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 1960
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Notes: January 1960

Notes: December 1960

Once a year, a penchant for bureaucracy and the desire of all men to share their miseries leads us to report on the current status of the Class, its officers and its erstwhile finances. We just don't want you to think that we don't do anything with your money. We spend it.

This year the executive committee meeting was held by mail in light of the geographical position of your officers. The following is a synopsis of the report submitted to the committee.

Finances

At the present time the class account stands at $2,605.71. This figure reflects payment for the year 1960-61 of our subscription of the YAM. However, it should be remembered that this expense of $1,596 is an annual one and will be coupled in one and one-half years with the expenses of the quinquennial reunion. Unless current revenues of dues and interest sufficiently raise our net asset figure, the next report will be written in red ink. Dues this year are four dollars ($4.00) and next year will be five dollars ($5.00). Last year, dues participation totaled only 29% and a cash total of $895.50 as of November 1, 1960. This is a 67% participation below the projected figures determined by the executive committee to be minimal to sound financial management.

Class Gift Fund

Participation in the class gift fund is also somewhat off from last year. Walt Alexander reports that the delinquency rate is currently 21%. This is comparable unfavorably to the 17% figure of last year. However, it is hoped that the mid-October follow-up will reduce this figure to 14% which is the average delinquency of the other Yale classes.

Alumni Fund

The alumni fund committee under Mike O'Hearn reports that class participation in the fund was 49% during the past year. This is somewhat low compared to both the Class of 1950 (53%) and the Class of 1958 (53%). Each of these two classes raised slightly in excess of $6,100 in 1959-60. Our class contributed a total of $5,645. This did, incidentally, exceed the goal of $5,500 which was set for us by the Alumni Fund Board.

Reunion Committee

Howie Gillis, Chairman of the reunion committee, reports a very successful year. The class dinner held at the Yale Club of New York last March was well-received by all. In addition, the Class this year had its first all day tent at the Princeton game where drinks and revelry abounded. At this writing we look forward to its success. We wish we could be there. Preliminary planning for the class reunion will be crystallized this winter.

Miscellaneous:

Charles Peet and Jonathan Breslav organized a committee in New York for the purpose of a person to person solicitation in the collection of class dues.

The Class Secretary reports his best year for meeting deadlines and spelling names right. He looks forward to more mail from all of you.

We regret that we must close with a note of mourning. We join the rest of our classmates in expressing our sorrow at the passing of Phil Griffing, our classmate and my friend. He is not survived by any of his immediate family.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: November 1960

A glance at the head note of this column will indicate that we are safely lodged in Chicago and preparing for mail and/or visits from all of you. Chicago somehow seems full of old friends. Bide and Sue Thomas are, of course, here; Bide working with the Commonwealth Edison Co. and as of last night had just become the parents of a 8.6 lb. baby girl. Dick Lumpkin is also here, working with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. and enjoying two residences, no less, one in the city which he shares with umpteen people and one in the northern suburbs. Wayne Moeller has been in the Chicago area for a year after a short spell in New York and is now with Clayton, Mark & Co. and last Saturday we met Jim McLelland down at the University of Chicago where he is doing graduate work in geology, He and Cathy spent the summer in LaVeta, Colo., on a ranch where Jim did field research for his thesis. Also in the area are Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Williams, teaching at the University of Chicago. We're sure there are many more of our Class out here but those are the ones who we've managed to get in touch with or hear of.

Before turning to some more Hedda Hopperisms, some announcements seem to be in order. Dues are due; $4.00 this year payable by check to the Class of '57. Our participation last year was remarkably low and this puts enormous strain on the planning of both budget and activities. Also it doesn't help the mental security of your officers any. Secondly, November 12 will mark the occasion of our fourth annual cocktail party which seems to be receiving each year larger and more enthusiastic turnouts. Letters have been sent out with the information and Bide and I just wish to take this opportunity to express our regrets at not being able to be with you all. It's just a little further than a schoolboy and a father of two can go in a weekend at least, this year.

We're still trying to catch up on the news that hasn't gotten into print yet. Bob Beaney has been appointed assistant district traffic superintendent of the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He and Gayle are living in Lansdowne, Pa.

John Wright graduated this June from the American Institute of Foreign Trade having completed a highly intensive course in international business administration and foreign language. Henry Geldzahler, having completed a period of teaching and research in history of art at Harvard, is now curator of one of New York's museums of art, but we're not sure which one. Bill Murphy is out of the Marines and heading for law school, probably in the Southwest. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferris recently settled in Mentor Park, Calif. Also in the West is Bill Makel, now with the United States Forestry Service. Bill started a one man forestry department at Fort Leonard Wood while he was in service.

There is also some family news we haven't announced. Charlie Tripp was wed to Pamela Reid and when last seen both were on their way to Australia. Al and Joan Ward were blessed with their second daughter. Irene Cayley wrote us some time ago of the new addition to their family, Paul, Jr. Also our belated best wishes to the Dick Browns who now have two fairly grown up daughters. After a two year period with Campton Advertising Dick is now with WOR in radio and television.

