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Notes: December 1961
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Notes: December 1961

While you civilians are basking in the security of the peacetime world, except perhaps for Southeast Asia, Cuba, Berlin, South America, Africa, and nuclear pollution generally, Your Reporter is struggling with the mysteries of firing a howitzer while trying to sleep. I emerge from shooting up all your tax money only to report on the class information that has begun to pour into Fort Sill, to thank you for your support, and to remind you, that despite my relative anonymity in the Armed Forces. I know that you still haven't paid your dues. Pay your dues.

By the time this letter is printed the class cocktail party shall have become a blurred memory and much of the following happenings will have bowed to the new. Nevertheless until the cards fill out our files again I'll pass on some of my personal information.

Another baby boy was born to Mike and Snooky Kohler on July 31. Young Mathew, who joins his older brother, John, weighed in at six pounds , four ounces and is now well on his way to catching his Dad. Jim Rayen was named recently to the faculty of Wellesley College as an instructor in art. In 1960 he prepared a one man show of his paintings at Yale in conjunction with the receipt of his masters' degree in fine arts. Fernando Alvarez de Toledo now a process development engineer for Owens Corning Fiber Glass Corp. in Pennsylvania was married this summer to Mary-Margaret Foster Emmet. They honeymooned in Italy.

Paul Hull is completing his junior year at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Joe Curtis and his wife, Patsy, and their two daughters are in Winter Park, Fla., where Joe is a real estate salesman with Dick Bond Associates. Ed and Nancy Cook are settled again in Oklahoma City after three years of active duty in the Navy and Hawaii. Ed is an automobile transporter with Woods Industries and their two children, Edward 2d, and Jennifer, fine. Jennifer just had a birthday, her second.

Of course, the Class continued to contribute potential sages to the legal profession. Dave Gibson was elected editor of the Virginia Law Review and Mike Leisure was selected as articles editor of the same review. They both should be pretty busy. Dave and his wife, Nancy, have three children and Mike is still practically a newlywed. He married, as I think we reported, Elizabeth Monteiro Carmichael several months ago. The Class incidentally is pretty well represented at the University of Virginia. Ernie Pepples, Ken Sharp and Ian Henderson are in the second year class and Ammon Dunton is in his third year. Nor does that exhaust the Class list of legal laurels. Frank Michelman and his wife, Ellen, has accepted a position as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice, William Brennan. Dick Johnson is decisions editor of the Chicago Law Review. Hugh Peterson recently had articles dealing with the law of theft published in the Mercer Law Review and the Georgia Bar Journal. He is at present practicing military law with the Judge Advocates Office. Chuck Leahy, now entering his second year on the Harvard Law Review, has been elected to the board of student advisors, an organization which supervises the Harvard Moot Court competition. I'm glad to hear that he and his wife, Shimmy, still have time to enjoy Cambridge and to hoot as of yore. I hope that the recent injury to his right hand will soon be healed and in good shape once again.

I close with the most recent correspondence. Greg Austin sent a card from Istanbul, having finished one-half of an eight-month trip around the world. He's seen Chris Sonne, on a camping trip in Russia, and Phil Pillsbury, visiting from Florence. Bill Keen recapitulated all his traveling within the past five years. In this list, under the heading "Love Life" I learned he was married to Patricia Le Nore Dangremond of Guynedo Valley, Pa., and that they have been blessed with a son, Robert, last July. Bill is now on a training program with United Engineers and Construction, Inc. in Philadelphia doing work with computers in the company's pioneer efforts in "Critical Path Planning and Scheduling." The meaning of all this is well beyond the ken of this young shyster.

Keep writing to the above address.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: November 1961

If there was anyone left holding the bag, it's me right now!

In case you haven't noticed yet, our dependable Class Secretary has relinquished his usually prolific pen to his number one underling for this month's YAM column. Ordinarily, this in itself would not be too bad but simply because all of Gary's files were destroyed in a Railroad Express fire. I'm left no information about anyone in the Class other than myself--and I'm sure that you couldn't stand one whole column just about the Thomas'.

I'm not a suspicious sort, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Gary had the whole file under his bunk at Fort Dix and was keeping it from me so that I wouldn't be able to write as good a column as he usually does. Well, I have to admit that the odds are against me, but here goes anyway.

