1953

Father Ed Boyle is recovering from heart bypass surgery at Mass General. Letters, calls and visits from many classmates are speeding his recovery. I'm back unscathed from another Ted and Audrey Spiegel annual Aspen classic. The Charlie Buchanans, Gene Gabianellis,Butch Edgar, and Dave Florence were on hand. The prior month, Dave Cost, ChuckStone, and wives were there from Minneapolis, and Dick Blum is there or at the Utah resorts from time to time. Chuck still operates the successful Buck Hill ski area located in the Twin Cities. I must point out to the Florida crowd that the Aspen group doesn't hang around the lodge all day with drink in hand staring at the fire. Even at six decades they are active and accomplished skiers, can give you lessons, and will pick you up when you crash.

Dick Blum sent on an article from the Chicago Tribune of January 22 citing TedSpiegel's selection as Direct Marketer of the Year by the prestigious Chicago Association of Direct Marketing. Ted is both an associate professor and director of the master's program in direct marketing at Northwestern's Medill School of Communications.

On the employment/retirement front, BobSimpson retired after 33 years in the international pharmaceutical business, the last 15 or so as v.p. with the West Company. JimCourtney recently retired as vice chairman of M. A. Hanna Cos. in Cleveland and is retiring to Fort Myers, Fla., where he has a house in construction. Going the other way, BobMalin has joined the investment firm of Carl Tiedemann in N.Y.C. I also understand from brother Bert that Fred Whittemore is running several foreign mutual funds for old employer Morgan Stanley. There are still shares available in the Baghdad Fund.

If you want to get back to work and are under 50 (or think you are), contact FredStephens, who retired from Gillette and is now with the Onstott Group, executive recruiters.

In addition to Ted we have a number of educators. Byron Menides is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute School of Industrial Management. John Mitchell retired as controller of Elon (N.C.) College, but he is now teaching courses in business administration there. John Green has been a professor of geology at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota since 1958 and still explores for gold and platinum.

Phil Metzidakis is teaching in the Department of Modern Languages at Swarthmore College. Bill Burns for many years has been teaching at Central High School in Manchester, N.H. Tom Blomquist is professor of history at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb. John Sargent of Hingham, Mass., after many years with New England Telephone and AT&T, has been appointed a lecturer in business at Eastern Nazarene College in nearby Wollaston, Mass.

The University of North Carolina announced that Dave Godschalk, professor of city and regional planning, has recently published not one, but three books: CatastrophicCoastal Storms, Understanding Growth Management, and The Planner as Dispute Resolver, all timely books in that part of the country.

Russ Smale was inducted last fall into the Lehigh Valley chapter of the National Football Foundation. After an All Ivy career here, he played in the Marine Corps and was selected for the Far East Marine All Star Team. He's now president of Russ Smale Inc., a firecasualty insurance agency, and lives in Allentown, Penn.

K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766