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 1964
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Notes: June 1964
Notes: May 1964
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Notes: December 1964

We have had a heroic rescue. Ray Covill has been decorated with the United States Air Force Airman's Medal for heroism involving the voluntary rescue of life. Ray distinguished himself by going to the aid of a critically injured mountain climber near St. Helena, Calif. Ray is a flight surgeon for an Air Rescue Service unit in California and operates a group search and rescue medical unit for downed aircraft, recovery of astronauts and assistance during disasters. His activities after college included earning an M.D. degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine as well as getting married to Dolores Kosa.

News from the New York Metropolitan area: Phil Lottinville has established himself in the New York real estate business achieving a first year record of $10 million in sales. Before entering the real estate business, Phil went to Mexico City as a promotion director for a magazine; won several awards for advertising campaign; and was a corporate consultant on recruiting scientists and engineers during which he developed a system for processing job applications. Thus, his bid in the real estate field is both new and successful. I had dinner several weeks ago with Peter Fine, Mike Dodge and Charlie Trippe at Peter's new apartment in the Bronx. While Peter's wife, Mary is expecting their second baby (their first is a son named Jason), Peter is busy with a medical residency at Montefiore Hospital. As for Mike, he continues his recording work with his own company, Toad Recording, Inc. after a successful effort at the World's Fair this summer. Charlie continues to build bigger and better hotels for Pan Am. He and his wife Pam have taken a house in the northern section of Greenwich where Charlie threatens to become a gentleman farmer on the side. I have also seen Charlie Peet who has been practicing law with a large Wall Street firm for several years and throwing passes on the weekends for his firm's touch football team. Finally from this area, Peter Davis has become a registered representative with the firm of Bache and Co.

The Class is making news in the world of entertainment. Goey Franciscus is the star of the new movie Youngblood Hawke, an adaptation of Herman Wouk's novel of the same name. It was reported in the press that one of the film's main achievements is in establishing Goey as a major star. On the theater side, we have Gil Hemsley who is an associate producer for the McCarter Theater of Princeton University. Gil has been particularly responsible for the design and director of all lighting for the theater's fall drama series. Gil has been with the McCarter Theater for over five years but has found time to make contributions to several of the Shakespearean plays performed at Stratford, Connecticut, as well as to some off-Broadway productions.

Howie Gillis has been doing some fine work representing our Class in New Haven (as well as the Adley Corp.). He reports that President Kingman Brewster has a very positive interest in this magazine and has agreed to have the university assume certain production costs pending a review of the magazine's status and distribution. Howie has occasionally represented our Class at functions in New Haven, his last appearance being at the dinner for the Yale Association of Class Officers last May.

Get prepared for Treasurer Thomas' latest effort to effort to extricate class dues. It is a most imaginative effort and should bring funds to our coffers as well as laughs.

To those few of you who have written this fall, many thanks, but to the rest of you who are having children, getting hired or fired, etc., let's go. A postcard or a phone call (area code 212-CO-7-7100) would help replenish our now empty news files.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: November 1964

Plenty of news from abroad this month. Rick Pace is now correspondent for Time-Life in Southeast Asia. He has an article in the October 1964 issue of Foreign Affairs entitled "Laos: Continuing Crisis," where he concludes that "the April coup in Vientiane and the subsequent defeat of the neutralists in the plain of Jars underscored the fact that the 1962 settlement was only a fig leaf, not a solution, for the country's perennial war in Laos." Dave Griffith and his wife, Marcia are stationed with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone where Dave is a medical doctor. Dave is working in a 100-bed hospital as a general practitioner handling daily clinics and a few surgeries. He will be finishing his Peace Corps duty this fall. Peter Grose is a correspondent for the New York Times in South Vietnam. Fernando de Toledo is now in the international division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas and is working in Brussels. Joe Vittoria has sold his car rental company to a firm called Auto Europe of which he is now the Italian general manager. Joe and his wife, Luciana recently had their second son born exactly one year to the day after the first.

