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

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Notes: December 1963
Notes: November 1963
Notes: October 1963
Notes: July 1963
Notes: June 1963
Notes: May 1963
Notes: April 1963
Notes: March 1963
Notes: February 1963

Notes: December 1963

First things first. By the time these notes are published, you will have received Treasurer Thomas' annual dues plea. The quickest perusal of this plea will unequivocally show that it is vastly different from all Bide's prior "annual" and that the Class's financial difficulties are second only to those of the New Haven Railroad. And so, if you want to avoid such possible deprivations as loss of Reunions, of Class tents, of subscriptions to YAM and ultimate Class receivership , then please pay the requested dues. In view of the benefits, our dues should be considered a bill and not merely a request for a contribution.

The news this month on the academic front is in part medical. Steve Wagner has been appointed a research fellow in neurology at the Harvard Medical School. Steve is also associated with Massachusetts General Hospital. Ted Klein, who graduated this year from the University of Miami School of Medicine, is now doing his internship at the Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City. In the field of physics, we have three recent notes of interest. Sunne Jeong, the great gymnast from our Class, has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Physics at Lake Forest College. He writes that he is "coordinator in the construction of a half million volt preaccelerato for polarized protons under the auspices of the AEC." Sunne is married to Anna Chi-may Wong, a music student he met when working for his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Walt Benenson was also recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Physics at Michigan State University. Walt received his Ph.D. last year at the University of Wisconsin.

A few business notes: Art Diefendorf is now a representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is working in Philadelphia and is living with wife Georgia in Paoli, one of Philadelphia's suburbs. Bill Hinrichs, who travelled in Europe for three years with Army Intelligence and for several more years in the United States with his present employer, Crucible Steel Company of America, has at last settled down in Chicago. Bill is a sales service engineer. Joe Robinson is also an engineer with a steel company, U.S. Steel. Joe is living in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he continues his swimming talents as a coach for a swimming club.

News from abroad shows that Ted Frembgen is Assistant Sales Manager for Trane Ltd. in Scotland. He previously had acquired international business experience as manager of the European and Caribbean sales departments for another of Trane's subsidiaries. After studying Foreign Law at the University of Chicago, Hal Russell is studying law and French in Paris as well as hoping to do some work for the Common Market Commission. In October, Dick Johnson was appointed a career Foreign Service Officer. Dick is presently attending the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, VA., in preparation for an oversea assignment.

Pierre Bourquin, who has been combining stock brokerage with some amateur hockey, is preparing for the 1962-1963 season with his Bronxville, N.Y. hockey team. Your Secretary will be playing with the team though convinced that he might do better with a racquet than with a hockey stick. To end on a far more optimistic note, Rolf Sandvoss was engaged last month to Janet Ryan.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: November 1963

The wedding and engagement notices received by this department in the last month indicate that the Class remains young at heart. Johannes Somary, our esteemed musician, was married in July to Anne Van Zandt in New York. Among Johannes' ushers were Hugh Peterson and Crawford Shaw. Johannes and Anne are now living in Greenwich Village while Johannes works as a free-lance composer, conductor of the Amor Artis Chorale and Orchestra, church organist and choir-master and chairman of the music department at Horace Mann High School in New York. I have also received the delayed news of the marriage of Ray Ellison whose engagement was reported in this column last spring. In June, Ray was married to Anne Megler in New Providence, N.J., where they are now living after a honeymoon to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Present at Ray's wedding in an usherial capacity or otherwise were Bob Beaney, Dick Hall, Dave Armstrong, Denis McWhan, Pat Wilde, Bill Fleming, Larry Singer, Quince Hunsicker, Joe Robinson and Phil Hepner.

Jay Inglis was recently married in Youngstown, Oh., and by the time this is in print he will have returned from a honeymoon in Greece to his New York law practice. The Class was well represented at Jay's wedding by Jack Erickson, Don Bain, Reed Reuben and probably other classmates who were not known to the Georgetown graduate who told me about the wedding. Another wedding note is that of Frank Brown who was married in August in Spring Lake, N.J. to Marjorie Meehan. Frank is working with Architectural Forum, a division of Time, Inc., in New York.

