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 1966
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Notes: May 1966
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Notes: February 1966
Notes: January 1966

Notes: December 1966

Whereas it is now cold and wet in the northeastern parts of these United States, it is comforting to hear from the land of perpetual sunshine and our Hawaiian representative, John Somerville, whom I quote as follows: "Last June (1965) the Yale Glee Club came through on their tour of Southeast Asia and Russian. I never thought you could pack the Honolulu International Center Concert Hall with 1,500 people to hear the Yale Glee Club. I was assisted in the organization of their stay by a group of Yale graduates from the 1959-1964 classes, among who was Andy Poepoe. As a reward (?) for this activity, I am now President of the Yale Club of Hawaii. Incidentally, Andy is running for our state legislature. Check our primary results after October 1 to get the results. Occupationally, I have been Vice President and Sales Manager of Hawaii's oldest mutual fund, the Brown Fund of Hawaii, for about a year. Family-wise, you've probably learned of the arrival of my twin boys, Henry and Jimmy. By next year they'll be in school with sister, Hannah. Hattie and I enjoy the Islands with the wonderful climate and many opportunities. Tennis continues to occupy my spare time. All the Sommervilles plan to come east to Nantucket nest year." A good letter from John for which we are most appreciative.

As you know from the past 4½ years of this column, lawyers generally get their fair share of the space, just as lawyers generally get their fair share of words. For this month, we have the appointment of Lars Kulleseid as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. Lars joined the same office as I am in, and it's great to have another collaborator against crime. Lars and his family live in the rural community of Garrison on the Hudson River above New York. It was reported in the last issue that Carroll Brewster had gone to Tanzania in Africa to help defend a Peace Corps worker charged with murdering his wife there. After a difficult and emotional trial featuring among other things the testimony for the defense of the mother of the victim, a verdict of acquittal was returned.

In the business world, Gerry Snyder has been admitted as a partner in the New York Stock Exchange firm of Jas. H. Oliphant & Co. He has been working as a security analyst specializing in transportation. Gerry and his wife Nan have two daughters and live in New York City. Chuck Schaller, who joined Celanese Corporation right after graduation, has been appointed product director of solvents. The John Marshall Law School in Chicago had a graduate this past June, John McCreary. John won several scholastic prizes in law school and has been employed as a supervisor of labor relations with the National Steel Corporation.

The happy matrimonial news this month is that Bob Ludwig was married to Marcella Wright in Walpole, Me. Marcella had attended the University of Munich, and she and Bob are now attending Columbia University as graduate students while living in New York.

We are very fortunate to have Howie Gillis as our Tenth Reunion Chairman next June, and you can be sure that Howie will put on quite a show. His preparations began this week with a meeting in New York of all reunion chairmen.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: November 1966

A good letter from Towny Ludington fills us in on this year's news from the Class Piersonites. Towny himself is finishing a dissertation and began this fall teaching American Literature on a one-year appointment at the University of North Carolina. As to the other classmates about whom Towny reports, the following is a quotation from his letter omitting news otherwise reported in this column: "Dick Allen is studying at the University of Pittsburgh and plans a dissertation on the Old Norse legends and sagas. Hi Maxim and Mimi we visited in Hatchett's Point, Conn. Hi is very pleased that he has just taken a job as Director of Manufacturing for the Wiremold Co. in West Hartford. Hi, with his new success, already is dreaming of a 35-foot sloop. A letter from Dick LaGanza told of his then impending marriage on April 16 to Susan Lawton from Brisbane, Australia. They had purchased a plot of land in Killara and were building at the time of the letter. Roger Gambatese reported having left the Air Force and joined the District Attorney's office of Yolo County, Calif. last year. He is one of four Deputy D.A.'s and handles exclusively criminal matters. Roger also has a new house and is the Yale Alumni Schools Committee recruiter for his county.

"During the past school year Larry Herrmann was a research assistant in Mexican law at Harvard. Alan Lovins reported last spring that he would be getting out of the Army where he has been a chaplain these past three years. Hank Chisholm writes ‘Henry Chisholm, 4th arrived last August which give us three: daughters, 7½ and 5 and our new son. A fine long and humorous letter from Bob Weinmann. Last spring he was Chief Resident in Neurology at Stanford University Hospital, was tougher than Ben Casey and would eat Maggie alive, and expected to be fighting in the Army medically this past summer. And finally, Bill Greaves reported from England that his work toward a Ph.D. in English was progressing, his thesis being The Life and Works of Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, 1635-1699." So much for Towny's excellent report.

