1955
Tex Levy, snowbound in an Amarillo motel last February, used his idle time very sensibly. He wrote a newsy letter for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Tex reported that he's spending about 20 weeks a year on the road, in Texas and the surrounding six states, as vice president in charge of sales for Houston Corrugated Box Company. He commented that "Houston's growth and vitality," spurred primarily by the new Manned Space Center, "are very exciting to me. I believe that opportunity is as great here as anywhere in the country. We are still in an area that lacks personal competition in most businesses." Classmates wanting to scout the situation would be welcome at the Levy household, Tex said. He also related that he won the Houston City Open Squash Championship, topping a field of 73 entries and downing a Harvard man in the finals.
Alan Cooke writes from the Scott Polar Research Institute, at Cambridge, England, that "the library here is about the same size as the Stefansson Collection," but is different in that "this library is in continuous use by persons engaged in their own research, and a library gets a kind of depth-through- use that the best endowed but unused library cannot have." He says he has a desk "crowded under the eaves" and believes it's the same one used by lack Tuck '54 in his polar studies. "I spend a day or two a week in London libraries, especially in the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company," Alan adds.
And before we leave the subject of snow, we must note that "winter is the think and fudge time of a geologist's year." So says Fred Pessl, as he thinks and fudges in the U.S. Geological Survey office in Boston. "The place doesn't much matter," declares Fred, "as long as there is room to spread the rocks around and crawl with crayons on gigantic sheets of paper which theoretically become maps some time before the spring rains wash away the snow and start the cycle over again." Though Fred has only recently arrived in Boston, he's finding it easy to break into high society because, he reports, "Gordy Russell and Dave Conlan have kindly taken me in tow and in addition to feeding me and seeing that I wear my rubbers, they are gradually exposing me to the pleasures of proper young Bostonians."
Another splendid missive comes from Doug Melville - thanks to Joan's prodding. Jones & Laughlin Steel transferred Doug to the New York office this winter, so the Melvilles shifted home base from Middle- town, Conn., to Old Greenwich, Conn. Just before the move Doug played in the Bermuda Goodwill Invitational Golf Tournament. His New Haven Country Club team comprised the club pro and three Dartmouths - Paul Sperry '19, Bob Scott '19, and Doug. "While we didn't fare too well in competition against 104 teams from the USA, Canada, Scotland, and Bermuda, the eight days were a golfer's dream," Doug says. The Melvilles had a third son, Andy, last June. At the age of six weeks, while the family was vacationing on Little Lake Sunapee, Andy had to be rushed to Mary Hitchcock Hospital for an emergency stomach operation, which was successful. Helpful counsel was provided by Dick Hastings, a resident in orthopedic surgery. More recently Doug has seen Jim Perkins on their commuter train and Pete Dromeshauser at lunch. Pete is now Xerox district sales manager in Manhattan.
Bob Wool, though he tries to avoid direct contact with the working press, is back in the news again. Roberto, as he's known in his new post as head of the Inter-American Foundation for the Arts, appeared in February on the 90-minute television program, "Under Discussion." The topic was Latin America. Unfortunately, the other six members of the panel were very talkative and so Bob didn't get to say a great deal from behind his new extra-black, extra-thick, extra-wide horn rims. But he wowed the TV audience by commenting, when asked to summarize and conclude his remarks, "indeed, I haven't said enough to conclude much." However, having thus disarmed and touched the hearts of his co-panelists, who included Rep. John Brademas of Indiana and Tad Szulc of The New York Times, Bob went on to suggest that President Kennedy's death was a blow to artistic and intellectual relations between the U.S. and Latin America. He said he had found, from talking to artists and writers south of the border, that "they feel they're no longer welcome in the United States."
Gene Gerard was promoted to vice president of White & Co., St. Louis stockbrokers, and he welcomed a daughter, Lisa, November 29. John Levitas is a registered representative with the brokerage firm of Winslow, Cohu & Stetson; he's in the firm's office at the Gardeji State Plaza in Paramus, N. J. Larry Veator is in Sydney, Australia, as regional finance officer for the Pacific area of Dewey & Almy Company, Overseas Chemical Division of W. R. Grace Co. His territory includes plants from Japan to South Africa. Lew Wotfson had chicken pox.
Dave Cudlip became engaged to Caroline Byers of Old Westbury, Long Island, N. Y., a graduate of Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va. Mo Kaufman married Judy Ervin December 22 in Nashua, N. H. She's an alumna of the University of New Mexico, and is from Albuquerque. Ward Rowley made wedding plans with Thelma Swensk of South Orange, N. J., a graduate of Tobe- Coburn School in New York. She also attended Traphagen School of Fashion in New York. Chet and Debbie Gale had a son, Gregory, February 27. Your faithful correspondent and busy wife Mary are now enjoying their fourth child, second daughter, Gwen Christina, born on Valentine's Day.
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