1952

The summer passed all too quickly but I certainly can't say it didn't bring a lot of news. What with babies being born, transfers, and new honors the Class did plenty for me to write about over the past few months.

First birth reported was a son born to Dean and Mrs. Charles "Doc" Dey in Hanover on April 14. At this writing I don't have the child's name but I'm sure that won't kegp any of you from offering congratulations to the parents next time you see them.

Then there are the practically perennials in the baby derby. This year Larry andBetty Schiffenhaus had another boy to make it three boys and four girls for seven altogether. He came on June 14, they named him Mark, and I don't remember whether this puts them up with or ahead of Geneand Mary Teevens. Either way I'm fairly sure those two families are the largest in the Class.

One of the smaller families was just enlarged by one third on August 5. That's the date Edward James Boyle arrived at the home of Jack and Dodie Boyle. Quite a feat of timing it was, too. for young Ed arrived just in time for his brother John's second birthday. From now on they'll have to share parties which should in a way be a blessing for their mother.

Along with the births there was news of one wedding and one engagement. DickRoraback married Miss Dorothy Anne Pearson in her home town of Dublane, Scotland. They'll be living in Paris, I believe, where Dick is sports editor of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. (And the clipping came from the Times.) And according to the engagement announcements, Miss Patricia Torpin Settle of Fox Chapel, Pa., is soon to be the bride of Dr. Joseph K. Dobos. I believe they will live in San Francisco where Joe has his practice.

There are lots of announcements of new jobs, promotions, and such, one of which permits me a slight digression to inform you of the status of the invested capital of the Class. Don MacLeod, in whose hands we have entrusted our funds, has recently been named manager of retail sales for the New York office and national mutual fund manager of Lee Higginson Corp. In passing Don informs us that our investment grew by 7% in its first year.

Also over the summer Armstrong Cork Co. named John Geary manager of the San Francisco district office of the Industry Products Division. IBM appointed a new manager in Providence and he was a '52, Chev Haskell. In Boston, C. H. Sprague & Son Company, coal and oil marketers, named Bob Brace vice president in charge of all coal sales in this country and Canada. And in Hartford, Dick McMahon must have proved he's as good at ducking rifle shots as he was at ducking pucks, for Colt Industries has named him vice president, marketing, for the firearms division.

Down in Dallas, Texas, Chuck Best has moved from a bank to investment counseling with Lionel D. Edie & Co.. Inc. And GeorgeSadler has been lucky enough to move back to Hanover where he has set up headquarters as a life insurance agent for Connecticut General.

From Minneapolis comes welcome news from an old roommate, Buck Linman. Buck has now left the family business and taken a job as salesman for DuBois Chemical Co., a division of W. R. Grace Co. He will be working the Twin Cities area so no up-rooting will be involved.

After ten years in New Jersey with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company Ted Harvey is on his way back to school. His company has nominated him for an Alfred P. Sloane Fellowship, which means he will do a year of graduate work leading to an M.S. in Industrial Management at MIT. Most recently Ted, who goes by the name of Hunter E. Harvey Jr. in business, has been Division Plant Extension Engineer in Trenton. He expects to return to New Jersey and to N. J. Bell next June but doesn't know exactly what he will be doing or where in the state he will be living.

Down in the Nation's Capitol, President Johnson has recently promoted John LloydIII, our eminent classmate, to Class Four in the Foreign Service of the United States. John is an expert on Indonesia, speaks fluent Indonesian, and is presently serving in Washington as a staff assistant in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State.

Classmates have been doing all right with various trade associations, too. Bill Thornton, president of the Manchester (Conn.) Sand and Gravel Co., was elected secretary of the Connecticut Ready Mixed Concrete Association in June. Steve Parkhurst of New England Merchants National Bank in Boston was elected to the board of governors of the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. And Bob Curtis, City Manager of Danvers, Mass., was elected president of the Massachusetts Town and City Managers Association. And though it's not a regular trade association you'll be glad to know that the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, Conn., has a new president who is a '52, namely Ed Rice. Wah-Hoo-Wah! Ed.

In the field of education '52 is making some news, too. The University of Illinois has recently named Frederick L. Neumann an assistant professor in the Department of Accountancy, College of Commerce and Business Administration. And much further west, the University of Oregon, to be precise, you'll find Dr. Bill Fletcher on the staff of the Medical School as an associate professor of surgery. Bill is a member of a long list of erudite sounding medical societies, but I imagine if you'd catch him in a moment of relaxation you could still hear his now famous lecture on bird watching.

Another teaching doctor has just left the Northwest bound for Europe. Dr. Ed Smuckler, who is assistant professor of pathology at the University of Washington, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and will be doing research at the Wenner-Grin Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, this year. This was reported to me by his wife, Judy, who, when she wrote did not know exactly where she and Ed and their five children would be living when they got to Sweden. She also reported that they saw Dr. Dave Baum while in Washington as Dave is a pediatrician at the University Hospital.

In another move Dave Larson, recently professor of International Relations at Tufts College, becomes assistant to the president of the University of New Hampshire. And although it wasn't a permanent move, Donold Eldredge, who teaches in Yarmouth, Mass., spent the summer at Wisconsin U. at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Workshop becoming familiar with the latest developments in the nation's space program.

And really top academic honors came to a member of our class this past summer. When Lieut. Commander Steven Lazarus received his MBA at Harvard Business School last spring he did so with Highest Distinction, one of only 19 men to have achieved this standing in a class of 636. Earlier in the year he had been named a Baker Scholar, the highest award given to a student before graduation. He has now resumed his career on active duty with the U.S. Navy.

Now with football and the other fall activities hard upon us I can take leave hoping to see some of you soon, perhaps in Hanover, perhaps at Harvard or Yale. There'll be get togethers after both those games and an executive committee meeting prior to the game in Cambridge. Anyone is welcome to attend - all functions. Cheerio till we meet again.

Secretary, 168 Riverside Ave. Riverside, Conn.

Treasurer, 221 Maxson Rd., Lancaster, Pa.