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Notes: December 1962

Apparently the Class has been preoccupied with an intense analyst of the recent election returns as very little correspondence has been received by your Secretary. However, by the time this column is in print the Princeton game will have been played and there will have been an excellent opportunity for the exchange of news at our Class Tent arranged again by our great host, Howie Gillis.

Of employment interest is Denny Hansen's new job with N.B.C. Denny, having completed graduate work at Oxford and Princeton, has been assigned to N.B.S.'s Washington office and was in New York recently to cover election returns. Chris Sonne has also recently taken employment with Harriman, Ripley & Co., Inc. in New York. After graduation, Chris studied in Germany and at Columbia in its international studies program. He will be working on both foreign and domestic underwriting with Harriman, Ripley.

Recently retuning from abroad were Phil Pillsbury and Neal Blue. Phil and his wife, Wendy, have come back to the United States for a two months leave after three years with the USIS in Madrid and Florence. Neal was recently called into active duty with the Air Force after conducting business in Germany and Switzerland.

Strictly on the domestic side: Morgan Browne and Joanne have two new additions, a son born last month and a house in Long Island. Pierre Bourquin is continuing his hockey talents with a team from Bronxville, N.Y. Dick Lumkin is working toward an M.B.A. at Harvard. Don Rife and Larry Strasburger graduated from the Harvard Medical School last year and have recently been appointed teaching fellows in psychiatry at that school. Peter Jackson is a rancher in Nevada; had a pleasant chat with him this summer after he returned from the service.

Please remember Treasurer Thomas' recent plea for Class dues. These help pay for the publication you are now reading.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: November 1962

All good things come to an end including the expiration of the term of our last Secretary, Gary Bellow, to whom we are indeed indebted. Gary has gone on to greater public service as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society, in Washington, D.C. When Gary called to say that I had just won an important national election, I immediately thought I had been elected Miss Rheingold. But no such luck. I thus expect the utmost cooperation from all in supplying news of the Class.

Travel Dept. Recent visitors in South America included: Henry Von Maur and Don Beer. Our Class is now represented in Africa by Carroll Brewster, a law clerk in New Haven's federal district court last year and now a participant in M.I.T.'s African fellowship program. Carroll is living in Khartoum and compiling the Sudan's first law reports. Karl Van Horn has recently returned from studying abroad and is planning a career in international financing. He married a Dutch girl two years ago. Tim Childs is in the foreign service and at last report was awaiting an overseas assignment.

We have also been active domestically. Peter and Mary Fine and Gerry and Mimi Neary were recently married. Peter has finished Pennsylvania Medical School and will begin an internship. Gerry is completing his law studies at New York University. John Watling was married this May to Beverly Wilson and honeymooned in Hawaii where they saw the John Somervilles and the Andy Poepoes. John and Beverly are living in Greenwich, Conn. Dick and Judy Munn now have two children, and Dick is with Xerox Corporation in New Jersey after graduating this June from the Harvard Business School. Dick has been sharing a weekend each month with Jock Newbold and the Navy at Floyd Bennett Field. Jock and his wife Judy are living in Summit, N.J. and Jock is with First National City Bank. Birth announcements include a daughter to Jeff and Landa Freeman and a daughter to Bill and Carolyn Fleming. Jeff is with Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, and Bill is beginning the practice of medicine.

Appearing at Palmer Stadium in non-participating roles for the Giant-Eagle exhibition game were Roy Gillespie and Steve Mottus. Both are working for Procter and Gamble on Staten Island.

Business notes: Roger Samet continues to put more television sets in the hospitals through his expanding rental organization. Chuck Welsh works for Travelers Insurance Company Hartford. Allen Wardwell, living in Chicago with wife, Sally, is head of the primitive art department of that city's museum. Our class historian, Bud Trillin, is writing a different sort of history as a contributing editor to Time Magazine. Eric Pace is with the same establishment in its Bonn office. Title-of-the-Month goes to John Newmark, assistant to the president, Porter International Company. Finally, it must be mentioned that Mike Dodge, while continuing his philosophy studies at Fordham University, has incorporated his wonderful story-telling talents in the Toad Record Company.

Looking forward to receiving many letters or postcards, and they are needed now. Remember the Princeton game is November 17th when there will be a class tent for festivities both before and after the game. Howie Gillis will be the host for the fifth consecutive year, which is assurance that a good time will be had by all.

A very sad note is the death of Stuart Hiers, in an automobile accident. Stu was on the varsity track team and had served as an officer in the Navy on a destroyer. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Hiers, 19 Westminster Road, Great Neck, N.Y.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: October 1962

I'm pleased to announce the results of the recent class election and to thank you for the relatively large participation of those of the Class not at the reunion. I think many of you would be surprised at the amount of coverage generated by the YAM. Sometimes people in your Class seem a long way off.

And the results are as follows: Class Secretary, J. Edward Meyer; Class Treasurer, Bide Thomas. The ten new members of the 30-man Class Executive Committee Steven Ackerman, H. Chauncey, Jr., Joe Clayton, Quincy Hunsicker, Dean Loucks, Charles Peet, Crawford Shaw, Chris Sonne, Charles Trippe, and Reid White.

My best wishes to Eddie Meyer and wife Linda. The class files which are now about a year out of date are on their way to him. He'd certainly like to start hearing from many of you. You could write him at: Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland and Kiendl, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York City. Also my thanks to those of you who contributed in the past and especially to Howie Gillis and the members of his reunion committees across the country who made that aspect of class activities so successful. And, of course, my thanks to Bide Thomas for his patience, efforts and his friendship. I think we remain in sound financial hands. Incidentally, a member of the Class, now wishing to remain anonymous, sent me a poem relative to our handling of class finances. It's called Owen Moore. I quote: "Owen Moore left town today, Owen Moore than he could pay. Owen Moore will soon return; Owen Moore."

