1955
One Gordon Russell has, apparently on his own initiative, sought to cover most of the nation for this month's ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and has succeeded admirably. First of all, he writes that he, his Boston roommate, Dave Conlan, plus Red Hennigar and Chet Gale made their annual winter pilgrimage to Hanover. "We screwed up our courage for the alumni hockey game once again. It would have to be considered a successful venture as we all came away with what is left of our teeth. Although there was a big run on the Sloan's liniment bottle for a week or so afterwards."
Gordie reiterates that his and Dave's "sumptuous pad" at 223 Beacon Street still welcomes all '55 callers. He boasts that "TedEly recently overthrew the Ritz Carlton to sample Conlan's 'scramble two with home fries.'" On the other hand, Gordie mentions that Fred Pessl stayed for quite a while after arriving to work in Boston for the U.S. Geological Survey. "Pessl, after many hints (like hiding his rock hammer and demagnetizing his compass), has finally left us to take up residence on Charles Street. However, David and I take every opportunity to perfect Fred's slalom technique and he is coming along quite well. Fred's social habits are improving tremendously also and he now wears socks to many of the fancier gatherings."
Also on the skiing front, Gordie reports that he, Dave, Dick Roberts, who's doing his residency in Cleveland, Harry Lewis, financial analyst in Denver, and Egil Stigum '56 "all managed to be in Aspen for some skiing at the same time. 'Poor struggling doctor,' Dick wound up a week at Aspen and was headed for golf at Pebble Beach when last seen. His bedside manner is better than ever and all, the girls in Aspen wore black arm bands for a week after he left. Dick Mount had led a safari to Aspen that was running out of supplies and time as we pulled in."
Gordie also informs us that Doug Archibald completes his English Ph.D. this spring and will be teaching at Cornell in the fall, and that Larry Freier is a project engineer at the MIT Instrumentation Lab and occasionally meets Gordie on the squash court. Also, the aforementioned Conlan "has passed his CPA and is guiding me carefully through my accounting course for the M.8.A."
We are indeed grateful to Gordie for traveling to Hanover, Aspen, and who knows where else to gather all this information for the class. In recognition of this service, he receives our annual Fifty-Five Fidelity Award, consisting of this citation:
Gordie, you may obtain your citation by clipping it from this page.
Bill Kehoe writes that he's "been busy lately getting started on a career in law." He graduated from Harvard Law last June, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in November, and now practices in Boston with Gaston, Snow, Motley & Holt. The Boston University Law Review published an article by Bill on the Massachusetts malpractice evidentiary statute. Bill adds that he lunched recently with Walt Van Dorn, who's also a Boston lawyer. Ed Haley, another Harvard graduate (medical), has settled in his home town of Reading, Mass. He's an anesthesiologist at Winchester Hospital.
Ward Rowley married Thelma Jean Swensk, March 7 in South Orange, N. J. She's a graduate of the Tobe-Coburn School in New York, and Ward is with Humble Oil & Refining Co. in Newark.
Jay Whitehair, who has been assistant to the dean of the College since 1962, was promoted to assistant dean. He oversees fraternity affairs, student government and other student activities, and counsels students. Before returning to Dartmouth Jay was a production superintendent for Sylvania Electric in Salem, Mass., and an industrial salesman for G. H. Tennant Co. in Ipswich, Mass. Chuck Hunter was appointed an assistant secretary of the Bank of New York. He's been with the bank since 1960 and is in its investment research department. Chuck commutes from Glen Ridge, N. J., and is also attending New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration.
Gene Givens moved from the Bank of America to become head of the trust department at the Bank of California, in Los Angeles. U.S. Steel shifted Gus Aberle from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, where he's staff assistant in the office of the assistant to the administrative v.p.-commercial. His job consists of developing and maintaining an up-to-date analysis of 170 national accounts. Gus, Caryl and their two daughters are occupying a new house in nearby Bridgeville. John French is in the New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Army Capt. John Lewis is at Fort Sill, Okla. Tom Waddell practices law in San Diego.
Ace and Dort Hall, after a lengthy stay in a motel, moved into their new abode in Ellicott City, Md., near Baltimore. Ace is now manager of customer requirements for Westinghouse's corporate laser program. His fancy title, Ace explains, "means simply sales, but we in the defense and space business can't say such a dirty word." He's traveling a great deal, but says "it's an interesting field with a great future (we hope)." Ace also reports that Wes Bruner has been promoted to supervisory engineer in charge of Westinghouse's space guidance radar development. Wes spent two years in the Air Force and since then has been doing radar system design and analysis work for Westinghouse.
Your correspondent has shifted from the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal to its Chicago office. _
Last call for the Alumni Fund!
"REAL GOOD JOB"
Host Don Aronson '55 caught this groupof Dartmouth men in his home in Maplewood, N. J.; front, from left, Dr. DonBrief '54, Dr. Mat Smith '55, attorneyJay Benenson '55, insuranceman DickSklover '55; back, Dr. Steve Farmer '56,Dr. Jerry Bernstein '55. The host is aCPA, heading New York firm's tax office.
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