1957
Last June it was a bit early to think about the 1968 football season, but fans, here we are. Dan Goggin and Dick Canton have reserved the Hotel Continental (or a portion thereof) in Harvard Square for the Class and their guests after the Harvard game, Oct. 26. This is one of three class activities this fall. Dick Van Riper is planning a "mini" reunion for the Princeton game and Joe Stevenson has scheduled an executive committee meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in New York, two days before the Yale game. All members of the Class are invited to attend. If you cannot make the executive committee meeting, please drop me a line as to ideas or suggestions you may have.
Lucia and I proudly announce the arrival of Andrew Carter on June 3. He joins Bobby 9, and Linda 4. It has been a quiet summer at home.
Springtime took its usual toll of bachelors. Dr. Dave Regan and Kay Jeannine Kelly were married April 20, in Worcester, Mass., where Dave is practicing optometry. Last year when he was graduated cum laude from Massachusetts College of Optometry, he received the Beta Sigma Kappa medal as the outstanding senior. A month or so later DonCowlbeck and the former Gail Malcolm were married in New York. Finally on June 16, Lew Goodfriend and the former Leanne Luria were married in Philadelphia.
Dr. Joel Samuelson has opened an office in East Stroudsburg, Pa., where he specializes in allergy, immunology, and dermatology. Dr. Alan Burnes has been appointed president of Human Dynamics, Inc., a national network of research and development services in the behavioral sciences in Boston. Alan has been a research assistant at Harvard, a staff psychologist at Beth Israel Hospital and a community consultant and research fellow at South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, Mass. He is also a principal consultant to the Foundation for Community Re-education which specializes in child care services. Dr. Richard Morrison was recently elected president of the Cardigan Alumni Association. Dick has his own clinic in Essex Junction, Vt.
Throughout the summer Tony Dingman was the producing associate of the Caravan Theatre, a summer theater in Dorset, Vt. He directed and designed several productions while supervising other production aspects. Tony is a member of the faculty of North Carolina Wesleyan College as an assistant professor of Speech and Theater.
George Lewis, head of the Concord (N. H.) High School mathematics department, has been elected president of the New Hampshire Section, Association of Teachers in Mathematics in New England. Lester Little was granted the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award at the University of Chicago for Excellence in undergraduate teaching. He teaches the History of Western Civilization and Medieval History. While Lester was receiving this award at commencement in June, his wife, Susan, received the degree of Master of Arts and Teaching at the University. Bud Wheeler, having received a Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, has accepted a position as assistant professor in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He will be responsible for organizing and supervising oceanographic investigations undertaken by the scientists and students on board the Stanford Marine Laboratory, a research vessel in Monterey, Calif. Another oceanographer Don Swift has been asked to fill one of the six Glover Chairs of the Institute of Oceanography at Old Dominion College in Norfolk, Va. Don started as an assistant professor at Old Dominion in July and for the next couple of years ex- pects to work with his students using the Institute's ship for a study of the sea floor between Cape Henry, Va., and Cape Lookout, N. C. I suppose Don and Bud would be happy to give scuba diving lessons to those '57's interested.
Late in the spring Rev. Warner Traynham was a featured speaker for the Council of Churches in North Attleboro, Mass. He spoke to the council on Consultation of Church Union, its progress and direction. He is rector of Saint Cyprian's Episcopal Church, Roxbury, Mass.
Exactly one year ago I reported in this column that Major Sherm Mills was back from Vietnam and stationed at the Spring-field (Mass.) Armory. As executive officer he officially closed the Armory in June in connection with the government economy program, and was recalled to Vietnam for another year's tour of duty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Turning to the world of business, DaveCook left Colonial Management in Boston last winter, and became executive vice-president and treasurer of Industron Corporation. Industron, specialists in industrial high-frequency heating, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Seaboard Plywood & Lumber Corp. of Watertown, Mass. Dave's wife, Ellie, writes she and Dave are involved in a foster parent program, taking infants prior to adoption. They have two children of their own: Beth 5, and John 3.
After seven years as Systems Manager with the Radio Corporation of America's Information Systems Division, Jan Wlodarkiewicz has joined the Planning Research Corporation as a senior associate in the firm's Computer Systems Division in Los Angeles. In his new job Jan will participate in the design and implementation of large- scale information handling systems for various government agencies and industrial clients.
"This man runs a 'finishing' school that . nobody finishes." Technology in the data processing industry has developed so rapidly that computer salesmen must return to school regularly to keep up. Bill Kramer, until recently, ran one of these schools for IBM. Bill says, "A salesman never really finishes school because the industry just doesn't stand still long enough.... In this kind of atmosphere - where many companies must innovate and improve all the time. It takes a lot of training and retraining to help a salesman do the best by his customers. And that's what my job's all about." Bill is now going to the West Coast and we all wish him good luck! One of Bill's "students" at one time or other may have been Brad Curtis who was appointed manager of the IBM office in Wilmington, Del., where he, his wife, and four children are now residing.
I am sorry to have to close on a sorrowful point but I received word this week of the death of two of our classmates, Dr.Richard Mageles who died unexpectedly in Portland, Me.; and Bob Gebhardt, who died in a Labor Day boating accident at Lake Tahoe. Articles will appear in the In Memoriam section of this issue or a later issue of the MAGAZINE. The Class sincerely extends its deepest sympathy to their families.
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