A few weeks ago, Sue and I were pleasantly surprised when a stray pigeon by the name of Bill Murphree stopped in to see us. Murph has been one of our fighting leathernecks for the past four years and, as a matter of fact, almost managed to stay in even longer. Evidently he was originally scheduled to be discharged last January, but with the prospect of nothing to do until summer, he extended his enlistment another six months. Well, I'm sure all of you know what happened in mid-summer as a result of the Berlin crisis--just a few short weeks after Murph's extended tour of duty had expired. He claims that it wasn't a matter of luck at all--it was simply good planning!

At any rate, our new civilian packed his gear and headed toward the eastern shore of Lake Michigan where he spent the months of June, July and August as stable master (or some such thing) at a swank summer resort. I don't know exactly what his duties were there, but I seem to remember him mentioning something about carrying a shovel around with him most of the time! At any rate, now it's off to LSU and law school in Baton Rouge. If you happen to be in that vicinity, drop in and let Murph tell you some of his war stories (such as how he defended Okinawa, etc.).

Another item of interest which I hope hasn't appeared before is the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferris recently joined the ranks of the proud parent club and seem to be quite pleased about the whole thing. Jim (better known as "Animal") is busy researching markets out on the West Coast and has pitched his tent in Menlo Park, Calif., for the time being at least. I suppose the old boy even knows how to ride a surf board by now since that seems to be the latest craze out that way.

Last night was the premiere showing of a new TV series entitled The Investigators starring none other than James Grover (Goey) Franciscus (previous roles in Naked City, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, etc., as well as the flick I Passed for White). Since I wasn't able to be home during the first three-quarters of the program, I really didn't get to see much of Goey in action. But, as I walked in the door and glanced toward the TV, there was James with a rather luscious looking blonde in his arms and I immediately thought of the wording on that long narrow banner that graced so many walls in New Haven--"When better women are made, Yale men …etc., etc."

Before I get myself in trouble, however, I hasten to add that Goey is happily married and apparently lives out on the West Coast now. My source of information is my wife, Sue, who happened to see the new Mr. and Mrs. being interviewed on television one afternoon. She (Sue) was supposed to be ironing at the time but I don't think she got much done that afternoon. At any rate, congratulations to Goey on his new success--his wife and his new series.

No column is complete without a human interest story, so here is one I thought you might like.

Many of you may not even realize that Yale has a School of Forestry and a darned good one at that. I probably wouldn't have known except for the fact that one of my former roommates, Bill (Chief) Makel, was a forestry major and kept me well informed on the doings of the Yale lumberjacks.

Every time I think of Bill I can't help remembering back to the time when we were all studying for our final exams at the end of junior year. Everyone was bent over his books madly memorizing key words and important phrases as well as digging through his classroom notes hoping to tuck the right thing into his brain for at least 24 hours--everyone, that is, except the "Chief."

Instead, Bill sat in a comfortable chair in one corner of our room in Calhoun with a large shopping bag filled with chips of wood placed in front of him. Sitting there blindfolded, he would reach in the bag, pull out one of the pieces of wood, sniff it for a few seconds, proudly proclaim that it was birch or hickory or something else and then peak out from behind the blindfold to see if he was right. Satisfied that he was, the same process would be repeated again and again with different pieces of wood. It sounds silly (and looked even sillier) but it was an important part of his forestry training.

After obtaining his Master's in 1958, "Chief" spent six months in the Army (where he promptly set up a forestry division at Camp Ft. Leonard Wood consisting of one man--himself) and now works with the U.S. Department of Forestry in California. The months during late summer and early fall are especially busy ones for Bill as forest fires are always quite common then. He has already spent many a day fighting these fires and I think he could tell you some pretty startling stories about the devastation which they cause.

So much for the human interest story--now for one of my own special interests. In case some of you have not yet sent in your dues, let me add a little plea here--your $5 will go a long way toward making our reunion next year a successful one. Please see if you can help make my job an enjoyable one.

Oh, yes, don't forget to send us information about yourself (just in case Gary was not kidding about the fire destroying the files).

—Bide L. Thomas

Notes: October 1961

I'm sitting down to write this column on the top of an Army double-decker. I'm in. I was called very suddenly on one week's notice, and now the sergeant doesn't seem to be willing to give me a few hours to write.

This will have to be just a hello to hope you all had a nice summer.

There is, however, one thing all ought to know. En route from Chicago, my shipment of clothes, books, papers, and the class files were burned in a fire. After the insurance claim is in we might get back the price of the paper. I'm sorry. My whole storehouse of birthdays, jobs, wives first names, children and etc., is gone, and here I am without information, time, or even hair on my head.

