1961

You fellas are shaping up. I got seven (7) letters this month! That's still a lot less than Perry Como or even Jimmy Hoffa, but it's a start and it shows good spirit, so press on, men, press on. Also all you men seem to think it is the thing to do to get married. I have tried to convince you of the many benefits of the single life, but still the list of lost souls mounts. You guys just wait until I bring Gwen Verdon, Natalie Wood and Barbara Hutton to reunions, boy, will you wish you had listened to your old dad! Ahh well, here's the latest on the Ball and Chain Clubbers. I mentioned Bare Corbus and his engagement to Miss Priscilla Flemming last month so I won't again this month. Miss Cynthia Roberts and DickCraig are planning to take the big step. Both Dick and his fiancee are presently employed for the National Bank of Westchester, N.Y. Working on that nest egg, Dick? An old buddy, Dick "Senor" Kinyon is now married and living in Minneapolis. Dick married the former Miss Susan Benson last January. Dick is studying to be a lawyer and hopes to work, for Speedy Gonzales. The engagement of Miss Deborah Wright to Gil Low was announced last January. Debby is at Syracuse and Gil is at Oxford - you figure out how they swung that. Rod Plimpton married Miss Beth Emerson in Weston, Mass., in early February. The Plimptons are now living in West Leb. And that is the sum total of the latest victims of the Tender Trap. Alas.

I learned that Jake Haertl has been signed to the faculty of Vermont Academy. Jake will teach history and general science and assist in coaching hockey at that institution.

Stag Bag time. The Army tells me that Dave Smith has just finished a nine-week orientation course at Fort Eustis, Ya. Hang in there, Dave.

Now for the Mail Pail, or is it Male Pale? Anyway it's those little missiles you gents send off to your friend in the government. First a few personal answers to letters that I have received but for various reasons cannot be quoted in full in print. MikeButler. Sorry, Mike, but I only have one nomination and I'm afraid I've promised it to another girl. Whitey Dunphy. Your request for a golden statue of Bob Clotworthy is being considered by our company. Tom Conger. Your Holden Caufield hat has been found in one of the soup kettles in Thayer and Miss Gill would like to know your address so that you can reclaim it. Bill Horton. Sorry but the "How to build a massive physique" booklet and course has been discontinued by Mr. Atlas. We are returning your 4¢ stamp. Ray Welch. Sorry, Mr. Welch, but we are not contemplating refilming "The Hustler" at this time, if ever we do, however, we will seriously consider your application for the role of "Massachusetts Curly." No brickbats now, it's all in fun, I told you I'd have to make things up.

Steve Dale, now an ensign in the Supply Corps of the Navy, is stationed aboard the U.S.S. Richard S. Edwards out of San Diego and is presently sloppin' up the saki on a Western Pacific cruise. From one chopsticks to another, huh, Stevo. Another West Packer is Pete Blyler who is on a submarine the Sterlet, home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan' Mrs. Blyler is a'teachin' school in Pearl Harbor. Sounds pretty rough. Bob Harvey is now a commissioned army officer stationed at Fort Sill, Okla., with the artillery. I hope, Bob, that you have more facility with those guns than you had with the skis last time I saw you. I still think there is a dent in Oak Hill from that one. Good sport though. I received a most enjoyable letter from Pete Holland. Pete is teaching English at Kimball Union, his alma mater, sneaking off to Hanover whenever the promise of some action is in the air, and generally seems to be happy as a clam (swimming in an ocean of martinis; eating olives). Pete gave me a rundown on the Hopkins Center and the Nathaniel Leverone Field House. He was impressed, even if you do have to pay for track meets now. Not like the good old days when Ellie Noyes lured his stars down to the meets with promises of ice cream. Isn't that right, Daley, Ebers, Millet, Brown, Ward, Zeilman, Penn, Percels, Ramming, Coates, Noel, et al.? Husband was a different case, Ellie used to promise him dates with local ladies. Dick Lefcort just graduated from Naval Justice School and is stationed aboard the U.S.S. Guadalupe on the West Coast. Dick saw Neil Karlin, Dick Wright, Hal Levenson, Bob Hargraves and Bill Sommers at Carnival. Neal Davis, a recent graduate of Columbia Business, is working for Grey Advertising in N.Y. Neal says that he ran into Steve Elson over a martini (see "clam" above) in Gotham and that Cliff Reynolds, Bob Snider, Moe Banks and Frank Greenberg are also at Columbia, either Business or Law. Any of you guys beatniks? Bet the Marine Corps has photos of tennis heroes on its recruiting posters. They must, because old Rapid Ron Picket signed up for a hitch and I can't believe he believes all that Semper Fi stuff (sorry all you Grass Thrashers).

And Neal came across with some of the biggest news in many months, Bill Figilis has been found! He is reported to be heading for South America to work for some publishing firm there. Now if we could only find "Pitts" Willard we'd have a line on just about everybody. Jerry Akin writes that he is just winding up his work for his Master's in chemical engineering at the University of Arizona. Also there banging away on his slip stick is Fearless WilsonCooper (previously disparagingly mentioned - see Education p. 342). Willy is going for his Master's in nuclear engineering (save the world, Coops). Jerry also found a bit of green in the desert in the person of his new bride, the former Miss Betsy Dole, who is the daughter of a Dartmouth grad and the sister of a '65. Good show, Jerry. Larry and Betsy Gleeson from L. A. are going to join Jerry and Betsy and Cooper and his slip stick (they ran out of Betsys in Tucson) for a big weekend in the sand dune. Irv Weissman, who was at the big D for his first two years, and is now a med student at Stanford, sent along a birth announcement for his son, Carl Henry Daniel (compliments of Mrs. Weissman). Do you med students get a cut-rate on things like that or would that be professional uncouthness?

Ooops! Just found two more hot items that had slipped under my pile of comic books. Miss Prudence Whitbeck and Ralph Spencer were wed way last December in Hudson, N.Y. Ralph is working on his Master's at the U. of Pennsylvania. We sure are going to have a lot of educated men at our reunion. Bet us idiots have to show 'em how to put up the tent though. Bill O'Keeffie's days of freedom are numbered. Willy has done the ring thing for Miss Paula Symmons. They are planning a fall wedding. Bill is at Boston College getting smarter.

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