Received a good letter from Bruce Arneill who is enjoying a good architecture practice in New Haven with a subordinate practice in Denver, Colo. Bruce has received a number of fellowships and lecture series. He designed his own house in Guilford and hopes that it will be published in several magazines. Jon Breslav has recovered from an illness he incurred in 1963 and is continuing his work as district sales manager for the car leasing division of Hertz. His territory covers the five Boroughs of New York as well as Long Island and Westchester. Tony Marshall was appointed this summer as Assistant Trust Officer of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in New York. Tony is in the trust administration department of the bank, and he and his wife Judy live in New York. Another summer appointment was that of Charlie Goode as a Sales Representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for which he will be working out of Memphis.

The Class should be much indebted to Towny Ludington who has provided the following information about our classmates, which I will now quote in full: "I was recently an usher in Sandy Grinnell's wedding to Kate Mayer: they were married August 29th in Old Lyme, Conn. After a two week trip to Spain, they will be living in New York, where Sandy is a practicing architect. Had a marvelous time at the wedding with Paul Eisele and his wife. Jay Inglis and his, and Denny Hansen who had just finished swaying the country's opinions as an editor for NBC's Huntley-Brinkley coverage of the Democratic convention; I myself hope that he was able to sway a great many voters to the Democratic cause! When last seen by me, Denny was rowing off into the Connecticut River fog of a midnight, all set to venture out into open seas for a week's sailing on the Inglis' 25' sloop--look for a comprehensive report on sailing in Long Island Sound to appear on TV in the near future.

A long letter from Dr. Terry Simmons indicates that he is adapting well to southern California living. Captain John Miller, USMC, and his wife Glenda, have moved to Ft. Benning, Ga., where John is taking the nine-month career officer infantry course and paratroop training. Chaplain Alan Lovins writes (as of June 19): ‘Norma and I are expecting our first offspring any day, and as I'm sure you'll recall that's pretty exciting. We've been in Grafenwohr for about nine months and have enjoyed the landscape and the quiet living. Norma and I took one long trip to Italy and Tunisia in April, and in May I took a very short one to Poland and Czechoslovakia.' Ted Vlamis: ‘It hardly seems possible that Teddy will be 5 this summer and that Timmy just turned 3. By the way, we have another (boy??) on the way due around early September. Betty and I just (June 3) returned from Minneapolis. Our plant (General Mills) won first place in a production contest among nine of the plants, and we were invited up there to receive the honors.

"Alan Carr writes of the arrival of a third daughter, Andrea, on May 1, 1964. Larry Herrmann is now at Harvard Law School as a third year student. Kim Cheney, ‘I'm still pulling the impecunious student syndrome. Plan to settle in New Haven for a while--762 Orange Street.' Dick La Ganze: (living in Killara, Australia) ‘I am ½" shorter now that I have had a disc removed, but it doesn't seem to interfere with my activities; work or otherwise. I am not married yet.' He goes on to describe what sounds like very pleasant living conditions. Bob Wrenn reports a move 2 ½ years ago to northern Minnesota. Hi Maxim and his family are doing well. They live in Avon, Conn. Hi worked as a suburban division chairman for the Alumni Fund this past year. Pete Williams has moved to a new job with the Norden Division of United Aircraft near Wilton, Conn. and is still doing engineering in the aerospace field. Otis Graham as of last spring expected to be at Mount Vernon College another year. He is teaching history and finishing a dissertation on progressivism. Henry Chrishold commiserated with me about collecting money. He was involved in doing the same thing for his high school class in Cleveland as he wrote me."

Two final notes: Leo Bearman and his wife Joy had a 9 lb. son this August. They are living in Memphis. Finally don't forget our class tent at the Yale Bowl at the Princeton game on November. 14.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: October 1964

It has been a long, hot summer, but our Class family continues to increase admirably. A son was born in June to Anne and Johannes Somary. Your class officers have also been busy in the production line this summer. In June, Linda and I had our fourth, and in July, Suzy and Bide Thomas had their third. The birth of a new Meyer coincided with my appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney. Both the Thomas and Meyer families have recognized that any difference between their households and a zoo is extremely slight.

Although some of our classmates have not produced, they have taken the first step: David Johnson was married in May to Eleanor Stephens and will be living in Georgetown, where David is a planner on the staff of the National Capitol Planning Commission. Fall weddings are planned by Henry Von Maur and Talbott Huey, with Henry engaged to Susan Frick and Talbott engaged to Alison Baker.