Received a most interesting letter from Phil Pillsbury this past summer. Phil's travels and work for the U.S. Information Service has been extensive--Madrid, Florence, Naples, Bomako (Mali) and presently Tananarive, Madagascar. He writes that beginning in 1964 in Mali he was able for the first time to appreciate deeply the concept of equality between the races--"the same feelings of love and sorrow and hate and laughter expressed in a different way in a different culture." He credits language with being the great barrier to break. Phil comments on the high level of competence of Americans working in Africa including Bob Pelletreau who is Assistant Desk Officer for Mali and Guinea in the State Department and Rocky Suddarth '56 who is in Yemen. Phil expects to be returning to the U.S. this month.

From Africa to Rome, where Joe Vittoria has switched his car rental agency business from Hertz to second best company which tries harder. Joe is now European Operations Manager for Avis and is also holding an interest in a garage and bus service for the Hilton Hotel in Rome. He and his wife have two boys with another baby expected in January. In the last year they have seen Quince Hunsicker and Ray Lamontagne and wives.

Back on these shores, Peter Hare has been appointed Assistant American Director of the Bibliography of Philosophy, a quarterly journal of abstracts financed by UNESCO. Peter is also continuing as Assistant Chairman of the Philosophy Department of New York State University at Buffalo where more than 4,000 philosophy students are registered each semester.

Hope to see many of you at New Haven this fall, at our tent at the Princeton game or otherwise. And if I don't see you, write, or better yet ask your wife to write.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: October 1966

Get prepared mates for the greatest year for our Class since 1957. This fall we will have a tent at the Princeton football game on November 12. This winter I'm hoping that there will be many Class dinners across the land, and if there is enough interest, we might have a New Haven weekend centered around one of the Yale hockey games. Then in June, the year will be climaxed by our 10th Reunion, and a great affair is promised with more details to come in future columns. I want to warn you now that you will also be solicited for a special 10th Reunion gift--we will be expected to give early and often. I recommend the early part.

As for summer Class notes, you certainly didn't write your Secretary early or often. But in view of the nuptial and birth announcements, we are apparently still thinking young. Charlie Abuza was married to Susan Messer at Delmonico's in New York, and they took an island-hopping honeymoon in the Caribbean. The Class was well represented at the wedding though apparently not the honeymoon, by George Dunn, best man, Jack Turben, Tom Perkins, Art Diefendorf, Pierre Bouquin, Lars Kulleseid, Dean Loucks, Bill Clinton, Mike O'Hearn, Frank Michelman, John Watling and Russ Goddard. Charlie's wife Susan is head of her own marketing research company while Charlie and a friend have recently formed their own law partnership in New York. Chris Sonne has also left the bachelor ranks by marrying Sara Barnes in Bristol, Conn., this September. Sara is now completing a teacher-training program at City College. Chris continues as an Assistant Vice President of Harriman, Ripley, the investment banking concern in New York. Bob Pelletreau is engaged to Pamela Day, and they plan to get married in December. Bob and Pamela have a common public service interest. Bob as a Foreign Service officer and Pam as a student for a doctorate in public law and government at Columbia University. We have a couple of new summer babies: Bill Fleming and Carolyn had their third child and second son, Edgar, in New York in June and Chris James and Ellen had a daughter, Katherine, in August.

Some promotions from the business world: Charlie Schaller has been Product Director of Solvents in the New England office of Celanese Chemical Co. Tuck Halbkat has been appointed to the newly created position of Manager of Diversification Planning for Continental Can Co. in New York. He had been with an investment banking firm in Baltimore until last year. Now Tuck and his wife live in Weston, Conn. with their five children. John Onthank has been promoted to Manager of Product and Package Development for Canada Dry's U.S. carbonated division. John and wife Judy live in Greenwich, Conn. with their three sons. Pierre Bouscaren has left Equitable Life and joined The Rouse Company where he will be immediately involved in the leasing of six new shopping center projects in Toronto, Houston and several eastern cities. Charlie Grimes and Zack Sacks have formed their own law partnership; Charlie with two others in New York City and Zack by himself in North Hollywood, Cal.

