1953

Ted Spiegel won the prestigious Edward Mayer Award for educational leadership in direct marketing. Just as my awe of this was subsiding, I picked up "Target Marketing Magazine and found Ted staring up at me as one of TM's Most Influential Direct Marketers. Ted is the senior marketing consultant for the Library of Congress and associate professor of marketing at Northwestern. Sorry, folks, no more orders for goats and donkeys from the Spiegel catalog.

Nor retirement for Business Week Publisher Jack Patten, our globe-circling Business Secretary of State. Hank Kissinger one week, Maggie Thatcher the next, and now he's leading a junket of 150 tycoons to tear up the turf at St. Andrews. Among them are PeterSpaulding, president of Hathaway (shirts and apparel) in Maine, and Bob Douglass of Chase Manhattan.

Kisuk Cheung was here just before the Yale game visiting the Army Cold Regions Research Lab in Hanover (CRREL). He's in charge of Army facilities and construction in the Pacific, but now he even attends NATO conferences. He's the most positive spokesman there is for U.S. policy. I'd guess Bill Clinton will be die third president to cite Kisuk for his contributions. Retirement? Maybe in 20 years.

Nor retirement for Dr. Jack Crisp, pursuing the medical profession in Nashua. He was president of of St. Joseph's Hospital during a period of rapid expansion and continues with the Crisp medical practice which he operates with his brother Norman '49.

We do have retirement announcements from Jack Koerner, our Syracuse Ford dealer, and Tom Dewey at U.S. Postal Service HQ. In both cases, the job was getting in the way of more important activities such as Tom's "serious swimming, skiing, hiking, tennis, etc." He placed in five events at the U.S. Masters Championships in Seattle, age 60-64, and first place in the Eastern States two-mile swim and the Miss America 1.5-mile ocean swim.

A great gathering for the Yale game. Our marvelous QB Jay Fiedler '94, who smote Yale, is at Dartmouth because of the recruitment efforts of Mark Smoller. Mark has worked tirelessly in enrollment for 37 years on Long Island and has just been selected as a recipient of an Alumni Award, joining seven other past '53 recipients.

In addition to our band of semi-regulars Don Goss, Al Collins, Dick Fleming,Harlan Fair, Bob Callender, Don Smith,Bob Simpson, JackRunyon, Dick Dunham,Seth Carpenter, and Bill Chamberlin, the Yale homecoming weekenders included Smoller, Patten, Pete Wagner, Hilty Rosen,Dave Florence, Chuck Reilly, Fred Hitt,Tom Bloomer, Larry Lewis, Bill Andre, and George Sarner.

George Sarner is still with Bear Stearns in N.Y.C. but is spending more time at his home in Florida and may be thinking about retirement. Bill Andre is also in the investment business, with J. H. Adams Cos. in Darien (Rowayton), is working on three challenging turnaround companies. Bill's daughter Jessica is in the class of '94.

Don Goss led a class meeting with 20 of us on hand Saturday morning. Russ and MargieCook had a post-game party at their beautiful home in Thetford, built from three ancient resurrected post-and-beam barns (the ultimate in recycling). On Sunday Jack and Jody Zimmerman hosted a meeting of Fred Hitt's reunion committee. We're counting on a record turnout at '53's 40th, June 14—17,1993

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