1955
Our advance man into the space age is Skip Mackey. Camped out with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Cape Canaveral, Skip is working on the "Delta" program, which put up the Echo satellite, and other projects. He says he's "still just a kid playing with rockets — and loving it." Between rocket shots he's built a sixteen-foot Fiberglas boat and sailed it twice to the Bahama Islands in quest of marlin and bonefish. Next voyage: to Bimini for giant tuna. Skip's living at Cocoa Beach and invites any passing classmate to stop off and join him on a fishing expedition.
Among our more earth-bound types, Joe Pluto has been promoted to assistant supervisor of communications and signals for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Now in Chicago, Joe has also been working on the railroad in Harrisburg and Cincinnati. Dave Strieker is in an administrative training program with Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company in Minneapolis. Porter Sesnon has advanced to assistant manager of the Crocker-Anglo National Bank in Oakland. Ross Shumaker finished Harvard Law last year and is an associate with Quarles, Herriott and demons in Milwaukee. Ross and Mary now have four children, a boy and three girls.
Also a member of that same Harvard class, Matt Weinberg successfully disposed of the California bar exam last fall and in December was sworn in as a deputy attorney general of the state. He shuttles between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is definitely a convert to Californianism. His only question is whether he likes the northern or southern part of the state better. He works primarily with business law and has drafted a proposed statute regulating dealing in real estate securities. Looks like Matt has declared war on the speculators. He also engages in appellate argument on behalf of the state.
Matt has encountered a flock of '55 lawyers in the Golden State. He rooms in Hollywood with Charlie Greenberg, who's getting lots of trial experience as prosecutor for the Los Angeles city attorney. Others in L.A. legal work are Larry Blades, Gerry Kleinman and Toe Giden.
Also in our western division, Geoff Snow has completed his Master's degree in mineralogy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and is now continuing on toward a Ph.D. Last fall in Denver at the National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Geoff presented a paper, "Plutons in a Nevada Area," which was his M.S. thesis. Summers he spends prospecting for Bear Creek Mining Company in Colorado and Nevada.
Allen Palmquist, with D'Arcy Advertising Co. in St. Louis, is being buoyed up by some unsoapy suds. He's assistant account coordinator for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., brewers of Budweiser and Michelob beers. Formerly concerned only with outdoor advertising, Allen writes that he's now "involved in all media - radio, TV, newspaper, magazine and outdoor." He also concerns himself with other aspects of Anheuser-Busch and strongly recommends that we try an item called Bud Syrup on our morning pancakes or waffles. Well, perhaps the ad agency considers any time of day appropriate for a Bud, but we'd be inclined to wait until mid-morning ourselves.
John Johnson is owner-manager of a forty-room hotel, "This Ole House, Inc.," in Conway, Mich. Holden Gibbs has completed his Army tour. Bill Slater left J. Walter Thompson Co. in New York and joined the research and development department of American Machine and Foundry Co., also in New York. Bill's wife Annette presented him with a second child, Pamela, on January 4.
Others recently in the baby market were Jim and Diane Wallace, a second daughter, Karen, born September 22; Harlan and Shirley Jessup, second child and first daughter, Jennifer, born September 1 (still on the move with General Electric's manufacturing training program, Harlan's now in Binghamton, N. Y.); the Bob Taylors, moved from Cincinnati to Rockville, Md., a second girl, Margaret, born April 27; Aaron and Lynn Simon, second child and first daughter, Lisa, born August 19; Elliott and Linda Hersey, their third girl, Debra, May 25; Tom and Sue Hughson, their first, Frederick, January 15; Bob and Mary Morse, their first, Nathan, January 8.
Last month we mentioned a few leaders in the '55 diaper derby. This month we do not hesitate to crown the undisputed frontrunners: Jim and Jane Hillis, who on December 23 became parents of twins, Robert and Emily, boosting their total to a prodigious five. They've even outnumbered the names in Jim's law firm. He works in Indianapolis for Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer and Boyd. Our congratulations and best wishes to you, Jim with two more you may be considered for attorney general.
In the wedding whirl: Jack Hodgson married December 31, Sirkka-Liisa Riuska of Kotka, Finland. Jack is working on a doctorate at Harvard and has published a pair of articles, "The Paasikivi Line," in The American Slavic and East European Review, April 1959, and "Finland's Position in the Russian Empire, 1905-1910," in Journal of Central European Affairs, July i960. Al Alvarez took the hand of Raquel Vela in Havana on December 11. Al is head of the budget department in Cuba's Ministry of Social Welfare.
Art Wellman married Francesca Rappole in Jamestown, N. Y., on December 27. ChetGale laid down hockey sticks, rifles, tennis rackets, and fishing rods long enough to be enchained on January 28 in Winchester, Mass. His gal is the former Debby Pierce, and ushering at the wedding were Jim Sanderson, Duke Cassels-Smith and Pete Henderson. Audience applause was led by DaveConlan and Gordie Russell. Dave supmers in Puerto Rico and winters in northern Maine as an accountant for Arthur Anderson, and Gordie, a salesman for Sprague Electric Co., Concord, N. H., is now an accredited NCAA hockey referee and handles as many as three high school and college games each week. Others at the wedding were Mike andMarcia Plumer, Dana and Jill Hennigar, and Jim and Robin Magavem.
Only one engagement to note this month. Don Mix plans a May wedding with Margaret Palmer o£ Worcester, Mass. She's a graduate of Hollins College, Hollins, Va., attended Katharine Gibbs School in Boston and now works for Aluminum Company of America. Don is an engineer with Southern New England Telephone Company in Hartford.
Dave Wang is finishing an M.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State College, and he has also taught a class in remedial English at the college. Dave's poems have appeared in over thirty U. S„ Canadian, Australian, and Scottish literary magazines. "But," says Dave, "poetry is the least lucrative of the creative arts." He has also given several public readings in the past few months.
In the New Hampshire Heart Association fund drive last month, Bill Krasnow was the chairman for Belknap County. Bill is a lawyer in Laconia. Gus Aberle is a com- mercial service representative for U. S. Steel in Pittsburgh. And somebody in the class is a research chemist with Hercules Powder Co. in Wilmington, But he forgot to sign his name.
Lt. John Mansfield '55 and Judith Clemence were married on Dec. 31, in Putnam, Conn. Among the alumni present were Bill Mansfield '54, John's brother, who was best man, and Tom Fleming '55 and his wife Carol.
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