1956
October 6 is the date of the next Class of ’56 meeting and reunion per Bob Dumont and Russ Brace. The meeting is in Room 158 Baker Library at 9:30 Saturday morning. The Dartmouth-Penn kick-off is at 2. (Ticket applications should be mailed immediately; ask for the ’56 block.) After the game, there will be a ’56 gathering at the D.O.C. House on Occom Pond. A major item for the meeting is the scholarship initiated by members of our class and its executive committee, which is starting Ahmed Siddik Osman of the Sudan through Dartmouth this fall. Doug Keare recently received a letter from Ahmed, which reads in part as follows:
With the greatest of pleasure I have received the letter that Mr. Robert K. Hage, director of financial aid, wrote to me informing me of the scholarship I have been awarded which was set up by the Dartmouth Alumni who graduated in 1956. You may imagine the effect that the offer- ing of this scholarship has on me, since the finding of enough financial support was the only obstacle on my way. May I request you to ex- press my deep gratitudes and thanks to all those who contributed and brought this outstanding scholarship into existence. I am determined to do my best to benefit from this scholarship and so my goals in life for the benefits of all human beings, I believe that this would give me a very good opportunity to know the class of 1956 whom I am very anxious to meet. May I also have the pleasure to tell you that I have received my travel grant which is a round-trip economy class ticket by plane from Khartoum to Hanover and back. May I wish you the best of all.
The July issue reported the tragic accident and death of Noel Alsdorf. A few days after publishing, we learned of inaccuracies in the write-up. Noel, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, was among nine Air Force men killed in the crash of a T-29 on a rescue mission over Mexico from Harlingen A.F.8., Texas, on Monday, May 14. Noel and Charlene had two children, a son and a daughter, who are living with Charlene at 874 Cordova St., San Diego. Noel’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Alsdorf, are at Fort Plain, RD 3, N. Y. A fund has been started to establish a memorial plaque at Canajo- harie High School, and the Dartmouth Class of ’56 has purchased a book for Baker Li- brary in his memory.
George Yeager, a Phi Beta and magna cum laude classmate, finished Tuck and is with Franklin Cole investment counselors in New York. Last winter many of us met, through George, Barbara Gow. Barbara graduated from Ethel Walker School and Smith. Barbara and George were married in Worcester, Mass., July 7. Jim Flynn and Leo McKenna took part in the wedding. John Chapman was married in Amarillo, Tex., August 4. John married Billie Jean Wyatt of Amarillo. Bill Grigsby was in the wedding. Chapman is looking for oil for Standard. Bill Balliette was married May 19 to Andrea Cafiero. Bill and Andrea both completed Penn. Law School in May. An- drea is from Wildwood, N. J., and went to Eden Hall Academy and Rosemont College. Bill took the New Jersey law boards this summer and is with a law firm in Newark, where they are living.
Although his greatest achievement is with- out doubt the Wha Who? Whisper!, WillSogg is also practicing law in Cleveland and is a professor of Latin at the Cleveland Marshall Law School. In June, Will and Saralee Krow announced their engagement. Sari graduated from Wellesley in ’6l and is at the Simmons College School of Social Work. Her home is in McKeesport, Pa. Howie Sandler was married May 20 to Shir- ley Samson of New York. Shirley is assist- ant to the director of sales development for a New York publishing firm. Howie has a degree from Tuck and is chief accountant for the Newark division of Ametek, Inc. Pete Shipman and Joan Chessman were married June 16 in Lakewood, Ohio. After a trip to Lake Louise, Banff, Vancouver, and Seattle, Pete and Joan returned to San Fran- cisco, where Pete is with Merrill Lynch. The first news about Phil Patrick in a long time is of his marriage to Mary Ann Stockman, a Skidmore graduate, of New York City. Phil is with Vulplex, Inc., of North Abing- ton. Mass., and they are living in Scituate. Dick Gutow finished Michigan Medical School in 1959 and interned at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. He is now an in- structor in ophthalmic surgery at the Uni- versity of Michigan, In May, Dick Gutow and Susan Friedlander announced their plans for marriage. Susan is from East Hills, Long Island and went to Wellesley and Bard College.
George Grant and Rosalie Owings were married in Ruxton, Md., on June 23. Rosa- lie graduated from Sweet Briar and is doing graduate work at the University of Mary- land. George is in investment banking in Baltimore. Harvey Hambleton and Sabra Lynn Hooks were married in Jacksonville, Fla., on August 11. Sabra graduated last spring from Florida State University. Har- vey has his Master’s from Penn and Yale and is working for his Ph.D. in geological oceanography at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where he will also be teach- ing this fall. Goose Wetzel is engaged to Alice Witt from Fanwood, N. J. Alice is a nurse at Muhlenberg Hospital and graduated from Alfred University School of Nursing in Alfred, N, Y. Goose is with the New York sales office of Shell Oil. Russ Smith finished Tuck School and is with the Mellon National Bank in Pittsburgh. Russ is en- gaged to a girl from Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., Nancy Ross. Nancy graduated from Rhode Island and is a teacher at Hacken- sack High School. Judy Cutler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Cutler ’2B, of North- brook, 111., will become Warren Felling-ham’s wife on Sept. 14. Judy graduated from New Trier High School and Endicott College and is working in a Chicago bank. Warren is with Northern Trust Company in Chicago. We waited a long time to learn about this last one! Elizabeth Field will soon be Booge Erwin’s wife. Libby gradu- uated from Mary Burnham School and Mary Washington. She has been working for New York Life, and her home is in Cranbury, N. J. Booge went to Tuck and is with the New York office of American Seat- ing Cos.
Roberts W. French Jr. was born to Bob and Jenny in Woodstock, Vt., on June 27. Sid and Suzanne Devorsetz, in Munich with the Air Force, became parents of a son on June 16. Dick and Nancy Gordon have a son one year old. Dick is an economist for Union Carbide in New York. He and Nancy were in Hanover a few weeks ago. Tom andEunice Neubacher enlivened a couple of my quiet summer days in Hanover. Tom is in the ceramic tile business in Chicago. They have two sons and a daughter and are living in Elk Grove. Jack and Priscilla Wheatley left the kids with their folks and stopped in Hanover for some golf between rain show- ers. Stew Wood was the Hanover Episcopal church minister for the month of August. Howie and Carol Newman were seen at the Hanover information booth inquiring the way around the campus. Howie finished Tuck and received an M.S. in hospital ad- ministration from Columbia. He is assistant vice president of the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. El Danforth recently started his internship at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover. He and Joan have a daughter, Kimberly. Dave Tonneson has been in Han- over auditing the College accounts with a Boston accounting firm.
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