I hope many of you continue to write and visit me. I must admit that the correspondence was a most rewarding part of the job. I very much appreciated it.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: July 1962

The body of this column has been reserved for reunion news and I have relegated to using as little space as possible to conduct as little class business as possible. Babies, et al, will have to wait until September.

First, I'm glad to report that we move into our sixth year harassed but solvent. As of reunion date, figuring the thousand dollar cost to the class that we've estimated, we will have in the bank about two thousand dollars. Assuming a thirty-three percent dues participation in the future, significantly above our present average, we will show at the end of another five years a balance of $875.00. We will be able for the next five years to again provide a full class subscription to the Yale Alumni Magazine and to continue a certain number of our class parties and dinners. I think some deserved thanks goes to our graying treasurer for that.

Secondly, there arises at this time the necessity of selecting a class secretary, class treasurer and ten new members of the executive committee. As I stated in my last column, rather than allow the small minority present at reunion to make the decision we have determined to conduct this election by a write-in vote. The following names are presented by the nominating committee and the letters I have received from the class. Please select one for class treasurer, one for class secretary and ten for the Executive Committee and send your selections to me some time before September 1. Results will be announced in the October issue. Class Secretary: Andrew Kner, J. Edward Meyer, Calvin Trillin; Class Treasurer: Gerald Neary, Bide Thomas; Class Executive Committee: Steve Ackerman, Henry Chauncy, Jr., Timothy Childs, Joseph Clayton, Roger Donald, David Elwell, Arthur Gardiner, Henry Geldzahler, Steve Hopkins, Quincy Hunsicker, Gerald Jonas, Dean Loucks, Joseph Mark, Charles Peet, David Reed, Crawford Shaw, John Sommerville, Chris Sonne, Charles Trippe, and Reid White. I'm sorry I don't have all the full names but such are the pitfalls of moving a great deal.

Beyond these matters I leave the class news to the reunion report. I'll close only with a few of the results of a statistical analysis I recently did of the class files. Based on the four hundred letters or cards I have on file the following material might interest you. There are at present 14 percent are lawyers; eleven percent are doctors or in medical school; eight and one-half percent are engineers; five percent are teaching either at the high school or university level. There are .01 percent Ph.D. recipients and nine percent of the class have graduate degrees other than in law or medicine. Over thirteen percent have traveled abroad and thirty-nine percent still live in states that border on the Atlantic. Of the children in the class fifty-two percent are male and forty-eight percent are female, although I understand that they can now all go to Yale. Finally, based on a projection of the available data, sixty-three percent of the class is married. Such is the status of your former fellows. "Ah, Bartleby, Ah, humanity."

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: June 1962

Should this letter find its way into print before the reunion I hope that those of you who have put off coming to New Haven for another five years will reconsider. There's food and drink aplenty and not a few people who would like to see you again. If the date of publication is later than June 14, I take this opportunity to announce that we really had a good time. We're sorry you couldn't be there.

I'm sitting here thinking that five years has passed far more quickly than I had anticipated. This will probably be my next-to-last column, a not unwelcome announcement for the more literary of our number. A nominating committee, made up of the ten college representatives and five class members selected by me, is in the process of submitting nominations for Class Secretary, Class Treasurer, and for ten members of the Executive Committee. If you recall, the Class Executive Committee is comprised of thirty men, ten of whom are elected every five years. The slate of nominations, fifteen men for the Executive Committee and two men for each of the class officerships will be placed before those of the class at reunion and before the remainder of the class through this column. Time will be allocated within which the class may write in their votes. Nomination is by and large in the hands of the nominating committee. However, I have been given authority (I will not be able to entertain another term, myself) to submit further selections to the committee if there is a significant show of class backing for any person. If there is anyone that should be considered for these positions please let me know. If you need any more complete information about the duties required by the job I'll be glad to write you.

There always seems to be more to report than space in which to report it. I'll try to complete our list of bankers and businessman in this one. Cale Carson (wife Nancy; sons Cale IV and David) is with the First National Bank in Albuquerque. Charles Carpenter is a salesman for Weyerhaenser Co. in Morristown, N.J. In 1960 he took a trip around the world visiting, among other places, Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Lebanon, Egypt, Spain and Italy, after a stint in the Navy. Scott Cannell is a sales engineer with A.O. Smith Corp in New York. In 1959 he also travelled around the globe and in 1960 attended the Academic for Music in Vienna. Morgan Browne (wife, Jo-Ann; son, Morg III) is an industrial manager consultant for L. Oppenheim Co. in New York. John Briggs (wife, Kate; children, Walter and Marion) has been working for the World Publishing Co. in New York City. Pierre Bouscaren (wife, Lawrence; daughter, June) is an agent with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Baltimore, Md. Gerry Johnson (wife, Ros; son, Gerald) is a sales representative with the Shell Oil Company in New York. He just bought a house in Port Washington. Frank Brown is still with the First National City Bank, now in the Central Atlantic District ((Penn., Del., W.Va.) and rooming with Reid White. Bruce Agnew is a reporter for the United Press International in New York.

