1957

The Old Farmer's Almanac gives as advice for this month, "Shorten sail for a whale of a gale." I hope by the time you read this article that the whale of a gale in Laos has abated somewhat. I thought I might be smart and say I would see you all in Laos but now it appears I might see all of you vacationing in Cuba as well. Keep a stiff upper lip, lads, and "Buy Bonds."

In spite of this grand beginning there is a lot of good news in the air so let me share it with you. First is a wonderful letter from Steve Zaslow which is as follows:

Now I'm interning in medicine at Boston City Hospital. The Berry Plan has been kind enough to defer me to be a Resident in Psychiatry at the Mass. Mental Health Center next year. Right now I am taking my aggressions out on squash balls.

Fran and I were both frustrated to miss Penny and Bob Vogel's fine get-together after the Yale Game. Penny is expecting her first addition to the family next March. Bob will remain at New Haven in internal Medicine next year. Maury Tannenbaum is due to leave the Bronx Municipal Hospital and begin work at Bellevue. Bill Gallagher is now at Bellevue and is planning to continue his practice next year in the Navy. Bob and Carol Schwartz were in Denver this summer as Bob was researching into some subtle and crucial point that was way beyond me. Incidentally, I was greatly heartened to see the selections from the Dartmouth Convocation. It partially filled the gap for me, among others, who was unable to attend.

My future includes a stint in the Navy after my Residency. After that we will have to wait and see. Ah, well back to precocious sexual development ... in the "New England Journal of Medicine," of course. Steve.

Mike Waldbillig writes that on last July 10 his wife, Marsha, added a baby boy to the family. The boy was promptly named Christian. Since that time the Navy has transferred Mike to NAS Norfolk where he is on the staff of the Commander of Naval Bases in the 4th and 5th Naval districts. Mike also writes that Bob Woolman was married on October 1 to Anne McKnight, a raven beauty and a Wellesley scholar.

Bob Smith and Miss Emmy Lou Lehman were married recently. Emmy Lou graduated from Smith at the same time Bob graduated from Harvard Law. Bob recently passed the New York Bar Exam and is now associated with a rather large law firm that has as its senior partner Adlai E. Stevenson. Bill Valentine just completed that wonderous event, the six-month Army tour, and is now working in New York for CBS. Don Swift writes that Sherm Mills and Miss Caroline Smely were married and are now in Germany where Sherm is a first lieutenant and in command of a company of combat engineers. Tom DeWitt has graduated from Dickinson Law School and is about to take the bar exam. Bob Dennis has received his Master's in Geology from Johns Hopkins and is now doing graduate work in Conservation at the University of Michigan. Don has also received his Master's in Geology at Johns Hopkins and is going to start his work toward a Doctorate at the University of North Carolina.

Skip Bjork writes from Seattle "I finished up my two years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in what seems ages ago. Since then I have gone through Coast Guard OCS and served six months on active duty. I am getting married on December 29 to Miss Susan Serman, an English girl I met at Oxford. My brother Lyle (Dartmouth '63) will be the best man. I am a teaching assistant at the University of Washington at Seattle and working on my Ph.D. in Economics."

Lan Cady, a photographic whiz with Kodak, was in New York for most of the summer working for Kodak's interests in Zeckendorf's grandiose enterprise - Freedomland in the Bronx Swamps. Lan is now firmly entrenched in the Personnel end of the Kodak business in Rochester.

In September Monte and Pat Pascoe returned to Denver where Monte is now associated with a small firm that is a general partnership which emphasizes corporate matters. Lud Landgraf was passing through Denver and so was Wayne Kakala. Lud is teaching at a junior college in Southern Colorado while Wayne is in a small prep school in the Rockies. Dick Reilly is there attending Denver University and working for his Master's in Zoology. Dick and his wife, Gail, had their second child and first son last summer.

Hope and I wish all of you a wonderful coming year and hope that all that comes your way is good. Best Skip.

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

Treasurer,: 119 S. Broadway, White Plains, N. Y.