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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.
Notes: December 1965
Notes: November 1965
Notes: October 1965
Notes: July 1965
Notes: June 1965
Notes: May 1965
Notes: April 1965
Notes: March 1965
Notes: February 1965
Notes: January 1965
Notes: December 1965
The Valencia News (Spain) recently carried the following interesting
report: "El viceconsul de los Estados Unidos en Valencia, Sr. Timothy L. Towell,
ha sido nombrado ayudante especial del embajador de los Estados Unidos en
Espana." In plain English, Tim Towell has been named special assistant to
our ambassador to Spain, Angier Biddle Duke. Tim has been a Vice Consul in
Valencia and will not be moving to Madrid. He writes that he now expects to see
more of Jose de Vacuna who is also in Madrid.
1957 continues to contribute to the field of science and medicine. Temby
Argall, with medical school and the Army behind him, is serving a year as a
fellow in medicine at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Bob
Kirschner has completed the orientation course for officers of the U.S. Air
Force Medical Service at Gunter Air Force Base in Ala., and has now been
assigned to the medical staff at Travis Air Force Base in California. Bob had
previously received his M.D. at New York Medical College. Tung Hon
(Sonny) Jeong is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Lake Forest College
and was recently bestowed with the honor of being a guest columnist in the
American Journal of Physics.
I recently enjoyed seeing Carroll Brewster in New Haven, where he is
practicing law, conducting a seminar at the law school and keeping in touch with
some of his friends from the Sudan. Received a good letter from the Dave
Sawyers, who are living with their two sons in Charlotte, N.C. Dave has been
with Humble Oil since graduation serving in various capacities as a sales
supervisor, merchandising coordinator and now conductor of a training program.
Dave was also recently elected President of the Yale Alumni Association of
Charlotte. If Yale is active in Charlotte, it is really bouncing in Boston where
the following of our classmates have been attending monthly luncheons: Ben
Moore, Buzz Aronson, Dave Lawrence, Larry Herrmann, Jim King, Hal Cogger, John
Stockwell, Tom Chittenden, Bill Reimann, Roger Samet, Ken Gergen, Archie
Richards, Doug Almond, Morris Raker, John Quarles, Walter Loesche and Bob
Joost. The latter extends an invitation to all classmates to join the Boston
group at Warmuth's Restaurant on the second Monday of each month.
It is always fitting to end the column on a domestic note: The New
Yorker's Bud Trillin has married a vivacious blonde, Alice Stewart.
Tony Bingham was married in England to an English girl named Anne
Buswell. Further along the matrimonial road are Frank Brown and his wife
Marjory who recently had a 7 pound daughter, Claudia. The Browns live in Palo
Alto.
I will be looking forward to receiving your letters and cards as Treasurer,
Bide Thomas will be looking forward to receiving your dues.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: November 1965
Much news of late about weddings and babies. Beginning in the West and
working East, Ron Ragen and his wife Lee had a daughter, Linda, in
Portland, Ore., in June. The Stu Millers had their third child, a
daughter, Melissa Anne, in August in Shaker Heights, Oh. Stu is a Management
Consultant for McKinsey & Company in Cleveland. Our great reunion chairman,
Howie Gillis, and his wife, Edwina had their third son, Edward Michael,
in May in New Haven where Howie is Vice-President and Treasurer of the Adley
trucking company. Howie showed greater allegiance to his wife than the Class by
failing to attend a Class Officers' meeting in order to be with Edwina when the
baby was born. Jon Breslav was married in Scottsville, N.Y., in August to
Diana Paris. The crop of ushers included Harry Valentine, Ink Clark, and
Charlie Carpenter. Jon and Diana are now living in Stamford, Conn., while
Jon is working for Hertz. Jesse Lemisch was married in New York in June
to Naomi Weisstein who is a Harvard Ph.D., no less. Jesse has received a year's
fellowship in order to complete a book on "merchant seamen and the politics of
the American Revolution." Finally in the domestic column, the Don Babs
had a son, Andrew, in June in New York where Don is practicing law.