I hope you'll forgive all these listings but this may be your last chance this year to see your names in print. John Speer (wife, Dagmar; daughter, Dawn) is an assistant account executive for Ketchum, Macleod & Grove Inc., a Philadelphia advertising firm. Pete Grose has been doing some really interesting things with the Associated Press Foreign Service. When last he wrote he was in Leopoldville, covering the Congo crisis on a three-year African raveling assignment. Bill Flower has returned from two years in Puerto Rico trying "various and nefarious enterprises." He is at present with Eastman, Dillon Union Securities & Co. in New York City. John Camou and wife, Judith, are in San Jose, Calif. John is a management trainee for the DeLuxe Food Center there. Ed Sherako (wife, Anne; daughter Anne) write me just before he transferred to Boston. He was formerly on the USS Castor in Japan and is now with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Don Sitar (wife, Helen; children, Mark and Claudia) is a sales manager for the Feroleto Steel Co. in Torrington, Conn.

Gene Doggett (wife, Ashley) is with the First National City Bank in Concord, Mass. Alan Young is in Washington. He's a statistician with the Bureau of the Census. He wrote me that he and Jean have had a girl, Laura Jean. Dave Wilmerding (wife, Susan; children, Amy and David III) is in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia National Bank as a security analyst. Peter Balbach has been appointed assistant to the chief inspector, Metallurgical Division, Bethlehem Steel Co., in Baltimore. I just received a notice that Bruce Arneil (wife, Yvonne; son, Holcomb) received last year the Magnus T. Hopper Fellowship for the design he submitted for a large mental hospital. He graduated with an architectural degree in March and has been with Pedersen & Tilney, a Connecticut or Massachusetts architecture firm. Also recently awarded a graduate degree is Dave Lipsher (wife, Rhoda; son, Danny). He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford and is now at the Tamberlain Psychiatric Center in Dallas, Texas. I recently had a letter from Ted Loud. He (wife, Anne; son, John) received his M.B.A. from Wharton Business School and is now with the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in New York. Paul Lopata (wife, Dolores; sons, Michael and Jaime) is in the Sales Department of Wilmot Castle Company in Des Plains, ILL. Dick Adams is an assistant film editor for the Sterling Television Co. in New Canaan, Conn. Buz Brenton (wife, Carolyn; children, Kenneth and Carolyn) is in Dallas Center, Iowa with Brenton Companies as an assistant "cash and trust officer." Clyde Allen (wife, Esther; daughter, Cynthia) is working as a programmer with Minneapolis-Honeywell Regular Co. in Minneapolis.

That's about all the "working" people I could get room for. I thought I'd close with just a few of the many of our number who have found their way into medicine. Carl Brunjes (wife, Grace) received his M.D. from Columbia and has been interning at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.J. He intends to complete a general surgery residency there and then perhaps to specialize in Orthopedic Surgery. Charles Brown (wife, Louisa) is completing his medical studies at the University of Maryland. Doug Almond is interning at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He'll take his residency at the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester next year. Ted Klein is also finishing up his studies. He's at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida. Temby Argall is doing his internship at MCU hospital in Richmond. He received his M.D. from Columbia. Ray Carlsen returned after a year in Amsterdam, Holland, doing cancer research. He's now completing his further year at Yale Medical School. Hugh Young (wife, Joyce) is a physician with the University of Virginia although I don't know his exact position. I do recall that he received his M.D. there. Chuck Debrovner (wife, Pat) is taking his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Bellevue in New York. He wrote that Patsy has been appearing as the lead in a daily television series, "As the World Turns" on CBS.

One last thing. In a recent letter, Dave Kramer asked if I would print his address so that those of you who have tried to reach him would have better luck. He's at Columbia Pictures Corp. Ltd., 142 Wardour Street, London. W. 1. As I wrote last month he's working as assistant to Columbia's first vice-president and doing a great deal of traveling. He was recently with Eric Pace, who has been sent by Life to Paris. He's also seen John Wright in Chelsea, working for the Chase Manhattan Bank. John Morrell, who is with Wolfschmidt's Vodka, I believe, and Tom Worth. I certainly wouldn't mind a reunion over there.

If any of you are in Washington, I hope you'll look me up. I'm in the United States Court House with the Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia, the federal public defender organization for indigent defendants in criminal cases.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: May 1962

We are now certainly "old blues" in the grand old tradition. The reunion letters are out and five years almost gone; it's hard to feel that we're anything like those gay crowds of people we to see, flask in hand, wandering about the Yale Bowl. Someone recently remarked to me that he felt that he had only just laid aside his college days, that it was too soon to "reunite." I think not. It's time indeed to do what this column can never do--see your friends and almost friends and never friends in a personal way again so that it's not only remembrances but also the now that you have with them.

The schedule seems full and varied even if hard to construct from a printed page. There'll be a Class dinner (Friday, June 15), the class dance, The Yale-Harvard baseball game, crew races, brunches, dinners, cocktail parties, and all the food and almost all the liquor you can consume. The Whiffenpoofs will sing; there'll be Dixieland and non-Dixieland and many, many steins of ale. Although activities for the women don't really start until Saturday morning (at which time there'll be an opportunity to sit in on the Yale Seminar series), there'll be a list of activities in New Haven, shows, movies et al, that can be enjoyed Thursday and Friday evenings and a list of available hotel and motel accommodations for the weekend. The Class Dinner is really the only event that is exclusively a stag affair.

The price and the need for a prompt reply has been known to you. Costs have been a constant source of concern to us; recent classes, because of their relatively smaller attendance have gone into the red as much as $3,000. What could be cut has been cut; we did our best. Whatever the virtues of deficit spending at the national level, it's hard to leave the Class with nothing in the bank but bills and hopes for a Renaissance in dues paying.