On the more academic side, I notice that Ray Lamontagne has been elected a trustee of Yale-in-China which is now conducting an important fund-raising program. Last spring Otis Graham received a Ph.D. in History from Columbia and is now teaching at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He will have a book published next year called The Old Progressive and the New Deal. Otis' wife Ann expects to get an M.A. from Stanford this fall but is already kept well occupied with their 2½-year-old daughter. And finally, Jim Crooks has become an Assistant Professor of History at Hollins College in Virginia. Jim had been a visiting lecturer at University College Dublin. Jim is also author of the penetrating comment about this magazine that "It's a very good value." And so we end this month.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: July 1966

Brief notes of government appointments and of the activities of several of our Class' lawyers and one of its doctors comprise the total news for this last column until the fall. Through the courtesy of the State Department we have been informed that Allen Wendt has been promoted to Class 5 in the Foreign Service as part of the normal progression from Class 8 to Class 1. Allen entered the Foreign Service in 1959 and was stationed in Duesseldorf, Germany. He is presently assigned to the Foreign Service Institute for Economic Studies in Washington. His speaking knowledge of both French and German has undoubtedly helped him to make a real contribution. This column has contained frequent reports of late regarding the doings of physicist Tung Jeong who has been teaching at Lake Forest College. Tung has now been appointed by the Atomic Energy Commission to a three-month research assignment at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies where he will be studying "the inner structure of nuclei by proton bombardment with one of the atom smashers.: (I'm glad he said it!) The appointment is reportedly the result of Tung's interest and experience on the subject of the optical model of the nucleus, now under investigation at Oak Ridge. During July, Tung will attend a scientific conference at the University of Rochester under a grant from the National Science Foundation. It sounds to this layman as though we have a scientist extraordinaire.

From the world of law comes news that Carroll Brewster has been hired to defend a Peace Corps worker who will soon stand trial on a murder charge in Tanzania. Carroll made a first trip to Tanzania in May to attend a preliminary hearing in the case. Gary Bellow, Deputy Director of a Washington, D.C. anti-poverty project called the United Planning Organization, has been appointed a director of the new Vera Institute of Justice. This institute recently received a $1.1 million award from the Ford Foundation for a five-year study in New York City of police handling of confessions, alcoholics and the early release of arrested persons. These three areas of study are being increasingly discussed and legislated in the growing problem of urban law enforcement, and the Vera Institute will tackle these areas with treatment and clinics as well as proposals. Gary will be joined on the board of directors by well known judges, law professors and practicing lawyers.

Ron Sharp is practicing law in Bridgeport, Conn., with a predominantly Yale firm going back to the Class of 1916. Any of our lawyers who are considering taking the Connecticut Bar exam might take note that Ron is lecturing in the Fairfield County bar review course. Ron and his wife Susie became parents for the first time with the birth of a daughter in May. Talked to Denny McGill recently and he is practicing law in Newark, N.J., and is reportedly as fast going from his office to court as he was going around right end nine years ago.

Ted Klein has completed the orientation course for officer-doctors in the Air Force Medical Service where he specialized in aerospace medical subjects. Ted has now been assigned to Loring Air Force Base in Maine to practice as a physician with the Strategic Air Command.

Before I close I think you might find the following quote interesting from a recent New York newspaper article: "Of the eight Ivy League colleges, Yale will probably have the most culturally diverse Class of 1970 entering next fall." The new Class will have Yale's first American Indian; also, several Puerto Ricans, Chinese and Mexicans as well as 48 Negroes. Ink Clark, Dean of Admissions, reports that the Class will also include 50% more students from New York City's more disadvantaged areas.

Hoping to get many vacation cards from you this summer.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: June 1966

Our notes this month, though few in number, cover a broad geographical area of these United States. From Vero Beach, Fla., Ken Sharp writes that he is very much enjoying his Florida law practice which has included his representation of the company which recovered gold from the old Spanish galleons. You may have seen this recovery reported in the National Geographic and Saturday Evening Post. Ken also provides the following information which I quote: "On May 2, Isabelle gave birth to our second daughter, Julia Manger Sharp. Our eldest daughter will be 3 in June. I have seen Sandy Clark and his wife on several occasions inasmuch as he traveled down to the Cape quite often for the missile shots as Time, Inc.'s representative. Hank Conlan has just moved down to Winter Park, Fla. He is a representative for a company which informs manufacturers of their prospective markets. Also, Joe Curtis lives in Winter Park and is a building contractor there."

