1960
Secretary, Route 5, Christmas Lake Excelsior, Minn.
Class Agent, 302 Woodbury Hall, Hanover, N. H.
President Dickey was in Minneapolis last week and spoke before a group of the Alumni Association of the Northwest. He and a team of fund raisers have traveled coast-to-coast to kick off this year's Alumni Fund campaign and, I might add, have done a marvelous job. I hope many of the '60's had a chance to hear them. I was sorry only John Benjamin and I were on hand in Minneapolis, but I believe it was because just about everyone around here is either in the Army or at graduate school. John, by the way, is actually from Chicago but has been taking graduate work in physics at the University of Minnesota.
One of the most gratifying pieces of news to come to me this month was a notice that the Atlantic has published a poem, "Last Night," by John Nash in its March issue. Although John has illustrated several books with his drawings this was his first poem published in a magazine with a national circulation. On behalf of the entire class, I would like to extend John congratulations and wish him the best of luck for future endeavors.
I just got a card the other day from PeteHolland which he mailed some time ago but what he said is still news. He got daring and took a trip with Pork Lund last November. They went down to Philadelphia where they saw Barry Sibson and Sam French and then on to New Wilmington, where they lived off of Mr. and Mrs. Moose Graham for awhile. If they took the "Death Wagon" I've got to hand it to them for getting that far south. I should mention here before I go any further that Pete is engaged to Marjorie Lynn and they plan to be married in the fall.
Pete went on to say that he and Ray Moulton and Celoos were fighting the recession in some of Boston's better known bars and some that weren't so well known. I think we should consider Celoos, by the way, a member of 'the class of '60 since he waited around to graduate with us. Darned decent of him I thought!
I have a slug of wedding announcements this month. I don't know what's getting into everyone lately. There won't be a good man left before long. But anyway, Shaler Rundberg is engaged to Carol Williams; Tom Trimarco married Rosemary Bagnulo and is now in El Paso, Texas. Two of his ushers were Don Stoddard and Dick Harrison. Katherine Gabel and Seth Strickland are getting married in June after Seth graduates from Tuck School.
Paul Galletti is engaged to Barbara Hendricks; John Passeggio, to Camille Canzano; Paul Freud, to Janet Mattucci. Paul and Janet plan an August wedding.
Other engagement announcements have been for Craig Clarke and Patricia Holmes; Reuel Stanley and Maxine Weiler; LymanBacon and Jean Gerlack; Dennis Shea and Claire Finnegan; and Spence Morgan and Diana Diggin. Spence is with "Look" Magazine.
Two more recent marriages were those of Ed Geraghty and Jacquelyn Elmore and Pete Brightman and Margaret Erlandson. Pete and his wife are living in Augusta, Ga.
Tom Alaimo wrote that he recently became the father of a seven-pound boy whom he and his wife, Jackie, have named Tom Jr. They hoped that he might be class boy; but although I haven't checked, I'm pretty sure at least one or two others got in there before him. I don't know if anyone has the official word about who is class boy but I wish someone would write me if he knows.
Marty Reich writes that he is in Med school in New Jersey and hopes his future bride, Susan Obermaster, can support him during the thin years. Bernie Doe is down in Fort Benning, Ga., going through an Army orientation course. He hasn't seen any other '60's down there yet but understands that Chuck Shevchik will be down shortly. I think I know why Bernie hasn't seen any other '60's down there. They all got oriented last month. In fact, right now the Army must be the most "orientated" outfit in existence. Well, anyway....
Jim Leavitt is studying industrial engineering at Michigan where Gail Warden is doing work in hospital management. Jules Coté is giving part time instruction at a school for the blind in Watertown, Mass., while going for his M.A. in Education at Boston U.
Jay Crane, Cliff Anderson, and Jon Richardson are all in the service and are stationed in the Far East. The Geisha Girl business has probably never had it so good in Yokosuka, Japan. John M. Richardson, this is the other one, is engaged to Janice Bartlett. John is stationed at Pearl Harbor and they plan to be married at the Navy Chapel there. I hope I've got the two Richardsons straight.
I haven't heard from Tom McBurney lately but he must be all right. I don't think anyone has had to bail him out yet. Then again he may stay on the continent indefinitely so he won't have to write this column and then everyone will be mad! See you next month.
