1950
Wah Hoo Wah for wassail! There are few days left for the perplexing task of selecting a yuletide antimacassar for Aunt Tillie which will outdo the Ming vase you gave her last year. Maybe you need to back away from that horrendous problem; if so, how about glancing into ...
CUPID'S CORNER
Ancient history is not our forte, but the first item currently has the hoary aspect of an antique. The date a year ago was December 13, the place was Brunswick, Ga., and the principals Bob Day and Patricia Madeline Grant. Bob is an assistant sales manager for the Atlanta-Savannah corrugated container sales of Union Bag-Camp Paper in the Peach State.
More recent in vintage were the nuptials of Marv Stevens and Louise Margaret Puder of Wenonah, N.J., in July. The bride is a member of the administrative staff at M.I.T., attended the University of Colorado, and graduated from Delaware. Marv graduated from American University, Washington, after leaving Hanover and did postgrad work at the Centre d'Etudes Industrielles, Geneva, Switzerland. He's now a computer systems analyst with the Army Corps of Engineers.
A peep into the crystal ball predicts Peter W. Reilly 3rd and Mrs. Theresa Hammer will arrive at the hitching post next month. Mrs. Hammer, whose previous marriage ended in divorce, lives in Greenwich, Conn., and attended the Convent der Armen Schulschwestern in Munich, Germany.
INFANT INFO
A letter from Jerry Smith last spring arrived too late for the last vernal tidings and somehow went unused this fall. In June, Jerry left Cresap, McCormick & Paget with whom he'd been an associate and then principal of the management consultant outfit since June, 1958. Previously, he was a procedures specialist and later manager of systems and procedures for General Electric in Bridgeport after leaving the Air Force in January 1953. With his new employer, Atlas Chemicals Industries, Inc., Jerry will be assistant director of organization and systems planning. He and Peggy added their third son a year ago, Girard Thomas Jr., born August 18, 1961. The elder brothers are Stephen, nine, and John, almost five.
John and Ann Oakley offset the myriad males noted above with a trio of lithesome lassies: Katherine (1955), Margaret (1957), and Nancy who was an April 11 arrival this year. John worked as a junior accountant for Ernst & Ernst from 1952 to June 1954, toiled on the staff of Colgate for a year, and has been with Lindsay, Squires & Everett, Greensboro, N.C., CPA's since September 1955.
Minimum data about another new daughter, Susan, is available from Dick and Mary Frey. Natal day was September 20.
Welcome to the tepee, papooses!
SCIENCE SCENE
Since Dan Featherston's extensive survey of sawbones reported the locations, activities, and opinions of many medics, there aren't a great number of additional items to record here. Two 50's are stationed at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, though. Major Sam Jefferson is a staff physician and Capt. Larry Perry has just been assigned there following a six-week orientation course at Brooke Army Medical Center, Houston. He and Harlean moved from Laramie, Wyo., where he'd been practicing, to 8912 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, Md. Sam lives in the same town at 1228 Kathryn Road. According to our possibly out-of-date files, three other classmates also hang their hats in Silver Spring, Mac Grant with NASA, Kirill Allen, the linguist, and Dick Robie who is with the U.S. Geological Survey there. Did we. miss anyone?
Mark Tourtelotte is back at the University of Connecticut in the department of animal diseases.... Dr. Warren L. Franz of the Claremont General Hospital staff has been named a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology.... Russ Neale, eons ago, wrote to say he was on the verge of completing his doctorate work in clinical psych at Utah. About four years ago Russ wed Nancy Kester of North Carolina and Oberlin. How they met in Boulder wasn't revealed, but he did say they had a daughter, Aleda, who is pushing the ripe old age of three, and a second offspring expected last May.... Dr. Alan Harquail practices exodontic and oral surgery in Annapolis, Md. Al spent two years at Boston City Hospital in resident training in oral surgery after U. of Penn dental school and three years with the blue-and-gold tooth-tinkerer corps. He had another year at Penn's grad school of medicine and since 1960 has been in the Bay country, Severna Park to be specific. Vivian, whom he married in 1955, has daytime charge of three youngsters, Blair (1957), Stephen (1958), and Kimberly (1960).
INKADENTAL INTELLIGENTZ
Dick Mullins decided to come clean and reveal his career with Procter & Gamble which began right after graduation. Assignments have included order and traffic, credit, and traveling, mostly out of Atlanta if memory serves. In 1959 Dick became office manager for Charmin Distributing Co., a P & G subsidiary. He and June are now ensconced in home-base diggings in Cincinnati with Sally Ann, ten; Paul, eight; and Mark who's nigh onto six.
Ken Rothchild's elevation to executive vice president of the H. & Val J. Rothschild real estate and mortgage banking firm, the largest operation of this kind in St. Paul, Minn., was featured in a special article in The Sunday Pioneer Press of that city. Ken joined the company in 1955 as a loan solicitor after Army service and a year of graduate study at Columbia. Two years later he became manager of the mortgage loan department and two years after that vice president of the same department. The Rothchilds have three children, Kennon Jr., Mary, and Sally, and live in nearby Mahtomedi.
Don Ryan directed the Home Show last spring in Portland for the Maine Home Builders and Maine Oil & Heating Equipment Dealers associations. His first five years after Dartmouth were spent with American Express, in 1955 he took over operation of his family's general office supply business, and in 1958 covered Maine and New Hampshire for the International Latex Corp. Three years ago he was with the Wesley Rand Insurance Agency.
Elsewhere in New England, schuss bunnies may want to note that Ken Harvey can be found at the Carroll Reed Ski Shops in North Conway.... Neil O'Brien is a salesman with Carr Manufacturing Co. in Bristol, R.I.... Web Gault, financial editor for the Hartford Courant, manages to break into the news columns of other Nutmeg journals. In August it was for his talk to the Manchester Kiwanis Club and the story noted that he is on the adult education faculty of the University of Connecticut, teaches English, writing, and public speaking, and also belongs to the Hartford C of C.
Before we wrap up another calendar's columns, we need to tip the tribal topper to Dick Echikson who moved upstairs from Macy's bargain basement where he'd been manager of traffic tables to assume the post of Division Manager of Men's and Boys' Wear. Ech has been at Herald Square since Tuck School with time out for a stint with the fly boys. Prior to Traffic Tables, he was buyer of fancy rayons, silks and synthetics, linings and patterns. ... A wave of the war bonnet for Dick Dale, too! He's been elected veep of manufacturing at Resistoflex in Roseland, N. J. ... And a Da-Da-Dartmouth for ex-cheerleader Scott Probasco who was elected vice chairman of the American National Bank & Trust Co. in Chattanooga!
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