These pages contain all class notes from the Yale Alumni Magazine from 1957 on. The notes appear unchanged from their original publication save for the correction of misspellings and other small errors. The few gaps in coverage that exist result from the absence of Class of 1957 notes in a few issues of the magazine over the years. Also, in keeping with changes in the magazine itself, the frequency of publication occasionally changes.

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Notes: December 1959
Notes: November 1959
Notes: July 1959
Notes: June 1959
Notes: May 1959
Notes: April 1959
Notes: March 1959
Notes: February 1959

Notes: December 1959

Just finished reading Henry Stanton's The Moneyless Man and couldn't help seeing an analogy to above class. Make dues checks payable to Class of 1957. We'll have to admit that we probably would have seen a relevance to dues in Mother Goose if we ever read Mother Goose. Make dues checks payable to Class of 1957. Don't get us wrong--we used to read Mother Goose. Dues are, we might humbly remind, only ($3.00) three dollars this year.

As this column goes to press we are making preparation to attend the Harvard game this year. There will be a full report in next issue on who and what were seen and heard and, of course, how we did. For the present, our thanks for the fine response to our request for news and information. Syd Cassel announced his marriage to Shelda Rose Layle and Bob Pegg, will be wed to Judy Benson before this column finds its way into print. Syd is now with Young and Rubicam, Inc. and Bob is at John Pegg and Company. He completed an MBA in accounting from Columbia Business School. He wrote that he's seen Mort Zalutsky who is giving serious consideration to the practice of law in New York City. Also heard from Bill and Wendone Mobley who are enjoying life as usual in Shreveport. Bill is with Continental Oil. Also heard from Chuck and Esther Kerr at Baylor University in Houston along with Charles M. Kerr, 2d, born September 4, 1958. Nordie Hill is also at Baylor and Dick Curran is in Texas also but we know not in what capacity.

Other additions to the Class include Maxwell Moore to Kathy and Ben Moore on June 12; Gregory to the John Dalacks, and as previously mentioned Edward and Steven to the John Norths. Judy and Dick Munn also sent announcement of the birth of a daughter, Katherine. Dick is an intelligence officer on the USS Ranger.

We, of course, have much miscellaneous information about miscellaneous people. Leo Nunes and Pete Hobart are in Germany but no longer to our knowledge with the Armed Forces. Leon Chambers, after a period with the Scoville Manufacturing Company, is now an electronic systems project officer in the Air Force. John Poinier is in Argentina and John Westcott is in Japan. Had regards from Jafa and Andy Poepoe doing industrial engineering in Hawaii and heard that Chic Goode is in Okinawa as a first lieutenant in the Navy. Closer to home, Johnny Halpern is real estating in New York. Tony Hogan and Ken Kauke and his wife, Cathy, are also in New York working in the sugar and brokerage industries respectively.

Up around the Boston area there are Chris Foote, back to do graduate work at Harvard in chemistry after a Fulbright to Germany, Charley Guidotti doing graduate work in geology at Harvard and Quince Hunsicker at the Harvard Business School.

Ian Jones recently received a full tuition fellowship in nuclear engineering at Berkeley from the Atomic Energy Commission and he and his wife, Sally, will be taking up residence there this winter. Artie Schaufler wrote that he's enjoying his job as a metallurgist at American Steel and Wire Corporation and Dick Simons recently received a position teaching history at the Amity School in Woodbridge, Conn. He became a father to one, Peter Simons, not very long ago.

Lastly, received a letter from Dave Kramer who is working as story editor with Columbia Pictures in New York after a summer on the staff of the Cambridge Drama Festival. We were really pleased to hear that his first novel has been optioned for publication. We were also pleased to see an article by Andre Schifferen in the November 9 issue of the New Republic, entitled "Britain's Uncertain Left." It's well worth reading.