We also have a few new fiancés who might possibly be married by the time you read this: Don Beer to Nancy Gardner, Muller Davis to Jane Strauss and Gordon Bellis to Cathy Cartan. Muller is practicing law in Chicago, and Gordon is a broker with Middendorf, Colgate & Co. in New York.

Had dinner last week with Carroll Brewster. Carroll had just returned from the Sudan for a short vacation. As Assistant to the Chief Justice of the Sudan and a law reporter, among other functions, he is an employee of the Sudanese government and is living in Khortoum. His travels and experiences make Lawrence of Arabia appear sick. In fact, don't be surprised if you hear of a new moved entitled Carroll of Khartoum!

Dave Elwell was in town the other day after returning from architectural studies in Cambridge, England. Dave is now going to Princeton's School of Architecture to work for a Masters in Fine Arts. He is also chairman of our Alumni Fund program and has some imaginative ideas about increasing our participation in the Fund. So be prepared. Along this general line, we might also start thinking about our Class dues as treasurer Thomas states that his annual letter will soon be in the mail.

Instead of sending our cards for you to fill in about various doings, I am going to rely this year on receiving your own spontaneous letters and postcards. Get out your pen and drop me a line. Finally, don't forget our tent near the Yale Bowl at the Harvard game.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: October 1963

Since the last issue of YAM, we have had plenty of news: a test ban treaty, a civil rights march and compulsory arbitration for the railroads, for example. But, almost no news received from the members of the Yale Class of '57. And so, let's hear from you--about your summer vacation, your job, your marital or martial life, your pets, anything. My address is set forth clearly above.

The first paragraph notwithstanding, there are a few interesting items. Woody Oliver was married in June to Lacy Israel in Fox Chapel, Pa. Another June groom was Ray Ellison who was married to Anne Mergler in New Providence, N.J. Tom Ruhm has become engaged to Jane Rogers formerly from Atlanta and a graduate of Vanderbilt University. After Yale, Tom graduated from Harvard Law School and is now with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York. The Class also has two new fathers in John Resnik and Stu Miller. John and his wife, Lillian, had a baby girl on July 3. Stu and his wife had their second son Gregory, on July 13. Stu recently joined the Robert Heller Consulting firm in Cleveland where he is business research manager.

Treasurer Thomas is again on the move, his fifth in six years of married life. Bide has now been transferred to the De Kalb, Ill. Office of Commonwealth Edison where he is the new district superintendent. He and Sue sold their home in Western Springs and now have a new home (all-electric, of course) in De Kalb. Bide writes that the rural environment is perfect for having more children, but then advises this New York suburbanite to wait until I'm 30 before having a fourth.

Received a good letter from Gil Hemsley, who went from Yale College into the Drama School. After doing some production work in theatres across the country, Gil is now Associate Producer of the McCarter Theatre at Princeton, This summer he designed the lighting for the Stratford, Conn. theatre's production of Caesar and Cleopatra. Gil now extends a cordial invitation to visit him at the McCarter Theatre. Others who retain some university connections are Dick Lamb and Jesse Lemisch. Dick is engaged in medical research at the University of Alabama Medical Center and is living in Birmingham. Jesse has left the Yale History Department for an assistant professorship at the University of Chicago. He also participated on July 4 in the civil rights sit-in at the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Baltimore.

On the subject of civil rights, Bud Trillin's series of three articles in July and August issues of the New Yorker provided an excellent insight into the progress and problems of integration in one southern university. Bud's close relationship with several of the Negro students enabled him to write a more complete story of their experiences than one usually reads. Bud, whose travels for Time magazine took him to London, Algeria and Atlanta, is now with the New Yorker.

A few final notes: Art Gibb is the assistant desk officer for Nigerian Affairs in the Agency for International Development. Chuck Schaller is a sales representative for the Celanese Corporation of America and is living with his wife Marie and son Charles, Jr. in South Natick, Mass.

