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Ron Muller worked on the telemetry of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's "atmospheric structure satellite." The satellite, launched by a Delta rocket, measures the density, composition, pressure, and temperature of the atmosphere at altitudes between 155 and 580 miles. The information is used, among other things, for predicting the orbits of manned and unmanned spacecraft operating in that altitude range. Ron's work is at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., near Washington.
Also doing a capital job is Lew Wolfson. In June Lew received an M.A. in regional studies (Soviet Union) from Harvard after a two-year course, and is now chief of the Providence Journal-Bulletin's one-man Washington bureau. He prefers speaking Russian to English and is chomping at the bit for a Moscow assignment. Ex-journalist Bob Wool, who last spring decided to step off the editor's pinnacle at Show magazine, has set up a new U.S.-Latin America exchange organization, The Inter-American Committee, Inc. Bob, of course, is president, and Rod Rockefeller '54 is treasurer. With the moral support of interested Washington officials and the financial support of foundations, Bob plans to exchange art, theater, books, and the people who create such things. The organization will translate literature, and will hold an annual symposium at Huntington Hartford's Nassau retreat, Paradise Island.
Another in the realm of the arts is StanBrakhage, who was with us for a time before dropping out of college to produce avant-garde films, which is what he's still doing. He showed several of his films and commented on them last spring at a Princeton conference on "The Pursuit of Excellence in the Fine Arts." Ken Lundstrom, completing his chemistry Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, sent us a Daily Tar Heel story by a student who attended the Princeton conference, and he reported that Stan's work is "primarily a rapid succession of whirling colors, lines, and shapes which seem to explode, resolve, and then reappear again." According to the story, "before the first film was shown, Brakhage advised his audience how to watch his creations. He advised them to forget anything related to their previous movie experience and to adopt a relaxed attitude, lest the rapidity of images cause a headache. He emphasized that his images are not meant to be fully comprehended as are those of Hollywood, but are meant to flow into each other and create moods on the screen."
Meanwhile, back in the real world. BobStirling was promoted by IBM to director of contract relations in Europe. He's responsible for negotiating patent license agreements, and in the first five months on his new job set foot in all the European nonCommunist countries except Turkey and Portugal. Bob and Rita had their third child, Scott, July 12.
Walt Boden has been appointed Atlanta, Ga., regional representative for Flannery and Associates, Inc., of Pittsburgh. He will be responsible for the sale of Flannery's line of metal display equipment and fixtures in nine Southern states. Walt joined Flannery only recently after previous sales experience with Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company and Procter & Gamble. Tuck graduate Walt will also be a liaison between customers and Flannery's home office on other aspects of industrial and product design, etc. He and wife Janet and son Walter are living at 3246 Edgewater Drive, Atlanta.
Also on the escalator: Steve Little became assistant secretary of Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. in Providence, and Jim Sanderson moved up to assistant vice president of Marine Trust Co. in Buffalo. Jim continues his investment counseling work in the bank's investment department.
Architect John Stonehill has been working on the new Bellevue Medical Center in New York, and Bill Anagnoson this fall became guidance director of Delevan-Machian Central School in Delevan, N.Y. .Jim Waldman, based in Tachikawa, Japan, is tooting all over Asia as aircraft commander of an Air Force C-130 Hercules. He airlifts troops and heavy equipment, and sometimes drops them - with parachutes. Jim reports that he went through "a wonderful cure for middle-age spread," the Royal Air Force jungle and combat survival school, conducted in Singapore and the Malayan jungle.
Mai Roth hung out his ophthalmology shingle in Hartford; he was formerly chief resident in ophthalmology at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Pat McCarthy, holder of a Harvard master's degree in city and regional planning, was named executive director of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. He has worked in urban renewal for Boston and San Leandro, Calif., and in planning for San Diego County.
Academics: John Batchelder is a teaching fellow and political science doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. CyMuromcew spent a year at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and last summer was a research assistant at the Institute for the Study of National Behavior, also at Princeton. He's now in Washington with the Aerospace Information Division of NASA. Cy and Mary had a son, Alexander, June 27. Kelly McCornack, formerly an educational specialist with the Marine Corps in Washington, this fall entered Yale Drama School. On May 11 Kelly married Margeret Ann Schmidt of Newton, Conn., a graduate of Central Connecticut State College and Middlebury College. She worked at National Lead Co.'s research laboratories in Hightstown, N.J. Best man at the wedding was Bob Ankerson.
Other spring and summer ceremonies: Otis Carney and Barbara Jean Walker of Melrose, Mass., and Green Mountain, June 22; Phil Mossman and Mary Ranlett of Bangor, Me., and Colby College (Maine), a research assistant in microbiology at Dartmouth Medical School, with Bernie Carpenter best man, in June; Walt Miller and Joan Groark of East Lyme, Conn., and Marymount College, a New York City teacher, June 29; Dick Drake and Carol Sandnes of Harrisburg and Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, June 29 (Colgate-Palmolive transferred Dick from Reading to New York City, to work in sales promotion); Al Fairbanks and Elaine Egnor of Schenectady and St. Lawrence University, a programmer for General Electric Co., where Al toils as a contract administrator, April 20; Don Woods and Miriam Carroll of Canton, Mass., and Regis College, with Jud Hale an usher, June 1; Dave Miller and Betsey Fordyce of Rochester, Vassar, and Drew University Graduate School (biblical studies), in Hanover May 25 (Dave received an M.B.A. from Rutgers in June).
Keeping the baby boom booming: Rossand Sylvia Ellis, finally a daughter after two rambunctious sons, Susan, May 25 in Chicago; the Art Wellmans, their second, Arthur Jr., May 25 in Jamestown, N.Y.; Harry and Tanya Lewis, a boy, Colin, July 12 in Denver; Doug and Joan Melville, third son, Andrew, June 8 in Middletown, Conn.; and Don and Bernadine Norris, their fifth, second son, Kyle, June 6 in Tillamook, Ore., where Don has been named to the Planning and Zoning Commission and elected vice president of the Kiwanis Club.
Lyn Brock became engaged to Claudie Juliard of Green Acres, Pa., a Dickinson College graduate. She also attended the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has been a lecturer in French at Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pa. They plan a fall wedding. Hi Altaian scheduled a July ceremony in Norway with Ase Naustdal of Bergen, but no confirmation was received by this department. Lionel Schlank became engaged to Judith Feldgus of Philadelphia, a Temple University alumna. Shep Jackson, in New Orleans as a district scientific marketing representative for IBM, became engaged to Ann Harris of Mobile, Ala., a graduate of Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Mobile and now a nurse at the hospital.
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