Received a good letter from Paul Rosenstein who, if he is not having
babies is about as close to them as he can get. Paul is in the third year of a
four-year program in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Maryland's
Medical School. Paul's impressive medical background included study at the
N.Y.U. Medical School, San Francisco General Hospital and Albany Medical Center
Hospital. He was married in 1962 to Sandra Senders, and they have a daughter,
Susan, with a second child expected shortly.
Met any glaciologists lately? Well, we have one in our Class: Charlie
Keller. To prove it, the following is a quotation from a summer press
release of the U.S. Army: "Charles M. Keller, who has served as a glaciologist
with several recent Arctic expeditions, has joined the technical staff of the
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (USA CRREL). USA
CRREL, a research and development laboratory of the Army Materiel Command,
conducts research on a worldwide basis. As a geologist with the Cold Regions
Laboratory, Mr. Keeler will devote most of his research efforts to studies of
snow and ice at high elevations. His first assignment with USA CRREL has been as
a member of the team of scientists conducting snow studies on 19,500' Mt. Logan
in the Yukon Territory, second highest peak in North American. Mr. Keeler
received a Bachelor of Science degree at Yale University in 1957 and, following
Naval service on board an ice breaker in the Antarctic, 1959-1962, studied at
McGill University, obtaining a Master's degree in 1954. Awarded a J.B. Lynch
Fellowship he spent the past year working on his doctoral studies at McGill. Mr.
Keller was a glaciologist with the McCall Glacier project in Alaska during the
International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957, with the Arctic Institute Devon
Island Project and the McGill Axel Heiberg Arctic Expedition during the past two
years. He is the author of research reports and other publications concerning
Arctic work." Admiral Byrd appears to have nothing on Charlie who also is
married with a permanent residence in Lyme, N.H.
John Swinchatt is another classmate working in the geology field. A
recent release from Colgate University indicates that Swinch has been appointed
an Assistant Professor of Geology at Colgate. After Yale, he obtained a Ph.D.
degree at Harvard and became a specialist in sedimentology and marine biology.
A few business notes: George Armor is a real estate developer for a
Baltimore-based company, Community Research & Development, Inc. Jim
Ferris, who is living in White Plains, N.Y., with his wife and two children,
has been promoted to a Brand Manager of the Nestle Company. Jim is now
responsible for developing marketing plans for Nestle's morsels. This must be
the first time Jim is satisfied with just morsels. Phil Gignoux, whom I
very much enjoyed seeing in Washington a few weeks ago, is commuting between his
bacheloresque home in Washington and Baltimore where he is in the investment
department of a life insurance company.
Two final reminders: The Class tent at the Harvard game and your Secretary's
need for letters, cards, and phone calls from all of you if this column is to
appear next month.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: October 1965
We're off to another year of Alumni columns, and your Secretary hereby
pledges to report all the news that's fit to print. But I cannot create and so I
will be counting again on your good letters and cards. If the husbands won't
write, I urge some of the wives to. There's nothing like that female handwriting
to keep my wife on her toes.
Jonathan Brownell, recently accepted an appointment to the high post
of General Counsel to the Tax Department of the State of Vermont. Jonathan, his
wife Jeannie and their three children left a New York City apartment and Wall
Street law practice for a farm outside Montpelier. I understand that Gary
Bellow, a public servant of longer tenure, has taken a new position on the
executive staff of Washington, D.C.'s anti-poverty planning organization. Gary
had been a leading trial lawyer in Washington's Legal Aid Society.
Towny Ludington has again taken the time to write a long letter
reporting news obtained during his Alumni Fund drive. Quotations from Towney's
letter are as follows: "Charlie Maderer, now teaching at St. Bernard's
School in Gladstone, N.J., will be studying at Brown next year. Received an
impressive letter from Peter Hobart, who reports: ‘I, myself, have
expatriated to Europe and am now running the international portion of the family
business, which as you certainly are aware of, is welding and electric power
generating equipment. Things are booming, factories springing up here and there,
and I am getting lots of travel, and so-called fascinating international
intrigue.' Bob Pegg reported himself extremely busy at John Pegg &
Co., in New York. David Griffith's address is now: Peace Corps Physician,
c/o Peace Corps, P.O. Box 336, Jesselton Sabah, Malaysia.