This year the Harvard football game is in New Haven, and our Class, through Howie Gillis' kind services and in corporation with the Class of '58, will again have a tent near the Bowl for various pre and post-game activities. Come if you can and we'll make this a kind of off-year Reunion.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: July 1963

The State Department has announced that Tim Towell has been appointed a career Foreign Service Officer with the title of Vice Consul. Tim is presently attending the Foreign Service Institute in preparation for an overseas assignment. Another new government appointee is Colin Thompson. Colin has joined the Agency for International Development, and his first assignment will be Laos where he will be working on development projects in road construction, teacher training, rural and power plant development and airport improvement--at least, that's what the A.I.D. press release states. Colin's versatility notwithstanding. In the private sphere, we have an overseas representative in George Hutchinson. George, who is married and has one child and another on the way, is working for the overseas division of Procter & Gamble and living in Newcastle-on-Tyne in England.

A few domestic notes: Harvard University, whose releases relating to faculty members seems so often to be contemporaneous with the announcement of Government appointments, has announced that Frank Michelman has become as assistant professor of Law. Frank will teach courses in property, urban land use planning, and state and local government. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frank was law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and then moved to the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Another of our continuing scholars is Berk Tompkins, whose academic pursuits over recent years have included a M.A., Ph.D., the first director of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum and a fellowship this summer for work at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Williamsburg. This fall, Berk will take his family of four to Stanford where he will begin teaching in the history department. Joe Savage is at Virginia Law School where he is President of his legal fraternity and of the student curriculum committee and founder of the University Rugby Club.

George Mascarich is now buying for Western Electric Co., copper tape and steel wire for the manufacture of a Pacific Ocean cable. George is living outside Baltimore with his wife and two daughters. He reports that Dan Muhonen is serving in the Peace Corps in Kula Lumpur, Malaya. Jerry Ayres has been appointed assistant to the director of the story and talent department for Columbia Pictures.

Howie Gillis recently represented our Class at the Yale Association of Class Officers dinner in New Haven. Apparently he very much enjoyed himself with a lecture and slides being presented on Yale's present and future architectural plans and with cocktails being given in the Master's House of the impressive new Morse College.

At a recent prep school Reunion, I saw Chris Sonne, Gordon Bellis, Ned Baldwin, Keene Taylor and Dave Wilmerding. Keene is working on water pollution problems for the U.S. Health Commission. Dave, who works for the Philadelphia National Bank, is lamenting over the apparent end of his rowing pursuits due to a bad back, although incredibly, he won the alumni foot race.

Take a tip from Virgil Highland who is celebrating his recent marriage by sending a check for his $2 class dues.

Have a good summer and let me hear from you. Postcards from vacation spots will not only provide good class notes in the fall but also help me to decide where to take my vacation.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: June 1963

On the printed cards which I have used to gather information about our Class members, you will remember that there is a question asking about your "troubles." On the assumption that the troubles which many of you related will not bring embarrassment when viewed in print by a thousand classmates, the column this month is devoted to your reported "troubles."

It is rather unfortunate for our Class finances and for the Treasurer Thomas in particular that the most frequent reported trouble is the request for payment of Class dues.

Phil Pillsbury's troubles began when, as an officer for the U.S. Information Service, he was transferred from romantic Naples to the Republic of Mali. His responsibilities included escorting a group of Milians on a 30-day trip around the U.S. Phil now extends a cordial invitation to all to visit him in Bamako, Mali. Foreign troubles are also reported by Bob Pelletreau and Dick Allen. Bob, who is a Foreign Service officer in the new American Embassy in Mauritania, has completed six months of intensive Arabic training. Dick reports he is fated to spend the next two years with the U.S. Army in Ankara, Turkey. Other classmates presently engaged or to be engaged in public service of a military character are Don Roberts, both a staff sarge with the New York National Guard and as Assistant Cashier for First National City Bank in New York; John Schoonmaker and Norwood Hill who are looking forward to imminent entry into the Air Force. Jon Breslav reports that before his return to civilian life and the Hertz Corporation, he served as a jeep driver and mimeograph machine operator for the Army.

