1956
Russ Brace has called the next meeting of the Class Executive Committee for 9:30 A.M., Saturday, February 24, in Suite 102 at the Hotel Commodore, New York. The last meeting was open to all members of the class, and it was decided to continue this policy and encourage everyone to attend.
Ron Driscoll was married on December 2 in South Windsor, Conn., to Kathleen O'Neill. Kathy went to school in Carlow, Ireland, and Ron studied at the University of Connecticut after Dartmouth. Ron is an insurance underwriter for Morley, Watson, and Baldwin, Inc. of Hartford. They are living in East Windsor. Dennie Minely and Ivy Starr were married November 25 in Cincinnati and live in Newark, N. J. Dennie is with Westinghouse in Metuchen. The same day in St. Thomas, Ontario, MerrittClark and Paula Dianne Penhale were married. Paula graduated from the Victoria Hospital and University of Western Ontario schools of nursing. Merritt received his Master's degree from Thayer School, is an engineer for Southern New England Telephone Company in New Haven, and has become an authority on micro-wave and satellite communications through his connection with the Bell Telephone round-the-world communications project.
Ken Thomas married a wonderful girl, Barbara Ann Seiler, a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Master's degree program of lowa State. They were married in Champaign, Ill., in October. Ken is completing his surgical residency in the West Virginia University Hospital. The two made the trip to the Princeton game, where many of us had the pleasure of meeting Barbara. Sally Anne Ingersoll, a graduate of William and Mary and Katharine Gibbs, is engaged to Dick Kurts. Sally is from Newport, R. I., and is the daughter of the Vice Admiral. Dick completed his tour in the Navy in June, 1960, as an instructor of seamanship and navigation at Newport that summer raced aboard the sailboat "Carina" from Newport to Bermuda and then to Sweden. After seeing the Olympics and touring Europe, he sailed aboard the Cotton Blossom" as navigator from Italy to the Caribbean. Dick is now with a ship brokerage firm in New York.
The Army has glowing reports of platoon leader, Lieutenant Pete Rath, currently in Germany. Pete taught school in Bogota before entering the Army in August, 1957. Pete's wife Myriam and two children are living in Millington, N. J. Dick Leaman finished Tuck School after Dartmouth and started with Scott Paper Company in 1960 as personnel assistant in the Chester, Pa., plant. Last November, Dick was promoted to wage and salary analyst in the company s employee benefits and compensation department. Dick and Helen are living in Lancaster. Gardner and Nancy Brewer are in Florida, where Gardner is an Air Force pilot. CarlHilker has been a commercial pilot out of Bend, Ore. Butch and Trina Leavitt in Reno, Nev., recently had a visit from Carl, who is now a flying instructor at Fallon airport. Dick Taft, news editor for McGraw-Hill in New York, is currently serving in the Army and living in Fayetteville, N. C. Skip andElizabeth Woodruff and daughter are living at Virginia Beach. Skip is production supervisor for W. B. Merideth, General Contractors in Norfolk. Dave Stackpole spent his Christmas vacation from Cornell Law School skiing at Stowe. He reports that Chuck Norton is also at Cornell Law School.
My recent review of classmate geologists left out three who are doing advanced study. John Cotton is at Yale; Paul Handverger at the University of Arizona; and Skip Lenker is doing graduate work in mining science at Penn. State. From the oil men, I omitted Don Smith, financial analyst for Socony Mobil in New York.
Merritt Clark's progress in the telephone communications field prompted me to continue my checking our records on others in his field. Ed Winters is the business office manager for Bell Telephone in Bristol, Pa. Stu Winslow is supervisory assistant for New England Tel. and Tel. in Salem. TimSears is commercial department office manager of Bell in Philadelphia. He and Ann and their daughter are living in Drexel Hill. Clif and Julie Phalen are in Watertown, Mass. Clif is staff assistant for New England Tel. and Tel. in Boston. Len Kimball and Toby Julian are both in the accounting office of New England Tel. and TeL in Portland. Len married Susie Arnold of Danville, N. H., in 1953. They have a daughter and two sons and live in Portland. Toby and Nancy have four children and are frequent visitors to their parents homes here in Hanover. Sam Hull is an engineer for Southern New England Telephone in Waterford, Conn. He and Nancy and their two boys live in Niantic. Phil James is a computer analyst for the same company and lives in Wethersfield. Norm Angell went to graduate school at Yale and married Barbara Jean Baker of Randolph, Vt., a graduate of the University of Vermont They have a son and live in Randolph. Norm is selling communications and control cable for Clifford Co. of Bethel, Vt.
In the manufacture and distribution or electrical equipment, in addition to DennieMinely, I found ten. General Electric in Schenectady has the services of Dan Codman, a Tuck man, and Leon Indum, both in the business end of the company. MacHicks and Len Neely are both with G.E. in Hudson Falls and live in Glens Falls. Mac married Ann Billmeyer of Freeport, N. Y., and Green Mountain College m 1956. They now have two children. Ron Lewis is doing advertising and retail contact work for G.E. in Bridgeport, Conn. Bill Beagle is in their marketing division m Drexel Hill, Pa where he and Norma and their two sons are' living. Irving Clark is supervising installations and servicing of G.E. equipment in commercial aviation in Tokyo, and RickWebb is a sales engineer for the company in Cleveland. Rick served two years in the Air Force and married Elizabeth Ann Davis of Bermuda. They have a daughter and live in Bay Village, Ohio. Bill and ElizabethKing and their two children are living in Beading, Mass. Bill is an industrial engineer for Transistron Electronics Corporation of Wakefield. Tag Chapman is living in Wmnetka and is with Revere Electric in Chicago.
Two good snow storms covered the hills and fields around Hanover just before Christmas and clung to the trees during the cold clear days that followed. The Dartmouth Ski-Way opened with the best skiing I have ever seen there. Howard Chivers '39 developed a practice slope last year and this year widened "Sachem," which over New Year's was like "Ruthy's Run at Aspen in new powder snow. Steve Swenson, on vacation from teaching at Darrow School, made regular visits from his home in Concord along with a couple of attractive girls. Nate Metzger flew up from Richmond, Va., forsaking the tobacco business for a pair of skis. Bob and Jenny French were home from Brown and made regular visits to Hanover from Woodstock. Tiny Strong was on the slopes while home from Harvard. A pleasant surprise was Bob Branston of San Francisco. Bob left the canning business in California when he was recalled by the Army and was on leave for some skiing. The Ravine Lodge at Mt. Moosilauke was opened for the holidays, and many of us enjoyed cross-country skiing, climbing, and the four-mile run down from the East Peak of the mountain. Winter Carnival is February 9 and 10.
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