"Don Spillman writes: ‘Big move back to the (West) Coast was
occasioned by a fortuitous chain of events which led to procurement of gainful
employment (at last) as a lawyer with the Regional Solicitor's Office of the
Department of the Interior. Am very happy with both location and job.'
Capt. John Miller, USMC, expects to head for the First Marine Division
after finishing the Army's equivalent of Junior School and jump school.
Bernie Kosto has started four years of residency in urology at Johns
Hopkins Hospital. His wife Gale is teaching 11th and 12th grade English at the
Roland Park School in Baltimore.
Otis Graham is moving to California to take a job at Hayward State
College in the Bay area. His wife, Ann, will be going to Stanford to get an M.A.
He hopes to get his Ph.D. in November. Dave Clarke is a graduate student
at Yale and ‘scratching for a living.' Dick Newman, working for the N.J.
Attorney General, likes the work very much. He finds himself always somewhat on
the edge, the possibility of the opposing party taking office hanging over his
head. Chaplain Alan Lovins has 1½ more years in the service. He
writes: ‘I'm now in Kaiserslautern and enjoy it much better than my last post.
I'm kept pretty busy and our daughter, Aviva Lynn, born last July 18, gives us a
lot of pleasure. We're planning a short trip to Israel in May and a longer one
to Rumania, Russia, and Turkey in July.'
"Dick and Judy Allen are enjoying life in Pittsburgh, where
Dick is continuing graduate study in English at the University of Pittsburgh,
after having finished his tour in the Army. He has shunned my own area of
interest, American Literature, for an ancient and worn out Englishman, G.
Chaucer. Charlie Gold has joined me at the job of trying to raise money
for the Alumni Fund. He is doing a fine job, I might add. Oh yes, his main
efforts are for IBM. Gar Heller writes: ‘We have finally settled in our
new and hopefully permanent house in Westport, Conn. All is well and my job as
manager of technical analysis and programming for Socony Mobil Oil Co. is
exciting and challenging.'
"Buell Neidlinger in a marvelous calligraphic hand, would remind the
Alumni Fund that money is the root of all evil; as a result, he sent along 10
S&H Green Stamps, to the Fund. Seeing the fuss made at each shopping trip
over said stamps, I do believe that they may well be an even greater evil.
Roger Gambatese extended in the service for a year and has been much
wrapped up with the California bar exams. He reports: ‘Baby boy--third
child--born November 12, 1964. Building a house in Davis, Calif.' Read
Charlton visited Dick Crisler in Guatemala this past spring. He was
at Mike Poutiatine's wedding and is now back at his home in Charlotte
Courthouse, Va. We hope he will pay us a visit in Durham. Bob Wrenn,
located in Cloquet, Minn., had a few words for the cold North and hoped to get
east for a while.
"Hi Maxim is soliciting in the Hartford, Conn., area for the Alumni
Fund. He reports having bought a Lightning which I know he will get a lot of use
of in and around the Essex area. Denny Barnes teaches music in
Washington, D.C. He is at the same time composing and plans to continue in this
field. George Curtis, with, I believe, it is, four girls is studying for
his Ph.D. in American History at Wisconsin. Henry Geldzahler thrives in
the art world. He has just come out with a book, and there will soon be a
feature in Life on him and on his work. Larry Herrmann has
finished Harvard Law. Mike Pattison is in New York City as a broker for
Smith-Barney. Capt. Peter Robertson, U.S.A., is an instructor at the
Special Warfare School at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
"Terry Simmons is doing clinical work in L.A., but expects to leave
for a stay in Hawaii soon. He is well established in the west and has no desire
to return east. This spring Jane and I bumped into George Schuyler here
at Duke, where he was attempting to lure a Duke scientist or two into temporary
work for the Ford Foundation. George is now living in Caracas, Ven., having
gotten an M.A. from Johns Hopkins. The scientists he was after would aid in
establishing programs in their fields in Latin America, I believe. And that, I
think is all. We continue here at Duke. Jane is expecting a second child in
August and I am studying toward a Ph.D. in English, as I have been now, for the
past few years." So much for Towny's fine letter. It would make a great
contribution if the other Alumni Fund agents could write me a letter of this
sort once a year.
