1955

Dick Hogarty reports he finished his Princeton doctoral dissertation — on Leon Abbett, "a fascinating political figure who served two terms as governor of New Jersey (1884-1887 and 1890-1893). He is now an assistant professor of political science at Rider College in Lawrenceville, N. J. "When not teaching," Dick writes, "I work as a consultant to the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, where Bernie Fulton holds down the directorship of the community action programs." Dick recently published an article, "New Jersey Farmers and Migrant Housing Rules."

John Batchelder, following a similar academic path, has just received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, and is now an assistant professor at the University of lowa in lowa City. He's a specialist in governments of Western Europe.

Elsewhere in the world of education, Norris Howard is back on the job at Darrow School in New Lebanon, N. Y., after a summer as a bush pilot in the Alberta oil fields. He also squeezed in a wedding, to Phyllis Hyde, Smith '53, on September 7. Norrie says he's hoping to teach in the ABC program at Hanover next summer, "and perhaps in England next year."

Air Force Captain Walt Lamb is in Naples, Italy, assigned to NATO as a purchasing and contracting officer. "Promises to be a most rewarding three-year tour," writes Walt.

Among free enterprisers, George Schmitt is president of Hinckley & Schmitt, a bottled-water company in Chicago. Paul Craig reports that he's "managing farms in southern Wisconsin for absentee owners and am selling farms burban properties."

Granger Associates, a Palo Alto electronics manufacturer of which John Ballard is marketing vice president, announced an expansion of its product line to cover "the broad general communications field." John was quoted in a trade paper as declining to elaborate. Ken Lundstrom writes from Waynesboro, Va., that "life in the Shenandoah Valley has been exceedingly satisfying. My work as a development chemist with du Pont's textile fibers department combines a mixture of technical and business problems in just the right proportions." Ken and Kathy had their second child, and second boy, Walter Scott, on September 10.

Other babies: the Lyn Brocks, a redheaded boy on May 13; the Dave Millers, a red-headed girl, and first daughter, Susan Ann, July 13; and Nancy and Woody Goss, a third son, Philip Johnston, August 22.

Making another round of medical calls, Jim Mickle is a psychiatrist at San Francisco County Hospital, on the University of California Medical Center faculty, and in private practice. Lew Weintraub recently moved to Boston and is a hematologist at the New England Medical Center Hospitals and is also an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University's School of Medicine. Bernie Carpenter, also in Boston, is on the staff of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is continuing research in kidney transplantation. Zsolt de Papp went into the private practice of internal medicine and endocrinology in Rochester, N. Y. He writes, "I would be happy to see any Dartmouth men with glandular disorders of any type." PeteHenderson has plunged into the first year of medical school at Boston University and reports he's "enjoying it very much."

Colgate-Palmolive has transferred RoyHill from his long-familiar Caribbean haunts to Johannesburg, South Africa. RossEllis, manager of personnel in Inland Steel's shiny headquarters building in Chicago, appeared on a local television program to tell about the company's scholarship for a Negro student at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Jon Anderson isn't so busy as Cornell's financial aid director that he couldn't get out on the university's golf course and team up to win the annual member-guest tournament.

Your reporter has left "The Wall Street Journal" to become a television reporter for Chicago's CBS station, WBBM-TV. A staple of the work is on-camera interviews of the Windy City's numerous visiting firemen, including recently Richard Nixon, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Dr. Edward Teller, Congressman Gerald Ford, General Maxwell Taylor, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Helping to round out the picture are frequent question-and-answer sessions with such local luminaries as Governor Otto Kerner, Senator Everett Dirksen, Mayor Richard Daley, and assorted Congressmen.

Guests at the wedding of Bert Whittemore '56 and Kevin Sleigh included: (front row,l to r) Mike King '57, Dick Kurts '56, the groom and bride, Bill Sleigh '25 (fatherof the bride), Duncan Sleigh '67 (bride's brother), Fred Whittemore '53 (the groom'sbrother); (second row) Al Voidgaris '56, Jon Strong '56, Bill Brooks '54, Ed Willi '24,Bob Faulkner '56, Lyn White '25, Gordon Smith '27, Frank Wallis '25, Ed Griffin '25,Lang Spring '25; (third row) Charles Perkins '58, Gil Upton '52, an unknown Yaleman with mustache, Charlie Clough '52, Mai Swenson 59, Dick Harrison '60, CaryClark '62, and Charlie Rolfe '34. The wedding was held on July 10 in Marblehead.

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