1941
Wedding bells about to ring provide the happy lead for this month's class notes. Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Osborn of Bronxville, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter Miss Susan Barrie Osborn to Warner Bishop. A February wedding is planned. The bride-to-be was graduated from Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass., and Briarcliif College. Bish is president of the Union Financial Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio.
A note from Kathy and Bruce Friedlich reads in part as follows: "We went to the Penn game with Dan Provost and our children. We know we saw Pat and Bud Hart,Fran and Brody Bjorkland, and Dorothyand Pat Broh. There may have been others, but the cocktail party that the Philadelphia Club gave afterwards was so mobbed, you were lucky if you didn't lose your wife."
Also enclosed with Friedlichs' letter was a Time, Inc. newsletter which featured the following item: "Time-Life Broadcast Executive Richard Krolik was strolling down Sixth Avenue late last year when he bumped into a former NBC newsmate, John Chancellor, who had left NBC to take charge of the Voice of America. 'What are you doing for your country these days?' Chancellor asked. 'Still selling black market nylons?' It was only a joke, but it worked. For almost a year Krolik has spent one or two days each week in Washington revitalizing the Voice's somewhat dowdy format."
In its 24 years of operation, the Voice, an arm of the U. S. Information Agency, had become a period piece in broadcasting. Now the Voice has replaced its standard format of quarter-hour and half-hour programs with a potpourri of entertainment and comment-similar to NBC's "Monitor." "We want listeners anywhere in the world to be able to tune in and get news, music, interviews, weather and other features when they want them - not just when we want them to be listening," Krolik explains. In the process the Voice even stole a march on domestic stations, its weather forecasts are based on information relayed to earth by government's orbiting weather satellites.
The changes were readily apparent when the Voice hit the airwaves this month with its first broadcast of the "new sound." The longest single item in the first hour of broadcasting was an interview with Secretary of State Dean Rusk which lasted less than five minutes. A big change for a station which has carried the full text of every speech or statement by Secretary Rusk or President Johnson. Even its indomitable theme song, "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean," was scuttled in favor of a modernized version of a tune with less imperialistic overtones — "Yankee Doodle." As Krolik put it: "The new motto is think short."
It has been announced that Amy Bartlett, former superintendent of schools in Norwell, Mass., and former principal of Sharon and Hingham Schools, has been named director of "Project Contemporary Competitiveness," the regional supplementary education center at Bridgewater State College. Under a federal planning grant, fourteen cooperating school districts will use the college as a center to develop enrichment programs. Arny received his Master's degree from Boston University and has taught English in public schools in New Hampshire, Illinois, and Connecticut prior to returning to Massachusetts.
Alex Tarumianz has been appointed manager of the Commercial Industrial Department of the Robert V. Witsil real estate firm in Wilmington, Del. Prior to accepting his present position, he had been associated for the past three years with the real estate firm of Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc. Before entering the real estate field, he had served for eighteen years as business administrator of Delaware's mental health facilities. Alex also is president of Retirement Living, Inc., which owns and operates Foulk Manor, a proprietary residence for retired persons in Wilmington. After graduation he was associated for two years with the accounting department of the DuPont Company before serving in the U.S. Army in World War II as a Warrant Officer.
A short while ago, Caryl and I had a surprise visit from Wynne and John Ahlgren, who were in town visiting John's parents. We spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon reminiscing about some of the events in the past 25 years. Since then, word has been received that John has accepted a new position as a Registered Representative of Estabrook & Co., 80 Pine Street, New York.
As reported briefly last month, your Secretary attended the dedication of the new Kiewit Computation Center at Hanover. Following the formal dedication of the new facility, which is located immediately behind Baker Library on Main Street, there was a two-day conference on "The Future Impact of Computers." At this conference an impressive array of representatives from various colleges and universities, and from the field of business and industry presented a series of panel discussions exploring the impact of computers on knowledge, education, business, and society in general. Professor John Kemeny, chairman of the Mathematics Department at Dartmouth, confidently predicted that by 1990 a computer terminal will be just as commonplace and as important a part of the American home as telephones and television sets are today. One benefit of this, he said, would be that "the intellectual content of homes would be raised to the pre-television standard." All manner of household chores, homework, diversions, etc., would be possible via computers and without leaving the home, according to Dr. Kemeny.
The new computation center houses a General Electric 625 computer, which has 200 input-output stations, each of which can operate the computer as if it had exclusive access to it. Through teletypewriter units placed about the campus, Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members have easy access to the equipment, and since over 80% of the students are trained to take advantage of the equipment, the new installation is expected to get heavy use. Utilization of the equipment, however, is not limited to Hanover residents, since the computer can be operated by a remote teletypewriter unit connected to the installation by long distance telephone lines. In fact, several New England prep schools already have such installations, and are utilizing the Dartmouth equipment to teach the fundamentals of computer operation at the high school level.
1941 was not represented heavily at the conference, but I did run into Snuffy Smith on the street, looking rested and relaxed now that the football season has ended and all refunds for unfilled Princeton ticket orders have been made. Also, I had an enjoyable luncheon at the Inn with Chuck Bolté on the final day of the conference.
New addresses received since I last reported to you two months ago follow: Downey M. Gray Jr., Weyerhauser Co., Box 33100, 6814 Kirbyville Rd., Houston, Texas 77033; Alden T. Hinson. Hooker Chemical Corp., 277 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017; Peter Jacobsen Jr., 7330 S.W. 140 th Terrace, Miami, Fla. 33158; J. Alan Jasper. Box 132, Kennebunk, Me. 04043; Col. Edwin H. Marks Jr., 024935, 416 Underhill Place, Alexandria, Va. 22305; Dr. John H. Selby, Apt. 1302, 1617- 27th St., Lubbock, Texas 79405.
The mail is still pretty light. If some of you fellows don't come through, the class notes some month will consist entirely of whatever address changes the Alumni Records Office furnishes.
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