1954
Sitting here before my typewriter and a stack of Christmas cards from classmates, I am dismayed that such a formidable pile of greetings can produce such a meager amount of information about their senders. Still, I am thankful for the thought. By this time the Christmas is no doubt becoming an eyesore as the snow melts in the backyard, the toys must be all broken, and the little people (not to mention the bachelors) are thinking about their Valentines. While on the subject, how about sending off a sawbuck valentine to Dave Mandelbaum, if you have overlooked that particular New Year's resolution.
Hank Grebe has been appointed an assistant treasurer of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. Hank went to work with Chase after graduation, took a couple of years off for the military, and last spring received a Master's degree in business administration from New York University. He presently is working in the aerospace division of the bank (no business is safe without one these days), and lives with his wife Joan in Hackensack, N. J. News has been forthcoming from New York City on a number of other Fifty-fours. Kent Klineman is a lawyer with Berlack, Israels & Liberman, and Steve Weinreb is the resident counsel with the Inland Credit Corporation. Bill Pitney is an accountant with Arthur Young & Company, and Tom McCarthy is the assistant manager of the brokerage department of the Pacific of New York Group. (Pacific of New York would need an aerospace division.) Not too far from the big city, in White Plains, N. Y., Joe Keenan works as a financial and accounting supervisor for the General Foods Corporation.
One welcome bit of news from downstate reports the appointment of Bruce Classon to the post of assistant vice president of James Talcott, Inc., in New York City. Bruce joined Talcott in 1958 and was elected an assistant secretary in 1960. His new responsibilities are those of assistant vice president of Talcott's factoring division in the company's Manhattan headquarters. Bruce is a member of the New York Institute of Credit, the New York Credit and Financial Management Association, and the Capital Credit Club. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
From across the continent comes word that Bruce Haertl is now teaching and coaching at the Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash. Further down the coast, headquartered at Los Gatos, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, is Joe Messics, former Marine aviator and now West Coast district sales manager for the Piper Aircraft Corporation. In Costa Mesa, Calif., is another ex-Marine zoomey, Irv Sherwood, Western regional representative for the Aircraft Radio Corporation. Dr. Ross Tucker is now serving with the Air Force as chief of medical services for the 861st Medical Group at Glasgow Air Force Base in Montana. Dr. Pete Caldwell is also with the Air Force, as a research physician in the Respiration Section of the Aerospace Laboratory (there's that term again) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The last of this month's Fifty-fours with airborne interests is Don Bartnicki, a buyer with Hamilton Standard (aircraft) Company in Windsor Locks, Conn.
Tom Clarke is assistant to the treasurer with Wallace & Tiernan. Inc., in Cedar Grove, N. J., and Jim Conlon is a personnel assistant with J. F. McElwain Company in Nashua, N. H. A partner in the firm of Talley & Garland in Bradenton, Fla., is, naturally enough, Counsellor Bill Garland. In Columbus, Ohio, Pete Edwards is now President of Devco, Inc. Dick Jennison is a safety engineer with the Kemper Insurance Company in Boston, Mass. Dick has taken up his residence back on the old sod, in Antrim, N. H. Off in Michigan, John Schreiber is with the sales and marketing training administration of the Ford Motor Co., and Bob Sleigh is an assistant professor of philosophy at Wayne State University. The new rector of St. Agnes Episcopal Church of Little Falls, N. J., is the Rev. Ed Keller. After a hitch in the Army, Ed prepared for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary, and since mid 1959 he has been serving as an assistant rector in Bloomfield.
The month's mailings hold no nuptial news, but there were a couple of items of preparations. John Fairfield is engaged to Miss Nora Roelvink of the Netherlands. Miss Roelvink works with the Office of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Bob Bassett became engaged to Miss Suzanne Posson of Cambridge, Mass., last November. Suzanne is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration. Bob is working on his doctorate in education at Harvard.
No postscript this month, too much to do. India has no aerospace capability.
The wedding of Hugh Erwin Jr. '56 and Libby Field took place in September inthe First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, N. J. Dartmouth was well representedby the following: (I to r, back row) Rollin Montelius '56, David Dodd 'S7T, DickBurch '57, Mark Tobin '56, Pete Erwin '60, the bride and groom, Tom Clemons'56, Ben Taylor '56, Ron MacKenzie '56; (front row) Len Clark '56, John Harper'57, John Kirscher '56, Leo McKenna '56, Bill Neely '56, and Tom Curless '56.
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