Domestic dilemmas: Jack Poinier complains that while on his honeymoon in Bermuda last summer, a 70-year rainfall record was broken keeping him and his bride indoors for 12 out of 14 days. Sounds pretty good to me. Jack and his wife, Alice are living in Summit, N.J. and Jack is working for Chubb & Son in New York. Hugh Young reports that his trouble centers around the birth of his first child, a boy, whom Hugh naturally describes as "good looking and tough." Quince Hunsicker is another classmate who has had family news to report. Quince was married last December and honeymooned in the Virgin Islands. He is now a Management Consultant for McKinsey & Co. in New York. A final note of domestic troubles is the 2 a.m. feedings supervised by your Secretary for the latest addition, a son named Jeffrey, to a family of four.

Lee Chemlen is anguishing over the fact that he had to do valve jobs on both engines of his Mathews 38 Cabin Cruiser. Steve Weitz reports he is an indigent student at the University of Washington struggling with a thesis in urban planning. Also having academic anxieties are Pat Wilde and Bob Young. Pat, a marine geologist, says that he is grinding for a Ph.D. at Harvard. Bob is on a U.S. Public Health Service fellowship in England contemplating research on psychoanalysis and theories of brain function. The dilemma of the Southerner is the North is vividly revealed by Yale Forestry student Read Charlton.

Troubles aside, the column ends this month on Gordon Smith's happy report that "All's well."

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: May 1963

Those of you who responded to your Secretary's plea and wrote cards last November must be wondering wha' happened. Well, your moment has arrived even if since then your wife has had three children and you have been drafted into the Army for the second time.

On the subject of military or public service, our Class is represented by Temby Argall, Captain in the Army Medical Corps and assigned to Special Forces in Germany: John Miller, a Captain in the Marines and stationed in Washington, D.C.: Talbo Huey, who is a foreign service officer with the U.S.I.A. Talbo reports he is heading for an assignment next summer in South Vietnam. Keene Taylor is working for the U.S. Public Health Service in the field of water supply and pollution control. As for alumni fund work, Keene had the nerve to state that he is not only working for Yale but also for Harvard where he received an M.B.A.

In the business world, November reports show that Mike Owseichik is an assistant work manager for a division of American Brake Shoe as well as the father of three female linebackers. Mike's former teammate, Paul Lopata, is s salesman for the Wilmot Castle Company and bought a house in Des Plaines, Ill., last fall. Paul and his wife have three children. Joe Vittoria lives in Rome where he is an operations manager for Hertz Italiana. George White is a TV producer for David Susskind and is the proud father of an heir. Woody Carlisle, a bond salesman in New York, reports that his main trouble is a familiar one in this corner: his daily commute on the Lexington Avenue subway. Woody's card of last November also states: "Ed, please call me immediately." Woody, it's not going to be too immediate. Guy McGinley is an advertising research analyst in St. Louis, a job which he began after teaching English for two years in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Frank Brown, an architecture writer for Time, Inc., says that it all started with Architecture 56 and Prof. Scully at Yale.

In the professional line, Rex Robbins lists his occupation as actor-singer-dancer and was appearing twice nightly at Julius Monk's Nite-Club in New York. Ralph Cestero is a Navy physician who had been serving at Guantanamo Bay during the Cuban crisis, merely enjoying "the delightful tropical weather," he writes. Hal Russell is a lawyer with a diverse international background including the Faculté des Droits in Paris and now the Foreign Law Program at the University of Chicago. Another internationalist is Mike Gaskin, an engineer who has been working on the Ford plant in Argentina for over a year.

We have two other engineers in Scott Cannell and Jake Budd. Scott worked 16 weeks as a strike breaker at a factory in Cleveland, and some of us wish he had done a little strike breaking for the New York newspapers. Jake is an engineer with Minneapolis-Honeywell, concentrating on missile systems.