There are only two other items I want to mention. In next month's column there will appear a list of nominees, selected by a 15-man nominating committee (appointed by myself), for the offices of Class Secretary and Class Treasurer and for ten of the 30 positions on the class executive committee. The Secretary and Treasurer will serve until the next reunion; the members of the executive committee for ten years. The Class will have an opportunity to write in their votes and those present at the reunion will vote directly. The election will be final as of September 1. Of the list, nominees receiving the highest number of votes will fill the open positions. If any of you would like to offer your services or know of someone who ought to be considered for any of the offices please let me know so that they may be considered by the committee. Since I will not be continuing as Class Secretary you may write directly to me.

The other item I wish to mention is the class baby. Yes--there is. I have recently learned, an institution surrounding the "class baby". At the Yale-Harvard game the FIRST MALE CHILD BORN TO A COUPLE MARRIED AFTER GRADUATION of the junior reunion class (us) has the duty of throwing the first ball. Unless he becomes President no such like opportunity will come his way again. I therefore trust I will have a large response from you oft neglected wives. It seems to me there were umpteen weddings on graduation day alone way back there in 1957.

Now it's time I graced this page with some names. John Herrmann is an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in New York City. Chic Goode is with Cargill Inc., a grain merchandising concern, in Memphis. Jim Ferris (wife, Marcia; son, Mike) is a client service executive with Market Research Corporation of America. Lee Deters is in San Francisco, as a regional supervisor with American Air Filter Co. Vinnie DeMeo is out of the Coast Guard; he's now a sales representative with American Cyanamid Co. He and Mary Lou, I recall, have two children, Stephen and Kyle Ann. Ed Chatfield is a salesman for a publishing firm, Thomas, Nelson & Sons. John Bolton is with the Bank of New York. John Newmark, formerly with Kuhn, Loeb & Co., is now working full-time on a case study dealing with "the role private enterprise can play in the economic development of developing bank" to be published this year by Columbia University and the National Industrial Conference Board. John Mars (wife, Adrienne, daughter, Linda) is with Food Manufacturers Inc. in New Jersey. Joe Mark (wife, Sheila) is a market analyst for Alcan International Ltd. in Montreal. Last year he took a very long and very enjoyable business-ski trip to Switzerland. Bill O'Neil (wife, Gail) is also a securities analyst; he's with General Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, Oh. John Barrett, husband of Lucy and father of John, 4th, and James, is an investment banker with Clark, Dodge & Co. in New York City. He received his M.B.A. from New York University Business School. Tom Bitting, in Missouri, is a stock broker with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith.

There are a number of our brethren doing some very interesting work in engineering. Richard Hanks (wife, Shirley) has received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Utah, presented two papers to the American Institute of Chemical Engineering both of which have been published in the AICHE Journal, and served as a part-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. He's also worked for two years for the Union Carbide Nuclear Co. in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and has become the proud father of four children, Keith, Christie, Kenneth and Michael. Give the job, they say, to a busy man. Also down in Oak Ridge is Sid Ball (wife, Rebecca, daughter, Lisa) working as a research engineer with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jim Nelson (wife, Kathy) is an industrial engineer with the Aluminum Co. of America in Englewood, N.J. Tom Keon is in Clifton, N.J. as an engineer in the field of electronics as related to space vehicles. He's with Airborne Instruments Laboratory. Pete Haerle (wife, Leta) is an interceptor pilot with the United States Air Force in Portland. Ore.

I really wish I had space to include the huge lists of doctors, lawyers, and teachers I've assembled. Bob Crafts, after a clerkship at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is back in Cleveland as a medical student. Paul Ogden (wife, Sandy) is interning at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He received his M.D. from Tufts and is planning to specialize in internal medicine. Dick Lewis is interning at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Chuck Kerr (wife, Esther; sons, Charley and John) is finishing his work at Baylor Medical School. Earl Ritter (wife, Joan) is interning at the Hospital for Women in Baltimore. He received his M.D. from the University of Maryland and will continue his residency in obstetrics and gynecology. Robert MacKinnon (wife, Marty) is practicing law in New York at Shearman, Sterling and Wright. Rick Kirgis (wife, Carole) is with the Judge Advocate's office of the Air Force in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He received his LL.B. from the University of California and plans to teach law after leaving the service. Leo Bearman (wife, Joy) is practicing law in Memphis. Dick Newman, having graduated Columbia Law School last year, is clerking for the Union County Court in New Jersey. Terry Carlisle recently wrote from Ft. Lauderdale. He and Joyce recently (or not too recently anymore) had a baby girl, Kim. Terry is teaching math at Ft. Lauderdale High School. Sam Berman is head of the history department of St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, N.J. He spent 1959-1960 in Korea and 1958-1959 receiving his M.A. at Columbia. Denny Bates (wife, Sally) is an admissions officer for Western Reserve University. Bill Hart is now a research assistant at Harvard Business School. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1961. Charley Guidotti (wife, Barbara) is at the Geological Museum at Harvard. John Hearst (wife, Jean) is a research associate with the department of chemistry at Dartmouth. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and then took a trip to St. Gervais, in France, for the annual reunion of the "Scoiete de Chimie Physique."

I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you in June. For those I chided, mislocated, mismarried or merely misspelled there will be that opportunity to drink a libation of forgiveness.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: April 1962

There is a great deal to be said for a month of leisure, especially in New York. Since discharge from the Army your reporter has indulged his interests in reading, theatre, and of course, as a last legacy from New Haven, the movies. Such a vacation is most heartily recommended. Army or no Army.

