1961

First off - a personal note to Al Rozycki: Your note about the '61 Football Weekend Reunion Party on November 13 (House parties) arrived scant minutes after the October column notes had been mailed to Hanover for publication. Columns are written about six weeks before the ALUMNI MAGAZINE arrives at our homes. Sorry I couldn't help with publicity for this event. Football reunions are outstanding events, no doubt about that, and maybe a good plan would be for '61's who plan to attend a Dartmouth-inferior opponent game to get in touch with one of our brethren who lives in the city where the game is being played. These resident '61's could then kinda coordinate things so everybody knows where everybody else will be. Returning to Al himself, as you know he is married to Ford Whelden's ('25) daughter, Darden, and the Rozyckis are living in Brighton, Mass., whilst Al interns at Boston's Children's Hospital.

Larry Sills is so busy being sales manager for the Pfizer Drug Company in Accra, Ghana that he didn't have time to write, but all is not lost, his wife Susan did write (sigh) and passed all the hot news from Accra. As far as I can tell, the Sills have been all over Africa selling drugs and stuff. Sounds a bit remote, but they enjoy it. Susan gave the real skinny on Dave Zuckernian. I hate to laugh at another's misfortune, but. . . ho, ho, ho, ho!, Dave's in the Army, and in the Pentagon yet, stapling pieces of paper together. Andy Cohen, possessor of our class's most distinguished head of greying sable hair, is at Stanford Law School looking distinguished in front of professors, juries, etc. Finally, Susan revealed that Marty Lynn is an intern at Western Reserve Hospital in Cleveland.

Here is news of catastrophic import - one of our most "classic" bachelors has fallen. This man gave untold numbers of us hope, for as long as he was a bachelor we knew that independence, courage, uniqueness, and joy still existed in the world. Now that he has succumbed the fall leaves are less vivid, the snow is speckled with road mud, and the circus is but a tawdry display of torn costumes and plastic sequins. The last candle which flickered against the creeping dark is snuffed - Mike Butler is ... (choke) married. All this is no reflection on the bride, Miss Jean Seiferheld, of course, she must be pretty great to win Super Bachelor but it is the end of an era and we must lament. Mike is with Benton and Bowles in NYC writing copy for several important advertisers. P.S., Denny Denniston attended Mike during the last hours.

Bob Johnson just took a job with Armstrong Cork recently in their floor division marketing department. Ole Ordal is teaching high school in Sitka, Alaska. While on the subject of recent promotions, etc., lemme give you guys a quick list of degrees earned last June for some of the fellas: Hank Laurelli, M.D., Charlie Francis, M.D., Gerry MacDonald, M.D., Bob Tunnell, LL.B., Don Roberts, B.Architecture, Sheldon Baroff, M.D.

Back to the marriage mart - Bill Pieper and Susan Hermann are blissfully hitched and living in S.F. I think I already mentioned that "Tough Guy" Rosier was expecting (to get married of course, even Rose can't reconstruct biology) and by golly he went through with it. Linda Horowitz is now Mrs. Rosier. Ron Fagin and Beth Odess underwent trial by aisle in June and are now living in NYC. Another degree - JimGilford received his master's in sacred theology last June. Big Bill Miller, Dartmouth's answer to the Beachboys, has been promoted to account exec status at a West Coast public relations agency. DennisO'Connor married the daughter of the mayor of Luedermuend, Germany last June. That's pretty up-scale if you ask me. If she (name's Marie by the way) can cook as well as the rest of her countrywomen, we can expect to see a fat O'Connor come reunion time this June. Another degree - Bob Kellogg got his M.D. from U of Colorado in June. Bob will intern in Fresno.

John White, having completed his tour with the Navy, is now teaching English at Cheshire, Conn., High School. Carl Craft just got promoted within the First National Bank of Chicago organization. Carl is responsible for Indiana and Michigan. KenKolb has moved from Merchandising Director of WWL in New Orleans to v.p. and sales manager of Associated Executive Control. The latter firm develops property in Louisiana. Ken gets my vote for the most impressive title, sounds like his new company is gonna do a whole lot of big building too. Tom Walther and Miss Darleen Holcomb were married in May. Tom has finished Tuck but I don't know where he's working. Lenny Donovan was along with Tom that fine day in Bloomfield, Conn., to see that everything went smoothly. Marilyn Deshler will no longer be referred to by that name - she's now Mrs. Edmund A. Stiles. "Ed and the Mrs." live in Sausalito, Calif. Mills Omaly is now "The Reverend" and is curate of St. John's Church in Locust Valley, N. Y. Dentist Dave Laughlin is working in Woodstock, where he and wife Sarah and four-year-old son live in rustic splendor. Another (gasp) degree - Bob Jackson - M.B.A. from Rutgers. Jack McKernan has received a grant for summer study and travel in Greece and is probably there right now. Now we can all say we know somebody in Greece. The Rev. John McKenzieJr. is now the Assistant Minister of the Wheaton Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, Md. (right outside of Washington, D. C.). I'm glad that some of our scabrous multitude saw fit to purify themselves and join a pious order. I suspect we'll need all the help we can get from John and Mills come next June.

Dave Birney got all kinds of good press as a result of his winning of the Barter Theater Award. Dave just finished his Army duties and will now be working with The Barter Theater in Abington, Va. I understand that wife Jean approves of all this stuff.

"Yours for a price" was in his home city, Minneapolis, a couple of weeks ago and found John and Jane King, Hop and Judy Holmberg, Chuck and Sharon Ritchie, Ted and Mary Perkins, Tiger Jim Olds, Dave Osterhout, and Bill Berneking in the very best of spirits (take that any way you want — N.B. Berneking was probably in the best spirits of all - some people are discreet up to a point, Berneking is discreet up to a pint).

Have a nice ceremonial sacrifice of the great gobbling bird.

Present for the wedding of Carolyn, daughter of John K. Benson '31, and JonathanL. Cohen '60 were: (kneeling l to r) Ken Ingalls '60, Jack Benson Jr. '60 (brother ofthe bride), Jack Benson '31, Bill Watson '60, Ed Henriquez '60; (standing) Bob Cary'60, Duke Beebe '60, Ariel Halpern '59, Jim Lawrence 60, Jay Booker '60, AlanSmith '58, groom and bride, Bob Sterling '57, John Wallace '35, Frank Killilea '60,John Sullivan '36, Bob Johnson '59, Tom Lanier '60, Ron Kehoe '59, and AlCameron '60. The wedding took place in Needham, Mass., last May 8.

Secretary, Box 599, Cincinnati 1, Ohio

Treasurer, 627 Oak St., S.E., Minneapolis 14, Minn.