Received a good letter from Mike Kenefick's wife Annie in which we learned that Mike is now working for Doolittle & Company, an investment house in Buffalo. The Keneficks have three children and celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in August. Annie reminded me of a dear old lady named Mrs. Spock at whose house in New Haven Mike and I boarded our girls during weekend visits. The Keneficks recently had a reunion with Gina and Dave Ridderford and Melinda and Jay Kahle.

Other notes received this summer indicate that Bill Calin is now an Assistant French Professor at Stanford and has just published his second book, a small anthology of 20th century French poetry. Bill was a Guggenheim Fellow in Paris until this spring. Earlier this year he married a French girl in Paris. Chuck Price reports that he is on an extended leave of absence from the Control Data Corporation as the result of an auto accident in which his M.G. turned over. Chuck writes that he was much comforted by the hospital visit of Peter Hinkle. Ted Jones was elected chairman of a County Republican Committee in Ohio, and was an alternate at the Republican National Convention in July. Dick Adams, helped to make the firm called To Be Alive which can be seen at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the World's Fair. Also on everyone's World Fair agenda should be the Better Living Center where Mike Dodge tells Maine stories for a baked beans company. In the fall, Dick is going to Poland on a government grant to spend a year at the Lodz Film Academy. Jay Schocket is now associated with a law firm in Newark, and is living with his wife Sandy and his son Barry in West Orange

I am looking forward to hearing from many of you in the near future so that this column can be the news providers which we all want it to be.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: July 1964

All is apparently quiet on the class front, and as a result the news this month is small in quantity. Since this is the last column for the 1964 school year, I hope that I will be hearing from many of you this summer. Accounts of your summer travels would make good reading in this column in the fall.

A couple of interesting business notes: Mike O'Hearn, his wife Nancy and two kids have left New York and Mike's job at First National City Bank and moved to New Haven, where Mike has become an Account Executive with Peter Duble and Company, a Connecticut insurance agency. Mike will be working in the property insurance field and welcomes his new independence. Guy Palmer was recently made an Assistant Vice President of the Bank of New York. Guy had joined the bank in 1957 after college and is in the investment counsel department.

Have heard from the Peter Fine. Peter, Mary and their son Jason are moving in July to the Bronx, where Peter will be taking a residency at one of the Bronx's large and challenging hospitals.

John Onthank reports the arrival of his third son. John is working in New York with Canada Dry as national can sales manager. Also on the domestic side, Gil Merritt has become engaged to Louise Fort of Nashville, Tenn., and a fall wedding is planned. Gil is on a leave of absence from legal work with country government to direct a campaign for a U.S. Senate candidate.

The Class had made a $25 contribution to the Yale Alumni Placement Service which plans to expand its staff and facilities to provide increased counseling for the alumni. Copies of that office's booklet can be obtained from the Service at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: June 1964

A little business first. The 1963-1964 year is coming to a close, and many of you still have not sent your class dues ($8). If you have lost Treasurer Thomas' address, send the dues along to me at the above address. One classmate who mailed in his dues has written the following, echoing the feelings of all those who have paid: "My apologies for not having forwarded my class dues sooner. However, like many others no doubt, I have been wondering just how long the few are expected to support the many in our class. Each month, thanks to the class dues, I read in YAM of the many in our Class who have gone on in their education and of the many who have fine jobs and blossoming families. It seems difficult to believe that such a fortunate group is so impoverished that they cannot support their own class." So be it.

The international news this month is made by Fernando Alvarez de Toledo who has become the European technical representative of Owens-Corning Fiberglass International and is now living in Brussels. Fernando and his wife Mary-Margaret are much enjoying the cultural and international activities in Brussels and have seen Peter Smith who is also living there. Mary-Margaret presented Fernando with a son, Frederic, in April.

Received a note from Reuben Shapiro who is finishing his second year of residency in internal medicine at Hartford Hospital. Reuben and his wife Peggy have a 1-year-old boy. The family will be going to San Francisco this summer where Reuben will have a fellowship in cardiology at the University of California Medical Center. Also continuing with scholastic endeavors is Dave Berger. Dave is combining law studies at the University of Washington with partnership in a Seattle business. Dave and his wife Kathleen have one son, Timothy.