The rest of our information we happily withhold in the hopes of more recent news when the dues start pouring in. Man forever the dreamer. Write soon.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: October 1960

We sit down to write this column with some amount of trepidation. Right now, Your Reporter is sitting in a hotel lobby in Lake Tahoe, Nev., where he is currently employed in the gambling casino no less. Following the New York bar exam we left by car for a trip across the country and this is the logical ending place for a young lawyer who runs out of money. Our problems aside, we also must note that our files, our mail, and all else pertinent and relevant to this column are in the East. We therefore pass on the foregoing news from memory with the realization that some has already found its way into print. Maybe this time we'll spell the names right.

We've of course seen some of our number in our travels. In Kansas City we spent two days with Wanda and Bill Chinnery and helped Bill coach the Westhill swimming team in a meet. He is manager there for the summer and brought home a big second place trophy no thanks to us, I know. In Denver we spoke with Craig Bowers who has left radio work and is now owner of a chain of record stores called The Record Center. He had just heard from Ric Kurgis, who sent the summer in Berkeley at the University of California Law School.

It is our recollection that there is a great deal of information which we've not yet reported. Ed and Marilyn Ingalls wrote us just prior to being assigned to a sales office with the Aluminum Company of America. They were last seen leaving San Diego. Since we're stuck without our files we hope they'll forgive our passing this incomplete information on to you. We also had word from Johnny Herrmann a while ago. After working with an investment banking firm C.M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., and a stint in the Army, he entered Harvard Business School which he will complete next June. Pete Fritzsche is now out on his own although we don't know the particular business. He spent a year with the Smith, Barney & Co. and has received a Masters of Business Administration from Western Reserve since leaving the Ivy walls.

Bruce Agnew is now in New York at the United Press International. He previously had been with the Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram and spent a year at the UPI's Chicago Bureau. Incidentally while in New York we visited with Kathy McLelland; she and Jim just recently left Chicago to live on a ranch in Colorado, where Jim will continue his geological research. Doing a little geography jumping, Don and Lynn Maffly are in California, where Don is studying law at the University of California. He received a Masters of Arts from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts before going west. Ed and Nancy Cook and their son, Edward, we've heard, are still in Hawaii with the Navy. Bob Bentley is currently a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Charlie Gold recently moved to New Orleans and Frank Lin is in West Germany, but we don't have the rest of the information that goes with these locations.

Our next column will be written from the above address and we look forward to hearing from you there. Not all the material you sent got into print because of space and the like but we enjoy hearing from you all and hope nothing will deter you from writing in the same quantity as you've done in the past.

Our last note. Dues for 1961 are four dollars ($4.00) per person. Only about 30% of our number has paid the 1960 dues of three dollars ($3.00). We need the money. We will not gamble it away. Promise.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: July 1960

It should be noted that we have not had a notice of misspelling or mismarriage in almost two months. Either your readers have learned to live with us, stopped reading, or our proof reader has returned from his holiday. We wish to note that we sometimes, but only sometimes, do it on purpose so that we get to hear from you. Please forgive our literary license.

Belated congratulations to Dick and Judy Munn, who some half year ago became parents of one Katherine Tracy Munn in Oakland, Calif. Dick is with the U.S. Navy and probably is now in the Far East of on the USS Ranger as the air group Air Intelligence Officer. Also to Gunella and Harold Montgomery, parents of a son, John D. They are now in Milwaukee with the Cutler-Hammer Co. Dave Sawyer and his wife, Sandy, just moved into their new home in Greensboro, N.C., with a new son, Charles Kimberley (Kim). Dave has been with Esso since graduation and was recently transferred to industrial sales. Also belated best wishes to the Dave Olmsteads on the birth of their son, Don Ellsworth. Dave is working with Deering, Miliken textiles at their Abbeville Mill in South Carolina. And finally, we wish to add announcement of Fred and Pat Zappala's two children (boy and a girl). They are now in Haverhill, Mass.