Two final up-to-date announcements: Woody Bolton, undaunted by a postponement of his engagement, due to an emergency appendectomy, to Nancy Van Zandt, is now officially engaged to same and will have been married in New York by the time this is in print. Crawford Shaw has left the New York City Bar Association to join a New York law firm and is the co-editor of a new book on international legal problems entitled: A Lawyer's Guide to International Business Transactions.

More to come next issue from our November Song!

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: April 1963

Let's begin this month with a few notices which have recently come to my attention. Allen Wardwell is active on both the domestic and professional fronts. He and Sally had a baby girl in January, Lelia Morgan, and Allen was recently promoted to associate curator of primitive art in the Chicago Museum of Art. Allen reports having seen Wendy and Bill Wrean in Madison, Wisc., Bill now being the blushing father of three daughters. Charlie Marks, unconcerned with England's rejection from the Common Market, will be marrying an English girl in London in September. He and his wife, Gillian, will live in New Orleans. Ray Ellison is another long-eligible bachelor who will take on new responsibilities when he marries Anne Mergler this June. Ray is working with Lewis Roberts, Inc. in Newark while studying for his M.B.A. at Rutgers, to be completed next February. Jerry Farnum graduated from Harvard Law School last year and has now moved with his wife, Martha, and two sons to Midland, Mich., where he is with the legal department of Dow Chemical.

Two brief notes sent by courtesy of employer Charlie Niekamp having recently completed graduate work at Washington University's School of Music, has joined a public relations firm in St. Louis. Chuck Schaller, a chemical engineer at Yale, is now with the Boston sales office of Celanese Chemical Company.

It's time to clear up some cards received early last November. Many of them are from the academic arena. Perhaps first and foremost is Sam Chauncey's meteoric rise to Assistant Dean of Yale College and Undergraduate Affairs as well as Assistant Master of Davenport College. I think the Class of 1957 should make Sam our 25th Reunion gift to the University. John Hearst with a Ph.D. tucked under this belt is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California. Paul Eisele working for his Ph.D. in modern European history is presently an officer of the American Assembly at Columbia. Jerry Curtis is an English instructor at Susquehanna University, and Jesse Lemisch is a history instructor at Yale. Charlie Maderer is a math teacher at St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, N.J., where he lives with wife Lucille and two daughters. Ralph Lilore is combining studies at Seton Hall Law School (where Denny McGill is a classmate) with patent work and domestic work (wife and two boys).

If you are in Houston soon, look for double bassist Buell Niedlinger in the Houston Symphony. In Brookline, Mass., we have Don Scherl who is a resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.

A few business notes: Dagmar and John Speer are living in Sewickley, Pa., where John is an advertising account executive. Wright Palmer is a banker with First National City Bank in New York. John Onthank is a branch manager of Canada Dry and is living with his wife and two boys in Fairfield, Conn. Finally Dick Hall, living with his family in Arlington, Va. is a foreman of Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. living in Washington.

If you will be traveling in the Northeast this spring, I strongly urge a visit to our fast changing alma mater. No sooner were architect Saarinen's two return-to-nature colleges completed, than the dirt began to fly again from the High Street piece of property where the Student Laundry and employment office were formerly located. Object: a beautiful new library for rare books plus an adjoining three-story underground Foreign and International Law Library. Another surprise is the new Co-op which puts Macy's, Nieman-Marcus and your local Korvette to shame. Come and have a look.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: March 1963

Cards from many of you have been coming in and shall make a great contribution to this column. A birds-eye view reveals that more of our Class is settled than ever before. Some of you have said that you can't get accustomed to staying in one place for very long, but settlement has had one dramatic and romantic result: a population explosion to the average extent of about two kiddies per married man, and I speak as the father of three by the time this is in print.

A quick trip around the country shows that Ted Palen after graduation from Columbia Business School, has moved to Randallstown, Md., where he is a foreman with Procter & Gamble Co. Andy Glass is a Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, one of the papers which New Yorkers have not seen in many moons. Bob Barton is also a journalist with an old friend, The New Haven Register. While on the subject of journalism, I note that Bruce Agnew is a reporter for U.P.I. in the nation's capital, that Frank Niering is a reporter with the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and that Andy Kner is putting his creative talents to work as art director of a design magazine in New York. Also, did you notice that Bud Trillin was made a contributing editor of Time magazine last fall? Continuing around the country, Tom Rohner is a surgical resident at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Reed Taylor is an admissions counselor at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. Bill Thieme is a surgical resident at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital.

