1954
The fifth annual post Labor Day Class outing at the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., was another rousing success. The weather was beautiful, the food and drink bountiful, and the energy of all the children boundless. This year in addition to the usual barbecue, football and pony rides, our very gracious host and hostess, Rod andBarbara Rockefeller, introduced us to some new activities and a different campsite. While all the children, and there were lots of them, eagerly stood in line for pony cart rides, their dads fought fiercely in the roughest game of volleyball seen since intramural days in Hanover. The wives wisely sat in the shade chatting and watching their wild Indians, both young and old.
Of course, there was ample time for the men to chat, too. Rod Rockefeller and JackChristy exchanged views about South America. J ack had just returned from a summer in Chile and Peru where he was working for International Telephone & Telegraph as a financial troubleshooter. Rod is a regular commuter to Latin America in his capacity as a V.P. with IBEC (International Basic Economy Corporation). He also has been rather busy this fall working for ICBO and GOP. The former is the Inter-racial Council for Business Opportunity, an organization which Rod helped to found and which gives business advice to Negroes starting out for themselves. The latter set of initials is self explanatory. Both Rod and Barbara were active campaigners this year.
Seen discussing their new positions were Tom Myers, Kent Klineman, and Tom Kelsey. Tom M. has left General Foods to join the advertising firm of Norman, Craig and Kummel as associate marketing director in charge of media and market research. Kent has just become associated with the New York City law firm of Pry or, Braun, Cashman & Sherman. Kels was recently ap- pointed assistant vice president of Federal Insurance Company. This is the leading American multiple line carrier managed by Chubb & Son, Inc. for whom he has worked since graduation.
This was the first of these class outings attended by Jay Chandler who recently moved to Princeton, N. J., where he and two other surgeons operate as Princeton Surgical Associates. Jay, a specialist in general and vascular surgery, was initiated as a fellow in the American College of Surgeons at its October convocation.
Battling it out on the volleyball court were Ed Winnick, Bob Vorsanger, Hugh Roberts, Bill White, Dave Mandelbaum, Stan Rosenberg, Dick Steinberg, Lo-Yi Chan, Stan Clark, Art Rauch, John Heston, Bob Adnopoz, Howie Aronson, Bruce Classon, Bill Cohn, and Frank Weiser.
If the children were not so engrossed in the various activities, they would have had ample opportunity to chat with one another. In such case, the older ones probably would have ended up raving about the Monkees, who are the latest television hit and the brainchild of Bob Rafelson, a producer at Screen Gems. For those squares who are not in the know, the Monkees are a teenage singing group who perform weekly on TV in Beatle style and who have also made a best selling record album. The most interesting aspect of this success story is its background. Bob and another producer thought up this concept for a television series several years ago. Then they sold Screen Gems and RCA Victor Records on the idea, selected four young musicians from among hundreds interviewed in Hollywood, and rehearsed this group for six months. Finally after an elaborate and expensive publicity campaign, they were introduced as the Monkees to the public and were a prefabricated success. When asked by the New York Times as to whether the teen agers ever had a chance to make up their own minds about his series, Bob replied, "You can fool some of the kids some of the time."
In my last column I reported the academic accomplishments of some of our classmates. It appears that this really broke the ice because there are numerous other such achievements to relate this month. DanWeintraub, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, was granted its Distinguished Service Award for acknowledged talents in teaching and outstanding accomplishment in a wide variety of assignments for his department. Another recently at the University of Michigan was Dick Watt completing the requirements for his Ph.D. Dick has just been named to the faculty at Drew University, where he joins the German department. He previously taught at the Universities of South Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, Connecticut, and Lehigh. In addition to his graduate work at Michigan, Dick also studied at Middlebury and the University of Muenster in Germany.
One university at which Dick neither studied nor taught is the University of New Hampshire which has appointed Arnie Lin sky as assistant professor in sociology. Arnie obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington where he served as a research associate prior to his recent appointment. Traveling across country with Arnie and setting up home in Durham, N. H., were wife Betty, son Nicholas 3, and daughter Isabell, 6 months. Another of our academic classmates is in the news, but not because of his educational achievements, substantial though they be. Pete Robinson is an assistant professor of geology at the University of Massachusetts where he received his Ph.D. several years back. But the newsworthy member of the Robinson family is his wife Arija, whom Pete met in New Zealand in 1955 while on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Otago. Arija was recently the recipient of much publicity when she and her brother opened a joint dental office in Amherst, Mass. There aren't too many brother-sister dentist teams in Amherst or anywhere else for that matter.
From school to skoal. The Hamm Brewing Company of St. Paul, Minn., announces the appointment of Pete Ankeny as Hamm brand manager. Previously Pete served as plant engineer, district representative and advertising supervisor for the brewery. Liquid of a different sort is preoccupying LeftyTerrill these days. He is an engineer for the Morrison-Knudsen Co., working on the Hell's Canyon hydroelectric project dam on the Snake River bordering Idaho and Oregon. This $70 million project should keep Lefty busy until May 1968. Previously he was assistant engineer in the construction of the Iron Crate Dam along the Klamath River in northern California, the anti-missile silos in Cheyenne, Wyo., and a canal and lock on the Pearl River in Mississippi. Max Geldens should now be familiar with dams and canals as well as beer since he works and lives in the Netherlands. Max has just been named as principal of McKinsey & Company Inc., an international management consultant firm, and is located at their Amsterdam office. Before joining McKinsey, Max worked for Jacobson van der Berg and Rio Platanse Steel in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the McLouth Steel Co. in Detroit. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1956. The Geldens family, which consists of wife, Margaret, and children, Peter, Margaret and Kathryn, live at 51 Torenlaan, Blaricum, Netherlands. Skoal!
Bob Curtis is continuing his studies for the priesthood in the Paulist Fathers major seminary in Washington. The Paulists place special emphasis on adapting modern com- munications techniques to their work in New Centers on major university campuses, military bases, parishes, missions, downtown information centers, in the press, radio and television, and in special areas concerned with Christian unity. A product of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Bob appeared in films and TV, and on the stage. As a member of J. Walter Thoompson, he produced and directed major network filmed television commercials.
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