From Portland, Ore., Ron Ragen writes that he is enjoying his association with a new law firm. Ron and Lee have two children. From Indianapolis, Ind., comes a good letter from Pete Fritzsche, as follows: "I was married on February 12 here in Indianapolis, to Ruth Black of Brownstown, Ind. In attendance at the wedding were George Dunn, Guy Palmer and Dave Bowman who were ushers and also Dick Lumpkin, Vern Loucks and Lou DeLuca. It was a wonderful day and great to have so many friends show up from so far a distance. Ruth and I had our honeymoon at Caneel Bay Plantation, St. Johns, Virgin Islands." Pete also wrote that although he was not too concerned with the weather, on his honeymoon, it was beautiful.

Also from the Hoosier state (Chesterton, Ind.) comes word from the Tom Browns. Tom is a general foreman of a new Bethlehem Steel mill in the area. He and his wife Maureen had an addition to their family last October--their fourth son, Matthew. From Washington, D.C. comes news of a new booklet by Peter Morse entitled "Rembrandt's Etching Technique: An Example." Peter created the booklet as part of his work as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. The booklet contains many examples of Rembrandt's etchings together with a ten page explanatory text. Copies are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 for a price of 20 cents each.

From Glastonbury, Conn., Temby Argall has considerable news to report: the completion of a fellowship at the Harvard Graduate Medical School, co-authorship of a medical article and his engagement to Jacqueline de Marcken. Temby is practicing medicine in Hartford. And, finally, from Bronxville, N.Y., comes news that the Peter Fines will be moving this summer to New Haven where Peter will be taking up a pediatrics practice with five other pediatricians. Peter and Mary and their two children will be living in Hamden.

At Yale Law School for our fifth law reunion last weekend were Jay Inglis and myself. We had our reunion party in a fancy, new motel on Whalley Avenue almost directly across from the Ray Tompkin's House. Of course, we lawyers were in our usual loquacious form, and everyone, generally at the same time, related his legal exploits in the greatest detail.

A couple of final notes from our Alma Mater: the Alumni Placement Service has thanked us for a $100 contribution to this service which has been assisting about a quarter of every graduating class in obtaining employment. The service is also available to alumni. Finally, I would like to remind all pro football fans in the New York area that the annual Albie Booth Memorial game will be played at the Yale Bowl on August 21 between the Giants and the Detroit Lions. Tickets can be acquired from the Booth Memorial Foundation, 397 Temple Street, New Haven.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: May 1966

For a bunch of supposedly literate, articulate as well as news-making Yalies, I've never in one month read so many one-paragraph, one-sentence letters. But since a reporter takes the news where and how he finds it, the following is faithfully reported. Ammon Dunton, a New York lawyer, will be marrying Katherine Macwithey, a New Jersey girl, on May 21. Dave Lipsher and his wife Rhoda had their second son, Steven Andrew, born in March in Dallas, where Dave is Director of the Department of Psychology of the Timberlawn Psychiatric Center. Dave Sawyer has become industrial sales manager of Humble Oil & Refining Company's Southeastern Esso region. Dave's office is in Charlotte, N.C. Tom Myers, a Senior Research Engineer for the St. Regis Paper Co., has been appointed research associate at the company's technical center in West Nyack, N.Y. Tom's post-graduate training includes both an M.S. and a Ph.D. Vern Loucks has become Assistant to the President of Baxter Laboratories, the pharmaceutical concern. Vern, with the Marines, Harvard Business School and a business consultancy behind him, is now living with his wife and son in Chicago. The Steve Ackermans are living in Honolulu where Steve is Secretary of the Alexander & Baldwin Company. Attorney Leo Bearman, one of the prominent members of the Memphis bar, has been elected to the Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal. This cabinet is the governing body of 10,000 community leaders throughout the country providing training for U.J.A. campaigns.

Harvard recently announced that Frank Michelman, one of our Class' top scholars, will become a Professor of Law effective July 1. Frank has been teaching property and municipal law since he came to the Harvard Law School in 1963 after being a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and after a tour of service with the tax division of the Department of Justice.

