1959
Thanks for responding to John Ferries' questionnaire. The collected information will give us both some ammunition for several months. We will do our best to include as much as possible. I'll handle the shorter, more objective news items; John will include bits of opinions, anecdotes, and longer items in the Fifty-nine Line.
Recent events in the class include the birth of Bradley McAllister, a second son to Skeff and Beth McAllister. This has put Skeff to work house hunting in the White Plains, N. Y., area. Things are a bit packed in the apartment. Wayne French married Joan Hobbie on November 16 and is busy with Bankers Trust Company in New York. Myron Lewis married Edith Gail Haupt in Memphis on November 30. And back to the increase in population, Don De Voe reports the birth of a son John Ryan on November 1. And again to the marriage column, Tom Aley writes of his marriage to Frances Darr last July. Tom now works for American Hospital Supply Corporation out of State College, Pa.
Sifting through the questionnaires I find a variety of careers mentioned including both husbands and wives. Lee Ambrose is working at real estate management and commercial sales in Denver while his wife practices dentistry. Dick Belinic and his wife Mona both work at medicine. He is interning at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore; she is in her senior year of medical school. There's one family that won't fall for all the drug ads on TV. While Rob Brown broadcasts in Minneapolis, his wife Marilyn is busy as a security analyst. Steve Drury is a hospital administrator at Rosenwood Hospital in Memphis; his wife Judith is a registered nurse. Geology brought together GeorgeFisher and his wife Frances. George recently completed his Ph.D. in "rocks" at Johns Hopkins and is now helping Uncle Sam while Frances brings up three daughters, including twins. Now with the Army, Gil Griffin specialized in international law while getting his degree at Columbia. His wife Judy has two master's degrees and is teaching retarded and gifted children in Washington. Dick Monsour writes that both he and his wife Perry were selected for the Peace Corps and will soon leave for Togo, Thailand. I know I've missed a number of unusual career combinations, but those mentioned certainly indicate the very full and rewarding lives being led by many of our classmates.
Other brief news bits indicate that BruceAndrews is a salesman for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company out of New York, and that Fred Bacon is an analyst for Computer Concepts Inc. in Charlottesville, Va. Howie Geiger has kept the north woods somewhat in his veins by working in sales for Geiger Lumber and Supply Company in Tallman, N. Y. Dick Scherff is back at what all teachers have to consider every few years - working as a research assistant and full-time student at Teachers College, Columbia. Those of you who live in Reading, Pa. area might call on Phil Schmehl for assistance as you increase your property holdings. He is a property underwriter for American Casualty Company. Speaking from experience a year ago, I can say that paying the premiums is tough but having coverage when fire hits is mighty nice. A much needed service is being performed by JimMiles as program director of the Worcester, Mass., Boys' Club.
Many of our men have recently quit Uncle Sam and are attempting to pick up where they left off in graduate studies. Wally Berry is at the University of California in Davis, Calif., teaching and studying. He has his M.A. in Russian studies and plans to pursue his Ph.D. soon. Karl Holtzschue and family spent much time apart while he cruised on a destroyer up through June '62. Karl is presently working on his law degree at Columbia. And also in law, Bob Lewis finished with the Navy in 1961 and is now at Rutgers where he has made the dean's list and is associate editor of the Rutgers Law Review. John May stayed with the Navy a little longer, getting out last June, and then he too entered law school at Villanova University. And finally in this same post-military situation, Dave Spencer, as accurately as I can ascertain, is working in architecture at R.P.I., Troy, N. Y.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, New York, has trusted Tim Crane with new responsibilities by electing him an assistant trust officer in the corporate trust department. Tim joined Manufacturers Hanover in 1959 as a trainee and has served as a section head in the bookkeeping department and since 1962 has been in the corporate trust department. At the time of his new appointment he was a senior clerk. He and his wife Louise have one daughter and live in New Rocheile, N. Y.
Slowly we all move along and ahead. Your news as I decode it from address cards, read it in the papers, and pore over it on the questionnaires, is news that can keep us all a bit closer together. Keep it coming. For this column keep it brief, keep it current, keep me on the ball.
Secretary, Canaan, N. H.
Treasurer, 23 Fourth St., Manhasset, N. Y.