My wanderings about Manhattan have, as always, included visits to the sanctuaries of such classmates as could be coaxed from their now settled and urban ways. I'm presently living with Charles Peet, currently an attorney with Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley. We've just come home from visiting with Andy and Carole Kner in their Greenwich Village apartment. Andy is involved in the designing of Life magazine's new six volume history of the United States to be published this spring and has been doing several free lance book jackets for various New York publishers. His thesis, by the way, which involved the designing, construction (including making the paper) and binding of a manuscript, won him an award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Also spent some time with Bill Bogert and Rex Robbins after seeing them in a most delightful musical revue at The Upstairs at the Downstairs Club. They are among six performers who dance, sing and generally laugh at everything from sick jokes to the John Birch society. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Even the anonymity of the big city hasn't hidden the rising star of our up-and-coming class. I note that in the paper today Steve Hochauser's name appeared, presently involved in the Fifth Avenue bus dispute. Steve is with Saxe, Bacon and O'Shea, attorneys for the bus company.

I also heard that not too long ago, Art Buchwald in his column gave Jerry Jonas and Bud Trillin a plug in anticipation of the launching of their new monthly magazine Beautiful Spot. Having had lunch with Bud, I can give you most of the most current information. The magazine is indeed to be published. The mimeograph machine in Mr. Jonas' garage has already begun to roll. Beautiful Spot will be New York's first parking magazine, providing information for any and all of New York's drivers as to the location of garages, broken meters, inefficient patrolmen and the like. The authors expect a large and continuing circulation.

There seem to be several other publications from the class in the offing. I met Mike Shalette recently and there is something brewing with one of his works although I don't have enough information to print anything, and Al Lowenstein wrote me that Macmillan and Co. will be coming out with his account of his trip to Southwest Africa and the resulting United Nations debates thereon in June. Al, who was a freshman counselor for our class and therefore almost a native son, is presently assistant dean of men at Stanford University.

The only other classmate's name that I've seen in print has been that of Dick Arnold in the correspondence section of the February Reporter. Richard Gummere had written an article entitled, "Let's Save Latin From the Latin Department." In answer the following epistle appeared:

"Editori salutem dat Ricardus S. Arnold, alumnus Yalensis nee non Harvardianus: Omnis honor Ricardo Gummere! Sid utinam Praeses illustrissimus, Joannes Kennedy, Nathan Marsh Pusey diploma anglicare vetasset (Diploma Yalense manet prum) Quousque tandem, O Kennedy, abutere patientia nostra?"

With due deference to my high school Latin teacher, the letter freely translated, refers to the decision by Harvard several years ago to print their diploma in English, a most unnecessary bone to throw to modernization. Only Yale remains pure. Dick's last line, I think, echoes Cicero; "How long, O Kennedy, will you abuse our patience." It is only right that the Ivy odist of the Class of '57 should be so heard. I humbly add my voice. Omnis honor Ricardo S. Arnold.

So much for that part of the column that comes from the top of my head. I retreat now to the replenished files. I wish I had as many checks for dues from people as I have data on their whereabouts. Maybe things will improve with the growth of the Gross National Product, however, small our share.

There was information in this month's letters from a whole variety of vocations and places. Even several of our teachers sat down to drop a note. Charlie Maderer (wife, Lucile; children, Carol and Donna) is teaching at St. Bernards School in Gladstone, N.J. Dave MacLean is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He's just completed his Ph.D. requirements in chemistry and has become engaged to Miss Carol Beber of Crystal Lake, Ill. Townie and Jane Ludington are as ever enjoying Florida. Townie is teaching at the Ransom School in Miami. John Hurley is teaching history at the American School in Ticino, Switzerland. Harold Hochman (wife, Merle) is an instructor in the Department of Economics at Yale. He's working on his doctorate "Some Dynamic Implications of Introducing Accelerated Depreciation." Don Hester (wife, Karen; son, Doug) is also at Yale, as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He received his M.A. in 1958 and his Ph.D. in 1961. Jerry Gould is doing research and teaching in mathematics at the University of Chicago. Mel DeForest is a research associate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford. He received his Ph.D. degree in biology from Johns Hopkins in 1961.

There was also an ample supply of mail from the business world. John Shaw (wife, Elizabeth) is an Investment Analyst for Standard & Poor's Corporation in New York City. Dave Sawyer (wife, Sandy; son, Charles) is with Humble Oil & Refining Co. John Saunders after two years in the Army Signal Corps is learning banking at the Vermont Bank and Trust Company in Brattleboro. Phil Richards is an electronic engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Red Bank, N.J. In 1961 he received his MEE from New York University, having been elected Eta Kappa Nu, an Electrical Engineering Honor Society in 1960. He will be married to Miss Anne Quimby in June. Larry Rentschler (wife, Mary) is a project manager in plastics for Polymer Corporation of Pennsylvania. Andy Poepoe (wife, Jaya) is an industrial engineer for Castle & Cooke Terminals, Ltd., in Hawaii. John Plecas (wife, Pat; children, Sue and Mike) is also doing industrial engineering with Kroger Company in Cincinnati, Oh. Guy Palmer (wife, June; children, Guy, 4th and Deborah) is an Investment Officer for the Bank of New York. He was elected Investment Officer, he writes, one week after he helped June deliver Debbie in the front of the car. The Bank of New York is obviously not an organization that fails to reward courage on the field of battle. Bill Owens (wife, Shelda; David and Bill 2d) is a buyer and Department manager for Milwaukee Boston Store in Milwaukee. Vic Norton is doing engineering for the Nash Babcock Engineering Co. in Riverside, Conn. Dick Jones (wife, Eleanor; sons, Richard, Jr. and Stephen) is Project Administrator Development Engineering for Gillette Safety Razor Co. Ken Kauke (wife, Catherine) is in the institutional department of Van Alstyne, Noel & Co. in New York City. Bill Keen (wife, Pat; son, Robert) is a planning and scheduling engineer for United Engineers and Construction Inc., North Wales, Pa. Charles Lafferty (wife, Susan) is a computer Sales Representative for International Business Machines. Dave Lawrence (wife, Joan; children, Suzanne and Edward) is doing security analysis for Colonial Management Associates in Needham, MA.

