1956
First, some dates to make a note of. The Class of '56 New York meeting is set for Saturday, April 4, at the Commodore Hotel, 9:30 A.M. Try to make it, even if for only part of the meeting. Bring your wife with you for the social events immediately following. Of particular interest to us former chubbers, John Rand and the D.O.C. invite us to the Dartmouth Skiway for the third annual alumni ski race. Tony Carleton has already begun rigid training for the event, but we need quantity as well as quality to make a good showing for '56. Be at the Skiway March 14 and 15, and don't forget your skis. Also the annual Dartmouth-Har- vard ski race, open to alumni, is scheduled for April 19 at Tuckerman's Ravine, on Mt. Washington.
Murray (Pete) Kirby who entered- college with the class of '54 but graduated with us was a member of the Canadian Olympic four-man bobsled team which won a gold medal. Some of you may recall that Pete came from the Laurentians and was a Canadian FIS skier. Congratulations, Pete.
Eric Valentine and Sally Elizabeth Tukey were married in Newcastle, Me., on November 30. Sally graduated from Lincoln Academy and Jackson College of Tufts University and is with the Department of Educational Research of the Grolier Society Publishers in New York. Eric is an editor for McGraw-Hill. They are living at 29 West 69th Street. Erlend and Martha Jacobsen made the trip up from Bedford, Mass. Jake has just come out with a book of poems called "77 Anti-Poems," for more detail, read the next Wah-Who-Whisper. Jake was an usher in the wedding. Lois Elaine Lindbloom of New York City became MarkTobin's wife December 21. Lois studied at the Chicago Art Institute. They are living at 19 East 83 rd Street.
Bob R. Faulkner has chosen a Skidmore girl to be his wife. Pamela Crossley graduated in 1960 and is from Binghamton, N. Y. Bob completed Tuck School after Dartmouth and has been in the securities business in Boston. Steve Alven is getting married in June to Helen Pulsifer. Helen graduated from Mount Holyoke in '62 and is from Johnstown, N. Y. She's the daughter of Al Pulsifer '27 and sister of Al Pulsifer Jr. '58.
When Charley Murray went back home to Farmington, Maine, after graduation, spurning the enticements of big-time business, the Portland newspapers singled him out for special attention as a young man to watch. And the newspapermen were right. Charley began as assistant to the president of G. H. Bass & Co. of Wilton, Me., a boot-making firm since 1876. He moved rapidly up to advertising director and assistant sales manager and just recently was elected to the firm's board of directors.
For a long time, we've been trying to catch up with Bob Beatty. Bob was married to May lone Clabaugh, June 15, '57, and they are living at 15128 Terrace Rd.. East Cleveland, Ohio. Ric Franz has recently become vice president of Harrington & Richardson Company, small arms manufacturers of Worcester, Mass. Before taking this position, Ric was with U.S. Steel in Cleveland. Still a bachelor, Ric is living at 1158 Northampton Street in Holyoke. Bud Schattman has moved from assistant to the president to secretary of Standard Food Products Corp., importers and distributors of wines and liquors. Bud and Rona have three children and are living in Woodmere, N. Y. RogerGriffin has left Aetna Life Insurance Company to become a registered representative of J. M. Dain and Company in St. Paul. Roger and Janet and daughter Susan are living at Glen Lake, Minn.
Dr. Don Dillon and Pat have moved their family of four children to the Military Academy at West Point where Don holds the position of Chief of the Outpatient Service for the Army Hospital. Don has previously served at Walter Reed and Letterman General Hospitals. Don graduated from Harvard Medical School in '59. Will Sogg became a partner of Gottfried, Ginsberg, Guren & Merritt, a Cleveland law firm. Will finished Harvard Law School in '59 and studied a year at the London School of Economics. Will and Sari are living at 2585 Kemper Rd., Shaker Heights. Jack Wheatley has just been made a special assistant on the staff of the district attorney of Plymouth Superior Court. Jack has served as a special assistant to the late Attorney General Fingold. Jack received his law degree from Northwestern. He and Priscilla have two daughters and their home is in Elmwood, Mass.
Ed Leja and another lawyer from Springfield, Mass., put on "A Day in Court" for a meeting of St. John the Evangelist Guild a few weeks ago. Ed is living in Holyoke. Dick Scobie attended the three-day conference on urban problems held at Harvard Divinity School at the end of January. Dick is with the Boston United Community Services in charge of the housing division. Dick and Jill have two sons and a daughter and are living on Highland Avenue in Newtonville. The hundredth anniversary of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association drew a good turnout of '56s including Roge and Sherrie Schumacher, Bob Faulkner, Bob Dumont, Ric Worrell, Jon Strong, Dusty Johnstone, Al Booth, Bill and Ann Skiff, Jack Hubbard, Ken Bridge, Bob and Sara Danziger, Jack Wheatley, Egil and Judy Stigum, and Dave Tonneson.
Dick and Jacqueline Zock are at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, where Dick is on the staff teaching economics. They have a three-year-old son. Jacob Byong Kol Park is living in Seoul, Korea. Roy Hinkle and wife Betsy, with their two children, Matthew and Carolyn are in Germany. Roy is a captain in the Air Force. John Gorman is with a law firm in New Haven. John received his law degree from the University of Connecticut in 1960. A few weeks ago John and Enid took a cruise to Nassau on the Italia. They have a three-year-old son and have recently acquired a 175-year-old home and 72 acres of woodland near Thunder Mountain in Charlemont, Mass. BurnieMartin is in real estate development in the Killington Basin area (P.O. Box 53, Killington, Vt.). Burnie and Donna, and son, Bill live on Route 4, West Bridgewater, Vt.
More on B and Joanna Bergesen's wedding: Ken Hecht came from San Francisco, and Wally Pugh and Woody Gray from Syracuse and New York City to be at Columbus for the wedding. Ken and Wally were ushers.
"Number nine in a series of great American folklore," the yearly Groundhog Day Celebration went ahead on schedule this year at the local headquarters of the AGAA, 235 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Apt. 5-C, the home of Roger and Anne Bensen and son Tod.
That's about it for this month.
Secretary, 2 Andover Hall Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, Mass.
Treasurer, 2 Read Rd., Hanover, N. H.