Incidentally, best known psychological studies indicate that the first paragraph in this column is the most effective method of inducing compulsion to pay dues. Please pay--education must be served.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: November 1959

It's another year--we return sunburned, rested and eager for communication, conversation or gossip depending on what level you speak with people on. We could use a new batch of mail to fill our dwindling files and as always any who wander northward to Cambridge are welcome to share our good spirits.

This summer Your Reporter spent his time in the Criminal Court system of New York and of course had many luncheons with the other prospective legal eagles of our class; Frank and Ellen Michaelman at Kaufe, Scholer, Fierman, Harfs and Handler; Larry Bodlsin at Wilkie, Farr, Gallagher, Walton and Fitzgibbon; Charley Pete at Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley; Bob Joost at Cahill, Gordon, Reindel and Ohl; Bob MacKinnon and Ron LaVin. We also spent some time with Bud Trillin, stationed with the Army in the New York area and still a joy to imbibe with. Charley Abuza returned from a hectic stay in Seoul, Rob Walker and Steve Hopkins, both doing banking on Wall Street and Chuck Leahy training to be a stockbroker in the downtown New York area. Although we didn't do a lot of letter writing we did gather a great deal of varied and miscellaneous information. Malcolm Mitchell is working with Pocket Books, Inc. Johnny Halpern is doing sales work with Cross & Brown. Jerry Jonas will return to Boston immediately following his wedding. Still talking about personal experiences we are pleased to report our presence at Larry and Marla Perlman's wedding in Milwaukee. John Donovan was also there to share the festivities.

We were glad to receive some word from Dick Massey and Sandy Speer, both stationed in Frankfort. Dick plans to go to Harvard or Stanford Business School this fall. Also heard from Art Schauffer, who is working as a staff metallurgist for American Steel and Wire Company. He's been taking courses at Western Reserve ranging from psychology to law.

With due deference to the delay between the writing of this column and its eventual appearance in this journal, we venture to say that Yale seems to have a pretty good football team this year. If all is as it has begun, the Harvard game will be a good one and we expect to see many of you at the class party following said game at 5:30. We are as yet unassigned but the place will be announced by mail. Moreover, this year under the prodding of Howie Gillis we are attempting to hold similar cocktail parties at the same time in four cities in which a substantial number of the Class are concentrated: Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis. If there is not enough of our number settled in any one area we will postpone this undertaking until next year, but the ultimate plan is to establish for this and other purposes a class regional structure. Needless to say, dues of $3 are due and if all this talk of activity and planning is any inducement to pay them fully and promptly it would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally, the party system is on a pay-as-you-go basis and involves only a very nominal expenditure to the Class.

The summer filled our mail box with a great deal of good news. Paul and Dolores Lopata had a 9-pound arrival, Jaime Paul, on July 4. Beverly and Jeff Loucks brought our records up to date by reminding us of their two children, Christopher, aged 1 ½, and Elizabeth, aged 4 ½ months, whose names have not yet graced our column. The Loucks have seen many of the fold out in San Diego, among them Gus Kellogg who is contemplating returning to Yale School of Architecture; Ken Gergen, who with wife, Eleanor, and baby Laura, is now in attendance at Duke University on a research fellowship in psychology; and the Gillespies, who leave life in the Navy this fall. They also ran into Pete Cooke and Ray Lamontagne, who return this year from New Asia College and while in Hong Kong spent some time with Doctor and Mrs. Lovett.

Dick and Elberta Young also informed us of a new arrival, Carol, who should about now be celebrating her second birthday. Dick is in the municipal bond department of Smith Barney in Chicago. He sent word of having seen Phil and Calista Lottinville in Chicago this summer and of having attempted to spend a few minutes with George Barnes by driving 25 miles in a blizzard to Midway Airport to meet him between planes. Such a meeting cannot go without mention. George, needless to say, was at O'Hare Field and the connection, despite best intentions on both parts, was never made. Mullet and Shelly Bradley also had a new arrival, Roger Purefoy, born in early August. Mullet is now an assistant executive in the trust department of Scott and Co. in New York.