In the marriage department, our congratulations to Bert Bradford and Sandy Swizer, who will be wed when this goes to print; to Howie Gillis and Edwina Cooney; to John Donovan and Jerry Clarke; to Rob Walker and Jean Sherman; to Linda and Bob Rosefsky, who never did get an announcement in this column; to Bob Rosford and Lana Warner and to Mike O'Hearn and Nancy Sherwood. We don't have all, but do have some information as to their whereabouts. Bert is in Charleston, W.Va., and met Sandy at the University of West Virginia. Howie was of late at the University of Connecticut Law School in Hartford. The Donovans are with IBM and were last seen in Milwaukee by this writer as best IMB and escort at Davy and Marla Perlman's wedding. Rob is teaching at Hotchkiss School and Rosefskys and Rosfords to my knowledge have just left Syracuse Law School. Mike O'Hearn and wife are again in New York. He is at the First National City Bank, and Nancy is working at Time, Inc. Also on this list should be included Don Backe, who wed Claire Taylor some time ago; Buck Jordan and Constance Eddy and Jan Henderson and Roberta Malare. The Backes are at Wilbraham Academy, where Don is teaching science and English. The Hendersons are in Ostend, Belgium, operating with the Belgian Navy. Jan, among other places, has been to the Belgian Congo, Matadi, Abijan, etc. The Jordans are in Fresno, Calif., with Dean Witter and Co. Finally, forthcoming wedding congratulations to Sandy Webb and Hannah Schoentgen, to marry in Pasadena this summer and to Heinz Molsen and Chris Forstenson, to be married in August.

On the unwed side, we had a letter from Charley Gold, who is with IBM in their Hartford sales office and from John Seitz now in Dallas with Potter Art Metal Studios. Dick Curran is teaching at Kinkard School in Houston and coaching football and basketball. He spent the better part of last year working with delinquents at the Connecticut Child Study and Treatment Center in Hamden while getting his MA in English at Trinity. Nordie Hill dropped us a line from Houston, also incidentally, where he is at Raylor University College of Medicine.

Thus the end of this year and the beginning of the next has arrived. Although this column appears in July, it should be noted it was written in June, at which time this reporter is going on a short vacation. Last regards from Mima and Hi Maxim at the Capewell Mfg. Co. in Hartford, Conn., and from Joan and Jerry Jonas, whom we recently dined with. Joan is studying at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and Jerry is doing reporting for the Boston Herald.

See you in September.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: June 1960

The Yale Athletic Association has instituted a program which will probably be of some interest to those of you in the New Haven area this fall. On September 11, the New York Giants will play the Detroit Lions in the Yale Bowl, the proceeds of the game to go to the creation of a Boys Club in the New Haven area in memory of Albie Booth. Tickets are $5.50 and $3.30 and are available by writing the Yale Athletic Association at the University.

Received a letter from Shirley and Carl Myrus from Alexandria, Va. Carl is currently "employed by the Army as a designer for the Army Exhibit Unit at Cameron station in Alexandria, and Shirley is studying drama under a fellowship at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. They manage to spend their weekends in Bowling Green, we are pleased to report. Next year they will be back in New Haven, where Carl will complete his graduate work in architecture and Shirley will be working on her doctorate. Their anniversary, June 27, will soon be celebrated. Attendants at their wedding, incidentally, were Dick Park and Job Emerson, '58.

Also had a letter from Paul and Kathleen Johnson from Bad Aibling, Bavaria (between Munich and Salzburg), where they are stationed with the Army. Paul intends to "read" English at Oxford or London University this September. He was best man in Hal and Patricia Malmgren's wedding at Queens College this past summer. The Malmgrens, after a honeymoon in Paris and Southern France, are now at Balliol College and St. Anne's College at Oxford. Hal is in his third year of graduate work in economics and Patricia, formerly a resident of California, is continuing her work in English. Adding to the list of scholars already herein mentioned, we send word from Tink and Nancy Thompson also at Oxford. Although we've mentioned their whereabouts recently, we pause to enclose their address--27 Chalfont Road, Oxford.

Private Tony Converse sent us a note from Frankfurt where he is at Radio Network Headquarters as a "producer-announcer," United States Army. He appeared in several off-Broadway shows before the Army engagement and worked for CBS-TV in New York. Bill Olson is graduating from Columbia Law School and will be working for Chadbourne, Park, Whiteside and Wolff at 25 Broad Street in New York. Steve Mottus was recently promoted to manager of the Comet department at Procter and Gamble in Port Ivory, Staten Island. He had previously been foreman in the soap granules department, spent six months in the Army and found time to wed Jill Ross to nobody's surprise in New York City. Their anniversary is December 21. Caught up recently to the wanderings of the Pillsburys, who wrote us from Madrid. They added to their family we are pleased to report another little girl, Fendall Dustin Pillsbury, who was born September 11. In addition to two recently acquired Siamese cats and a basset hound, theirs is one busy household. Anne and Mike Kenefick, incidentally, were also in Madrid, but it is our guess that they have returned home by this time to the United States. Jim and Cathy McClelland dropped us a note from Chicago where Jim is working for a Ph.D. in geology at the University of Chicago, and Cathy is enjoying a scholarship in music at Saint Xaviar. Jim and Laura Crooks are in Baltimore, Md., where Jim has undertaken work toward a Ph.D. in American history at the Johns Hopkins University. Charles Price is an engineering writer at Convair-Astronautics in La Jolla, Calif. Chris Sonne sent us some news of his adventures in Fort Bliss, Tex., where he is a "sort of Junior Dean of the Air Defense School" and on leave in Squaw Valley. He ran into Dick Barclay, who is working there and went over to see Townie and Jane Ludington in Luguna Beach. Townie will return to Florida next year to teach and Chris will be at Columbia for the next two years in the School of International Affairs and the Russian Institute preparing for the Foreign Service. Across the river from our abode we just learned that Dave Smith was elected secretary of the Boston University Law Review. Belated congratulations on his and Sandy's first wedding anniversary.

