1959

This month's mailbag was crammed with interesting news from classmates in the state of New York. Our very active and capable class newsletter editor Doug Wise mentions that he and wife Joanne, along with Rob Brown, helped Van Pine celebrate his 50th birthday some while ago. Doug also made it up to Somerville, Mass., where some 150 guests, including Tippy and Dinah Blake and Rich and Elise Paul, surprised Ross Farrar on his 50th.

Relocating to the Big Apple after seven years in Newport Beach, Calif., is Dann Lewis, now vice president and general manager of Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle. Dan spends about half of his time in New York City and the other half in St. Croix. He and his wife enjoy being back in the East Coast and look forward to seeing old friends, as well as to hearing from classmates in either area.

Tom and Patsy Bransford, both executives in the marketing function at IBM, decided to vacate their suburban New York house for an apartment in the city's West 70s. With two of their three daughters in top colleges and the third in a good job, Tom says the new pad should be a fantastic place for his and Patsy's "next phase."

By making him an offer he couldn't refuse, the New York City law offices of O'Melveney and Myers enticed Karl Hotzschue away from Webster and Sheffield, where he had specialized in real estate law since graduation from Columbia Law School in 1966. Karl has become something of an authority in his field. Matthew Bender & Co. recently published Karl's third book on the purchase and sale of real estate. He lectures annually before the Practicing Law Institute, and is currently chairing a committee on his specialty for the Bar of the City of New York. Last spring, he moderated a live satellite telecast in his specialty, which originated in Washington, D.C., for the American Bar Association. Wife Linda has taken office space a few blocks from the couple's New York City apartment for her interior design firm, and she continues to teach at the Parsons School of Design. Daughter Alison is married to a Princetonian and living in New York City, son Adam is selling mutual funds in Ohio, and daughter Sara is attending Reid College in Portland, Ore.

And in upstate Buffalo, Tip Putnam has been practicing pediatric medicine in a five- person group which is closely allied to Chil- dren's Hospital of Buffalo, where Tip was formerly president of the medical staff Tip has formed a CHOB alumni association. In his own inimitable style, Tip synopsizes the present as follows: "Two kids, one wife (still), one dog, two cars, one classic car, and one child about to apply to Dartmouth."

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