Married as the summer drew to a close were Otis Graham to Maureen Zemke of Armada, Mich., and Tom Chittenden to Ann Corcoran of Davenport, Ia. Both had a great deal of news. Otis, who is with the First Marine Brigade in San Francisco, has spent time with Steve Ackerman, George Schuylar, Tod Mann, Frank Brown and Graham Tebbe out there and John Barrett, who was just transferred to the position of aide to the Commanding General. Ernie Pepples, you will recall, was just recently rescued from the wilds of a Maine missile station to be aide to Major General Berry at Fort Totten on Long Island. Otis also wrote that Hank Chisholm is no longer in debt to him.

The Chittendens have returned to Cambridge, where Ann will teach English at Needham High School and Tom will attend Harvard law School. Tom ran into Spider Webb as did this reporter awaiting his release from Camp Wellfleet, Mass.

We also had word from Joel Sharp, who is to be congratulated for his membership on the Stanford Law Review. Art Gardiner here in Cambridge was also made a member of the Law Review staff. The Gardiners are expecting an arrival this winter.

Congratulations as well to Ted Meyer, who after a Master's degree in business administration at Rutgers, has been awarded a Teagle Foundation fellowship to continue studies at Cornell Law School. Lastly, we have this opportunity to catch up on the happenings to Bill Reiman. This year he is on a Yale Traveling Fellowship to Europe and was last seen in England. He has had some of his sculpture appear in the New Haven and Boston Arts Festivals and recently we were delighted to learn that he had a piece accepted by the Museum of Modern Art for inclusion in their show, "Recent Sculpture, U.S.A." The show will successively be in Los Angeles, Denver and St. Louis if some of you can get a chance to see it. Your Reporter will be in Boston if some of you can get a chance to see us. Write soon.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: July 1959

Received a letter from Jared and Ida May Curtis, who filled us in on a few people of whom we had not yet written. Reed Taylor has completed second year Divinity School and a counselorship on the Freshman Campus; Bob Crafts is in medical school in Cleveland and Bill Calin is well on his way to a doctorate in French literature at Yale Graduate School. Had word from Hal Hochman, who also added some new names. John Tracey, after a year at the University of Colorado Law School, is finishing Naval OCS in Newport. Gary Cavin is with Standard Oil of New Jersey and our best wishes on his marriage to Sandra Turner. Ben Wood, who along with Hal was an usher in the wedding, is now in Texas City, Tex., with Monsanto Chemical Co. as a chemical engineer. Al England, after the Air Force National Guard, is back with H.H. Robertson Co. in Chicago. Curt Ryan, on last report, was doing well in Marine Air Wing at Pensacola, Fla. Craig LaVin is with Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn., and Jack and Betsy Batlick just recently completed a year of graduate work in history at Boston University.

Better late than never, our wedding congratulations to Joe and Sandra Mesics and anniversary wishes to Christina and Jeff Benson. They will return soon from Osan Air Force Base in Korea. We are also pleased to announce the birth of Victoria Lee to Sue and Mike Gaskin, all three finishing school in business administration at the University of Michigan.

Filling in on activity in the academic world, we've heard from Ed Chatfield, who's teaching English at Mercersburg Academy, Bart Vincent at New York University Medical School, and Bob Armstrong, currently attending Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies after a year of working and studying in Europe and Africa. We also found among our newspaper clipping a piece stating that Jim Therrien had graduated first of a class of 567 from Officers Candidate School in Newport, R.I. He was presented with a naval sword at commencement exercises by the mayor of Newport. Lastly and unrelated, we might add that we met Roger Cogswell at the Boston Arts Festival last night, having returned from the Army and now selling Volkswagens in the Boston area.

Charles Price, currently residing in Trumbull College, New Haven, Conn., wishes to announce that he has finally fulfilled his requirements for a B.A. degree, and will graduate this June with the Class of 1959. Of his previous classes, '56, '57, '59 and '60, he has chosen to affiliate with the Class of 1957.