There is more, more, more but we unfortunately are out of space. Our apologies to the many who wrote and never found their name in print. It was still much appreciated. If you've noticed we've been trying to include more dates and details instead of listing names of people. Life is experiment and besides it keeps us busy. For next year I accepted a Ford Foundation fellowship in criminal law to Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. For now though, summer mail should be sent to: 521 Jorgen Street, Lawrence, New York. Needless to say we would rather see your ugly faces so try to visit if you are in the New York City area. Compared to New York, Long Island at least has air.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: May 1960

Just realized that June is rapidly approaching and there is no hope of announcing all the weddings, births, etc., before the new batch arrives. We are blessed with a most prolific Class, as letter-writers and in more important things, and this reporter must beg your indulgence and patience.

Congratulations to Bob Jones and Sarah Prince recently wed. Bob has an assistantship in sociology at Yale. Also to Denny McWham and Carolyn Quick who are doing graduate work at Berkeley at the University of California in chemistry. We must warn the reader at this point that many of these weddings occurred some time ago, but we feel some inner compulsion to get all the weddings in print before the other blessed events find their way to this page. George Lee is married to Natalie Hinduson and is enrolled in Stanford Law School. Dick Jordan was wed to Constance B. Eddy and now resides in Fresno, Calif., where he is with Dean Witter and Co. Chuck Lafferty and Bill Jordan were ushers at the wedding. Harold Hochman married Merle Kaplan and is in his third year of graduate school at Yale in economics. He is also teaching Econ. 10.

Gar Heller was wed to Velma Weiner and is now employed as a chemical engineer with Mobil Oil Company while working for an MBA at City College at night. His recent letter filled us in on some interesting happenings. After three months in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve he went to Cleveland with Bob Pegg to participate in the World Slow-Pitch Softball Championship. They lost. Also spent several months in Cuba last year. Batista was overthrown, good luck piece, that boy. Congratulations to John Hearst who is wed to Jean Bankson and doing graduate work in chemistry and physics at Cal. Tech.

In the new additions department our best wishes to all you fathers and mothers. Chuck and Betsy Williams had a little girl, Debbie. Chuck is an assistant instructor in bacteriology at the University of Chicago Medical School a bugologist, he writes. The Wilmerdings also had a little girl, Amy, born September 18, 1959. Received word from the Dick Simons who had a son, Peter. Dick is teaching history at the Amity School in Woodbridge. Belated congratulations to Bob and Barbara Young whose son David Maxwell is now close to 2 years old. Bob spent last summer on a U.S. Public Health Fellowship to study "concepts of behavior as related to the physiology of the nervous system." He is now at the University of Rochester Medical School where he is pointing toward future work in neurology and psychiatry. Received a note from the John McCreary's who added Elizabeth Ann to their family of John, Jr. John is now supervisor of industrial relations at Irvin Works, U.S. Steel. Colin and Alice Jensen are now the proud parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, who was born we are pleased to report, in New York City in July of last year. The Jensens have returned to Sioux City, Iowa, where Colin is with the Irving F. Jensen Co. with his Dad. Grant and Joe Griswold's son Scott celebrated a birthday last August. They are in Lafayette, Ind., with the Duncan Electric Co. Also had a note from the Fred Gastons who celebrated their son Julie's 1 year birthday. He is attending night school while being stationed at the security station in Washington D.C.

Engaged to be married is Arnold Hester to Karan Ann Helm, both candidates for a Ph.D. in economics and Chuck Leahy to Barbara Shimdraki. Chuck recently left his job on Wall Street to search for greener pastures.

On the non-marital side we had a letter from Ian Jones who is working for a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. He spent last summer at the Livermore Radiation Laboratory. George Fisher (Tony) is completing his third year at Georgetown Law School. Bill Mallender will graduate Michigan Law. Andy Kner is somewhere in Germany and we long to hear from him. The Tink Thompsons will be returning from Oxford to do further graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. Hugh Peterson became the first member of the Harvard Law School of 1960 to become a practicing lawyer. Although he still has no clients he was recently admitted to the Georgia Bar. Long Hon Jeany is working for a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the University of Minnesota. Dick Lumpkin wrote (not called) us from the Bell Telephone Company of Illinois. Charley Peet, Bob Pelletreau, Lars Kulleseid and Frank Michelman were all up at Stowe skiing these past two weeks. Tom Ruhm, first year Harvard Law, was unable to attend. We add this latter bit of information to dispel any charges that one must get married to find his name in this still male-oriented column. Write, as always, write.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: April 1960

There has been some suggestion that the members of the Class might like to do some back reading in the courses they didn't take or did take when at Yale. We have the reading lists from most of Yale's more popular courses except perhaps The History of Medieval Wind Instruments which seems to have left the curriculum upon our arrival. This reporter will attempt to provide them on request.

