1951

If you are reading this in April it may not be too late to sign up for the class minireunion in Philadelphia on May 5-8. Call the chairman Loye Miller at (603) 298-5878. Few may read the fine print on our class of 1951 birthday card cover of Dartmouth Hall. It does say "about 1840," and picking up on that recendy was Jim Cavanaugh. Growing up in Hanover, he had this to say: "Oliver Wendell Holmes was teaching anatomy in the old white Medical School building in 1840 (in Hanover) and the Deweys of Dewey Hill (where we had to run in EE. if there was no snow) were 2 years of age (Mr.) and 4 (Mrs.). They lived there until the early 1940s in a farmhouse, and I occasionally dropped by to say hello when I was in the fifth grade at Hanover grade school. Thus, Mr. Dewey was 102 and she was 104 and they still had their marbles in 1940." So you can see that 1840 wasn't so long ago. Much more recent was this item in the November 1954 issue of DAM: "Into the light fantastic went Mary Persons and Ralph Poritsky on August 28 in Quincy, Massachusetts. Ralph and Mary returned to Rochester after the honeymoon. He is proceeding with his studies at the University of Rochester." Those studies in Rochester were in the field of medical illustration, which became, after much more graduate study, his teaching specialty. Ralph and Connie (who stopped being "Mary" somewhere) ended up in Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art and are now retired in Hudson, Ohio. In the January 1955 issue Dave Leslie wrote: "John Woods and Suzanne Swenson were married in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, on the gay day of November 13. Durward DeGroff stood in as an usher to make sure everything went smoothly. John is now stationed in Philadelphia at the Army's Frankford arsenal. After the honeymoon in the Bahamas, the couple settled down to life in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania." By 1961 Jack had begun a 16year stint as a security analyst, acquired an M.B.A. and made the big switch into academia as a professor from 1977 to 1995. Retired now from real estate development as well as teaching, he and Sue celebrated their 5 oth on the yacht Sea Cloud off the coast of North Africa. Besides being luxurious, their yachts main claim to fame was its first owner, Marjorie Merriwether Post. Real travelers, they just returned from Costa Rica and will be attending the Philadelphia mini. In the same DAM issue we read that "Peter Stein, ex-Marine Corps lieutenant, got off to a good start to married life in October. The lovely bride, as you know, was Joan Schaberg." We learned in the 50 th year- book that they are still going, although his fourdecade run in the publishing business ended in 1999. Golf, skiing, travel and visiting with children and grandchildren take up their time.

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