1955

Dick Roberts was plumb tuckered out from all those junkets to Aspen and Palm Springs and all that wild living during nine years of medical school, internship and residency. So he's settling down to a regular sort of life by joining the Army and getting married. Or at least Army life was reputed to be regular for a doctor assigned to research. But Capt. Dick last summer went first to Texas to learn how to salute and put on his bars, then hopped to the Walter Reed research institute in Washington, D. C., and shortly afterward was dispatched to Fort Ord, Calif., to study a meningitis problem there for a couple of months. He'll be in Brookline, Mass., Nov. 29 to marry Debbie Smith, a 1955 Boston debutante and a 1959 graduate of Smith, where she was Junior Phi Bete and summa cum laude. Debbie also has studied acting in New York and London and has appeared in off-Broadway shows. After a brief honeymoon, the Roberts will hie themselves to California for a short time, then to Washington, and wait to see whether the Army is really serious about shipping them out to Bangkok early next year.

Nelson Jones was promoted to manager of the Oakland, Calif., office of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He formerly was assistant manager in the Hartford office. John Levitas moved from Winslow, Cohu & Stetson in Paramus, N. J., to another brokerage firm, Blair & Co., Granberry, Marache, also in Paramus. DickBatchelder stepped up from assistant to head basketball coach at Beverly High School in Beverly, Mass. Previously Dick had a 60-20 record and won two league championships in four years as head basketball coach at nearby Rockport High School.

Scott and Dorothy Rutherford, camping out in Dacca, East Pakistan, had their third child and first daughter, Anne, June 22. Scott is the Agency for International Development's loan officer for East Pakistan. During June boys were born in Hanover to Tom and Ann Byrne and the Phil Mossmans. Also in Hanover, Ron and ConstanceCampion adopted a son, Brian, in August.

Last April Dick Brown moved from the investment business to the business development department of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and in August he was promoted to investment officer. Dick lives in nearby Westport Point, where he has been president of the Taxpayers' Association. Bob Gudbranson is practicing law with his father-in-law in the Terminal Tower Building in Cleveland.

Phil Kleinschmidt, unflinchingly describing himself as "probably the worst correspondent the class of '55 has," writes that he's divisional sales manager of Minute Maid Co., which makes some sort of beverage. His territory is Ohio, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. He, Marcia and their three children live in Cleveland. DonMackay and Gale Roberson are in the same Chicago law firm, Leibman, Williams, Bennett & Baird.

Tom Connor moved from Santa Barbara to Goleta, Calif. He's still in the real estate business. Among the doctors, Bill Contini is in Hanover and Bill Bronk is in Pelham, N. Y. Frank Ewing is treasurer of the Columbia Co., a real estate firm, in Columbia, S. C.

Rufe Choate left New York to become manager of marketing objectives and policies for Chrysler Motors Corp. in Centerline, Mich. The Choates live in Birmingham. John Hapgood is in the Los Angeles office of Armco Steel Corp., and WarrenGirard is assistant news editor of The Los Angeles Times.

J. Edgar Hoover spirited agent RogerYoung from North Carolina to New York City. Charlie Warner is assistant sales manager for radio station WTOP in Washington, D. C. Vic Sitty teaches science and math at Fitch Junior High School in Groton, Conn. He lives in New London.

Dave Wang has joined the staff of Madame Wong's Cuisine, a gourmet restaurant in Los Angeles. We don't know his exact title, but it might be resident poet. LarryNadler is secretary-treasurer of Canadian Lady Corset Co. in Montreal.

Ward Rowley's new post with Humble Oil & Refining Co. is sales manager. He's in Newark, and commutes from Caldwell. RoyNyren is assistant pastor of the Faith United Church of Christ in Milwaukee.

On April 18 in Fairhaven, Mass., Web Wilde married Rosemarie Rogers, a Welsh gal he met while working in Nassau with Fram Filter. Present at the ceremony were Colin Hunt, Dick Mount, Ace Hall, John Demas, John Dell Isola, Dick Brown, Swifty Lawrence, Al Wright. Hart Perry, Jim Nelsen, and a few Dartmouths from other classes. Jim reports that "following the reception the whole group ex the bride and groom traveled to Dick Brown's father-in- law's new bar which is called the Wales Tails Room. Through many pitchers of beer we sang songs, reminisced, and noted the fading hairlines and extra pounds." As for the bride and groom, following their honeymoon they had to return to reality, so headed back to plain old Nassau to settle down.

Bill Ross wed Anne Marie Gromme on April 4 in Milwaukee. Phil Kleinschmidt was an usher. The Rosses have set up housekeeping in Rockford, Ill., where Bill is with Sundstrand Aviation.

The second annual '55 golf outing at Bellevue Golf Club in Melrose, Mass., hadthese participants: (front l to r) Skip Hurlbut, Bruce Alexander, Gordie Russell,Red Hennigar; (rear) Dan Goggin '57, Al Graham, Dave Conlan, Hank Stephenson,Charlie Hulsebosch, Sonny Peters. Bob Fanger and Jon Kropper, not pictured.

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