1959
I almost decided to do my income tax rather than write this column. There are times of the year when it is about as in- convenient to write it as it is for you to read it. But then, I guess we all need a little test of our self-discipline.
Christmas cards brought some good tidings. Dave and Cynthia Marshall and daughter combined on a nice card. They are still battling the snows of up-state New York. Cindy teaches emotionally handicapped children half a day. If Dave is a New York Giant football fan, I imagine she can use some of her practices on him, too. Midgeand Tim Tyler have expanded their family to three children, with the birth of Christopher who was six weeks old at the time the card was written. Somehow, the sleeping mouse on the front of the card does resemble Tim during GI. Barb Anderson writes that Rod has been convinced by Rusty Ingersoll '60 to play a little extracurricular hockey this winter. Rod's condition sounds better than that of the Hanover contingent of '59s who can hardly make it up and down the basketball court once.. Gavitt excluded; it's just his players who can't. That's our problem to some degree, isn't it? Edand Pat Hobbie note that young daughter Laura is consuming most of their time and attention. I hope she ends up with her father's legal rather than his jump shot. From Chicago, Sam and Nancy Adams write that they are longing for the New England slopes. I'll bet Chicago is a change after the wide open spaces of the great Southwest. Sam finished his Ph.D. in geology last spring.
Jim and Betsy Wooster have moved to Pittsfield, Mass., as Jim continues to make good connections with the telephone company. They have a nice new house and are right in the middle of ski country. I guess Dick Warden has forgot all we taught him here. Once again his card from Minneapolis has no message on it; not even about pineapple up-side-down cake or his fate on the slopes. From Detroit comes word of a happy settling in by Greg and Sandy Holthusen. They left here last spring for Greg to take up a position in a Detroit hospital. Ray and Rita Becker said they are all set to put their two little female snow bunnies on skis this season. Getting kids in and out of snow equipment is probably the greatest conditioner I've experienced since the rope climb we had to perform during our Freshman Week physicals. Kent and Barb Neilson write a nice compliment about this column. They're diplomats. I appreciate the sympathy. I assume that Kent is still with General Electric. Their present address is Joliet, Ill. And that's about it for the Christmas cards. I apologize to those of you who would rather I didn't use your cards for news, but my sources are limited. I hope it won't discourage you from writing again next year.
Jim O'Neil has joined Shell Oil Company as a salesman assigned to the Mt. Vernon, N. Y., district office. He will be working in Shell's Eastern marketing region and recently completed a two-week orientation course in Flushing, N. Y., designed to acquaint him with the responsibilities of various departments. Jim earned his master's degree at the University of New Hampshire last year. He and Mary Ann live in Hartsdale, N. Y.
A blurb in a recent newspaper announced that in Nairobi, Kenya a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Liesching. Dick is the American Life Insurance Company's Manager for East Africa. The secretary of the Class of 1928 sent along a clipping announcing the engagement of Dix Davis to Sarah Beebe. The wedding will take place on July I. Sarah is a teacher at Estabrook School in Lexington, Mass., while Dix is a mortgage analyst with the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America. I haven't seen John Remmers since he has come to Hanover to continue medical training at Mary Hitchcock, but I did read in the paper that he and his wife became the parents of a baby boy on November 25. They live in Norwich, Vt.
John Cook was in charge of a series of digs in the Yukon Territory this past summer. He is presently at the University of Wisconsin in the Anthropology Department. Bill Brigiani is practicing law with a firm down in Perth Amboy, N. J. On the back of his dues notice, Gary Ewing writes that he is living in Park City, Utah, the home of Treasure Mountain Ski Resort. He welcomes any '59s who might make it out that way for a ski vacation. Expenses paid?
More news from Vietnam. Warren Huse is at the Van Kiep National Training Center over there as an infantry training advisor. He expects to return to the United States around the beginning of February to take up his next assignment at Fort Benning, Ga.
Pete Klinge's wife Sandy writes that she has finally given up on her husband's good intentions and is writing the news herself. Pete has just become advertising director at WPIX Channel 11 in New York City. They are moving to Huntington, Long Island, shortly. Pete received his Master's degree at NYU in Communications and is now a Ph.D. candidate there. They have several "monsters": Pete 7, Kristian 5½, Gretchen 3, and Kersten 2. Sandy recently graduated from Art School so everybody is busy. Charlie Hoyt writes that he is now married, with two little girls already a part of the family. He returned from the Philippines and is now a doctor with the Air Force down in San Antonio, Texas. FredLuedke is responsible for all the Midas Muffler Shops in the Milwaukee area and is also serving as an American Field Service Americans Abroad Returnee Advisory Board Member in New York City. How he covers the distance I don't know. The Luedkes have a daughter Elizabeth almost a year old and are getting full enjoyment out of her. Fred, have you developed a salt resistant muffler yet?
That's about it for now. I guess I should pay my dues soon and write myself a little note on the back of the notice. That's about the only way I'd be able to figure out just exactly what was happening in my life. The folder reading push is really on. The thawfreeze trend continues this winter and it has really put a cramp in my style. The snow blower Santa Claus gave me doesn't blow slush!
Tony Marro, Rutland HeraldFriends Johannes von Trapp '63 (left) and Tony Thompson '60 went separate wayson the Vermont gubernatorial campaign trail. Johannes campaigned for DemocratPhilip Hoff, who was reelected, and Tony worked for Republican Richard Snelling.
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