This means that everyone who wrote or meant to write or should have written might write again. The files are a valuable asset for this column and I'd like to start over. Send mail to the above address.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: July 1961

Our final column from Chicago emerges from the debris of moving. Amidst books, boxes and landlords, we thank you for the response and the mail. Tomorrow I leave for New York and the United States Army. It was a good year!

As ever, there was not time or room to print it all. We herein make our final effort until October. Tim and Hope Childs are in Chevy Chase, Md., where Tim is pursuing a Master's Degree in preparation for the Foreign Service. Terry and Joyce Carlisle are in Fort Lauderdale. Terry is teaching and coaching swimming at Fort Lauderdale High School. Nat and Dinny Mobley sent us word that they've set up housekeeping in New Canaan, Conn. Nat is an insurance broker with Marsh and McLennan in New York. Their daughter, Sara, incidentally, will be four years old, if we keep our records right. Heinz Molsen is in the cotton export business in Dallas. We previously mentioned his marriage last summer to Chris. Joe Oliver is with the Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. in New York. Bill and Gail O'Neil are in Akron. Bill is in the finance Department, General Tire Corporation. The Owseichiks, Mike and Page, dropped us a note from Denver and The American Brake Shoe Co. Karen and Lisa are doing fine.

As always, there is a wealth of secondhand information. Bob and Nancy Clark are in Charleston, S.C. with daughter, Ruth. Warren Klein is a life insurance salesman in Atlanta. Carolyn is, of course, by his side. Grant and Jo Griswold are in Lafayette, Ind., with the Duncan Electric Co. Their two sons, Scott and Todd, have been making their stay a very busy one. Pete Greer is selling for the American Can Co. in San Francisco. Andy Glass is "newspapering" in New York. Ed Chatfield is teaching at Detroit Country Day School in Birmingham, Mich. Andy Carothers graduates this year from Texas Law School. Dick and Lynne Hall are still with the Navy in San Francisco. Hank Hulshizer is an investment broker with Tucker Anthony and Day in New York. Ralph Douglas is also with the Tucker Anthony firm. He's celebrating his second wedding anniversary just about as you read this. Also celebrating a July wedding anniversary are Henry and Ellen Into--their eighth. They have three children, John, Pamela and Stephen. Henry is with Olin Mathieson in New Haven, Pete and Nancy Jackson are ranching in Riddle, Idaho. The name of the "spread" is Riddle Ranches. Their son Pete, Jr., will be two. Dick Johnson is dealing with marine insurance, Johnson and Higgins in New York. Ed Dean is in the Army in Germany but will probably have returned by the time this column is printed.

We're not out of information--just time and space. As Ray Ellison complains he never sees enough names of buddies of his in print, we can only oblige by printing him. We close with just a few news items from the academic world. Graduate School days are just about closing. Jim Stevenson graduates this year from Medical School. Crawford and Danne Shaw will be leaving Yale Law School. I think this is Paul Rosenstein's last year at Bellevue Medical Center. Eddie Robinson and wife Janet sent us a word from Tufts Medical School. Eddie, Jr. and Perry are not quite tall enough to touch the rim--yet. Bill Hart is at Harvard Business School. Lyman and Claire Drake are at M.I.T. Lyman is doing graduate work in Economics.

Guy Diana and wife, Joanna, are at Rice but we don't know his field of study. Douglas Dial is at Harvard Business School. Lou De Luca is clerking for Judge Caleb Layton. He and Kay are in Wilmington, Del.

Two last notes. Charley Gold is not in New Orleans. He is a science representative for IBM in Salem, Mass. What's a few thousand miles among friends? Also, Yale's Coffin is not the only Yale freedom Rider. Mullet Bradley was also in Montgomery and can be barely seen in Life magazine's picture coverage of the subject. Mullet just recently left General Electric Co. and he and wife, Shelly, are now in New York. Incidentally, on the first page of Time in a May issue can be found a picture and write-up on Bud Trillin and his coverage of the Freedom Rider story. We were really pleased to read his praises. Yea! Bud! Boo! Weeling.

