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 1974
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Notes: December 1974

Ed Van Buren notified us of the sad news that Dick Suydam died on August 31 of a massive coronary attack while helping a friend sail a small boat back from Connecticut to Brielle, N.J. Dick had matriculated with the Class of 1952 but left in 1951 to join the Air Force and returned to graduate in January 1957 and chose to be affiliated with our Class. Dick gained his M.B.A. from NYU in 1964, and in 1965 returned to his great love, flying, when he joined Eastern Airlines, a position he held at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Arlene, who is Director of Nursing at Mercer Medical Center in Trenton, N.J.

The annual response to Cale Carson's class dues notice has again provided us with a great deal of news items. The medical profession checked in with Peter Fine, writing that his book Deafness in Infancy and Early Childhood was published last May. His wife, Mary, is now teaching sociology at Gallaudet College in Washington, where Peter continues as full-time medical director. Dave Griffith, wife, Marcia, and two sons, John and Jeffrey, are well settled in Lexington after five years in the Peace Corps and four years of psychiatric residency at McLean Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. David is now in private practice as a psychiatrist in the Melrose area of Boston.

John Dalack, in addition to being Director of Psychological Services at the Staten Island Mental Health Society and Staten Island Children's Community Mental Health Center, has recently taken over as Director of the Health Center's Day Treatment Center for seriously disturbed children. John Hughes writes from Toledo, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Ohio in that city.

News from the international sector is also heavy this month. Sandy Speer writes from Amsterdam, where he's residing with Daggy, and the two children, Dawn 14 and Mark 8. Sandy is presently Regional Director of Seven-Up International responsible for all activities in Continental Europe. This company was recently awarded the Clio award in the U.S. for one of the Seven-Up TV commercials created and produced in Holland. After ten years in Europe with both P. Lorillard International, and now Seven-Up, it doesn't look as though Sandy's ever going to return.

Mike Jordan has just returned to Darien after three years in London and three and one-half years in Toronto. Mike left McKinsey & Company after ten years as associate and partner and is now with Pepsico, Inc. in Purchase, N.Y., with wife, Kim, and their two children, Kathy 11 and Stephen 9. Jerome Farnum is in Zurich, Switzerland where he is manager of Seattle First National Bank's office. He reports that the gnomes send their best and can't wait until the Americans are allowed to start buying gold.

Dick Rees has just returned from a three-month trip to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a present from his employer, Cathedral School for Boys. He liked East Africa the best, and found the animals fascinating, the people friendly, but wouldn't it have been more interesting the other way around? Dick also discovered one of ex-President Nixon's physicians hiding out in the wilds of Tanzania. Dick reports the second most interesting place on his trip was Jerusalem, and the third was a nudist island in Yugoslavia which either doesn't say much for body building in Yugoslavia, or says a lot about the Cathedral School for Boys.

Larry Herrmann has been an Assistant District Attorney in New York County since 1970, and for the last two years has worked exclusively in narcotics prosecution and investigation, including some effort in the area of addict rehabilitation. Larry reports that the tremendous failures of all solutions attempted to date on narcotics addiction is what keeps him driving towards some better answers. Luke Finlay reports from Washington that he is representing the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, and has run into Art Gardiner at AID, and Greg Austin at SBA in the past several months.

Seibert Adams reports in from Hinsdale, Ill., where he is a CBS vice president, a vice president of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, division of CBS, and publisher at the Dryden Press, a division of HR&W, which he formed in 1969.

Captain Kangaroo reports that his ratings are down since Norty Wright, who had been director of the Captain Kangaroo show for years became director of domestic and international productions for the Children's Television Workshop, producers of Sesame Street and the Electric Company.

Peter Johnson's wife sent us a note from Maine that he is a Foundation potato seed grower in the AGWAY program, growing 250 acres of potatoes a year, as well as the Democratic candidate for the Maine State Senate from District 33. Peter's wife reports one son, Wallace, one wife, Betty, and one Newfoundland dog, Zeke. We hope he gets more than one potato an acre

Larry Kramer wrote a note on the back of his dues card, and then scribbled it out that our class food expert Cal Trillin had a fine al fresco party in the Central Park Zoo to celebrate publication of his new tome, American Fried (Doubleday). We don't know if Larry scribbled out the note because he didn't feel it was newsworthy, the al fresco party got rained out, or Doubleday backed out of publishing Bud's book.

