1951
20 Windmill I.ane, Arlington 74, Mass.
A mid-April, front page, five-column headline in a northern New Jersey newspaper screams: "Deacon's Flying Tackle Leads To Nabbing Of 3." Andy Timmerman came upon three men cracking the Sparta Presbyterian Church safe on a Sunday evening. The three fled in separate directions, with Andy giving chase after one through a cemetery, over a stone wall, and through woods, until he finally nailed his man with a flying tackle on Main Street.
Would that we all were in such good shape! Maybe Andy's is attributable to the fact that he was until recently a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve. He is a sales representative covering New Jersey, New York, and Delaware for Hersey-Sparling Meter Company. Andy and wife Lois have two sons, Andy, 3, and Christopher, 2, and are hoping for a daughter in September.
On February 15, the Class acquired its first male member by marriage. Mary Hodgson, widow of our beloved classmate Jack, was married on that date to widower Tom Donovan. Tom, a Wharton School graduate, works for Stromberg-Carlson in Rochester, N. Y. The merged family includes Mary's sons John, 10, and David, 6, and Tom's daughter Alexa, 4, and son "Van," 2½. Mary has been teaching and doing guidance counselling in the Penfield, N. Y., schools.
By the time you read this, two more Class bachelors will have bit the dust. M.D. DonDworken is scheduled to do so on June 6 in New York City. The lucky girl is Judith Taub of Merrick, L. I. Within the month, Don will also forge out on his own in Bridgeport, Conn., where he has had an association, as a solo practitioner of orthopedics.
Jack Gannon was slated to say "I do" to Therese Marie Carroll on May 2. "Terry" hails from West Boylston, Mass., and was graduated from Georgetown Visitation Junfor College, Washington, and the Chandler School Boston. Tack also weakened to say "yes" to the job of Class Reunion Chairman for the next year. Those from the hinterlands, make your plans now to bring your family East for Reunion. You can stop m at the New York World's Fair en route.
Up in Hanovertown, Jack and ConnieSkewes added a son, David Conant, to their brood on April 17. Sam Chu is a visiting professor of history during the spring term.
After years as a management consultant telling other people how to run their businesses, Class Chairman Herb Knight has decided to practice what he's been preaching. He has joined A. O. Smith Corp. of Milwaukee. Shortly prior to the move, Herb was named a director of Goodwill Industries of Chicago. That's a sneaky way to avoid civic responsibility, Herb.
Bobby Kennedy, please take note. The Class of 1951 is monopolizing the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Northwest (Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana). Dick McFarland is the new president; JudgeJim Rogers, the new vice-president.
We will continue with classmates who were good enough to respond to a postcard I sent out in March, and let's start with school teachers: George Southwick teaches social studies at Lexington (Mass.) High School. His family includes wife Barbara, son Robert, 10, and daughter Marcia, 9. On the side, George' does basketball officiating. Bachelor Bob Miller teaches math at Pueblo High in Tucson, Ariz.
Insurance underwriter Wes Hanington is manager of the Burglary, Glass, and MultiPeril Dept. of Maryland Casualty Co. at its Baltimore home office. He and wife Barbara (a Colby girl) have three children: Pamela, 9; Debra, 5; and Mark, 2.
"Tommy" Tompson is an actuarial assistant doing group work for New York Life in the big city. On the side, he teaches Sunday school. He and wife Gloria Ann have two boys, Steven, 11, and Mark, 7.
Don Klinck has his finger in real estate as well as insurance as president of the W. C. Root Insurance Agency in East Haddam, Conn. His family includes wife Mary Ellen, daughters Kathleen, 7, and Elizabeth, 6, and son Philip, 4. Don goes in for boating on Long Island Sound and its tributaries.
Out in the up-country Dutch county, Lancaster, Pa., to be exact, Dick Woolworth is president and chief executive officer of the Animal Trap Co. of America. He is also chairman of the board of Hampden Color and Chemical Co. and a trustee of Lancaster County Day School. His family includes wife Helen, sons Rich, 12, and Andrew, 10, and .daughters Sally, 8, and Louise, 5.
Wilson Cross is General Product Manager of the Flexible Packaging Division of Riegel Paper Corp. He, wife Joan, and sons Peter, 6, and Timothy, 4, call Charlotte, N. C., home. Wils reports recently having seen Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, Bob McCabe, in New York. Bob had just become a father for the second time; it's a boy, Alex.
Joe Lux is an administrative engineer for Robertshaw Controls Co. in Waterbury, Conn. His family consists of wife Trudy, Joe Jr., 6, and Lisa, 2. Jim Asker is a salary administrator for Sun Chemical Corp. He and wife Virginia have a son, Jim, 11.
Chuck Sherman is in the Bogardus rather than the Karcher camp, "knowing Polaroid is preferred 2 to 1." Chuck is a senior engineer for Polaroid up Boston way. He and wife Susan have four children: Nancy, 10; Sandy, 9; Brenda, 6; and Glen, 2.
Chas Hines and wife Dorothy have one of the largest families in the class: Marjorie, 9; Catherine, 8; Dorothy, 7; Elizabeth, 6; Mary Frances, 4; and Donald, 2. (Shades of "Buck" Scott - five girls before he finally got a boy.) Chas is a chemist doing emission spectrographs research for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh.
Bill Birkenmeier has been with The Welsh Company of St. Louis for ten years and is now Eastern Sales Manager. This venture doesn't involve candy, John Birch, or grape juice, but is the largest U.S. manufacturer of juvenile furniture. Bill and wife Sandy have two boys, John, 3, and Bruce, six months. Bill reports having seen ChuckEccles, who was recently named Northeastern Sales Manager for one of Union Carbide's divisions.
Harvey Goldstock is general manager of Virginia Linen Service in Petersburg. He and wife Hermyne have two children; Anne, 10, and Ted, 6. Bachelor Henry Robinson is abroad doing graduate work at the University of London.
Dick Halloran writes from Tokyo that he "pounds the pavement and a typewriter for Business Week, [wife] Carol takes flower arranging and Chinese cooking lessons, and our children - Chris (almost 5) and Lauriechan (just 3) - grow. ... I saw quite a bit of Bob and Inger McCabe in Hong Kong last summer and was relieved today [April 14] to read that the Indonesians had let him go. Bob is the Newsweek man in Hong Kong. As things now stand, we'll return to the U.S., probably to the New York area, sometime around Christmas. ..."
The Bernardsville (N. J.) News, which Andy Pincus edits, received an award from the Morris County Urban League for a four-part series written by Andy on "Our Segregated Communities." Andy also reports that he and wife Kate are moving from Brookside to "a more commodious home on three acres in the rolling countryside near Gladstone ..., the last stop on the Erie-Lackawanna out of Hoboken."
Things are happening out in Great Falls, Mont. Local resident Bill Mcfadden has been teaching an adult education class on "investments." Mike Monroney, executive assistant to the U.S. Postmaster General, showed up for a luncheon on March 19 in connection with the national release of the Charles M. Russell 5-cent commemorative stamp. I've seen it, and it's a pretty multicolor job.
Until October. ...
'5l copped the "champagne attendance prize" at the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphiaannual dinner with this lineup: (I to r) Barry Spiegel, Fred Ranney, Charlie Breed,Class Secretary Russ Dilks, Sam Roberts, Buck Scott, Nels Brown, and Gary Mansur.
Secretary, 2107 Fidelity-Phila. Trust Bldg. Philadelphia 9; Penna.
Class Agent, 31 Woodlawn Ave., Needham 92, Mass.