There were also a number of letters from aboard: Dick Jordan (wife, Connie) was in Tahiti although I imagine they're back in Fresno, Calif., by now. Dick is a stockbroker for Dean Witter & Co. and by this time must be well on his way in setting up a private school in that area. Also aboard are Peter and Cary Smith (children, David and Laura). Peter is assistant sales manager for Twin Disc Clutch AG and is currently located in Zurich, Switzerland. Dave Kramer, now assistant to the vice-president in charge of European production for Columbia Pictures, wrote from London. Don Rohlfing (wife, Sarah) when last they wrote me, were on their way to Brazil. Don is with the First National Bank.

I hope that I'll be seeing many of you at the Reunion this June. The letters providing most of the necessary information will be sent out by Howie Gillis by the end of this month and we're looking forward to a good response. It's important that you get your answers and checks in early to facilitate our planning of the weekend. The class dinners have been processing as planned and we were pleased to see over forty people at the New York affair. Morris Raker reports that the Boston dinner, scheduled for the end of this month will be equally well attended. Bide has another begun in Chicago.

That's all the news. See you.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: March 1962

Whatever news of worth and interest may follow in this epistle I cannot resist opening with an announcement of my return to civilian life. Admittedly I have not married, gained employment or done anything newsworthy in these few days but returning to civilian life to some of us is an important event indeed. And I have only five and a half more years to go.

There is a great deal of detailed catching up to do on what our now somewhat settled classmates are involved in. Al Lieberman (wife, Sally Ann and daughter, Kelly Ann) is now a food broker with Seavey and Flarsheim in Prairie Village, Kan. He was just visiting in the East with Bill Cuddy and family. Mike Kenefick (wife, Anne and children, Mary Stuart and Andrew Michael) is a sales trainee at a brand manager with Thomas Hedley and Company, a subsidiary of Procter and Gamble, in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Jim Hopson (wife, Susan) is seeking his Ph.D. in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. There incidentally are still a substantial number of class members pursuing additional academic work. Bob Haerle is doing graduate work at the Harvard Business School. Steve Hopkins (wife, Judith) will be receiving his law degree from Columbia in '63. He got his MBA from New York University in 1961. Bob West (wife, Sarah) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at Yale. He's also working as a research assistant at Grace New Haven Hospital. Steve Weitz will be finishing his graduate studies at Columbia in the School of International Affairs. Dave Skolnick (wife, Susan) is in his third year at Columbia Law School. George Schuyler (wife, Roselyn) is receiving his M.A.in International Relations from Johns Hopkins in Washington. He and Roselyn recently returned from a honeymoon in Japan.

Excuse me for listing but it's been a long time since I've put a lot of names in print. For instance, among the law students are John Harrison (University of Pennsylvania, wife, Alice), Larry Herrmann (Harvard,) Dick Oliver (Stanford), Tom Rubin (Harvard), and John Peters (Tulane, wife, Sandra). Nor does that exhaust the number of graduate students. Walter Loesche has been awarded a research fellowship in Dental Medicine at Harvard from the National Institute of Health. He and Rosemary have two children: Heidi, 2½, and Christa Marie, 1½. Ed Opton is doing graduate work at Psychology Laboratory at North Carolina State in Durham. Pat Wilde is pursuing a Ph.D. in Geology at Harvard. He recently wrote me with reference to his thesis topic which deals with dredging mud from the Pacific Ocean floor near San Francisco but it was all too much for my legal mind to handle.

Many of the letters indicate that our men of '57 are now fairly well settled in the business world. Bide and I can't help thinking that this will produce a substantial increase in our dues list. Heh! Heh! In any event the number of firms and jobs is really interesting. Ed Ingalls is a Sales Administrator for Rome Cable Division of Alcoa in Illinois. He and Marilyn recently had a son, David, and seem to be well settled in Mount Prospect, Ill. Ed was just elected President of the Riverhurst Civic Association in that community. Quincy Hunsicker has been retained as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in New York City. Gordon Hollingsworth (wife, Sharon, son Ricky) is a region sales manager for Linde Company, a division of Union Carbine in Riverton, N.J. Carl Hoffman (wife, Barbara, son Trip) is selling for Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. Gar Heller (wife, Velma, son, Grant) is a Chemical Engineer and Computer Programmer for Socony Oil in Hartsdale, N.J. Bob Healy (wife, Kay) is an insurance agent for Sirley Agency in Grosse Pointe while working for his LL.B. at the Detroit College of Law. John Masters (wife, Barbara, son, Greg) is with Sinclair Research Laboratories in Chicago Heights, Ill., as a process Design engineer. Stan McCarthy (wife Myrt Ann) is with Hewlett Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif., after completing his M.S. at Stanford. Bill Mobley (wife, Windene, daughter, Nancy) is an Associate Landman for Continental Oil Company in Shreveport, La. Charley Marks is a life insurance agent for Prudential Insurance in New Orleans. Thorton Marshall (wife Judith) is a trust administrator at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York. Ed Masters is a textile salesman for Wellington-Sears in New York. Steve Mottus (wife, Jill) is a Training and Recruiting Coordinator for Procter and Gamble in New York. He and Jill recently wrote that they are on their way to Haiti for a two week vacation.