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: November 1974

For most of you, the fall season conjures up remembrances of burning leaves, tailgating at the Yale Bowl, and the fleet feet of Loucks, Ackerman, Ware and McGill. But for us it brings back memories of that fall 21 years ago when cries of "Moneymaker did it" permeated every nook and cranny of Vanderbilt, Wright Hall, Farnam, etc. Out of California came the towering towhead with fast repartee and a wardrobe of tee shirts and a gross of light blue denim pants. Whatever happened to the football stork who had his best game against Army in the fall of 1955 and his worst against the Orange & Black a few days later? As you would expect, Dick is doing quite well, having made a very timely choice in becoming a bankruptcy lawyer a few years back. He's still President of the Pacific Coast Rugby Union, but hung up his shorts about three years ago. He and Marie have taken up scuba diving which is pretty convenient to their home near Hollywood, Calif. They have four children, ages 5 through 10 and Marie says it is all true--Moneymaker did it.

Bill Marshuetz, who has been with Philco-Ford since receiving his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1963, was recently named controller of Philco-Ford's western Development Laboratories located in Palo Alto, Calif. Frank Kimball, who has been with the U.S. Government since 1957, recently took the oath of office as Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Honduras. Most of AID's programs in Honduras are geared towards increasing agricultural production and employment, maternal and child health, rural education, and development of rural marketing systems. Frank transferred to AID in 1962 with his most recent positions being director of the Office of Development Resources, and assistant administrator for program and policy coordination. Frank and Rosemary have five children and are now living in Chevy Chase, Md.

We noted in our recent billing from the Yale Club of New York that Dave Reed and Tom Quirk are on the executive committee of the club, and treasurer and secretary respectively. This is good news for the visibility of the Class of 1957, but bad news if you happen to owe the club any money: All of which prompts us to put in a small plug for the club which we think is the most convenient, lease expensive and quietest hotel in New York. Even if you're not a member, just prevail upon one of your friends to extend the guest privileges to you the next time you're in the Big Apple. The club has gone coed in every respect, with the possible exception of the steam room. We say possible exception because the last time we were there it was so hot we couldn't open our eyes to find out if any girls were present.

We checked in with two ex-Chicagoans the other day, Don Miller and Wayne Moeller to see how they were doing in their new jobs. Don recently moved to Lexington, Ky. to become Director of Marketing for Bank Management Associates, which is the staff subsidiary of Kentucky Groups Banks, a 17-member bank holding company. Don is responsible for the entire marketing effort for the individual banks and said business is booming, what with the coal resurgence in Kentucky. Don loves the rural life and is even thinking of buying a pair of Oshkosh B'gosh or Bic Mac's to wear to work. All of which makes for a very relaxed and happy move from Chicago, except for his love life which he indicates is a little less than active.

Wayne Moeller, along with Joy and four children, has recently moved to Joplin, Miss., where Wayne recently became General Manager of the American Fixture Division of Lozier Industries. Joy and Wayne are ecstatic with the move having now accumulated 420 acres of property on which to farm and raise a few cattle to keep busy on the weekends. Wayne's dad will be moving down shortly to join them. Wayne mentioned that Bill Hinrichs recently moved to St. Louis from the West Coast and is involved in the tax shelter business. I wonder if the income shelter business wouldn't be a more lucrative area of activity these days? Wayne also reports that Jon Breslav has recently moved to St. Louis, as Manager of the Western Auto leasing division of U.S. Fleet Leasing. John had previously headed up Hertz New York leasing operation before going with U.S. Fleet Leasing.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: October 1974

The long dry summer may have been bad for corn and soybeans, but it sure produced a bumper crop of news.

The first order of business is to introduce our new Class Council members as follows: Peter Fritzsche, Cale Carson, Walter Alexander, Howard Gillis, John Herrmann, Lars Kulleseid, Mike O'Hearn, Steve Ackerman, Thomas Perkins, George Vojta, Bide Thomas, Buzz Brenton, Phil Weymouth, Tim Childs, George Dunn, Roger Samet, John Crosby and Gerry Neary. Congratulations fellows, we're only two years late in getting this accomplished.

Despite the rough economic year, our Alumni Fund results can be termed moderately successful with $32,170 donated this year versus $25,275 last year. The good news was that we exceeded our quota this year by 16 percent however, the percent of participating classmates was down to 46 percent from 47 percent a year ago. Given the number of people in our Class involved in the investment banking or brokerage, business, we would have expected an even larger decline than that. Gerry Neary and all the other class agents who put time in on our fund campaign deserve our heartiest congratulations.

