1955
News from Vietnam soldiers, past and present. Dan Nixon writes that he's chief of the medical service for the 12th Evacuation Hospital, a 400-bed semi-mobile hospital at Chu Chi, about 30 miles southwest of Saigon and near the Cambodian border. The hospital services two battalions of the 25th Division. For a time, Dan was on temporary duty at a 1000-bed convalescent center which was treating all the malaria cases in the northern half of South Vietnam. He saw "about 150 cases of malaria a day - plus rare cases of amoebiosis, dengue, scrub typhus, chickengunyun - heck, in the States I couldn't even spell some of the things I see."
Bob King returned in June from a tour with the 7th Marines at Chu Lai, and in October was promoted to major. He's now the Marine officer instructor at Princeton's NROTC unit. "Thus," he comments, "a product of Dartmouth NROTC comes full circle . . . also doesn't know which stand to sit in at football games." Bob Leffert is also just back from Marine duty in Vietnam, and is now assistant director of orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York.
Steve Wilson writes that "after a fine year at Colgate teaching eight shades of geography including spending a month on Upper Saranac Lake with ten students doing some work on ice and snow properties we've moved to the Albany area and have purchased a farm with water frontage (a rare find today)." Sounds idyllic, but there's more - he works. Steve is in the new geography department (225 new faculty members) of New York State University in Albany.
Jim Venman was named a partner in the Bridgeport, Conn., law firm of Pullman, Comley, Bradley and Reeves. He's been with the firm since 1958, and has also been busy during this time in a variety of civic, church, and charitable activities. Most recently, he was chairman of the lawyers' unit of the Bridgeport United Fund. Jim has also been chairman of the local Dartmouth Club's interviewing committee for several years.
Another classmate in United Fund work this fall was Steve Little. He was chairman of the business and industry department for the Providence United Fund; his job was to solicit contributions from employees of firms with 10 to 50 workers. Steve is assistant secretary of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company.
Lee Spelke was made a vice president of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, where he's worked since 1963 as the officer in charge of the Essex Street office. EarleSensing moved in September from Pitts-burgh to Cleveland, becoming Cleveland district manager for Champion Papers.
In the matrimony department, Jerry Levy married Susan Aaron in West Hartford, Conn., on August 21. She attended Boston University and graduated from Katharine Gibbs School in New York. Jerry is a C.P.A. with Siskin, Shapiro & Company in Hartford. Carl Weisenfeld took the hand of Barbara Greenspun in Fairfield, Conn., September 11. Barbara is a graduate of the University of Connecticut's College of Pharmacy, and also attended the Sorbonne. Carl, owner of both a law degree and a master's degree in taxation, is with the law firm of Hannoch, Weisman, Stern and Besser in Newark, N.J. This month, John Cavanagh is marrying Barbara Kirk of Orlando, Fla. She's an alumna of Wheaton College and is now working on a master's degree at Duke University, where John is studying for a doctorate. - also teaching at the University of Tennessee.
Lou Cavaliere keeps busy teaching biology and running the driver education program at North Haven (Conn.) High School, and simultaneously working toward an advanced degree, 30 credits beyond a master's, and building a new home, not to mention Dartmouth enrollment, interviewing, and Alumni Fund work. Ken Lundstrom was transferred by DuPont from the Waynesboro, Va., Lycra technical section to Orion end-use research in Wilmington. There he "found classmate Tom Calloway waiting on the first tee, and this has made moving somewhat easier." Also making a big-company transfer: Jim Tremblay, shifted by General Electric from the corporate audit staff in Schenectady to Philadelphia, where he's been named auditing manager for subcontracts and facilities in the re-entry systems department of the missiles and space division. If he can remember all that, he gets to keep the job.
On the medical scene, Dick Hastings has been practicing orthopedic surgery in Southampton, Long . Island, since July. HerbGramm is now staff radiologist at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Jerry Bernstein practices internal medicine and endocrinology in Manhattan, but spends half his time on a research project, working with a group investigating the metapolism of the thyroid hormone. Frank Davidson is also leading a dual medical life in Manhattan, teaching at Einstein Medical School and practicing internal medicine and gastroenterology. He's chief of gastroenterology at Morrisania City Hospital. BernieCarpenter is now on the senior staff of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and is an instructor at Harvard, researching in immunology and kidney transplantation, and doing some teaching.
Tony Gahn has had a busy year. In the spring, he finished his Ph.D. dissertation at Syracuse University and received his degree, then he taught at Syracuse's summer school, and moved in the fall to Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., where he's teaching American history. In the meantime, on May 29, he married Abigail Finch, a Smith graduate from Princeton, which is an interesting combination. After several months of marriage, he reports that it's "more continuity than change," and that may be an encouraging insight for Gordie Russell,Dave Conlan, and a few others.
Charlie Hulsebosch is now acting treasurer of United Fruit, and space engineer Skip Mackey reports from the Cape that he's "working too hard," but nevertheless "fishing quite a bit," and is "still single and saving money."
New arrivals: To Charlie and Lydia Williams, their third child, first daughter, Gretchen Lydia, August 23. And on the same day, to Charlie's former roommate, Frank Tepper, and his wife Joan, third' son, Bradley. To Bob and Diane Johanson, fourth child, third girl, Susan. To Web andRosemarie Wilde, their second boy, Peter, September 14. To Tuck and Wanda their first, Curtis Tucker, August 22. To the Jack Welsh family, second child, first daughter, September 28.
Players in '55's annual fall golf outing at the Bellevue Golf Club in Melrose, Mass.,were (front row) Sonny Peters, Charlie Hulsebosch, Gordie Russell, John Demas, andKen Kotowski '68. (Back row) Doug Melville (the winner with a 75), Red Hennigar,Randy Hayes, Ace Hall, Ed Waldron '57, and Pete Thompson.
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