1964
Lo, it was another dark and stormy night when a shark-besieged CBS courier sporting a Walter Cronkite wetsuit waded through the wet sawgrass to my weekend haunt on North Bimini. He found me at Brown's Dock engaged in a heated debate over Bahamian Home Rule with an unnamed Con- gressman, Bonefish Willie, and a host of Haitian hookers. In exchange for one of my trophy Marlin and a cold six-pack of St. Pauli Girl, he offered the gland-gladdening news that Herb McCord has been named station manager of WCBS/FM Radio in New York City. ...
Herb has had an avid interest in radio ever since his freshman year debut as a disc jockey on a local Upper Valley radio station. (Seriously.) He had served as an account executive with CBS Radio Spot Sales since November 1967. Prior to joining CBS, Herb did a post-M.B.A. stint as Associate Director of Sales Planning for Life Magazine. CBS made a brilliant choice, and so did Judi.
Two '64 marriages were recorded this summer in Connecticut. Darien was the scene this July when one of '64's finest, RonSchram, married the former Carol Anderson. After Dartmouth, Ron received a Master's degree from Cambridge. He graduated last year from the Michigan University School of Law.
Over in Greenwich, Steve Sherman married the former Gale Wittelsey in August. Steve, a Dartmouth-Harvard M.D., is a medical resident at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. Gale is teaching in Lebanon.
Our man on the fashion scene, JerryShendell, has just been promoted by Bamberger's in New Jersey to Buyer and Senior Executive Misses Better Active Sportswear and Jackets. He had been Assistant Buyer for Junior Dresses. Before joining Bamberger's, he was employed by Bloomingdale's in New York as Assistant Buyer. All this happened after he received his M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1965. Questions on hemline length may be addressed to him (or his wife) at 333 East 66th Street, New York City.
The Philadelphia rumor mill has it that Ken Ritchie is engaged to Nancy Sisi, a Pompton Plains, N. J., lass. Ken graduated from the University of Michigan School of Law, and is now stationed in Danang, Vietnam. . ..
'64 will be proud to note that Dave Hanson ]and Steve Baldwin each received Ph.D. degrees recently from Caltech. Dave majored in electrical engineering; Steve did his work in chemistry. Classmates are urged to disregard the falsehood that, while at Caltech, they conspired in a fiendish plot to electrochemically duplicate the aging process of a famous beer, a rumor which sent Wall Street Beechwood interests tumbling and Ed McMahon scurrying for new material.
This month's '64 career spotlight is on Geof Brod, who astounded his fellow Hartford actuaries last April with an enterprising plan to market group ransom insurance for college administrators, and who has rung the bell again with a brilliant series of sales of convertible-term legal liability policies to a group of Miami-bound air travelers who brandished plaster busts of Jose Marti.
That's it for now. Please take a moment to drop me a card or letter to tell me where you are and what you're doing, and to relay any news about yourself or other '64's which might be of interest to the Class. Without a significant increase in news input, this column is in as much trouble as the Phi Tau piano used to be on Sink Night. Later.
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