Received a good letter from the Maury Ryan. After two years of
practicing law in Brooklyn and one year in Rochester, Maury is now helping his
father with three companies in the stone, metal spinning and fishing tackle
business. He and his wife Mary Lou have had one son and expect another about
Christmas Day. They report seeing Dick Engle and the Luke Finlays
in Rochester. They all recently had a Rochester Yale Club picnic and were amazed
at the large number of Yalies in the area.
I have a number of other family and business notes received this summer, and
they will be fully reported next issue. Hope to see some of you at Yale this
fall, at least at the Harvard Game where our Class will again have a large tent
complete with refreshment facilities. Try to come to the tent for lunch or after
the game.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: July 1965
The Class continues to exhibit its youth by the recent rush of marriages and
arrival of babies (no necessary connection intended). Jim Van Alen was
married in May to Bonnie Bartholomew in a gala Philadelphia wedding. The Yale
contingent serving in an usherial capacity or otherwise included: David
Wilmerding, Jim Brady, Phil Weymouth, Tuck Halbkat, Dan Cornwell, Joe Marks, Mo
Brooke and myself. Reporter discovered that Phil Weymouth and his wife Peggy
are living in Wilmington, Del., where Phil is in the insurance business. Dan
Cornwell and his wife Rika are living in the Philadelphia area, where Dan works
for Merrill, Lynch. Joe Marks and his wife Sheila are in Montreal, where Joe is
in the investment business. After the wedding, Jim Van Alen and his new bride
left for a honeymoon in Europe.
Jon Breslav will be married this summer to Diana Paris. Jon and his
fiancée will be living in Stamford, Conn., while Diana is teaching and Jon
commuting to his job as a New York District Sales Manager for Hertz. Also
engaged is Peter Grose, to Claudia Ker, who is a junior at Smith College.
After college, Peter spent two years at Oxford and then last month he became
Chief of the Moscow Bureau of the New York Times. Peter has had broad
newspaper experience as a correspondent for the Associated Press in London and
the Congo, and for the Times in Paris and Saigon. Pierre Bourquin
and his wife have recently had a daughter, Colette.
The fine arts are flourishing under the guidance of Peter Morse and
John Copelin. Peter has just been made Associate Curator of Graphic Arts
at the Smithsonian Institution. In taking on the new job, Peter is moving to
Washington from Santa Barbara. On the side, Peter reports that he has dabbled in
politics, the retail music business and grand opera. John, after working for
four years in architectural offices in England and France, has returned to New
York with his wife Jennifer, where he is working for another architectural firm.
John is doing mostly university work.
Dick Rees is teaching at the Cathedral School for Boys in San
Francisco. He has been slowed up until recently by several operations on a
detached retina but is in high gear now and very much enjoying San Francisco.
Peter Stubing was recently appointed Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor
of Health Science at the University of Illinois. Peter received his M.D. from
the University of Florida in 1961, and then went on to an internship and
residency at Pennsylvania hospitals.
We have a highly complementary report on Ray Carlsen who played a key
role in a recent mercy mission of the coast of Libya. Ray, who is a doctor,
administered to severely burned seamen in a fishing boat during a six-hour trip
to the Port of Tripoli, as a result of an Italian ship catching fire and being
abandoned 50 miles at sea in the Mediterranean. Ray was transported to the area
via helicopter.
I hope everyone has a fine summer, and for those of you who are in the East,
the Class has been reminded that the New York Giants will play the Pittsburgh
Steelers on August 22, 1965 at the Yale Bowl for the benefit of the Albie Booth
Boys' Club.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: June 1965
Have you ever heard of two middle-aged ladies from Ohio playing "Buckle Down,
Winsocki" by pulling window shades up and down on portable window frames? Have
you ever learned who Billy Batson sometimes said "Holy Moly" instead of
"Shazam?" Have you heard about the two new fascinating books Young Men Can
Change the World: The Story of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Of
Lasting Interest: The Story of the Readers Digest? Well, if you want to read
about all these and more (for example, about the scrap book which is kept on
former Queens of the Pulaski Day Parade), then read Bud Trillin's story
in the April 17 issue of the New Yorker. As the hero of the story would
say, it's not only "camp" but it is also "pop". In such a manner, our Class
Historian carries on with what must be regarded as his version of T.S. Eliot's
and Newton Minnow's Wasteland.
