1953

Twenty years ago this month we all had been Carnivalized for the first time. Since then, a lot of snowflakes have fallen and one of the idle worries of this column is that some '53 will write in concerning the birth of his grandson before we're through with the job of getting the class married off. It is therefore with considerable jubilation (not unmixed with relief) that I can report some major progress along the nuptial front and - as yet - no news of third generations. From Cleveland's Dick Blum came a "Plain Dealer" clipping announcing the marriage on December 19 in New York of Vic Cannon to Ellen Kaplan, a Bennington graduate. Vic and Ellen live in Manhattan's upper East Side, not too distant from Trinity School where Vic teaches. Vic got his M.A. in English literature from Columbia.

Fred Stephens has become engaged to Thelma Jane MacLeod of Belmont, Mass., and they will be married in September. Thelma Jane graduated from Boston's Chandler School for Women and is administrative office manager for IBM in that fair city. As if that weren't enough for Fred, in 1970, he has succeeded Jack Newton as Head Class Agent. Presumably Fred leveled with Thelma Jane about Alumni Fund Widowhood being worse than either golf or sailing.

Roger Cole has been appointed the first director of personnel at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and is responsible for recruiting all academy employees other than faculty. He will also manage the employee benefit funds. Roger, who lives in Marblehead, got his MBA from Harvard in 1961 and has been assistant personnel director at Boston University since 1963.

Scrib Fauver has been elected to the city council of his home town, Elyria, Ohio, a city near Cleveland of some 60,000 souls and, says Scrib, one of the major growth areas in northeastern Ohio. His councilmanic duties include chairmanship of the finance committee. Scrib practices law with his father in Elyria and warns that one of the dangers of political activity is that one's profession becomes more of a sideline. "I am resisting this," scribes Scrib.

Bill Fry has been named assistant dean and director of urban affairs at Columbia Law School, the first ever to hold the post. According to the press release, Bill will stimulate and coordinate the law school's activities involving urban legal problems, and will help make the school's programs more responsive to neighborhood groups. Bill will also seek support for special urban affairs projects. After graduation from Dartmouth, Bill served as a naval officer, got his LL.B. from Columbia in 1959, practiced law in New York and in 1961 became assistant counsel for the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor. He was later assistant counsel to the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency and in 1967 was named deputy general counsel of Fun City's Human Resources Administration. Bill, his wife, and two children live in Manhattan.

Tom Wilson interrupted his sailing last summer enough to celebrate the birth of a daughter, Nell Hawthorne, born in July. Tom and Molly live in Manhattan, except during the sailing season, when Westport claims them as denizens. Tom is a principal with McKinsey & Co., well-known management consultants, and is currently president of the Thistle Class Association.

John Kennedy has chucked the northeast corridor megalopolis for Farmers Branch, Texas, which despite a name which makes Dry Gulch, Nev., sound positively urban, is actually a Big D suburb. John is vice president of Transportation Technology, Inc., a company specializing in the design, fabrication, test, and development of air cushion vehicles and related transportation systems. John and Barbara, together with Johnny (6) and Linda (3), don't miss the New Haven R. R. at all.

Aaron Epstein, accompanied by wife Jacqueline, son Keith (11) and daughter Esther (9), have just spent a memorable year in Europe, travelling throughout the continent with a home base in Geneva. Aaron has been doing free-lance investigatory reporting for the "Sacramento Bee" and Jackie teaches music to orally, visually, and orthopedically handicapped children in a public school in Sacramento. Aaron is studying for the California bar, having just recently received his law degree from McGeorge School of Law (University of Pacific).

Dr. Walt Yom Lehn is director of the Santa Fe district for the Public Health Service, having served for a year in the Dominican Republic as staff physician for the Peace Corps. With Peter (14), David (11), and Jonathan (9), wife Barbara and daughter Maria (4) felt a little outnumbered, so the family brought back a teen-age Dominican girl, also named Maria. Walt has combined accomplished medical expertise with dedicated public service in a number of challenging posts ever since he first practiced in West Virginia. He holds a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina.

Bob Chiesa, wife Nancy, and their boys, Peter (6) and Paul (4), live in Manchester, N. H., where Bob is a partner of Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Kohls, the eminent law firm with four (count 'em) Dartmouth men (but no other '53s). Bob often sees class prexy, Jack Crisp; Bill Johnson, Superior Court Judge appointed to the bench this past spring; Sherm Horton, a partner of Messrs. Sullivan, Gregg & Horton in Nashua; Bill Burns, principal of the Manchester Central High School; and Frank Putney, mortgage loan officer with the Manchester Federal Savings & Loan Association. Bob attended his 20th high school reunion Thanksgiving-time (in New Jersey) and saw John Amerman and Russell Henry, who was M.C.ing the thing.

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