1950

While Ed Tuck is making a speedy recovery from his recent operation for the installation of a pacemaker in his chest, Joe Medlicott will act as the Class correspondent. A recent letter from Ed was filled with good news: the operation was totally successful, the pacemaker was installed and is functioning beautifully, and except for the usual aches and pains which follow such surgery Ed is feeling first rate again. He expects to be back at his desk in a week or so and is looking forward to virtually unrestricted activity for years and years to come.

In Washington, D. C., Charlie Wilkes has been elected to the board of directors of Columbia Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Also elected a new board member within the past few months was Bill West, now a director of the National Bank of Chester County and Trust Company. Bill is president of the West Company, a Phoenixville, Pa., manufacturer of closures and special packaging components for the pharmaceutical and hospital supply industries.

Joe Boutaugh has been named general manager of the Wheeling, W. Va., casualty and surety division office of Aetna Life and Casualty Co. Joe joined Aetna eighteen years ago at the company's home offices in Hartford and later served in Indianapolis and Buffalo. He had been manager of the marketing department at Detroit for the past three years.

After ten years of living throughout various Asian nations, Dave Steinberg has returned to this country and is currently living in Kensington, Md., and commuting to Washington for his job with The Asia Foundation. Among Dave's recent publications are "Korea: Nexus of East Asia" (issued by the American-Asian Educational Exchange) and a long article on Korea's National Museum (published in "Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society").

Three classmates have written during the past few weeks of their world travels: JohnWolf and his family took a leisurely voyage through the Caribbean aboard the "Argentina." The trip was eagerly looked forward to because John felt that his growing family might find it difficult in a year or so to manage such a trip. Our youngsters grow up awfully fast these days and getting all of them together at one time and in one place becomes increasingly difficult - especially when so many of them feel the generation gap. The second classmate enjoying a voyage of another sort is John Lotter. He and Cookie are in East Africa on a safari, gathering tall tales, no doubt, for their return to the 20th Class reunion. Finally, Dick McSorley and wife Edie took off this month for a week of skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland, then a swing through France, Germany, and Italy before heading home.

And finally, a special Wah-Hoo-Wah for Tom Warner, named "Man of the Year" by the editors of the "Minnetonka Sun," one of the suburban newspapers serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Largely through Tom's efforts a serious pollution problem in Lake Minnetonka is being corrected. Tom began his campaign early last summer by organizing members of his community into task force groups to clean up the lake. Great strides have been made already in this program, and Tom's followers continue to grow in strength. In addition to his work in the conservation field, Tom has been active in the formation of the Minnetonka Youth Hockey Association. He has also been busy in the YMCA, the Boy Scouts, and the St. Louis Park Rotary Club. For the past fourteen years he has been a director of the Minnetonka Yacht Club. He and wife Barbara have four daughters, including a set of twins.

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