Have a good summer. Doing our best to "keep da class togedder." Keep writing.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: June 1961

A lot of letters this month and a lot of pleasant personal experiences. For instance, I just finished reading Jesse Lemisch's article, "Who Won the Civil War Anyway," printed in the Nation of last week. Jess is at Yale doing graduate work and teaching in the History Department. Then, I met Henry Geldzahler on the streets of Chicago at 1:00 in the morning. He was on a one-month leave of absence from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I even got an opportunity to see Bide and Sue Thomas and children in their new house in Chicago, heard from Wayne Moeller and had dinner with Dick Lumpkin, currently considering Harvard Law School for next year. John Onthank was in Chicago as part of his training program with Canada Dry and we downed some of the product together. Ralph Wrobley, at Chicago Law School, was judged in a Moot Court argument by a friend of mine here at the Law School. He won, of course. Just want you to know that we're doing our best to keep the class together.

Also had a lot of new letters. Ron and Beth Bland are in Olympia, Wash., where Don is clerking for Justice Danworth, player-coaching the law clerks' basketball team (the Nine Old Men) and currently playing the part of the Frenchman in Sabrina Fair. The basketball team won one game and Ron fouled out of seven out of eleven contests. How he fared with his thespian endeavors he did not mention. We are also pleased to note that he has passed the Washington Bar. Also had a note from the Larry Herrmanns, who are on their way to Spain for a three-month honeymoon. Larry is serving as a Spanish translator for the Marine Corps and was with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Weapons Demonstration.

Since this is the middle of the column, I can sneak in an apology. One year after the Rosponds were wed, I announced it, misspelled, misquoted and generally wrong. Therefore, know all ye men that Bob Rospond wed Lana Warner on July 11, 1959, Jack Saunders ushering, Jack Meath ('56) in attendance. Bob will graduate this year from Syracuse Law School and will initiate practice in New Jersey.

We also had a chance to catch up on the doings of Herb and Bev Donner. Herb is in Whittier, Calif., with the Pacific Telephone Co. under their management training program, has bought a home in Whittier and has settled down to raising one Lou Beth, currently one year old. He let us know that Peter Morse's record store in Santa Barbara, mentioned in last column, sells no popular or rock and roll selections. A noble fight against man's inhumanity to man. We approve. Herb also saw Adrienne and John Mars and daughter, Linda Ann before they left for England. Bob and Barbara Hewitt are in Virginia. Dave Reed is with a bank in New York.

Jack Cronin wrote from Harvard Business School. After two weeks in Key West on Naval Reserve duty, he'll be going to work for the Robinson Brick and Tile Co. in Denver. The Jeff Freemans will be in Philadelphia with John Wanamaker, also after graduating from Harvard Business School in June.

Those are the recent letters. I wish we could catch up on all the unprinted information. Gar and Velma Heller and their son, Grant, are in New York. Gar is with the Socony Mobile Oil Co.

Virg Highland is doing graduate work in physics at Cornell University. Al and Sarah Wardwell are here in Chicago, he as Assistant Curator of Primitive Art at the Chicago Art Institute. Since graduation, Al has been with the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, where he received an M.A. and before this appointment had done preparatory work at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York. The Wardwells have a son, William. Walter Loesche will be graduating from Harvard Dental School this June. He and Rosemary have two daughters, Heidi Ann and Christa Marie. George and Natalie Lee are in Dallas, Texas, with son, George III. George is a member of the Texas Bar. Rog Rossen, now in Medical School in Cleveland, is engaged to Katherine Mary Bosanquet of Roch Moor, Alnwich, Northumberland, England. They will be wed in England (one of those three places) and will return to the United States. Bruce Belason is an engineer in Wilmington, Mass. John Bowen is doing graduate work in economics at Vanderbilt in Nashville. He and Marcella have two children, Christopher and Rebecca. Tim and Louisa Brown are in New Haven, where Tim is taking pre-medical courses. Dick and Marilyn Brown had their third child--well, in May 1960. The block now includes Susan, Martha, and Richard. Harold Gulliver is doing public relations in Valdosta State College in Valdosta, Ga.

Out of space. Thank you for the letters. If you look at the movie section, you'll see James Franciscus co-starring with Tony Curtis in The Sixth Man, a war film dealing with the life of Ira Hayes, the Indian Marine who was among those who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. Goey and Kathleen, as you may surmise, are in Hollywood and want you to see it. What's another flick for anyone who's spent four years in New Haven?

