1955
If you have a copy of the March Coronet laying around, you'll find Bill Kofoed on page 120. His story is "Babe Ruth of the Fronton," about a famous Spanish jai-alai player. It's Bill's second Coronet article in two years, and he was also in Nature Magazine and Motor Boating last year. In real life our prolific author is an account executive with Florida's largest public relations firm, Hank Meyer Associates, Inc., of Miami Beach. He also-edits a monthly newsletter for Quality Courts United, Inc., the large motel group.
Walt Cooper has been with a New York ad agency as associate TV producer, working on commercials and responsible for such things as casting, costumes, lighting and set design. He also wrote and rearranged music for some commercials. Now, for a temporary three-month period, Walt is the producer for American TV Commercials Festival, and then he'll be returning to what he terms the "brewing pots," which apparently is adman lingo for the salt mines. Television, adds Walt, is a "rat race."
Mark Starr has joined a Carmel, Calif., law office, and extends an offer of a guided tour of his beloved Monterey Peninsula to any classmate visiting or soldiering in the area. Pete Stevens in February became a securities analyst in the New York brokerage of Granger and Co. Pete's also taken up residence in Greenwich Village. Bill Lenderking, with the U. S. Information Service, shifted last year from Havana to La Paz, Bolivia, where he's now assistant information officer and press attache. Bill expects another transfer in June, probably to Chinese language school on Formosa. He's written a story on "foolish tourists" for The Saturday Evening Post, but doesn't yet know the publication date.
Dick Meurer has been promoted to assistant trainmaster for the Nashville division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Bud Bombard merged his own New York insurance brokerage into that of Davis, Dorland and Co., where he sells for his own account as an account executive. Last year Bud sailed on a 71-foot ketch in the Bermuda race, taking a fourth in Class A, and then went on to Sweden in a 3,600-mile race to Marstrand. It was a 21-day effort of "hard wind, much sunshine and terribly good food/' says Bud, and good for second place in Class A. He topped the sailing off with a two-week reception in Sweden and glider flying in the Austrian Alps. Bud took the easy way back - commercial airliner - and he's now moved from Bronxville into New York. After that trip, life in the suburbs was apparently too tame.
Pete Robinson shifted from Liggett Drug Co. in Stamford, Conn., to Rexall Drug and Chemical Co. in Los Angeles, where he's supervisor of personnel programs. He arrived in LA in February and in his hotel bumped into peripatetic Gordie Russell, who was in the process of closing a $250,000 sale of electronics items. Gordie is with Sprague Electric Co. in Concord, N. H. Pete, in his new location, writes: "I highly recommend Southern California to anyone in New York City, Connecticut, etc." Pete and wife Elaine had their first child, a girl, Marrin, on November 28.
Other new arrivals: the Gale Robersons, in Evanston, Ill., had a second child and first daughter, Ann Christine,, on February 3; Judand Sally Hale, in Dublin, N. H., a second son, Daniel, November 29; Harry and Marguerite Ambrose, in Indianapolis, a third, Rebecca Claire, October 1; Stan and RuthSklax, on Long Island, Susan Lynn, February 1; Pete and Donna Dromeshauser, a daughter, Susan, January 7 - Pete's doing estate planning work for Connecticut General Life In- surance Co. in its White Plains and Hartsdale, N. Y., offices; Rufe and Marilyn Choate, their second, Lesley Carolyn, October 24 - Rufe will complete his M.B.A. at Harvard in June; Dick and Pat Flagg, their first, Sharon Kendall, December 20 - Dick's a Navy lieutenant in Honolulu, a submarine squadron medical officer and also caring for dependents; John and Connie Cant, in Williamsville, N. Y., a second child and first boy, Scott Christopher, February 9.
In the lone wedding to note this month, Tom Wittenberg returned to Hanover January 26 to take the hand of Dorothy Edith Kaup of Minneapolis. They were married in St. Thomas Church by the Rev. George Kalbfleisch. Carter White, Tom's sophomore roommate, was best man, and Carter's wife Carol was matron of honor. Writes Tom:
"Heaven was happy enough to shower us with snow on leaving the church." The Wittenbergs are now back in Minneapolis, both studying at the University of Minnesota. Dorothy ponders French and Tom does graduate work in American studies.
Others in the graduate mill are Cal Bristol, due to receive a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Manitoba in June, and Truman Brackett, who received an M.A. at Penn last June while on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in history of art.
Bruce and Sue Alexander have moved from Boston to Canton, Mass., but Bruce continues an insurance broker with B. R. Alexander and Co. Tom Blumberg is now assistant sales manager for Leviton Manufacturing Co. in Brooklyn. John Colwell is a resident physician in surgery in Oakland. Dick Brown writes that he occupies his spare time with registered golden retrievers at the Cedarfield Kennels in Westport Point, Mass., but we're not certain if he's breeding them, training them, racing, hunting or what.
Bob Ankerson is now in the personnel department of Time, Inc., in New York. MikeFletcher has been transferred to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Bill and Shirleyann Gavitt, in Germany with the Air Force since 1957, are looking forward to returning home in July. Bill is a career officer and has been doing radar work. The Gavitts report a successful European tour, including much traveling and three children. Their oldest two are boys, and their daughter, Lori Ann, arrived last September.
This group gathered at the Evanston, Ill.,home of Chuck Cory '52 a after the Dartmouth-Northwestern basketball game. In front (l tor) are Ross Ellis '55, Cory, Quigg Porter '57;and in back, Jim Nelson '55, Bob Slater '56,and Dan Musser '55.
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