While brushing up on our Latin, we happily found an apt closing for our summer respite. We'll see you in the fall: "There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this that there is nothing to write about: or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well." (Pliny the Younger, Letters, Book I, A.D. 61-105)

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: June 1959

Spring at a law school, despite the rumors which drift in as to romance and baseball, is time of nothing but exams. Therefore we ask for an excuse for our brevity, a tolerance for our disorganization and some more correspondence for our summer. The column has been full because of you and we are appreciative of the response. If we can't print everything or answer everyone, we at least want you to know that it's very much enjoyed at this end.

Unfortunately we've gotten a little behind in our files. Best wishes to Jim Ketchersid, who was married to Marianne Eckels on December 20, 1957. He is now at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas doing graduate work in neuropsychology. Also to John Mailhot, who married Norma Faust in July and is working for Link Aviation as an electronics engineer in Binghamton, N.Y. Still catching up. Congratulations to John Mars and Adrienne Bevis and Dave Lipsher and Rhoda Wolozin, both of whom heard the wedding bells last year. At the Mars' wedding were Tom Scheetz and Dave Reed. Dave is currently serving as an intern psychologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, and John is with Army Ordnance in Springfield, Mass.

More recent announcements include the wedding of Bill Keen to Patricia Dangremond in April and the engagements of John Lee to Eunice Chun and Al Hockstader to Birgitta Sundstrom. The Keens are in Norwalk, Conn., where Bill is working for United Engineers and Constructors of Philadelphia. Al, who attended Alliance Francais and the Sorbonne for three months where he met his future wife, is now a Second Lieutenant in the Army stationed in White Plains. John, this writer is sure is somewhere in New York, but the details will have to be filled in.

There are also a few of the wise owls still in the academic world. Bill Makel had just gotten his Masters in Forestry from Yale when we heard from him. Currently he has joined Andrew Kner at Fort Leonard Wood for a spell. Bruce Arneill is completing a Masters in Architecture at Yale on the Magnus T. Hopper Fellowship won last June. Dick Oliver is on a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cambridge, England. Bill Paulus sent us word from University of New Mexico, where he is doing graduate work after completing a Masters in electrical engineering at Yale. Bob Netting is in his second year of graduate school in anthropology at the University of Chicago. He spent last summer on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation among the Mandan, Hidasta and Arikara tribes of North Dakota no mean feat for someone from Trumbull College and Cincinnati. In the military world we've news of Ken Sharp, now assistant navigator on USS Ranger (the world's largest ship); Phil Derby, stationed in Tokyo with the U.S. Army; and Pete Robertson, currently with the 19th Artillery in Korea.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: May 1959

Received word from Mike O'Hearn that class participation in the Alumni Fund has not been as yet what it should be. Granting all the many obligations that do come in, as far as Yale's well-being is concerned this drive is the most important. No more can we add.

With the plains of New Haven being rocked with warfare, we are pleased to report that no such raucous happenings have invaded the lives of our classmates. All is serene. Tim Brown has one more year with the Army at Fort Holabird. Gordie Bellis is venting a Machiavellian wrath, he writes, as a Demonstration Platoon Leader, United States Marines, at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Charlie Carpenter, now back from Lebanon, is aboard of the USS Fort Snelling. He spent some time with Tink and Nancy Thompson, now back from their honeymoon and blissfully unaware that this reporter has had a package following them across the continent.

