1953
Fred Fedeli has been elected vice president of financial operations for State Mutual of America in Worcester, Mass. He joined State Mutual in 1957 and was made vice president in the investment division in 1968. Fred and his family live in nearby Southboro.
Ray Alexander has just become executive vice president of the Mt. Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. Previously he was administrator of the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Apparently Ray prefers Schlitz to Schaefer. (Maybe it's the Packers over the Giants.). With wife Rosalie and three kids, Marian (8), Gerald (7), and Karen (3), Ray is now firmly established in the Badger State at 1584 East Cumberland Blvd., in Whitefish Bay.
Phil Beekman was recently promoted to vice president—household products, for Colgate Palmolive. After stints of duty for Colgate International in Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Canada, Phil and Nancy are glad to be back in the New York area. They have four children, Betsy (17), Leslie (14), Phil Jr. (12), and Nancy (10), and reside at 10 Wildwood Drive in North Caldwell, N. J. Phil reports frequent encounters with Dave and Susie Berry, David and MichelleFlorence, and Bob and Cathy Callender. Phil's prime ... if not unique . . . distinction must be his daily five-mile jog, commencing every morning at 4:30. It's a cinch he'll never get Cal (or anyone else) to join him!
John Joy was seriously injured last summer when struck by an automobile as he was motorcycling to Amherst, Mass., to visit Tom McBride. After three long months and several operations at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, John is now studying music at Fredonia State Teachers, with the aim of teaching others what he himself learned so well. As New York theatregoers know, John had an active and varied theatrical career, appearing in many Broadway shows. As John completes his recovery, he is living with his parents at 175 Eagle St., in Fredonia.
Bob Yates has been named advertising supervisor for the industrial, railroad and steel corporate group for The Timken Company, headquartered in Canton, Ohio, where Bob and his family live at 3745 Edgehill Circle, N. W.
Marty DeGennaro announces the birth of son number 3, child number 5, named Theodore Martin. He joins Ann, Bill, Sam, and Helen, ranging in ages from twelve to three. Marty is at Wood, Walker & Co., NYSE member, in New Haven.
According to "The Falmouth (Mass.) Enterprise," Dave Folger set a new record in the cross Vineyard sound (mainland Cape
to Martha's Vineyard) swim competition last summer by crossing from Nobska on the mainland and going ashore a little beyond Lake Tashmoo on the Vineyard. Dave paddled about 4,000 strokes in two hours and 29 minutes, eating a little plankton on the way. Dave, a professor of geology at Middlebury, was at Falmouth with his family while a research associate in submarine geology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Assisted (?) by ushers Rick Mainzer,Tom Bloomer, and Dick Calkins, FredStephens married Thelma Jane MacLeod on September 19 in Needham, Mass. The reception, held at the Harvard Club (ecumenism is making strides) was packed with classmates, and a wide-angle photo captured most of them. Fred and Thelma Jane now make their home in Needham.
Moneybags Dave Burner has conjured up a financial and unauditable annual report, purporting to show that the class treasury is solvent. Most of the assets appear to be represented by crumpled Arlington Downs pari-mutuel tickets but Dave claims they're good.
Lefty Leavens came east from Hood River, Ore., for a short business visit (marketing apples and pears for Pacific Northwest growers), got trapped trying to get home at Boston's Logan Airport by (a) bad fog on the runway and (b) an errant seagull in the engine, and ended up watching Dartmouth's satisfying win over Harvard, made more so by junior Tim Copper's stunning runbacks. Lefty recruited the electrifying Big Green return specialist and so takes special pride in his performance.
Among those at the Yale triumph who traveled far to see the Big Green put a capstone on this year's Ivy League championship were John Cernius, who came from Los Angeles, and Bob Simpson, who came from Brussels. Tom Bloomer and Fred Carleton again syndicated their Greenwich-New Haven charabanc, which attracted out-of-towners Soc Senne, TedSpeigel, Butch Edgar, Howard Cleary, and Jim West. Herm, who comes from Philadelphia's Main Line hunt country, later demonstrated his fine steeplechase form during a pit stop on the Connecticut Thruway.
Bill Beutel is back from London and now anchor-manning ABC's daily six o'clock TV news program in New York. The news isn't any better but it's at least reassuring to get it from someone you know.
1955's annual pre-Harvard golf outingat Meadowbrook was shortened to 9holes when a heavy rainstorm made in-doors more appealing. On hand were(back row) Dick Mount, Dave Conlan,Pete Thompson, Phil Reilly, Bruce Alexander, Red Hennigar; (front) Pete Dromeshauser, George Peters, John DellIsola, Hank Stephenson, and Jack Munroe. The party was a warm-up for the15 th reunion in June.
Maurice Schonfeld '53, director of special projects for UPITN, television newsagency of United Press International, shown with actor Melvyn Douglas in Hanoverwhere Douglas did the narration for "The Progressive Era," second in a series of25-minute films sponsored by Encyclopaedia Britannica on the general theme of theAmerican Experience in the 20th Century. Mr. Douglas summers in Vermont,near Hanover, and frequently comes to the College.
Secretary, Blyth & Co., Inc. 14 Wall St. New York, N. Y. 10005
Treasurer, Kirkland Ellis, Hodson 2900 Prudential Plaza Chicago, Ill. 60601