Also in the arena of dramatic fiction, our Mr. Novak, Goey
Franciscus, has been honored by the Thomas Alva Edison Award to his program
as the television series "best portraying America." It has been reported in the
newspapers that this program is being dropped by NBC at the end of this season.
We will look forward to Goey moving into new ventures.
In the field of business Zach Sachs has announced the opening of his
own law office, in Beverly Hills. Ned Morris, fittingly, is with Philip
Morris in England, Hank Hulshizer is a partner in a New York City
investment firm. Buz Aronson was recently elected to the board of
directors of a Boston bank as well as named their bank attorney. After Yale, Buz
received his law degree from Columbia, practiced briefly in New York City and
then joined a Boston law firm of which he is now a member. Buz lives outside
Boston in the suburb of Newton. A month or two ago this column related that
Dave Kramer was European Editor for Columbia Pictures. That situation has
now changed and Dave has returned to New York as a Production Executive with
United Artists. Received a letter good from Peter Hare who received a
Ph.D. from Columbia and is now Assistant Chairman of the Philosophy Department
at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The activities of the Hare
family is enhanced by the fact that Peter's wife, Daphne, is a resident in
internal medicine and they have two children.
Also received a good letter from Bill Chinnery on stationery entitled
"Yale Club of Kansas City." Bill reports that the Kansas City branch is
experiencing as unprecedented period of interest and participation with
membership growth in excess of 17% during the past year. Bill, who is secretary
of the club, writes that Ralph Wrobley has been most helpful and
responsible for the club's growth. Ralph received a law degree from the
University of Chicago in 1962 and is now practicing in Kansas City where he
lives with his wife Madeleine and a son born last fall. Bill also is not doing
badly as he and his wife Wanda have a daughter.
Of recent note is Mike Poutiatine's marriage this month (May) to
Marsha Meserve in Long Island. The Class was well represented in an usherial
capacity by Read Charlton, Mike Dodge, and Eric Pace. Mike
and his new bride will be living in Loudonville, N.Y. while Mike is working for
a paper company in Troy.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: May 1965
The TV fans from our class in the New York area may have recently seen Jim
Richardson on Channel 2. Jim was giving a one minute advertising plug for
his employer, Bankers Trust Companies. What a surprise to be watching the 11
o'clock news the other night and see Jim's smiling face flash across the screen.
In other banking news, Jim Brady has recently been appointed an Assistant
Vice President in the Western Division of Bankers Trust Company. Jim joined the
bank right after graduation and became an Assistant Treasurer in 1952. He and
his wife Joan live in Far Hills, N.J. George Doty has been appointed an
Assistant Secretary of the United States Trust Company in New York. After
college, George graduated from the University of Chicago Business School and
joined Bankers Trust in 1962. He and his wife and daughter live in Greenwich,
Conn., where George is an area chairman of the Greenwich Health Association.
Vincent DeMeo who has been with American Cyanamid Company for the past
four years, recently received the company's Golden Oval Award for his
outstanding 1964 sales record. Vince was one of 38 top Cyanamid salesmen from
the United States and Canada to receive the honor. He and his wife live with
their three children in New Jersey.
A few interesting notes from the scholastic field. Jim Crooks is
teaching a lecture course on American History at the University College in
Dublin. Jim received a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University last October. He
reports having seen Peter Cooke who dropped by enroute to the United
States from a six week visit to Africa on behalf of Overseas Educational
Service. Peter is apparently a liaison man connecting American University
personnel with job needs in African universities. Bob Smith has been
appointed an Assistant Professor at Nasson College in Springvale, Me. He
previously taught at two secondary schools in New York City and in Connecticut
and has been studying, under a Fulbright grant in France for a Ph.D. in history.
Bob is married and has one child. Also in the teaching line, Bob Mobley
is teaching at Greenwich Country Day School and living in Greenwich with his
wife and their two children. Finally, Hannes Somary continues to put his
considerable musical talents to work as a conductor and choir director in New
York. It is reported that his knowledge of music is combined with a great flair
for conducting. Hannes and his wife Anne, who teaches piano, live in Greenwich
Village with their 9-month-old son, Stephen.