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: May 1961

This column will offer less chit-chat, more news. Frank and Ellen Michelman are now the proud parents of a six-pound, seven-ounce, nineteen inch baby girl. All are doing fine. Bill Sheffield will graduate this June from Washington University School of Medicine, where he was president of his medical fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. He and Marian will then be in St. Louis, where he will intern at Barnes Hospital. Townie and Jane Ludington are in Coconut Grove, Miami, where they are both teaching. They passed on the following news. Kim Cheney will be doing graduate work in political science in Washington, D.C. He's just completed a tour with the U.S. Naval Advisory Group attached to ROK (Korean) Navy. Hank Chisholm is (or was) on vacation in Pompano Beach, Fla. Denny McGill is back in "good ole New Joisey," Jersey City, N.J. Chris Sonne visited the Ludington's in April. I guess these people paid their dues. Randy Guggenheimer, "lawyering" in New York, also sent in some J.E. dues and news (oh, cripes). Jim Fischer, at Harvard Medical School for four years, has embarked on a further three-year course in the Pharmacology Department. Johnny Herrmann will be wed to Barbara Kapp in June. They will live in New York where Johnny plans to do investment banking. Vic Norton is working as an architectural consultant in Greenwich, Conn. Dan Scarritt is with Procter & Gamble in Kansas.

Some letters from guys we haven't heard from in a long time came in this month. Dave Elwell is in New York and working an architecture firm. He is also Superintendent of a tenement and proud owner of a gratuitous four-room apartment. Next year he'll be off to Cambridge, England to continue work in architecture. Jack Clark, who has been teaching and coaching at Lawrenceville, has now acquired an M.A. in American history from Maxwell Graduate School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University and will have a second M.A. from Columbia this summer. We're pleased to announce in September, he will be Assistant Director of Admissions at Yale and Executive Assistant to Archie Foord at Calhoun College. Andy Poepoe and wife, Jaya wrote us from Honolulu, where Andy is doing industrial engineering. Bruce Agnew is currently a press reporter, United Press International, in New York City. We even tracked down the travels of Pete Capra. He's now on a three-month tour of the world before employment must be his lot. He taught conversational English in a private Chinese Evening School in Hong Kong, spent four days in a Zen-Buddhist Temple in Tokyo and by now has utilized bus, rail and tramp steamer as means of transportation. He plans to cover India, Burma, the Middle East and Europe. Can't say we're not jealous. Andy Kner is now well settled in Greenwich Village, a block from Washington Square. He's now assistant art director at Architectural Forum, published monthly by Time, Inc. He's also doing some free lance work--a book-jacket for Doubleday that we know of. Hugh Peterson, United States Army, plans to visit his "pad" in April. Paul Hull is completing his second year at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

Ed Johnson and his wife, Lorraine are in Dallas, Tex. Ed is a Sanitary Engineer with the United States Public Health Service. In the other direction is Charley Keller, presently a navigator on a Navy icebreaker bound for the Antarctic.

George and Natalie Lee are also in Dallas, where George is an attorney. They have a son, George, 3d, born July 7, 1960. Walt Loesche and his wife Rosemary will be leaving Harvard Dental School this June with their two children, Heidi Ann and Christie Marie.

Also heard from the Williams brothers, Pete and Margie are in Centerport, L.I. where they have just bought a house. They are rapidly filling it with children. Susan, et al. Pete is an electrical engineer at Airborne Instruments Laboratory and is acquiring a Master's Degree in electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic institute at night. Bill and wife are in Beaufort, S.C. where Bill is flying jets. Ron Sharp is a United States Marine Lieutenant in Okinawa. Barrett Scoville is a medical student at Johns Hopkins. Bill Paulus is an electrical engineer with Sandra Corporation in Albuquerque, N.M. Dave Olmstead is also in engineering, industrial, in Abbeville, S.C. Mary and son Don are fine. Peter Morse is now proprietor of Gramophone Shop, a music shop in San Bernadino, Calif. Bill MacLaughlin is in Los Angeles. He's an attorney with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. We close with a succinct report from the Bill Martins. It catches the tone of our present status of three and one-half years out and deserves reprinting: "Occupation: first year Harvard Business School; children: two sons, William John, 3d, Timothy Winthrop; Summer Employment: indefinite; plans for next year: 2nd year Harvard Business School (God willing): Income: none."

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: April 1961

Sometimes this letter is very hard to write. It's like talking to a sea of a thousand faces--you don't get a feel for the people which we kind of miss. It's like making a speech, which is an occupation that we've often thought should be exclusively reserved for the very important or the very pompous.

