1964
Welcome back for another thrill-packed season of “As The World Turns,” ’64 style. I’m looking forward to passing on all the news I receive about members of the class. Please take a moment to drop me a card or a letter with news about yourself or other ’64’s.
I hope you all had a pleasant summer. So far, the most unusual ’64 vacation that has been reported to me has been that of our esteemed class president, Sandy McGinnes. Sandy left his grueling advertising job in early June for a long-cherished vacation adventure: Climbing the Mattehorn. (What we have here is a clear case of ascending from the meticulous to the Pennine.) Before he left Boston (brandishing an alpenstock and clad in purple lederhosen replete with crossed bandoliers of pitons) Sandy asked me to remind you of the “1964 Tiger Roast” to be held at the Ashly House (near Hanover) immediately following the Princeton tilt. Sandy has put together a great package of food, beer, and set-ups for only six shekels per head. Please let Sandy know if you can attend this “mini-reunion” on October 10; you may address him at 50 Chestnut St., Boston, Mass. 02108.
An old friend, Gene Laka, writes that he and his wife, Kathleen, have recently completed a 7,500-mile jaunt across Canada in a VW camper. Gene has just been transferred by the Coast Guard from Juneau, Alaska, to scenic New London, Conn., where he will finish his last ten months of duty as an instructor at the Coast Guard Academy. I may be wrong, but I think I recall that Gene regularly squandered his “laundry-flick-and- haircut” money in hopelessly naive wagers against the best poker sharps of Sig Ep. (I also think it was Gene who bet me that Phi Gam would win “Hums” in 1963, and that the Edsel would make a big comeback.) If these recollections are correct, does it not seem ironic that Gene has been assigned to teach in the Academy’s Department of Economics and Management?
This month’s ’64 Career Spotlight shines upon Lieutenant Bob Parkinson USN. Bob has recently graduated from the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School in Maryland, and will be stationed there for two years while assigned to the Flight Test Division. Rumors that he was selected for test pilot training because a fslavy clerk misread an entry in his personal data papers, i.e., (Bob had four years of experience in the Ski Patrol at Dartmouth, not the Sky Patrol) are totally false and misleading. Bob’s lovely wife, Patti, invites classmates from the D. C. area and environs to drop down to California, Md., and visit the Parkinsons.
Fete Koenig’s pert wife, Pat, writes that Pete is the new ecstatic father of an 84- pound baby boy, Paul Thomas Koenig 111. Hollywood is seriously contemplating the production of a new film, “Son of Clit,” in the child’s honor.
A wa-hoo-wah for Bruce Kuniholm, recent recipient of a Bronze Star for meritorious service in the Marine Corps.
Lou Goodman was recently awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern. Lou and his wife, Nancy and their daughter, Elizabeth, live in New Haven where, as previously reported, Lou is an assistant professor of sociology at Yale.
John Topping, who got his law degree at Yale in 1967 and served as a Judge Advocate in the Air Force the past two years, has been named legal counsel and re- search associate for the National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise, headquartered in Washington. The Ad- visory Council of sixty prominent Americans named by President Nixon is developing a national strategy to generate minority enter- prise. In addition to being staff legal counsel, John will do field research in existing minority economic programs.
The wedding toll mounted this summer, with five confirmed casualties and two probables on the record here at ’64 Bachelor Central. Scott Skinner married the former Mary Margaret Just in New York City last March. Scott graduated from Columbia Law School in 1969; Mary Margaret is a Barnard grad. Brian Randall married the former Evelyn Meentemeyer in Okawville, 111., in May. Brian and Evelyn will reside in Belleville, 111.
Lennie Green married the former Rita Gevirtz in Bridgeport, Conn., in June. BradEvans and Barbara Reed were wed _in Waban, Mass, in June. Bob Cahners, MikeDancik, Ehney Camp and Perry Butler helped to console Brad. Barry Guitar took the former Carroll Reeves as his bride in a June ceremony in Philadelphia. Barry and Carroll will live in Madison, Wis., where Barry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin.
As this column goes to press, I await confirmation of three additional ’64 wed- dings. Larry Keeler, George Kitchin, and Tony Thompson are thought to have taken wives recently; I would appreciate any news regarding these classmates.
Larry Hayter is reportedly engaged to Margaret Thompson of Montclair, N. J. Larry is currently employed by the Dorland Publishing Company of Denville, N. J., as managing editor of “Modern Lithography,” a trade mag.
As a final note, I would like to report that Jim Harris, his charming wife Pat, and their two daughters are indeed alive and well in Key West, where Jim recently gave me an enjoyable series of fishing and boating lessons. ’64 wives would do well to ask Pat for her fabulous Taco recipe. That’s it for now. Please keep the news coming in.
Secretary. Box 8193, University of Miami Coral Gables, Fla. 33124 Treasurer, River Hill Apt. 12-12 A Menands, N. Y. 12204