A few business notes: John Cronin is working in Denver, and this winter was able to make a combination business-skiing trip to Europe. Buz Clein is an industrial real estate agent with a firm in Seattle. Buz and his wife Marlene have a daughter, Robin. Bob Beaney writes that he is now working with the financial department of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. He and his wife Gayle and their 8-month-old daughter have moved into their first house in Wallingford, Pa. This is a suburb of Philadelphia where Bob reports seeing many Yalies. Mike Kohler has been appointed manager of the Kansas City branch sales office of Kohler Company. Prior to this promotion, Mike was a plumbing fixtures salesman after a tour with the Navy as a radar communications officer. Another promotion in the business community is that of Guy Palmer who has been made an Assistant Vice-President of the Bank of New York.

Steve Flagg has become engaged to Cynthia Hixon. Steve is a resident in surgery at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and will soon enter the Army Medical Corp. He and Cynthia are getting married in July. Dr. Bill Fleming had a son in April with an assist from his wife.

This column cannot end without announcing that Goey Franciscus, star of the television program Mr. Novak, has received the Man of the Year Award from Christian College for Women in Columbia, Oh. I am sure that Goey not only made a hit with the girls but was also properly proud of the award given "In recognition of his special service to education in dignifying the teaching profession and accenting the values of close student-teacher relationships through the excellence of his portrayal of the role of ‘Mr. Novak.'"

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: May 1964

Received a good letter from Towny Ludington who, with his wife Jane is living in Durham, N.C., while studying for a Ph.D. in English at Duke. Towny has been in touch with a number of our classmates and reports as follows: Roger Gambatese is now a Captain in The Air Force stationed at Travis Air Force Base in California. Roger plans to take the California bar exam in August and then to join a law firm in Sacramento. He says that the Sacramento area is growing with plenty of opportunity and phenomenal weather. Bernie Kosto is finishing his first year of surgical residency at the Grace New Haven Hospital. He and his wife Gale will then go to Johns Hopkins for a four year residence in urology, to be followed by three years in the Navy. Ian Jones has finished his Ph.D. at the University of California and is now working at Space Technology Laboratories. He writes that both the work and the salary are immensely rewarding. Charles Maderer is teaching math at the St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, N.J. and "hopes to go back to school full time one of these days."

Dick Burhoe is teaching at the Thacher School in Oajai, Calif., but has a summer job for six weeks in Virginia. Dick and his wife Pat are expecting their fourth child in July. Dick Newman is now working with the New Jersey Attorney General and reports that he is very much enjoying both his public service sting and his bachelorhood status. Charlie Gold has shifted from the marketing department at IBM to the teaching and researching departments. His new department is actually called the IBM Systems Research Institute and is located at the U.N. Plaza. Dick Allen will be in the Army until this fall when he and his wife Judy and their new son will do some traveling before returning to the U.S. where Dick will continued toward his Ph.D. in English at the University of Pittsburgh. Thus concludes a most informative letter from Towny.

Ted Jones is very active in Cleveland affairs with an Army Reserve Unit, as a paper-folding equipment salesman and as a Republican Committeeman. Ted also reports that he has been able to recruit a number of football players and swimmers for our Alma Mater.

The exploits of Carroll Brewster in the Sudan continue to be fascinating. "Ed Carroll" as he is now called after a couple of years with the Sudanese judiciary provided a glimpse of his work in the following quotation from a recent letter: "I am just out of court where my assistant was trying a man for about 27 counts of petty crimes. When asked what he had to say, the man railed on at the Judge El Amin Mohamed El Amin Tatai, my assistant, for 40 minutes saying that since his first conviction he had never been able to find a job and was forced to crime. El Amin patiently listened until the accused ended his speech with a prayer to the court to hang him. ‘Hang me, Judge and when we meet in the life to come, I shall walk up to you, shake your hand and thank you.' Said El Amin. ‘What makes you think we shall meet in the world to come.' And the man said, ‘We shall meet in Hell!'"

