1955

Air Force Capt. Glenn Wilson was shot down over North Vietnam on August 6 and was taken prisoner. According to a letter from Capt. Jay Emery '60, stationed with Glenn at Cam Ranh Bay, "he and his back seat pilot had just rolled in on a target in the southern panhandle when they took a direct hit from 57-mm. AA. The aircraft, an F4C, disintegrated almost immediately, but both pilots managed to eject and rescue action was initiated. Glenn was in radio communication with the rest of his flight and stated that he was not injured. Soon afterward he reported that enemy troops were approaching, and he was going off the air. Rescue efforts were abandoned, and it is now assumed that Glenn is a guest at the Hanoi Hilton." Jay adds that Glenn was due to leave Vietnam in September, heading for Fort Hood as an Air Force liaison officer to the Army.

In happier news from the military. Navy Lieut. Cmdr. Bob Leopold writes that he completed his tour as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Pluck," a minesweeper, and is now in Pearl Harbor on the staff of the Pacific Fleet commander, scheduling other ships to cover the same Vietnamese waters that he scoured himself. With the Pluck, Bob had two long Far Eastern cruises, the second ten and a half months, almost all of it spent patrolling the coast. The job, Bob reports, "consists of detecting, intercepting. inspecting, and boarding just about everything that moves off the coast to ensure that weapons, ammunition, supplies, etc., are not being supplied to the Viet Cong by sea. As so much of 'war,' it is a taxing, but normally dull job." That hardly sounds dull to civilian ears, and Bob reflects that his opportunity to command a ship "was one of the attractions" that convinced him to make the Navy a career. "In retrospect," he adds, "I'm most pleased with the past two years. We made our commitments, we led our division competitively, we did just about everything as well or better than it is normally done, and, perhaps most important, no one was hurt, lost over the side, or defected to the East. All in all it was a most enlightening, rewarding job. I hope to have others similar during the next 10-15 years."

The Air Force promoted two of our classmates to major: Bill Gavitt and Walt Lamb. Bill, who returned from a year in Vietnam in mid-'66, is now at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota as a missile launch officer in the Minuteman ICBM defense system. He's also working on a master's degree in economics through the Minuteman Graduate Education Program sponsored by the Air Force and South Dakota State University. Walt is in Naples as the purchasing and contract officer in Headquarters Command, a unit of the headquarters of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe. He's been assigned to the AFSOUTH command since June 1965.

Also promoted: Pete Briggs up to manager of banking offices in the retail banking division of the First National Bank of Boston; Dave Hurlbnt advancing to associate actuary at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance in Boston (responsible for supervising actuarial research on the company's field forces, including research on the establishment of new agencies and the expansion of existing ones); Dr. John Stanley appointed to the faculty of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, at Winston-Salem, N. C., as assistant professor of ophthalmology (JohnhuS had special training in neuro-ophthalmology, and his chief research interest is corneal physiology).

Otis and Barb Carney welcomed their first child, Mark Walker, on April 15, which confronts them with an annual challenge as to whether Mark's birthday party or the I.R.S. will get first attention on that date. A note from Barb says that Ote is now the resident sales engineer in the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania area for Arthur A. Crafts Corp. of Waltham, Mass. The Carneys live in Summit, N. J. Dave andAndrea Page also report no. 1, Mark Daniel, on June 17. Dave's a lawyer in Detroit.

Lew Weintraub became engaged to Joan Seifer of Boston, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a teacher at Chandler School for Women. Lew is a hematologist at the New England Medical Center in Boston.

Pete Fishbein, a lawyer who doesn't stay in court or the archives, has been working about half-time with New York State's Constitutional Convention. He's chief counsel to the Committee on the Executive Branch. Translation: "It' is my job to draft the articles in the new state constitution on the governor, lieutenant-governor, comptroller, attorney-general, district attorneys and sheriffs, and the general executive and law enforcement powers of the state government." The convention's proposals will be submitted to New York voters for approval on November 7. Pete was also elected a trustee of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., a liberal arts school with fewer than 1,000 students.

Another busy barrister, Buck Kuttner, is running for the New Jersey legislature this fall. But he's a Democrat in a new district likely to be Republican, so he faces an uphill battle. Buck formerly was legislative counsel to the Irvington Town Council, and ran unsuccessfully for a Council seat in 1962. Dick Hogarty, long active on the fringes of New Jersey politics, is also throwing his hat into the ring this fall, running as a Democrat for a township committee seat. Dick lives in Cranbury, near Princeton, and has temporarily been the staff director for Governor Richard Hughes' task force on migrant labor. His permanent job is assistant professor of political science at Rider College.

Jim Heifer, assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan in Connecticut, published an article in the June 1967 issue of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, "In Defense of Al-Halladj." We may not agree with him, but we'll defend to the death his right to say it. Jerry and Susie Levy moved into a colonial house in North Dartmouth, Mass. He's now assistant controller of Morton's Shoe Stores, Inc., in New Bedford, Mass.

Roy Hill writes that he's "still selling soap across southern Africa out of 7275, Piper Comanches, Land Rovers, and anything else that will move." He raves about surfing in Durban, fishing off Capetown, hunting in Rhodesia, and rugby anywhere. Norrie Howard wound up a year as an exchange teacher at Malvern College, in Worcestershire, England, and returned to Darrow School, New Lebanon, N. Y. He spent Christmas in the Alps and April vacation in the Pyrenees, then enjoyed "fine cricket weather after the wettest May since 1773."

Gene Givens abandoned the security of banking to open his own law office in Los Angeles. He maintains a general practice with emphasis on probate. "Am really enjoying working for myself," he writes. DaveWinograd opened an orthodontics office in Lynn, Mass.

Bob Gregg, who's in Frankfurt, Germany, with Management Consultants on International Trade, reports making a "wonderful 2½ month around-the-world business trip."

Tom Roulston, who's president of Roulston & Company, a Cleveland brokerage house, headed a takeover by dissident stockholders of American Ship Building Company. The insurrectionists were given five places on the ten-man board of directors, though Tom didn't take one himself. According to The Wall Street Journal, "the agreement was reached after a 'competent third party' verified that the Roulston group controlled about 470,000 of American Ship's 1,197,250 outstanding shares." The company is the largest U.S. builder of lake vessels. It has yards at Lorain and Toledo, Ohio, and Chicago.

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