Our mailbox continues to be full and our thanks for the response. Received word from Dick Lamb currently at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston where he is a student house officer and working on a research project. He spent the last two summers as a chemical engineer of the International Paper Company in Pine Bluff, Ark. (home of Dick Arnold's spouse).

Also had a long note from Pat Child. After working as a photographer at Yale University Audio Visual Center he enlisted in the Air Force and is now in Cape Canaveral photographing missile launches for release to public news media. Dick Miller, with the Third Marine Division in Okinawa, is due stateside in May 1960.

We've also had good news from the recent civilians of our "group." Chuck Strong after three months' critical skills active duty is back with Remington Arms in Bridgeport, Conn., and taking an Alexander Hamilton Institute Business course. Sandy Webb segregated from the Army earlier this year and is now in Cleveland with the Reliance Electric and Engineering Corporation. He is engaged to Hannah Schoewtgen and on his last trip to Boston celebrated the event with us with a "few brews." Phil Levine has segregated from the Navy but we don't have any definite knowledge of his plans. Don Griffith is established now in the industrial sales department of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. He was as of last year a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Bert Bradford just finished up his six-month duty at Fort Knox and is with the United Fuel Gas Company in Charleston, W.Va.

In the academic world, had a letter from Paul Wentworth who is completing his last year at the University of Virginia Law School. He was in Miami, Fla., for the tenth annual convention of the American Law Student Association with Gil Merritt. Paul was a representative from Virginia and Gil represented Vanderbilt Law School where he is president of the student bar.

But the legal honors will still have to go to Shelby Tucker, our first graduating law student and from two countries, no less. Having attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, England, he received his degree in law in 1958. He then attended Tulane University and received an American law degree in 1959. He is now associated with the firm of Crane and Hawkins in London. Dick Young dropped us a line from the University of Chicago, where he is working for an MBA in finance in the evenings and working for finances during the day. Also heard from Dick Rees, who is currently teaching fifth grade at the University School in Shaker Heights, Oh. He spent the prior two years teaching public school around the New Haven area. Last summer he directed, acted and designed sets with the Branford Community Theatre, a new summer stock organization in Connecticut. Bob and Dinny Mobley seem to be having a fine time in New York. Bob is at Marsh and McLennan, insurance brokers, and he and Dinny have joined the Blue Hill Groupe, an amateur singing group that does Gilbert and Sullivan. They are also going to New York University night school where they are studying American writing (Dinny) and antiques (Bob). Incidentally, Jerry Neary is also at Marsh and McLennan.

Finally, congratulations to the Mike Pattisons now co-authors of a son, born May 30, 1958 and a daughter, born, August 23, 1959 and to Teddy and Dawn Waltuch, parents of a son, Aaron Philip in April 1959. Mike is selling stocks and securities with E.F. Hutton & Co. in New York and Ted is at Boston University Medical School. We are also pleased to announce the engagement of Bill Ryland to George Ann Doty, graduate of Saint Lawrence University. George Ann is the sister of George Doty.

We've saved in this column, at least, any appeals to the end. The Alumni Fund is now soliciting and its contribution is an essential of Yale finance. We hope you all give this solicitation some serious consideration.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: March 1960

We return from the hours of balance sheets, income statements and committee reports with lighter heart. If history is a prophet, we shall survive. Therefore does this column turn once more to its purported function--telling you what you have been doing.

One important piece of miscellaneous information. Howie Gillis has announced the advent of a Class Dinner at the Yale Club of New York at 6:00 P.M. on March 30. This will be the first of several such functions which we hope to initiate between reunions. Arrangements both financial and otherwise for attendance can be made by writing or contacting: W.S. Carlisle, Hemphill, Noyes & Co., 15 Broad Street, New York 5.

Received a letter recently from Fernando Alvarez who filled us in on what he's been doing. Now a design engineer in a Fiberglass Corporation in Ashton, he spent last year in Capri with his family. He's going to night school, loves his work and is still roaming around in that old Ford--his last trip to Dearborn, Mich. We also received a similar catching up account from Pete Hobart and King Cross. Pete worked in Europe in 1957 and then spent two years in the Army. After a further year of work (?) in the Orient he's now home in Troy, Oh. King, now division officer and explosive safety officer with the Navy in San Francisco, has also seen a little of the globe. On last report he had been to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and some numerous and sundry lands of the western hemisphere.

Needless to say, there have been many letters from Uncle Sam's house. Bob Ganger after a period in Lackland, Tex., in the Air Force Reserve is off to Amarillo where he will enter Tech School as an administrative aid. Pete Greer will finish up his service with the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He just returned from over a year in Okinawa and has left "that place in the capable hands of Chic Goode and Bill Murphree." Also back from Okinawa is Reed Charlton. He'll complete his next 12 months at Camp Pembleton.

