1953
In April, Dr. Stuart Fordyce was named Deputy Director of NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, where he's been a rising star since 1966. His aerospace management assignments have covered space materials and structures, space power, propulsion, communications, advanced electronics, microgravity materials and others, and he's written many articles on space science. Stuart received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at MIT.
The American Medical Association honored Dr. Robert Chaloner with its Continuing Medical Education Award after he completed additional specialized courses. He conducts his medical practice at the Coxsackie Medical Clinic in the Catskills.
Warren Cassidy resigned as executive VP of the National Rifle Association, and will become a consultant to the NRA's Planned Giving Program. Warren has been identified with the "softer and gender" wing of the NRA. His departing statement was eloquent: "Passions run high. It's almost... a religion. It's time to salute and move on."
Gene Gabianelli tells me that he, HansKrahmer, and spouses will help Tim Thomas celebrate his 60th at Deer Isle, Maine in August. In his search for solitude, Gabby has just been out fishing and camping in West Yellowstone on the Montana-Idaho border. He raved about it!
Also among our travellers are Dick Blum and Put Blodgett, who skied Le Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, 85 miles across alps, valleys and glaciers at 9,000-12,000 feet. Dick writes, "About two thirds of the way required climbing with skis. The downhill... was through some of the best powder we've ever seen .. . but we skied conservatively because of heavy packs . . . We stayed in huts maintained by the Swiss Alpine Club . .. We were surrounded by. .. the most spectacular scenery you can imagine ... Physically it was as demanding as anything I have ever done." Put, incidentally, now has the demanding job of building his own house on about 180 acres near the Skiway in Lyme.
Dick also tells of a 60's dinner party in N.Y. which included Bill and Adair Beutel, A1and Nan Collins, Bob and Anne Simpson,Jack and Jody Zimmerman, Larry and PamBarnett, and Bill and Maggie Montgomery '52.
Bill Chamberlain has been guiding so many tours through the new Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in his fundraising efforts that he's had to have a hip replaced. He should be recovered by now.
George Davies was in Hanover in July for his daughter's wedding at the Outing Club House amidst a driving, but not spirit-dampening rainstorm. He's still living in Bronxville, retired from Wall Street, which he says is no fun anymore, and is traveling quite a bit.
Don Smith asks me to include the fall minireunion schedule:
October 19 at Yale. Fred Hitt's after the game.
October 25, Dartmouth night before the Cornell game. Parade, bonfire, cash bar at the Inn.
October 26, 7:30 a.m., Freedman speaks at breakfast. 9:30 class meetings. Game at 12:30. It's on ESPN. Cocktails at Drake Room. Dinner at Smoyer Lounge.
November 2 at Harvard. '53-only postgame reception at the Harvard Club.
November 23 at Bill Johnson's after the Princeton game. That's Club Officers Weekend.
See you this fall.
K-Ross, P.O. Box 436, Lebanon, NH 03766
