1958

It's delightful to initiate a new season of columns by congratulating Larry Bill and his bride, Jane Ellen Noyes. The Reverend Jim Crawford performed the ceremony on June 16 at Old South Church in Boston. Walt Vail was best man. The bride is a graduate of Boston College, but her greatest claim to fame with this class is her father, now retired track coach and assistant director of athletics at Dartmouth, Elliott Noyes of Durham, N.H. Coach Noyes was a kind, patient teacher who always nursed good performances from a mixed bag of talent. Larry is now a stockbroker with Renck, Levy, and Company in New York City. The class wishes both of you a long and happy marriage.

And what would the season be without a Ted Harris announcement. This is a big one. Ted was elected the first vice president and president-elect for 1984-85 of the American Rheumatism Association. This is an organization of 3,500 professional and scientific members in the field of rheumatology. Ted's outstanding contributions in this field have been reported in this column on several previous occasions. We are proud of you, Ted.

I am pleased to report that our daughter Amy is now in the first group of scholars after two years at Smith College. She departs for France on September 1 for a year of study.

Another local announcement is the election of Larry Weltin as president of the Chicago office of Noble and Associates. Noble, headquartered in Springfield, Mo., has been a food service-oriented agency. It seeks under Larry's leadership to expand into consumer and industrial products advertising. Larry previously had resigned as president of Stern, Walters/Earle Ludgin in Chicago. Go get those billings, Larry.

A second major scientific item involves Palmer Beasley, professor of medicine at the University of Washington. He is described in the April 1984 issue of Scholarship Magazine as "possibly the world's foremost authority on hepatitis-B." By examining more than a million blood samples and meticulously tracking the medical history of thousands of Taiwanese government employees, Palmer developed the most extensive data yet assembled on this pernicious disease. He also is credited with the development of a new technique for inoculation which has greatly alleviated the problem for those vaccinated. Finally, his discovery of a link between hepatitis-B and liver cancer may carry even greater implications for medicine. Dr. Beasley is pursuing the link between viruses and cancer, which when fully explored may allow the elimination of some types of cancer through simple vaccinations.

It seems that two important things happened to Ken Kaplan and his wife while they were at the 25th reunion. They successfully climbed Mt. Moosilauke without experiencing undue stress, and they subsequently learned that a child was going to be born to them, probably conceived in one of those hot dormitory rooms we all remember. That child, Sarah Christine, may well become a member of the class of 2006 and climb Mt. Moosilauke herself. Hopefully, her parents will be able to go with her.

Some cases are better than others. Our Magazine leadership informs the class notes editors that we will now submit our columns 60 days prior to the print date. This is an extension of 15 days, which we are told is for the benefit of all. Since news usually reaches us 30 to 90 days after it occurs, some think we are going in the wrong direction. If you wish to announce events, plan way ahead in submitting your copy here.

The final item is to point with pride to the 1958 Alumni Fund effort. The latest report I have, which is preliminary, shows that we have $189,002 received, which was 114.5 percent of our goal for the year. Each of the many persons who participated in this effort deserves congratulations.

The starting lineup of the 1958 basketball team included, standing, left to right, Tom Aley '59, WaltSosnowski '60, Chuck Kaufman '60, and Rudy LaRusso '59, and kneeling, Dave Carruthers '58 withcoach Alvin "Doggie" Julian.

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