1955
Three 'sss set up their tepees in Hanover this fall. Jay Whitehair became assistant to the Dean of the College, Tom Byrne took over as business manager of the Hopkins Center, and Truman Brackett, following graduate work at Penn, was appointed assistant director of the Hopkins Center art galleries.
Gus Afoerle is selling all types of steel as U.S. Steel representative in the Cleveland area. He's living in Shaker Heights. NorrisHoward, who wrote in the October ALUMNI MAGAZINE about finding Vilhjalmur Stefansson's 1916 note in the Canadian Arctic last summer, is teaching English at Darrow School for boys, Lebanon, N. Y. TomBlumberg was named president of Leviton Manufacturing of Canada, a subsidiary of Leviton Manufacturing Co. of the U.S.A. He makes monthly trips to the Montreal plant.
Bill Kofoed, a public relations man in Miami, continues his furious free-lance writing pace, with stories this fall in National Humane Review, Popular Bowling, and Fire Engineering. Sven Kister is starting his fifth and last year of surgical training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He writes that he's spent "considerable time doing investigative work" and as a result became a co-recipient of a $30,000 grant for study of lymphatics and lymph edema in man. Sven also was elected to active membership in the New York Academy of Sciences.
Mike Gorton married Phyllis Prescott September 22 in Keeseville, N.Y. She attended Skidmore and graduated from Katharine Gibbs School in Boston, where Mike is in business with his father. Jim Keane was an usher at the ceremony. Also on September 22, Bob Marchant wed Katherine Collins in South Orange, N.J. She studied in Colombia and graduated from George town Visitation Convent, Washington, D.C. The Marchants have set up housekeeping in Madison, Conn.
Jim Alexander passed his written and oral exams for the Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. DaveHurlbut became a fellow in Society of Actuaries, a step which enables him to "look forward to the first full year without any studies." He lives in Westwood, Mass. NeilLevenson circumnavigated the globe last summer on behalf of Royal Flower Co., an importer. He visited Tokyo, Hong Kong, Thailand, India and a number of European countries. On the side, Neil reports, he's writing songs for Palette Records; one number, "Andy," recorded by the Gee Sisters, "is doing very well both nationally and internationally."
Texans John and Kathy Kerr made an eastern vacation swing through New York and New England in October, calling on Dick Barr in New York City. John is director of marketing for Al Fairfield Homes in Houston. Tom Hubbard combined business with pleasure on a spring trip to buy furniture in Portugal, Spain, and France. He also cruised the Greek Islands for ten days on a friend's yacht, rendezvoused later with RoyHill, who was vacationing in Europe, for visits to Rome and Paris.
Steve Altman, who's had a law office in New Rochelle, has now formed a law partnership there. He's also president of the Westchester Arms Collectors Club. Lou Miano decided not to be theatre editor of Show magazine and moved to Los Angeles as the mag's West Coast editor, apparently a new position created as an outlet for Lou's creative talents. Al Murray, after an Army recall stint at Fort Bragg, is back in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis in Washington, working on President Kennedy's long-awaited tax "reform" program to be presented to Congress next year. He and Carolyn welcomed their first child, Thomas, May 26.
Buck and Cathy Kuttner had a daughter, Karen, July 16; Buck is a lawyer in Newark, N. J. Al and Pat Congdon had their fourth child and third girl, Marianne, August 11. Larry and Marilyn Smith had their second child, first son, Steven, October 2; Larry is accounting manager for the New York Telephone Co. in Brooklyn, and the Smiths live in Glen Head, Long Island.
Jay and Toby Benenson made it two boys with the arrival of Michael December 13; Jay practices law in New York City and Newark, N.J. Jerry and Sandy Bernstein had a daughter, Cary. Frank Jonathan Tepper Jr., was born August 13; his dad is a lawyer in Orlando, Fla. John and Anne Bassette had their third boy, Greg, September 26; John is manager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. office in Burlington, Vt.
Ed Floer is operations manager in the Forest Hills, N.Y., office of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Jon Malev is a psychiatry interne at the Upstate Medical Center in DeWitt, N.Y. Dave Miller is an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in New York; he lives in Brooklyn. GeorgeSnelson is vice president of Iceland, Inc., in Phoenix. Paul Mannes, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, is chief of the College's enrollment work in the capital and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
Getting a view of the French situationfrom the top (of the Eiffel Tower) areTom Hubbard '55 (I) and Roy Hill '55.
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