1955
Onward and upward: Bernie Segal was promoted to assistant professor of sociology at Goucher College; he's also assistant director of the college's Center for Sociological Studies. George Schmitt moved up from executive vice president to president of Hinckley & Schmitt Co., a Chicago water bottling and distributing firm. George's grandfather was a co-founder of the firm in 1883. Navy Lt. Leon Martel received a citation from the Secretary of the Navy for outstanding performance of duty with the U.S. Fleet Intelligence Center in Europe from 1958 to 1961. Leon and Marilee are both studying Russian at the Navy's intelligence school in Washington.
Dick Meurer was named assistant terminal trainmaster for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Nashville. John Stoughton's first basketball team at Stevens High School, Claremont, N. H., went to the state semifinals in class A before losing to the eventual state champions. Jim Wallace was promoted to assistant manager of the First National City Bank branch at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street; Jim, Diane, their two children and one dog moved in April to their "new" Pleasantville, N. Y., house, built in 1795.
Red Hemnigar moved from Albany to Kingston, N. Y., in a transfer to another Mobil Oil Co. sales territory. He and Jill had their third child, second son, William, on January 4: Red points out that this timing is not considered ideal in Internal Revenue Service terms. Also, Red reports that he, Chet Gale and Dave Conlan agreed they "all performed admirably" in the alumni hockey game in March. He continues: "We had to blame our loss (8-6) on our goaltender, a guy by the name of Russell who claims he at one time played for Dartmouth. He has put on much weight and is now scaling 139¼ lbs."
Paul Goddard received an M.B.A. from Michigan in August and is in the comptroller's department of Standard Oil of New Jersey. He's currently on a ten-month temporary training assignment with Humble Oil Co., a subsidiary, and expects to return to New York by June. Paul and Leland had their third child and second girl, Elizabeth, March 10. Tom Wittenberg picked up his M.A. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota in November, and now covers Ohio for Houghton Mifflin. He lives in Delaware, Ohio, and has a daughter, Elizabeth Leslie, born last August.
Jim Waldman, an Air Force captain, has been transferred to a pilot assignment in Japan; he was formerly a missile launch officer in Formosa. Milo White, a teacher at Ann Arbor High School, is constructing a humanities course for the school. The course will include material from history, English, art and music. Milo and Marilyn had their third, first daughter, Kimberly Ann, last June 15. Lou Miano writes that he's "work ing very hard for a new magazine" and has "lost track of time, temperature and temptation."
Alan Cooke, assistant librarian of Dartmouth's Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection of Polar Literature, is preparing a bibliography of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula for the Centre d'Etudes Nordiques at Quebec's Laval University. Alan has traveled widely in the North American arctic, and has published several articles and book reviews on arctic subjects. John Rocray is seeking reelection to the post of state's attorney for Windham County (Brattleboro), Vt. Lt. JackBailey is teaching minesweeping in a naval school in Belgium; he and Sally live in Le Coq sur Mer.
Mark Ginsberg plans a June wedding with Susan Cole of Harrison, N. Y., and Finch College. Al Brookes, who graduated from Annapolis and is a Navy lieutenant, became engaged to Gretchen Yocom of Wayside, N. J., an alumna of Denison University. Pete Thompson will wed Joan Jackson of Grafton, Mass.; she's a Smith graduate and works in Boston, and Pete is with Old Colony Trust Co. in Boston. Bob Lieder married Lucy Buck, a Penn State graduate, February 17 in Pittsburgh. Whitey Hamilton, who graduated from Tufts, became engaged to Suzanne Thornton, a 1960 graduate of Newton (Mass.) College of the Sacred Heart; they have a July date. Jim Wechsler announced he's joining Norris Howard and numerous other confirmed bachelors in the contest to be the last '55 married.
John Rossiter deals with tankers for Union Oil Co. in Los Angeles; he lives in Pasadena. Ward Rowley hasn't tired of flitting around the Caribbean as sales manager for the Southern Division of Esso Standard Oil S.A., Ltd.
Progeny proliferate: Tom and MarthaPartridge had their first, Christopher Thomas, November 22; Tom attended Academic Instructors School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., in preparation for teaching in the Base Navigation School, Charleston Air Force Base, S. C. Bob and Mary Morse had their second son, Peter Charles, December 14; Bob is starting two years as a Navy doctor and hopes to continue work in cardiology research, including intracellular physiology. Al and Lillian Palmquist had their first, Judith Anne, February 16, in St. Louis. Royand Nancy Nyren had their second child, first son, Dirk David, July 18: Roy is minister of Grandview Congregational Church in Denver. The Jim Morrisseys had their second, first son.
Nick and Mary Lynn Kotz had a boy, Jack Mitchell; Nick is a political reporter for The Des Moines Register. Hugh andBetty Brady had a daughter, Maura Troop, November 23; they are now in Dover, Mass., and Hugh is in business with his father, distributing pet supplies throughout New England. Tom and Elain Blumberg had their second girl, Karen Lynn; he's assistant sales manager of Leviton Manufacturing Co. in Brooklyn. Sandy and Marilyn Phillips had their second child, first daughter, Lynn Sanford. Ted and Arline Ely also had their second child, Thomas Bradford, December 22; Ted covers northern New England and Massachusetts as a sales engineer for Arrow, Hart and Hegeman Electric Co. of Hartford.
Jay and Anne Whitehair had their third, first son: Jay is a sales representative for G. H. Tennant Co., Ipswich, Mass. Steveand Helene Schmieder had their fourth child and second boy, Howard Anton, January 30. Bob and Graziella Saidel had a boy, Massimo, March 11; Bob's with the U.S. Information Service in Paris.
Ist Lt. Ben Taylor '56 recently graduated from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Jump School at Fort Bragg, N. C.
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