1958
If you are wondering why some of the news in this column is a bit outdated, it is because it has traveled half way around the world trying to catch up with Kit. When the news items finally reached me, they were many months old, but nevertheless newsworthy.
On a recent trip to New York City, I ran into a number of 58's. Mac and BarbMcCaull are living in upper New Jersey. Mac commutes daily to New York City, where he is in charge of selling export wheat for Cargill, Inc. Don Shagrin is still with Bache and Company, only in selling rather than in underwriting. Bob Bolenger is with the Irving Trust Company, and Kenneth C. Kaplan, M.D. is serving his internship at Bellevue Hospital. Norm Sylvester, who is living in upper Westchester with his new bride, is an assistant account executive with Benton and Bowles.
Dr. Sam Smith has a new title, U.S. Army Medical Corps first lieutenant, and, of course, the uniform to go with it. Dr. Sam recently began a one-year internship at Fitzsimons General Hospital, the Army's medical center in Denver Colo. At the end o his internship he will be assigned to duty as an Army doctor. Sam gained his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine this past June. He and Robin have two sons.
After graduating from Stanford Law School in June, Mitch and Jackie Mitchell are touring the country looking for just the right place to settle down. En route they stopped in Ann Arbor to visit the DickStoddart's, who threw a real wing-ding for them after the Michigan-Army football game. Among the many Dartmouth men in attendance was Skip Coggin who is plant chemical engineer for a subsidiary of the W. R. Grace Company in Chicago. Skip reports that he and his roommate, NatePalmer, are maintaining their own Play Boy Club, but have a definite shortage of bunnies.
Mitch had news of several 58's whom he has seen in the past few months. Jim Preston is with IBM in Montana, and Pete Heegaard is in the Trust Department of the Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis. Jim Spence was in Palo Alto last spring covering the U.S.-Russian Track Meet in the capacity of Assistant Director for ABCTV. Phil Drescher and Jack Stromberg are in their last year at Stanford Law School, and Fred Cosmo is in his second year at the same institution. Don Larson is out of the Army again and back with Armstrong Cork in Lancaster, Pa.
In the hitching post department, Dr. William Z. Yahr took Miss Sonia Brown as his bride in New York City this past August. Bill is now a resident surgeon at Montefiore Hospital. From Long Island comes word that Arden K. Bucholz Jr. and Miss Sue Ann Tally were married June 7. Arden taught at the American School for Boys, Talas-Kayseri, Turkey before becoming a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. They are living in Nuremberg, West Germany.
On August 23, Bob Portland took Miss Ida J. Franch as his bride in New Canaan, Conn. After a honeymoon trip to Cape Cod, Dick and Ida returned to Springfield. Pa., where he is employed by the Bell Telephone Company as an electrical engineer. Bruce Blackwell and Miss Bergitta Brink exchanged vows last March 31 in Astorp, Sweden. Bruce is working for the International Company of Union Carbide Corporation in Athens, Greece.
Richard W. Lowry and Miss Carol Joy Edwards were married last April in Cincinnati. On May 5, Thomas Amilicke took Miss Susan Elizabeth Clark as his bride in Passaic, N. J. Tom was admitted to the New York State Bar last March and was with the Lawler and Rockwood Law Firm in New York City until last May when he reported for active duty as a Lt. in the U.S. Army in Fort Benning, Ga.
Miss Bonnie Joyce Sanders became Mrs Gerald Mark Colin on May 27 in Philadelphia, Pa. Jerry recently graduated from Jefferson Medical College. Lieut. DonaldN. Walker took Miss Betty J. Spadaro as his bride on June 30 in Syracuse, N. Y.
The following engagements were announced last spring, with plans for summer weddings: Carol Bamberger to Theodore W. Striker, who completed his final year of studies in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine this past June; Miss Ruth Susan Walton to Phillip FrederickHawkins; Miss Priscilla Seabury to GaryLewis Albright, who is presently continuing his graduate studies at Columbia University; Miss Ann Popky to Morton P. Fisher Jr., now a law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Born on March 14 to Ann and John McHugh - Kathryn Ann McHugh. John graduated from Tufts Medical School in June and is now serving his internship at the Albany Medical Center, Albany, N. Y. On September 6, a daughter, Carrie Margaret, was born to the John Strayer's Jr. in Canton, Ohio. John is working in a real estate firm in Canton.
After completing four years of Navy service, Ralph Manuel was recently named assistant to the College's Director of Ad- missions, Edward T. Chamberlain. Ralph will fill a vacancy left when David H. Brad-ley left to continue his education at the Harvard Law School. LP -i i' n ■, f L» +L '' . 1
Robert F. Goodel is with the Procter and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, in the advertising department. Al Akeson works in Milford, N. H., for Permattach Diamond Tool Corporation, as Sales Manager. Al Greener is territorial manager with the Pharmaseal Laboratories in Prairie Village, Kan. Owen M. Johnson Jr. is a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manchester, N. H. Kynestan L. McShine is a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and Stephen W. Quickel is presently with Forbes Magazine in New York City, in the capacity of a writer-reporter.
After obtaining a master's degree at Columbia University in International Finance in June of 1960 and completing six months of active duty in March, 1961, David S.Clarke is now with the Shering Corporation, International Division in Bloomfield, N. J. In September, he left on a business trip to Aruba, Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Haiti, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. John B. McCloskey is in Camden, N. J., with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company.
John F. Murphy Jr. left for Tunisia this past August as a member of the Peace Corps. He spent three months this past summer at Indiana University preparing for this.
In closing, let me remind you of two things. First, the pre-reunion class cocktail party at Nassau Hall after the Princeton game; and second, please forward any items of interest to me in order that we may keep this column up to date.
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