1958
Mark it on your calendar now - our Big Tenth the weekend of June 23, 24 and 25. Detailed plans will follow shortly but DickFrisch writes that they've got some great things in the mill so it should be a smash with over four hundred expected to return!
This year has been an interesting and eventful one for John Murphy. He and Johanna Cahill were married in August. Prior to that John was admitted to the Connecticut State Bar and is now practicing law with the firm of Robinson, Robinson and Cole in Hartford. After leaving Dartmouth John went on to spend three years in the Marine Corps and then volunteered for two more with the Peace Corps and was assigned to Gabon, South Africa. After returning from his Peace Corps stint, John entered Boston College Law School where he completed work for his LL.B. this spring.
A grant from the Ford Foundation has made it possible for one of our classmates to work on a special project with the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N. J. Dr. Bruce Carlson, now a member of the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was awarded a grant recently to work on the development of the "picture phone." This is the thing that most of our wives dread as they're conversing on the phone in the morning. When it's perfected though, it might be to all of our benefit. We'd be able to call home and not get a busy signal because their wives would be afraid to use the phone until they have all their make-up on. After leaving Dartmouth, Bruce went on to Stanford to complete work on his Master's and Ph.D. He has been associated with Rensselaer's department of electrical engineering since November of '63.
New York City has a new Deputy Police Commissioner, Harry Dodds, who was recently chosen to take charge of the legal affairs of the New York City Police Department. Harry will be heading up a staff of eighteen lawyers in handling suits, departmental trials and other legal matters involving New York City police. Before being chosen for this position, Harry was a corporation lawyer with Charles Pfizer & Company, the pharmaceutical manufacturer. The past nine years have been full ones for Harry. After Dartmouth he went to Yale Law School where he graduated in '61. From 1961 to 1963 Harry was assistant commissioner for native courts in the northern region of Nigeria. He was appointed to this position under the Africa-Asia Public Service Fellowship program administered by Syracuse University. He and his wife Barbara are now making their home in Brooklyn Heights, N. Y.
"The Sound and Fury" will soon be coming from the other side of the country as Newsletter editor Steve Quickel has been promoted to Bureau Manager of "Forbes Magazine's" newly opened Los Angeles editorial bureau. Steve has been on the staff of Forbes for the past six years.
Another of our classmates is heading for South America. Jim Dougherty who has been with the law firm of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair and Reed since graduating from Columbia in 1963 is being sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for six or eight months to work on some of his firm's legal problems in that area of the world.
Ran into Barry Stompe at O'Hara Field in Chicago this summer. Barry is a co-pilot with Trans World Airlines. He has just been moved to Los Angeles from New York. Barry had been flying on TWA's overseas division but now with the transfer to L.A. will be having only long distance domestic flights. He feels though that the year-round warm air and sunshine in California will compensate for those occasional stop-overnights in Europe and the Far East. Guess it all depends on which way you look at it!
Steve Dawkins has recently been promoted to Class 5 in the Foreign Service. Steve has served at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and at the American Consulate in Sapporo, Japan. He has just recently been assigned to the Japanese Language and Art Training Institute in Yokohama. His wife Joyce has been able to accompany him on his overseas assignments and has taught English to the children of the Japanese officials in both Tokyo and Sapporo. Steve and Joyce have a three-year-old daughter, Holly.
Jeff Strayer and John Parker have organized a '58 rendezvous after this year's Harvard game the weekend of October 28. They have reserved a large room at the Cambridge Holiday Inn, 1633 Cambridge Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. There'll be a cash bat and all the trimmin's immediately following the game!
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