Stan McCarthy is serving some time with the United States Air Force before returning to graduate work at Stanford. Ronand Elizabeth Morris are down in Newport where Ron is stationed on the USS Keppler. Charlie (Ted) Herbert will be finishing up a two year tour of duty in Germany and returning to Northwestern. Hank Conlan is back in the Mediterranean. Art Diefendorf is in the Pacific aboard the USS Fred C. Ainsworth. Jack Cronin writes that he has been doing some spear-fishing and waterskiing in the Caribbean while also filling the duties of Operations Officer aboard the USS Crestview evaluating new experimental anti-submarine weapons systems. He's run into Jeff Freeman and Ted Kurtz, both of whom spent six weeks down at Key West. Jeff Benson is in Osan Air Base in Korea with his wife, Christina, and Frank Brown has seen "all the ocean in the Far East" aboard the USS Rochester.

If the world is hanging by its toenails at least many of us have been lucky enough to see something of it. Maybe we'll even contribute something to it; besides babies, that is, that being an area in which we are certainly doing our part. John and Helen MacNabola are now the proud parents of two and we just learned of the birth of "Victoria Lee" to Sue and Mike Gaskin.

Also congratulations to the following who have left the great unwed: Bob Quillin to Mary Lou Wead; Luke Finlay to Susan Wells; Jim Crooks to Laura Ward; Phil Hepner to Claudia Gardner; Clark Davies to Mella Cooks; Dick Miran to Julia Bartholomew. Engaged and probably married when this epistle gets published are John Golden to Gretchen Hawk and Art Freedman to Phyllis Kate. Aside from this one experience in common, they are indeed involved in varied and sundry activities. Bob and Mary Lou are at Ohio State Law School. Luke and Susan are in Rochester working for Esso Standard Oil. Ushers at the wedding were Jerry Johnson, Tom Chittenden, Carl Wells and Andy Orr. Best man was Bill Adams. Jim and Laura are with Connecticut Mutual in the group pension department and attending Trinity College in the evening doing graduate work in English. Phil and Claudia are with the Atomic Power Division of the Newport News Shipyard. Clark and Mella are in Cleveland Heights where Clark is control engineer, E.C. and M Division, Square D. Company. Dick and Julia when last heard from were at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif. Art Freedman is with Bill Owens and Syd Cassell, but our memory fails us as to the place and John Golden is spending his second year at Tufts Dental School.

If our sentence structure implies that above-mentioned wives are working also they are certainly there in spirit. Thank you as always for the mail and interest. We hope some of you will be up to Cambridge to see us this spring.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: April 1959

Those of our following who look to the first portion of this column for a little wit and what have you will have to bear with us for one serious moment. Appeals have already been made for contributions to the Alumni Fund and prompt payment of last February's class dues. We would like to add our support particularly at this time to aid the former. The Alumni Fund is essential to the University's financial program; its value has increased in later years by a broad, even if not overly remunerative, participation by recently graduated classes. We merely wish to reassert our responsibility to it.

We've received some fine letters this month from some out of the way places. It seems anywhere you go, you'll find a Yalie. Lucy and John Barrett dropped us a line from Hawaii to announce the birth of their son, John David, and also to send word from Steve Ackerman, Graham Tebbe, Otis Graham and John Crosby. John is married, as we announced earlier, and is teaching at Punahoe School along with Charlie Cushman. Also received a letter from Ray Lamantagne, who writes that Yale-in-China at Hong Kong is ready and willing to entertain all wayward travelers. They include Doug Murray, Pete Cooke and Charley Blathford, and of course, Mr. and Mrs. Lovett; and a more hospitable entourage the Orient has not seen in a long time. They have already royally entertained Colin Gracy, Dave Bowman and Pete Fullerton, who stopped in. We even had a line from Mullet and Shelly Bradley in Istanbul, who after leaving Harvard Law School, have completed one month of a three month tour around the world. On the home front, Jon Breslav sent news of a host of people he has seen in New York. He is at Charles F. Noyes, a real estate firm in New York, and not to be outdone by China, also welcomes all visitors. He sent word from Tom Quirk, now with Royal-McBee Corporation; Phil Lottenville, Bubenheim Publishing Co.; Tim Wilson, Sawyer-Ferguson Walker, newspaper representatives; and Bill Bogert, who is in training as an instructor at Dale Dance Studios. Bill had a walk-on part in the Met's production of Macbeth. He also mentioned that Steve Hopkins and Pat Baker had just returned from ten days in Puerto Rico, where they visited with Alice and Al Kaplan and son.

