1954
Have you been feeling a bit harassed lately? Suffering from income tax tension or spring cleaning fatigue? Is your golf swing rusty from the winter layoff? If so, don't feel glum chum, just watch the smoke of Bob Woodberry, who is burning the proverbial candle at three ends. Bob has just been appointed manager of the new Denver office of Dean Witter & Co., one of the leading member firms of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Bob was with Merrill Lynch in Denver and First Boston Corp. in New York. After a tough day of setting up his new office, Bob comes home to a tough night of sitting up with his new baby. Young Peter Sturgis Woodberry is Bob and Marlinda's third child and second son. Although the aforementioned two new endeavors are certainly enough to keep Bob occupied full time, he is now plunging into another Alumni Fund drive which promises to be even more successful than his great campaign of last year. In all three of Bob's pursuits, we wish him the very best.
Another of our classmates getting into the swim of new waters is Steve Weinreb. After graduating from Yale Law School and practicing ticingas an attorney in New York City for several years, Steve has decided to become a psychiatrist. He is now in his first year at Temple Medical School in Philadelphia.
Spring training should now be in full swing for the young swingers. This means added duty for Dick Eaton who manages a Little League team in Needham, Mass. Dick has a third of a team in sons Bill, 10, Ricky, 8, and Gary, 4, so he figured he might as well supervise some outsiders, too. One of the outsider's contracts won't be renewed since wife Nancy Lee is expecting number four momentarily. Dick is director of the Eaton Funeral Home and is active in the Masons. He reports that Bob McCartney should be moving soon to Maguire A.F.B. in New Jersey. The Babe Ruth League of Walpole, Mass., spent part of spring training looking for a replacement for its president, George Corbett. Employed by the Cleveland Metal Abrasive Co., George has been transferred to cover the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut territory and will be living in Cheshire, Conn. George had been a Walpole Democratic Town Committeeman and vice-president identof the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Speaking of the Chamber of Commerce, it's appropriate to report that Deke DesCombes was awarded the Pomona (Calif.) Jaycees Distinguished Service Award as the "outstanding young man of 1965." Deke is a partner in the Pomona insurance firm of Elwell Averbeck Company. The list of his community activities is lengthy and impressive. He is a board member of the Friends of Ontario Airport and the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southern California, chairman of the Mt. San Antonio College Relay Committee, co-chairman of a United Crusade division, team captain in a Y.M.C.A. membership drive, a Kiwanian, and an active official in the Pomona Chamber of Commerce. Back on the East Coast a fellow insurance man Booge Tayntor was also the recipient of a noteworthy award for his endeavors. Booge was awarded membership for the year 1966 in the Presidents' Club of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Membership in this club is limited to a select group of Conn. General representatives who have established outstanding records in production of business and in quality of service to clients.
Still in the field of insurance, there comes word from Worcester, Mass., that NormKasparson has been appointed as assistant counsel by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America. After graduation from Harvard Law School, Norm joined State Mutual as assistant manager in the title department. Subsequently, he was appointed an attorney for the law staff of the financial operations department. Norm, his wife Anja, and their son reside in Holden, Mass.
It seems as though most of the news in this column as in most previous ones deals with classmates from Massachusetts or New York, so before proceeding further with such news, it's time for a change in locale. Rip Coffin has changed jobs but the locale, for the most part, is still the same. Rip has switched from the Bureau of the Budget to A.I.D. Although he is still based in Washington, D. C., and resides in nearby Chevy Chase, Rip had occasion this fall to take an extensive field trip throughout Central America in connection with his new position. From the Netherlands "Dutch" Oudheusden reports that his manufacturing company which started business there in Breda, has grown and now has branch operations in Brussels, Belgium, and Frankfort, Germany.
Now back to Bay State and Empire State news. George Fitzgerald is another of our multi-candle burning classmates, only George's candles are both figurative and literal. Although he is chaplain at Tufts University, George still finds time to write a fortnightly article in "The Boston Pilot," the archdiocesan newspaper, to study for an M.A. in government at Tufts, and to be an assistant professor of theology at Boston College. During winter intercession at his various schools, George was able to spend a week on the slopes at Stowe. He certainly deserves that vacation! From Buffalo, N. Y., comes word that Dick Danforth has been named the city's deputy urban renewal commissioner and director of development. Dick has a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania and prior to his Buffalo appointment was a city planner in Salinas and Freemont, Calif., Henniker, N. H., and Utica, and Herkimer, N. Y.
To round out the news of our sometimes harassed classmates there are wedding and birth announcements to report. After honeymooning in Switzerland, Hap Winslow and his bride, the former Helen Fitzpatrick, by this time have settled down in their new Saugus, Mass., home. The Winslows were married early in January of this year at St. Mary's Church in Franklin, Mass. Hap is employed in the Boston office of I.B.M. Most harried of the new fathers must be Lyon Greenberg who is undertaking this role for the first time. Son Joshua David Greenberg was born on Dec. 19, 1965. Lyon has a private practice in otolaryngology (ears, nose, and throat doctor to us laymen) in Albany, N. Y., and is a clinical instructor at the Albany Medical College. A second timer as father is Jack Tuck with the arrival of Kathleen Louise Tuck, his first daughter, on Dec. 5, 1965. Although Jack is still in Norway working on his University of Wisconsin project, wife Peg returned with son Jonathan to Pittsburgh, Pa., to await the happy event.
Old hands at parenthood are Dick andAudrey Lewis whose third child, Daniel Burnham Lewis was born on Jan. 22, 1966. The other members of the family are Tracy, 8, and Jonathan, 5. Dick incidentally is also a member of the family of '54's residing in Needham, Mass., which includes Dick Eaton, Phil Christophe, Jim Adams, Charlie Morrison, and Don Keller.
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