1935

It has been a frenzied holiday season. The astronauts' epic flight to the moon. (DonRichardson, in charge of Philco-Ford's space environmental program had more than a layman's interest in this.) Release of the Pueblo crew. The build-up for a change of administrations in Washington. An unprecedented rash of football bowl games. The icy blasts and heavy snows. of winter. Small wonder the mailbag is so slim this month.

But I warn one and all. If January doesn't bring more response from the Class, this column will degenerate into a disgusting monologue!

Most ,of the news we do have this month is of family affairs. Weddings. Engagements. Sons and daughters in college, or headed there. Armand Deutsch set the social pace, with the high-society wedding of his daughter, Deborah, to Kenneth Marks Bijur in New York's St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. Her husband attended the University of Vermont and is an assistant buyer at Macy's.

Louise and Bud Hinman announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan, to Rollie Morton's ('34) son, Dick. The wedding should have occurred by the time this news appears. Susan graduated from Bennett College and works for J. C. Penney in New York, while Dick is a stockbroker with Weeden & Co.

From Herb Knowles comes the . proud announcement that he and Bernyce are grandparents. Daughter Joan presented them with a granddaughter, Kimberley Linn, on September 23. The young couple are living m Greeley, Colo., where Joan's husband, Allen Dertinger, is a senior at Colorado State College.

Bill Fitzhugh reports that his younger daughter, Portia, spent Christmas behind the Iron Curtain. Although a student at Vassar, she was invited to join a Sarah Lawrence choral group that visited Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. Bill's older daughter. Priscilla, is an art director with Allyn & Bacon, the book publishers. Young Bill '64 is working for a Ph.D. at Harvard, when he is not excavating for Indian relics in Labrador. Son, Josh, a junior at Hanover, took a sabbatical this fall to campaign for Dean Thad Seymour's brother, Whitney North Seymour, in the latter's unsuccessful bid for Congress.

Lowell Haas and yours truly are puffing out our chests with parental pride. Lowell's Freddy and my Warren both were notified over the holidays that they had passed Eddie Chamberlain's rugged scrutiny, and will enroll in the Class of 1973. You never saw two happier boys!

Lowell also passed along the good news that Al Clark is recovering from a heart attack, suffered late last spring. Al and Margaret have lived in Deadwood, S. D., since the late 40's, where he is engaged in the petroleum and wholesale tire business. Daughter Marilyn presented them with a granddaughter in late August, and daughter Linda was married in March to Sergeant Darryl Tubbs, now serving with the Air Force in Turkey.

From Bob Mclellan comes this word. "Our married daughter is living in Lincoln, Neb., where her husband is getting his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Our son has five months to go as a Ist Lt., with the Army engineers. Our younger daughter is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts."

Hugh Woolf forwarded a most interesting article from the Washington Post on BobReich, who is making architectural news in the capital city. When the home wreckers finish, the Post says, Bob picks up the pieces and builds them into another house. Almost half the up-graded houses on Capital Hill have felt the Reich influence. His projects have included houses, offices, churches, and some edifices hard to classify, Barbara (a real estate broker in her own right) is his eager partner in these restorations, and currently is adding touches to their most unusual home which contains panelling, chandeliers, and bits and pieces collected from all over the world.

Another Washington item, buried deep in the mail bag. Frank Specht reports that "Brother Ralph was in Washington earlier this year. He persuaded me to play golf, which I have not done in 16 yearsand I beat the pants off of him. Of course, the very slight handicap he gave me helped." Now we know how to tell them apart. The one with the natural slice is Frank. Or is it?

Hall Colton's daughter, Sidney, is now head of the occupational therapy department at Jewish Hospital, in St. Louis. She had earned her B.S. degree at Washington University of St. Louis, and is married to Stephen Rothenberg, a graduate student there.

One of the most unusual clippings we have received in months concerns Frances andJack Steffens. It seems Jack won first prize at a scholarship fund-raising dance, sponsored by the Dartmouth Club in Cleveland. This turned out to be a formal dinner for 14, served on the Observation Deck of Cleveland's terminal tower. The meal was prepared by a caterer clear across town, trucked to the terminal tower and then relayed up three sets of elevators to the Steffens and their guests. Just a simple, little spur-of-the-moment meal!

Two interesting change-of-address notices this month. Johnny Howe, whose last assignment was chief of mission for UNESCO in Brazil, now checks in from New Delhi, India. While Bill Harloe has moved back to Manhattan from Boca Raton, Fla. How about bringing us up-to-date fellows!

In a postcard, Jack Irish reports he is now living in Ogden, Utah. "No indications of '35ers in the areabut, then, I am a relative newcomer. Did meet Jim Eckels, class of '41 I believe. They're in Salt Lake City. We and our wives had experienced Alumni College, although a year apart. Our youngest daughter, Lynne, is being married Dec. 28."

Well, this will have to do until another month. The cupboard is bare. So do your share. Write.

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