1960
As hard as it may be to believe, we have entered our second decade as alumni. Can it really be ten years since we left Hanover to roam the girdled earth? Well it has, and how we have roamed. And from the looks of it, we are still roaming. In the last two months alone, I have received over 60 change of address cards. Evidentally, after ten years of graduate school, military service and early career jobs, the Class has taken its place in the great mobile American society.
Just to prove that the “Class of the Year Award” bestowed upon us in June was no fluke, we established a record Alumni Fund contribution for a ten-year class. The final report credits our class with $23,370, which was more than enough to assure us of our third straight Green Derby title. Congratulations are extended to Seth Strickland and his fine team of class agents who helped make this our best year ever.
I helped make a few last minute phone calls back in June and thereby had a chance to talk with a few classmates. Chuck Stuart has managed to stay single and is working for G. E. down in Baltimore. A few miles further south in Washington and we find Les McCracken employed as a systems engineer for the Wyatt Company. Les married Sybil McDaid last March, thus reducing the bachelor ranks by one more. Vozken Parsegian is also in Washington. He is currently at the National Institute for Health and can therefore call Uncle Sam, “Uncle.” Out in the desert, we find Art LaFrance teaching at the University of Arizona. Art and wife welcomed their third child, Christopher Blair, earlier this year. It was a rather warm 115 degrees the day I spoke with Art, which makes me hope that they don’t suffer from power failures as often as we do in the East.
From the few press clippings that have been sent in we find that Steve Gell has been elected president of the John F. Kennedy Lodge of B’nai B’rith, a lodge composed of government officials in Wash- ington area. Steve is an attorney in the office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development. While Steve is at the office, Sheila takes care of Aaron and Carolyn.
Bob Hager has been appointed foreign correspondent to Berlin for the NBC television network. Up to now. Bob had been an announcer for a Rutland radio station. He is married to the former Honore Vargas. Look for Bob’s reports on your local NBC station. Are you sure that this the way Chet Huntley started?
Stan Jones is also in Washington where he is Director of the Office of Management Policy and Planning, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, for HEW. But more important, Stan recently received the HSHMA Superior Service Award for his “exemplary performance, outstanding initia- tive, and unusual creativity in the design and implementation of planning and man- agement systems.” Quite an accolade and I’m sure well deserved. Stan and Linda have four children at home and see both MaiChurchill and John Youle who are with the foreign service.
Lee Horschman has been named director of market planning and analysis in the business systems mar- ket division of East- ern Kodak Company, where he has worked since graduation. He and his wife, Toni, make their home at 11 Candlewood Drive in Pittsford, N. Y., with sons, Eric and Robert. Word has it that Coach Blackman is al- ready scouting the youngsters as future linemen.
Over at Westinghouse, Dave Sloper is a member of a team who designed a computer for use on an unmanned satellite. Dave joined Westinghouse after graduating from Thayer School, and has been tinkering with computers ever since.
Kay Keating, executive vice president of Keating Insurance Inc., recently participated on a panel at the Insurance, Accounting and Statistical Association Conference in Toron- to. Ray’s subject was the effect of automa- tion on the agent. The Keatings still live in Claremont, N. H.
Steve Larson has moved to Kama, Minn, where he is practicing obstetrics and svnecoloav with four other associates.
The Reverend Dave Schofield is the retreat master at St. Columbus’ Retreat House in Inverness, Calif. Dave, have you seen Bob, Carol, Ted or Alice?
Dr. Bruce Flashner spent some time with the military in Florida and liked it so much that he has set up shop in Homestead. Flash was the lucky one to have his name drawn out of a hat at reunion, and that meant his stay in Hanover was on the house.
EDP Resources, Inc., of White Plains, N. Y., has a new Regional Vice President in Bill Gundy. In this new role Bill will be responsible for all computer services marketing in New England and New York State. Before joining EDP Re- sources in 1967 he spent seven years with IBM in sales and marketing, and an IBM System in his present work makes him feel at home. The Gundy family, including three children, resides in Wayland, Mass.
Generous Spence Morgan offered to give Don Stoddard a hand in demolishing an old boat house that was rapidly disintegrat- ing on the latter’s New Jersey lakefront property. Armed with sledgehammers and a keg of beer, the two made short work of their project. They were given moral support by Tom Brock who stopped by to check their progress and by ex-chairman A 1 Stowe, who remained a casual observer, Fellas, if you are looking for further worlds to conquer, I could use a little help in my backyard.
In the last issue, Dick Griggs reported on the new class officers and executive commit- tee. Let me take up a small amount of space to thank Al, Dick, Bruce Clark and the men on the past executive committee for a job well done. I’m sure that the award we received in June was thanks enough for all of them.
For those planning to attend the Princeton game in Hanover on October 10, please note that we are going to have a class dinner after the game at the DOC House. Reservations are not needed; just show up if you happen to be in the area. We did the same thing after the Penn game last year, and all present had a great time.
Finally, to give you some idea of how far some of us have come in ten years, I quote from a letter sent in by Brad Lund. It seems that Brad completed the systems analysis program at the Customs Services’ Center on Long Island and was transferred to headquarters in Washington. In an ecstatic state over graduating, he wrote, “Before I went to that training program, I couldn’t even spel sistems analiss; now I are one!”
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