1956
As 1962 came to a close, I decided to take another look at what news had gone out on the 728 famous, or at least active, men who at some time or another were members of the class of '56. A year ago Will Sogg and I made and circulated a list of 101 we had heard nothing from, or about, for a couple of years. Only 26 of these now remain to be heard from; and Wha-Who-Whisper and this column have, since the fall of 1960, said something about 590 of our class. We will try to distribute a list of some of the remaining in a few weeks.
Renny Foster made Captain in the Air Force. He and Jackie are in South Dakota, where Renny is a pilot for an air refueling squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Pete Fay is also a pilot for the Air Force. Pete is living in Pittsburgh. Gordie Daven-port is vice president of the Krystal Co. of Chattanooga and is living at Lookout Mountain. Tom O'Rourke is vice president and director of an investment banking firm in Daytona Beach. Don Singer is a field engineer in electronics for ACF Industries at Riverdale, Md. Don has an apartment in Washington, D. C. Dick Terzian is an attorney in Los Angeles and is living in Hollywood.
THE NEW YORK CROWD
Lee Ferguson has moved from Hollywood to 2nd Ave., New York City. TomKrampf, married and father of two, is living in Brooklyn. Norm Fiering is doing graduate work at Columbia. Bobo Flaxman is an executive with Columbia Pictures at their Fifth Ave. office. Steve Barnett has taken a position with Plautus Productions, Inc. as production assistant and is living on West 90th St. Ed Braverman is in his residency at Montifiore Hospital in New York. BridBridson is a copywriter for McCann Marschalk Advertising on 6th Ave. and is living in Huntington. DiNoto is also living in Huntington. Jack is a court officer in the Criminal Division of the New York State Supreme Court. Down at 14 Wall St., JackTamagni continues with Blyth & Co. as a municipal bond analyst. Jack and wife and children are living in Murray Hill, N. J. Steve and Jo Brand and their family have moved to Waldwick, N. J. Steve is with a New York manufacturing company.
ELSEWHERE IN THE U.S.
Satch Cook has a position as research assistant at Johns Hopkins. Ken Fesenmyer is in Bradford, Pa., in the comptroller section of Dresser Industries. Tim and Nancy Fohl have moved to Concord, Mass. Tim holds positions with both the National Magnet Lab. at MIT and ITEK Corp. in Lexington as scientist and engineer. John and MargGwynn and family are back from Pakistan and are living in Annandale, Va. John has completed a tour at the U.S. Embassy in Karachi and is now serving with the Secretariat of the State Dept. in Washington. Herb Kleber is a resident in psychiatry at Grace-New Haven Hospital in Conn, and recently moved to Woodbridge. Art Kunst has his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is assistant professor of "comp lit" at Wisconsin. Judy has been a good inspiration for Warren Fellingham, as Northern Trust just announced his promotion. Roge andSherrie Schumacher spread the word of their baby daughter, Lee Ann, born Dec. 1, in Framingham, Mass.
Will Cohen with one other is producer of a five-actor comic revue, which appeared this fall at the Somerset Hotel in Boston after stops in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and Hyannis. Will also continues his work with NBC in New York. Bob Heller is commercial manager for radio station WILD in Boston.
AROUND THE GLOBE
Bob and Margaret Barry are in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, where Bob is with the American consulate. Marve and Rose MarieBender and family are living in Ethiopia. Marve has been a research associate on the Educational Research Council in Cleveland and is now with Haile Selassie University in Addis Ababa. Derry and Hillary Evans are in a new home but same section in Surrey, England. Derry is with a British construction firm. John and Elizabeth Koehring have moved from the Ivory Coast to the hot spot of Brazzaville in the Congo for John's new assignment with the U.S. Embassy. Tom andLucllla Marvel are at a new address in Puerto Rico. At last report, Tom was designing apartments and hotels for various cities in the Caribbean.
Bob Mackay in Geneva, Switzerland, made the Cleveland Press and News a few weeks ago in an article quoted in part below:
The quiet little man with the button-down collar and New England twang squirted mustard on the juicy hot dog with the deftness of a pastry chef squeezing out fancy icing designs on a wedding cake.
"We only wanted to make money and have fun with our favorite sport," he said. ... "All of a sudden we wind up in the middle of a sociological upheaval. I feel like Robespierre."
Robert S. Mackay, Dartmouth '56, was discussing bowling in Europe. The 27-year-old native of Nashua, N. H., is vice president of Overseas Bowling Corp.
"For instance, we were told European women would never bowl, especially in Germany," pointed out Mackay quaffing a pallid orange drink. "They said the Europeans considered such sports for men only - and women belonged in the home, anyway. That's old hat. More than 30% of the games rolled on our lanes are by European women who had never bowled before.
"We've been tremendously successful," continued the former Air Force lieutenant, ordering another hot dog and glass of liquid from the sidewalk dispenser of indigestion, "because the so-called middle class is becoming bigger and more prosperous in Europe and bowling is within reach of almost everybody.
"Bowling's helping to break down social barriers, too. Very often in Germany you'll see a hired hand rolling on the next lane to his Herr Direktor; I don't say they play together - yet - but they're in the same place, paying the same price and getting the same service, which would have been unheard of a few years ago."
Overseas Bowling operates now in Munich and Basel, Switzerland.
That's it for now. I plan to leave early tomorrow for four days of skiing including two at the Dartmouth Ski-Way; then back to the books on Monday.
When Sweetbriar ('58) graduate Sandra Elder and Tom Harper '56 were wed in Burlington, N. C., it was a Dartmouth-family get-together. Shown here (I to r) areLeo McKenna '56, Hugh Erwin Jr. '56, the bride and the groom, Elmer Harper '21(groom's father), Oliver Hayward '31 (groom's uncle), John Harper '57 (brother).
Secretary, 2 Andover Hall Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, Mass.
Treasurer, 70 Princeton St. Garden City South, L. I., N. Y.
