1956

The recent class gathering in New York had a turn-out of about fifty. Among those present were Len Clark, Boodge Erwin, Stan Klapper, and George Jobson. Boodge is a sales trainee with American Seating Company in. New York. Stan Klapper is married and is a Market Manager for Merrill-National (Overseas) Laboratories in New York. George is a salesman for Shaw-Jobson Industrial and Contractor Supplies in Haverstraw, N. Y. (George's picture in Navy uniform is still displayed by a Hanover photographer in his shop over Main Street.) Len has started work with J. Walter Thompson.

Our Class Agent Tom Rosenwald is a doubly busy man these days. Word has just reached us that Tom has been promoted to the position of district manager with Wyeth Laboratories. In his new position, he will direct the company's sales activities in the Brooklyn, N. Y. area. Tom has been with the drug firm since graduation from Tuck School. He and Jean are now the parents of a bundle of joy named Jennifer Ann, born last year.

Bob Gile visited Hanover from his home in Franklin last month just before leaving for the Mediterranean with the U.S. Navy. Ted Sheridan stopped for supper at the Coffee Shop on his way back to Boston from the last of the spring skiing. He was accompanied by an attractive girl from San Francisco.

Lloyd Woods has been promoted to assistant regional credit supervisor in the credit department of Scott Paper Company. Lloyd has been with Scott Paper since 1958. SamFry, who did graduate work at the University of Edinburgh and then served two years in the Army including some time in Germany, has just started with the Foreign Service in Washington, D. C.

Bob Castles is engaged to Janet Dorfmann of Malverne, Long Island, a graduate of Adelphi College. Bob went to Tuck and is in the tax department of Arthur Young and Company, New York accountants. Perry Gresh is engaged to Virginia Catherwood of Haverford, Penna. Since his three-year tour in the Navy, Perry has been with Scott Paper Company in Chester, Penna.

Fen Riley and Anne Ferrebee will be married in Cooperstown, N. Y., on June 10. Stu Klapper and Miriam Salter are being married May 28. After Tuck School, Stu was a Lieutenant in the Army and is now in retail sales for Scott Paper. Miriam graduated from Jackson College and the Harvard-Rad-cliffe Program in Business Administration. Her home is in Chestnut Hill, Mass, Lou Metzger and Ann Gregory were married in Newton Center, Mass., early in May. Lou is living in Boston where he is a sales representative for Mobil Oil Co. Mott Hupfel and Alice Beasley were married in Wilmington on April 4. Alice graduated from Bradford Junior. Mott was with the Army in Germany and is now with Laird and Company in Wilmington. Cliff Allen and Bill Buchanan were ushers at the wedding. Bev and Chuck Woodhouse were married in March and are back in Manchester, Conn., after a trip to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Ron and Ann Post, married in March, are back from the Caribbean. Ron works for Deering-Milliken in New York. George Fenner, Dave Dolben, Jim Quan, and Bruce Baekey were ushers at Ron and Ann's wedding. Steve Farmer and Maxine Ziss were married in Newark, March 24.

Kent Kane and Virginia Glover were married in Denver on May 6. Virginia is a graduate of Colorado Women's College and the University of Kansas. Kent was an officer in the Navy for three years and is now on the Montgomery Ward management training program in Pueblo, Colo.

Egil and Judy Stigum have a son, Christopher Welde, born April 6, and a daughter three and a half. Skip and Ingrid Hetfield are the parents of twin girls. Elizabeth and Katherine were born on March 8.

Tom Bechler has moved to Madison Heights, Mich. He works for Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. in Detroit. Brew Blackall is back in Bristol, Conn. Bobby andPete Lauterbach have moved to Pittsford, N. Y., in connection with Pete's position with Procter and Gamble.

Here is a word on the '56's who turned out for the Glee Club concerts around the country. In the Chicago area, Curt Jones and Dean Sheldon gave a special piano concert at the Women's Club in Wilmette in the late evening following the Glee Club concert. Dean gave the undergraduates a touch of the old days when he, Jack Wheatley, and the rest of the Glee Club made the first extensive tour. Dean was married to Lorene Svanoe of Decorah, lowa, and Luther College in September 1959. He received his Master's in Public Administration from Michigan in i960 and now is the Urban Renewal Coordinator for the City of Bloomington. Ill. Duke and Bridget Hust, KenThomas' parents, and Tony Newey, with brother John '52 and their wives, attended the Wilmette concert. Tony and Ann have two daughters, one and two years old. Tony is a technologist for Amoco Chemicals Corporation. Dutch and Sarah Rosenberger were there. Dutch received his medical degree from McGill last year and is interning at the Research and Educational Hospital at the University of Illinois. I stayed with TedWeymouth's folks. Ted, to whom great fame came the day he brought victory for Beta over Psi U's Tiny Strong in the bicycle race to Northampton and Rahar's in May 1956, is an accountant in Chicago. He and his wife live in Barrington, Ill.

After Omaha, we flew into Denver. Tom and Myra Fead attended the concert there. Tom is with Connecticut Mutual Life in Denver. They will be celebrating their first anniversary next month. Jim Loghry was in town in connection with some special work at the Colorado School of Mines. Jim married Margaret Lascelle, a Middlebury girl, a year ago next month. They are living in Grants, N. M., where Jim is a geologist with Kermac Nuclear Fuels and his wife teaches school. Brew Blackall had just finished Denver Law School; Bob and Marty Montgomery, Chuck and Diane Henry, Luck and Judy Shore all attended the concert.

After Seattle and Portland we had two days in San Francisco. I ran into Lee and Jane Gammill, Tom and Wendy Knott, Fred Shanaman, Pete Shipman, and Bill Balch. Tom is Regional Sales Manager for the World Book Encyclopedia and Childcraft. Pete Shipman and Bill Balch work for Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter (or is it the other way around?). Dusty Johnstone was on a Navy flight up the coast, but his wife reported on the phone that all was well with the Johnstones.

John and Marilyn Liebman and Chuck and Gilda Stratton attended the concert in Los Angeles. John is at UCLA Law School, and Chuck works for Pan American. The next stops were Phoenix, Houston, and las. Bill Behrens was at the Dallas concert. Bill is still single and completing his third year at Southern Methodist Law School

The last stop was Oklahoma City. George and Nancy Records invited several of us to their new home after the concert. George is in the real estate and investment business. They have a daughter three and a half and a son not quite two. Joe Obering led the undergraduates in a few songs. Joe and Kathy were in town with Joe's family but live an Denver, where Joe is a petroleum geologist. Kathy received her Master's degree from M.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts after studying at Mills and Sarah Lawrence. They were married in August of 1959. The Oklahoma City was a pleasant climax to two weeks of travel and visits in eleven cities, where the Glee Club gave a total of approximately forty concerts.

"Back in Hanover, Jim Flynn has been attending class officers' meetings. Ted Bremble worked hard making Class Officers' Weekend one of the roost successful such occasions ever to take place.

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