Peter Hobart reports that the reason we missed him in Amsterdam several months ago was the fact that he had recently moved to Rome and is working as President of Hobart Brothers International. Apparently 'la dolce vita' is still a reality in spite of the country's persistent economic problems. Peter has written a number of articles and papers on ecological problems in industry and occasionally teaches a few international management seminars.

After a wonderful year in Santa Fe, N.M., doing everything unrelated to his given profession, Allen Wardwell has just moved to New York to take up the position of Director of the Asia House Art Gallery. The job involves administration of the annual exhibition programs of which they are three, and the gallery operations in general. We don't know if Allen had anything to do with it, but J.D. Rockefeller III is giving his collection to the Asia Society, which has moved them up to the major leagues from just a gallery to a full-fledged museum. Along with the move to the major leagues, this puts Allen in the position of planning a major new building program to be completed in several years. Part of the perquisites of the job, are annual trips to Asia, and Sally and Allen took advantage of just such a "business trip" this summer. The new address is Central Park West, New York.

John Herrmann has recently moved over to Kuhn, Loeb & Company to become Vice President in their corporate finance department. Another note of promotion comes from the Hammermill Paper Company, where at the May board of directors meeting, Doug Wright was recently named treasurer.

Talbott Huey reported that he and Roger Cogswell both stood on the sidelines as Don Roberts ran in the Boston Marathon. Even more impressive was the fact that he finished the full 26 miles 385 yards.

Our erstwhile class Treasurer, Cale Carson, writes that he has recently resigned as President of the First National Bank of Albuquerque, and is considering a new venture to set up a bank with several other investors. Cale also discussed our class dues situation. In a nutshell, approximately 1/3 of the Class pays the $15 dues, which in effect is the same as each member of the Class paying $5, which just happens to be the exact amount of our annual obligation to YAM. In other words, two-thirds of the Class is getting a few ride on YAM at the expense of the other third. We have urged the University to take over the full subsidy of YAM, or not mail the magazine to those who don't pay their dues. So far we've been stonewalled on this approach.

Dick Munn has recently been named director of sales & service of the graphic products division of Itek Corportion, and his new responsibilities include sales, advertising, sales training and contract sales for both the U.S. and Canadian operations of the company. Dick has long been active in community affairs in Wellesley, where he is a town meeting member. Dick is also Little League president and coach of the boys' soccer team.

Eddie Meyer has agreed to continue to represent the Class on the AYA. Ed has decided not to seek re-election to the New York State Legislature, the reasons for which were not given. Between now and November, Ed will be director of the Democratic State Legislative campaign, and on the non-political side he's back immersed in the practice of law, largely in the professional sports field, where he has recently taken on an interesting new client, World Team Tennis.

Mike Hearn reports that the family hasn't done much of anything worth reporting, and then proceeded to tell me that the four children, Bump (that's a child?), Charlie, Jennifer and Jeffrey are all playing baseball, mother O'Hearn coached a girl's baseball team to an outstanding 2 and 8 record, while his majesty coached his own team to a 2 and 7 season, indicating a much better percentage record. Jeffrey and dad won the parent-child tennis tournament at the local country club, the family vacationed in Eleuthera last December, they visited Lars and Mart Kulteseid in Garrison, N.Y. in June, followed with a visit with Ed Morris on Martha's Vineyard for a few days, and topped it off in August with a trip to Maine to visit his parents. He was right, it wasn't worth reporting.

Tom Perkins had the good fortune several months ago to help George Dunn keep British Petroleum out of trouble in Maryland. As the head AYA representative, Tom had a chance to visit with a few other class members including the Mayor of Piedmont, Calif., the Honorable Tony Loughran.

Phil Weymouth and wife, Peggy, added a son to the family a year ago, Timothy Bell Weymouth, which when added to Philip B. Weymouth III, a Cessna 310 and a new chateau, makes for lots of expenses.

