1959
I guess it's fortunate that not much news has come through at this time of year, because it is our busiest season and I am afraid that even if countless tidings had flown in on the wings of the snowflakes, I would be forced to deprive you of the usual spicy wit and euphoric epistolary tidbits.
Well, it's official with Scott Palmer. He recently traveled to Rochester to be present at the gala announcement of his engagement to Sally Crawford of the old line Dartmouth Crawfords. Now we are all wondering just when the wedding will be . . . for somehow he ran into a large snowstorm and didn't return for a full week! The bride's family certainly got to know their future son-in-law. The big splice takes place June 18 with the Reverend Jim Crawford '58 performing the service. Whit Gooch and his wife are currently living in Hanover. Whit works for a local architect, having taken some time off from Yale School of Architecture where he is pursuing a degree. Tomand Diane Seessel dropped in to say hello when in Hanover on a ski trip a few weeks ago. They were taking an anniversary trip and had left son Adam at home in New Haven where Tom works for Community Progress Inc.
Doug Adams recently married Judith Lee Skelly down in Connecticut. Doug is currently a Personal Trust Administrator with the Bank of New York and is also attending St. John's University Law School in Brooklyn. Bob Leopold became engaged to Ruth Kennedy a while ago out on the West Coast. After a spring wedding, they will live in San Francisco. Paul Matusow couldn't take on public health all by himself. He married Arlene Sherman on January 15 in Bethesda, Md. Arlene works for the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D. C. Paul is with the Public Health Service in Washington. Sounds like a healthy economic opportunity for both of them!
Captain Dick Shute has been awarded the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service as a deputy missile combat crew commander at Schilling Air Force Base, Kansas. A missile launch officer, he is now assigned to Kincheloe Air Force Base in Michigan, with the Air Defense Command. Commissioned through the ROTC program at Dartmouth, Dick now guards the northern border against hostile aircraft and missiles.
News out of Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts has it that Mike Hirsh has recently been reassigned to the 814th Medical Group in the pediatrics department. Are that many babies born in the Army? Mike and his wife Carol live down in Fairview, Mass. He is also connected with the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Northeast Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The Midwest Research Institute recently announced the appointment of Ted Izzard to its Economic Development Division. Ted has done extensive research in the fields of economic geography, land use analysis and general marketing research and specializes in local and regional industrial development. Before joining MRI, he was a senior consultant with Fantus Area Research Inc. in New York City. A little card came in from Alumni Records on Larry Friedricks but it contained only his address. Sounds interesting though: 20th Century-Fox, 33, Champs-Elysees, Paris, France. Maybe he is an agent for Bridget Bardot! If I read the code correctly, Mike McKenzie is a lawyer down in Falls Church, Va., or at least in that area. Jerry Mass is an analyst with the Defense Department and the only thing his address tells me is that he's someplace outside the country. Maybe he's over looking for that lost nuclear weapon off the coast of Spain.
Nathan Oakes has been elected an Assistant Cashier of the Society National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio. A specialist analyst in the bank's investment department, he joined the bank in 1960 after graduate study at the University of Michigan. Since 1962 he has been a specialist analyst. He and Carolyn and their two sons, Jonathan and Timothy, live in nearby Shaker Heights.
And now a note of harsh reality. You all know Jim Wooster. Well, hard times have hit. Jim was forced to sell his house down in Needham, Mass., and move into a real old establishment. Things got worse and Jim and Betsy along with little Jimmy (who really is quite big) had to move, at least for this winter, to an old farmhouse high in the hills of Hartland, Vt., the expense of which, just to show you the dire financial situation involved, is borne by twenty couples who live there with the Woosters at one time or another. Now it's tough when you see a classmate go on the rocks. How do you act? You can't conduct an open financial drive to help make him solvent. You rather want to place something at his disposal that will not embarrass him but which will give him a chance to bounce back. Jim and Betsy would never accept charity, though they might need it. They would never move out of that crowded farm house - at least not while the skiing is good. Jim is trying to earn a few dollars by giving ski lessons, but the snow plow comes rather hard during these days when the strength of his sinews is at a low ebb from a steady diet of bouillon cubes. I think that about all we can do at this point is show him that all fifty-nines, regardless of financial status, remain in the fold and are ever entitled to the sustenance classmates can provide for each other. Give a little something extra to the Alumni Fund which starts this month. The saga of Woeful Woos will be continued next month . . . in place of "Batman."
Secretary, Canaan, N. H. 03741
Treasurer, 23 Fourth St., Manhasset, N. Y.