For those of you who have read this far down, you by now probably realize that we're devoting this column to catching up on all the people whom we haven't written about in quite a while. Symmetry, the poet said, is not the meat for a gossip's bread.

Palmer Bannerot and George Barnes are currently in the Guam area. Harry Valentineis teaching at the Booth School in Philadelphia. Frank Mongillo is back at Yale taking courses to prepare him for medical school.

Tony DeLude and his wife, Dica, are in Waterbury, Conn., where Tony is with Gulf Oil. We had lunch with Henry Geldzahler and ran into Freddie Coulter, both of whom are studying in the Cambridge area. Henry, incidentally, has been meeting along with Aide and Leo Bearman on a committee to formulate a more complete class constitution to guide class activities in the future for those of you who think we don't do anything but write letters. Gerry Jonas took a leave of absence from the committee and newspaper work in Boston to join Bud Trillin in the Army. Ted Walser just completed the senior training program at the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank in New York. Bill Greaves is doing graduate work in English at the University of Toronto. Dick La Ganza just got back from a Fulbright in Australia. He wrote of possibly returning there although his plans for the future are still indefinite.

Ed Inglis is aboard the USS Noble in San Pedro. We send our congratulations on his marriage to Marilyn Hines. In his travels about the Pacific he's run into quite a number of Yale-bred Navy officers - Jeff Loucks, Todd Kendrick, Collin Gracy, Eddie Cook and Mike Kohler. The Kohlers are coming east to Harvard Law School next year and we hope our wedding present catches up to them by then. Also recently married and recipients of our best wishes are Barry Rowland to Wendy Gartner, Bob Sweet to Dorothy Sheller, Gordie Phillpot to Susan Berger, Dick Massey to Jane Burr and Bob West to Sarah Jones. Barry is with the Merchants National Bank of Boston; Bob is with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad training program, Gordie is at Washington University Medical School; Dick is teaching English at Conrad High School in West Hartford; and the Wests are in New Haven where Bob is doing graduate work in sociology.

Our phone number is TR 6-6353 and we welcome anyone who'd like to give us a call.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: March 1959

Rumor has it that the only way someone can get into this column is by having a baby or getting married. With due regard to marital bliss, we state categorically that we do not discriminate against the great unwed. In good faith we do herby relegate news of our married brethren to the end of this column for this month.

