1951
I have a premature Christmas present. I've got a full mail bag for this column, which I may not, for space reasons, be able to exhaust this month. Let's start in the groves of academe.
Back in Hanovertown, government professor Frank Smallwood has been appointed Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the Social Sciences Division. Frank holds both an MA. and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a chairman of Dartmouth's City Planning and Urban Studies Program and has served as codirector of the Boston Urban Studies Project offered jointly with M.I.T. Frank is a trustee of the Vermont State Colleges and serves on the Comparative Urban Studies Committee of the American Society of Public Administration in Washington, D. C.
Jim Wheatley is now associate professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Jim, who received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960, was an assistant professor at Wesleyan for the past four years. He specializes in 19th and 20th century British and American literature, and literary criticism and rhetoric. Next spring, his critical study of Thackeray's fiction will be published by the M.I.T. Press. Following graduation from Dartmouth, Jim spent four years in the U.S. Navy. Thereafter he spent four years at Harvard as a teaching fellow. From 1960 to 1964, he taught at the University of Illinois. He and wife Louise have three children.
Bob Wilbee is assistant professor of surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He and wife Shirley have three children: Lauren, 7; Richard, 5; and Bruce, 3. Woody Klein has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Bridgeport (Conn.).
Bachelor John Tracy teaches at Union Free School, District #1, Westbury, Long Island. Bill Ricketts teaches U.S. history at Franklin Senior High in Rusterstown, Md. In addition to a wife, daughter, house and two acres, an aged Mercedes, a Ford, and a motorcycle, Bill has a 1947 Luscombe airplane.
Hugh MacBrien does diagnostic ' testing, reading instruction, and teacher placement for Independent Educational Services, Princeton, N. J. He is also Director of Admissions for Summerbrook Camp, a special camp for boys and girls with reading difficulties. He and wife Dorothy have a son, Christopher, 7.
Let's switch to nuptials. By now, Hennepin County (Minn.) Municipal Court Judge Jim Rogers should be married to Leanna Morrison of Los Angeles, who attended the University of Oregon and was most recently a Western Airlines stewardess. JuleOlney married Andrea Helen Dombrowski on October 5 in North Brunswick, N. J.
Dick Castner was married during the summer in the Old German Church in Waldoboro, Me. The newsclip which I have, which fails to mention the bride's name, waxes eloquent on the traditions observed for the occasion. Dick did graduate work at Harvard and the New School for Social Research in New York, and spent a year in Europe on a fellowship of the American-Scandinavian Foundation in folklore. He majored in anthropology and folklore in the graduate school of Indiana Univ. He is "now educational consultant for the Children's Museum in Cambridge, Mass., and educational TV station, WGHB, channel 2, in Boston.
Dick Spencer is professor of nuclear medicine at the Yale Medical School. He and wife Gwen have three daughters. Fellow medic Bob Woodhouse is Director, Day Psychiatric Hospital, Hartford, Conn. He and wife Barbara have three children: Peter, 13; Connie, 11; and Betsy, 5.
Jim Rabe practices law in Winter Haven, Fla., where he is also a municipal judge as well as city judge in Auburndale. He was formerly chairman of the board of directors and president of Sertoma. Jim and wife Sue have three children: Jimmy, 9; Candy, 7; and Dorothy, 3.
Head Class Agent Howie Phillips, vice president and general counsel of McCall Corp., has been named that company's senior vice president. (McCall is now a division of Norton Simon Inc., and currently has no president.) Howie will be coordinating McCall's magazines (McCall's, Redbook, and The Saturday Review), ten printing plants representing the country's second largest printing organization, their Computer Division and Pattern Company.
In addition to his Dartmouth A.B., Howie holds an M.B.A. from Tuck School and a Harvard TL.B. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to joining McCall, he was associated with the New York law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Sonnet, Reindel & Ohl. Howie, wife Ellen, and their two children live in Manhattan and have a summer home in East Hampton, Long Island.
Our classmates are going back to school. Bob Byall, vice president and manager of Broadview Savings' Rocky River office in suburban Cleveland, received the American Savings and Loan Institute's graduate school diploma and key in Bloomington, Ind. Parke Sickler is attending the 54th session of the Advanced Management Program conducted by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Arno Arrak is an Advanced Development Group Leader working in electron microanalysis for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, Long Island. He holds a Master's in Chemical Engineering from Pratt Institute, has over 20 technical publications, and has presented papers at a dozen technical meetings and symposia. Arno is a member of OSA, SAS (Secretary, New York section), AAAS, and EPASA. (What those initials stand for, I do not know.) He and wife Edith have two sons, Edward and David.
Art Baldensperger is out in Scottsdale, Ariz., as HEP Sales Manager for Motorola Semiconductors, Inc. On the side, he is spending his time "trying to keep from getting fatter, and attempting to grow bald gracefully." He and wife Joan have three children: Sherry, 11; Sandy, 9; and Steffi, 2.
Ted Spalding is an investment broker with Lewis Securities in Whitefield, N. H. He and wife Adele have three children: Thomas, 17; Jacqueline, 16; and Patricia, 14.
Andy Timinernjan sells water meters in New York State for Hersey-Sparling Meter Co. of Dedham, Mass. He won both the singles and doubles at the Labor Day Cooperstown Country Club tennis tournament. Andy and wife Lois have three children: Andy, 8; Christopher, 7; and Nancy, 4.
"Red" Balaban has abandoned the cattle business in the Florida panhandle for playing the tuba at Your Father's Mustache in New York City and a residence in West Haven, Conn. In Hartford, Conn., he plays both tuba and banjo at the Rocking Horse. "Red" plays Dixieland and has his own group, "Balaban and Cats," which would be delighted to see more work in the Connecticut area. He and wife Mickey have three children (I'm beginning to think the Class of 1951 is in a rut on the number three): Michael, 16; Steven, 13; and Rachel, 10.
U.S. Navy Commander Roy Reynolds' ship,Destroyer Escort Albert David, was finally, after numerous delays, commissioned in Bremerton, Wash., on Oct. 19. I regret that I could not be there for the occasion. The cocktail party started early enough in the day that. . . .
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 1969 TO THE ENTIRE 1951 CLAN.
Albert Collins '53 (l) and Aaron Daniels'57 qualified after tryouts in Mexico Cityto represent the U. S. at the Olympics inPaleta. As noted last month, AaronDaniels also qualified in frontenis. Playedon the same court, the two sports arevery popular with Mexicans.
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