1963
A reminder, first of all—don't forget to send off the questionnaire which Skip enclosed in the last Newsletter, if you haven't done it by now. Also — Bill Russell has already started off his direction of our class' participation in the 1965 Alumni Fund Campaign. Bill Wellstead has agreed to be Regional Agent for the West Coast, so we should have closer liaison with that area. The Fund Drive starts on April 1, so between now and then you'll all hear plenty about the campaign.
Many letters: Larry Gruder sent along word of his engagement to Julie Steinweg, a 1964 graduate of Vermont College. Larry is at Chapel Hill studying social psychology at the University of North Carolina. They plan a summer wedding. Summer (August) is also the time for Chris Harvey and his fiancee — Carol Jones — to be wed. Chris will enter my wife's med school—Temple – here in Philadelphia next fall. Ron Prior called to bring me up-to-date on his travels in South America when he could get away from the Wharton School here at Penn. He managed to find Tim Kraft in Guatemala (address is Flores, Petan, Guatemala) and said that Tim is doing a job there. Tim's with another Peace Corpsman, trying to develop that area to the point of exporting some agricultural products, instead of consuming just about all they grow. Stu Mahlin writes that he'll be getting back into Philadelphia this month after serving an internship in Cleveland learning the intricacies of metropolitan government and management. He'll finish his master's this month, too. Stu wrote of Mike Emerson's engagement and coming marriage (May 22) to Jane Schilling. Holyoke '63. Mike is in Submarine School in New London; Jane is finishing up her master's at Michigan and plans to teach.
My wife received a letter from a classmate and close friend of hers at Wellesley - who married Gordie Hull. She s Barbara Kelly and now Barbs and Gordie are back in Istanbul, Turkey, where Gordie teaches at the American College For Girls. If you two get a chance to see this column, write about your travels over there.
A very much appreciated letter from Charley Parton, full of ideas and news. He and wife Trudy are both working during the day and going to Rutgers for master s degrees in the evening. Both are doing well with their work and Charley had some good suggestions for the Alumni Fund participation by our class which I'll pass along to Bill Russell. Charley got together with VinDiFiglia (Ensign DiFiglia) in New York a while ago. Vinnie's stationed in San Diego and assigned to the "Ingersoll." Charley also got in touch with Bob Barnum, home from Stanford B School. He's engaged to Sally Bryant, a V.J.C. alumna. The Partons got a letter from another Dartmouth-Wellesley couple – Kip hoggins and his wife – Mary. They're both studying at Vanderbilt in Nashville. More news from Charley – this time of Lee Erdman. He's also aboard the marriage train – engaged to Pat Barrett. They plan a June wedding. Charlie Logan is out of the Coast Guard and into the insurance business in Salem, Va. That exhausts Parts information. If I get one or two of these letters a month, this column is going to get several pages longer.
Some engagement news: Bob Bunnell to Eleanor Chute of Copake Falls, N. Y. She's a graduate of Carleton College, a very fine small liberal arts college in Minnesota. Both Bob and Eleanor are second year students at Union Theological Seminary in New York. They plan a May wedding. DennyEagle is also engaged — to Henny Diane Frank, a senior at Simmons. Denny is at Harvard Law after negotiating Tuck. And more: John Morrison to Susan Gray of Freeport, L. I. No further news on this one, but I do know that John teaches English at Bay Shore High — and probably gets in some squash and tennis. Ed McCabe and Paulette Ghislaine Melancon of Quebec plan an August wedding. Ed's out at Michigan Law. Charlene Cronenberg has announced her engagement to Tom Mastroberadino. Tom is (or was) at Columbia Business School studying for his master's. I think he's graduated now, but I'd like to hear from Tom about what he's been doing. Joe Gathright and Holly Harrison are engaged and plan a June wedding. She's at Smith and Joe is navigating Yale Law School. More engagements: Len Shukovsky and Nora Sue Kanton. She attends Clark University and Len is at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dick Petersen is engaged to Judith Ann Agerton – a graduate student at Columbia. Pete is at Harvard B School after graduating Tuck. They plan a summer wedding.
I finally received more information about Steve Yafa's Writer's Guild Award. Steve wrote a script for a screen writing contest among graduate students. His first place award was $1000 for the comedy effort. Steve is at Carnegie Tech. completing work for a Master of Fine Arts in Drama.
Another '63 in the Peace Corps this time it's Ken Lease. He left the United States in December for a two-year term in Malaysia where he'll teach high school in Kuala Lumpur. He's among some 300 other Corpsmen in that country.
That wraps it up for this month – except for another tragedy in our class. David Richard (Dick) Friedman died in mid-January in New York. A notice will appear in the In Memoriam section of this or a subsequent MAGAZINE. May I extend the condolences of our class to Dick's parents and brother.
Pictured at the reception following the marriage of Christy and Tom Richards 63are (standing l to r) John Lehigh '63, Pete Brown '63, John Gessner '63, CharlesS. Cotsworth '34 (bride's father), the bride and groom, Ernie Torres '63, JackPhelan '63, Whit Kimball '63. Kneeling are Mel Meyers '63 and Jerry Phifer 61.
Don Waite '64 (l), winner of the GreyAdvertising Fellowship at the ColumbiaUniversity School of Business, duringvisit with Grey Advertising presidentHerbert Strauss. Don is first winner.
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