1953

Time is short and so is this month's column. As I write this I'm in the middle of moving my company from New York City to nearby Pelham in Westchester County. There are cartons piled all around my office and it's a little difficult to concentrate with the movers coming in and out. Actually, this is only an excuse since I have virtually no news about which to write. Unless I hear from some of you soon, our Class column is liable to be blank next month.

A few short notes: I forgot to mention last month that Butch Edgar and Ted Spiegel went to Aspen for a little skiing and other activities in January. They were meeting George Shaw '54. Dr. Warren Babcock is a surgeon and is with the Rockford Surgical Group in Rockford, 111. A Christmas card from Caroline and Jack Patten advises that they will be visiting the United States next August. As previously reported, Jack is with McGraw-Hill in London. John Taylor has moved to Wilton, Conn. He commutes to New York where he works with the management consultant firm Cresap, McCormick & Paget. He is a senior associate which sounds good.

Dave Halloran was kind enough to forward some news tidbits that came in with the class dues. Dick O'Connor wrote that General Electric moved him and his headquarters from Kentucky to Oak Brook, Ill. As Dick puts it, he's now in the country's highest cost of living area. He's just moved into his new house in Wheaton and is busy settling down. Tom Duke wrote that he is still in Washington, D.C. Tom is a Major and is with Special Air Missions where he is currently flying VC-135's, a windowless Boeing 707 affectionately called "the Tube." He says he ran across John Sigler last year in Tunis of all places. Tom has put in for leave to attend reunion and says he will be there if he is not sent to Vietnam in the meantime.

Jack Avril wants to know if we will have a class nursery at reunion. Jack has good reason for asking since he just had a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, who joins his son Craig, age 6, and daughter Margaret, age 10. Jack is in Cincinnati where he works with the G.A. Avril Company. Al Davis recently accepted a professorship in the Department of History at Temple University in Philadelphia. He and his family look forward to returning to the East after eleven years in the Mid-west. His book, "Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements on the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914," was just published by Oxford University Press. An earlier book of his, "Conflict or Consensus in American History" is being brought out this month as a new edition.

I just talked to Bob Callendar and he tells me that as of February 1 he had 175 '53's plus wives signed up for our fifteenth reunion. At the present rate he expects to exceed the record turnout of our tenth reunion. Cal asked me to remind you that reunion will be combined with the Classes of '52 and '54 so there will be a lot of other friends attending besides our class. Bob Binswanger '52 is running a Great Issues Seminar on Friday for those of you able to arrive a day early. It should be a great weekend and I hope you can make it.

Secretary, 11 Mendota Ave. Rye, N.Y. 10580

Treasurer, 5366 Ellenvale Ave. Woodland Hills, Calif. 91364