It's interesting to note all that can be learned about what's happening among our classmates by reading periodicals. Glancing through last months' Newsweek I ran across an article about some gentleman who insisted on wearing a hat even while rowing before the Queen. It seems that he is descended from an English jousting champion who as reward for his valor was given the privilege of wearing his hat before the Crown. His youthful ancestor, Charles Grimes, is carrying on the tradition with a fervor that England has not seen since 1776 (a very significant date). In another, though not recent newspaper, I found a note that Reed Rubin had organized his own crew to race against the Oxford contingent. Charley and Reed are both working for their Masters amid all this excitement. Lastly those of you who may read a cinema magazine called Movie Star (discovered by this reporter's sister) will be pleased to find on last month's question and answer page a picture of Goey Franciscus and a column devoted in answer to the question, "Who plays detective Jim Halloran in Naked City on TV?" sent in by one D.D. of Brooklyn, N.Y. Goey has appeared in two movies since graduation: Four Boys and a Gun and The Mugger, as well as several TV shows. In his latest role as a young detective he does an excellent job in the co-starring part. This month will also be an opportunity to catch up on news of the class' academic endeavors. Bob MacKinnon and Frank Melhorn were elected to the legislative bureau at Harvard Law School. Pete Kosinski dropped us a line from Yale Architecture School. Bob Livingston has been working toward an M.S. in electrical engineering at Rice. Fred Henry who graduated from there has now come north for two years at Harvard Business School. Keene Taylor also dropped us a line. He and Don Beer are roommates at the Business School. Virgil Highland after a year in Germany on a Fulbright is studying physics at Cornell. Dave Hyatt is teaching physics and general science at Montclair Academy as well as coaching their soccer team "to the worst season they've had in years." Dave wrote that he is seriously considering returning to Yale for the M.A.T. program. Don Hester has continued on at the Yale School of Economics after getting a Master's last June. Al Zervanos is now at Harvard where he plans to get his Ph.D. in history. He received his M.A. at the University of Wisconsin. Also received a note from Johnny Somerville who is teaching at Thacher School in California. He was pleased to report that his "schoolmarm" activities included some degree of horseback riding and camping. Don Heimlich has spent his summers doing research and winters studying at Bellevue Medical School. He spent one of those research summers, he was glad to add, touring Europe. George Fisher is attending Georgetown Law School at night in Washington while working for a branch of the Corporation Trust Company. John Chambers has begun his first year at Columbia Law School after a year with the First National City Bank. George Hechtel dropped us a line from New Haven where he has remained to do graduate work in zoology. In the world outside the tower we've heard from Pete Morse, who's been working as assistant to Congressmen Charles M. League recently reelected, Andy Glass, now on the editorial staff of the New Haven Courier, and Don Griffith, currently with Standard Oil of Ohio in their marketing and sales training program. Don and Andy will both be in the Armed Forces for a while, but will return to these positions post haste. Also received a letter from Paul Asselin, who acted with the Cincinnati Summer Playhouse during this summer and has recently become a member of Actor's Equity Association.

Lastly congratulations and best wishes of the Class are in order. Charley and Marilyn Ard are the parents of two robust children Leslie Ann, and Charles W., 2^nd. Charley is assistant superintendent of production control at Cannon Electric Co. Grant and Jo Griswold, at Harvard Business School, boast of one Scott Thomas, born August 1, 1958. Al and Alice Kaplan sent us news of the birth of their son, Seth David. The Kaplans are residing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as guests of the United States Army. Al writes that "the water is just right in December and the rum is o.k. all the time." Also living a military life of leisure are the Gillespies, Roy, Peggie, and daughter, Dawn, at the U.S. Naval Base in Honolulu and the Keneficks, Mike and Ann, stationed with the Navy in Barcelona. The Williams with daughter, Susan Ann, now 13 pounds, also dropped us a note from Fort Ord, Calif. One last correction before we close; J.D. Watson's wife was Barbara Peddy instead of Petty, but it will be Watson, we trust, for a long, long, long, time.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: February 1959

Prologue: For those of you who searched in vain for mention of your column last month please be advised that the rumors about the Christmas mails are not rumors. Yon column arrived in time to usher in the New Year. Your chagrined scribe offers his apologies and the information that last month's column is now this month's: this month's next month's, etc. etc. etc. Grin and bear it; wisdom is the reward of the patient mind (just a little thing we made up).

We have been deluged with mail, phone calls, quips and even some dues payments. If you read in this column that you are engaged when you've already been married two months or that you are employed by such and such company when you've already been fired, please bear with us. Eventually, all will be told.

The Class Executive Committee had its annual meeting on November 15, a date unfortunately that will "live in infamy." The results, however, were far less drastic than that of the afternoon. We hope to increase Class participation in the Alumni Fund and the Gift Fund and we estimated class expenditures over the next five years. Including YAM, these average out to almost $2,000 each year and the payment of class dues is essential to a stable operation. The choice of a graduated dues figure until the fifth year reunion is an attempt to adequately provide for these anticipated expenditures. We need and look forward to your participation. On a less serious note, we might also add that the Executive Committee has adopted a plan for a series of class cocktail parties in three or four of the nation's large cities for next year's Harvard-Yale game for those of you unable to attend our annual class event. This year's party, incidentally, was its usual success, playing host to some 158 members, wives, and dates of the Class of '57.

