1963

This month I'll have to catch up on the backlog of news accumulated from a summer of events, last month's abbreviated column and this month's correspondence. So, right down to business. News of two of the finest athletes ever to attend the College - Gerry Ashworth and Don MacKinnon. Gerry just missed hitting the tape in the top three in the 100 meter final trials for the Olympics, but he did make the team in the 400 meter relay, along with his old opponent, Bobby Hayes. Since you'll be reading this column after the Olympics are over, I'll merely say that our team is favored. Don's story is different. In a year when the Boston Patriots were looking for a lot of help from Don in a linebacking slot, he fractured a hip socket in a game with New York during the late summer. He's just beginning to round into shape now, but I haven't heard when he'll be ready to go again. He's in his second year with the Pats.

I promised more news of unusual summers last month - Dave Smoyer was selected to serve as an assistant sergeant-atarms for the Republican Convention. He's back at Harvard Law now, but probably spending what free time he has following the campaign with rare inside information. Steve Boies, second lieutenant, finished an ordnance officer orientation course at Aberdeen over the summer, while Second LieutenantMartin Bowne is marking time working in New York until he goes on active duty with the Army Artillery Air Defense Branch in March. Vic Mansfield was in Hanover acting as a tutor in the ABC program. Vic moved on to Cornell to start toward his Ph.D.; he's received his M.A. from the College. Mike Marantz can claim he's doing just what he wants to do. Mike and another acting teacher and director opened the Provincetown Acting Studio in early August; it has been very successful, say the papers. Mike has taught and directed, as well as acted, in several productions. Steve Spahn has moved from a senior fellow at the College to an International Fellow at Columbia University. I'm not sure that Steve spent the summer at Columbia, but he's back there now, as a Ph.D. candidate in history.

Bob Baxley has joined Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis as a methods engineer. Bob, who has had a postgraduate year of training in the TuckThayer program, will assist in methods and layout projects in the pharmaceutical firm's production areas. For classmates living in and around the Indianapolis area, Bob is living at 4128 North Colorado Avenue in that fair city.

I've tried to hold off the marriage news for a little while. It's really overwhelming ... who isn't married in our class? TomCoghlin was married in June in Framingham, Mass., to Betsy Harte with LarrySaperstein, Bill Hindle and Aquinas House Chaplain Rev. Thomas Ferrick in attendance. Skip Mattoon's wedding to Carolyn (Lynn) Orr was, from all descriptions, a really beautiful ceremony. Bill Lawliss and Bob Wilson were among the ushers. Skip and his bride spent their honeymoon in New Orleans where he had been studying Latin- American history at Tulane. Just a few weeks later, in Georgetown, Conn., Bill was married to Margaret Lois Powell of West Redding, Conn. Bill had been working with IBM in Providence, I believe he's working with them now. Bob Wilson, Tom Washing, and Andy Allen served as ushers. BobTucker is back at Stanford Law School after being married to Ann Morrell of Haddonfield, N. J. Tuck and his wife spent their honeymoon in Europe. Bob Jackson was best man; Dave Elders and Elliot Gerson acted as ushers. August 29 in Wilton, Conn., was the date and place for George Scott and his bride, Christopher Louise Smiley, to be wed. She had worked with the New Yorker Magazine, but will live in New Haven while George studies at Yale Law School.

There are many more wedding and engagement announcements, and I really think that they all are important ... so here goes - Rick Sawyer was married to Gladys Jean Langworthy in Elmira, N. Y. Rick's an ensign stationed in Seattle. His wife is a Duke University graduate. John Sharpe is studying law at Michigan accompanied by his new wife, the former Deborah Ann Lambert. They were married in Westford, Mass., in mid-August. Charley Fitch married Carroll Jane Tierman, a Skids alumna, in New Jersey on September 13. I don't have Charley's present address or job, so if he's still in shouting distance, I wish he would let me know this information. Karren Cowdin and Bob Mahoney were wed in Houston in July. She's a Rice University graduate; Bob is living with his new wife in Syracuse until January. Then he'll go to India on a fellowship from Syracuse's Maxwell School of Public Affairs. Minot Hill and Claudine, his new wife, spent their honeymoon on Cape Cod after a ceremony in Concord, N. H., on August 30. PhilKnoettner is studying at Harvard Dental School with a new accomplice - his wife, the former Terese Marie McDonald of South Portland, Me. Howie Nannen married Janet Tallman in a ceremony in mid-August in Birmingham, Mass. She's a graduate of Denison University and plans' to teach high school in Amherst while Howie attends the graduate school in landscape architecture of UMass.

To break up this marriage news, I learned that Dick Monson was appointed director of residences at Utica College, after completing his master's at Colgate in student personnel work. The dorms are brand new and Dick will live in an apartment in them with his wife Carole. ... I'm sure that by now she's gotten a good idea of what it's like to live that close to a men's dorm. A few engagements: Dave Elders to Marta Joan Apy of Stamford, Conn. Dave works in New York; his fiancee will graduate from Skidmore this June. Ensign Dick Godfrey has announced his engagement to Joyce Lucille Bruno. He's serving as an instructor at the Nuclear Power School at Bainbridge, Md. Ted Graves and Sandra Drew were married in Massachusetts in mid- August - but that's all the news I have on this event. ... If anyone has more information, please let me know. And — DaveRogers is engaged to Linda Ann Franks. He received his M.B.A. from Tuck and works for Ford's Lorain, Ohio, plant. Linda is studying nursing at Columbia.

I've caught up on my marriage and engagement news — so that leaves me with plenty of space for next month's news. Looking forward to getting plenty of news - so send your letters.

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