1955

Dick Roberts shifted last month from Rockefeller University to Cornell Medical College at New York Hospital, where he's an associate professor and chief of the infectious disease division in the department of medicine. Dick and Debbie also welcomed their second child and first daughter, Gwyneth. on August 6. The busy Roberts family moved, somewhat uneasily, into an East 63rd Street apartment building just purchased by New York Hospital. The hospital evicted the previous tenants in favor of its own, and whether this was fair and proper became something of a public issue during the fall election campaign.

The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education appointed Pat McCarthy acting chancellor, responsible for coordination and development of 29 institutions of public higher education. Pat was previously deputy chancellor. He has also had extensive experience in urban renewal in Boston and San Leandro, Calif., and has lectured, taught courses in planning, and written several technical articles and papers. Pat, Joan, and their five children live in Wellesley.

Bill Forester has been designated a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and has also been promoted to associate actuary in the pension department of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. Bill lives in Holden, Mass., and joined Paul Revere after graduation in 1955. He has worked in group insurance, and pensions and annuities.

Tom Carlsen, assistant professor of research and administration at Syracuse University, stepped up to assistant dean of the university's Graduate School of Social Work, and also received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Bruce Detlefsen is a full-time research associate for the New York State Commission on Campus Unrest. He previously was with the Associated Press in Albany, covering legislative and education news. For six years Bruce was at Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., teaching French and coaching cross country and track. He also taught at prep schools in Chicago and Providence, and did graduate work at the University of Mexico.

Ken Lundstrom reports a good turnout of '55s at the club officers' meeting in Hanover October 3 and 4: Ted Ely, Springfield, Mass., and a member of the club officers' executive committee; Woody Goss, from the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County, Mass.; Swifty Lawrence, Rhode Island; PaulMarines, Washington, D. C.; Dave Steinberg, Philadelphia; John Walton, New Canaan, Conn.; and Ken himself, from the Delaware club. They are all club presidents. Ken also mentions that he sat next to Nelson Jones and his two sons and they all "had a delightful time watching Dartmouth beat Holy Cross." Woody writes separately that he's now in charge of the loan division at the Mechanics National Bank of Worcester.

John and Barbara Cavanagh both received degrees from Duke University last June, John's a Ph.D., and they've now moved to Cambridge where Barbara attends Harvard Law and John is "busy transforming my dissertation into a book." Says John, a native of Northampton: "It's great being back in New England."

Dick Target, who handles six kids and his Aetna job with ease, is now using his spare time as a member of the school board in Danbury, Conn. Dr. Phil Mossman moved from Beverly, Mass., to Minneapolis, where he's specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Kenny Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. John Stanley is assistant professor of ophthalmology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. John and Linda had their third daughter, Kristen, last December 5.

Major Bruce Gardener is back at Mather Air Force Base in California after five months of flying B-52 bombing runs over South Viet Nam from Guam, Thailand, and Okinawa. "Interesting and different," he comments, "but happy to be home. I managed to spend a few (3) days in Bangkok, and a like number in Hong Kong. In all I managed to go broke saving money. I brought home lots of 'goodies.' " Ed Barry is on leave from the University of North Carolina, where he's an associate professor of genetics, and is spending this year at the University of Leeds in England. Al Congdon lives in Manhasset, N. Y., and is a partner in the law firm of Barry, McTiernan & Congdon. Tom Fleming, now a lieutenant commander, has shifted coast to coast with the Navy, from Bath, Me., to San Jose, Calif.

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