Received a good letter from Towny Ludington who in his typical modesty reports on the doings of some of our classmates but fails to tell us what he is up to. He writes that John Miller is on a 13-month tour of duty for the Marines in Vietnam and is a company commander stationed near the Danang airstrip. John's wife Glenda and daughter Kerry are staying at Camp Pendelton, Calif. Towny also writes that Dick Newman is practicing law in Trenton, N.J., while living in Newark. Dick's work has been largely of an appellate nature involving legal problems of the Delaware River Basin, the pharmaceutical profession and the admissibility in court of confessions made in the absence of counsel.

Another letter from the Hi Maxims, reveals that Hi has become a management consultant in Boston for Rath & Strong, Inc. The Maxims, which include wife Mimi and their two children are living in Avon, Conn., since Hi's work is still predominantly in Hartford. They report a big reunion in January with the Art Gardiners, Bill Halls and Jim Kings. Art and Tish came up from Washington with their two girls; Jim and Sue down from Weston, Mass., and Bill and Barbara from Fairfield, Conn. Mimi Maxim writes: "We all decided that we hadn't changed much, and if anything, looked better than when at Yale.: Of course, it is the same for all of us!"

Ted Klein was in the middle of an obstetrics-gynecology residency at a Brooklyn hospital when Uncle Sam's call came. Ted is now a commissioned officer at Loring Air Force Base in Maine where he, wife Elaine and expected July baby will spend a couple of years.

Why not warm up for our Tenth Reunion in 1967 by taking in our Ninth next month?

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: April 1966

For a few days last week I thought that this column had been taken over by the New York Times (what a shame it wasn't). On the front page were two by-lined articles by our great journalists, Peter Grose and Eric Pace. Peter reported from Moscow that the Soviet Union's Vennus III had made a hard landing on the planet, but he stated that the impact of the spacecraft had prevented the collection of information indicating whether any form of life exists there. Eric reported on a police shake-up in New York resulting from Mayor Lindsay's replacement of police commissioners.

Turning to the inside pages of the Times, one found that Henry Geldzahler, Associated Curator of American Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum, had been requested by the National Collection of Fine Arts to assemble an American exhibit for this years' Venice Biennale, an important international art exhibition. The article provided the following additional information about Henry: "Mr. Geldzahler is on a year's leave from the Metropolitan to serve as program director in the visual arts for the National Council on the Arts.

"Mr. Geldzahler, barely 30 is known in the art world as a promising young man who ferrets out trends before they are fully developed. A native of Antwerp, Belgium, he received a B.A. degree from Yale and spent two years as a graduate teaching fellow at Harvard. He was hired by the Metropolitan as an Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 1960, before he had completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the sculpture of Matisse. He organized and wrote the handbook for the 20th century section of the museum's recent big show, ‘300 Years of American Painting.'" The article goes on to state that Henry is now taking a month's vacation in the United Arab Republic and Morocco before resuming his post with the National Council on April 1.

Turning a few pages more in the Times, one found that Joe Clayton was married to Denise Crimmins in Greenwich, Conn. Joe's ushers included: Gerry Neary, Hank Conlan, Gil Kennedy, Ed Cook, Reid White, and Chuck Schaller. Joe and Denise will be living in Brooklyn Heights while Joe continues his law practice in New York. He has a doctorate at Oxford and an instructorship in history at Yale behind him. So much for the N.Y. Times.

In the field of public life, two of our mates have had interesting developments. Carroll Brewster has been appointed a U.S. Commissioner for the Federal District of Connecticut in New Haven. Carroll will continue his law practice in New Haven, while carrying on his new responsibilities which include the setting of bail and the holdings of preliminary hearings for criminal defendants. A U.S. Commissioner is, in substance, the first judicial firing line after a defendant has been arrested similar to a magistrate at the state or local level. Foreign Service officer Tim Childs has just learned that he will be assigned this summer to the political section of the American Embassy at Tehran, Iran, and will thereafter become staff aide to the Ambassador. He writes that he, Hope and their two children "hope any members of 1957 who have become incipient oil magnates or have other business in Iran will look us up." While stationed in Washington, D.C. for the past months, Tim has served on the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association and as director of several family companies.