The list is so long that it will have to be continued in the next issue. The same is true of the Class's contributions to the professions. Kelvyn Lawrence, after graduating from Duke University Law School cum laude and traveling to Europe with Charlie Abuzza is now a member of the Illinois bar and working with Wilson and McIlvaine in Chicago. Bill MacLaughlin is an attorney with Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher in Los Angeles. Ed Johnson (wife, Mary) is doing legal work for his own firm in Middlesex, N.J. Ed Meyer (wife, Linda, children, Dan and Lisa) is practicing law with Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland and Kiendl in New York City. Lenny Katz (wife, Judy, children, Jeff and Linda) is doing medical work at Albert Einstein. Bob Krough is interning at Los Angeles County Harbor General Hospital after receiving his M.D. at the University of Minnesota. Dick Lamb has been selected as a Medical Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dave Mininberg (wife, Anne, son, Gustav) is interning at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, having received his M.D. from New York Medical College. It seems that he's done a lot of traveling since 1957. He lists France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Williamsburgh and Gloucester as places he's been to since graduation. While listing medical students I should mention that I met Paul Rosenstein tonight celebrating the completion of his work at Bellevue Medical School and his engagement to Sandy Sender. He plans to intern in California.

Such is the end of our allotted space. I close with a report on a letter I received from Dick Moneymaker. He writes that he is an attorney with the Bank of America in Inglewood, Calif., teaches night classes in Negotiable Instruments Law, coaches the Forwards on the Loyola University Rugby team and plays Rugby with the University Club of Los Angeles. A busy man, indeed.

My many thanks for your responses in refilling our files. I'm sorry I haven't sorted all the cards yet. And special thanks to Bide for filling in for me during my soldiering days. We're looking forward to seeing each other and all of you at the reunion.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: February 1962

As the years pass, Bide and your now slightly muddy reporter seem to be moving further and further from New Haven. Amidst letters and phone calls and thanks to Andy Kner, who agreed to chair the meeting, those few of the class council that could be in New Haven on that black Saturday in November, attended the annual class executive committee meeting. The following is a resume of the reports and matters considered.

Finances. Most important was the question of the class' financial stability. At present the Class is operating with a working balance of $3,660.53. In the coming year there will be incurred a $1,596 expense for YAM, approximately $250 clerical expenses, an additional $15 for dues to the Association of Class Officers and the necessity of underwriting the quinquennial reunion. Although we are doing everything possible to cut expenses it should be noted that the Class of 1956 sustained a loss of $2,600 on their fifth year reunion. The projected expenditures developed in 1957 took this into account but we are already $500 below what we planned and needed to have as of December 1961.

The prospects of this being remedied or even checked are not very good. Each year our participation in dues has decreased. In 1959-1960 there was 29% of the Class contributing some $896. In 1960-61, 28% of the Class contributed $1168. Dues, of course, increase per man (this year, five dollars), which accounts for the total increase, but the additional revenue is not nearly enough to account for the low degree of class participation. In light of the fact that follow-up letters by the college representatives produced such a low revenue (4% over the initial appeal) the class council has instituted two new programs; first, a follow-up appeal will be sent directly to the delinquent members of the Class by Bide and myself, and secondly, a system of phone contacts will, if possible, be instituted in the large cities. This latter program will be organized by Charley Peet. Nevertheless, these are only minimal measures in terms of their potential effectiveness. The real problem is your own feeling of responsibility to Yale and its need for the class organization of those who are carrying your financial load for you and even to those of us who you left struggling with more debts than there is money with which to pay them. That is all of it--and the whole of it.

Alumni Fund. The Alumni Fund report was submitted by Chairman, Michael O'Hearn. Four hundred and ninety-six members (496) of the Class of 1957, representing some 49% of the class population, contributed $6,781. The breakdown was as follows: Berkeley (51% - $654), Branford (51% - $519), Calhoun (58% - $1,013), Davenport (56% - $759), Jonathan Edwards (44% - $463), Pierson (43% - $661), Saybrook (44% - $918), Silliman (44% - $694), Timothy Dwight (54% - $773), Trumbull (41% - $327).

Although this is good, reunion year presents special problems. The reunion year has traditionally been an occasion for a special gift from each class. Ed Meyer is chairman of this program and has set a goal of $15,000, more than double our present contribution.

The report also presented a general picture of the status of the Yale Alumni Fund. In total, in 1960, 35,000 alumni donated approximately $2,700,000 to the Yale Alumni Fund an increase of $406,000 over the previous year. By 1963 it is hoped that the annual level of giving to the fund will reach $3,140,000--an increase of $1,000,000 over the 1959 level, and equivalent to the income on $22,500,000 invested at 4½%. If realized, this portion of the fund will then account for one-third of the $69,500,000 goal for Yale's Program for the Arts and Sciences. The remaining two-thirds ($47,000,000) will be raised as new capital.

