1955

Foreign affairs have been a prime concern in recent months, as any good newspaper reader knows. So we feel an obligation to give our readers the real news-behind-the-news — from our vast network of foreign correspondents, the stories overlooked by The Times (you can read that as London, New York, Chattanooga, or Los Angeles, because these items certainly didn't appear in any of them).

Our African expert, Paul Dingwell, reveals that after mastering the complexities of the Asian mind through tours in Korea (Army) and the Philippines (Goodyear International Corp.), he has been hiding out since mid-1963 in Leopoldville, the Congo, a fact known only to his employer, still Goodyear, and his wife, Libby, who has been with him. Paul reports that "fortunately, we were in Leopoldville proper and did not suffer through the agonies of the rebel attacks and the Stanleyville massacre." Having outlasted the rebellion, a noteworthy accomplishment in itself, and undoubtedly having sold some rubber at the same time, Paul writes that "we are once again on the move, this time to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, which is supposed to be the closest thing to Paris in Black Africa." He adds: "I will be the regional representative for the Ivory Coast, the ex-French Equatorial African countries, the Cameroun, Spanish Guinea, and the Congo. Lots of travel and work, but it is interesting, to say the least." The Dingwells expect to be back in the U.S. on home leave next summer or perhaps in the fall to fit in a Big Green game.

Now, to the other side of the world, for the latest from another correspondent who has sharpened his eye in world travels, JoeBachman. Dr. Joe, as he's usually known by affectionate natives, in 1963 operated a tropical medicine service at a slum hospital in Bahia, Brazil, which he describes as "a picturesque city dating from the 16th century conquest, even now dominated by a decadent Portuguese aristocracy." On his way back to ths country, Joe detoured via Santiago, Chile, to visit Will Wright, then a Fulbright professor at the city's university, who was "revamping the teaching of art and design," according to Joe. Now our correspondent, trim in Army green, is an internist at 121 Excavation Hospital in South Korea, joining John Laverty, the hospital's pathologist. Joe reports also that "another '55 Army doc, Lew Weintraub, recently passed through the 121, on a research mission out of Walter Reed." In addition to his medical work, our correspondent has "managed to work in some rock climbing and rice-paddy skiing," whatever that may be, "as well as side trips to Japan and Thailand." Unfortunately for the sake of our vast news network, Dr. Joe says that after his Army tour, "I will return to the U.S.A. to stay for all this has worked the wanderlust out of my system."

In addition to these in-depth reports from the underdeveloped areas, we have brief notes from Europe. Jon Kropper is moving from Waltham, Mass., to near Glasgow, Scotland, as manager of engineering for the manufacturing division of Polaroid (U.K.) Limited. He reports he'll be there "for the next few years." Pat McCarthy, whose great-grandfather emigrated from County Waterford, Ireland, to Maine, has returned to the old country as the chief United Nations adviser to the National Institute for Physical Planning and Construction Research, in Dublin. The U.N. Special Fund, according to a story about Pat in the Boston Evening Globe, "is assisting the operation over a 5-year spread by providing experts, fellowships, books, and equipment of the value of $725,000." The Globe added: "And McCarthy is the number one expert." Pat formerly was executive director and secretary of the Redevelopment Authority of Worcester, Mass., and worked previously in city planning in Boston and San Leandro and San Diego, Calif. Pat and his family scheduled a summer visit with McCarthy cousins still living at the family homestead near Dungarvan from which Pat's great-grandfather emigrated. Roger Sherman is a bit secretive about his location, but it's undoubtedly Europe; he continues as an associate of Planning Research Corp., a computerspecialist firm which does work for the government. He says he'll be abroad "for approximately 2 years as data processing consultant." Also, the Shermans had their second child, Paige Anne, on June 28.

Dave Oberlander has daringly quit the security of corporate socialism to entrepreneur in the economic unknown. Last year he departed from the Chicago office of F. W. Dodge Corp. (for the past four years a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill), where he'd been selling construction marketing services for nine years, and joined Curt Jones '56 to form a partnership dubbed Holman-Curtis. Holman is Dave's middle name. The firm is carving out an unusual business, seeking new uses and new markets for glass, nylon and asbestos fibrous materials produced by several companies and designed primarily for high-performance applications in the aerospace, automobile, appliance, and electronics industries. "We're mostly marketing new materials," says Dave. "Our job is to find uses," and to do this they travel in the Chicago and Detroit areas and in Ohio talking to design engineers, product engineers, purchasing agents, and top management in such companies as North American Aviation, B. F. Goodrich, and the auto makers. Dave sends interested companies sample materials to test and evaluate. How does an English major manage all this? "We cram," says Dave. "We study the product," using primarily the manufacturers' own literature. One of the firm's principal interests so far, a Fiberglas-reinforced plastic resin, found its way through the firm's efforts to be used as the motor case in the Polaris missile's first stage and in helicopter rotor blades. Dave says the new business is on sound footing and "we'll have to expand, I'm sure." He and Martha and their son and daughter live in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook.

Ed Hunter was named the nation's Outstanding Ski Patrolman by the National Ski Patrol System, Inc., at its annual convention, held in Seattle, May 31. The System is a non-profit organization of about 10,000 registered ski patrolmen in some 600 patrols throughout the country. Ed received the award for what the organization termed "his outstanding work in ski safety." He's been a member of the ski patrol at Winter Park, Colo., near Denver, for 10 years, and in 1962 became head of the Patrol System's public relations and ski safety program. He has promoted safety through television film clips (used by over 100 stations), posters, safety tips printed in ski magazines, and assisting local ski patrols in fund-raising for safety programs. Ed also is editor of the ski patrol portion of U.S. Ski News, the publication of the United States Ski Association. He and his wife, Joan, and their two daughters live in Denver.

Also in the awards area, Bernie Segal, who plays the dual role of assistant professor of sociology at the College and assistant professor of psychiatry at the medical school, received, along with another med school professor, a grant of $75,000 from the U. S. Public Health Service for a fouryear study of accidental poisoning of children. The two researchers will use the facilities of the Poison Control Center at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

Some promotions: Willard Small was named vice president and a director of Parkview Drugs, Inc., a Kansas City-based chain of 47 units in 20 states. He's a son of one of the company's founders and has worked on and off for Parkview since he was 12, the last 10 years continuously. Jim Bradford advanced to assistant sales manager of Trend Realty Corp.'s Longmeadow, Mass., office. He joined the firm last year after working for a Connecticut realtor; previously he had been with General Fibre Box Co. and U. S. Envelope.

In job changes, Gale Roberson left his law practice in Chicago to become assistant counsellor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. Al Andersen is now a pilot with American Airlines, based in Washington, D. C. Will Stratton switched from the Interior Department to a Washington law firm, Clarke & Nevius.

Fred Pessl and Molly Marshall were married in Boston, May 28. Molly is from Birmingham, Mich., and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Doug Archibald, now an English teacher at Cornell University, was best man, and Gordie Russell and Dave Conlan, prosperous and eligible Boston bachelors, were ushers. Bob Morton took the hand of Carol Dvorkin on June 3 in New York, where Bob is editor of the Time-Life Library of Art, a book series. Carol attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from New York University, where she's now a doctoral candidate. She's also a research analyst in instructional systems for the Psychological Corp. in New York.

Tuck Creamer married the former Mrs. Charles Johnston, a widow, in La Jolla, Calif. They and her two daughters are living in San Diego. Bob MacFadyen exchanged vows with Mary Louise Soistmann on May 22 in New York. She attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. HenryNeuberger married Margot Harding, a graduate of Garland Junior College, on June 24 in Cambridge, Mass. They live in Brookline.

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