In the academic world we are pleased to report the appointment of Dick Arnold as clerk to Justice William Brennan, Supreme Court of the United States. Dick was first in his class at Harvard Law School in 1958 and is case editor of the Harvard Law Review. Also congratulations to Kelvyn Lawrence, this year elected to the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal. His article on legal aspects of insurance will appear in the winter issue. The law, however, is not the only endeavor of the academic world, we have been told and told and told. Dick Lewis writes that he is completing his training at Oregon Medical School. He might be in Boston for his internship in 1962. Rube Shapiro dropped us a note from New York Medical School. Ted Klein recently passed his "pre-clinical examinations" and is entering the second phase of his training at Basel Medical School in Switzerland. Reed Taylor, after two years at Yale Divinity School, is now in his first year of teaching at Iolane School (11^th grade, English). We were pleased to receive best wishes to the members of the Class from the Reverend Burton MacLean who is now headmaster there. Bill Calin in the French department at Yale expects his Ph.D. in 1960--the first in the Class's roster. He spent a very fine summer in France this past year. Larry Flinn dropped us a note from Columbia Business School. He was on IBM's Masters of Business Administration Training Program this summer. Dave Lipsher is working for his Ph. D. in psychology at Stanford. He has received his M.A. and is intern psychologist at Fort Miley Veterans Administrative Hospital, San Francisco. Rob Walker is doing graduate work in history at Brown University. He spent last year teaching at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn.

The marriage news of this column must of necessity begin by correcting a small error of last issue. Bill Owens and not Syd Cassell married Shelda Rose Layle on June 6 in Cincinnati. Although Syd was there this result was all probably for the best. Our apologies to the Owens and to Mrs. Cassell, Syd's mother, who was kind enough to take the news in good spirits. Syd remains gaily unwed despite our best efforts to the contrary.

Really married and recipient of our best wishes are Pete Bouscaren and Laurence Lossky of Louisville and Goucher College; Lee Blaisang and Ron Ragen; Bob Beaney and Gayle Terrey; Joe Ritchie and Barbara Case; and Gil Kennedy and Caroline McDermott. Pete is working as an assistant buyer for Stewart & Co., a retail department store in Baltimore. They plan to honeymoon in the Virgin Islands. Ron is in his second year at Stanford Law School and his wife, Lee, is teaching. At their wedding were several classmates, Dick Lewis, George Doty and Bill Ryland. The Beaneys are in Pennsylvania, we think in Philadelphia. Bob is now a staff engineer with the Bell Telephone Co. there. Joe and Barbara are seeing something of the country in a small trailer spending about a week in each town. Joe has adopted a system to carry out his job as a manufacturer's representative and they are loving it. Ushers at their wedding were John Crosby and Ben Case. The Kennedys are now in New York, where Gil is in his second year of theological study at the General Theological Seminary. They spent last summer in Jordan doing archaeological work at Petra.

Engagement announcements have recently reached us from Guy Diana and Wright Palmer, and our best wishes again. Guy will marry Joanne Rucker of New Mexico this summer. They are both doing graduate work at Rice. Wright will be wed this March in Naples to Anna Maria Canacciolo and then will complete his tour of duty with the Navy.

Finally, we are most pleased to announce the engagement of Gary Bellow to Linda Abrams of Brookline, Mass. There has been a great deal of speculation on how the "editorial we" announces an event. Henry VIII, for example, must have been quite embarrassed to say, "How do you do. We are Henry VIII." Be that as it may, Linda and I find no such difficulty. It is with great pleasure that we can share our happiness with you all.

Write soon.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: February 1960

Now that business, bookkeeping and class dues have passed by, at least for those who have done their duty, this column returns happily to its prime functions so eloquently put by a former editor of the Yale Daily News--"keeping der class togedder."

We thank you for all the Christmas good wishes and find ourselves virtually flooded with weddings, promotions and births in that humble order.

Wedding congratulations are forthcoming to Bob (Chip) Anderson and Mary Chrisman of Smith College, to Curt Chittenden and Anne Frank, and to Vinnie DeMeo and Mary Lou Cronin. At the Anderson wedding as ushers were Ev Hedeen and John Camou. Ev is doing graduate work in architecture at Minneapolis and John, after finishing Stanford Business School, is with an independent supermarket in San Jose and possibly becoming the first of the Class's independent entrepreneurs. At the Chittenden wedding were Steve Hopkins and Pat Baker. We are pleased to report that they are expecting a child later this year; the Chittendens not Pat and Steve. The DeMeos are with the United States Coast Guard -- Vinnie is now a lieutenant, junior grade, and they were blessed with a daughter, Kyle Ann, in September 1959.

