1963

I think it appropriate to begin this month's effort with some news from '63's serving in Vietnam. There are many as most of you know and two are Tim Ratner (as I reported in an earlier column) and Bill Spencer. Tim has been on duty at Tan Son Nhut Air Base and is a First Lieutenant flying a reconnaissance plane. He has been in Vietnam since August of 1966. Tim was commissioned an officer in 1963 upon completion of Officer Training School at Lackland AFB in Texas. As I reported last month, Tim has been engaged to Ann Palmer Ghiglione. Bill Spencer is also an Air Force First Lieutenant and is an information officer at Phan Rang Air Base. He received his commission upon completion of ROTC in Hanover in 1963. Bill is also one of eighteen volunteer Air Force men who hold English classes three nights a week in a Vietnamese high school and daily classes at another Vietnamese school.

Another item about which I became aware was Dick Petersen's graduation from Naval Officer Candidate School at Newport, R. 1., in February. Dick was commissioned an Ensign and is now stationed at the Naval Supply School in Athens, Georgia. Dick was Regimental Commander and spoke at the graduation exercises. After graduation from the College, Dick went on to Harvard Business School and received his M.B.A.

I received word from the Exeter paper that Bob Kendall has joined his father and brother in their family insurance agency in Rochester, New Hampshire.

I finally caught up with Steve Nazro in his new job as director of promotion and assistant to the director of public relations of the Boston Garden-Arena Corp. I had heard and passed along to you this news but the Naz confirmed the rumor and filled us in on details. He left the Army on August 16, traveled around Europe for awhile and then came back to this country and did some more traveling before settling into his own job. He reports that he enjoys his job and has found a way to work with Red Auerbach, the general manager of the Celtics. ("Auerbach is really quite a character - best formula is to insult him right back; I have and we get along just fine.") He reports that with the Celtics, Bruins, Ice Capades, circus, etc. he worked six weeks every day and virtually every night. The winter was their big season and things will be quieter now.

Steve wrote a letter that was full of news of '63's and I would like to pass along to you what he has reported. Bob Tucker and wife Ann are in New York City for a year of postgraduate tax law at NYU. Bob graduated from Stamford Law last year. Steve also saw Tom Richards, wife, and baby Scotty in Evanston, Illinois. The baby, Naz thinks, looks like his mother but is built like his father, which is the way it should be since it is a boy. Tom is working for a steel corporation in the Bay area of San Francisco and has moved there by now. Pete Brown and wife Jan, also in Evanston, were recipients of another stop on Steve's travels. Pete, as we have mentioned, is a math teacher and gym coach at Evanston High School and Jan is teaching biology at rival New Trier. From Evanston, Steve went on to Minneapolis to see FredSchmucker, who is traveling around Minnesota and North Dakota insuring grain elevators (I could use some clarification of just how this is done; Fred, can you help me?). Fred and his wife also have a little boy, Freddie.

I couldn't possibly write this next paragraph any better than the Naz did so I will just quote his letter verbatim. "Since I've been in Boston, I've seen or heard about a lot of '63's: Whit Kimball is still selling scientific equipment to schools in Mass. and Conn. Jack Phelan is in his first year of BU Law, and will be married — 1. after he sells his plane and 2. that should be before the June date planned. I was an usher in the wedding of Bob Jackson in Montreal in February. Jen is from that mecca. He is just about to finish with a doctorate from Harvard in Spanish. SteveScott was to be married in mid-March. Haven't heard if it happened. Steve Rosen got out of the Navy after several trips to the South China Sea. I ran into Don McKinnon who is in the investment business here, married avec child and living in Scituate. George Richardson got out of the Army back a couple of years, and then finished up at Dartmouth. He is now in Washington with the Foreign Service. John King is teaching at Lawrenceville. I saw KevinLowther at the Alumni Hockey Game, but I can't remember what he is up to, but I think he is in Washington. The most memorable part of the conversation I had with him was that he was knocking the greatest hockey player to come in the NHL in more than a decade; that is my boy, Bobby Orr. I saw Bart Osborn the day before I was discharged. He is working for his father's big company, Economics Lab. He was going to various parts of the country to learn each of the six or seven divisions within the corporation." Thanks, Steve, for the letter.

On the marriage scene, the class seems to be going strong. Dave Halsted has become engaged to June Pearson, a student at George Washington University in Washington, D. C.; Steve Guthrie, a Lieutenant, j.g. in the Navy, will be married late this month at Waterville, Me., to Gail Joseph, a graduate of Husson College in Bangor, Me. Steve is attached to the Naval Air Station, in Brunswick. Mary Bancroft and JoeCasey have announced their engagement and plan a June wedding. Joe is in his second year at George Washington Law School; his fiancee is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence. Joe Connors anticipates an August wedding to Marilyn Manion of Hartford, Conn. Joe is teaching, I believe, and after his graduation he received an M.A.T. and a Certificate of Advanced Study from Wesleyan.

Captain Steve Cleary, who is stationed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station after a year of duty with the Marines in Vietnam, was married on January 28 to the former Patricia Laine. She is a graduate of Glassboro State College and is presently teaching school in Marlton, N. J. And finally this month. Bob Wagstaff and Meredith Appel are engaged but haven't sent along word of their marriage date. Bob graduated from Kansas University Law School as did his fiancee. I believe that they are still out in Kansas. This should act as an inducement for them to write and fill us in on their plans.

One more word about Lenny Levitts book, "An African Season." Published by Simon & Schuster, it is now available and I recommend it highly.

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