1963

It was a beautiful, warm autumn day as the Big Green rolled over Penn by a 28-0 score here in Philadelphia. The game gave me an opportunity to see an unusually large group of 63's together at one time. DanMatyola, by now down at Quantico with the Marines, and Jim Cappio, also in the service, came in as did Dick Hauptmann, who drove up from Virginia. Al Davies, with family, came over from New York, and Ha! Trefethen with his wife sat in the stands with Lee Erdman, Karl Seeman, and many others. After the game, a victory celebration at Penn's Museum and a blast at Mike Leone's place topped off a perfect day.

We're just beginning to settle down to the business at hand, whether it be work, service, or grad school. In this area, there is quite a contingent of our classmates. At Penn Law are Paul Myers (who's living across from the Law School with RickSulkes. Rick's going to Temple University School of Dentistry, but seems to be doing more anatomy, dissection, and histology than dentistry right now), Roger Adelman, Jerry Herlihy, John Rowland, my old roommate Steve Lippman, and yours truly. MikeHerschensohn is teaching French at Penn, and is the proud possessor of an office, lavishly furnished. He's also taking courses leading to advanced degrees. Ron Prior and Bill Messerly are studying business at Wharton, while Stu Mahlin is taking graduate courses at Penn's Fels Institute of State and Local Government. Chris Harvey is catching up on missed pre-med courses at Penn and appears to be enjoying the grind. Richie Wong also took time out to see the game. He's attending Hahnemann Medical College, city's five med schools.

Other bits of news have filtered down to me from many sources: Bill Purcell is aboard the "USS O'Brien" in charge of the 5" mounts - (somebody explain that to me ); Bob Henderson is at Northwestern's medical school; Hank Jencks is attending Boston University for a year in order to get enough credits to go on to medical school also; and Ed McCabe, after a summer in Quebec, pondered several offers and decided upon Michigan's Law School and three years in Ann Arbor.

I finally caught up to Norm Buchsbaum, and after an enjoyable afternoon showing him around our law school, watched him take off for Yale Law. If anyone is near a good library, take a look in the July, 1963 issue of the Russian Review. In it is a book review by Norm of Edward Chmielewski's Konstantin Aksakov," "Tribune of the Slavophiles." Norm expects to have two more reviews in the January, 1964 issue of the same journal.

September 14 will long be remembered in Montclair, N. J., as the day Dartmouth came to town. Charlie Parton and Trudy Bove tied the nuptial knot that day before a gathering of friends and family that filled the church to overflowing. After the ceremony, we all moved out to the Montclair Golf Club where the champagne flowed like water- At the head of the line was VinnieDi Figlia, Charlie's best man. Doug Cooper served as an usher. Pete Andre, Charlie Logan, Vic Mansfield, Ken Lease, and Chris Harvey were other '63s at the affair. Trudy's bridesmaids were dressed in green, and somehow a Dartmouth Songbook was found on top of the piano. The class's best wishes go to the couple. Charlie is back at work learning the banking business in Newark.

I'm sure most of you know that almost 700 of us graduated in Hanover last June, but this actually represents only part of the men whom we number among our class. There are about 150 others who are also '63s. This fact was vividly pointed out to me when, last week, I received a note from Jay Smith, whom I first met on our freshman trip at Moosilauke. Jinx, one of the nicest guys ever to walk the Hanover Plain, is now studying at Pratt Institute in New York and is living in Brooklyn at 185 Hall Street. I'm sure he'll be glad to see any of you who drop in. If anyone knows of other men who are as interested in the class and college as Jinx, send me their names. They are as much a part of our class as anyone can be and help add to its strength and activity.

Tom Carter, who is studying for his M.A. at Nagpur University in India, was elected president of the Foreign Students Association there for the 1963-64 term. The Association consists of about 40 full-time students from twelve African, Asian, European, and American countries with an additional 50 associate members from India..

I'll try to save most of the marriage and engagement news that has been filling my mailbox to overflowing until next issue so in its place I'll fill everyone in on where our classmates are doing graduate work. PeteBrown is studying for his Master's degree at Harvard along with Denny Kratz; SkipMattoon, our Newsletter Editor, is down in New Orleans at Tulane going for his M.A. John Prescott moved to Providence where he is working for his Master's degree in Romance Languages. Ed Smith, who an- nounced his engagement to Sondra Finkel last June, is in his first months at the University of Illinois Medical School.

Some official-looking forms arrived with the news that a large contingent of '63s are in Newport, R. I., at the Naval Officer Candidate School. They include Steve Rosen, TomRhoad, Pete Hollingworth, Dave Halsted,Paul Cieurzo, and Mike Cardozo, so far. Lou Gerstner, who was awarded the Walter C. Teagle Fellowship for study at the Harvard "B" School, is now up in Cambridge studying for his M.B.A. degree. Dana Atchley has an unusual position as a part-time teacher of graphic arts two days a week at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt. He fits this in between his studies for an M.F.A. at Yale. John Sloan Dickey Jr. announced his engagement to Joan Cass of Swarthmore College in August, then proceeded to move far south, all the way to Dunedin, New Zealand. He's there on a Fulbright at the University of Otago in some field of geology, I believe. That's no way to treat a fiancee, John.

Just have room for one more wedding, until next issue. Rich Berkowitz and Carole Chasnoff were wed in late August in New Haven. Sorry I couldn't manage to fit it into our last issue, Berky, but congratulations. Rich is studying law at the University of Connecticut in Hartford; Carole's doing some work as a visiting nurse with that city's Visiting Nurse Association. Among Berky's ushers were Bob Burros, AdamHayman, Mike Geller, and Steve Swirsky.

That's all for now, but I'll be back with a bundle of news next month.

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