1959
My first regular job of writing our class notes has been made easy by the long lists and clippings sent to me by the Alumni Records office in Hanover. But they cannot be expected to carry the ball all year. It's up to you to fatten this column by sending me news - drop me a card, respond to questionnaires. If we can't fit your news in this section of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, JohnFerries, our new "Fifty-Nine Line" editor, will include it in his write-ups.
John Hessler has joined the Trane Company's Milwaukee, Wis., sales office as a sales engineer. Trane is a manufacturer of air conditioning, heating, ventilating, and heat transfer equipment, and John, prior to receiving his field assignment, went through Trane's specialized graduate engineering training program. The course of studies consisted of instruction on Trane products and their specialized heat transfer theory and practice. John married a Univer of Wisconsin gal, Janet Pratt, in 1960.
Congratulations are in order for many men who culminated long years of graduate study this last June. John Cocco received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from McGill University where he received recognition for work done on "pulmonary heart disease and its electrocardiographic manifestations." MickeyCohen graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and will interne at Boston City Hospital. Also planning to interne at Boston City Hospital is BillMaistrellis who received his degree from New York Medical College. From Harvard come doctors Jim Penza, John Remmers,Ken Robertson, and Murray Towle. Dr. Penza will begin internship at Mary Hitchcock Hospital here in Hanover. A double note of praise is due Hoag Rosania who took Patricia Ann Staub as his bride on May 25 and received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical School in June. The couple will live in Harrisburg, Pa., and Hoag will interne at Polyclinic Hospital there. Interning in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania will be John Russell who received his M.D. from the University of Virginia. Bill Gentry will live in West Leb and interne at Hitchcock, having re ceived his M.D. from B.U. along with DickForster who will interne at Boston City Hospital. Dick, wife Norma, and son Edward live in Beverly, Mass. Dick Karpawich, who graduated from Georgetown, plans to interne at Providence Hospital. Bringing our list of new docs to a close are Rog Agre, Rog Miller and Kent Shinbach who graduated from Jeiferson Medical School. The list is impressive and probably incomplete, but it is one small way to give recognition to men who have accomplished a great deal and who will undoubtedly go on to contribute to humanity in a very meaningful way.
Wedding and engagement news comes from various spots after a very matrimonialminded summer. Butch Priest married Cleone Schoonmaker, whom we all had the pleasure of meeting during reunion, and after a Bermuda honeymoon, took up residence in Cambridge, Mass. John Miller married Judith Anne Howes in June and plans to live in Washintgon, D.C. Another of our new medical men, Mike Hirsh took Carol Louise Nobel as his wife this past June. The couple honeymooned in Bermuda and now live in Rochester, N.Y„ where Mike is interning at Genesee Hospital. Medicine makes its weight felt again with mention of the wedding of Tamsin Jane Lee and Dr. Charlie Hoyt of B.U. and Western Reserve graduate schools. Rog Condit celebrated his M.D. from Tufts by marrying Karyl A. Allyn in June and has moved way up in the North Country to Portland, Me. Some of our men took a step in the right direction by making plans to live in wedded bliss. Pete Strock, fresh from Western Reserve School of Dentistry, will marry Saralee Blindman this fall and live in Boston while interning at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Bill Steck, studying design at Harvard, plans to marry Julie Marie Dornemann on October 19. And a recent letter from Wayne French informs me of his designs to wed Joan Hobbie (no relation to Ed) this fall. Wayne is associated with Bankers Trust Co., in New York. Al Hurlburt, currently an analyst for Ford in Dearborn, Mich., became engaged to Judith Carol Holbrook of East Northfield, Mass. Joe Dare and Martha Nagle of Erie, Pa., announced their engagement on July 11 and decided to eliminate too much waiting by becoming Mr. and Mrs. on August 17. Joe will attend Harvard Business School this year.
Some miscellaneous news should serve to round out the doings of '59s over the summer. Kurt Wehbring left White Plains, N.Y., this summer to join a seven-man mountain climbing expedition to Mt. St. Elias, 18,008 feet, on the Alaska-Canadian border. Kurt has been city planning for the Brown and Anthony agency. Donald Folkers is active in the Greater Boston Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and has had several of his letters printed in area papers. Cary Stiff has been teaching English at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., and will attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism this year. He has written for several Michigan newspapers in the past. Ron Kehoe resigned his post as a director of a Medford, Mass., civic association to manage the campaign of a candidate for the city council there. Ron presently is a law clerk to a chief justice of the Superior court in the area. Terry Davies will become instructor in Government and director of the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government at Bowdoin. He completed requirements for his Ph.D. at Columbia this summer. Finally, a '61 member of the Peace Corps writes of Scott Bush, Protocol Officer for our Embassy in Tunisia, winning the Tunisian National Amateur Golf Championship for 1963 by beating the Swiss ambassador in the last 18 holes.
I'll save some remaining late August news for next time in case some of you fail to provide me with something up-to-date. Please look for Debby and me this fall when you're in Hanover, or give us a ring in Canaan and give me some first-hand news items. Best of luck in your fall endeavors. I'm back at the students of Hanover High after a refreshing summer as swimming director at Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain.
More in November if you come through.
Chip Serrell '61 (l), member of the 119th Aviation Company located in rugged mountain country of Vietnam, and Dave Prewitt '61, with the 120 th Aviation Companylocated near Saigon, share a beer in a Saigon sidewalk cafe and compare notes ontheir combat missions and on helicopter warfare.
Secretary,) Canaan, N.H.
Treasurer, 23 Fourth St., Manhasset, N.Y.
