1965
I'm writing this column in early March with several inches of snow on the ground outside and a rather chilly wind howling about my windows. I hope spring has reached all of you by the time you read this.
I want to thank all of you who have written in response to the matters discussed in the February column. It's good to know that so many of you are interested in pitching in to help us with class activities. I'm sure we can find something significant for everyone to help with. I hope that those of you who haven't as yet been in touch with us will drop a note soon.
On the news beat, Steve Waterhouse writes that he is in the process of sifting through enticements from the business world (and from Uncle Sam), so that he can decide what to do with his Tuck diploma in June. (Steve, frame it!) Incidentally, Steve is one of those who volunteered enthusiastically to help the Class in any way possible.
Tom and Carol Morton responded quickly and with a lot of spirit to our February SOS. Tom and Carol will hold down the Sachem Village end of our operation - and, believe it or not, there's still a sizeable '65 population in them thar' bungalows.
John Munroe sends word that he is with the commercial sales division of Itek Corp. in NYC. John has also contributed to the marital exploits of '65 - in January he wed Miss Antje Treppschuh in Obersdorf, West Germany, and they are now living in Brooklyn.
The travelogue verbiage continues to flow from the mighty pen of Tucky Mays on the West Coast. How he manages some of the adventures that he writes of without going AWOL is beyond me, but the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl, Lew Alcindor and the UCLA basketball team, the Bob Hope golf classic, and Squaw Valley have all been on Tuck's itinerary since Christmas. Makes one wonder where our taxes go! (A private message to Whitey: the heading on your stationery reads ... "USS Skagit - You Call-We Haul." You'd better ask your skipper to haul away some of the stuff you've been shoveling, or the whole Navy will sink!)
Jerry Ogden has entered the foreign service after a six months' tour of duty with the U.S. Marine Air Reserve. Jerry has been assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, and he will leave for the Far East late in April, when he completes his training at the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia.
Ed Higgins of Scarsdale, N. Y., is wearing the new gold bars of an Air Force second lieutenant. He was recently commissioned upon graduation from Officer Training School (OTS) at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He is being assigned to Fort Lee, Virginia, where he will undergo training as a food service officer. Perhaps his service experience will give Ed the opportunity to put his Tuck School M.B.A. to work.
A number of late spring weddings are in the offing for Big Greeners: Joel Eiserman and Miss Rachel Salter of Augusta, Me., have become engaged. Rachel is a graduate of the Boston College School of Nursing, and Joel is stationed at Newport, R. I., as a Lt. (jg) in the Navy. A May 6 wedding is planned.
Joel warmed up for his marital venture by serving as Mike Zook's best man, when Mike married Miss Sara Cantrell (Univ. of Colorado) last December. Mike and Sara are living in Chicago, where Mike is with the Northern Trust Company Bank. Sara is a French teacher in the River Forest, Ill., school system.
Ron Choy and Miss Victoria Koo (Wellesley '67) have had their engagement announced by her parents. Ron is currently studying city and regional planning at the University of California at Berkeley. They will be married in June.
The engagement of Rod Meade and Miss Lynn Phillips has also been announced. Lynn is a graduate of Mary Immaculate College on Long Island with a degree in nursing. Rod graduated from Navy OCS at Newport, R. I., last fall, and is currently serving with a destroyer squadron in the Pacific.
Andy Gundlach and Miss Adelaide Murphy will be married this spring. She is a graduate of Wells College, and is a management trainee with Mutual of New York in N.Y.C. Andy is an actuarial trainee with Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, N. J.
Dave Bush and Miss Louise Cottner of Danville, Pa., will also be married early this summer. Louise will graduate from Westchester State College in June, and the couple will live in Boston for the next two years while Dave attends Harvard Med.
On the unromantic side of the news, John Simmons was invited to present a scientific paper at a national medical meeting in New Orleans last fall. Such an honor is generally not granted to an undergraduate, but John's work at the Division of Hematology at USC during the summer of 1966 was so outstanding that he was given the privilege of addressing the group and reading his paper. John is in his second year at the University of Southern California Med School.
Lynn Mason is also on the West Coast, as a teaching assistant and a Master's candidate in anthropology at UCLA. Lynn plans to continue with his studies at the Ph.D. level, and this will involve field work in either Africa or Asia.
By the time you read this the 1967 Alumni Fund Drive will be underway. This year the '65 Class Agent is Tim McLaughlin, and I know first hand that Tim has been working very hard since mid-February laying the groundwork for our part in the drive. Tim's hope is that we can improve both our 1966 dollar total and our 1966 participation total, with emphasis on the latter.
Secretary, c/o The Storm King School Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 12520
Class Agent, 325 8th Ave., S.E. #303, Minneapolis, Minn 55414
