1951
In the wake of Hurricane Doria came the realization that fall, football, and relief from the sauna-like temperatures of the New York subways could not be far behind.
I realized this when confronted with a September 2 deadline for this column. Unless some is inadvertently buried in a cluttered den, the usual surfeit of Class news accumulated over the summer is missing. Fortunately, we have a few classmates who have been doing things—or at least are willing to own up to it.
"Pete" Henderson recently became Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs at Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Ill. He made the move after ten years with the Chicagobased management consulting firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, which he left as a vice president. Pete's most recent responsibilities were as head Of the firm's public administration and urban affairs consulting activities in the Midwest.
His new responsibilities at Northwestern include supervision of the School of Management's admissions, placement, alumni relations, development, and financial management activities. He will also have an important role in developing the school's program of urban involvement.
Prior to joining Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, Pete was with Inland Steel Company and its sheet metal fabricating subsidiary, Inland Steel Products Company. A resident of suburban Winnetka, he is a director of the Community Renewal Society, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, and the Winnetka Communi- ty House.
Two classmates remarried in June, Hunter White's new spouse is also from New Orleans. The former Lynn Farwell is a graduate of Newcomb College of Tulane University and attended the New York School of Interior Design. Hunter, who holds a law degree from Tulane, is in real estate development and serves on the board of the University's medical school.
Bill Rugg-'s wife Donna is a '59 graduate of Mills College. His recent promotion to Captain in the Naval Reserve has resulted in his being given command of the Group Command at Alameda, California. The Ruggs reside in nearby San Leandro on the East side of San Francisco Bay. AndyDrury, wife, and six children ranging from nine to sixteen, live in Lewiston, Maine, where Andy teaches English in the high school.
This summer, the American Bar Association had the good judgment to divide its annual meeting between New York and London, England. I took advantage of the occasion to make my first crossing of the Atlantic and journeyed on to the continent after the meeting.
While in England, I was able to refloat my "floating reunion" project, which had been beached for some time. In London, I spent a theatre evening with Bob Hirschman. Fellow bachelor Bob is comptroller of IMS, Inc., a market research firm operating out of London with offices in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Buenos Aires, and other places, and an officer of various subsidiaries. Seven years ago he made the move to this client of the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick & Mitchell of which he was resident partner in Germany.
On a Friday evening, I took a crowded train out of London's Waterloo Station for a two-and-a-half hour ride to Dorset, where expatriate Mark Heifer, wife Rachel, and five children ranging in age from six to fourteen, reside in a sprawling cottage on an 180-acre farm with 110 Jersey cows, 200 ewes, and seven ponies.
Mark's post office address is Corfe Castle, an English village which looks like an English village should. Towering above on a very steep hill are the ruins of Corfe Castle, one of five fortresses which at one time guarded the English Channel. The castle's history is fascinating, it was destroyed by order of Parliament after having held out against the Cromwellians for five years.
Mark has been active in the Dorset County branch of the National Farmers Union; a regional director of Agriculture Central Trading, Ltd., a bulk buying cooperative for farmers; and a founder and the first chairman of Southwestern Quality Lamb Producers, Ltd., a bulk selling organization of 150 producers covering five counties in the Southwest of England.
Apart from farming, a primary source of Mark's income is renting space for tourists to put up their tents and park their caravans (mobile campers). Indicative of Mark's local involvement is the fact that, before I had to leave early to catch a train back to London, I attended a performance of the Wareham Concert, a group of five men, of whom Mark is one, six women, two recorder players, and an organist-director, which performed madrigals and music of similar vintage.
My trip abroad taught me much. The collision with antiquity rekindled my liberal arts interest in the past. I learned that the U. S. did not have a monopoly on doing things well, witness the London Underground and the Paris Metro versus the New York subways, and the safety of the streets in major European cities versus major U. S. cities.
What is more, European cities seem to have a personality of their own which is almost totally lacking in this country, with the exception, based on my experience, of possibly New Orleans and San Francisco. Furthermore, places like Mark Heifer's beloved Dorset are protected from drastic change from their combination of beautiful and historic character by stringent zoning regulations. I close on the baneful query whether the beautiful upper New England we all love so much will enjoy a similar fate?
Secretary, RUSSELL C. DILKS Apt. 32-A, 45 E. 89th St. New York, N. Y. 10028
Treasurer, MERLE L. THORPE Dolly Rd., Hopkinton, N. H. 03301
