1959
It's actually a pleasant experience at this time of year to put together some gossip on the doings of classmates when the majority of my time is spent evaluating members of the younger (sigh!) generation and predicting what sorts of accomplishments they will be reporting in the future. Right now, I would classify haircuts as a major accomplishment! Incidentally, my first news item concerns the two hippies who were married in the bathtub. Double ring ceremony!
Most of you who read the New York Times regularly probably saw the nice article on Gil Griffen. The Grifiens had a son just before Christmas. Gil commutes from White Plains, N.Y., to his office at the Mobil Oil Corporation where he is counsel to the traffic department. He joined the company in September 1964 after two years in the Army. I'd like a long term loan on some of that thick pile wall to wall carpeting, Gill. Gil took his law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1962.
Tiger Sands was named vice president of the. Sands, Taylor and Wood Company in Cambridge, Mass., back in November. The firm is America's oldest flour company, established in 1790. The city of Philadelphia put a good portion of its legal responsibility into Sam Swanson's hands when he was sworn in as assistant district attorney on January 16. Sam had been with the law firm since 1963 having received his degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In the NBA. Rudy LaRusso has a hot hand with a 19.5 per game point average for the San Francisco Warriors. Some of you probably saw him play in the All-Star game. Dave Gavitt has been up to see me a few times about installing a fountain of youth and getting Rudy back for some P.G. work. Also in the San Francisco area, Lt. TomOtter is now at the Treasure Island Naval Dispensary as a member of the first medical battalion. He expects to be there until June, if, as he puts it, his health holds up. He says the pace is grueling. No need to ask why.
Joel Kaswell has been appointed general counsel of the Matrix Corporation down in Alexandria, Va. He had been with a Washington, D.C., law firm. Matrix is a highly regarded publicly held computer services and behavioral research enterprise. Joel will remain with the law firm, Jacobs and Speiller, on an inactive basis. What can the computer tell me about the behavior of a four-year-boy who fights with his sister, loves destruction, picks at his food, and thinks someone else makes his skis cross?
Chartered Life Underwriter Stu Summers has joined the home office of Cincinnati's Ohio National Life Insurance Company where his new title is assistant general counsel. Stu made the move from Hartford, Conn., where he was active as an officer of the Dartmouth Club. Further history includes earning his LL.B. from the University of Con- necticut in 1959 and the CLU designation in 1967. He, Barbara, and two small ones are living now at 3457 Kleybolte Avenue, Cincinnati.
Major John Haynes writes that he finished his tour in Vietnam with the Marine Corps last June having flown 185 attack missions most of which were in close support of Marine troops. Approximately thirty were north of the DMZ. Now, as the aviation manpower planner for all of the Marine Corps units in the western Pacific, he gets back to Vietnam on almost a monthly basis.
This summer, Mick Preston will marry Mary Mitchell Brown. The wedding will take place down in Connecticut. Presently, Mick is in the Military Air Transport Service at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mary graduated from Hollins College in 1965 and has studied at the Sorbonne and at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Just this February, Bill Long (the one from Rochester, N.Y.) married Christina Schafer of East Arlington, Vt. Bill served as a Lieutenant (jg) with the Navy and is now an assistant cashier of the First National City Bank in New York. Christina graduated from Smith College and is the Fashion Merchandising Coordinator of Lord and Taylor in New York.
Ken Van Kleeck is now living out in Los Altos, Calif., where he, is working for a division of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation. The Van Kleecks have a daughter six and a boy two. Dr. Hoag Rosania finished his tour of duty as a Navy flight surgeon with the Marines and is now at the University of Pittsburgh in orthopedic surgery for four years. He has two sons, the older is two and a- half and the younger, whom he has just registered for the Class of 1988, is fifteen months. Last December I, Renny Drew was promoted to area manager for the southeastern New England region by Weyerhaeuser Corporation. PhilSwaim has become associated with the law offices of Jeroll R. Silverberg in New Canaan, Conn. Phil took his degree from Columbia University Law School and is a member of both the Connecticut and New York bar. He has already been admitted to practice before a good number of district and appellate courts in the area. There are two little Swaims distracting Daddy from doing his briefs. Sometime this summer, John and Ann Baldwin will pack up their three children, dog, and other possessions and move out to Eugene, Ore., from Urbana, Ill. John will leave the University of Illinois to take up a position on the chemistry staff at the University of Oregon. Herband Anne Schoenberg sent along a nice announcement of the birth of Jill Amy on December 26, 1967. This is Herb's first go at being Daddy. How does it feel to take a diaper pin in the thumb. Herb? It's not easy to get baby powder off your tie, is it?
Many of you, especially those who have agreed to serve as Regional Chairmen, have heard about Randy Malin's successful attempt to fit his plans for a regional organization of the Class into the College's newly adopted regional arrangement which is based on zip codes. This should reduce clerical effort, improve communication among members of the Class (especially where address changes are concerned) and help class officers carry out their responsibilities more effectively with the assistance of classmates. John Ferries will cover the nuts and bolts of the organization in one of his newsletters, but I thought I'd mention it here because I think it's a great way to tighten up the rather loose web which holds us all together. It should be especially significant to Jim Wooster in his job. Of most interest to me is the Assistant Class Secretary Plan which should allow us to keep close tabs on classmates who move in and out of our areas and keep track of what they are doing, not so much for the purpose of gossip, but because it can mean that we will get together a little more frequently and even lend a hand when there is a need.
I can't help but end with a sad and pensive note knowing that Dieter Eck is no longer among us. I have written of his death in the In Memoriam section for this or a subsequent issue, but a final tribute to a truly fine person certainly belongs in this column, too.
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