One of the judges with whom Carroll works in the Sudan was recently in the U.S. as a representative to the U.N. Council on Human Rights, and I had the pleasure of having lunch with him at that time. As a representative of the Sudanese judiciary, this judge had a deep sense of justice, a sympathetic understanding of our racial problems and a delightful sense of humor.

A few miscellaneous notes: Hal Gulliver has been named education writer for the Atlanta Constitution. Before his new assignment, Hal was a reporter covering the sessions of the Georgia General Assembly. He and his wife Marian have a 1-year-old son. Pete Robertson is with the Department of Army at its special warfare center. Fort Bragg, N.C. He recently returned to the U.S. after two and a half years in the Far East. Pete is a captain, a husband, and a father to two children. Also with the Army, as a translator, is Andy Rohlfing. Andy and his wife Sarah have one daughter and live in Alexandria, Va.

The award for chief stud in the Class appears to me to go to Jim Shanley who now has five children. Jim graduated from Georgetown Law School in February 1963 and is now with the State Department as Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations. Finally, it is good to note that Roger Samet is now at the Milan Trade Fair and is using a car rented from Joe Vittoria's Hertz Rental Agency in Rome.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: April 1964

We recently had a great Yale wedding, and those of you who read the New York Times saw Reid White strolling down the aisle looking as though he had just finished his third Whiffenpoof green-cup at Mory's. Since Reid and his wife Laird were married on this leap year's February 29, we are assuming, unless we hear otherwise, Laird handled the marriage proposal. Serving in the wedding as best man was: Joe Clayton and as ushers, Ned Morris, John Shaw, Frank Brown, John Tyson and Gerry Neary. Although Reid and Laird were married in New York, they will live in San Francisco where Reid is an Assistant Vice-President of the Bank of California.

A few random notes, George Hutchinson, employed by Procter & Gamble in England, is the proud father of a second son. Since socialized medicine in England pays for almost everything except the glint in the husband's eye, George and his wife Jane must be realizing by now that some of the best things in life are really free. There have been a few California cards. Paul Cayley is an engineer with Hughes Air Craft Co. He and his wife Irene now have three children, aged 4, 1, and 0. George Perlstein is a physician in Berkeley, Calif., for the U.S. Public Health Service. As I recall, Keene Taylor is working with the same organization in Washington, D.C. Dick Burhoe, with an M.A.T. at Harvard under his belt, is now teaching at the Thacher School in Oajai, Calif. Take note, fathers, that Dick is also the Assistant Director of Admissions at Thacher. Dick and his wife Pat also have three children.

The amount of class news coming in has slowed down in recent weeks and so I hope that many of you will use a free moment to drop me a line. Also, consider returning to New Haven for an off-year Reunion this June.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: March 1964

Bud Trillin is in print again, this time with his first book which is entitled, An Education in Georgia. The book is an elaboration of Bud's interesting New Yorker articles on the integration problems at the University of Georgia. The book is a buy for $3.95 (if any of the rest of our classmates have published recently, this column would of course be delighted to give them equal time.)

A great many cards have been coming in and rather than giving you the news in any organized fashion, we are going to try a shot gun approach. Muller Davis was married in December to Jane Strauss. Randy Guggenheimer was in the wedding party. Muller and Jane are living in Chicago where Muller is continuing with his law practice. Ed Sherako has been appointed a senior claims representative at the Springfield, Mass. Office of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Ed and his wife Barbara have a daughter and live in one of the garden spots of the world, Longmeadow, Mass. Another appointment is that of Ed Ajello to the newly created post of manager, market development and planning, for General Electric's electronics specialty capacitor section in Winston-Salem. Ed is living with his wife Gloria and three children in Columbia. Ian Jones, another one of our engineers, has completed the requirements for a Ph.D. in engineering science at the University of California. Last December he joined Space Technology Laboratories which is located in Redondo Beach, Calif. Dick Lewis is a fellow in cardiology at the University of Oregon Medical School and was married last summer to Marion King. Bill Sheffield is another Californian, a resident physician at the University of California. Bill reports an annual event in San Francisco called "Bucket Day" in which Yale takes on Harvard in a number of activities. Bill writes that although Yale has trounced solidly in bridge, they managed to win golf, baseball and football.

