1956
During reunion years classes choose at least eleven members of an Executive Committee, a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Class Agent, all for terms running until the next reunion. Dick Rosen, 414 E. 52nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10022, is receiving your nominations at this time and if you wish to become active in class affairs in some capacity you may place your own name on the list. In either case act now The election will be completed by mail during the month of May.
In San Francisco, Tom Knott is affiliated with the commercial leasing department of the Milton Meyer & Co., a diversified real estate tate organization. Neil Barker has moved to PPG Industries headquarters in Pitts-burgh burgh where he is commercial products ales manager of the environmental conditioning glass department of the Glass Division. Neil's family includes two children and they live in nearby Sewickley.
Gill Livingston, Commander US Navy, writes that he, wife Kay, and Gill Jr., Marshall, and Meredith are in Portsmouth, Va Pete Purvis, a former Navy man, has kept his tie by living in Annapolis, although these days he thinks Westinghouse. Not so with Army man Thos Burris who is with q E. and living not far from the Livingstons in Chesapeake, Va.
phoenix lawyer, Bill Behrens, wife Ute, daughter Nicole, three, and Rolf, two, vacationed in La Jolla during which time Bill spoke with fellow attorney Steve Sewnharri in San Diego. Until recently Bill and Norma Beagle were near neighbors of the Behrens in Phoenix but the Beagles' new address is Orinda, Calif.
"People want a better education for their kids but they don't want to pay for it," says Hopkinton, Mass., school committee man Bill Kieger. The Kiegers with five children have a clear interest in such things. Ski touring is their new family sport although they still enjoy downhill skiing in Vermont and Colorado. Bill saw a ten point buck while slogging cross country not long ago and there aren't many of those where a ski lift is in operation.
Buckeye banker Joe Bradfield of Barnesville still beats about in his Beech-craft Bonanza, though he complains that business interferes. Joe is assistant vice president at the First National Bank of Barnesville and his three children are nine, seven, and three.
When the National Shooting Sports Foundation board of governors met in Salt Lake City recently, they elected TedRowe to fill a vacancy on the board. Ted, a lawyer whose sister, two brothers and father are also attor- neys, is now president and chief executive officer of Harrington & Richardson, Inc., a leading manufacturer of firearms. The firm, a subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Company, will celebrate its centennial this year. Ted, his wife Betsy, and their three children live in Weston, Mass.
Ab Oakes, whose services to the class as treasurer will be ending after seven years, provided he can get a successor identified 2nd elected next month, writes from Connecticut, "things are going very well busmess-wise and we enjoy city life after being in the country for ten years. All three boys are very active in Hamden's youth nockey program and I am doing some college officiating. Tragically, Cyndy (Ab's wjte) lost her only brother in Vietnam he was a pilot flying off the 'Ranger.' We see Egil and Mary Ann Stigum."
Jack Robinson also checks in, "We have nad one of the heaviest snow fall winters ever in New England and my entire family Pent the New Year's holidays skiing at \V and Magic Mountain in Vermont. We repeated at school vacation time. imgs are going well for Robinson and increasing our sales in what commonly a bad year. I still travel the as sales manager and trouble shooter," Line Spaulding was elected vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester County in western Massachusetts. He's up to his ears in Citizens Plan E Association work, Children's Friend Society, a brand new house in Vermont near Waitsfield and Mad River. Line is president of Sheppard Envelope Co. in Worcester.
Dr. Crile Doscher is practicing surgery at The Southern Illinois Clinic, Mt. Vernon, Ill. "Boomtown, USA—the town on the go. Recently elected president of The Southern Illinois Surgical Society. Fantastic happenings down here. Plans in progress to erect new $4O million medical center—The Southern Illinois Medical Center and Educational Foundation."
Don Hessler has been named vice president for investments at the University of Rochester, and is responsible for the University's investments. In announcing his appointment, the University Chancellor said "No post is more important to the University's welfare than that of the investment manager, and I am delighted— as are our trustees and staff—that Don Hessler is returning to Rochester." Don was an investment officer in the same office from 1962 to 1966 and then served two years as assistant vice president in the investment advisory department of First National City Bank in New York and since 1968 he has been a portfolio manager with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in New York.
Roger Emerson, associate professor history, University of Western Ontario, London, will spend next year on sabbatical, six months in Edinburgh and in Vermont and Boston. "Watching my apple trees bloom and working in the Boston libraries (with stopovers at Hanover) will be a pleasant change from the dull life of this Canadian town. The dullness is somewhat welcome since it comes partially from the lack of civil strife and revolutionary sentiments born of the anxieties and frustrations of students who in the USA have been expected to fight and die in a senseless and immoral war."
Erich Segal's "Love Story" is dedicated to John Flaxman.
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