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HECK ... somedays you unsack yourself and start bouncing off the walls trying to get steamed up enough to get out the door and all the way to work. And the third wall you bounce off of turns out to be a window and ZONK! there you are ... a failure before 8:10 A.M. This column is written from the perspective of the sassafras bush outside my window. The world somehow looks brighter from down here. Perhaps I'll just give up the rat race and become a sassafras bush philosopher. Things should be swell as long as some diarrhetic pigeon doesn't mistake me for Ground Zero.
The best news of the month comes from Ken Kolb. Ken wrote such a super letter that I'm going to paraphrase it and slander him at some length ... to show my appreciation. Ken Kolb is clearly destined to be one of our Class successes. This is due to two factors: 1. He is in business for himself (Kenneth Kolb & Company Advertising and the spoken word), and 2. he has a neat wife (Now, brothers, we all know that ol' Number 2 can make you or break you). In spite of the fact that Mrs. Kolb has a fancy name and I normally don't trust anybody with a fancy name, she is obviously of such rare accomplishments that, fancy name and all, she deserves all goodness. Whilst Ken knocks out them ads for his clients, wife Pani is a free lance reporter for several regional magazines, director of the famous New Orleans Jazz Museum and covered the Garrison Trial for the British Wire Service, Reuters. The Kolbs live on Royal Street in the French Quarter which sounds like just 15 minutes from heaven. Ken has a nondestructible jet age plastic straw for sippin' them juleps and all in all seems to have the old world by the tail. Not bad for a guy who always fell asleep in G.I. Ken reports on a couple of other easy livers down his way. Jim Roussel is a lawyer man. MorrieSheehan is working for Doubleday. He is also working for his wife, Analise. Huey,the Duck, Eicke is sockin' it to them school kids and teaching them all they gotta know. Huey also works hard for Dartmouth enrollment.
The big noise in Baltimore is MikeHecht. He's just been promoted to vice president in charge of the Men's Division and a few other things for the department store, name of Stewarts. Mike and the bride have put down their roots in Timonium. Md. (where ever the &%$# that is).
Wedding bells are tolling soon for Jolly John Damon and Catherine Buck. The two met in that American Babylon, San Francisco, in the middle of a Fret-In (that's just like a Be-In, but everybody worries a lot more). John is with Pan Am and Catherine is with the Visiting Nurse Association. Good luck, swingers.
More wedding news, Larry Wilson and Susan Perkins Mahady, are now man and wife. More accurately, they are lawyer and researcher, since Brother Wilson is another of those slick-talking barristers and Susan is a researcher for the Radio Liberty Committee. They live in the Big Apple.
Handsome Bruce Callahan was recently featured in a print ad by his company, Metropolitan Life Insurance. Bruce looked fit as a violinist in the photo so I assume his life is not a disaster ... how 'bout that, Bruce??
Looks like Paul Nelson has his heart set on the North Country. Having come to college from Florida he has been living in Arlington, Va., connected with advertising with Procter and Gamble and sales for General Electric Meter. Now he is joining Anchor Electric, a division of Sola Basic Industries, and will be based in Manchester, N. H. His responsibilities will include advertising and sales promotion for the company which makes electric baseboard heating systems, wall and unit heaters, and convector heaters. Canada next, Paul?
Tom Russell, who always struck me as the unfair type, has proven his objectivity by becoming a judge as reported a couple of months ago. Now he's proving he's a good judge and a pretty hot ticket all around by being honored by an organization which selects the Outstanding Young Men of America. Tom was recently picked. Wah Hoo Wah. I'm going back to my bush ... see ya.
Secretary, 3420 Humboldt Ave. South Minneapolis, Minn. 55408
Class Agent, 57th Floor, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza New York, N. Y. 10005
