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February has always struck me as a pretty inadequate month. It's not snow enough to be winter, not warm enough to be spring and not long enough to be worthhile. Nevertheless, this month is just like any other in the column-writing business and stupid February will get an appropriately short résumé of the news.

Dr. Clyde McAllister is with the Marine Corps and has been transferred to Vietnam. According to my calculations, Clyde is about the 10th member of '61 to be stationed in the war zone.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Goodridge are back in their native Maryland while Tom is in residence in Bethesda and his wife Betty will teach elementary school nearby.

Another one of those dashing, mysterious foreign service officer bachelors is going down in flames (to mix a metaphor). Peter Beneville and Mary Longworth Hamilton are engaged and will sign their treaty in April in Washington, D. C., where Pete does his foreign service officering.

jack Hauser is married. That took courage, Jack, we're all very proud of you. We know you lost a 5,000-dollar bet with StuSheldon when you decided to get married before your 30th birthday.

I mentioned a fancy speech-title a few months ago "The Cost Analysis of Reliability Programs" and challenged anyone to reveal the contents which followed that august title. As I recall the wager was a free lunch. In a truly discouraging display of bad sportsmanship, Jerry Greenfield has claimed the prize. As you may guess, Greenfield is the author of that auspicious work and therefore should have disqualified himself. Unfortunately, he is a vicious and greedy man who means to have his prize no matter how that impoverishes your impecunious secretary. Besides being the author of speeches and a hard-nose, Jerry and wife Corky are living in L. A. where Jerry heads several important-sounding task groups at the Radar Relay Division of Telldyne, Inc.

Mike Norman who interned here in Cincinnati at General Hospital was married on December 3 to the former Miss Linda Brofft. Rita and I saw Mike and Linda a couple of times here in Cincy before they moved back East to get hitched and to permit Mike to begin his residency at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital. Linda is a neat girl and also a nurse so that she and Mike have something to talk about. I've always wondered about pediatricians... when they have kids do they change the diapers cuz they know so much about it or do they make their wives do it cuz that's the American Way?

Rog Baumberger is moving up in the banking business. He's just been named assistant vice president of the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company of New York, where he and his wife Anne live in wedded bliss with their two kidlets.

That's the lot for this fun-filled month ... keep loose.

In Akron Ohio, for the recent wedding of Rick Bowes III '63 and. Anne Hathaway(Toucher '67) were (from left) his ushers and classmates Lee Erdman, Bob Henderson, Rob Kendall, father of the groom Frederick Bowes Jr. '30, the bride and thegroom Stephen Lister, Dino Mastrobernardino, and Pete Suttmeier.

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