1963
Much news accumulated over the summer, so I'll dig right in with The Naz, our class' most faithful reporter. After being in Europe since March of 1965, Steve is back in the "Land of the Big PX" and plans to travel and catch up with everyone. His mailing address is Old Street Road, Peterborough, N. H., for the foreseeable future. Steve writes that while serving his time with the Army, he hit Italy, Berlin, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Paris (three times). About Rome, he said that the traffic is the worst he ever encountered, the street peddlers the most insistent, and companionship of his Army buddy (a colored sergeant from Detroit who is now back in the United States attending CCNY) a treasured memory, which says a lot about Steve.
Dr. Ned Rankin has headed for the Golden Gate. In continuation of his medical career, he will spend this year as an intern at the San Francisco General Hospital. Ned, a member of a class of 81, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City this past June. He is married to the former Joanne Watson of Erie, Pa.
Norm Buchsbaum is a new Foreign Service Officer of the United States. He is a native and recent resident of Mount Vernon, New York, but by now he might be in any one of 113 countries where we have embassies or consulates or with the Department of State in Washington. Norm earned an LL.B. from Yale Law School before taking the competitive oral and written examinations for the Foreign Service.
Pete Brown wrote to tell me of his wedding last March in Illinois to Janet Rabenstein, a Holyoke grad whom Pete met during our senior year. She's teaching high school biology at New Trier while Pete's teaching Math and coaching gymnastics at rival Evanston High. Tom Richards and about six other alumni were at the wedding.
Before I hit the marriage trail with more weddings and engagements, other news includes: Dave Pentico's graduation from Carnegie Tech with a Master of Science in Industrial Administration; Lee Phillips received a three-year NDEA fellowship for doctoral studies in economics at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Jim Page and Joe Connors earned Masters' in Teaching at Wesley an in June, but I don't know where they plan to use their degrees; John Farnsworth, w ith Chemical Bank in New York, was promoted from account head-senior analyst to officer's assistant (don't quite know what all that means but John must be doing something right); Martin Davis was awarded his Master's degree in Business Administration from B.C. and has entered the Coast Guard; Phil Taylor who participated in the Dartmouth Med School program up in Hanover found that it paid off and was graduated cum laude from Harvard Med School in June and has begun his internship in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Chris Knight and wife Diane are in East Africa for over a year doing research toward a doctorate on a National Science Award grant. They had been attending the University of Minnesota and are presently somewhere near Mbeya, East Africa. John Goellner was also in Africa. He received a fellowship which permits him to assist for about five months at a mission hospital in the Congo. By the time this column hits the newsstands, John should have returned for his senior year at the University of lowa College of Medicine. Another '63 with his eyes on other countries is KennyKvistad who plans to attend classes for the study of international business at the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix. Daryl Erickson, at Northwestern Med School also received a Smith Kline & French Foreign Fellowship, and chose to take his fellowship at a mission hospital in Thailand in the town of Manorm in the central part of the country. He'll be back at Northwestern by the beginning of his senior year.
A letter from Sandra Williams, Art's wife to tell us about an addition to their family - Melinda Susan who will be a year old on December 27. Art has a four-year-old son who was born at Mary Hitchcock. The Williamses are living in Cranford, N. J., and Art plays the commuter's role with a stock brokerage firm in New York.
On the wedding scene: Jim Irvin, who plans to get out of the Navy in a few more months, married Hikary Somerville from Mississippi and Hollins College. Although Jim was stationed in Yorktown, Va., I don't believe he can keep up with his bride's southern speech. Another summer marriage was Ann Marie Clayton to Lyle Bjork, both grads of the M.A.T. program at Reed College in Oregon. Lyle was with the Peace Corps for a couple of years after Hanover and plans to teach social studies in Seattle. His wife is a Holyoke alumna. Dick Gero and Frances Chapman were wed in Massachusetts in June. She's a Skids graduate and has a Master's from Tufts in Education. Dick went on to Yale after the college and received a Master's in Fine Arts there. SteveFrancis married Victoria Simons last April up in Connecticut; he's with a bank in New York (after a Stanford MBA). She is another Holyoke graduate. It was quite a summer for Holyoke, it appears. My wife's alma mater broke into the wedding scene with Virginia Chapin (WeUesley) marrying DickSwett in August. Dick's pounding the books at Yale Med School. Another doctor — Roger Thomas - was married over the summer. His wife, the former Kathryn Davis, is another Holyoke grad; they'll live in Detroit while Rog interns at Henry Ford Hospital.
Another August wedding was John Bergman's to Joanne Petrillo. She teaches in New York and graduated from Finch. John hung up the lacrosse stick and is now vice president of a machine company in Queens. Lt.(jg) Chris Wiedenmayer joined the ranks with his marriage to Anne Morgan, a Radcliffe grad, in Maryland. Chris is stationed in Norfolk and should be emerging from the Navy fairly soon, I think.
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