We received a delightful letter from Tim Childs last June indicating that he had resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service, after deciding that he didn't want to be a bureaucrat the rest of his active days. The considerable success he was achieving was taking too much time away from the family and other interests. Tim will start work as a candidate for a Ph.D. in History at Georgetown in September and assuming success in that endeavor plans to write in the general area of European and Middle-Eastern diplomatic and military history. A trip to Australia for the month of August is planned prior to Tim's return to Washington after Labor Day.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: June 1974

While the New York Times puts their "in erratas" back on the 23rd page (while their errors in judgment appear nowhere), we shall put ours first because it's what up front that counts. We reported in our March newsletter, on Dave Sawyer's extensive community activities, and the fact that his wife, Sandy, and Mike, age 8, love Houston, but unfortunately, we left out the fact that son Charles, age 15, is alive and doing quite will also. Many of Dave and Sandy's closest friends inquired as to what had happened to Charles. He's in his first year if high school, doing quite well academically, playing soccer and bussing at a Mexican restaurant, and experiencing all of the problems and joys that most 15-year-olds do.

Dr. Peter Wolf, Chairman for the Institute of Architecture & Urban Studies, has recently published his second book, The Future of the City, in which he surveys American city planning, and analyzes all of the critical issues that affect the survival of cities. Peter concludes that, yes, the city will survive and we urge anyone who is concerned with the direction of the American city to pick up a copy of the book, published by the Whitney Library of Design. Peter has written many articles which deal with urbanism, including his previous book Eugene Henard and the Beginning of Urbanism in France, 1900-1914. In addition, he has written numerous catalogs and participated in recent exhibitions that were concerned with urban planning and architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Peter teaches at the Cooper Union in New York, is married and has two children, Alexis 3, and Phelan 4.

Berkeley Tompkins is also about to have two books published, one on Delaware during the American Revolution, and the other on the topic of historical editing. After spending almost a decade on the faculty of Stanford University, Berkeley, returned east in 1971 to become director of historical and cultural affairs for the State of Delaware. He resigned from that position in early 1973 to become executive Director of the National Historical Publications Commissions. The Commission currently has 172 projects at universities and historical agencies throughout the nation, and is sponsoring some projects at Yale, including the Benjamin Franklin Papers and Frederick Douglas Papers. The status, or lack thereof, of his connubial bliss was not mentioned in his note.

Ted Kurtz writes that the winds of change are blowing full force in the affairs of the Kurtz family. Ted is currently with Drummond, Wescott & Woodsum (the Woodsum of sticky fingers on the 1952 Yale football team), but as of May 1 is withdrawing from the partnership to open his own general litigation practice, with one office in Portland, Me. and the other in Paris, Me. Ted, his wife and four children are in the process of renovating his wife's family homestead in Paris, a village about 40 miles from Portland, which they've been using in the summer only, and which now, will become their year 'round home. We've heard of people leaving New York and Chicago for the quiet life of the country, but we never realized Portland, Me. had those same urbanization problems. It's probably too late for Peter Wolf to talk Ted out of moving.

Ruth and I recently returned from a delightful one week vacation in Sea Island, Ga., where we ran into and had the pleasure of meeting on the tennis court, John Shaw, his wife, Betsy, and precocious daughter, Lulu. John and Betsy were visiting her family. Betsy whistled a few dozen volleys down my throat and we managed to run out of time every time the Shaws were ahead by several games. John's backhand isn't as good as his voice, which he keeps in tune every now and then by harmonizing with several old Whiffenpoofs and a few other Ivy League throats in New York. Four-year-old Lulu, however, has the best voice in the family, as evidenced by her complete rendition of Splish, Splash I Was Taking a Bath, accompanied by the appropriate pelvic movements. As I recall, I used to sing a few renditions of that song myself at the DKE House, but I never mastered the moves.

John is a partner in the investment counseling firm of Platt, Shaw, and Ossorio. John claims that one of the ways to achieve significant performance in this lousy stock market is to participate in buying and selling options on the Chicago Board of Option Exchange. It was all very confusing to me, however, and when he started talking about puts and calls, strips and straps, and straddles, it sounded more like a firm investment than an investment firm.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: May 1974

We are very sad to report this month the passing away of two of our classmates, Ralph Helland and John Donovan. Ralph actually graduated in 1960, but came to Yale as a member of the Class of 1957. Ralph's mother-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Balfe, wrote that he died suddenly on November 4, of last year of a heart attack while at work at Unixrae Company.

Notice of John Donovan's death was passed on to us Dick Munn, who has been seeing the Donovans quite often over the past few years. John passed away at his home in Acton, Mass., on February 15. John was the senior systems-control manager for Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates of Boston, and he and Judy had been very active in the Acton Community Center, and several amateur acting groups. Son, Greg, is an outstanding young hockey player and is a member of one of the local all-star teams.

