1959

It sure doesn't take long for the Santa Claus season to roll around. Your wives have probably already asked you for a $12 roll of stamps so they can get going on the season's greetings, and those of you who have daughters have probably received a request for one of those dolls that performs so many bodily functions you could justify claiming it as an Income Tax deduction. Right about now, Christmas clubs don't sound like such a bad deal.

By the time you get the next edition of this column, we'll be into 1969 and coming up fast on our 10th Reunion. I hope all of you are seriously considering coming to Hanover to renew old ties and witness what has been accomplished on the Hanover Plain in the past decade. We are doing our utmost to plan a program that will bring satisfying dividends on your investment of time and money., Dick Watson and JohnFerries will keep you well advised of developments.

Thanks to your notes on the back of dues notices, there is a little more news this time than there was last time. Tom Adriance is presently on the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the History Department. He completed his dissertation and received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from Columbia last May. Ellen and MartyHauptman plan to head north from Florida in ten months once Marty's stint with the Air Force is over. Sometime in February they expect the stork to add another member to their family - child number 3. From Northampton, Mass., Bob Czelusniak writes that a baby girl has finally joined the family. Cara was born last April, bringing her daddy home from a busy campaign with Bobby Kennedy in Indiana. Bob says he has room for all '59s passing through the area. Steve Plank, who is presently with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company down in Norwich, Conn., ran into PeteO'Neil at the Princeton game, which is more than Debby and I were able to do. Pete and Leslie were East on business and pleasure from Boise, Idaho, where Pete is still making decisions for the Boise Cascade Lumber Products Company. Their two by fours aren't cheap! Still fresh from a honeymoon in Scandinavia, Bill Colaiace is attempting to keep his mind on his work as attending Radiologist at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. He married Anna David-off on July 20. T.C. and Marilyn Davis are living in Imperial Beach, Calif., where T.C. is a lieutenant in the Navy. At the time Marilyn wrote a note, he was off on a seven-month cruise in the Far East. That doesn't make a ten-day business trip seem so bad, after all. Bob Davidow is presently down in Cambridge, Mass., on leave from the faculty of the law school at the University of North Dakota. He is doing graduate work in law at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69. Al and Judy Snider are in Piano, Texas, where Al has a general practice in medicine. For those of you who haven't heard of Piano, it is 20 miles north of Dallas.

In Chicago Bob Carter was named manager of employee and community relations for Joseph T. Ryerson and Co., a leading metals distributor and a subsidiary of Inland Steel Co. His new responsibilities will involve working with community organizations in Ryerson's various plant locations. Bob has served in various capacities at both Ryerson and Inland in the areas of finance and industrial and community relations. With wife Tessa and two children he lives in Park Forest, Ill.

College seniors who worry about the service ought to think of Don Abel for a minute. He finishes his residency in surgery at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center this winter and enters the Navy in March. His third son was born last February. Tom Magill is in the same boat. (That's not a pun!) He's about to go on active duty with the Navy as a doctor, too, and doubts our 10th Reunion will be in the cards for him. Out in the land where they use macadamia nuts to make peanut butter, BobSteele is a teacher at the Punahou School in Honolulu. He married the former Cynthia M. Rowe on August 1. Her father is president of Hawaii Loa College. I wonder if they need an admissions director! Rick andKaty Luedke are just recovering from midnight feedings. A son, John Frederic, was born on October 1. An inspirational note - they plan to leave the kids behind and come to our 10th! The Jolly Green Giant visited Scott and Sally Palmer, who currently live in Ithaca, N. Y., where Scott is doing graduate work at Cornell. Walter Scott Palmer was born on October 23, and at 9 pounds and 23 inches seems destined to look his old man right in the eye by the time he's ten.

Paul Green sent along an interesting résumé of his activities for the past eight years. He took an M.A.T. from Harvard in 1960, an M.A. from N.Y.U. in 1966, and is presently working on a doctorate at B.U. while employed at Boston College as a lecturer in Education and Director of their M.A.T.-M.S.T. program. He spent the summer of 1967 working for the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee in Czechoslovakia. Bill Brigiani is in a legal bind. He formed a partnership last May. Those of you in the Jersey area look for a shingle reading Marra, Brigiani & Gerstein, Esqs. In the same month he became a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. He'll be able to retire in comfort while some of us are still getting started!

I'll save the rest of these for the next go-round in case you don't send me enough newsy Christmas cards. Happy Holidays! But remember Chinese proverb - He who overeat be belly solly!

Stu Freeman '59 (I) and George Farrand'33 (r), shown with General ManagerEmile Francis of the New York Rangers,are members of the alumni committee assisting with the ECAC Holiday HockeyFestival, in which Dartmouth will play inMadison Square Garden, Dec. 19-20.

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