1958
We must humbly beg apology for the absence of this column in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Our office secretary, normally extremely efficient, inadvertently neglected to mail the copy until press time had come and gone. Further, I neglected to note that the MAGAZINE Office had not acknowledged receipt of the column. To the extent that there is any truth in the old adage that absence makes the heart grow fonder, some beneficial side-effects may have been derived from this conspicuous omission.
Dave Cassidy was honored by his employer, Johnson & Johnson, with the George F. Smith Award as the company's outstanding department manager on a national level for 1964. The award was for his service as department manager in the baby products section of the firm's Eastern Surgical Dressings Plant in North Brunswick, N. J. He was presented with a ring and $500. Dave joined Johnson & Johnson in 1958 and has moved steadily up the executive ladder. Only recently he was promoted to production planning and control manager of the North Brunswick facility. He and Corinne and their four children live in
First, the social news. Dr. and Mrs. ArtNeiterman became proud parents of a daughter, Robin Anne, on January 8. We know of three recent '58 weddings. On December 12, Miss Lucy M. Cardon and Walt Stackler were married in Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. On February 14, Miss Barbara Anne Arrington and Harry Dodds were married in New York. Harry, who graduated from the Yale Law School following Dartmouth, is now an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Married in Forest Hills, N. Y., were Miss Brunhild Panzig and Dick Schaedle.
The winter months seem to have been particularly conducive to engagements. Miss Marjorie Vogel and Dr. Lew Dosik announced their intentions in January. Lew obtained his M.D. degree from the New York University School of Medicine and is now serving as a flight surgeon in the Air Force, based at Rome, N. Y. There's a good chance that they are already "Mr. and Mrs." Miss Julia Ann Briggerman and DanO'Hara are planning to be married this summer. Julia is doing graduate work at Dartmouth College (where?). Dan, who went on to Thayer, is employed by Thermal Dynamics Corporation in Lebanon. Planning to file down the aisle in the spring are Miss Ann B. Carreiro and Lt. (j.g.) Charlie Clark. As the perceptive might have discerned from his title, Charlie is still serving in the Navy. Also planning a spring wedding are Miss Georgiana Shine of Kensington, Conn., and Robert G. McGuire. After earning an M.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, concentrating on Russia, Bob has compiled a rather imposing record of public service. In 1961, he served on the White House Committee on Children and Youth. From 1961 to 1963, Bob was a Peace Corps Volunteer at the University of Rajshani in East Pakistan. He is presently a Peace Corps Evaluation Officer in Washington. Fiancee Georgiana is also employed by the Peace Corps in the Office of Public Affairs and Recruitment.
We have the honor of reporting this month a rather inspiring story concerning Rev. Jim Crawford. I have quoted below portions of an article which appeared in a Bayonne, N. J., newspaper in January.
Men of good will often have strong convictions, but it takes a special breed of man to take concrete action on them. Such a man is Rev. James Crawford, paster of First Federated Church (of Bayonne) since September 1962.
On February 1, he and his wife, Linda, and their two small .children will take up residence in East Harlem where Mr. Crawford will serve as Parish Acres Program Director for East Harlem Protestant Parish, 2050 Second Avenue. The family will live in an apartment on the top floor of a low-income housing project and has accepted a substantial cut in salary. (They) will be housed in an apartment containing a living room, two bedrooms and a tiny kitchenette. Their voluntary decision to leave the Bayonne parish, in which they were happy and appreciated, stems from Mr. Crawford's conception of what a clergyman's true function is. His wife heartily concurs. Their decision, said Mr. Crawford, has arisen from insights gleaned in the parish, the first for the young clergyman....
During his Bayonne pastorship, Mr. Crawford was named chairman of a newly-established Commission of Religion and Race sponsored by the Presbytery of the Palisades, which encompasses Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic Counties. Nearly a year ago, on the decision of the Commission on Race and Religion, Mr. Crawford and three other Presbyterian members joined clergymen of all faiths in their support of increased voter registration for Negroes in Hattiesburg, Miss. Because of their efforts, Hattiesburg Negroes found new hope in their battle for racial equality. ...
His new duties will have special emphasis on human relations. He is to serve as a catalytic or liaison agent between ghetto-dwellers and those persons able to give financial or other aid; attempt to break down economic, class, and racial barriers; and to participate fully in the temporal as well as the spiritual life of the community. He will be affiliated with the store-front Church of the Resurrection on East 102 nd Street, a temporary location pending the Easter, 1965 completion of a new stone structure.
His duties will include some preaching and heading Bible study classes, but will deal mainly with the study of problems of the metropolis and the civil rights struggle. He will be instrumental in setting up ecumenical contacts between Jesuits, Maryknoll Fathers, the Protestant Council, and other groups.
In his Bayonne stay, Mr. Crawford has made himself a part of the community by membership in the Kiwanis Club, the Council of Boy Scouts, Friends of the Library, and by serving as assistant leader in Great Books Discussion Group sessions. He also served on the board of directors of the Bayonne Chapter of Red Cross and the Bayonne Chapter of the NAACP.
Jim, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, was a student minister at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester prior to his assumption of the Bayonne position. I am sure that the best wishes of the class are extended to you, Jim, as you embark on this admirable undertaking.
If the news release from the New England Telephone Company has the message straight Rog Rice has either moved or is about to move from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, back to Massachusetts. The New England Telephone Company, which Rog joined back in 1960, has promoted him to traffic manager in Maiden, Mass. Former Navy man (1958-60), Rog has worked for the telephone company, in Boston, New York City, Cambridge, and until recently, Portland, Me. He and Jane have two sons, Roper Jr and Paul.
Roger Jr. and Paul. Dr. Stu Slingerland has returned from Uruguay, having completed 2½ years of Mormon mission service in that country. Stu, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was sent to his mission from the Vermont District of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The purpose of the mission was to spread the gospel of the Mormon Church and to train Uruguayan church leaders. Uruguay now has 1,000 Mormons, the third largest religious group in the country, following Roman Catholics and Jews. Stu, who completed his internship at Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington Vt., will be going to Philadelphia for his residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital.
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