1950

A couple of months ago certain groups forecast a "long, hot summer." It does seem to have been lengthy, but then again where did the time go? In the Windy City environs we had hardly any middlin' weather; it was either 90-plus or just plain chilly. Then along came Cleo and Dora to jostle the Easterners ... as if the political campaigns weren't more than adequate to that task!

Possibly you, too, got the house 64% painted. Maybe you got a hole-in-one. Or it could be you're looking forward to being elected mayor next month. We'd like to share the news, and meanwhile we'll invite your attention to the current edition of...

DIAPER DIGEST

Tom Warner was good enough to phone from O'Hare last spring on his way back to the Twin Cities not long after Barbara presented him with twins on March 6. The lasses round out a feminine quartet that began with Lynn Marie in 1959 and Jill Katherine two years later. The duo are Ann Leslie, 6 pounds, 5½ ounces, and Carol Elizabeth, 6-4.

Last word about the infant-tree concerns Rog and Barbara Frechette. They have just enough for a basketball team with one left over to lead the cheers. Eldest is Roger Jr., eleven this month. Next came Elise (1955), then Michael (1956), James (1958), and William (1960). Two years ago Matthew E. made his debut on August 1. Presumably with that tribe to keep shod and sheltered, the Frechette attorneyship is shipshape. Rog earned his LL.B. at St. John's in 1958, has a leg on an LL.M. at N.Y.U. Like Pieter, Roger plans to attend the 15th reunion next June. Et vous???

THREE R'S REPORT

Somehow this category didn't get much of a workout last year despite the fact that we have many pedagogs in the ranks. Here's what a few of them have done lately.

Per-Jan Ranhoff was awarded an advanced degree, master of science for teachers in mathematics, at UNH last June 7. ... Phil Chamberlin, head of University of California-Santa Barbara's committee on arts and lectures, was accorded the high academic honor of delivering a paper at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on "Residential Adult Education."

... Dr. Galen Jones (Ph.D. from Rutgers, M.A. from Williams) is associate prof of biology at Boston U's college of liberal arts. A year ago he was awarded a three-year grant ($82,164) by the U.S. Public Health Service to explore "the effect of organic substances from the sea on bacteria." Possible finding is that successful farming and mining may be done from certain ocean areas. Prior to B. U. Galen had been at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He's a member of several scientific societies (microbiology, limnology and oceanography, and biological sciences) as well as author of numerous articles on marine bacteria. He, his wife, and three children live in South Natick, Mass.

Dr. Alexander Medlicott joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut last June. Joe received his master's from Trinity and his doctorate from the University of Washington where he's been of the staff. A specialist in Colonial American literature, he was a reporter-editor on his hometown Springfield (Mass.) Union and Republican from 1955 to 1958. ... On the other side of the globe, Dave Steinberg is the new representative for the Asia Foundation in Korea, assisting educational and cultural activities in the country. ... Berkshire Community College president Tom O'Connell, getting back to the Bay State, was subject of three different newspaper stories last spring. As always, Tom accepts many speaking engagements including the commencement address at Greenfield High School. In May he was made a trustee of Shaker Community Inc. which operates the 932-acre Hancock Shaker Village near Pittsfield. The Village is an outdoor museum just winding up its fourth year of operation, about the same span as Tom's career as head of Massachusetts' first twoyear community college. His operations there were treated in a long article in the Boston Globe headlined "Pace-Setter Has a Problem - Are Standards too Tough?" Concluded the writer, "Berkshire is well on the way to fulfilling its mission ... serving the whole community in as many ways, old and new, as possible."

GOVERNMENT GUYS

Lcdr. Fritz Rubins is with some sort of early-warning group judging by his Box 1810, FPO, San Francisco address. The Navy organization is abbreviated AEWBARRONPAC, whatever that means. ... Getting his mail through the Army Post Office in the same city is Major Sam Jefferson at Tripler General Hospital, wherever that is. ... Another medic with his majority is Larry Perry at the Officers Service Center of Fitzsimmons General Hospital. We know not only what that means but where it is. Denver, Colo., that is. ... Harry Melone can be reached through the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs in Washington, D.C. ... Last May Lt. Col. Jim Landrigan, USMC, was one of three American attaches drugged during an authorized visit to the Russian Black Sea port of Odessa. Apparently nothing further came of the incident following our protest to Moscow, but no doubt Jim needs to continue extremely vigilant, postures in this assignment!

ATTAIN AND ACCLAIM

Alex Hoffman is getting himself deeper and deeper into the suds. Formerly Lever Brothers' man (product manager) for a particular liquid laundry detergent, Alex has now been appointed to the position of merchandising manager in the Lever Brothers household products division and to responsibilities for the marketing of a whole tubful of high sudsing detergents. Alex has been a product manager for Lever Brothers since 1960 and before that an account executive with Compton Advertising. He lives in Darien, Conn.

Class Chairman Frank Harrington was elected vice prez-administration for the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company. ... Also in Worcester, Court Cross was elected president of the $1-million a year construction firm, E.J. Cross Co. ... Tony Poltrack was elected secretary of the C.R. Gibson Company in Norwalk. He's been with the company since 1961 having worked for Price Waterhouse and then Olivetti Research Company. Tony is a vice president and director of the Mt. Washington Railway Company and Marshfield Inc.

Frank Gilroy has a Broadway hit, pure and simple. Said the Boston Record American: "The best new one by an American this season." Commenting on the comedydrama at the Royale, the Herald Trib talked about "laudatory reviews" and the surprise that so good a play should be produced so late in the season. Time proclaims, Frank "has developed his skills so thoroughly that his presence (on Broadway) seems obviously durable." Maybe you'd better catch "The Subject Was Roses" when you're in New York!

Time to watch the World Series? It's also time to send your dues to Si Morand. Seven skins, not five now. Insidious but understandable inflation!

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