1964
As we go to press, Bachelor Central reports the demise of two more stalwarts from our ranks. Ed Brazil, it is rumored, is engaged to be married to a lovely young thing named Patty on May 1. The word is that "Fig" chose that date because of its historica significance as the 435th anniversary of the Statute of Uses.
Mike Danzig, too, has been slated for marriage to a lovely child named Cindy Williams. Mike and Cindy are trying to convince Mrs. Danzig that Cindy's chopped liver is every bit as good as that other nice girl's.
Charles Stromeyer dropped me a nice note recently to bring us up-to-date. Things started to break big for Charles in Grad School at Harvard where, while pursuing a Ph.D. in Psychology, he met Mimsey (of the German Department) and her incredible grey Persian cat, Rumplestiltskin. To make a long story short, she gave him the cat. The cat and Charlie enjoyed a postdoctoral at M.1.T., and then they came to the Bell Labs in Madison, N. J., where Charles is doing research in visual perception. Last December, Charles and Mimsey were married, and are living in bliss with Rumplestiltskin.
Bill Wood writes that, after finishing an MBA at Stanford last June (with DocDavis as a classmate), he and his lovely wife, Pris and their daughter Kristin headed south where Bill is running the financial analysis operation of Standard Fruit Company's Costa Rican banana lands. Bill is gradually becoming bilingual, and is even learning something about farming. In the past six months he's done everything from investment analyss to loading helicopters for flood relief. He invites all '64's in the area to sample his dynamite daiquiris.
Bob Field dropped me a note recently and tells me that, since graduating from B. U. Law School, he has begun the practice of law with the firm of Hamblett, Kerrigan, La Lourette & Lopez in Nashua, N. H. "Oar" will be glad to assist any '64's who happen to be nailed by the flying squad while trying to compress a two-hour Boston-to-Hanover trip into 90 minutes. Mike Wilkin, reports the Oar, is practicing medicine in Portland, Ore.
Jeni Stern, Ed Stern's lovely wife, wrote to say that she and Ed have recently returned from a 4i-month world tour of 25 cities in 16 countries. Upon their return to the States, the Sterns moved to Philadelphia from Washington, where Ed had been stationed as an Army captain. Ed has joined the law firm of Blank, Rome, Klaus & Comisky, and is furiously studying for the Pennsylvania Bar exams. Jeni is a first-year law student, and is refreshing Ed's memory in contracts and property.
Glen Kendall deserves a salute from '64 for recently being selected by students and faculty of the Tuck School to receive the Charles I. Lebovitz Memorial Award of 1970-71. The award is presented annually to the second-year Tuck student who has made in his first year an outstanding contribution to the life of the school.
Mike Radasch has recently been named administrative assistant with Rockland Mutual Insurance Company of Boston. The new position will utilize his background as a financial analyst with Value Line Securities.
This month's '64 Career Spotlight shines brightly and admiringly upon Doug Hamilton who parlayed his expertise in repairing faulty tap systems into a new position as manager of production planning and inventory control for the Cameron Pump Division of the Ingersoll-Rand Co. His friends now refer to Doug as "The Great Pump King." (Sorry, Doug, I just couldn't resist!)
Well, that's about it for now. Please remember to drop me a line with some news about yourself or other '64's. News from parents, sweethearts, secretaries, and wives of '64's will also be welcomed, for those who are too shy to write about themselves. Later.
Good news concerning Fred Eidlin: he was freed from a Czechoslovak prison February 24 after serving seven months of a four-year sentence imposed on him following his arrest in Prague last summer on the charge that his 1968-69 employment by Radio Free Europe was a subversive act against Czechoslovakia. Accompanied by a U. S. official, Fred was flown from Prague to Amsterdam and arrived in this country the next day. He is a student of East European affairs at the University of Toronto, where he is working for his doctorate, and we hope to have some word from him as to whether he will pick up his studies right away or will take some time to digest his experience with the Communists.
Fred was reported to look fit and to feel "0.K." despite his months in isolation. Interviewed in both Amsterdam and this country, he refused to discuss his trial but did say that his imprisonment was "a complete mistake." His release had been effected, he said, through the determined efforts of friends, relatives, and State Department officials.
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