1957
And so, oh best beloved, begins our sixth year off the Hanover plain. Possibly it will be a short year or possibly it will be a long year. Whatever it is for you don’t forget that at the end of the school type year will be our sth Reunion. Try to plan to be there and cavort around for a few days reliving the joys of college life.
In beginning, let me say that I hope all of you have had a wonderful summer and that all is going well with you. In the saga of Hope and Skip Kerr, MONY sent us to the Manchester, N. H., Agency for a three- month period the summer. We were able to rent a ten-room house, fifteen acres of land, three private trout ponds and have the nearest neighbor half a mile away. What a change from our apartment on Long Island; what a difference in the time required to get to work! Also, during the summer I was notified that I had earned a CLU degree which is a pretty good thing to have in the Life Insurance business. All in all, it’s been a good summer. While in N. H. we had a chance to visit Clark and Happy Griffiths. They have a growing family of three girls, the most recent of whom is Eleanor Lynn, who was born lune 4. Also, in Manchester I met Ken Levin. Ken was in town briefly between completing his residency in the Philadelphia General Hospital and begin- ning a two-year stint in the Air Force. After the two years, most of which will be spent on Okinawa, Ken plans to begin a period of specialized medical study in surgery.
Andy Cattano graduated as an M.D. from Halinevian Medical College, Philadelphia, and was given the highest award by the de- partment of obstetrics. Andy was a member of the Aesculapian Honor Society, Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, and president of the Student Institute. He received the Eben J. Carey Memorial Award in Anatomy and will now intern at Lankenan Hospital in Philadelphia.
Let me bring you up to now on the trav- els and doings of Brad Curtis. Brad went to work for IBM and, after a training period in Bridgeport, was sent to Miami as a sales- man. Late in 1961 Brad was transferred to Washington to make sure that the govern- ment was getting its fair share of IBM ma- chinery. Brad, his wife Libby, and their two daughters, Kimmie and Cindy, are camping at their tepee in that great Indian village, Bethesda, Md. Bob Schreibman was or- dained a rabbi recently in New York City and shortly after the ordination entered the U.S. Army chaplaincy service and is pres- ently stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Jack Cramer after working with Hayden, Stone and Cos. in Los Angeles, has left the glories of the west coast and come east to join his family’s firm, Cramer Industrial Supplies, in North Tonawanda, N. Y. A quick note shows that Dr. Richard D. Mor-rison has hung his general practice shingle out for business in Essex Junction, Vt. Mar-tin Anderson received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in the spring and is going to begin a teaching career as an assistant professor at the Columbia University Graduate School. Bob Copeland has spent the summer in Washington serving in the Agency for In- ternational Development. Bob is there as part of the governmental program to ac- quaint persons with opportunities in the federal service.
John Farley will be an assistant professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology this fall, and his students in in- dustrial administration courses may hear him say a word or two about Gulf Oil meth- ods. It wouldn’t be surprising, because John has just com- pleted an eight-week study as one of 20 scholars selected for Gulf’s Aid to Educa- tion faculty supplementation program. Now working on his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, John studied techniques for lo- cation of service stations, identifying factors important to site selection and evaluation methods. He and his wife and daughter live in Squirrel Hill, Pa.
In the family relations field the winner for the summer is the team of AI and Jane Rollins. Jane went to the hospital to have a baby and came home with twins. Al claims the second one was a surprise. Surprise? All the way across the country Bob and Dottle King had a second girl, Cynthia Marie, who was bom August 7. Last, but not at all least. Bob and Nan Loverud had a baby boy, Andrew Robert, who was born May 25.
In the next notes I will try and bring you all up on the marriages that happened over the summer but now let me tell you of one of the additional accomplishments of Chris Wren._ As you remember, Chris spent some time in Europe on a Rotary Fellowship, then went to Korea for a spell, then re- turned to the U.S. to play paratrooper for a while and is now a staff researcher for Look Magazine. A long article in the New York Times during the middle of the summer started out in this fashion, “Six young American alpinists have scaled the hitherto unconquered southeast spur of Mount Mc- Kinley without frostbite, injury or melo- drama. The southeast spur traversed by the team is a twelve-mile long snow and ice ridge rising out of Ruth Glacier. Its most severe hazards lie below 12,000 feet with almost all of the route between 10,000 and 12,000 feet lying at 45 to 70 degrees in steepness.” The article went on to list the members of the party and among them were Chris Wren and another Dartmouth hardy, Sam Silverstein ’5B. Among the relics de- posited at the top of the mountain was a very sentimental gesture, a handful of dirt from Central Park.
. On that bright note I will fade into the distance until next month. Do write, keep smiling, and think about some “worthy folk” who may be elected class officers at the sth Reunion coming up next June. Best to all. Skip.
Secretary, 91 Bradley Place Mineola, L. 1., N. Y. Treasurer 119 South Broadway, White Plains, N. Y.