Dick and Judy Munn live in Waltham, Mass., where Dick is Northeast Zone Manager for Itek business products division. Dick is active in several athletic little leagues, due to his athletically proficient son, David, 12. Tracy 14, and Julie 10, round out the family. Dick reports that Jim and Sue King are neighbors. Jim is a securities analyst with David L. Babson in Boston.

We received a press release from Othro Diagnostics a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, that Ralph Lilore has recently been named secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of that company. Along with the press release came a picture of Ralph which indicated that he's quite svelte compared to those days of yesteryear when he was floating around the Yale freshman football field, scaring the hell out of everybody with a three-day beard and four-foot girth. Ralph's a member of the antitrust committee of the American Patent Law Association, as well as executive Vice President of the West Essex Chapter of UNICO, a civic organization working in the mental health field. Ralph and his wife, Marianne, live in Newark and have four children.

Wayne Moeller, Joy and the four kids are moving from Elgin, Ill., to Joplin, Mo., where Wayne will be Vice President of Sales for the American Fixtures Division of Lozier Corporation. The land developers finally moved in on Joy and Wayne when it was announced that Taft Broadcasting was going to put a $50 million amusement park next to their farm. They were looking for an opportunity to maintain their country living when Dick Lozier, president of the company, contacted Wayne. You can take the boy out of the country, but..........

Ed Ingalls writes from Pittsburgh, where he's been for the past ten years, presently as the Administrative Manager for Alcoa Building Products, Inc. If you're in need of some siding, gutters, soffit, etc., Ed indicates that he can make you an offer you simply can' refuse. This past fall, Ed and Marilyn were fortunate to spend a week in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia on business, conducting a wholesale distributor award program with 300 of their customers. I can just see some of those aluminum siding salesmen loading up the poor peasants of Dubrovnik with truckload quantities. They're going to remodel the town mosque in bird's egg blue and we understand Marshall Tito is quite interested in some of the red and white striped jalousies.

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo and his wife are moving back to the womb of corporate headquarters with Owens Corning Fiberglass International after several years in Brazil. The new address is Perrysburg, O., which is just outside of, you guess it, Toledo. Fernando has to write us every year requesting that Yale place his name under "A" instead of "T", which we have finally accomplished and now he's got to change his name to Fernando Alvarez de Perrysburg.

Guy Palmer and I have traced down Dave Bowman, after months of sleuthing. David decided to leave the world of Madison Avenue several years ago, after finding that lunch-time consumption of the white mumblers was not conducive to keeping your head on straight nor to pursuing a latent desire to become an actor. He's lost 40 pounds of flesh, gained a few pounds of moustaches, and looks better than he did when he came out of the Marines back in 1959. Dave is working at Wm. Solomon Insurance Brokers, going to acting school, and has had several parts in off-Broadway plays and commercials. While picking up a little loosed change as one of New York's finest yellow cabbies, we understand he distinguished himself by being personally responsible for New York's no fault insurance law. Seriously, it's refreshing to write of someone who has battled demon rum to a standstill, survived an unsuccessful marriage, and now is doing just what he's always wanted to and enjoying life more than ever. Compared to the usual articles we write on the business promotions, financial coups and marital bliss of our classmates, I'd call that real success.

Have a nice summer, and if for some reason you still haven't sent in your contribution to the Alumni Fund, June 30 is the final cut-off date.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: April 1974

The post Christmas doldrums must be a good time for letter writing because we've had an unusually good response to our recent request for news items.

Bob Pelletreau writes from mysterious Tangier, where wife, Pam, and three daughters have been enjoying life since last summer. Because the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with Algeria, Bob is working under the Swiss flag as political head of the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy. He said that Sydney Greenstreet sends his regards.

Vin Marchesi reports that he returned to not-so-mysterious New Haven and Yale last September where he is now Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the Yale Medical School. Wife, Sally, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, also at the Medical School, and they have five healthy children the latest one of which is about 20 weeks old by the time you read this. Vin reports having seen Joe Vittoria in London last summer, on whom we reported last month, and who according to a recent Wall Street Journal article has received a significant promotion at Avis, to a full Corporate Vice President.

Wally and Barbara Ritchie moved to Charlottesville last July where Wally is very happy at the University of Virginia. He recently was made an established investigator of the American Heart Association, and will receive a research grant over the next several years of $180,000. Anyone visiting the East or Cape Cod next summer can visit Wally and Barbara in Hyannisport, the latter part of July and all of August.

