1963
Who will be the first '63 to marry a Dartmouth graduate? The question arose this past July on the grass of Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, where I stumbled across bachelor lawyers Mike Cardozo and Blake Franklin. Mike seemed fully recovered from his service in the Muskie campaign.
My thanks to Mike's father, incidentally, for explaining the nature of the case that Bob Wagstaff argued successfully before the Supreme Court. Bob's client challenged under the Sixth Amendment an Alaska court's decision to deny his defense counsel the right to cross-examine a prosecution witness on the latter's juvenile probationary status. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the right to confront a witness superseded the state's policy of protecting a juvenile offender.
Jeff Fletcher, for the past two years director of freshman admissions at Syracuse University, has been named director of admissions for Nasson College in Springvale, Maine. Jeff joined the Syracuse admissions staff in 1966 as a counselor and is a doctoral candidate there in administration in higher education. The new Down East address for the Fletchers is R.F.D., Spiller Drive. Mousam Acres in Kennebunk.
From the "Word of Life" series: Twenty years ago Messick School sent a 13-year-old word whizz to the Memphis Press-Scimitar's annual Shelby County Spelling Bee. The young man didn't win, but he came back this spring - his vocabulary enriched no doubt by the Dartmouth experience - to be the contest's official "pronouncer." Doc-tor Da-vid Bow-man, if you hadn't guessed Letterman's identity by now Dave is a doctor of words and English instructor at Memphis State University.
John Stormer is in his fourth year of teaching at the University of Georgia and earlier this year accepted an interlude at the Geologic Institute at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. "We loved the stay and hope to return in a few years," according to Jay's wife Jane. The; have had to mothball their skis, but have become canoeing enthusiasts and "enjoy the Okefenokee Swamp." It's a great swamp, if you like swamps. Karen (9) and Eric (5) carry the paddles.
Elsewhere in the wild kingdom, Kan and Sharon Lease have returned to the Pacific where they met and married while serving in the Peace Corps in Borneo several years ago. Ken is an assistant principal at a high school on Guam where they have been nesting since 1971, and Sharon is a consultant in elementary guidance and counseling. Their first, Stephanie Renee was born this past January 2.
Bob Silverman has been elected president of Sweet Associates, a construction and engineering firm in the Albany, N.Y., area. Bob joined Sweet in 1967 as a project engineer, later moving up to treasurer and executive vice president He has been responsible for several building projects, including a textile mill, a hospital, and a school. He formerly was with IBM.
The enforcers: Bill Eicbbaum is depun secretary for enforcement and general counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of En- vironmental Resources. He was a practicing attorney in Philadelphia when named in 1970 to the state's environmental pollution "strike force" and moved to the resources department the following year; George Bohlinger is a private consultant for the Law Enforcement Ad- ministration in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Denny Emerson left off writing fetching descriptions of old Vermont homesteads and spent most of this summer in Britain as a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team. Denny was one of six riders selected to compete in September's world championship events, as well as in several warm-up shows during August. Denny's wife May and two-year-old son Edward III joined him there in September.
Three 63s who will not marry Dartmouth graduates: Alan Davies was to wed Mary-Ellen Peck in June. Mary-Ellen is an alumna of Boston University and holds a master's degree in education from New York University; James A. Bell married Dr. Helene Mary Tanous earlier this year in New York. Helene at the time was assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Jim had just accepted an assistant professorship of philosophy at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Helene received her degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston; and Rev. Richard Morgan has added Betty Holt Griffith to his parish.
Harry Zlokower is with Martin Janis Co., a public relations firm in Manhattan, and writes to say that he and his wife Bobbi are enjoying suburban life in Queens and that three-year-old Mitchell is full of vim and vigor. (So were mine at age three, Harry; and it gets worse.)
And Howard Neff is now manager of sales and distribution Johnson & Johnson at its Midwestern distribution center in Will County, Ill. That is located 12 miles south of Joliet and ships thousands of J & J products daily to customers in 17 states throughout the Midwest. Hoppy, wife Sheri, and young daughter Stacey have moved to their new home at 8 S 722 Pine Parkway, Darien, Ill., having moved from J&J Headquarters in New Jersey.
Dan Matyola has joined the law firm of wharton, Stewart and Davis in Somerville, N.J. Dan was an assistant counsel to Jersey Governor William Cahill in 1972 and since then had been with the state's Criminal Law Revision Committee.
If you have a beef about pickles, call JonGallo, who has been promoted product control manager for Claussen Pickle Co., a subsidiary 0 Oscar Mayer Co. Jon joined the parent firm 1963. He's based in Chicago. Next month: Learn why Pete Israelson thinks he's a kinky kind of (movie) director."
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