1955
Our biggest collection of news this month concerns the smallest people. Jud and Dorothy Barnes had their second boy, Paul Dennis, June 29 in Bridgeport, Conn. Billand Nancy Nickerson made it a boy and a girl with the arrival of Wendy Diane September 22; the Nickersons live in Chatham. N. J., and Bill's with the Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. in New York. Donand Stephanie Charbonnier also evened their score at one of each with Peter Hunt, born November 22; Don adds that his business, Laurel Hill Acres, Inc., East Lyme, Conn., now includes real estate, as well as land development and home designing and building.
Bill and Mary Ann Bassett had their second, and first son, Christopher, in September; Bill is at Syracuse University's School of Architecture and is working part time as a salesman for Erie Real Estate Co., DeWitt, N. Y. Bill and Michele Hochman welcomed their first, Jonathan Lee, November 19; they live in East Orange. N. J., and Bill is in the Newark law firm of Lasser and Lasser. Another first was Martyand Myrna Aronson's daughter Tracey Elizabeth, born June 20; Marty's also a lawyer, in practice for himself in Boston for the past year after two years as an assistant to a trial lawyer there.
Jim and Helen McKendry had their first son, Peter James, May 8, following two daughters; they're in Barrington, R. I. Geneand Georgette Gerard had a daughter, Jennifer Jeanne, October 20 in St. Louis, where Gene is with White and Co., a stock brokerage firm. Gene writes that he won $20 from a Princeton alumnus when the football team upset the Tigers last fall, and he's now rooting fiercely in every athletic contest between the two schools, for the Princeton man "badgered" Gene into "betting on every other sporting event of the year in an attempt to get even."
On the free enterprise front, Jack Cogswell was promoted to planning engineer in the Pittsfield (Mass.) district, Outside Plant Department, of New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. He's also advanced to captain in the Army Reserve, has two children, a Volkswagen and a new home in Pittsfield. Jack formerly was in the company's Boston office and lived in Walpole. John Mac Lean moved up to assistant to the president and took charge of manufacturing and engineering at MacLean-Fogg Lock Nut Co., Chicago. He and Joy had their third child and second boy, Robert Barker, October 4.
Walt Lamb, a career Air Force officer, was promoted to captain. Walt is in contract procurement at Tachikawa Air Force Base, Japan, and in November saw "DickFlagg and his wife Pat passing through here"; Dick's a Navy doctor. Other '55s in Japan are Bernie Carpenter and Bill Lenierking. Bernie, also a Navy medico, is stationed at Yokusuka, has traveled to the Philippines, Hong Kong, Okinawa and Borneo and plans to start next summer a research fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Bill is spending two years in Tokyo learning Japanese for the U.S. Information Agency, and he and Lois had their second son, Timothy, last May.
Alex Clark shifted from systems analysis with Barden Corp., Danbury, Conn., to security analysis with Bear, Stearns and Co., a New York brokerage firm. Dave Lowry is now with Carlisle and Jacquelin, an oddlot firm in New York; last April he and Winkie had their third child, Michael. Dave has seen Californians Tuck Creamer and Port Sesnon during visits they made to New York. Herb Lightstone left Allen and Co., Wall Street investment bankers, and for the past year has been with Syntex Laboratories, Inc., in New York; he and Mary had their second, Melissa Anne, May 22. HarryFuller, a captain in the Army Medical Corps, completes his service this year and plans to begin a medical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Harry and June had their first child, Michael Wayne, last March 14.
Nuptials, past and future: Moose Staerman married Akiko Sakiyama, daughter of a former mayor of Ishikawa City, Okinawa, October 29 in Bedford Hills, N. Y. She graduated from Toita College in Tokyo. Moose, who spent two years in Japan with the Air Force, is now a market analyst with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in New York. Don Perry was due to marry Edith Murray, a University of Southern California graduate, last month, but we've received no confirmation. Don is a claims adjuster for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in San Diego, and Edith is a policy holder service representative in the same office.
Bob Lieder plans to say the vows this month in Pittsburgh with Lucy Buck, a Penn State alumna. Spots is an officer of Beach Electric Co. in East Orange, N. J.Don Bowey is engaged to Miiko Von Theiss, a model of Chinese-French-German descent. The Chicago Tribune last fall described her as "one of New York's most beautiful models, . . . tall, slender and with glossy blue Mack hair."
Skip Mackey, still at Cape Canaveral, says he spends "what little spare time there is in the space business" fishing in "the Deep Blue or the Keys Flats," which apparently mean lots of water and little water, respectively. Dou Norris, now father of four, is a salesman with M. L. Schmidt Real Estate, Inc., in Tillamook, Ore. Dick Frieder is assistant to the president of Globe Rubber Products Corp., ''largest manufacturer of car mats and swim fins and swim masks in the world."
Al Alvarez is a research assistant with C. F. Childs and Co. in downtown Manhattan. Tom Jannuzi, back from a lengthy sojourn in India, is now with the Asia Foundation in New York and living in Rutherford, N. J. Dave Neville, with an M.D. from the University of Rochester, does research at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. Bud Pulis is a salesman for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. in New York, and commutes from Springfield, N. J. Larry Veator is an accountant in the Cryovac Division of W. R. Grace Co., Simpsonville, S. C., and lives in Greenville.
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