1955
On Feb. 6 our class inaugurated the Tim Ellis Record Collection in the Hopkins Center by presenting to UGC President Pete Suttmeier '63 the first 71 records of the collection, honoring Tim Ellis, who drowned in Lake Erie, Sept. 11, 1955 (see photo).
Bob Edwards departed in February for a two-year stint with an Agency for International Development surgical team working in South Vietnam. The group's task, he writes, is "to aid the population that is caught in the middle of this Hot War." His wife Joyce and their three children are in Saigon while Bob is based in the mountain town of Pleiku. He comments sadly: "Haven't seen any Dartmouth men here yet." Bob took his surgery residency at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, and The Valley News, when he left, quoted him as saying: "It is something I have wanted to do and I am very happy over the opportunity."
Also in the foreign department, Roy Hill was named Colgate-Palmolive International's area supervisor for Central America. The position is a new one for Colgate, created in light of the Central American countries' steps toward economic integration. Roy remains in Guatemala City, where he has been since 1960 as general manager of Colgate's Guatemalan subsidiary. Dave andAnita Anderson and their two children are back in the U.S. for four months' home leave after three years in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the Chase Manhattan Bank. Dave is assistant manager of the Johannesburg bank and expects to return there after the leave. He says they "have managed to see a lot of the country in these three years," finding it "extremely beautiful with a very pleasant way of life." The Johannesburg business pace is "fast and enervating," he adds.
Ronnie Schreiber was appointed an assistant attorney general of Maryland and works with the legislature at Annapolis. Tom Schoonmaker was promoted to assistant coal sales manager for the New York Central and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroads. He's in Pittsburgh and his responsibilities cover coke and iron ore as well as coal. Owen James became director of physical education at the Beverly, Mass., YMCA; he was formerly physical education director and swimming coach at Fitchburg, Mass., High School.
Dave Page was named a partner in Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, a Detroit law firm, and was also elected secretary of Allied Supermarkets, Inc., a large supermarket chain based in Detroit and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. His legal work is primarily in the corporate and tax fields, plus labor law and estate planning. Mark Starr opened his own law office in Carmel, Calif., and on Jan. 18 in Monterey married Gerda Kroeger of Braunschweig, Germany. Earlier, in December, Mark made a quick European trip and visited Dr. Albrecht Casper, who was an exchange student at Dartmouth our freshman year and is now with Litton Industries in Hamburg. Mark also toured Switzerland and Berlin, including two days in East Berlin.
" Dick Sklover reports good results for his own insurance company, Lens Insurance Service of America, which writes only contact lens policies. The firm is in its second year. Dick also conducts a regular insurance brokerage business. Dick Forsberg became an associate with Peter Duble & Co., a fire and casualty insurance firm in New Haven; he's been with other insurance firms in Newark, Boston, and Manchester.
Dick Drake plans a June wedding in Harrisburg Pa., to Carol Sandnes, a senior at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. Dick is a salesman for the household products division of Colgate-Palmolive Co., working in the Reading, Pa., area.
Joe Eigner married Janet Benowitz of Edgewood, Ind., a junior at the University of "Michigan, where Joe does biochemistry research. They live in Ann Arbor.
Medicine men: Mat Smith is completing his Air Force tour and in July will resume training at Bellevue and Kings County Hospitals in New York. Bob and Mary Morse, doctors both, are in Pensacola where he s at the Navy's School of Aviation Medicine and she's interning in medicine. Bob previously had a U.S. Public Health Service fellowship at M.I.T. and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. They have two boys, Nathan and Peter. Mal Roth is chief resident in ophthalmology at Bellevue Hospital in New York and will open a private practice in Hartford in July.
Jack Childs '09 pens the following from Cleveland: "The Cleveland firm of Bobbie Brooks, Inc., manufacturers of dresses for girls 14 to 24 years of age, employs only one lawyer and he's your classmate, Ted Daus, a young man with a bright legal mind. If it weren't for Ted, they'd probably need three or four lawyers."
"jack and Margaret Fitzgerald had their second child, first daughter, Sally Anne, July 8. Jack, who teaches physics and earth science at Cheshire High School, Cheshire, Conn , also received an M.A. in education from Fairfield University last June. Al andJanice Schwartz welcomed their first, Larry Wayne, Jan. 11; they live in Newton, Mass., and in July Al begins his last year of neurology residency, at Boston City Hospital.
John Cavanagh is a history instructor at Duke University in Durham, N.G. Dick Fairley is an education specialist in a Civil Defense training center in Brooklyn. John Forline is an assistant resident in dermatology at Cincinnati General Hospital. Rett Knowles is a dorm master and instructor at Morristown School in Morristown, N.J. Bill Lee is studying at St. Antony s College, Oxford Ell Vaughan is a sales representative in New York and New Jersey for Avisun Corp., New York. Jerry Daniell is writing his doctoral dissertation at Harvard on the political and social history of New Hampshire in the period immediately prior to the Revolution.
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