Further wedding congratulations to Pierce Brown and Elise Robinson of Sewickley, Pa., and Lew Aronson and Sally Feinberg, now a senior at Connecticut College for Women, all of whom will tie the knot this summer. Syd and Becky Ball celebrated their first anniversary in Oak Ridge this year and Bill Chinnery and Wanda Mae Shelp were wed on December 22 in Sioux Falls, S.D.

So much for the newlyweds. Of the old married set we can speak only with a bachelor's reverence. Frank Bean is the father of a son, Judd Bean, born July 16, 1958. After graduating from Harvard Business School he is now with Ernst and Ernst in Cleveland, Oh. Charlie and Marilyn Ard produced a 7 pound daughter, Kimberly Jean, on October 5, 1959. Charlie is now the distributor representative for the Western States of Cannon Electric Company working out of their home office in Los Angeles. He sent word that George Schuyler will be home for Christmas but we don't know from where. Cale and Nancy Carson also added a newcomer to the list-Cale, 4^th. Cale is with the First National Bank in Albuquerque, N.M. He's recently graduated from Stanford Business School. He wrote that he is undoubtedly the alumni representative for the area since he is the lone class alumnus for miles. We hasten to forward the information to him that Chris Dobbins is also in Albuquerque with the Ideal Cement Company. He is recently back from a ten-day trip to Europe, is obviously becoming less and less affluent and should be solicited immediately. Returning to births, our best wishes to Ed and Nancy Cook who had their second child, Jennifer, on October 27, 1959. Ed is still on destroyer duty with the Navy in Hawaii as a lieutenant--junior grade.

There are of course other ways to get into this column besides having children but a priority is a priority. Frank Brown dropped us a line from New York where he is with the domestic training program of the First National City Bank. He sent regards from Joe Clayton who is also thinking of settling in the New York area. Pat Baker is in the second phase of Olin Mathieson's sales program. He spent three months visiting plants around the country and one and a half years in research at Niagara Falls. Bill and Jo Ann Williams spent Christmas in Connecticut and returned to complete Bill's service with the Air Force. Pete, Marge and Sue Williams also wrote of their forthcoming departure from Uncle Sam's service although their plans for the future are still indefinite.

In the academic world there always will be a fair share of loyal correspondents. Tim Childs and Bill Eaton are at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Jay and Mary Louise Conte dropped us a line from Yale Law School where Jay is finishing this year. Al Boasberg also sent us his regards. We hear he is considering doing legal work in California. Carroll Brewster is also at Yale Law School in his second year after a year at Kings College, Cambridge. He was recently selected for the Yale Law Journal. We also received word from Bruce Arneil getting his Master's degree in architecture at Yale who invites all who are in New Haven to drop in at 168 York Street. Sam Chauncy, now assistant dean of Yale College and assistant dean of undergraduate affairs, extended a similar invitation to members of the Class passing through New Haven. He is in Davenport College. Chuck and Patsy Debrovner were heard from. Patsy is now doing radio work and is in the chorus of the Broadway play, Gypsy. Chuck will graduate from N.Y.U.--Bellevue Medical School in June and will be the first medical school graduate of our Class's future doctors. We should have added earlier in the column that Sandy and Frank Ryan had a 6 pound, 9 ounce son, Dean, and that the Gillespies and the Onthanks were both newly blessed parents although we do not have all the pertinent information.

On a serious note. Our deepest condolences to the family of Frederick Coulter who passed on November 2 in New York City. His father's address is Mr. Philemon Coulter, c/o Dugan, 520 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: January 1960

The year-to-year functioning of the class as an organization has become an increasing mystery to the vast majority of its members and we guess to many of its leaders. It is the wish of this reporter that we do not operate the class in a vacuum. We therefore hope that this column will serve to bridge some of the geographical gaps in communication.

The following is a summation of the results of this year's executive committee meeting held the morning of "that" game, November 21, 1959. Present were Mike Dodge, Bud Trillin, Denny Hansen, Ink Clark, Charley Peet, Leo Bearman, Mike O'Hearn, Howie Gillis, George Vojta and myself.

Finances

A very complete financial statement was submitted by Bide Thomas in absentia from Minnesota and highlights some of the problems the class will face in the future. Our balance as of November 19, 1959, was $3,977.45. The class has two sources of income: dues figured at 35% participation on the ascending rates which will net $4150 from 1959-1962 and interest computed at 2½% upon an average balance of $4000 which will net $300 from 1959-1962. Our expenses include clerical expenses ($100 per year), dues to the Class Officers Association ($15 per year), class functions (we have allotted $100 a year but these activities will be self-supporting and this is only an underwriting allocation) and subscriptions to this magazine ($1385 for 1959-1960 and $1610 per year thereafter). In addition, there will be a $3550 expense for our quinquennial reunion. This figure is based on the experience of the last six reunion classes. Based on these figures the class will have at the end of 1962 $650 and the problem of financing these activities over the next five years. As a result of this report the executive committee instituted the following:

• That follow-up letters for dues be sent by the class council representative in each college by the middle of January. (The participation increased 12% from last year's second mailing.)