We cannot leave the column this month without reference to classmates in the
honorable legal profession. Crawford Shaw is practicing international law
and customs work with a small New York City law firm. Crawford and his wife,
Danee recently moved out of New York City with their 1½ -year-old
daughter Melissa to a charming house in Bronxville. Finally, I must report to
you on the extensive activities of our first Secretary, Gary Bellow, in
the field of criminal law. Gary is a deputy director of the Legal Air Agency in
the District of Columbia, and as such, has become most competent in the trial of
criminal cases. In addition to this work, Gary is teaching courses in criminal
procedure and trail tactics at Georgetown and American Universities. He has
edited, written or collaborated on a number of criminal law publications, and he
is a consultant on public affairs programs in the law and poverty area. For the
year 1963-1964 he was selected "young lawyer of the year" by the Junior Bar
section of the District of Columbia Bar Association.
The news is running low, and I would be most delighted to hear from more of
you before our last two columns of this school year.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: April 1965
Fathers of the Class, sit up and take note. One of our own has been appointed
the Dean of Admissions at Yale. On February 2, Ink Clark, at the age of
29, became Dean of Admission and Student Appointments. Congratulations are much
in order. We are delighted to see that the Class' representation in Yale's high
places by Sam Chauncey has now been increased by Ink's promotion.
We have considerable news from abroad this month. Received a good letter from
Dave Kramer who, as previously mentioned, is President of the Yale Club
of London. That Club is very much a going affair with some 200 members split
about equally between Americans and Englishmen. Dave has been in London with
Columbia Productions Limited (the movie outfit) for the past 3½ years. At
present, he is the London and European story editor, a job which involved
finding suitable story material for Columbia to film. Dave reports that he has
heard from Bob MacKinnon who is now living in Paris while working for the
Paris office of a large New York law firm. Jerry Farnum writes that he
and his family are moving to Zurich where Jerry will be attorney for the
European and African operations of Dow Chemical International. Bill
Flower has moved closer to paradise by his recent move to St. Thomas. Bill
writes that he and his wife have one girl and that he is now involved with
companies in the photo finish, trucking and restaurant business. Tim
Towell is beginning his second year as Vice Consul in Valencia, Spain. He
has less than a year to go before moving on to a recent promotion. Tim reports
seeing Jose De Vicuna frequently when he is in Madrid. Jose is apparently
making quite a name for himself as a movie producer. Tim Childs has
returned from his Foreign Service post and is now under temporary appointment to
the Executive Secretariat of the State Department. Tim's work for the State
Department has permitted him an occasional couple of days for travel, and I
enjoyed seeing him and his wife Hope in New York recently.
On the business side, John Somerville is with Traveler's Life
Insurance Company in Honolulu. John is also pursuing his considerable tennis
talents by teaching tennis to over 30 children on weekends. John and his wife
Harriet now have three children, an 18-month-old daughter and twin boys born
last May. Alan Carr, associated for the past four years with Old Colony
Trust Company has now become associated with the Boston investment counsel firm
of Eaton & Howard. Bob Lieberman is with the Ford Division of the
Ford Motor Company in its Kansas City sales office. He and his wife Sally live
with their daughter in a Kansas City suburb 50 miles from his job. Bob claims to
make the daily drive in 37 minutes. Bob also reports having seen Ralph
Wrobley who is a lawyer in Kansas City and Norwood Hill and Jim
Ketchersid who are doctors in the Dallas area. Roland Labine has been
promoted to manager of market services at McGraw-Hill. Roland joined McGraw-Hill
in 1957 as an assistant editor of chemical engineering and became as an
associate editor in 1962.
Mike Poutiatine has become engaged to Marcia Meserve from Long Island.
Mike is working with a paper company in Troy, N.Y. Peter Fine and his
wife Mary, have produced their second child, a girl named Julia. Peter and Mary
now have a boy and a girl, while Peter continues his medical residency at a
Bronx Hospital.
Finally, Jim Van Alen who, as previously reported, was recently
engaged and was the runner-up in the United States Court Tennis Championship.
Court tennis is an intriguing game originating in the French monasteries many
centuries ago.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: March 1965
I have just been informed by the Alumni Records Office that John
Whittlesey died suddenly of a heart attack last December 5. John was
unmarried and was enjoying a successful banking practice in California at the
time of his death. He lived in Sunnyvale. John's father and mother are Mr. and
Mrs. Granville Whittlesey, Jr. 131 East 94th Street, New York.