Davis Polk & Wardwell, the prestigious New York law firm, informed us on New Year's Day that Mike Leisure has become a member of that firm.

Carl, Bunny Hoffman, and children, Trip, Wendy and John, have moved to fashionable Sewickley, Pa. from unfashionable Poland, Ohio, still within the corporate womb of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. Hoffer is playing a little bit of paddle tennis and lots of golf on the side, (that's as opposed to on the front), and Bunny is running a needlepoint shop in Sewickley. Hoffer's ready to retire and therefore is encouraging Bunny greatly in her new avocation. Bunny reports that Barbara Ann Watson (J.D.'s wife?) was in Sewickley selling her Traveling Trinkets so the girls had fun comparing notes.

Ed Cook brings us much news from Oklahoma City where he and his brother own the Hahn-Cook Funeral Home, a family business founded in 1891. Ed, Kaye, and the four children are involved in everything in Oklahoma City from tennis to various civic functions. Ed is President of the Chamber of Commerce, a trustee on the board of Casady School--his old alma mater, and a past President of the local Yale Club. Ed, Joe Clayton, another old okie, and Jay Inglis try to get together once a year, and Ed reports seeing them both in New York last November. Jay and his wife, Judy, are deeply involved in off-Broadway musical theater.

Bide Thomas is still alive and well in Wheaton, Ill., and within the past year has moved up to Divisional Vice President with responsibility for seven operating divisions of Commonwealth Edison, which is six more than he was responsible for last year.

We had a nice note from Bruce Arneill the other day who reports that while 1973 may have been a great year for wine, it is not one of the better vintages for architects. Nevertheless, his firm, numbering seven people and located in New Haven, continues to win awards. Bruce's work on the Park Danforth home in Maine, about which we wrote several months ago, has again been cited for its contribution to the world again of architecture. Burlington Industries has chosen the Park Danforth home as a recipient of their "House Institutional Award" for 1974.

Gordon Philpott, Associate Professor of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, has recently been appointed Assistant Dean for Curriculum at the school. Gordy had previously been awarded the James IV Association of Surgeons, Traveling Fellowship in 1972, when for two months he studied medical education and cancer research in England. In addition, he's a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Association for Academic Surgery and the American Association for Cancer Education. Gordy and Susan have two sons, and apparently a new daughter born December 29, 1973.

Steve Flagg is also a member of the relocation squad and his practice of plastic and reconstructive surgery of the hand has recently moved but is still located in New Haven.

Finally, Vern Loucks' monthly promotion plan at Baxter Labs is still on schedule, as he was elected executive vice president, having previously served as a senior vice president. I don't know if Vern is getting close to that spot where the Peter Principle takes over, however, coincidently with his promotion, the stock of Baxter started dropping like one of Vern's old punts.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: March 1974

Our apologies for the blank space last month, but a little trip out of the country and a whole lot of journalistic laziness was the cause.

On the trip abroad, we attempted to contact six of our class members but reached only two, which is a reasonably good batting average. Our plane arrived in Amsterdam at 5:30 a.m. and the connecting flight departed at 7:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning so we didn't have the heart to call Pete Hobart. Perhaps he will drop us a note and let us know if he's really in dutch.

We did contact a Peter Smith in Brussels, unfortunately it was not the real Peter Smith whose telephone is either unlisted or who has dropped out of the Belgian scene. Apparently I've not been the only one trying to contact Peter as the non-ivy but very British Mrs. Peter Smith informed me that I was the fifth person who'd contacted her in the past several months, looking for the real thing. If you take away a few of those old, historical buildings from Brussels, and the cosmopolitan flavor of NATO headquarters and the Common Market headquarters, it kind of reminds you of Pittsburgh and Cleveland with a little bit of Buffalo thrown in. At any rate, will the real Smith please report in and tell us if he's petered out.

Quincy Hunsicker, who's with McKinsey in Zurich, Switzerland, was out of the office solving some major corporate catastrophe when we called, and by the time we got around to calling Shelby Tucker, who's in Oxford, England, we ran out of patience after five busy signals.

