1958
For reasons that elude us at the present time, no significant marches on Crosby Hall protesting the absence of this column were staged during the summer. Demoralizing as this is to the class secretary, another year has arrived and the work must go on.
We have but one new addition to report to '58 families during the summer. Janet andLee Wight became the proud parents of their third child, Julie Quin, on May 12. The Wights also have a boy, Stephen, 5, and another girl, Pamela, 2. Lee is presently at Kirk Army Hospital in Aberdeen, Md., serving as a pediatrician.
The class was a little more active on the wedding front. On May 21, Mrs. J. A. M. Hickin and Rev. Preston T. (Pete) Kelsey were married at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Robert E. Fosse, now rector of the Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park, Ill. Among the ushers was Charlie Pierce, who is presently at Mt. Hermon Academy in Massachusetts. Pete, formerly the curate at St. Thomas and chaplain to Episcopal students at Dartmouth, is now rector of St. Albans church in Albany, Calif. He and Winkie with her family of John (8), Allison (7), and Sandy (5) are living at 1107 Park Hills Road in Berkeley.
Maiden, Mass., was the scene of the June wedding of the former Miss Norma Rose Cihak and Paul Daniels. Paul is a stockbroker in Boston, affiliated with Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis. Dave Murphy served as an usher at the wedding.
Also married in June were the former Miss Holly Ridgway and Phil Larson. Included among the ushers for the Minneapolis ceremony was Dave Chapin, who is working for Niles & Co., a Boston real estate firm.
The former Miss Elizabeth Adler and Geoff Picket were married in Scarsdale, N. Y., during the summer. Geoff, who graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, is a partner with his father in the New York law firm of Morway Picket and Geoffrey Picket. Two '58's served as ushers in the wedding, Joe Einhorn, who is with IBM in White Plains, and Lars Persson, a Far Hills, N. J., resident.
Two '58 engagements were announced over the summer. Plans for a spring wedding were revealed by Miss Juanita Mitchell and Ernest H. S. Holm, who is a foreign service officer. Ernie is presently working with the Agency for International Development in Da Nang, Vietnam, helping to care for approximately 15,000 Vietnamese refugees made homeless by the war. About a year ago the influx began and AID moved in with clothing, shelter, and food. Ernie, working closely with the mayor of Da Nang, representatives of the local government and the U.S. Military, set up the Dong Giang refugee camp to house 4,000 of the neediest refugees.
AID provided roofing for the homes, wheat, cooking oil, blankets, and other critical needs. A dispensary was set up, with AID medicines and staffed with three local nurses and a midwife. U.S. Navy doctors and corpsmen held sick call and AID built wells and latrines for sanitation.
A school was requested by the refugees, and was built, with the refugees assuming the role of teachers. The response to the program was so enthusiastic that double sessions were set up.
Ernie, in an article by Boston Globe Staff Reporter James J. Collins, indicated that the refugees soon took the initiative, building a market, planting gardens, and taking jobs in Da Nang. Later a trade school was established in the city. At present, Ernie is working in the town of Hoi An, about fifteen miles south of Da Nang, in the fields of education, agriculture, public health, transportation, and refugee resettlement.
Also announcing wedding intentions were Miss Barbara Jean Ferguson and Al LaBrecque, an attorney in New Jersey. Al is a graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law.
The Woodstock Country School in South Woodstock, Vt., recently announced the appointment of JimYoung as administrator of the Woodstock Plan, an experimental year-round, four-term schedule which begins this month. Jim has been at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., on a National Science Foundation Academic Year Grant. In his new post, Jim will be responsible for coordinating academic schedules, planning off-campus work, travel, and study opportunities, which are part of the Woodstock Plan, and selecting visiting faculty members, who will augment the regular staff in the year-round program. The school is a private secondary school for girls and boys. In addition to his administrative duties, Jim will also teach some mathematics courses and serve as assistant to the headmaster.
Under the Woodstock Plan, the 52-week year will be divided into four terms of ten weeks each, separated by four three-week vacation periods. Students will, as a general rule, attend three of the four terms each year. They may receive credits toward graduation for some of the quarters in which they work at selected, approved jobs (either for pay or as apprentices), participate in educationally enriching travel, or pursue independent study or projects.
Jim has been teaching since graduation, with the exception of the past year at Wesleyan. From 1958 to 1961, he taught at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and in 1959-1960 served as chairman of the mathematics section of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. From 1961 to 1965, he taught and coached at the Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio.
Jim, his wife, and their three children will live in South Woodstock.
Ernest Holm '58, Career Foreign ServiceOfficer, talking with refugee school children at the AID camp set up just acrossthe river from Da Nang in Vietnam.
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