1956
It was good to have news from BurnieBuckborough via the W-W-W this month. Burnie married Sue Ann Hackett in 1957. They have a daughter and are living in Champaign, Ill., where Burnie is division manager of Addison-Wesley, publishers of college text books in science and math. Burnie reports that he has been interviewing applicants for Dartmouth for a couple of years now with the local alumni committee. Jim and Martha Groebe have two children and are living at 233 Poage Farm Road in Cincinnati.
John Cole, Ph.D. in chemistry, has just been made research supervisor at the Jackson Laboratory of DuPont in Wilmington, where he is responsible for new products and processes in the field of fiber-reactive dyes. John and Lois and their two children live at 25 Stone Wall Lane, Ridgewood in Wilmington. Alice and Mott Hupfel are living at 714 Greenhill Ave. in Wilmington, where Mott is an analyst for Laird & Co. Jon Allen, who has his Ph.D. from MIT, is on the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J. He and Ann are living on Franklin Street in Morristown. Chick Carlson has moved from West Virginia to head up the Richmond, Ind., branch of Pittsburgh Plate Glass. JohnWilcox continues in sales with Owens-Corning Fiberglas. John and Bev and son, two and a half, live at 13320 Belfield Drive in Dallas. Walt Wilcox is a captain in the Army Medical Corps and is serving in Anchorage, Alaska. Dave Hillman has finished his residency at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and is serving in the Kimbrough Army Hospital in Washington, D. C. DutchRosenberger is a resident in psychiatry in the New York Psychiatric Institute. Sarah and Dutch have a son and are living at 70 La Salle St. in New York City. GeorgeGroch is doing his residency at the V.A. Hospital in Los Angeles and lives at 11908% Allin St., Culver City, Calif. Ray and Lorraine Austin and daughter are at Quonset Point, R. 1., where Ray is in the Navy Medical Service.
Bill Davies has been active in orchestral and solo work with his trombone and recently took a position at the Children's Music Center in Los Angeles. Bill is living at 1162 North Gardner Street in Hollywood. In San Francisco, Bob Bransten is out of the Army and back in business as assistant to the general manager of Western Can Co. Jack Crowley is with Conn. General Insurance Co. in Bloomfield, Conn., covering Northern Conn, and specializing in group insurance. Jack and Beth Ann and son are living in Canton, Conn. Mac Hicks has been transferred by G.E. from Hudson Falls, N. Y., to their Irmo, S. C., office. Mac and Ann are living at 909 Statler Rd., Columbia, S. C. John and Helen Higgs and two children are living in Pelham Manor, N. Y. John is a lawyer on Wall Street. Arnie Kroll, an associate with Lehman Bros, in New York, has moved to 322 East 70th Street. Tom and Mildred Holdorf have moved from Menominee Falls to 1319 S. Telulah, Appleton, Wis. Sam and Nancy Hull and two sons are living at 5 Chadwick Place in Niantic, Conn. Hank Kappel is credit sales manager for Goodyear. Hank is married and lives at 2425 Starr Rd., Royal Oak, Mich.
Dick and Sally Kurts are living at 317 Chestnut Ave., Mamaroneck, N. Y. Dick is with Seres Shipping in New York. JackMendelsohn taught school in Chicago and is now continuing his studies at the University of Chicago. He and his wife Micaela are living at 5547 S. Dorchester Street. Lou and Ann Metzger have moved from Sherburn, Mass., to River Street, Rehoboth. Lou has been given the position of area sales manager at the Riverside, R. I., office of Mobil Oil. Bruce Meyers has taken a position as sales representative with BrewerChilcote Paper Co. in Cleveland and is living in Painesville, Ohio. Bill and Shirley Neely have moved to Prairie Village, Kan. Bill has been transferred by Union Carbide to their Kansas City office. Al Peyser, who has been an electronics engineer in missile manufacturing with Convair in San Diego, has taken a position with NASA in Greenbelt, Md.; meanwhile, Pete Purvis tests the latest at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuent River, Md. Hank and Helen Ravenel are living on 42nd St. N.W. in Washington, D. C. Hank continues his work with the Riggs National Bank. Martie Rosenthal is a supervisor for Cooper Food Service in Chicago.