We'll close this month with a couple of residential notes: Jeff Freeman and family are living in Bedford Village, N.Y., while Jeff commutes to the big city where he is national account manager for a growing educational systems company called Basic Systems, Inc. Mike O'Hearn, continuing his insurance business in New Haven, has moved to New Canaan, Conn., and has produced with Nancy's help, Charles Michael O'Hearn, 3rd, which makes three for the O'Hearns. Next month: a good report from Towny Ludington on notes he's received.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: March 1966

It has become that time in an election year when political buds, planted and fertilized in colder days, now begin to bloom. It is doubtful whether our Class could have a better representative on the political scene than Dick Arnold. Dick, with a background of a summa cum laude at Yale and subsequent public service and private law practice, has declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the fourth district of Arkansas. This is the seat that Congressman Oren Harris recently resigned. In the appointive end of public service, Gil Merritt has been appointed U.S. Attorney for the idle District of Tennessee. Gil writes that he will be working with six assistants on a backlog of 500 pending cases. Gil's endeavors in the law, however, are more than matched for his family endeavors, for in 1965 he and his wife had two children, a boy in February and a girl in December. Also serving the country is Al Jerman, as a dentist for the Air Force at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. Al and Grace have a two-year-old daughter, and have managed to do a fair amount of traveling in Europe. Al assures us, however, that he will be back in the States just in time for our tenth Reunion next year.

Hannes Somary is performing at Carnegie Hall! On March 1, he presented a concert of his own composition at Carnegie Recital Hall. His musical talents are also now on record through a Decca recording of his Amor Artis chorale. Hannes and his wife Anne live in New York. Ruben Shapiro has returned from a cardiology fellowship in San Francisco to establish an office in Hartford, Conn., and take up another cardiology fellowship at the Hartford Hospital. Ruben and Peggy had their second son in November and are now living in West Hartford with their two sons, a dog and a station wagon (a must, of course, for all us suburbanites). It has been a very happy new year for Doug Wright whose wife Sally had their first baby on January 4 and who was promoted about the same time to Manager of Corporate Data Processing for Hammermill Paper Co. The Wrights live in Erie, Pa. Chuck Schaller has gone back to school--to the middle management development course at the Harvard Business School where he was one of about 70 executives from the U.S. and other countries accepted for this business leadership program. It will consist of a 16-week course for the young executives who have been sponsored by their individual companies.

Ending on a bright domestic note this month, the Phil Richardsons have had a son, Charles, whose Yale predecessors include not only Phil, but also a grandfather of the Class of 1917, and a great-grandfather of 1882. The new baby is entitled to a hearty boola from us all. Finally, two of our mates were married in January. Reed Rubin to Jane Gregory who last year made an art tour of the Middle East for the Grey Foundation and Warren Cox to Susan Shifley in the Navy Chapel in Washington. Reed is with Bache & Co. in New York while Warren is an architect.

I enjoyed receiving your good cards and letters this month but take up the pen and let's hear from more of you.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: February 1966

We have some interesting business notes this month. Pan American Airways has a new vice president and treasurer, Charlie Trippe. Charlie, who graduated from the Harvard Business School, gained considerable business experience as an officer of Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotel subsidiary. In that position, he traveled to far parts of the world handling financial arrangements for hotels being constructed along Pan Am airline routes. Charles and wife Pam live with their two boys in New York City. Gene Doggett was recently elected Executive Vice President of New Hampshire Finance Corporation. Gene had previously joined the First National Bank of Boston after graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1960. Woody Bolton has been appointed an Assistant Secretary of the United States Trust Company of New York. Woody is a security analyst specializing in the oil industry. The Boltons are living in Alpine, N.J. Ed Masters is doing well in New York in the sale of a technical line of textile fabrics. Morgan Browne is a financial consultant in New York and secretary of a company making form protectors. He and Joanne live on Long Island.

Our Class Treasurer, Bide Thomas, and wife Suzie have moved from De Kalb, Ill., but I have not been able to ascertain details as yet. Bide is with Commonwealth Edison. Peter Fine and wife Mary have also moved--from the Bronx and Peter's residency there at the Montefiore Hospital to a private pediatric practice in Yonkers, N.Y. Frank Brown writes that he has moved from San Francisco down the peninsula to Palo Alto where he bumped into Tom Robinson in the local shopping center. In September, the Browns had their first baby, a daughter, Claudia. Frank reports that alumni work in his area is progressing well under Ink Clark's leadership and that there are now 64 Yale students from the San Francisco area.