Catching up on our reporting, we're pleased to announce some more additions to the Class's crowded ranks. John F. Stockwell, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. John Stockwell; Gregory John, to Mr. and Mrs. John Skillman, Jr.; Stephen, to Jim and Royse Shanley; and two young ladies, Sharon, to Gail and Seib Adams and Patricia Lee to Margot and Mike Melchior. We had occasion to dine with the Thomas's and their son, Bryce, is also doing fine. He has an appetite like his father's. The parents of our newest additions incidentally are truly scattered hither and yon. The Shanleys recently left to join Jim in Korea; the Adams are at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida; the Melchiors are in Cambridge at Harvard Graduate School; John Skillman is teaching at North Haven High School and the Stockwells are in Fort Carson, Colo., with Uncle Sam. We also have much in the way of wedding news. Frank Devney was married on August 31 to Joan Holmstrom. He's working for Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford and Joan is teaching at New Britain High School. Mark Blood is also a member of the faculty there. Barbara and Dick Simons celebrated their first wedding anniversary December 23, at Harvard Graduate School. John Ross, now an engineer for Standard Oil of California in San Francisco, was wed to Diane Bluemal, June 21. John Resnick married Lillian Glassman in August. Bob Quillan wed Mary Louise Wead of Columbus. Bob received a fellowship for this year at Ohio State. Bill Ney sent us word of his marriage to Jean Salsbury in Grand Junction, Colo. He's now working as a physicist with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., and attending George Washington Law School at night. Ben Moore announced his marriage to Katherine Hubbard. They are both at Yale Architecture School. Dave and Anne Mininberg celebrated their first wedding anniversary in June. Dave is at New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. John Watson was married to Barbara Ann Peddy last September. Pete Capra was best man; John Donovan and Larry Perlman were ushers and John Swinchatt, Tom Shoop, Tom Brown and Ralph Douglas were all very much in attendance. The couple set up housekeeping in Deep River, N.C., where J.D. is a second lieutenant with the United States Marines. Finally to round out the list, our congratulations to Wayne and Joan Downey and Ann and Ray Carlsen, both couples now enjoying married life at the Yale Medical School. To keep women from having a monopoly on this column we also have things to be told of the single souls. John Tyson has been working with Minneapolis Honeywell and recently toured the South with Joe Ritchie. Chuck Strong is now with Remington Arms Co. in Bridgeport. He's played ASA softball in Bridgeport, semi-pro baseball on Long Island and Industrial League basketball since his graduation. Chuck is probably the last vestige of the Class' athletic activity. Dick Sheinbaum dropped us a line from New York, where he is about to start a new job as executive trainee for the Manufacturers Trust Co. as well as attending New York University Business School. Dave Rosen is also in New York as "assistant to the vice-president in charge of the syndicated division of Screen Gems, T.V. subsidiary of Columbia Pictures." Despite the length of the title, he's very much enjoying the work. Phil Richards is at Bell Telephone Laboratories and attending New York University School of Engineering. Keith McEligot is with New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. Bill Mobley is with Continental Oil in Lafayette, La. He has been with them since he left the Army in Wichita Falls, Texas and New Orleans. Wayne Moeller also has been seeing something of the country. Working for the Franklin Supply Co. in oil field and refinery equipment distribution, he has been in Farmington, N.M., Chicago, Gary, Ind., Tulsa, Okla., and is now in New York City.

Adding to the Class list of prospective doctors, we find George Perlstein at the University of Florida, Don Rife at Harvard Medical School and Ted Klein at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Prospective lawyers include Bob Rosefsky and Bob Rospond at Syracuse Law School and Gil Merritt at Vanderbilt. Gil was recently elected to the Vanderbilt Law Review.

—Gary G. Bellow