1956
A good letter from Ted Steinert early in February reads in part as follows:
Without going into all the details, I am working as an assistant treasurer of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York in Paris. I have been there for three years now, following three years in New York. About a year ago we bought a house in the 16th arrondissement, and we have filled it with two children, William 2½ and Sylvia 1. The proud mother of these children is my lovely and charming wife, Ellen, a former Dartmouth date from Barnard College! Ellen loves France as much as I do in spite of De Gaulle! We will be there indefinitely. Every three years we_ get a home leave and I am on one right now writing you from Woodstock, Vt. Needless to say, I was most interested to see Hanover, which, incidentally I hardly recognized with its traffic lights, Hopkins Center, medical school library, new dorms at Wigwam, new field house, et al.
Ellen and I go back to France on Feb. 6 with the children aboard the "Queen Elizabeth." Unfortunately, the "France" on which we came with the Mona Lisa will be cruising in Latin America in February. I will be happy to see any of my classmates who happen to be going through Paris and to introduce them to a very nice group of people there called the Dartmouth Club of Paris.
P.S. Ellen and my parents went to Hanover yesterday in order to have our second child baptized by Father MacRurney at the new Episcopal Student Center. About 15 Dartmouth Indians were there as witnesses for the service.
Bob Grossman and Frances Rosenbacher were married in Chicago on March. 17. Fran graduated from Vassar and is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Bob received his law degree from Yale, passed the Illinois bar exams, and has been clerking for Judge Herbert Hill in the Chicago Northern District. Morty Galina was married in March to Brenda Moss. Brenda has a degree from Northwestern and has been teaching in Larchmont, N. Y. Morty completed Tufts Medical School in 1960 and is finishing his residency in pediatrics at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. "The New England Journal of Medicine" published an article of Morty's last November. In July he enters the Air Force Medical Service for a two-year tour.
Jim Breeden has just been awarded by Dartmouth the James B. Reynolds (Dartmouth 1890) scholarship for graduate foreign study next year. Jim will be doing work in New Testament studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is now curate at St. James Church in "Roxbury, Mass. Jeanne Breeden has been completing her studies for the Bachelor of Divinity degree, which she started while they were at Union. She told me the other day of a reading and study program they have started for children in Roxbury giving older students experience teaching younger children who greatly need after school assistance in reading and studying. Recently Jim has spoken to groups in Fall River and Lexington, Mass., and preached at Middlebury College, Jeanne's alma mater.
Here's a bit of '56 news that rings the bell: Cliff Phalen has been promoted to the post of district plant superintendent of the Bowdoin district of the New England Telephone Company. Cliff has been with the phone company since 1959 and has been wire chief of the Quincy-Hingham district since 1961. He previously had responsibilities as staff assistant in the North Division and service foreman in Hingham. Cliff, who holds an M.B.A. from Tuck, and his wife Julie and daughter Jacquelyn live in Braintree, Mass.
Still a bachelor, Hank Pratt is an instructor in political science at Wellesley College. Hank is working on a book on Protestant churches and local politics in major cities, which was the topic of his recent talk to the Brookline, Mass., Women's Club. Don Campbell and his wife have moved to Alexandria, Va., where Don is a sales representative for Sapolin Paints. Dick Burg is assistant director of the mountain states office of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League in Denver. Chuck Landauer is an engineer for Turner Construction Co. in New York City. Art Zich is a writer reporter for "Sports Illustrated" at Rockefeller Center. Kirbie Fowler is with the First National Bank of Somerset County, Bound Brook, N. J., as assistant manager of the Belle Mead branch office. Kirbie and Pat live in Flemington. N. J. Ed and Sheila Hennessey are living in Wethersfield, Conn. Ed is an attorney in Hartford. Josh Hill is with the Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vt., and is living across the Connecticut River in Whitefield, N. H. I used to see Josh in Hanover frequently in connection with printing work for the College.
Ed and Judy Ross and son Steve have moved to Milwaukee. Ed is a labor relations attorney for Globe-Union Inc. in Milwaukee. Mike Zissu is a law clerk for a New York City law firm and lives at 4705 Henry Hudson Parkway. Steve Swenson taught for several years at the Darrow School in New York and is now continuing studies at U.N.H. in the graduate program in guidance and counseling. Swense is living on Madbury Road in Durham. John Wanamaker has finished his tour with the Air Force and is a medical resident at the University of Pa. Hospital in Philadelphia. Dave Klein is serving in the Navy as a surgeon at the Bremerton, Wash., Naval Hospital. Dave Mills, wife, and two children have moved to Orleans, France. Mills is serving in the Army Hospital in Orleans in in the pediatrics department.
Howie Clinch continues with the National City Bank of Cleveland where he took a position in '59. Debbie and Howie are living in Shaker Heights. Ted and Laura Clause have moved to Honolulu, where Ted has taken a position as an attorney. Dick Keesey received his Ph.D. in psychology from Brown in 1960 and has recently moved to Madison, Wis. Darrel Clowes is teaching English in the public school system of Turin. N. Y. Darrel received his master's degree from Oberlin last June. Darrel and Cynthia have one child and are living in Glenfield. Carl Hirsch is in his second year at Boston University Law School after spending last year with the National Guard on the Berlin call-up. Carl is living in Brighton.
On the campus, Ahmed Osman (Hon. '56) was largely responsible for arranging the recent Hanover visit of Saeed Ramadan, director of the Islamic Center in Geneva and the most prominent leader of the Islamic movement today. Ahmed spent part of the spring vacation with the Keares in Princeton, N. J., and attended the New York '56 party, March 29. Ahmed is applying for summer work with the U.N. and the Voice of America. Suggestions and assistance on these or other positions will be helpful and should be passed on to George Yeager, who should now be fully recovered from the March 29 reunion.
Larry Gardner '57 and Owen Johnson'58, former Class of 1926 Public ServiceFellows, returned to Hanover in February for a public service conference.
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