The Alumni Fund Anniversary Dinner, held in New York on January 19, was a
most delightful affair. Our Class was well represented by Randy
Guggenheimer and Jane, Frank Mongillo, Lars Kulleseid and
Marit, Mike O'Hearn, and myself and spouse, Linda. The evening provided
both entertainment (by the Yale Banjo Club) and some inspiring remarks on
fundraising. For example, the class agent of 1914 "persuaded" 153 out of the 155
members of his class to contribute last year. He told a story about writing one
classmate 17 times and finally receiving a $5 contribution when the classmate's
wife said that she would divorce him unless he made a contribution. The
classmate finally gave only "to save my cook." Our Class certainly has had it
good so far. The evening wound up with a speech by President Brewster, who
stated that the public welfare is often best served by the pooling of private
efforts, talents and funds--private charitable enterprise is a public trust.
I picked up the following information at the Fund Dinner. Randy
Guggenheimer and his wife, Jane, have three children and Randy is enjoying
the practice of law in New York City as a litigator. Frank Mongillo is an
attorney in New Haven, where he began to practice after graduating from the
University of Connecticut Law School. Lars Kulleseid and his wife, Marit,
live in a converted barn in Garrison, a rural community 50 miles north of New
York City, where Lars is a patent attorney. Lars is center half on a soccer team
which has a large Irish delegation. John Herrmann was married in
November, with Alan Hockstader and Randy Guggenheimer serving as
ushers. John and his wife, Jackie are living in New York. Bob Pelletreau
recently returned from a Foreign Service post in Mauritania and is now in
Washington, D.C.
Received a good letter from Ted Frembgen who had been living in
Edinburgh for almost a year, working for Trane, Ltd. Ted returned to the U.S. a
few weeks ago to join a firm in Chicago. He writes that while abroad he attended
a meeting of the recently reactivated Yale Club of London where he saw Larry
Kramer, John Mars and John Wright. Ted also writes that he was
frequently induced by the attractive Scottish lassies but managed to avoid any
marital entanglements.
Two final notes: Jim Van Alen became engaged in January to Jeanne
Bartholomew. Jeanne, like Jim, comes from a suburb of Philadelphia. Bob
Driscoll was married in January to Margaret Moore. They were married in New
York where Bob works with Roy Winsor Productions.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: February 1965
Carroll Brewster returned from the Sudan on Christmas Eve after his
three year tour of service in Khartoum as a legal officer in the Sudanese
Judiciary Department. Among his many ventures in the Sudan, Carroll compiled and
edited three volumes of law reports and articles, the first of their kind in
that country. Just before his departure for the United States, Carroll became
involved in the Sudan rebellion when he inadvertently drove his scooter down a
main road in Khartoum where rocks were being thrown at him from masses on both
sides of the street numbering in the thousands. It is reported that only by a
burst of speed, a great war yell by Carroll and the twirling of his hat over his
head was he able to escape the onslaught by leaving the rebels in a high state
of confusion. Carroll is now back at his home in Ridgefield, Conn., and will be
staying there a while making plans for the future.
In another foreign note, Phil Pillsbury returned from his U.S.I.S.
post in Mali and spent a weekend with Sam Chauncey. Phil has accepted a
new U.S.I.S. post in Madagascar. The next time you are in Madagascar you can
reach Phil at the American Embassy in Tananarive.
Bruce Schragger was recently elected to the board of directors of the
Arnold Constable Corporation which operates a department store chain in the New
York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania area. It is reported that the common stock of this
company, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, is rising rapidly.
Bruce is also a member of a Trenton, N.J. law firm, and he and his wife Irene
have two sons. Bruce was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the New Jersey
State Assembly in 1962. He worked for another Yale man in 1964, Bill Scranton.
Jim Ferris recently joined the Nestle Company as an Assistant Brand
Manager for grocery products. Jim, his wife, and two children, are living in
White Plains, New York, and Jim is working out of Nestles White Plains office.
Buz Aronson, one of our many attorneys, has become a partner in a Boston
firm.
