1951
At the end of a long New Year's Day weekend, I found it difficult this morning to drag myself out of bed and off to work and find it equally difficult this evening to get down to cranking out these Class Notes. I'd rather be sunning myself on some Caribbean beach recuperating from the rigors of an impossibly exhausting 1966. But right now I've got news, plenty of it, including some about classmates you haven't read about for many years, perhaps have even lost sight of since undergraduate days.
The Denver "Rocky Mountain News" recently ran a feature story on Dr. lackJacobey and his continuing work in developing the first known treatment for acute coronary heart disease. Jack began his research at Harvard Medical, then was senior thoracic resident under the famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey in Texas, and is now continuing his work at the University of Colorado Medical Center under a grant from the Colorado Heart Association. Jack had just returned from the Fifth World Conference of Cardiology at New Delhi, India, where he presented his most recent findings to some 5000 physicians attending. The treatment basically involves collateral arteries in the heart which fall into disuse in early childhood but can be reactivated by a special pump when a stoppage blocks coronary arteries. Jack is an instructor in surgery at the University of Colorado Medical Center.
Somewhere between trips to the West Coast, I became dimly aware of the fact that Woody Klein was no longer New York Mayor John Lindsay's press secretary. But I really didn't know whether he had quit or been fired. I was therefore relieved to find in my mail a news clip from a New York Times I had not seen picturing His Honor with an arm around Woody's shoulder. Woody had merely moved over to assistant to the Mayor for Housing and Urban Development, an unwelcome task for which Woody's masquerade as a Bowery bum to do a prize-winning newspaper series a few years back no doubt prepared him well.
While we're on the subject of classmates and New York newspapers, let me tell you about Al Crehan, who left us after freshman year to attend West Point, from which he graduated in 1952. From there, he served around the world as an Air Force jet pilot until 1965, when he resigned from active duty, although he's still a major in the reserves.
Al now works for the "New York Daily News" ("the country's largest newspaper") as assistant to the Circulation Manager. He and wife Bernie have five children - Susan, 12; Alfred Jr., 11; Mark, 7; Katherine, 6; Matthew, 5 - and another on the way.
Every once in a while I get a complaint about our Class Birthday Cards from some classmate who is sensitive to being reminded of the fact that he is one year closer to senility. Then I found a news item to remind me that when most of us arrived on Hanover Plain with peach fuzz still on our cheeks, there were not only most upperclassmen but also a few classmates who had seen extended service in World War II and were several years older.
One of such classmates, Earl Reynolds, retired from the Air Force with the rank of Colonel at the end of October after 25 years of active and reserve status. At retirement, he was assistant professor of Aerospace Studies in the Air Force ROTC Department at St. Louis (Mo.) University. Earl received the Air Force Commendation Medal on the occasion.
I regret to report that Pete Tennyson lost his wife of 13 years, Janice, of acute leukemia a year ago shortly after they and son Jeffrey, 10, moved to Portland, Ore., for the second time. Pete is manager of the Portland office of Industrial Indemnity Company, the West's largest private writer of workmen's compensation insurance. He completed his undergraduate work at Berkeley.
In the Bay area, Phelps Dewey is promotion director of the San Francisco Newspaper Printing Co. He and wife Jennifer have five children. Down the peninsula in Palo Alto, Dick Bennett raises money for Stanford and carries the title of Assistant General Secretary. (At least they're Indians, too, even if they are red and white instead of green.) Dick and wife Lois have two daughters, Margery, 12, and Lisa, 10.
Moving back East of the Rockies, JohnLewis is in the rock business as an assistant professor of geology at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado in June and is currently doing research in sedimentary rocks. He and wife Marilyn have a brood of three: Patty, 8; Mark, 6; and David, 4½.
Herb Knight has joined All-Steel Equipment Co., Inc., in Aurora, Ill., as Director of Marketing Planning, a newly created position. Wife Nancy reports that they have a new home on Nassau Lane in Geneva, Ill. It happens to be the only house on the street and was built by a Princeton man; Nancy promises that they will do their best to have the street name changed.
In Motown (Detroit to you squares), Clint Washburn does automotive engineering for Chrysler and carries the title of Styling Studio Engineer. He and wife Phyllis have a daughter of (by time of reading) five months named Candy. Clint is Area Director for Styling for the Chrysler Management Club.
Down in North Carolina, Tom Gay and wife Daphine also have a daughter under one year, Michelle-Chere Felicia. Tom is an assistant professor of history at Wilmington College and in the process of completing his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.
Moving North to Baghdad-on-the-Hud-son, bachelor Bill Flanagan is a consultant with Peat, Marwick & Mitchell doing general management consulting but specializing in marketing. In addition to his Dartmouth A.B., Bills holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at Penn and an LL.B. from N.Y.U. and is a member of the New York bar.
Up-Hudson, Em Pugh is manager of IBM's Technical Planning Research Division. He and wife Betsy have two children, Billy, 6, and Sarah, 3. Farther upstate, RussSawyer is president of Sawyer Industries, Inc., in power transmission equipment. He and wife Jane have a brood of three: Thomas, 8; Martha, 6; and Robert, 5.
Over in Connecticut, Will Jones is a computer analyst concerned with systems and programming quality control for Travelers Insurance. He and wife Suzanne (U.N.H.'55) also have three children: Robert, 10; Douglas, 7½; and Elizabeth, 6.
Up on The Cape (Cod, that is), Hyannis orthopedic surgeon Jim Eldredge was recently inducted into the American College of Surgeons at a convocation in San Francisco. Living in the Boston area, Amos Gile is special sales manager for New England and New York for International Silver Co. He and wife Lorna have two daughters, Joanne, 15, and Pamela, 12, and a son, John, 14.
Dick Anderson operates out of Beantown as district manager for New England for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Dick and wife Suzanne have two children: Susan Janet, 12, and Steven, 3. To keep the record straight, in 1957 Dick changed his name from Blomquist to Anderson, which left the Class with two Andersons and one Blomquist instead of one Anderson and two Blomquists.
I haven't run out of news, but I have run out of space, which means I've got some seed corn for the March column. But keep that news rolling in!
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