1955

Jim Cavanaugh has returned to Hanover as Minister of Education in the Church of Christ. He graduated from Chicago Theological Seminary just last year, after spending five years with Armstrong Cork Co. and General Electric Co. While studying for his divinity degree in Chicago, Jim and another student established a seminary bookstore, and from 1962 until this year Jim has been assistant pastor at the Community Presbyterian Church in Clarendon Hills, a Chicago suburb. His work there included preaching, counseling, visiting new families, junior and senior high school fellowship programs, young adult ministry, and a coffee house ministry. Jim took part in three summer work caravans, two of them with the Navajo Indians at Nazlini, Ariz. The Hanover church's Pulpit Committee reported to the congregation that it had been "impressed particularly by his work with young people, as well as his experience in a total parish ministry. We feel that his energy and enthusiasm, coupled with his ability to organize and carry through a good youth program as demonstrated in his present church, will enable him to continue and extend our programs of adult education, leadership in the church school, youth ministry and campus ministry."

Another minister in the United Church of Christ, Roy Nyren, is assistant pastor at the Faith Church, Milwaukee. The church has two locations, one in the suburbs and one in an inner-city area which is largely Negro. Roy's office is in the city location, and his principal task is ministering to that community. One of the church's undertakings is a Saturday evening coffee house which attracts 100 to 200 teenagers for dancing and relaxation. He says this "is a very risky business" because dropouts, parolees and other undesirables often attend. Roy and his staff also have taken part in civil rights marches and other demonstrations.

Our classmates are active in nurturing the mind as well as the soul. Steve Wilson has joined the faculty of Colgate University, in Hamilton, N. Y., and is teaching three geography courses. He's also a Ph.D. candidate at Clark University in Worcester, where he completed his master's degree in 1963. Before going to Colgate, Steve was a special consultant to the state of New Hampshire. assisting a study of the state's recreational resources and potential. Steve and Lynn had a daughter, Jennifer Lynn, on February 9.

John Callahan, who has been Amherst's associate director of development since 1962, was named director of development in August. The college raised $21 million in a three-year capital drive which ended in June, and John's task will be to boost this to a total of $36 million by 1971. Bill Anagnoson was appointed director of secondary school admissions at the State University of Buffalo, in Buffalo, N. Y. He will maintain contacts with high schools and be a counselor for freshmen. Bill formerly was a high school guidance counselor and vice principal.

Jim Wechsler is leaving "The Valley News" to become political editor and state house reporter for "The Concord (N. H.) Daily Monitor." He's been managing editor of "The Valley News" since 1957, and played a major role in the paper's winning national journalism awards. To understand where Jim's new job might lead, it should be noted that he's replacing a man who was appointed to the state Racing Commission.

A number of our physicians have been on the move. Randy Deming completed his tour of duty as a radiologist at the Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Hospital, and became an associate radiologist at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. John Forline, after spending three years at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., opened his own office in Ramsey, N. J. He's a dermatologist. Dick Beye is a surgeon in Quincy, Calif. Henry Fuller moved from Rochester, Minn., to his home town of Lakeland, Fla. DickHastings and Bill Contini completed their training at Mary Hitchcock, and transferred bag and baggage to Newington, Conn., and Holyoke, Mass., respectively. Joe Bachman rounded out his Army tour in Korea and is now at Madigan General Hospital in Tacoma. John Barlow is a pathologist at the Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, Sioux Falls, S. D.

Among other doctors, John Dinan is at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Bob Leffert is at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Dick Ames is in New York, John Laverty in Newton Highlands, Mass., Jim Wiggin in Mansfield, Ohio, Lew Weintraub in Boston, and Mai Roth in West Hartford, Conn.

Dana and Jill Hennigar had their fourth child, a girl, on April 9. Dana says, "We've called her 'Quits.' " Ralph and Pamela Miller had a son, Ralph Alexander, April 29 in Boston. Ed and Edna Call also welcomed a son, Douglas, their third child, May 24 in New Haven. Ed is chief resident in surgery at the Yale New Haven Hospital.

Air Force Captain Tom Partridge was following this summer's flight of Gemini astronauts Cooper and Conrad with more than normal interest. He was on standby alert at Mauritius Island out in the Indian Ocean as one of a team of more than 600 members of the Air Rescue Service deployed around the world to assist, if needed, in an emergency recovery. Commissioned in 1957 through the aviation cadet program, Tom is permanently assigned as a navigator at Wheelus Air Base in Libya.

Matty Weinberg ended his partnership in a San Francisco law firm and opened his own office. Another California lawyer, TomWaddell, moved from San Diego to Los Angeles. Dentist Dave Winograd opened an office for orthodontics in Peabody, Mass. Hi Allman is an insurance agent with Allman Brothers, Inc., Elkins Park, Pa. Army Capt. Dave Corderman is in Fairfax, Va. Al Clark moved from New York to become an investment officer at People's Savings Bank in Bridgeport, Conn. John Batchelder is an assistant professor at the University of lowa, in lowa City. Al Graham is a vice president of the Donald W. Gardner advertising agency in Peabody, Mass. Don Bowey is director of marketing for Consolidated Foods Corp. in Chicago. Jim Alexander is in the history department at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Navy Lt. Al Brookes is stationed at Portsmouth, N. H.

Bill Kofoed, Miami public relations man, writes that he's now doing a semi-monthly column for "Canadian Travel Courier," a new magazine for the Canadian travel industry and travel agents. For nearly eight years he's also been writing a monthly column for "Travel Trade" magazine. NealeClapp is assistant director of Essex Fields Group Rehabilitation Center in Newark, N. J., and is working toward a Ph.D. at the New York University Center of Human Relations. He delivered a speech last spring to the Bloomfield, N. J., League for Family Service, on "The Adolescent and His World." Al Murray, an economist on the staff of the Senate-House Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, spoke at Lafayette College, where he formerly was an instructor, on "Federal, State and Local Fiscal Relationships." Wil Wright's work was represented in an exhibit of prints and graphics by Connecticut residents at the New Canaan Library Art Gallery. Bill and Constance Kehoe published a book, "Enjoying Ireland," last spring, and also give lectures on Ireland, with slides. They studied in Dublin in 1959-60. Bill is a lawyer in Boston, and his wife, who has worked as a professional photographer, is associate professor of English at Wheelock College in Boston, where she teaches an advanced course in Irish literature.

Belting out a chorus of "As the Backs Go Tearing By" at the wedding reception forRebecca Carter Whitin Draper and Mike King '57 are John Hubbard '29. Bill Andres'29, Ding Heap '27, Larrie Calvert '57, Bill King '27 (the father of the groom),the bride and groom, Bert Whittemore '56, Herb Ellis '57. The reception was at theDedham, Mass., Country and Polo Club. Mike now teaches art at Brooks School.

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