Norman Olsen will receive his Ph.D. degree in English at Duke University on June 3. He, Anne, and Jeff (ten months old) will spend part of the summer in Nantucket and on the Jersey shore and in the fall will move to Clemson, S. C., where Norm has an assistant professorship in the English Department of Clemson College.
Tony Sherman is a trainee with the Industrial National Bank in Newport, R. I. Ben Taylor, not long ago seen carrying his parachute with the Army's Jump School at Fort Bragg, N. C., is back with Armstrong Cork Co. in New York. Bert Whittemore is living on Pinckney St. on Beacon Hill and has a position with Royal Mcßee in their new office building on Soldiers Field Road near Harvard Stadium. Hugh Goff is an Air Force Captain and pilot of a B-52H bomber at Sawyer AFB in Michigan. Walt Sell has moved to 2953 Mattern Ave., Dormont, Pa.
Roger Schumacher, Brew Blackall, and Bob Danziger were at the Boston dinner for Alumni Fund class agents. Then came letter writing and phoning for these and 89 other '52s now nearing the completion of their work on the drive. Len Clark with help of the know-how of predecessor Rosie Rosenvald and Len's 82 Savages (class agents) and 10 Tomahawks (regional class agents) are doing a great job in support of Dartmouth.
Andy Merrels was in the news this month when Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. released the announcement of his appointment as supervisor of refrigerated appliance sales for that firm. Andy, who is based in Chicago, will be responsible for the sales of thermal and acoustical insulation and reinforcement for plas tics to major home and commercial refrigerator and freezer manufacturers. He first went with OwensCorning Fiberglas in 1957 and since 1958 has been a sales representative in the firm's Chicago branch office. Andy is also a first lieutenant in the Army Reserve.
Russ Brace and I made the trip to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend, May 3, 4. Russ was one of four class chairmen asked to report on special class projects. He gave an excellent summary of our class effort to bring Ahmed Osman to Dartmouth, and then in a hurry Russ headed back to Camden where Jean was expecting their first child any minute. After returning home, I happened to pick up Jeremy Belknap's "Journey to Dartmouth in 1774," edited by Ed Lathem '51 and published by Dartmouth Publications in 1950. Belknap traveled several days by horse from Dover, N. H., and spent three days in Hanover as the school year was coming to a close. He described student life as follows: "Here are a saw and grist mill and a house in which six scholars reside who . . . live a kind of philosophic, laborious life. They maintain themselves by their labor. Their house, which is entirely of their own construction, is a curiosity." Students apparently were leaving college on account of the bad food; President Wheelock had more than his share of bad luck with the loss of two cows and the rest "hurt by a contagious distemper." "The pickle leaked out of the beef barrel, so that the meat was not sweet," and some bad wheat had been purchased; the students were on a steady diet of "pork and greens, without vinegar, and pork and potatoes." On the academic side "the college library" was in Mr. Woodward's house. "It is not large, but there are some very good books in it. . . . They have two good globes of eighteen inches and a good solar microscope. 'Tis really surprising to observe the improvements that have been made in four years," wrote Belknap.
Set aside the weekend of October 11-12 for a trip to Hanover: Dartmouth Night, Friday; Class meeting 9:30 A.M. Saturday, 158 Baker Library; football against Brown that afternoon; good weather forecast by Russ's Almanac.
Among those enjoying the St. Louis clubdinner were: (l to r) Dick Parry '55, JimJones'38, Molly Parry, and Pete Owen'48.
Secretary, 2 Andover Hall Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, Mass.
Class Agent, 19 Norman Rd., Upper Montclair, N. J.
