1964

Well, I'm back after a two-month hiatus to attend to some "sandiwich generation" stuff, and this month I want to complete my report on the former Bissell Hall residents by focusing on our classmates in the business world. Starting in New England, Ivars Bembris (Hampton Falls, N.H.) is still with Amicon in Beverly, Mass., while Carl Durei (Wayland, Mass.) is a partner with Arthur Andersen. Harvy Rhode (Kennebunk, Maine) is a self employed insurance agent and writes proudly of his son, David, who won the Pulitzer Prize for foreign journalism for his work in Bosnia with the Christian Science Monitor. KeithDupree (Newtown, Conn.) retired after 28 years of teaching high school math to work as a personal financial adviser affiliated with American Express Financial Service. Also retired from teaching and banking respectively, are Rusty Hyde (Etna, N.H.), who splits his time between the Upper Valley and Bar Harbor, Maine, and Bill Rruger (Exeter, N.H.), who is now doing what HE wants to do restoring and landscaping antique homes and writing a family history.

Moving south down 1-95, ChuckFewell (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.) took his law degree to Deutsche Bank AG, where he is general counsel for the bank's investment and commercial operations in North America, while further to the west in Ligoner, Pa., Pross Mellon is the president and CEO of his family's philanthropic and investment organization. Continuing down the coast, Mike Mac Murray (Alexandria, Va.) is still working in the office of the secretary of defense.

Moving to the Midwest, Kjell Johanson (Milwaukee, Wis.) was at last report working for the Wisconsin Energy Corp., while Dave Stenger (Indianapolis, Ind.) is a treasury operations manager for Eli Lilly Co. Ed Tyranski (Rockford, Ill.) is now executive vice president for North American operations for Thermos Corp. and Alan Ferris (Houston, Tex.) is president and CEO of Arruth Associates, a realestate management and development firm specializing in multi-family properties. Out west at last report, Gilbert Kruschwitz (Anchorage, Alaska) was still in the realestate business, while Harvey Strong (San Jose, Calif.) was working for IBM Corp. Further down the coast, Chris Vancura (Palos Verdes, Calif.) is the president of several companies including Stabond Corp. Chris remembers his Bissell suitemates with great fondness and marvels at how intelligent they all must have been, since (unlike most of our children), they managed to graduate in four years.

Finally, my Bissell research included a number of unsuccessful attempts to contact some of our classmates. Among those I was unable to reach (along with their last known address) were Gary Benedict (Valley, Wash.), David Donnley (Sonoma, Calif.), John English (Londonderry, Vt.), Ronald Herzog (San Francisco, Calif.), George McBath (Naples, Fla.), VincentMcCormick (Chambersburg, Pa.), Michael Rider (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.), Richard Scaramelli (East Swansey, N.H.), Tom Seymour (Tokyo, Japan), KevinShore (Nantucket, Mass.), GabrielThomas (Geneva, Switzerland), and Don Willard (Lexington, Mass.). If you are out there, please keep in touch.

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