Received a good letter from Berk Tompkins who is teaching in Stanford's Department of History and is Director of that university's summer program. Berk came east this past fall for a Columbia meeting and so perhaps some of you saw him at that time. George Foulds has received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and is now a biochemist at Battelle Memorial Research Institution at Columbus, Oh. George had previously worked for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He and wife Nancy now live in Columbus. Rob Walker continues to teach history and engage in other academic and alumni pursuits at Brooks School in Andover, Mass. Rob is reportedly recovering well from an eye injury he sustained last fall.

The Colin Jensens write that Sioux City's Yale alumni have increased to ten, and four of them are Jensens. Sioux City has had someone at Yale for the past 15 years. The Jensens letter also states that Ted Frembgen is still in Chicago, and Charlie Strong with wife and young son are in New Brunswick. N.J.

A recent addition is John Christopher Wilmerding who was born last Halloween to David Wilmerding and Suzy and has been described by his mother as "adorable." Dave (a former advocate of population control) and Suzy have now joined the select group which has contributed four children to the class family. Anyone going for five?

That's the extent of the news for this month. Please let me hear from you. If you or your wife are poor letter writers than just pick up the phone or I may be calling you COLLECT. I can usually be reached during the evenings at Area Code 914-CE 8-3348, at home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

—J. Edward Meyer

Notes: January 1966

On a clear day in the Yale Bowl You Can See Forever that Yale has devoted alumni who can well endure an ignoble defeat at the hands of the Crimson. And so it was on Saturday, November 20 when members of our Class gathered in the 1957-1958 tent and then became witnesses to a gridiron whitewashing of the Eli. Realizing that many of you will be affronted at my failure to record in print your presence on that day, I nevertheless can recall having seen the following at the tent or in the vicinity of the 10 yard line. Section C, Row 15: Sam Chauncey, John Crosby, Bill Hall, Dave Riddiford, John Barrett, Toby Briggs, Charlie King, Tony Hogan, Woody Bolton, Reed Rubin, Howie Gillis, Chebee Everett, Charlie Trippe, Ren Zimmerman, Randy Guggenheimer, Larry Bodkin and Bill Williams. I also recall having learned that John Crosby is working for a Ph.D. in political science at Georgetown, that Howie Gillis and Edwina have moved to a new house in Pine Orchard which, from personal observation, is both charming and equipped with a fancy intercom system, that Bill Hall is now a management consultant in Fairfield County and that Ren Zimmerman is a general surgeon in Boston.

For those of you who did not get back to New Haven this fall, you will be in for a treat when you do return. The past few years have not only brought many changes on the Yale campus (the new colleges) rare book library and Co-op, for example) but the town itself is undergoing a revolutionary redevelopment. Among the city changes I noticed were many new modern housing projects and business buildings, a new Macy's with roof garage, a new hotel (the Taft has been challenged), and many other things, all to the tune of about $300 million thus far.

Received a good letter from our movie man, Dave Kramer, who continues as a producer for United Artists. Dave is returning to London to be associate producer on two films to be produced in Europe this year. Dave hopes any classmates who come to London will give him a call at the United Artists' office there, 142 Wardour Street. Other business notes reveal that Phil Lottinville has become a Vice-President of Charles F. Noyes Company, Inc., a large real estate firm in New York. Phil has the remarkable record in two years of having negotiated the sales of properties whose value were over $14 million and one property alone in excess of $5 million. Before joining his present firm, Phil gained experience as a financial consultant and comptroller. George Hamilton has been promoted to Promotion Research Manager for the Merck, Sharp, & Dohme drug firm. George joined Merck after graduation, and he and his wife Erna live with their two children in Doylestown, Pa. Ron Ragen has joined a new Portland, Ore., law firm.

Peter Richetta has become an instructor in mathematics at Lehigh. Peter majored in physics at Yale and then did graduate work at Brown and the University of Maryland. Don Edelstein is associated with the B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Cincinnati. Don writes that in reading YAM he is disappointed that more emphasis is not given to the cultural and academic life at Yale.

Hope that you are all enjoying the New Year and that you will begin it by dropping me a card or letter or ask your wife to do so. Our news files are at an extremely low ebb, and the next column will contain more fiction than fact unless you immediately pick up the pen.

—J. Edward Meyer