1962
What better place can there be for writing this month's class notes than here in Hanover. The only problem is that all the news clippings were mailed to Ann Arbor. So here we are sitting at a borrowed typewriter in Cutter Hall with a couple of letters and a few questionnaires rushed up by mail from Al Rapoport. Our day and a half town has been quite full-trying to figure out just how they moved Fairbanks Hall, gazing at the hitherto undisclosed view of Gerry Hall, attending a GI lecture (with a decent necktie for a change), eating at Landers, the Midget, and Hal's, and listening to the '64s complaining about the changing complexion of the undergraduate body Pretty much the same as what we said of the '64s and '655.) Student government is comfortably situated m a suite of office where the old College Hall Snack Bar used to be. Administrative offices have been Muffled around. But it's still the same place in spite of all the change. The success of the Winter term will depend on how soon some good snow arrives. The undergrads are worried about next year when Al Foley, Herb West and Ralph Burns will all be retired.
Not having our files within 700 miles of here we take the chance of repeating some news which may have been published earier but here we go. Bill Quirk is m his second year of grad study in math at Penn State working on symbolic logic for his PhD He also teaches freshman calculus, equivalent to Math 3 at Dartmouth. The 5000 co-eds apparently make the academic life bearable. Bill spent the summer playing baseball in Orleans on Cape Cod. Dave Wilbur is working on his M.A. m Slavic Linguistics at Columbia and reports having seen Sandy Lattimore and Dave Myhre (before Dave went into the Army) at McSorleys (For the uninitiated, it's a great little Old Country pub not too far from Green-wich Village to which Paul Roewade introduced me several years ago.) Dave reports seeing Jerry Cohen and Ken Bailes frequently at Columbia. Also Brad Wyhe who is in General Studies. Bill Bassett was last seen in Hanover during the summer after having returned from mountain climbing in South America.
Lt. Gordie McKean is assigned to an artillery battalion in Hanau, Germany, and tells of his recent engagement to Miss Patricia Bishop of University of Vermont and Saddle River, N. J. Pat will complete work for her Master's in Biological Sciences at Dartmouth in June. Gordie has been sampling German beer with Lt. Brock Kier who is attending CBR school in Vilseck, Germany. The miles didn't diminish their celebration of Dartmouth's victory over Princeton.
We find it hard to improve on Sandy Apgar's comments on what he's been doing, so we'll plagiarize. "Serving as an Army lieutenant in an intelligence field office near Frankfurt, Germany. Interesting, challenging, and leisurely assignment coupled with travel thus far has made the European sojourn very interesting. Word from JackFitzgibbon, our lieutenant-without-portfolio who speeded through this summer, is that he's still playing around Hanover while waiting to enter the Artillery. Jack Street is also here in Kaiserslautern. Woody Chittick has been floating around the Mediterranean, spent Christmas in Cannes. I journeyed to Denmark for a holiday season with SorenLauridsen (Special '62) at his home and was treated to a land of gorgeous girls, exquisite food and drink - a paradise of Europe! He has an apartment in Copenhagen, will be a Danish Army lieutenant in January. Any planning on Innsbruck for the Olympics might wish to check out, on the way, the carnival season of Fasching in Germany and Austria which will be fully ripened by then. Literally more colorful than our Hanover fare, it celebrates an ancient pagan fertility rite, the original spirit of which has not, I'm happy to say, been lost!"
Dave French is Air Intelligence Officer for Attack Squadron 112 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. He got in some good golfing with Pvt. Carl Jaeger out San Francisco way. Carl went in the service and was out before Dave had even seen a ship in the Navy. Dave got together with Hugh Johnson who was at Hawaii's Fort DeRussy and on his way back to the States.
Lt.(j.g.) Dave Smith has started training for underwater demolition at Little Creek, Puerto Rico, and Key West, and parachute training at Ft. Benning, Ga. So far his tour has included duty in the Cuban blockade and cruises in the Mediterranean and Red Sea. Dave tells us that Lt. Tom Hector is a company c.o. at Ft. Jackson, S. C., and that Mile Schaefer will receive his commission sometime this spring at Ft. Dix, N. J.
Married on July 4 were Gene Gasbarro and Sandra Zuccarelli, Middlebury College '63. Included in the wedding party were Carl Battaglia and Al Gaudet.
News has run low, so this might be the time to bring you up to date on a little bit of what's been happening with your secretary. Law school is now half completed, and although the work has become no easier, the crying has subsided. I am an assistant resident adviser in one of the University's undergraduate residence halls and enjoy the work very much. Hal Deane and I wound up one Saturday night at Ann Arbor's famous P-Bell to find Bill Jones and AI McCray enjoying the sight of several sororities entertaining their fathers over pitchers of beer on their "Happy Pappy" weekend. After listening to them singing sorority and Michigan songs for a while we just couldn't resist and entertained the group with a couple of Big Green songs, only to find ourselves joined by some of the fathers who were Dartmouth men and their daughters who knew the words better than some of us. Unfortunately, names were lost in the shuffle. And speaking of Deane, hell be entering the Army for six months sometime this winter where he'll learn a useful trade. Then it will probably be back to Cadillac division of GM.
Finally, we turn to our Where in the World division. We would like to get the latest addresses and/or information about the following: Dave Ward, Bruce Ennis,Vern Simms, and Macy Walsh. Anyone knowing their whereabouts please write to me or to Alumni Records, Crosby Hall.
Present on November 30 in Amesbury, Mass., for the wedding of David Schmidt '61and Priscilla Morse were (front row, l to r) Tony Wattleworth '61, Greg Kane '59,the groom and bride, Ogden Morse '55, Larry Morse '56, Dave Gordin '61; (backrow) Dave Heisterkamp '6l, Leonard Skerker '62M, Bill Sheehan '61, Don Baruett'59, Jon Roll '67, Ted Tapper '61, Bernie Segal '55, Gil Kruschwitz Jr. '64, GilKruschwitz Sr. '38, Bob Bassett '54. The bride is the daughter of the late HerbertMorse '28.
Secretary, 238 Anderson House, East Quad. Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104
Treasurer, USS Meredith (DD890) Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y.
