1953
Secretary, Apt. 13A, 1540 N. State Parkway Chicago 10, Ill.
Class Agent, 1061 West 35th St., Chicago 9, Ill.
Many people have said that Time is our most precious possession. Time, as used in our Dartmouth experience, has unique significance - a personal meaning to each one of us as alumni. Dartmouth asks us to take Time at this season of the year to appraise her past - how and why she evolved into the institution we have today; to evaluate her present — is she accomplishing goals worthy of her high tradition; and to ponder her future - can she survive. We, as the Dartmouth alumni, are asked to give Time to these inquiries, for in this way we can share the College's responsibility to maintain and strengthen the concept of a liberal education. Because so much in life stands in a state of flux, we are sometimes frightened with the realization that the very foundations which we as part of the vast Dartmouth family have helped to build, may crumble in the onrush of mounting financial needs. The future depends on the Time we now take to ensure the granite structure on which the Dartmouth concept is built.
The annual Alumni Fund Drive started April 1 and will continue through June 30. Head Class Agent, Ted Spiegel and his team of fellow agents will be in contact with us shortly. Last year our 1953 class record of participation was the highest ever recorded in Alumni Fund history for a modern-day class. We have consistently evidenced our deep concern for doing our share. Let's add to an already strong foundation by giving to the 1961 Alumni Fund today.
Kes Pierson writes an informative note stating that in March he resigned as assistant U. S. Attorney in the district of New Jersey and has now reassociated with the law firm of Mason, Griffin, Moore and Cook in Princeton, N. J. Together with wife, Debbe, and three daughters, Fredrika, five; Elizabeth three, and Amandi one, Kes makes home in Hopewell, N. J. He is currently serving as president of the Dartmouth Club of Central New Jersey. Kes says: "Last year after the Princeton game, we initiated what we plan to become an annual cocktail party at the Nassau Inn. It was a roaring success, to put it mildly, and we expect it to be even better this year."
Dick and Nancy Conn are now proud parents of four children - the latest being the birth of their second son, Robert Thompson, on March 15. Bob will have three playmates in Jennifer five, Richard Jr. three, and Elizabeth one. Dick is engaged in the meat packing business and currently lives in Scarsdale, N. Y.
January 28 was the red letter marriage day for May Violet Wilson and David Siegel in Virginia, Minn. May is a graduate of the Cleveland City Hospital School of Nursing and received her bachelor of science degree in nursing education at Ohio State University. David received his medical degree from the Albany Medical College in Albany, N. Y., and is now a surgical resident at the University of Minnesota Hospital.
Bob Simpson and Anne Catherine Patterson of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia were married on December 3 in Australia. Anne is a graduate nurse and was a stewardess with Quantas, Australia's overseas airlines. Karachi, Pakistan, will be their new home, where Bob's with Pfizer International, Inc.
Gleanings: Gerry Avanozian, a first lieutenant at the U. S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas; Wade Sherwood, MA., an assistant resident in Oakland, Calif. Wade says: "Spent the last two years in Tennessee with the Public Health Service and happy to be back here." The Sherwoods have three children, Larry seven, Carolyn four, and Peter two. Bill Hyde teaching English in New York City; Bill Beutel doing an outstanding job of radio news coverage in metropolitan New York; Dick Glissman, an architect in West-minster, Colo., where his wife, Jean, and their three daughters, Carol Jean, Kathy, and Addie live; Bob Schuelke, a field engineer with Warner and Swasey Co. Bob spent three years in their Atlanta, Ga., office as a textile machinery representative and is now in the Rochester, Toronto, Canada area as a machine tool representative. Marcia and Bob have two daughters, Jane eight, and Andrea four; Byron Allen living in Englewood, N. J., where Mabel teaches English in the Dwight School for Girls. Byron is in the investment banking field; Ed Rose, a bachelor, living in Lexington, Mass., working as an engineer and taking his M.S. in Math at night at Northeastern University.
The weekend of March 11 saw your Class Executive Committee meeting in New York for discussion of class business. Major topics discussed were the Alumni Fund, ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Class Newsletter, class projects to aid the College, and the forthcoming tenth reunion. Following the meeting a grand time was had by many '53's as the result of the par excellence hosting of Fred Whittemore.
Among those attending the dinner given by the Dartmouth Club of Paris in honor of President Dickey were (l to r) John Sigler '53, Mrs. Sigler, Leonard Radio '50, Mrs. Ewy, RodgerEwy '53, Dedier Pineau-Valencienne '56T, and David Goldstein '45.
