1957

Any day now, it's a sure bet that Bill Breer and Joe Stevenson will be eating Japanese food together - in Tokyo. Bill recently completed his State Department tour in Jamaica and has been reassigned to Tokyo; this will be his second tour in Japan. Joe has been named general manager of Chesebrough-Pond's, Japan. Joe is also on his second "tour" in Japan - he was stationed there after graduation with the U.S. Navy.

George Southwick has also been transferred to an overseas post; he will represent Arthur Young & Company, the accounting firm, at its office in Brussels. George and family will settle in Belgium sometime around year end. In the meantime he is commuting between Boston and Brussels.

Navy Commander Dave Tyree is attending a 10-month advanced course in tactics, strategy- policy making, and defense economics at the College of Naval Warfare in Newport, R.I. The college is the Navy's senior graduate level educational institution.

Jim Nevitt is co-piloting a 737 for Western Airlines and is based in San Francisco. "The job has very challenging moments and is never dull," Jim says. Jim was a Navy flight officer for ten years and is presently executive officer of the Naval Reserve Transport Squadron at Alameda. He has been a full commander for three years and has less than three years to go before completing 20 years Naval flying service. He lives with his two sons in Cupertine.

Dave Roush is also out in California - he is the president of Rocor International in Palo Alto, and has been with the company since graduating from Stanford Business School. Dave enjoys polo, flying, and travel and expects to make the 20th Reunion. Dave, his wife Diane, and their three children live in Woodside.

According to a magazine piece received recently, Harry Tuft is "holding forth on E. 17th Avenue in Denver with a shop that serves as a preserve and spawning ground for music in the American folk tradition. Rock music and crafts have transformed his once tiny shop into a virtual folk department store over the years." The article, which states that "the youth of America have forsaken smashing guitars against amplifiers on the concert stage for smashing heads on the athletic field," quotes Harry as follows:

"I'd like to do some dollar figures on grosses ... but I have the impression that there are a lot of young people who, instead of being turned on to music, are being turned on to sports. I think sports have become more important, and I think it represents a change in attitude.

... Strangely enough, at a time when we have a volunteer army, a peacetime situation, I see a lot more (young people) turning to non-intellectual, more physical, competitive and aggressive activities. I think that it also characterizes a turn away from permissiveness to ... whatever the other is; rigidity, not in a militaristic, but in a sort of regimented way.

"... With music, there is an idea that the more a person destroys himself, for some at least, the better music they make. The opposite is true with sports. We're turning away, it seems, from an internal condition, from introspection, to a more externally imposed condition.

"I can't help thinking that that implies, in the long run, a loss of the kind of freedom we know today."

Dr. Jim Tankersley is a pediatrician/ neonatologist and codirector of a newborn intensive care unit at Gundersen Clinic in LaCrosse, Wis. Jim graduated from Harvard Medical School and did his pediatric residency at the University of Washington, He is currently undergoing additional formal training to qualify for his sub-specialty certification in neonatology, and he is highly motivated to "do "something about preventing mental retardation." Jim, Patricia, and their three children live in LaCrosse.

Charlie Maschal is alive and well in San Francisco, where he is regional claims manager for Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Chas digs California but expects that corporate progress will probably bring him back home to Connecticut at some point. Wife Roberta teaches painting and son Charles Wallace, 18 months, does his own thing.

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