1956
John and Mary Parke have done a good job recently at picking up the threads of friendship with our far-flung class family and John mentions, while they still call St. Louis home, they recently had the opportunity to have dinner with Em and Jane Houck; they plan to see Bill and Norma Beagle here in California and farthest out of all, they hope to see the brothers Klapper in Puerto Rico. While Stan has been living in Puerto Rico for some years now, it is much more recently that Mim and Stu Klapper, along with Adam and Rebecca, have also taken up residence on that sunny island.
Rick and Gretchen Foster, along with Martha, age 12, and Robert, 8, enjoy life on the 135-acre working farm and remarkably have the time' to list tennis as well as horseback riding as family interests. Rick is specializing in bank law and has recently formed one of the first bank holding companies in Michigan. Pete and Meg Hovell are at home in Arlington, Va., and in addition to becoming a home owner and a car owner, Pate indicates that he has made the move back to corporate life as a vice president of Telepost, a new communications service company specializing in electronic mail, such as mailgrams and cables. Bob and Joan Schuh appear to have struck an ideal. While living in Crofton. Md., where Bob is the pro at the Crofton Golf Club, they are able to get to Roundtop, Pa., for skiing with Steve, 13, Susan, 11, and Scott, 8.
Dick and Georgia Whitney gathered up two of their five children and went west for some Squaw Valley skiing in February with Ket andSue Ryan and their boys. Bob Taft continues to practice tax law with the firm Hatfield, Brady & Taft in New York where he teaches at New York Law School and writes a tax column for the New York Law Journal. He mentions that he sees a lot of Dick Taylor and Amy Levin. Bill Sherman has joined Mercantile Bank and Trust Company in Kansas City, where he will set up a major accounts section to develop business locally and nationally. Bill has built a varied background in the banking business and he engages in this challenge as a way of pulling a lot of those lessons together.
Dick Marsh mentions an evening of fun with Leo and Ginger McKenna. Leo, according to Dick, is trying to stabilize the stock market and keep up with his four children. Dick, meanwhile, was spending the late winter recovering from a broken knee, sustained by a slip on the ice while taking out the trash rather than while on the boards at some smart ski resort. The Marshes have moved from Massachusetts to Warren, N.J.
Stephen Newnham has done a certain amount of interviewing applicants for Dartmouth and writes to say that in addition to being impressed with those candidates, he wonders how many members of our own class would still be able to gain admission. At the same time, Steve registers surprise that so many from California have an interest in going to school in the East. Steve practices law, does some lecturing and teaching, and serves as president of the board of the La Jolla Country Day School. Diana and Bob Burnham are looking down the barrel of 20 years of educational expenses of Jeff, Julie, Gil, Greg and Laurie. "Obviously we love our tribe, and keep our noses to the grindstone." Bob works for Computer Consoles (small computer system manufacturer) as director of manufacturing. Sees Frank Strong (Kodak) and Bill Donahower frequently. Pleased to see Jake Crouthamel win the test of his own recruits, Would like to see the winter sport scene (hockey, basketball) show some of the same excellence
Be it noted that Buzz Farbar, formerly director of the book division of CBS, has been named by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. to the position of consulting editor. He has also been senior editor of the SaturdayEvening Post and for the past two years produced feature films for Supreme Mix. Buzz has worked with such writers as Nelson Algren, Chandler Brossard, Evan S. Connell, Joan Didion, Bruce lav Friedman, Norman Mailer, and William Styron.
Bob Barry has just returned from two years as deputy principal officer at the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad, which it took two years to open. His present assignment in Washington is at the Voice of America, where he is in charge of broadcasting to the U.S.S.R. in five languages, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Armenian and Georgian. Tony Richter is an actuary with New York Life Insurance Company in Bedford Village. His main responsibility at present is compliance problems which affect individual health insurance policies. Tony and Kathy along with David, 9, and Susie, 7, enjoy living in rural northern Westchester county. Says Tony, "Life is great now, but my only fear (and it's a big one) is that runaway inflation will destroy our civilization."
In an April communique, Chairman Line Spaulding exhorts:
"'56 NUMBER 1? You bet we are. We're leading the Green Derby for the fourth consecutive week! Congratulations to our Head Agent Em Houck, Green Team Leader George Records and his anonymous band of merry matchers, and all the RCAs who have really started things moving this year.
"Obviously the ROTC issue bugged a lot of us, the loss of the Indian irritated others, students taking over Parkhurst was inexcusable, and the admission of women, the last straw. But the College has survived, and somehow our class has survived many dismal years of poor Alumni Fund performance to become Number One in '74. Let's keep it up ... let's argue like hell to get ROTC back in, if that's what you want, but let's also stand up and be counted!"
'56 Up!
Secretary, 112 Amber Valley Dr. Orinda, Calif. 94563
Class Agent, Eli Lilly International Corp. Box 32, Upper Montclair, N.J. 46206