This is not to say it's not sometimes fun. We just like to get warmed up before we return to brides, babies and business. Also, we add, pay your dues. Bede and I are tired of the soft-sell. Just pay them. And the Alumni Fund. You can't send your sons to Yale if Yale hasn't the teachers, housing, classrooms and squash courts for them; which is something you know without us telling you. So don't hang us up, man. Send a little iron--huh?

Introductions, aside, we were pleased to find a lot of March letters in the mailbox.

Frank Brown sent note from New York; he's with the First National Bank and sharing a roof with Reid White and Joe Clayton. He sent word from Gerry Neary, Don Roberts, Randy Heimer, Phil Gignoux and Rutgers Barclay all living in the neighborhood. Must be a very raucous neighborhood. As we've written "fellow travelers" at the Bank include Mike O'Hearn, Don Roberts, and Bobby Cushman. We also had a letter from John Bolton, who is with the Bank of New York and Bill Adams, who is at the Denver National Bank, speaking of banks.

It's interesting to see the Class beginning to settle down. Less schools and less Army addresses seem to be turning up in the files. Chris Dobbins writes he's a salesman in Little Rock, Ark. Wish he'd added more information. Dave and Nancy Allan are in Mountain View, Calif., where Dave is teaching. Pete Farrand is also in California, an insurance broker in Pasadena. Jim and Marcia Ferris are in San Francisco; Jim is a client service executive with the Market Research Corporation of America. Connie Fisher is in Worcester, Mass., where he is a practicing attorney. The Fishers' daughter, Elizabeth, is now over a year old. Max Davies and his wife Mella are in Cleveland where Max is working as a control engineer. Just learned of the birth of their daughter, Catherine, on April 11, 1959.

John Curlett wrote that he is with McCormick & Co. as office manager in the institutional division in Baltimore. He and Margot have one daughter, Catherine. John Crosby is now teaching history in Long Lake, Minn. He and Laura returned from Hawaii. I think just this November. Curt and Ann Chittenden are in Rock Island, Ill., with daughter, Elizabeth, age, almost 1. Curt is a sales engineer, Torrance Electric Co. Had a note from Seib Adams who left the Air Force in October and is now in life insurance sales for National Executive Life Insurance. He and Gail have one daughter, Sharon. Charley Ard is still doing well at Cannon Electric in Anaheim. Marilyn and the three children are also fine. He was best man at George Schuyler's wedding. George married Roslyn Dodson Schuyler August 13, 1960. George is with the Marchant Business Machine Co. after three "large" years in the Marine Corps. He said he left Steve Ackerman in Hawaii where he plans to remain after his separation from the Marines for a year or two. John and Judy Barber are with the Sangamo Electric Company in Springfield, Ill.

Right here a word about Warren and Alice Ann Bechtolt who we've not mentioned in this column for quite some time. Warren is store manager for the Firestone store in Eugene, Ore., and has now five children--Warren, Jr., Cary, Scott, Steven and Stacy. That certainly deserves a paragraph.

Henry Chauncey is, as we've written, Assistant Dean of Yale College and Undergraduate Affairs. Ray Brown is an attorney in Columbus, Oh., associated with Gingher and Christensen.

Al Boasberg is out in California--San Francisco, with his brother, Tersh, both now practicing attorneys. Speaking of lawyers, we had a note from John Conover who is a legal officer, U.S. Air Force on the Judge Advocate's Staff in Morton, Calif. Rafael Cestero and his wife, Mary, will be leaving medical school in June. Chris Foote is doing graduate work in the chemistry department at Harvard. He and Stefanie are well settled in a very enjoyable town, this writer will attest. Wade Covill and his wife, Delores, will be also leaving Medical School, University of Vermont this spring. Don Edelstein is finishing up as a Rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Ellsworth Fersh, after the completion of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in English at Berkeley, is now at Harvard Law School. Also at Harvard Law School is Jon Dick. He and Anita had a boy last summer, Michael. Hiram Bingham is studying international law at Columbia. Bob Barton is copy editor for the New Haven Register. Townie and Jane Ludington are in Miami where Townie is teaching at the Ransom School. Dick Lewis will graduate in June from University of Oregon Medical School. Jim Banner is doing graduate work in history at Columbia, Don Griffith, Alexander Grinnell and Bob Dalton are still in the Armed Forces.

Finally, we might answer some requests. Ken Jones, and his wife, Debby, are in Washington, D.C. where Ken is an attorney. We'll try to have the information requested next issue. Also, Dave and Rhoda Lipsher asked us to announce that their son, Daniel, was born on election day--I guess they voted for the present administration. Dave is on his way to completing his Ph.D. requirements in clinical psychology at Stanford.

