1960

Dateline for this month's column is Bangkok, Thailand, where beautiful Thai girls wear exciting sarongs, pagodas and Buddhas glisten in golden splendor and where American GIs are taking their R&R from Vietnam. It's also a city where prices have as much as doubled over the last two years, where big fancy hotels open at a rate of one a month - and it's interesting to note, where a few fancy hotels have already gone bankrupt - and where, surprisingly enough, the only people particularly interested or worried by the conflict in Vietnam are the tourists from the USA.

On my way here 1 stopped off in Tokyo to see Rick Roesch, Linda, and brand new baby, Carissa Karin. Rick did his best to show me all of Tokyo in one afternoon and, judging by my feet, succeeded reasonably well. He then topped it off with an ever so slight earthquake during dinner. Quite a performance! Rick works for the First National City Bank in Tokyo, after having spent a number of months in Nagoya, Japan with the bank.

Tom Grow keeps me informed, in the meantime, on medical happenings in the state of Texas. Tom is a second-year medical student and as he puts it, "is finally getting at some live patients." (Which I have quoted out of context, and do not therefore want to have misinterpreted.) Dick Norgaard, Tom tells me, is also in Dallas as a second-year resident in medicine at the Parkland Hospital.

Norris Knosher has been named associate advanced underwriting consultant and elected an officer of the 117-year-old National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. Norris is a graduate of Harvard Law and a member of the Vermont, Massachusetts and California bars. He came to the company's advanced services division of their agency department in 1964. He is still a bachelor.

Skip Savage dropped me a note with all sorts of news. He reported Butch Hitchcock's marriage to loan Perreault on December 3. Butch is working for Eastern Airlines and lives in St. Louis. Bob Shields was at the wedding but the only things we found out about him were that he lives in Manhattan and works as a stockbroker. Another stockbroker, I hear, is Gordon Biggar. He and Ginny have a one-year-old daughter, Melissa. Skip1 himself is a D.D.S., which, considering today's dentists' charges, should make all '6os in the western Maryland area take note. He's married to the former Dr. Ruta Dzelzgalvis.

I got a note from Jim Haught who seems to know the part of the world, where this is written, quite well. He spent two years at the American International School in New Delhi, India. He's now at Syracuse University on a doctorate in Educational Administration. He's married to the former Joan Anderson.

Allen Stowe has been active in chasing down some missing '60s. One of them is Roy Eisenhardt who is an attorney with Elke, Farella, Braun and Martel in San Francisco. Eric Anderson recently passed his California Bar Exams and will set up shop there soon. And finally we've found a man who skis in New England and Idaho during the same month and has a nerve to call it work: Dick Chase; he's selling a ski area condominium idea. Allen himself, with a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School, works in real estate with the Alex Summer Company. He claims that all kids, wives, and pets have at one time or other been publicized in this column except Ralph, the spayed family female cat.

And while I'm talking about people who make their living as close as possible to the slopes: Pete Hawks works for the Head Ski Company. Not only that, but he's still a bachelor - and apparently enjoying it-and "scramble rallies" on a 250cc motorcycle, which sounds like a heck of a time.

Skidmore apparently has become the marital haven of a number of '60s. Allen Stowe sent me a clipping from the fall issue of the Skidmore Quarterly. With proper acknowledgements to the Skidmore '61 Class Secretary Suzanne Parker Prior (wife of DickPrior) let me quote a few lines:"... Sue Ungar Hollern (wife of Mike Hoilern)... hasn't fought her way out from under diapers yet, but somehow finds time to nurture her interest in local politics and civil rights."

I heard from Sandy Berens, who's half way through his residency in Radiology at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. He received his M.D. from Dalhousie Universsity Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He's married to the former Arlene Neufeld and they have what Sandy proudly describes as a "blockbuster" of a son, 23 months old.

And finally a few short items: Al Stark married Ellen Barbara Berman on November 20.... Bill Adel works for IBM in Kansas. .... Bob Gushing is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.... JohnFriede is an associate with Lehman Bros, in New York City.... Sol Rockenmacher is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps ... and Paul O'Sullivan is a course director with the General Learning Corporation in Maryland.

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