1953

Fran LeEsperance writes for Vogue. About lasers, not maxis. Fran, one of New York's top eye surgeons, has done significant pioneering work in the use of lasers for the treatment of eye disease and is quoted in Vogue as follows: "Lasers can coagulate and obliterate selectively any of the abnormal blood vessels formations, thereby sparing the patient the hazard of a vessel rupture." Fran points out many other potential laser uses for eye treatment (glaucoma, tumors, etc.) and says that the liver, kidney, and brain can also be surgically treated by laser. Fran got his M.D. from Harvard, interned at New York's Presbyterian, did residency work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and is now director of the Argon Laser Research Laboratory and assistant attending ophthalmologist at Eye Institute of Ophthalmology in Columbia Presbyterian. He and Ellen live across the river in Engle wood

Dave Burner, who in his capacity as '53's Class moneybags issues at suitably infrequent intervals what purports to be a financial statement attesting to the dubious fact that there are indeed some brass coppers in the class coffers, has (ominously) left the Harris Trust Company in Chicago, and is now a principal of the estate planning and probate specialist firm of Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, whose offices are in the Prudential Plaza of the same city. Dave is currently soliciting our annual dues, and we may presumably hear from him next in Jamaica.

Informal, sporadically-conducted surveys based on wholly unscientific sampling methods have made me an expert on class opinion of topical issues. Extrapolating the raw data, I have determined that approximately 56.62% of the Class equates the threat of coeducation at Dartmouth with the nationwide drug peril; 32.49% believe that girls are here to stay and a few might be permitted the unique benefits of four years' study at Hanover, and the balance grunt noncommittally (maybe it's an "ugh"). If you have a different view, please express it in a limerick or sonnet (as appropriate) and we'll see whether we can't get out a 1953 poetry anthology by next spring. Class prexy JackCrisp will be editor. .

Clark Brink has switched his allegiance to the advertising agency of Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., of New York City, where he is vice president and account group supervisor. He formerly had the same position with William Esty Co., Inc., also in New York City. After graduation from Dartmouth, he joined Lever Brothers and spent ten years with that company. Home to him and Cinnie and their three children is 197 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, Long Island.

Dave Salter was recently elected vice president of Financial Business Brokers (Canada) Ltd. Dave is also director of Textile Sales Limited.

Charlie Buchanan has been elected president of Appleton Wire Works Corp., premier manufacturers of fourdrinier screens for pulp and paper making machinery.

Dick Calkins and Ted Spiegel have teamed up to form a two-man Chicago North Shore juggernaut in a hotly-contested Republican primary fight to get Jody Mathewson '55 nominated for congressman. With that kind of backing, Jody is a cinch for the White House.

The Second Annual Greenwich-New Haven Floating Charabanc Trek for the Yale game is undergoing intensive promotional efforts, spearheaded by Tom Bloomer and Fred Carleton, promoters extraordinaires. Last year's survivors are being offered preferential treatment, although new starters will be welcomed.

Jim and Mary Bern Decker announce the birth of their second son, John Reynolds, on September 18. The Deckers live in Encino, a mere freeway jaunt away from Jim's office in L.A., where he heads up Wilbur Smith & Associates' West Coast effort in traffic planning and consulting.

You can bet I've been poring over the local dailies and carefully checking all the sports mags to see if there isn't some class connection, however remote, with Mrs. Payson's amazing Mets. So far, nothing has turned up, which goes to show that, incredible as it may seem, from time to time an enterprise may succeed without any '53 being directly responsible. Not entirely as an aside, I might just mention that our well known class propensity for modesty seems to be outrunning our superb record of varied accomplishment, and this occasionally works a hardship on the hom-tooters, viz., Dick Blum and me. So if you've been elected senator, developed a cancer vaccine, written your twelfth symphony, or been made president of Jersey Standard, don't rely merely on Huntley or Brinkley to spread the word let us know. On second thought, tell your wife; she'll write more legibly and be straighter with the facts.

Secretary, Blyth & Co., Inc. 14 Wall St. New York, N. Y. 10005

Treasurer, : Kirkland Ellis, Hodson 2900 Prudential Plaza Chicago, I11. 60601