1957

Good Morning Breakfast Clubbers, it's nice to see your smiling faces so late in the year. I know of two members of the class who have been called back to active duty in the armed forces. Joel Mitchell was a member of a control group one day and the next day he was assigned to a Signal company slated to be activated in two weeks. Joel is now a PFC up at Ft. Devens in Mass. The second in the class to go was Bob Young. Bob, after three years of destroyer service, began life in the civilian world writing in the editorial department of McGraw-Hill. However, Uncle called and Bob is now stationed aboard the Destroyer "John Hood" winding its way up and down the Atlantic coast. Sam Rocray, a career officer, has graduated with honors from the Naval School of Justice at Newport, R. I. Sam is now stationed in Helicopter Utility Squadron Four at Lakehurst, N. J. It is quite conceivable that Bob and Joel's reinduction is a vanguard for a large number of us. Therefore, I urge you to get in touch with Dave Orr or myself when you are inducted so you will have a chance of finding other '57s who may be stationed around you.

In the business world Dick Birch is with McGraw-Hill working for the Engineering News magazine. Dick and his wife, Sue, attended a party given by Bob Towbin. Other persons at the party were Clyde Brown-stone, the head of a very successful factoring business and Bob Rex, a rising young banker for Morgan Guaranty and a resident of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Clark Griffiths has been promoted to manager of application engineering for Split Ball-bearing in Lebanon, N. H. Doug Trottier has received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the Andover-Newton Theological Seminary. He is presently the minister of the Congregational Church in Greenfield, N. H. Ab Meader, who received his Master's degree in fine arts from the University of Colorado, has been appointed an instructor in painting at Colby College. After graduating from Dartmouth Ab studied in France on a Reynolds Fellowship, was associated with the Lakewood Summer Theater, and most recently has been teaching at the Long Beach High School here on Long Island. Dave Regan, after completing military service in the Marines, is now teaching first and second year English in the Haverhill, Mass., High School. Jim Mayer was released from active duty in the Navy and is now living in Watertown, Mass., and attending Harvard Law School. Ceece Simpson was appointed to the faculty of Bradford Junior College where he will teach Spanish. After graduation Ceece got his Master's from Middlebury, studied a year in Spain, and taught at the Kent School in Conn. Lou Rovero, after teaching at the Plainifield High School, is now teaching and coaching football at the Old Saybrook High School in Conn.

Admitting that his wife, Joan, guided his hand to the paper Jack Stempel writes "I've been working for Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. since February 1960, as a budget assistant in the company's headquarters in Morris Plains, N. J. In August 1960 we moved into a new home in Succasunna, N. J. We are pretty far into the hills and woods of Morris County. Joan and I received a staff addition last year, Kimberly Gaye was born on November 8, 1960." Thank you, Joan! With the future of Africa as completely undecided as it is at the present time it is a bit of a comforting thing to know some of the class is planning to take part in its future. Rod Hinkle, who recently received his Law Degree from Harvard has received a fellowship from Columbia for their new East African teaching program, "American Teachers in East Africa." David Robinson has recently returned from a year's graduate study at the brandnew, ultra modern University College of Ghana in Accra. At the University Dave studied Ghanian-American relations over the past four years. While there he lived with 650 African students who, because of the regard in which education is held, were waited on hand and foot. Besides traveling to all parts of Ghana during his studies, Dave also visited the Republic of Togo, Dahomey, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and the Republic of Mali. After the year's study Dave stressed that "the United States is in danger of losing valuable ground in Africa—not because of Communist infiltration, although this is a threat, but because of our own mistakes and our failure to really understand Africa."

This has been an "all business" article so you may be assured that the January issue will be "all gossip" - girls.

Hope, Karen, and I wish all of you the very Merriest of Christmases and the Happiest of New Years

Cheers - Skip.

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