1956

A long time has passed since much about Pete Weed has appeared on these pages, but here's some news! Pete and Karen Elizabeth Klok were married in New York on Sept. 6. Pete's bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George Klok of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Karen graduated from Stanford and studied in France with Stanford's program at Tours. Pete is associate editor of Meredith Press on 42nd Street; Pete and Karen are living in the city. I mentioned last month that Elliott "Skip" Sisson was engaged. Skip and Marguerite Humphrey Jamison were married in Greensburg, Pa., on August 29, and are now living in New York City. Marguerite graduated from Miss Porter's School and Wheaton College. Skip is with Bulkley Dunton & Co. on Madison Ave.

’56s ON THE BALLOT THIS MONTHTom Kidd is running for reelection to the Wyoming House of Representatives from Natroma County. See last month's class column for the details. Ron MacKenzie is the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts State Senate from the seventh Middlesex district. Ron was out campaigning when I called this morning to get the latest word on how things were going, but Janet and their two children, Judy and Scott, were home, and Janet brought me up to date. For some time now Ron has been interested in the problems in Massachusetts that result from a powerful governor's council, and he has been working to curb the powers of the council. Largely due to his efforts as chairman of the statewide initiative petition committee, question five will appear on the Massachusetts state ballot. Janet said to tell everyone to vote "yes" on question five. A "yes" on question five is a vote to curb the statutory powers of the governor's council. Ron's own chances for the senate look pretty good. An article in the Burlington, Mass., paper early in the summer gave him a lot of credit for his hard work and good leadership. Ron looks like the man for the voters of Woburn, Lexington, Stoneham, Wakefield, Burlington, Billerica, Tewksbury, and Wilmington!

Jim Flynn, who acquired a Tuck M.B.A. along with some other members of our class, has taken another step up the business ladder. He's recently been elected assistant controller of the Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y. Jim, who has been assistant to the treasurer for the past year, joined Corning in 1963 as a financial analyst. He had previously worked for five years as manager of budgeting and general accounting for the Harris Intertype Corp.

Those of us who were the "chubbers" as undergraduates remember well the top chubber of our years, Noel "Chad" bay '53. A familiar sight is to see Chad's picture on posters through Boston's South End and Roxbury. Chad is running for the U.S. Congress. Not actually a candidate for election but one whom the people of Boston and its city government are beginning to turn to for advice, particularly on racial tension, is Dick Scobie. Dick has been appointed from the staff of United Community Services to direct the newly established Department of Tenant and Community Relations. One of his chief responsibilities right now is to ease racial tension in public housing in South Boston and throughout the city. Dick's position was established through the recommendations of the Boston Housing Authority, which is now moving to carry out its policy of integrating all of its housing projects, some of which have been occupied by white people only since their opening. Dick also hopes to work toward making public housing more than a shelter, a community. His assistants are John Hatch of the Federation of South End Settlements and Tom Francis formerly of the Boston police. Dick and Jill have three children, Ken, Kevin, and Jane, and they are living in Newtonville.

After nearly four years of silence in this column and the pages of Wha Who Whisper, we have this news about Yong Suk Chae. Yong received his MS in civil engineering in 1957. On September 8, 1962, Yong and Mee Soon Shin were married. Yong is now assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Rutgers University. Yong and his wife are living at 10 Landing Lane, Apt. IR, in New Brunswick, N. J. Similarly with Doc Delaney, not much news for a long time. Doc is in the Navy and his address is 623 Tyler, 1121 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, Va. This brings us down to twenty-nine no-see-ums or untouchables that have escaped Wil's letters and this column for four years. I plan to go after them this month and then publish the list next month.

Porter Keir has left his Wheaton, Md., abode for jolly old England. This sudden departure came about when his employer, Vitro Laboratories division of Vitro Corp. of America, received a U.S. Navy contract for engineering work relative to the installation of the Polaris weapon system aboard five British-designed subs being built in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy. Porter was appointed Vitro's senior representative to the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence at Bath, England.

November may well become foreign student month for '56 as Doug Keare once again gets down to hard work to raise the necessary funds to keep Ahmed Osman at Dartmouth for his Bachelor's degree, which he hopes to receive this spring. The feeling of the class seems to be strongly in favor of the whole idea, and Doug hopes to put us on firm enough footing to continue and perhaps expand the program. Doug and George Yeager are now beginning to try to work out arrangements for Ahmed to go out to Denver for part or all of Christmas vacation, which begins Dec. 15. Ahmed worked for Marine Midland Trust in New York this summer and stayed at the apartment of a Sudanese friend who is with the United Nations. I spoke with Ahmed on the phone this morning and he reports that he is enthusiastic about his courses this fall, all three in economics. He gets out Sunday afternoons for his favorite sport, soccer, with the cosmopolitan club, in which he has taken an active interest. Ahmed is in room 302 Cutter Hall.

Glen French has been named Boston region manager of American Hospital Supply, so he and Carolyn and their two children have moved back to New England from Illinois. Glen took his new position Sept. 1. Pete Shoresman has joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana as assistant professor of secondary and continuing education. Pete earned his MAT in 1957 and Ed.D. in 1963, both from Harvard. He taught biology at New Trier from 1957 to '59 and worked two years with the school system of Lexington, Mass. He was assistant professor at Wayne State University from '62 until this new appointment.

Debbie and Howie Clinch are in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Howie was recently appointed assistant cashier at National City Bank of Cleveland. Howie has been in charge of the bank's data processing center since it opened in 1962 and continues to direct its expanding operation. Debbie and Howie have a son, Brad, now five years old. John Palmer finished Georgetown Law school in July, he and Dawn then moved from Washington, D. C., to Chicago where John has taken a position in the law department of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. John's office is at 80 East Jackson Blvd.

My thoughts this fall often turn to the memory of Ernest Martin Hopkins. I first met him through his words in a book called "This Our Purpose," parts of which I read from my brother's copy of the book at the time I was applying to Dartmouth. I speak for many in our class when I express here our gratitude for the life of the late president Hopkins, and the influence he had on our college and on us.

On hand for the St. Louis Club picnicwere kids plus (from left) Pam Furrer,Maryann Burke and their Class of '56husbands, Bill Burke and Larry Furrer.

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