Ed Robinson is a Navy doctor in Camp Pendleton, Calif. Ed and his wife Janet have an excellent start with their family: three boys and one girl. Ed Cook is living in Oklahoma City with wife and two children where he is a trucking executive. Mike Mellon lives in Palo Alto, Calif., where he a biologist at Stanford.

Further news from the country's now most populous state shows Bill Makel's forestry career has taken him to the suburbs of Los Angeles. Bill's title: Forester, U.S. Forest Service, stationed in the Mt. Baldy District of the Angeles National Forest. Bill is in charge of that district's recreating program and reports that as a bachelor he is enjoying the social life of the Los Angeles area. A few hundred miles north of Bill is Jay Kuhn who after four years of military service in the Far East is now an insurance broker in San Francisco.

Moving into the Midwest, Colin Jensen is living in Sioux City, where he is a husband, father of a son and daughter, and Vice-President of the Jensen Construction Co. And, I might add that Colin's wife, Alice, is an excellent correspondent. Steve Jackson was married in Louisville last September and has brought his wife, Pat, to Chicago where Steve works for Continental Can Co. We have another vice president, Peter Fritzsche, with a small business investment corporation in Indianapolis. Peter moved from his hometown, Cleveland, last fall. Ted Jones remains in the Cleveland area as an officer of the Brown Folding Machine Co. and as a member of a local Yale scholarship committee.

A few final notes from the East: Pete Hollenbeck is a computer instructor with IBM in Fishkill, N.Y. Charlie Gold is with IBM, in its research institute. Glen Harris is a life insurance actuary (are there other kinds of actuaries?) in Glastonbury, Conn. Pete Hill is with Colgate-Palmolive in New York with some advertising experience behind him. Fritz Hagios is another New York ad man and is living in Princeton. Bill Everett is a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent Office in Washington and claims to have invented the 3-hour day but the Patent Office stamped it "No Utility." Ray Ellison is an ink technician with Lewis Roberts, Inc. in New Jersey and is a man with a bright domestic future: he writes that he will be married June 15 and have his first son exactly nine months later.

Have to make a final 4,000-mile trip, to Honolulu where John Somerville is now with the Travelers Insurance Companies after teaching three years at Honolulu's fine Iolani School where Rev. Burt MacLean is headmaster. John reports marriage, one child and frequent coffee breaks with Steve Ackerman.

Aloha until next month.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: February 1963

Swamped. One short obscure P.S. in a dues letter and within a week an avalanche of biography cards. Plenty of news but no dues, never any dues. However, the news will be reported. But to achieve order out of the avalanche, an ingenious double A plan will be used. It features avocation and alphabet. There will be two losers in this system: those who have no avocation and those whose names are so low in the alphabet that they will to be reached by the time the term of your present Secretary expires.

If you need a lawyer, remember the following: Charlie Abuza is now a real estate lawyer in Brooklyn while Chip Anderson is practicing in Connecticut, Buz Aronson in Boston and Leo Bearman in Memphis. Al Boasberg is living in San Francisco where he is with the Legal Department of the Bank of America. Bill Cuddy and Ed Cunningham are also now practicing, Bill in Hartford and Ed for the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago. Graham Jones is a patent lawyer in New York City and living outside the city in Dobbs Ferry with his wife Penny and their daughter. Gil Merritt is practicing with a firm in Nashville and also teaching law at Vanderbilt University. Dick Moneymaker is combining law in California with rugby in which he was elected to the Southern California All Star Rugby Team. Other recent entrants into the legal profession are Art Freedman in Cincinnati and Muller Davis and Kelvyn Lawrence in Chicago. Kelvyn took in the Seattle Fair this summer with Larry Bodkin and is writing a portion of an American Law textbook to be translated into Spanish for the use of Cuban refugee lawyers. Finally, Bill McLaughlin is practicing with the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and John Lee is practicing in New York where he lives with his wife Eunice and son Mark.

