1959

Hanover looks as pleasant as it ever did in early spring. Butch and Cle Priest, Billand Kate Kuggan, Dick Hoehn, Chris Cundey, our new newsletter editor, Joan and I were back for Class Officers' Weekend, May 1-2. The weather was great and the program interesting, the highlight being a truly moving talk by President Kemeny dealing with the issues on campus today. Butch led us in some high adventure Saturday night by somehow navigating his new Volkswagen camper into a ditch. Then, while waiting for Farmer Barden's tractor to pull us out, Joan tangled with a barbed wire fence necessitating a trip to Mary Hitchcock for stitches. It was a memorable time in many ways. Butch will report more fully on 1959 business matters via a letter to the entire Class shortly.

A lengthy letter from Jay Herpel reports that Ray Becker and Al Munro were over for dinner on separate occasions during recent business trips to the West Coast. But the rest of you guys looking to freeload in San Francisco better cross Jay off your list for his letter goes on to say that he has been transferred to Yokohama where he will run the Asian activities of Americoat Corp. He writes "although we'll be living in Japan, two or three times a year I'll travel around free Asia and go west (or east) as far as India and Pakistan. If you know of classmates over there I'd appreciate their names and addresses. It would be great to look them up. Well be over there for three to five years and as soon as we get an address, the welcome mat is out for any classmate that might have occasion to be in Japan." A more important event though "was the arrival of our son, Jonathan, over Thanksgiving. He's our first, and I gather from the newsletter and your column that we have some catching up to do."

I seem to have a run of news on MDs in the hopper. Dr. Steve Levine will be getting out of the Navy in July and plans to remain in Cherry Hill, N. J., to continue his practice in gastroenterology. In addition, he will be on the Jefferson Medical College faculty and act as director of medical education at the Cooper Hospital in Camden. Steve's wife, Rhea, is an assistant professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania which leads me to believe both are interested in medicine. Dr. Bill Colaiace and family just moved into the land of Narragansett-Providence, R. I. that is - and reports the birth of Andre Peter who must be eight months old by now.

My thanks also to Dr. Chuck Hoyt's wife who paid Chuck's class dues and took the time to report that Sam and Donna Swansen spent a few days over Christmas with them in Cleveland. (She also said that the Hoyts had made the trip to Princeton last fall and wished they hadn't.) Sam is a lawyer in Philadelphia and was recently appointed chief of the Community Rights Division of the District Attorney's office in that city. He expects to return to private practice again this summer, after what will be a two-and-a-half-year tour with the D.A. there.

Bob Morris left Honeywell to become vice president and general manager of Fa-bri-Tec Information Management, Inc., a computer software concern. Bob got their two kids, Cathey, seven, and Robby, four, skiing this winter and he and Anne were planning to go to Palm Beach and Miami for a week in order to escape the Minnesota winter.

Also responding to my recipe threat was Dick Kulp who wrote to say "my wife, Nancy, and I and our three sons (newest is jimmy, a year old, April 2) are living the good life in Massapequa Park, L. I. We live in a sprawling ranch house on a scenic, meandering canal with Great South Bay just 300 yards away. Boating April through October, fishing, and ice skating on the canal in winter. It's worth working in N.Y.C. and the commuting to get there." Dick is a news correspondent with the American Broadcasting Company and airs thirteen shows each week over the ABCFM radio news network. He and Nancy were at Cape Kennedy for the lift-off of Apollo 11 and Dick indicates he has covered a wide variety of news, ranging from demonstrations and VIP arrivals to the recent solar eclipse. Dick adds that he has little sympathy for Bob Ogg and his new house blues — in two years his monthly bank donation nearly doubled due to increases in taxes. Well, I guess all things are relative.

Bill Woolley's wife, Jean, found time to announce the birth of twins, Stephen and Jennifer, on April 15, thus doubling their brood to four. Congratulations and good luck — I feel we have our hands full with only two. Harry Downing has been named director of information and administrative systems for Nationwide Insurance and General Radio Corp. has appointed NormSwanson personnel manager. Bob (Lefty)Cline is now a senior vice president of Airborne Freight Corporation, a world-wide air freight forwarding concern based in Seattle.

The Alumni Fund Campaign ends June 30 and there is no need for me to repeat the reasons why Dartmouth is relying on us for financial support. I sincerely hope each of us will do his part to help the class meet its share of the Fund's goal.

That's it for this year. See you next fall.

Secretary, 7 Mt. Vernon Rd. Upper Montclair, N. J. 07043

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