1951
CHARLES H. HOOD 2ND 20 Windmill Lane, Arlington 74, Mass.
Wedding bells are still ringing out for '51. They rang on February 15 in Chicago for Margaret Dennes and Mish Cohen. Mish is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. His bride is an English lass working at the British consulate in the windy city. She is an alumna of Birmingham (England) University and was a member of the Dorian Singers, a London choral group.
Farther west in Denver, Bob Hackstaff and Mary S. Phillips said their "I do's" on February 28. Fellow Denverite Bob Fullerton, a state District Court Judge, was named that city's "Outstanding Young Man for 1963." Local Jay-Cees made the presentation in January.
New York attorney Stu Paley has been elected to the board of directors of Marrud, Inc., a wholesale distributor of jewelry products and through its subsidiaries a retail distributor of other related products. Stu, who is with a Manhattan public relations firm called Publicity Consultants, Inc., gained his law degree from Yale in 1954 and was admitted to the New York bar three years later. At last report Stu and Naomi and son Adam were also Manhattan residents, except for summer sojourns on Fire Island.
Last month, we reported on Bob Moore in the business world. This month, thanks to his wife Anne, we have more details. Together with daughters Anne, 11, and Robin, 8, they live on a 125-acre farm, complete with four barns and guest house, ten miles from downtown Jackson, Mich. Outside the front door is a lake for swimming, water-skiing and ice-skating. Both Bob and Anne work in Republican politics, and Bob was a delegate to the 1962 state party convention.
A newspaper announcement of a speech in Mansfield, N. Y., tells us more about what Abdul Sheikh has been doing. He holds a Harvard M.B.A. and manages the Sheikh Family Trust out of Nairobi, Kenya. In 1954, he was chosen by the late Aga Khan for a good will mission to Central and West Africa. Abdul was founding secretary of "the Kenya Party," the first non-racial political party established in Africa south of the Sahara; former vice-president of Capricorn Africa Society, Kenya branch; and a signatory to the society's "Contract Between the Races" reached at Salima, Nyasaland, in 1957. He is treasurer of the Youth Council of Kenya and a past vice-president of the International Student Movement of the United Nations.
Jack Berggren reports that his public relations work for Kodak takes him out of the country for about two months a year. He recently returned from a seven-week trip to Africa, Italy, and Spain. Last year he made it to the Far East, where he lunched with Dick Halloran of McGraw-Hill.
We've got at least two classmates running for their local school boards. Up in Wethersfield, Conn., Republican incumbent DickEllis is seeking a new term. Dick was the first president of the Wethersfield Young Republican Club.
The big news from pass-snatching VinMarriott is that his employer, the Continental Can Company, has moved him upwards from assistant sales manager to sales manager of the New York district. After a year with Fireman's Fund Indemnity and three years sleuthing in Army Counter Intelligence, Vin joined up with Continental in 1955 as a sales representative. After several years of experience in both Baltimore and Houston he was chosen for New York responsibilities.
In Paramus, N. J., Nels Bellesheim, who boasts five children in the local school system, is trying to get on the board. Nels is employed by Otis Elevator as a modernization sales representative. He was a Cubmaster and is now an Explorer Post Advisor. He is on the session of the local Presbyterian Church and a member of the Paramus Masonic Lodge, Paramus Square Club, Dartmouth Club of New York City, and the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.
John Gambling's civic ventures seem endless. He has now been named Honorary Chairman of the 1964 Nassau County (Long Island) Red Cross Fund Campaign Committee. (John, please let me in on the secret of how one gets an "honorary" civic job at our age.)
The rest of this month's column reports on classmates whose names haven't appeared here for a long time, if ever, but who were good enough to respond to a postcard I recently sent out. If you got a card but haven't yet sent back the reply postcard, please do so.
Ron Thorburn is the new chairman of the Peninsula Village (Ohio) Planning Commission. After Navy service during Korea, he attended the Columbia Business School, then went with Ford. In 1961, he moved over to Goodrich, for whom he is a senior tire marketing analyst. Ron is married and has two daughters.
Down Mexico way, Al Estrada is general manager of the Torreon city water works. He and wife Maria have four children: Al-fonso, 8; Fernando, 7; Maria Rosa, 4; y Arturo, 1.
Out in the Caribbean, Utuado, Puerto Rico, is home for Rog Bradley, wife Terry, Roger III, Laura, 9, and Peter Joseph, 3. Rog is manager of geologic explorations for American Metals Climax.
Over in Sweden, Tom Trolle is treasurer of General Motors Nordiska. He is a member of a school board and the American Men's Club, and boats, waterskis, and skates in the Stockholm archipelago. He and wife Lori have a brood of four: Mike, 10; Pete, 8; Chris, 4; and Kathryn, six months.
In the medical profession, we seem to be lousy with ophthalmologists. Bachelor BartWhitlock takes care of "eyeball mechanics" in Montclair, N. J. Parvin Gillim is a full-time instructor in the specialty at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. He and wife Mary have three children: Mary August, 7; Sarah Ellen, 4; and Parvin Douglas, 2.
Hu Aronson practices his medicine in warmer climes. He is an assistant professor of neurosurgery „at the University of Miami (Florida, of course). His family includes wife Layha, Jonathan, 5, and Judith, 4.
Out in Cleveland, Dick Bucey is senior minister of Trinity United Church of Christ. He and wife Norma Ann have two boys, David, 6, and Scott, 4. In his spare time, Dick recruits boys for Dartmouth. (If they're in his congregation, I bet he threatens them with excommunication or something if they don't go.)
Bob Langworthy and wife Shirley call Baghdad-on-the-Hudson home, where Bob works for the Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample advertising agency. On the side, he is writing the musical score for a feature film to be shot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting this month.
"Spud" Grey teaches English, directs dramatics, and assists with college guidance at The Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. During the summer, he manages a resort clothing store in Chatham on Cape Cod. He and wife Ann have two boys, Nicholas, 8, and Thomas, 7.
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