1951
Most of us recall that at graduation a four-footed companion of four years, Ted seeing eye dog, received a special certificate. Ted, now an associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT and a computer designer, is currently engaged in work which may make the computer a seeing eye dog for the blind in many areas to which they now have little or no access.
Ted directs the writing of advanced timesnaring programs at MIT project MAC (.multiple access computer). For his use, special high-speed Braille embossing equipment and printed translation programs are contained in a small satellite computer. The high-speed Braille embosser is obviously superior to present Braille printing done by hand-operated machines. The goal is to make nearly all published material available to the blind in Braille.
Our next two items relate to U.S. Navy commanders. Art Gustavson left us after a year to go to Annapolis, from which he was graduated in 1952. He is now Supply Officer at the Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Ill.
Art and wife Carol Marie have three children: Kathryn, 10; Kurt, 5; and Paul, 9 months by the time you read this column. Along the way, Art picked up two M.A.'s, both in 1964, one from George Washington in personnel administration, the other from Middlebury in Spanish.
Roy Reynolds is facing all the frustrations of the prospective commanding officer of a ship which isn't being built that fast. His ship is, or was, the "Albert David," a destroyer escort, abuilding in Seattle. Roy and his nucleus crew had the responsibility to superiors to oversee and advise on the ship's progress, yet almost no authority over the shipbuilders.
Various labor difficulties now put the ship's completion 15 to 18 months away. As a result, Roy is this month heading for Saigon to join J-5 (plans) section of Com. USMACV's staff (whatever that is). He expects to return to Seattle in the spring of 1968, hopefully to command the "Albert David" or one of the other new destroyer escorts now under construction there.
Sel Atherton has moved up to senior vice president of the First Agricultural National Bank of Pittsfield, Mass. He is also a director of Bryant Machine Company, Windsor Mountain School, and Butternut Basin, Inc. He and wife Margery have four children.
Joe Baker is an assistant vice president in the correspondent bank division of First National Bank of Boston. He and wife Louise have two children, Kevin, 12, and Pamela, 10.
Jay Wolf has been appointed vice-president of the Equity Division of General Artists Corporation. Formerly with Artists Agency Corporation, Jay joined GAC last year. He will be in GAC's New York office, representing GAC's clients in all equity fields.
Fluid Controls, Inc., of Mentor, Ohio, has promoted Bob Koski to director of marketing. Dave Conant works out of Burlington, Vt., doing medical sales work for Strasenburgh Laboratories. He is married to Mary Durivage.
Dick Bacon is Cleveland District Sales Manager for Harris-Seybold Co. division of Harris Intertype. He was previously District Manager in Dallas and San Francisco. Dick and wife Nancy (a Skidmore '51) have a brood of two, Deborah, 14, and Dick Jr.,
Doug Gray left Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati in September to join Doyle Dane Bernback in New York City as account supervisor on General Foods. As of the time of his writing, he was expecting his family to join him shortly for a "go" at apartment living m Manhattan.
Bob Sanderson is a golf course superintendent concerned with golf course maintenance and construction for General Development Corp. in Florida. He finished his undergraduate work at Hamilton. Bob and wife Mary Ann have a daughter, Pam 5.
Ken smith practices law in Manhattan as a partner in the firm of Reavis & McGrath wife Dorothea live on Staten Island with son Kenneth, 9. Ken is a member of the Board of Directors of the Staten Island Historical Society. Fellow attorney Ben Is running for the job of Walpole, Mass., town moderator.
As for family size, Charlie Hints may hold the record for the class. His eighth child, a girl, arrived on December 16, making a total of six girls and two boys. Earlier in 1966 Charlie was promoted to senior research chemist by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh. Chuck Packard's second son, Christopher William, arrived June 8.
While the '51 family is still being added to at the younger end, there are those children leaving the family circle by virtue of seniority. Alex Sarjeant now has son Dwight in Army O.C.S. at Fort Knox, son Dana a freshman at Bucknell, and son Dale at Peddle School in New Jersey. Wife Joan has gone back to college at nearby Bowling Grèn (Ohio) State U. to complete her bachelors degree. Son Dean and daughter Debbie are still at home.
Back in Norwich, Vt„ Bill DeVaux runs DeVaux's Gun Shop (buy, sell, trade, and repair). He and wife Lillian have three children: David 14; Dennis, 10; and Cynthia, 7. be haPPy to have any classmates Hanover take the trip across Ledyard Bridge to see him.
In January, Paul Staley and I were roommates on the occasion of the Alumni Council semi-annual meeting. We were lodged cm the fourth floor of the "new" part of the Hanover Inn. The old part on the corner with its Rube Goldberg plumbing and shower facilities down the hall has been completely demolished. The framework of a new structure, whose floors will match those of the "new" part, is rapidly going up.
As for getting to Hanover, Northeast Airlines no longer has any of those old reliable DC-3' S. Instead, there is the Fairchild-Hiller 227, a two-engine jet-prop which seats almost twice as many passengers, is pressurized, and makes it in almost half the time.
If you haven't seen one, the F-227 is a rather odd-looking plane with a low fuselage, wing mounted on top so that there is full visibility down from all seats, and the most ungainly landing gear you ever saw. It looks like a clumsy bird whose wings you expect to start flapping on take-off.
An old fashioned family portrait of theJim Robinsons '51 of Chattanooga. At hisleft is daughter Carolyn and son Frankand on his right, wife Sibyl and son Lee.
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