Still another Californian is Reid White who recently moved to San Francisco and joined the Bank of California National Association. The New Yorkers are going to miss Reid. Pete Greer has a couple of daughters and writes that he will provide no future Yale alumni until the college turns co-ed. Pete is a sales representative for Union Carbide in the state of Washington. He reports that in his extensive travels in that state, he has found it to be beautiful though generally seen through rain drops. Bob Hewett and his wife Barbara also have a couple of daughters but Bob's geographical position is somewhat different, an officer in the American Embassy in Stockholm. Jay Kuhn is getting started in business in San Francisco as an insurance broker. He and wife Eleanor have a 4 ½ year old son and a sufficiently large residence to accommodate all Yalies who are in or passing through San Francisco (so Jay writes).

George Schuyler is engaged in overseas development in Columbia and Venezuela for the Ford Foundation. George received his M.A. in international relations last tear from Johns Hopkins University. Pete Smith is also abroad, acting as deputy managing director for the Belgian office of an American company. Pete has seen a couple of classmates in Brussels, Fernando Alvarez De Toledo and John Wright with whom he celebrated his birthday by having a crap game in a local pub. Pete writes that he has been doing a fair amount of Belgian hunting which is superb. Ivan Selin, holding a number of engineering degrees as well as a Ph.D. and a Doctor of Sciences from the University of Paris, is now an engineer with the Rand Corporation in California.

If you get to Ontario, Canada, be sure to look up Jack Curlett or Bill Hall. Jack is a sales supervisor for McCormick & Co., Inc., in Thornhill, Ontario, while Bill is a marketing manager for Procter & Gamble in Don Mills, Ontario. Bill's children now number three. Tom Quirk reports that he is married and has a 10-month son who can pick up a football (miniature) in one hand. Tom writes that he has seen Bill Bogert who is with the National Company of A Man for All Seasons. And speaking of actors, don't forget to tune in to Goey Franciscus' new television series Mr. Novak on Tuesday nights.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: February 1964

I have recently received a couple of newsworthy letters. Rick Pace writes that he has been transferred to Hong Kong to cover Southeast Asia for Time magazine. You will remember that before this he was in Bonn for Time and before that he was in Bonn and Paris for Life magazine. For all those of you who will be traveling to Hong Kong, Rick's address is 1227 Central Building. I have also heard from Art Nassau who is practicing law in Hartford. Art's family interest (two children) has now expanded to the political field where he lost a race for State representative by only 250 votes. He continues as president of a Young Republican club.

The New York newspapers have reported that Gordon Bellis has been admitted to partnership in the New York brokerage firm of Middendorf, Colgate & Co. An event not reported in the papers but of paramount importance is the birth of a son last month to Larry Bodkin. Larry and his wife Mimsie live in New York where Larry practices law. Another domestic note is the marriage of our crew man, Donald Beer, to Nancy Gardner. Don is working with the Intercontinental Hotel Corporation in New York.

The cards which you were sent with your dues request letter are beginning to roll in, but, of course, too often without the dues. What gall! Taxes are going to be reduced, the economy has never been higher and our class treasury has never been lower. The message is clear.

The following is a run-down of cards recently received. Ted Frembgen is Assistant Sales Manager with Trane Ltd. in Richmond, England. Ron Ragen is practicing law in Portland, Ore. Roy Gillespie and his wife Margaret have two children named Dawn and Dana, and Roy is a production manager for Procter & Gamble in New Jersey. Phil Derby is an instructor in the Japanese language and Asian history at the Iolani School in Honolulu. He has been teaching there since September 1961 after two years at the University of Hawaii Graduate School. You may remember that the Rev. Burt McLean, the Assistant Rector at Yale when we were there has been headmaster of the Iolani School. Peter Davis has been with Dominick & Dominick since last fall after leaving First National Bank. He will be working in the sales department when he becomes registered. Al Boasberg is an attorney in San Francisco. He has effectively maintained his independence by holding off the girls and by practicing law on his own. Other California cards show that John Hearst is married, has a son and is an assistant professor at the University of California. Dick Moneymaker is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in bankruptcy. He continues to play rugby with a local rugby club, and he and his wife, Marie are expecting a child in May.

