1957

News from classmates is definitely on the Mm side this month. The column can be fattened up considerably in the future if you will drop me a postcard and let me [now where you are and what you have been doing.

What I have been doing for the past tour weekends is applying a chain saw to two huge swamp maples that assaulted the roof of our house during Hurricane Dona on August 28. Naturally I was away—guiding a group of salmon fishermen in Iceland—so Anne had to ride out the storm with two scared kids and a petrified Labrador retriever. Fortunately the damage was not too severe. If nothing else, I have enough firewood to last 20 years!

New York Times, October 4, 1971—"... The little yellow submarine, built and owned by Perry Oceanographies, Inc., of Riviera Beach [Fla.], was launched in a channel area about five miles farther out into the ocean for a 40-minute trip. Dr. Swift, a 36-year-old geologist, with professional horn-rim glasses and a thick mustache—and the same adventuring spirit of the fictional Tom Swift—plunged to 140 feet..."

By now you may have guessed that this latter-day Tom Swift is none other than Dr. Donald Swift of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Labora- tories in Miami. Don's recent descent into the depths took place some 20 to 30 miles off New York Harbor in the Hudson Channel. Under Don's direction, a team of scientists conducted a series of tests designed to establish whether the constant dumping of dredged matter and sewage sludge in this area of the Atlantic moves on out to sea, stays put, or could move back toward the coast.

It was hardly a skin diving lark for Don. During one 40-minute dive, Don found his view blocked ("visibility one foot") by jellylike, brownish-orange sediment and suspended matter that one of his colleagues described as like "licorice pudding." This same colleague summed up the whole thing for the Times reporter: "It was so dark, it was like going into a closet and shutting the door behind you."

Dr. Lawrence A. Lubow has been named president of the newly formed American Heart Association, Morris-Sussex (N.J.) chapter. Larry, a practicing internistcardiologist in Morristown, N. J., is also vice president of the Morris County Heart Association.

Benjamin C. Bixby, a longtime volunteer leader of the Boy Scouts of America in Bradford, Mass., recently received the Silver Beaver award from the Lone Tree Council for "distinguished service to boyhood." Ben is in his third term as president of the Lone Tree Council which serves 3400 boys in 89 packs, troops, and posts in 18 communities. Ben is also director of the Merrimack Valley United Fund; director of Bradford Junior College and treasurer of the Congregational Church in Bradford.

A multi-media composition recently selected for an award by the Handel and Hayden Society of Boston includes a film produced by Abbott Meader, assistant professor of art at Colby College in Waterville, Me. Ab, who was on leave in Italy during the past academic year, has worked extensively in film and has spon- sored several independent study projects in its use. He has been a member of the Colby faculty since 1961.

Anthony Dingman has been appointed executive and artistic director for the Raleigh, N. C. Little Theatre. Among many other duties, Tony will be responsible for directing five plays a season. The Raleigh Little "Theatre is one of the oldest community theatres in the country, having been in continuous operation since 1935. Since 1967 Tony has been director of theatre and chairman of the department of theatre at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount.

Stephen Stranahan is the new chairman of the University of Toledo's Board of Trustees. A Toledo native, he has been a member of the UT Board since 1967 when the University changed from municipal to state status. Further activities for Stephen in Toledo are: president of Entelco Corp., president of Webstrand Corp., president and director of Riverview One Corp., and director of Questor Corp., and the First National Bank. Also, he serves on the board of the city's Orchestra Association, Clear Water, Inc., the Downtown Toledo Associates, and is past president of the Area Chamber of Commerce. There is one non-Toledo reference: director of Bharat Steel Tubes, Ltd., New Delhi, India.

Jack Hall is now production superintendent at the Chicopee Manufacturing Company's plant in North Little Rock, Ark. He went to Chicopee, which is a textile affiliate of Johnson & Johnson, in 1963 as supervisor of research planning at the Milltown, N. J. plant. he was manager of marketing services for the non-woven division, and most recently had been controller for the non-woven and export divisions. Jack T61 is currently working on a Ph.D. from New York University. He and Joan and their two sons have moved from Springfield, N. J. to 4209 Arlington Drive, North Little Rock, Ark. 72116.

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