Incidentally, there was an article in December's New Yorker magazine concerning admission criteria and practices to Yale that might be interesting in light of the ever expanding potential college population and Yale's attempt to remain relatively permanent in size. I'm sorry it's out of date but it was just called to my attention. See you.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: March 1961

John and Lillian Resnik had a son, Peter Stuart, on October 21, 1960. John is an attorney in New Haven with Resnik and Reiscoll. Also with news of a son were Guy Palmer and his wife, June, whose boy, Guy, 4th was born in May 1959. Guy is in New York as an investment counselor with the Bank of New York. The Mailhots, John and Norma, dropped us a note to announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Jean, in July 1960. John is an electronics engineer with the General Electric Co., Johnson City, N.Y.

Congratulations to Richard and Judy Munn whose daughter, Tracy, they were pleased to write, had a birthday party in October of this year. The Munns are in Cambridge, where Dick is at the Harvard Business School. Also 1 year old is Robert Pierce Onthank, son of John and Judy. John is currently completing a sales trainee program with Canada Dry Corporation in New York City. The birthdays would, of course, fill this column forever. Dick and Jane Massey now have a 1-year-old son, Stephen Alexander, as of November 18, 1960. John and Barbara McCreary watched little John and Elizabeth reach the ages of 2 and 1 respectively, and Dave and Sandy Sawyer's boy, Charles, was 1 year old on March 4. The Dick Masseys wrote us from West Hartford, where Dick is teaching English at Conrad High School. The McCreary's are in Valparaiso, Inc., with Midwest Steel Corp. The Sawyers are in Greensboro, N.C.; Dave is with the Humble Oil and Refining Co. The summer, incidentally, had its list of additions to the class files. Hiram Maxim and Mimi were blessed with a daughter, Sarah, in August. They're in Connecticut. He is a process engineer with Capewell Mfg. Co. of Hartford.

The Mars, John and Adrienna, became parents in late May of a daughter, Linda Anne, and John and Lou Marden had a daughter, Cynthia, in July 1960. The Mars wrote that they're off to Europe for two years--Linda Anne and all. John is with Food Manufacturers, Inc., in Hackettstown, N.J. The Mardens are living up in Hartsdale, and John has become a commuter to the "big city". He's now an attorney.

Finally, the Mullet Bradleys were pleased to announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, Fea Semple Bradley, this summer. Mullet is currently enjoying the leisure of begin between jobs … with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Mosle in New York.

Nor would this column be complete without some wedding news. Larry Rentschcler was married to Mary Elizabeth Saylor in January 1961. He's currently a product development engineer in West Reading, Pa., but we don't know his employer (whom we are sure exists). Thornton Marshall was wed to Judith Carrington on June 18. He's in the department of trust administration at the Hanover Bank in New York City. James and Kathy Nelson, who were wed in June, dropped us a note from Edgewater, N.J.; Jim is an industrial engineer with the Aluminum Co. of America. We also had a hello from Nancy and Mike O'Hearn, with the First National City Bank of New York. They've had their first anniversary and really don't belong in this list of newlyweds.

Best wishes to Charley Pickett and his wife, Patricia, whose marriage last February hasn't found its way into this column. Charlie is a foreman with Bethlehem Steel Co. in Sparrows Point, Md. We also heard from Bob and Mary Quillin. Bob is a health physicist at the Army Chemical Center in Maryland.

There, ought, of course, be some mention of the non-mated birds. Lew Rabinovitz is an attorney in West Hartford, Conn. Chuck Price is in the engineering department of Daystrom, Inc., Control Systems Division, in La Jolla, Calif. Mike Poutiatine is with the John A. Manning Paper Co. in Troy, N.Y. Buell Neidlinger dropped us a line from New York; he's studying and playing music in the city. Also heard from Charlie Marks, who is with a life insurance corporation in New Orleans, La.

Incidentally on our Christmas vacation (school-boys still have Christmas vacations) we saw a lot of the old blues in our Class: Johannes Somary, who is conducting, writing and playing music in New York; Roy Jackson, who is selling real estate in Connecticut and Andre Schiffrin, who is working with a book company in New York and pursuing his studies in history. (It is late in the party and the employer's name is nowhere in my mind.) At Yale, we saw Crawford Shaw, Mark Gassner and Dick Curran--all in the Yale Law School, and spent the evening with Tink and Nancy Thompson and Emily and Stu Wright, who said they'd like their names in print. The Wrights and son are in the medical school and the Thompsons are exploring the nature of things in graduate philosophy.