Marriages and births will abound for us old men. Ted Wood was married
in December in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, to Betty Deming. After Yale, Ted
served in the Army and graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1962.
George Vojta and his wife Susan recently had their first baby, a son
Christopher. The baby was born in Manila where George is working for First
National City Bank. The Vojta's expect to return to the United States in May.
A few class administration matters of interest: Frank Brown has become
Yale's Enrollment and Scholarship Chairman from Northern California. This is a
big job, and Frank has already requested a set of slides of Yale to use in his
enrollment work.
I have received a financial report for the 1963-1964 fiscal year from our
financial wizard and Treasurer, Bide Thomas. Bide concludes that the year
was better than anticipated. Dues of $3,000 were received from the Class, and
expenditures of $2,452 were made. The amount of dues, computed at $8 per class
member, still reflects an extremely low participation. For those of you who have
been wondering how your class dues are used, of the $2,452 spent last year,
$2,063 went to YAM, $238 to clerical expenses and the small remainder to
miscellaneous areas.
—J. Edward Meyer
Notes: January 1965
Although not given too much to cheer about, the Class was well represented at
the Princeton game on November 14. As in the past, we shared a tent outside the
Bowl with the Class of 1958 and had a fair turnout both before and after the
game. (Since the Class of 1958 is questioning the worth of such a tent in the
future, I would be most interested in your comments.) Also, as in the past, our
Class did not receive any honored seats inside the Bowl (to make an
understatement), and we had the misfortune to sit in the end zone which Cosmo
Iacavazzi entered on two occasions after long gallops. In sum, the tiger in
Princeton's tank was too much for the Bulldogs.
Frank Brown reports that the Princeton game was broadcast by a special
Pacific Telephone sound system to Trader Vic's in San Francisco. A special
program was provided which stated: "The Trader will provide his own special
grogs and rations. The teams will provide their own special brand of football."
There were 265 in attendance. Frank and his wife Tinker arrived in San Francisco
in July with Frank having been reassigned to a position in Life
magazine's advertising department. You may remember that Frank was previously
with Architectural Forum. He further reports that the Yale activities in
Northern California are most active including not only the previously mentioned
Trader Vic broadcast but also Redwood Bucket Day. This occasion, as previously
reported in this column, is a daylong competition with Harvard and includes:
touch football, tennis, golf, softball, bridge and beer. Yale won the bucket
again this year. Frank reports seeing the following of our mates in the San
Francisco area: Al Boasberg, Scott Cannell, Bill Hamm,
Pat Jones, Dick Massey, Bill Sheffield, Berk
Tompkins, and Reid White.
Received a good note from the Colin Jensens in Sioux City. They have
seen Wayne Moeller who is selling a remote-controlled TV service to
hospital. They also report that Ted Frembgen is still in Scotland with
Trane Air Conditioners.
A couple of interesting notes in the governmental line: Tim Childs and
his wife Hopie have returned from Tim's foreign service post in Damascus and
will be spending a couple of years serving with the Executive Secretariat of the
Department of State. Tim tells of one of the more exciting ways to have a baby:
their last son was born in the midst of a Damascus coup d'etat with Tim
and Hopie speeding to the hospital in an Embassy car down long Damascus avenues
which were lined with tanks. Gil Merritt was executive director in the
successful Senate campaign of Ross Bass in Tennessee. Gil is an associate
metropolitan attorney in Nashville and finds time to lecture on the side at
Vanderbilt Law School. Gil was married to a Nashville girl in July.
Linda and I enjoyed a visit from Ron Ragen and his wife Lee a few
weeks ago. Ron is doing corporate work from a law firm in Portland, Ore. He has
been able to continue his fine game of squash to a limited extent. He and Lee
have a daughter Kim.
Dr. Tung Hon Jeong is beginning his second year on the faculty at Lake
Forest College where he is an Assistant Professor of Physics and a member of the
violin section of the Lake Forest Chamber Orchestra. Finally, Ray
LaMontagne, who recently began work for some of the Rockefeller family, is
leaving next week on a six-week business trip to the Middle and Far East. He
will be revisiting some of the places he visited during his tour of duty for
Yale-in-China.
—J. Edward Meyer
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