1958

The month of May appears to be shaping up as a big one for matrimonial ceremonies involving '58's. On the seventh, Miss Norma R. Cihak and Paul Daniels plan to be married. Norma is presently employed in Boston by Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, while Paul is a registered representative for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, also in Boston. Nothing like a little intraindustry rivalry in the home. The twenty-first is the planned date for the marriage of Mrs. J. M. A. Hickin and Rev. Preston (Pete)Kelsey. Pete, who graduated from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific is presently a curate at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Hanover.

On November 27, the former Miss Nell Steers was married to Lowell Dana in Muskegon, Mich.

We also have a couple 01 additions to report to '58 families. Capt. and Mrs. BobMassucco became the parents of Robert L. Jr. on August 19. Robert Russell, son of Susie and Bob Erving, presented himself initially on September 27, 1965. Bob is working in the financial analysis department at the head office of Wells Fargo in San Francisco. Also employed by the bank are TomAndrews and Dave Shephard. The Shephards became parents of a girl, born on Thanksgiving Day.

In the field of education, Dave Badger is now in Athens, Greece, teaching at Athens College under a Fulbright Grant, and PaulWysard is in Honolulu, teaching at Punahoe School.

Let's take a look at the business world. On January 10, the marketing vice president of Lentheric, Inc. announced that Bob Jaffe had been appointed the merchandising manager of the firm. Since July, 1964 Bob had been marketing manager for the LenthericKing's Men Division of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. Prior to his appointment with Helene Curtis, Bob was with Colgate-Palmolive as new products manager in the women's toiletries division from 1963-1964, and from 1960-1963, was associated with Revlon, Inc., where his most recent position was assistant director of fragrances. Bob has an M.B.A. from Columbia, and will be located in New York.

Also making business headlines recently was George Martinson. Marty has been named communications superintendent-data by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company. In his new position, he has the responsibility of supervising and directing all data communications sales activity in the state of Massachusetts. Prior to this assignment, Marty was a data systems consultant in the firm's northeast division. He and Mary Jane have two children, Thomas, four, and Anne-Marie, two.

Charlie Henderson is in the sugar business in Puerto Rico and Phil Livingston is working for Security Mutual Life Insurance Company in Seattle, Wash. Bill Allyn is living in Skaneateles, N. Y., working with Welch Allyn, Inc., manufacturers of medical equipment. Bill's present assignment involves country-wide travel, meeting with distributors and attending various medical conventions. The Allyns have two children, William, four, and Eric, two.

Al La Brecque has left the Newark law firm of McCarter and English to join the Perth Amboy, N. J., firm of Francis M. Seaman and Andrew V. Clark. Al is a member of nearly every bar you can think of: the American Bar Association; New Jersey Bar Association; Essex County Bar Association; Middlesex Bar Association; and, the Monmouth County Bar Association. If you're ever in any of these bars, look Al up. In addition to all of this, he is also a member and counsel of the Newark Junior Chamber of Commerce. Al obtained his law degree in 1963 at Rutgers University, where he served as managing editor of the Rutgers Law Review. Al is also a Lieutenant Senior Grade in the Navy Reserve, based at Lakehurst. You thought you were busy, right?

A year ago we reported that Jim Crawford had left a Bayonne, N. J., Presbyterian Parish to assume a position in the Harlem Protestant Parish. A recent newsletter of the Parish provides us with an illuminating progress report on Jim's activities.

The Rev. James Crawford has been called to the Parish as our Metropolitan Missioner. Because of the residential identification of most of our congregations, churches more often than not reflect the fragmented, ghettoized nature of American community life. Working primarily with our retreat center, Parish Acres, Jim is developing a program which can bring men from diverse backgrounds together around the common problems of the Metropolitan community.

Jim has taken on the major task of trying to relate the Mission of the Parish and the problems we see around East Harlem to the churches in the Metropolitan area that have supported the Parish over the years. The decision to make this ministry a major priority was based on at least two convictions: that local congregations, isolated from one another in exclusive residential neighborhoods cannot effectively and appropriately minister within the over-arching structures of the city. It is also painfully clear that the local slum community cannot cope with the problems in our urban ghettoes, but that these problems are the responsibility of the whole Metropolitan community. The. very existence of the city as a habitable place for human life depends on the well-to-do white community seeing the dehumanization of life in the inner city as their own problems and not just the misfortunes of the poor.

This past summer, Jim conducted three family Christian vacation weeks at Parish Acres that brought together Negro and Puerto Rican families from East Harlem with white families from the Greater New York City area. The give and take and mutual enrichment of the weeks were exciting for all who participated. By living together as a large family, sharing in recreation, discussion, Bible study, and chores, the participants experienced the excitement of beginning to know and understand people who were different than themselves. Perhaps more significantly, they realized that they were not so very different after all.

Jim has developed a series of retreats and conferences for 1965-1966 centered around the study of the Missionary Structure of the Congregation and the crisis in Human Rights.

Jim and Linda and their two children. Henry and Betsy are living in Washington Houses, a city project in New York.

At the wedding of Harry Bruckner Jr.'60 and Virginia Ann Bowers were (l to r)Trygve Myhren '58, Harry Bruckner '22(groom's father), bride and groom, andWilliam Richmond '60. The wedding wasin Providence, R. I. The couple now isliving in San Francisco where Harry isworking for Harper & Row, Publishers.

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