1960
This column concludes my first season as class secretary. I have appreciated the help many of you have provided through notes and clippings. I hope that over the summer more of you or your wives will take a minute to let me know what you have done, are doing, or are going to do.
A recent memo from Tom Kirby tells of Dr. Ken Siegel, who has just completed six years of training in periodontics. Ken is now serving in the military. Tom was looking forward to a trip to South Carolina this month. He and Germaine will mix business and pleasure as he goes to visit some of the mills which supply the family business, Ken Kirby, Inc., with the top quality fabrics they market in New York City.
The Class social function of the winter was Tom Brock's wedding to Dorla Stevens on March 2. It attracted such notables as Seth Strickland and his date, Rey Moulton. Seth is with the Smith-Lee Corporation in Syracuse and Rey is vice president of the Maurice W. Pomfrey Company in the same city.
Another source of news was a recent letter from Dick Prior, who is still traveling through South America peddling widgets for John Prior. Inc., Manufacturers' Export Managers of New York City. Dick has just received his M.B.A. from New York University. Dick reports that Shrimp Clarke is now the father of three and is working as a geologist with the Copper Queen Branch of the Phillips Dodge Corporation in Bisbee, Ariz. Shrimp's very active in the local Engineering Society.
Dick goes on to say that John Adams is very active on local golf courses and paddle tennis courts. I guess that is part of the difference between bankers and geologists. John is with the Banker's Trust Company in New York City. He is in the process of moving to Irvington on Hudson, N.Y. where the Priors live.
Dune Knapp, according to the Prior news letter, is on the sales force of the Armstrong Corporation and is residing in Marysville, Pa., near Harrisburg. Dune and Linda have just announced their third child.
While up in Simsbury, Conn., Cai and Barbie Raber, always high scorers in one upsmanship, announced their third and their fourth child upon arrival of girl twins. Pratt Whitney Corporation in Hartford is supnosed to be keeping Cai busy data processing but he must have one heck of a domestic program to sort out now. Dan Rosen has made it big as a producer, too. He has been promoted to the number two production post at New York City's Channel 11.
The Hartford National Bank and Trust Co has announced that Joel B. Alvord was appointed vice president and assistant cashier Joel joined the bank in 1963. Treasurer of the Greater Hartford Council on Economic Education, he is heart fund chairman in Glastonbury, where he lives.
John K. Benson Jr. is another banker on the move. He has been appointed assistant vice president of Worcester County National Bank. John is living in Holden, Mass.
Finally, to wind up this month's banking news, J. Ray Jackson has been promoted to corporate trust administrator in the Corporate Trust Section of the Western Pennsylvania National Bank in Pittsburgh. Ray served five years with the Air Force and attended the University of Arizona while stationed in that area.
Bill Gundy, former Big Green football captain, has been appointed a management associate of EDP Resources, Inc. of New York. An original founder of EDPR, which provides multiple services for the computer user, Bill joined four other former IBM colleagues in setting up the firm in 1967. He has been with IBM since 1960, representing that firm in the New England area for the past eight years. He and Jane and their three children, Susan, Scott and James have been residing at 12 Rutledge Rd., Natick, Mass.
John C. Goodman married Roxcy Platte in March. After a trip to Europe, their plans were to settle down at Marblehead, Mass. Harry Bruckner Jr. is living in nearby Marshfield, Mass., at 133 Tilden Road. It's a short commute from there to Boston where Harry distributes great literature as defined by McGraw-Hill.
Two of our classmates who went west have returned to the city of sighs and tears. Dave Wiggins makes the long trek into Rockefeller Center from New Canaan, Conn. He had been located in California. Now Shell Chemical has him hard at" it back here. William R. Hitchcock is back in Rye, N.Y., from St. Louis. He is with Young and Rubicam.
As reported in an earlier column, Dick Aronsohn has his hands full with a busy New Jersey law practice and a new home. However, on April 17 Debbie brought home their first child, William John, to give the old man a hand.
At about the same time this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE hits your front porch, Art Hill will be arriving in Vietnam. Art is heading for a very big job. He will be the Medical Regulatory Officer in Saigon where he will be in charge of the evacuation of all patients from Vietnam.
Art and Dot have had considerable experience which prepares them for this new post. From 1964 to 1967 Art was a hospital administrator for a 1000-bed hospital outside of Tokyo. They were intimately involved with setting up 3000 beds in Japan in two months to handle the Vietnam casualties. Larry Hill '87 was born in Japan where Art reports Dartmouth has strong alumni activities. With six years invested in the service and a two-year hitch ahead of him Major Hill may make a career of it.
Art Pritchard of 2765 Ross Road, Palo Alto, Calif., says that he would love to hear from anyone out San Francisco way. He has joined the Management Information System Division of the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park.
Comments have been made in more appropriate places about the tragic loss of Mike Menaker and Dennis Cherlin. However, I would like to share the thoughts of Jim Giddens '59, who wrote to us about Dennis. "Dennis was one of those rare individuals who pour out his talents without reservation for the causes they espouse and the persons whom they help. Dennis had a quick wit, facile humor, and certain buoyant optimism that made him a delightful friend. His idealism, his judgment, and his humanity made him a respected, unforgettable, and loved person."
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