The Class is also well represented in the engineering profession. Bert Bradford married and with a second child almost here, is with Columbia Gas in Kentucky. John Barber is an electrical engineer and the father of three. Sam Guy is an engineer with our old friend the Southern New England Telephone Co. Dick Hanks is a research engineer in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and has otherwise been active as the father of four, as a Mormon missionary and as the author of several engineering articles. Tony Loughran is an engineer with the Pacific Telephone Company while studying law and following the operatic career of his daughter, age 6. Jim Nelson and Gus Hollingsworth are engineers in New Jersey with well-known corporations, Alcoa and Union Carbide. Other engineers with well-known companies are Don Lowe with R.C.A. and living in New York and Bob Livingson with Collins Radio Co. and living in Dallas. The engineering picture for this issue is rounded out by Bill Keen who is living in Philadelphia with his wife Patricia and two children and Palmer Bannerot living with his wife Elizabeth Ann and two children in South Charleston, W.Va., where he is a chemical engineer.

Featured in the financial world are Buz Brenton, a banker in Dallas Center, Ia.; Blackie Chapman, an investment advisor in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Doug Dial, Ralph Douglas, Ted Loud and Hank Hulshizer are acting in various financial capacities in New York. Hank lists his troubles as a first a beagle named Noodle and secondly a daughter born last August. Ted Notz is a banker in Chicago and highly recommends the fishing in Ontario, Canada, where he spent his summer vacation. Ellsworth Davis, married and with a 2 ½-year-old girl, is an Account Executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Simsbury, Conn. office.

We have a number of effective sales representatives. Pat Baker is with Olin Mathieson and was recently transferred to New York. Charlie Carpenter is covering the Baltimore-Washington area for Weyerhaeser Co., while Curt Chittenden is a sales manager for the Torrance Electric Co. in Rock Island, Ill. Curt and his wife, Anne, now have three children. Pete Greer is with a division of Union Carbide in Seattle where he enjoyed the Seattle Fair. Jerry Johnson is living on Long Island and is a sales representative of Shell Oil. Jerry and his wife, Rosalind recently helped Luke Finlay celebrate his fourth wedding anniversary. Dick Massey graduated this June from the Stanford Business School and joined Diamond Electronics in California as a marketing manager. Tad Girdler, married and with two daughters, lives in New York where he works in sales management with Binney & Smith, Inc. We have other classmates who are working in sales around the country: John Cronin in Denver, Colo., Don Griffith in Charleston, W.Va., and Chuck Lafferty who is a sales representative for IBM in Cheshire, Conn.

The life of the scholar continues for Tony Bingham in his final year at Columbia Law School. Kim Cheney, John Harrison and Steve Hopkins are also finishing up their law studies. Tom Brown, Chuck Kerr and Vince Marchesi are med students; Vince with a Ph.D. at Oxford University under his belt. Chuck is at Yale along with Gus Kellogg who is in the Architecture School. Vern Loucks and his wife Ann are living in Boston where Vern is at the Harvard Business School. Ian Jones married with one child is a graduate student and consultant at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California.

This new generation of doctors, featuring Doug Almond, a medical assistant resident at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Chuck Debrovner, is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Bellevue Hospital in New York, and Peter Fine (married last fall to Mary Burky) is a resident in pediatrics at Baltimore City Hospitals. Two up and coming New York City surgeons are Steve Flagg at Roosevelt Hospital and Bill Fleming at Presbyterian Hospital, both having received their M.D.'s at Columbia. Dave Minninberg is also in New York City at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital. And finally, there is Bill Ellis who is an assistant resident in internal medicine at the University of Virginia Hospital. Bill graduated two years ago from the Harvard Medical School.

Enough avocation and alphabet for this issue. Both Bide and I would now appreciate more dues and less news unless the news is from the New York City area where we haven't had a newspaper in over a month.

—J. Edward Meyer