• That a committee (Charles Peet, Chairman) investigate the possibility of personal follow-up for dues next year in the major cities. This would include assembling lists, the availability of telephone numbers and addresses, etc.

• That a committee (Gary Bellow, Chairman) investigate the effects and advisability of withdrawing our money now on deposit with Yale and placing it in a Federal Reserve Bank at a higher interest rate. (4¼% insured.) This committee was given authority to act upon written ratification of the executive committee if their report was affirmative in light of the time lag to the next executive committee meeting. This committee will also investigate other investment possibilities although it has no authority to act immediately in this area.

• That the Reunion Committee have as detailed an account as possible of the proposed expenditures for the 1962 Reunion ready for the Class Treasurer by June 30 as part of a serious effort to cut this expense.

The approach of these resolutions is evident--to increase income and reduce expenses. It might be appropriate to add here that the YAM, our largest annual expense, is the only continual contact between every graduate and Yale. By subscribing through the class structure, Yale has done a very real service, a goal in our opinion and that of the executive committee well worth the money.

Class Gift Fund

The Gift Fund Committee (Walt Alexander and Tom Robinson in absentia) reported the present status of the class gift. The cash surrender value of our present fund is $22,596.23, and we have $1,516.96 in cash on deposit with Yale. However, we have $2,035.13 in arrears, which is considered paid under the cash surrender value figure, and it was necessary to borrow $1,650 from Yale to meet our last premium payment. As of April 30, the class had 27% or 210 delinquents which was reduced to 128 delinquents or 17% by September 30. This compares unfavorably with last year's figures of 196 delinquents or 26% on April 30 and 104 delinquents or 14% at the close of September.

Alumni Fund

The Alumni Fund Committee (Mike O'Hearn, Chairman) reported that class participation in the Fund was only about 50%, low by comparison to equivalent class figures at Princeton, and had totaled $5,855.00. The report included a breakdown in dollars and percentages for each college which will be mailed to the alumni agents. The committee also reported that last year's resolutions of the executive committee--that alumni agents be able to choose assistants from their own college and that an effort be made to discourage form letters in solicitation had been discussed and put into practice.

Reunion Committee

The Reunion Committee (Howie Gillis, Chairman) reported the following:

• The arrangements for the annual class cocktail party after the game. Last year's party cost the class $113.00, and this year prices were necessarily raised and some of the expenses shared with the Class of 1958 to cut the costs.

• Plans for a class dinner at the Yale Club in New York this March. This is to be done by a limited mailing and prepayment on reservations and could be an enjoyable evening for the participants. By vote of the executive committee a commitment of the class to underwrite any loss will only be available upon the approval of the Secretary and Treasurer prior to the dinner.

• Plans for the holding of cocktail parties in other large cities where distance prevents access to the class events in New Haven. Again these are to be self-supporting and are only in the early stages of planning.

Constitution

Last year, the executive committee established a group to draft a constitution for the class. This had two purposes: (1) to delineate powers and responsibilities as to what actions could or could not be undertaken without approval and (2) to provide a structural continuity in class organization for future years. Leo Bearman, Chairman, submitted the final draft to the executive committee, and it is available by writing your reporter. It will be a self-imposed limitation upon the executive committee until official ratification at the quinquennial reunion. Rather than reprint its text, we merely mention some of the provisions:

• The class executive committee will be made up of thirty-two members serving staggered terms, only half of whom will be available for reelection. Twenty of the executive committee must be within geographical proximity to New Haven or New York (250 miles in any direction). Ten members will constitute a quorum.

• Duties of officers and committee chairman are defined.

• Procedures for elections, filling of vacancies and the conduct of the class meeting at reunions are delineated.

• The Secretary and Treasurer are given power to authorize expenditures up to $100 each year without approval of the executive committee. Provision is made for executive committee action by mail but only in certain instances.

This is merely an attempt to give to the class some of the scope and intent of the document. It is our opinion that discretion, large though it may be, functions better within clearly defined limits and procedures are better conducted when structurally delineated.

Report of the Secretary

There are two new activities that have been undertaken by the Secretary:

• The compilation of a file listing dates of anniversaries and births, names of children, etc. This will be of aid to future secretaries when in later years correspondence becomes less. We would appreciate as detailed information as you can provide in your future letters.

• The investigation of the possibility of making available by this column or mail, the reading lists in courses given at Yale which members of the class did not have time to take during their undergraduate days. We welcome reactions to this suggestion.

To all this we write finis. You may take this report cynically, critically, or most likely not at all. Nevertheless, it seems that such a thing ought to be written once a year. Believe it or not, this whole maze of funds and committees serves both Yale and you. We like to know you're still around.

—Gary G. Bellow