1953

With Lindsay's New York Giants having another tough year, it's been hard to get down good bets. With the floundering Cardinals in mind, I called St. Louis denizen Bob Lonsbury, who luckily didn't like the point spread since the Jints blew it. Of broader interest, Bob and Louise greatly enjoy the Gateway City, where Bob suffers through an arduous 12-minute commute. He offers hospitality to the "old 61st Street crew" and other '53s, and can be run to earth at 46 Rye Lane. He and Louise have two daughters (presumably Dartmouth bound), Lorna (6) and Robin (5).

One of the earliest impressions of my freshman year was that at least half of the undergraduate enrollment hailed from Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (this turned out to be erroneous; actually, everyone came from either Marblehead or Minneapolis.) Still, Lookout Mountain is the home of our own Bob Purse and we're overdue for a report. Bob is president of The Purse Company, an advertising agency specializing in programs for bank trust departments. He is carrying on a family tradition, the firm having been founded in 1898. Bob and Jean have two children Robert (14) and Karen (11). and reside at 515 Kyle Avenue. While on a business trip Columbus Day week-end, Bob visited Jim Porath at the Porath's winter place in Jackson, N. H. Jim has his own public accounting firm in Boston and obviously has found a great way to get away from the debits and credits. Jim and Jean have three children Nancy (12), Jonathan (11), and Penny (5), and live on Cloutmans Lane, in Marblehead, Mass.

Up, up and away ... John and SandyVan Huyck are likely to buzz you any weekend in their Cherokee, and you can't tell who's at the controls since both are licensed. When he's not flying, John is treasurer of the Universal Atlas Cement Division of U. S. Steel. He and Sandy live in Pittsburgh at 1254 Montclair Drive with their two kids, Janet (11) and Jim (10).

Dick Giesser has been elected president of Habco, Inc., a subsidiary of North American Development Corporation, a privately-held real estate development and construction company, principally engaged in the rehabilitation and management of lower and moderate income housing in core cities, and currently operating in Boston, Newark. Hartford and Chicago. Dick, a licensed real estate broker, has for the past two years been executive vice president of Social Dynamics, Inc., a social consulting service. Prior to his appointment at Social Dynamics, Dick spent 15 years in the shoe industry, most of the time as president of Dix Heel Co., in Rochester, N. H. He and Connie have three sons Jim (12), Eric (11), and lohn (7).

Al Davis is on a year's leave of absence from Temple University, where he is a professor of history, to finish a biography of Jane Addams, sponsored by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is also starting a study of "The Soldier as Hero in American Life." He and Roberta live at 107 Columbia Avenue, in Swarthmore, Pa., with their boys, Gregory (14) and Paul (11).

Dartmouth's decision to go coed is probably greeted with a greater lack of enthusiasm among the alumni generally than any major event since our arrival on the Hanover Plain in 1949. What is astonishing to many alumni is that both students and faculty seem overwhelmingly convinced that the unique Dartmouth experience will be enhanced by coeducation. For others, there is keen regret that future thousands of young males will be denied the special blend of education, environment and enthusiasm, so obviously productive for over 200 years in maturing boys into men. For me, both the astonishment and regret were tempered by a stunning Vassar sophomore who told me, after I ventured that the trend was clear and my son would, no doubt, matriculate at Poughkeepsie, "My sister's at Dartmouth and she loves it." Sic transit monopolia.

The Class of '53 will be shocked to learn of the death of Chuck Kettering on December 12. He was struck by a car outside his home in Englewood, Colo., while recovering the body of his dog which had just been run over by another car. Chuck was rushed to the hospital with multiple injuries and died about an hour later.

Dorn C. McGrath Jr. '52 (center) is new president of the American Institute ofPlanners. He is chairman of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning atGeorge Washington University. With him at the AIP annual conference are, fromleft, Dick Danforth '54, development coordinator for Buffalo, N. Y., C.Dutton '42, private planning consultant and former executive secretary of AIP;David R. Godschalk '53, who teaches planning at the University of North Carolina;and Al Blomquist '51, who is with the Pueblo, Col., Regional Planning Commission.

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