From Tulsa, Okla., we learn that John Ryan and Swinch Swinchatt are in the petroleum business. John is an assistant to the general manager of operations for the Cities Service Oil Co. He says that he has been in touch with the Tulsa Yale Club. Swinch is a research geologist with the Pan American Petroleum Corporation and received a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1962. Dick Simons is a history teacher at the Punahou School in Honolulu (Iolani and Punahou are the two big private schools in Honolulu). Dick and his wife Barbara have two sons. He reports that the Yale Club of Honolulu is very active. Steve Weitz is a city planner in Columbia, S.C. He has a degree in urban planning and is delighted now to be on a salary so that he can pay his dues. Charlie Marks is marketing manager for the Charles Dennery Company in New Orleans. Joe Mark is a market research analyst with the Aluminum Company of Canada. He and his wife Sheila live in Montreal with their son Mike who was born last April.

Since the New York news was monopolizing this column for a while, it has been good to hear from those of you who are in other parts of the country and the world. A Happy Valentine to all.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: January 1964

Many thanks for your letters and cards. They help to keep our news up to date, and I hope more and more of you will be writing. If you want, enclose at note with your dues and it will reach me.

Gary Bellow is a trial lawyer for the Legal Aid Society in Washington, D.C., and it was my pleasure to see him in action last week. He was persuasively arguing a defense of insanity. Gary has tried about 80 cases in the last year or so. He is living in the Capital Hill region and hopes that any classmates coming to Washington will drop in and see him.

We have some interesting recent business notes. Joe Vittoria, with experience gained in Hertz International, has now opened his own car rental service in Rome and will be expanding to Milan and Naples by next summer. He promises excellent service for any classmate traveling in Italy. Joe, his wife and their young son are living in Rome at 240 Via Cassia Antica. Dick Munn and his family of four are being transferred to Xerox's headquarters in Rochester. He is most excited about his work and reports that Gerry Murray is also with Xerox in the same department. Dick writes that he saw Tom Myers at a business show in New York. Tom is with the St. Regis Paper Co. at their research lab in Rockland County outside New York City. Dick also reports that Chuck Welsh (with Travelers Insurance in Hartford) and his wife, Ceil had a son born on October 1 and that Doug Murray has been teaching in New Zealand for a year and will be returning to the U.S. this month to take a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California. With all this news from Dick Munn, I think he should volunteer to be our next Class Secretary. Pete Davis is working at Dominick & Dominick in New York and is training to become a registered representative. Peter is living in New York with his wife and their 3-year-old poodle and has found time to play the folk guitar.

Received a good letter from Dave Riddiford with news from the Minneapolis area, as follows: Dave himself is still with Minneapolis-Honeywell and has been admitted to the bar: Clyde Allen is also with Honeywell; John Crosby, his wife, Laura and their son are also in Minneapolis where John is teaching history at the Blake School. Ben Case (wife Joanie and daughter, Jennifer) is with Minneapolis Reynolds & Co.; and Mort Shapiro remains a Minneapolis bachelor while practicing law and doing a lot of traveling. Dave also reports having seen Joe Ritchie who was vacationing from his steam cleaner business in Tucson. Finally, Dave has heard from Charlie Goode who is married, living in Memphis and selling alfalfa. Other Minneapolis news comes from Larry Perlman, who with wife Maria recently had their first child, a son named Harris Jonathan. Larry is an M.D. with the U.S. Public Health Service and is stationed in Minneapolis as state heart disease control officer. Larry also reports having seen Mort Shapiro as well as Jim Stevenson who is taking a pathology residence at the University of Minnesota.

I have a new neighbor Jerry Jones, who with wife Penny has just bought a house in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Jerry is practicing patent law in New York City.

If you are having some trouble with fathers toughing the Yale men of yore, note some interesting statistics from Dean Georges May of Yale: The average member of the Class of 1967 is nearly one inch taller and 12 pounds heavier than the average member of classes 30 years ago. Also, about 43 percent of the present freshman class are earning grades of 80 or more compared to only 25 percent 30 years ago. Of course, this means that if our sons are to be admitted to Yale, they will have to be both giants and geniuses. Good luck.

A very Happy New Year to all.

—J. Edward Meyer