Looking forward to more letters, messages and visits.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: February 1961

The financial reports, the pleas for dues, contributions and help and all else businesslike and formal are done, done, done. We look forward to your response and return most gladly to our main function--telling you what you've been doing. Just one notice and a pleasant one, at that. The annual class dinner, such a success last year, will be held at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 642 Park Avenue on Thursday, April 6 at 6:30 in the evening. There will be other notices but we thought we'd announce it early.

We're very pleased at the status of our files. The cards have been steadily coming in and we're much more definite of the whereabouts of our much traveled classmates. Ralph Lilore and his wife, Marianne dropped us a line from Newark, where Ralph is patent agent for Merck & Co., Inc. Their two sons, Anthony and Frank, celebrated their second and first birthdays respectively with much fanfare in November.

John Leinenweber is doing graduate work in Elmira, N.Y. but we're not sure of the details. Dave and Joan Lawrence are now living in Watertown with their two children, Suzanne and Edward. Dave is with Colonial Management Associates of Boston. Johnny Breslav whom we mentioned last month without specifics, is Assistant to the General Sales Manager at Hertz Corporation and seems to have two addresses, we are glad to hear, one in Bridgeport and one in New York City--a sure sign of opulence. John Boland is a fleet dispatcher for American S.S. (Steamship?) Co., Boland and Cornelius. Mgrs. We hope this information is correct or at least, not libelous.

Kurt Bloch sent word from Cleveland where he is a buyer for Kurtz Furniture, a retail furniture chain. This column has not had occasion to announce the birth of a daughter, Ilissa Kay to Kurt and Sue--in July. It is with much pleasure that we announce her birth at this time.

Tom Bitting is an Account Executive at Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in Pittsburgh. Tom Barrington is now assistant chief engineer for Ocean Value and Fitting Corp. in Hanover. John Barrett is at Clark, Dodge and Co., Inc. as Investment Banking House in New York. John, 4th incidentally, reached the proud age of 2 in September. Syd and Becky Ball had good wishes, as always, from Oak Ridge. We note that they seem to have moved around the corner. Pete Balbach, engineer at Bethlehem Steel Co. in Sparrows Point, Missouri or Maryland, sent an open invitation to all classmates in the area. Please excuse our ignorance, but we can't seem to be able to find Sparrows Point in the atlas or decipher Pete's handwriting but sure it's one of those two states. Pat Baker and Dolores were heard from in Stamford, Conn. Pat is a chemical engineer with R & D Audio Manufacturing Corp.

In the military world, we heard from Ann and Vern Loucks in 29 Palms, Calif., with the United States Marines. Vern plans to enter Harvard Business School next fall. Also had a note from Joe Rico Lemmo from the Navy Regional Accountants office in Oakland, Calif. He loves the Navy and has applied for augmentation to the regular Corps (if that's the right phraseology from a land-lubber). Jeff Benson is Aircraft Maintenance Officer at Larson Air Force Base in Washington as of now, but we're not sure of the length of his tour of duty. Our congratulations on the birth of a daughter to him and Christina in October. Also service affiliated but leaving very soon is Gordie Bellis, currently a Series Commander at Parris Island "making recruits miserable." Gordie plans to return to Manhattan where he will be working for the United States Trust Co. of New York. Finally, here in Chicago we welcomed the return of Andrew Kner from two years in the United States Army. He will leave for New York to visit friends, girl and prospective employers.

We close with a list close to our hearts--lawyers and students. Bob Livingston is currently at Rice University in Dallas, Tex. Joel Kovel is finishing medical school at Columbia in New York. Walt Benenson with his wife, Myra, is doing graduate work in physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He expects a Ph.D. in nuclear physics in a year. Carroll Brewster is currently preparing in law at Yale. Also at Yale Law School are Charlie Abuza and several others although we don't have the full list. Lew Aronson is now in the process of becoming a member of the New York bar. Greg Austin, finishing at Michigan Law School, has accepted a position with Holland & Hart, a law firm in Denver, Colo. He plans to take an eight month trip around the world with Mike Foster before he settles down to the legal life, however. What more can we add to such an enviable idea? We hope the year holds health and happiness for you and your family.

—Gary G. Bellow