1961
Happy Yule to you all. From the looks of the clipping pile, wedding rings are the most popular present this year, but I thought you might like to hear what I have discovered I'm getting: a partridge in a pear tree (and you better believe that's a toughie to wrap!), a lifetime supply of arch supports, a matched set of duelling noodles, a basketball knee pad once used by Rudy Laßusso, a picture of Whistler by his mother, and a snuff box full of trained aphids. An impressive list, you must agree. Mow on to a more impressive list, the weddings that have taken place in the last few months.
Miss Elaine Moss and Hal Levenson were married in San Diego in August. John Wilkins married the former Miss Ann Basinger on August 10 in Short Hills, N. J. The Wilkinses are keeping house in New Brunswick while John attends Rutgers Graduate School. August also saw the wedding of Elizabeth King and Tom Theodore. TerryOrtwein was Ted's best man. The couple honeymooned in Puerto Rico before going to live in Oklahoma City where Tom is with McGraw-Hill. Whitman, Mass., is the home of newleyweds Marilyn Ruth Schaefer and Abbot Schwebel. Abbot graduated from BU Law School. According to my reports Sandra Johnson and Bill Ricker were planning to wed in November so I imagine they are living happily ever after now in Plattsburg, N. Y., where Bill is with the Glens Falls Insurance Company. The WilliamO'Keeffes are at home in Boston where Bill attends BU Law. Bill married Miss Paula Jane Symmons in August. Miss Karla Krahnke and Tom Goodridge took the big step in August. Tom and his bride are living in Silver Spring, Md., where Tom commutes to medical school in D. C. Jim Gifford and Miss Clarice Elizabeth Mason chose August 31 to celebrate their nuptials. They are living in Newton Center, Mass., while Jim finishes up his last year at New- ton Theological Seminary. Dave Armstrong found a bride close to home. Dave married Miss Ingrid Berta Andersen, a former nursing student at Mary Hitchcock, in August. The couple will be living in Chicago while Ingrid nurses Dave back to health after he comes home from Northwestern Law School each day.
Milt Steinhauser, the only '61 on the current Big Green football team, has achieved repute in another, and certainly more gentle, way - he married the former Miss Carolyn Eyster of York, Pa., on August 3. Miss Norma Rose MacKinnon and Lenny Donovan exchanged vows in September in Maine. The new two will live in Boston where Lenny works for Haskins and Sells Accounting. A Smith-Dartmouth liaison came about when Miss Gael Dorsey and Jim Meehan were married September 28. After a last look at the New Hampshire hills, the couple departed for Badenhausen, Germany and the good old Army life. DonWesson and Pat Walsh were on hand to see Pete Freeman safely married to Miss Mary Ann Austin on October 5. The couple will continue residence in their mutual home state of Massachusetts and live in Belmont. Miss Cynthia Jean Roberts, who is from the interesting-sounding town of Valhalla, was married to Dick Craig in White Plains in September. Dick is working for the Na- tional Bank of Westchester, N. Y. I would certainly like to go to Valhalla and see if there are Brunhildes and Nibelungs behind every knotty oak. Old Swabby Frank Ginn evidently decided bachelor smokers aren't all they're cracked up to be for he took a bride. Miss Margaret Gardiner Gomez, a recent Wellesley graduate met Frank at the altar in June. Frank is stationed at the Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, Calif. And that, gentlemen, is the wedding activity that has been going on!! I think if I had a farthing for every wedding notice that has appeared in these hallowed class notes lately I would have more than enough to buy Rudy LaRusso's other knee pad, maybe even his knee.
Now how about some engagements? TomBaseler has somehow managed to meet and win a young lady from Norway, Miss Karen Isaksen of Tromso. No date has been set, but Tom is learning ways to cross the sea at Oceanography School at the University of Rhode Island. Jack Reno will probably still be in the Air Force when he marries Miss Suzanne McKnight of White Plains. Jack graduated with his M.B.A. from Northwestern recently. Bill Atkinson and Bette Eaton have announced their engagement. Bill is in his third year at Harvard Law. By press time, Susan Farquhar and Tom Halliday will have already marched up the aisle, way back in June they were planning an August wedding.
The smiling officer and gentleman shown below is none other than our own MartyJudd, newly commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after graduation from the Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. He's being reassigned to Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas for training in supply, and that shouldn't be too hard to take since Marty's an Amarillo boy. He was working there for the William E. Lee Associates accounting firm after getting his M.A. from West Texas State College, so he and wife Patricia will be right at home in his new assignment.
The Stag Bag is pretty full this month, proving once again that all our boys aren't out chasing girls constantly. Mike Steinberg has been elected to the Harvard Law Review. Jim Mairs is a college traveler with the Norton Publishing Company. Tim Knox is an Instructor in English at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh. Tim had previously received his M.A. from Columbia. Dell Lucas has been promoted to a First Lieutenant and is stationed at Fort Holabird, Md. Like-wise promoted was John Hancock. John is a Lieutenant (j.g.) aboard the carrier, "Randolph." Tom Mealey is now stationed at the Navy Recruit Training Command in San Diego. Word has it that another Navy man, Gordy Wentworth, recently made his first solo flight at Pensacola, Fla. And Jack Ladd '62 sent me a photo of Corbus's wedding reception and I realized that I had not mentioned all the loyal and party-loving '61's who were at that gala event. In addition to E. Jonathan Sperling and Rog Coates, Charlie Brown, Terry Rogers, Dick Keith, and Howie Bovers attended in full finery. I had the pleasure of dining with Mike Hecht and Paul Fee t'other day. Mike is busy being an executive at Pogue's Department Store here in Cincinnati and Paul is still slaving away for good old Procter and Gamble.
Have a great New Year and make one of your resolutions to scribe off a fast note to your faithful secretary so that he can say nice things about you in print.
At the Hanover Inn reception, following a Church of Christ ceremony wedding Ingridand Dave Armstrong '61 (she's a Mary Hitchcock Nursing school graduate '63), were(front row, I to r) Dave Mendelson '61, Al "Otto" Dick '62, Jeff Fletcher '63, HarryRussell '57, Art Simington '64, Steve Ward '64; (back row, I to r) Bud Foulks '29,Sally Mendelson, Lyn Foulks, Jean Armstrong, Judy Turner, Sue Russell, groom andbride, Stu Brown '64, Jane and Fred Armstrong '29, Helen and Ken Russell '27.
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