1959
The homestretch is here! The finish line, our upcoming 10th Reunion, looms on the horizon. Nine more issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and I can hand my quill to the Smithsonian Institute and pass the secretarial responsibilities along to one of you lucky people who will be railroaded into office next June.
Reunion Chairman Ray Becker convened a meeting of his assistants early last month. Joining Ray for the four-hour session in the Alumni Office were Dick Watson, who will serve as publicity chairman, George Pearse who will act as our registration and financial chief, and yours truly, the man in charge of pulling the program together and lining up events. I think we have a pretty good show on the drawing board which will be nicely supplemented by activities surrounding the 200th Anniversary of the College. Very shortly we will begin a slow bombardment of mailings to make sure all of you make it back. We will be relying heavily upon our new geographical class organization to beat the drums and organize caravans.
Frightened by the aspect of being ten years out of college and still unattached, another batch of '59s took the big matrimonial plunge this summer. In June, TomMorgan married Sandra Spurgeon down in Arlington, Va. Tom is a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy stationed in Washington and has been in the service for nine years. Sandra is a secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Pete Dobrowolski took Frances Barkholtz as his bride on June 29 in New York City. Pete has just finished his residency at New York Hospital in radiology and is currently a U. S. Public Health Service fellow at Memorial Hospital in New York City, while Frances is with the Department of Medical Physics at the same hospital. Even with all that medical knowledge, I suppose they will still have to buy bandaids. On July 13, Mick Preston and Mary Brown were married in Southport, Conn. As far as I know Mick is still stationed in Corpus Christi and is a flight instructor in the advanced training command at the Naval Air Station there. July 20 saw C. P. Montgomery take the big step with Margaret Bratton Powell down Georgia way. Margaret is a teacher in the Fairfax County, Va., School System and C. P. continues his job as an assistant U. S. Attorney in Alexandria, Va. And so, a few more '59s bite the dust. There can't be too many bachelors left. With all the instant breakfasts and frozen dinners coming on the market, some of them may never give up.
In the business world, there never seems to be a dull moment. Moose Morton has been named a vice president by the New York City brokerage firm of Mitchell Hutchins and Company. He and Sue live out in Port Washington on Long Island. I assume Moose has started a lacrosse club out there, although I don't know what they'd do without Forty-four fat boy Malin in the goal. Paul Stein has been nominated to the New York Stock Exchange by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. He is assistant manager of the firm's St. Louis office. Paul and Ann and daughter Valerie live in a suburb of St. Louis. They are kept busy by a pretty good array of church and community activities. Dann H. Lewis, president of Nassau's Big Bamboo Night Club since 1966, has been appointed Director of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Don't call him; he'll call you!
Lawyer Gil Griffin has joined the Industrial Relations Division of the Bristol-Myers Company as Manager of Labor Relations and Urban Affairs. In his newly created position he acts as labor relations adviser throughout the company and counsels the Industrial Relations Division on all governmental agency and judicial actions affecting personnel operations. Gil also represents Bristol-Myers in its contacts with all national, state, and local agencies involved with urban development projects and the implementation of equal employment opportunities.
Doug Wheeler, assistant professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, has Africa as his specialty. He has spent several years in Africa doing research and traveling and is currently completing a volume on Angola. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 1961-62 and a National Defense Education Act fellowship for African studies during the same period. He was a member of the graduate studies program at Boston University in 1959 through 1963. John Burkhardt is the new president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Pennsylvania. That means we ought to see him up here this fall for the annual Club Officers' shindig. Pete Andrews has been named an associate professor in the College of Engineering and Science at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he has been teaching for a number of years in the math department. A recent newspaper article lauded CharlieDonovan for traveling a gigantic distance to complete his business degree. Charlie, who is credit manager for M.P.B. Corporation in Keene, N. H., drove to Springfield, Mass., to take evening courses in the executive development program at American International College. The number of months he did this no doubt had a great effect on his gasoline and tire expenses, but it's all over now. He received his MBA last June.
On the local scene, Fred Webster, assistant professor of business administration at Tuck School, is now serving as a director of Elgin Leach Corporation in Chicago. Sounds like a good time to get him on the squash court for a few wagers. Luncheon flights to Chicago should put fat on him.
I'll count on seeing some of you up here for the Princeton game, and if each of you can drop about five names, I'll be in business for a few months.
Secretary, Canaan, N. H. 03741
Treasurer, 20 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y. 10005