Class Gift Fund. The Class Gift Fund report was submitted by Walter Alexander. The fund, which will contribute $226,000 in insurance to the Class at the end of 25 years has now a cash surrender value of $27,958.46 and has received, since 1957, $1,580.30 in dividends. Unfortunately, the delinquency rate is still relatively high representing some 17%of the class each year and creating an arrearage of $4,393.83. As of November 20, 1961 there were 158 men delinquent on their 1961 payments, approximately 21% of the Class.

Reunion Committee. The Reunion Committee's report by Howie Gillis represented the most important business for the coming year. A tentative budget has been established based on the experiences of past classes and a tentative date has been chosen, June 14, 15, 16 and 17. Expenses, including liquor, meals, mailing, uniforms and innumerable other items, have totaled other classes approximately $7,000 or more, paid for jointly by the class and those members who attend. We'll do our best to make it less.

In addition, the Reunion Committee reported on this past years' activity. A very successful dinner was held in New York in March at the Yale Club and a kit of instructions and procedures for the use of its techniques is being prepared by the New York Committee to be sent to representatives in other cities. It is hoped to have these dinners all over the country in March of this year as a starting point for a program of personal contact with respect to reunion attendance. These have our blessing. They are totally self-supporting, consisting of only the price of the dinner and mailing.

Also the committee reported on the successful utilization of a tent outside of the bowl during the Yale-Princeton game for our soggy members. Another tent, with set-ups, comraderie et al was provided for the Yale-Harvard game this year.

Miscellaneous. Beyond the specific committee business there are only two other matters. A contribution of ten dollars was made by the Class to the Yale Placement Service, which is still available for your use and a procedure was established for the selection of new class officers and one-third of the executive committee at the quinquennial reunion. It is our desire to spend the opportunity for participation in class affairs as broadly as possible. If any of you are interested in giving some of your time it would be most gratefully appreciated. There will certainly be plenty to do.

Again our thanks to Andrew Kner. We look forward to your continued interest and support. As for our management we can only leave you with the words of Robert Frost: Do not ask of money spent/Or the spender where it went/We were really never meant/To remember or invent/What we did with every cent.

—Gary G. Bellow

Notes: January 1962

"Nothing happened sophomore year." With this bit of witticism, Bud Trillin began and ended our Class History back in 1957. No one could argue with Bud about this because we were all convinced that nothing actually did happen sophomore year. It was that short span of time when everyone was glad that he was no longer a prisoner to the Old Campus but we were still the young neophytes to most everyone in the residential colleges.

But things have changed since then and, believe me, there is plenty happening to the Class of '57 at the present time. I say this only after looking at some 300 or so information cards which have been sent in as a result of our recent plea for facts and figures about our wondering classmates. We're tremendously please with the response--I only wish that dues were coming in just as fast!

Since we're somewhat limited to the amount of verbiage that we can submit in any one column, it's going to take quite a while before we can cover all of the information that we have. So please bear with us and we'll do the best we can to get it all in as soon as possible.

I just received word from Tony Hogan that the Class' third annual New York City dinner will be held on Thursday, March 1, 1962. The location will be the same as last year--the Seventh Regiment Armory at 643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets). As in previous years, the dinner will be stag and informal with the cost per person anticipated to be about $6. Judging from the past dinners held by the New York crowd the 1962 affair promises to be a full evening of fun for everyone. A complete bar will be available before and after dinner to help loosen tongues and ease renewing of old friendships. Mark your calendars now.

Taking some other information at random from the large stack of cards sitting in front of me, I see that Carol and Andy Kner now live in New York, where Andy is assistant art director of the Architectural Forum (a publication of Time, Inc.). Andy's talents are apparently being recognized as he has won several awards for book designs during the past few years.

John Hearst is now a research associate at Dartmouth having received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in June 1961. John reports that he journeyed to St. Gervais, France, this past summer to attend the annual reunion of Societe de Chimie Physique. Sounds like quite an élite group! John is married to Jean Bankson although I have no idea of whether the wedding took place recently or as long as four years ago.

Barb and Dean Loucks are still in White Plains, where Dean is now head football coach at White Plains High School as well as an instructor in history. Dean received his M.A. from Columbia several years ago and is the proud father of a boy, Glenn, and a girl, Ginger, at the present time.

Having received his law degree from Harvard in 1960, Leo Bearman is now practicing in Memphis, where he lives with his wife Joy and his son David. Apparently Leo has his own practice going at the present time.

Don Griffith reports that he is now employed by John F. Kennedy as a First Lieutenant in the Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Having seen a good part of the world around the Mediterranean, Don plans to go to business school at the University of California, UCLA or Western Reserve when released from active duty. His only response to the question about "Wife's Name" was an abrupt "ha!"

Gerry Jonas sends word that he and his wife Joan spent the summer in a cabin in Maine where Gerry did a lot of writing. They now live in New York where Gerry is an editor for the New Yorker.

Earl and Joan Riter are now living in Baltimore, where Earl is an intern at the Hospital for Women of Maryland. At the end of his internship, Earl hopes to take his residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the same hospital.

If all goes well as planned, Gary Bellow, will again be writing this column by the time February rolls around. I talked to Gary on the phone the other day (with me in Chicago and Gary in Fort Sill, Okla.) and Army life seems to be causing our Secretary some painful moments. He expects to survive, however, and still counts on February as the month when he will be discharged.

I'd like to end my column as a good Class Treasurer should and that is with a plea for more of you to join in with those in the Class who contribute their dues regularly. So far this year we have about 18% participation which is not much to brag about. So if you have a chance and haven't sent in your dues as yet, $5 would be greatly appreciated c/o the Class Officers Bureau in Harkness Hall.

—Bide L. Thomas