Fort Slocum, N. Y. Brad andBerit Leonard managed the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge for the college this summer and recommend it as a great place to go for part or all of a summer. Pete and Carol Harpending left their son with the folks and took a brief vacation this summer including a stop in Hanover. Pete is a law associate in Elmira, N. Y. John Koehring brought some Rome, N. Y., high school students to see the college and reported that he had begun work in the Ivory Coast section of I.C.A.

As this month's column is long on ministers and geologists, I did a little research and discovered that thirteen members of the class have become ministers and eighteen have gone into g ology or the oil business. Bill Burget studied theology at Columbia from 1957 to 1959, is single, in the army, in Kansas City, I believe. Tom Davis studied at Union and is Chaplain at the YMCA at the University of North Carolina. He and his wife Betsy live in Chapel Hill. LonBring studi d at Union, is with the Church of the Good Neighbor in New York, single. Joe Elliott married Odessa Southern, a graduate of Duke, and received his B.D. from Union in 1959 when he began work with the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Ray Harrison studied at McCormick in Chicago and taught in the Arctic. He and Margaret live in Deer Lodge, Mont., where Ray is minister of the First Presbyterian Church. FredILowry received his degree from Yale and has the Orient Congregational Church in New York.. Dick and Dorothy Rubottom are at State College, Pa., Dick went to Union. Wes Smith studied at General Theological and is an Associate at Grace Episcopal in New York, living ttnre with wife Marjorie Lee and daughter Elise. Stu Wood studied at Virginia Theological in Alexandria, spent some time in England, and is vicar of two new missions near Columbus, Ind., where he, Kris, and daughter Lisa are living. Harry and Annmary Petter went to Chicago after Dartmouth, and Harry studied at the University of Chicago. He is now a Chaplain in the Navy in San Diego.

In addition to Joe Obering, Dave Duane, and Dick DeVoto, here is something about the fifteen other '56's in the oil business and geology. John Chapman received his M.S. in geology from Kansas and is with Standard Oil in Amarillo, Texas, in exploration. ReinaMo Demori is Industrial Relations Supervisor for Creole Petroleum Cor- poration in Caracas, Venezuela. Dave andBarbara Denison are in Frisco, Colo. Dave is a geologist for Climax Molybdenum. CyField with M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale is in Salt Lake City with wife Rebecca and two sons and is a geologist for Bear Creek Mining Co. Harvey Hambleton has just com- pleted his Ph.D. at Yal?. Tom Healy is projcts engineer for Standard Oil in Cleveland. He and Jane have a one-year-old son. KeithLadd is a sales representative for Mobil Oil in New York, where Keith, Mary, and daughter Karen are living. Shady Lane received his Master of Science in Geology from Illinois and is completing his doctorate at Rice. About a year ago he was married to Joanne Eaker of Houston, a student at Rice. They are living in Lafayette, La., where Shady is an exploration assistant for Tennessee Gas and Oil.

Jim and Margaret Loghry are in Corrales, N. M., where lim is employed as a mine geologist for Kermac Nuclear Fuels. Clem Malin is a Projects Analyst for Mobil International. He, Ann, and son Henry are living in New York. Lou and Ann Metzger are living in Sherborn. Mass., and Lou is a sal s representative for Mobile Oil at the East Boston office. Al Rauch is an executive trainee of Oil Field Rental Service Company of Houston. He and Lynette have a son and daughter. Bill and Ann Skiff are in Hyannis; Bill is a salesman for Esso Standard. Goose Wetzel served aboard a DDR after completing OCS at Newport. Goose is still single, living in New York and is with the New York sales office of Shell. Stu Winslow, until recently a graduate fellow in geology at the University of Massachusetts, is now supervisory assistant for New England Telephone and Telegraph in Salem. Stu and Val and their son are living in Lynn.

Next month I plan to take a look at '56's in merchandising and retail store management, real estate, and pharmacy. I have expressed by letter in tehalf of the Class our gratitude to Ross McKenney for his many years of work with the D.O.C. on the occasion of his retirement and our deepest sympathy to the parents of Nev Fowler for their great loss, and ours, as reported in the obituary section.

Secretary, Box 238, Norwich, Vt.

Treasurer, 70 Princeton St. Garden City South, L. 1., N. Y.