We were successful in reaching Francis Niering, Jr. in London where he's been Supervisory Editor for the Dow Jones Economic Report, a joint venture between the AP and Dow Jones. Francis and his wife live in Hempstead, about six miles north of London, with their three children, two girls, ages 7 and 6 and a boy Andrew, age 3½. Francis has developed a most interesting and apparently increasingly lucrative antique business primarily in old hand tools used for cabinet making. We had a little trouble reading my own handwriting from the notes of our conversation, but I gather that he's not only collecting the antique tools, but also making the cabinets and doing quite well selling them. Francis suggested a great spring or fall vacation for you and your family, and that is a trip through the midland canals on a rented boat. Dick Moll and his wife joined Francis and his wife two summers ago and apparently it's a great way to see England.

Despite the current economic uncertainties facing England, and especially those related to the energy crisis, Joe Vittoria, Vice President of International for Avis, seemed in particularly good spirits when we spoke with him. Despite the current problems the rental business has been booming in Europe and particularly for Avis since Joe has been there. They have increased the number of rental cars from 800 in 1965 to 34,000 at the present time. In addition to England, Joe has responsibility for the rest of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Joe better lease a Rolls Royce to King Faisal for nothing or his rental business is going to be running in prayers come this summer. All the traveling is taking its toll and Joe, and his Italian wife and four children would be most happy to stay at home and entertain traveling class members on their way through.

Reed Taylor reports from suburban Buffalo that his wife, Glynda, gave birth to their second little girl on June 17 of last year, and that he put the finishing touches on his own "baby", a doctoral dissertation entitled From the Ashes: Atlanta During Reconstruction, 1865-1876. Last fall he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in American Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, where his research work had been done from 1966 through 1970. Reed is currently teaching English to high school juniors in suburban Buffalo. Perhaps he should show the city fathers of that marvelous town his dissertation so that they can get started on their own reconstruction.

Ted Klein reports that he has just been certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and that he's in private practice in Hialeah, Fla. Ted, wife, Elaine, and their three children Richard 7, Andrea 5 and Jeffrey 2, live in North Miami Beach.

Dave Sawyer has recently been promoted to President of GreenMark, Inc. the residential subsidiary of Gerald D. Hines in Houston, Tex. Wife, Sandy, and Charles, 8, love Houston. Since their arrival in Houston in July 1970, Sandy and Dave have gotten deeply involved in community service. Sandy is vice chairman of a volunteer group which offers project management services to economically depressed communities for such things as community parks, upgraded housing, community centers, etc. Dave is a board member of the Texas Citizens for Court Improvement, working for the revision of the Texas constitution on the judiciary; a board member of the Rice Center for Community Design; Chairman of the greater business management community of the Houston Builders Association; a member of the executive group of the urban land institute, and finally, a board member of the Houston Housing Management corporation which offers social services to residents of low and moderate income housing. That's not just being involved, that's being spread out all over the city like peanut butter.

Brian Walsh is at the Shore Country Day School in Beverly, Mass., where he's been headmaster since 19871. He reports that John Stockwell, Ed Robinson and Cheebe Everitt are all parents of youngsters attending Shore Country Day. Dr. Ed, who has been playing on the Yale alumni basketball teams, now also captains the fathers' committee team at the school. Sons, Ed, Jr., and Perry, are outstanding on the Shore varsity which isn't surprising at all. Brian was a dinner guest this fall of his roommate, William Bogert, who was in Boston filming some television commercials.

Please remember the Yale Alumni Fund if you haven't already done so.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: January 1974

Our apologies for not wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in our notes of last month, but these notes are written so far in advance it is hard to be thinking of Christmas while sipping a few frosties in the midst of a sweltering Indian summer. Belated holiday wishes at any rate, and may this New Year bring all of us something of interest and stimulation to snap us out of our current state of lethargy, cynicism, narrow mindedness, etc.

Eddie Meyer found time to write while dodging arrows being hurled at him by his 92nd District constituency. Eddie recently sponsored a bill which would have reduced the age of majority to 18 for all purposes in New York, but unfortunately Governor Rockefeller vetoed it. Eddie promise to resuscitate the bill in 1974. Ed is serving on the board of the National Society of State Legislators, while also maintaining his position as a partner and trail attorney in a New York City law firm. Son, Dan, is showing promises of being a great basketball player, while the Meyer house is filling up with a variety of animals as a result of Linda's efforts in the growing animal protection movement.

Tony Loughran dropped us a note with enough content to fill the Class Notes for the next six months, but we'll try and summarize for you. His Yale contributions include the recently completed term as President of the Yale Club of San Francisco, as well as being active in the Alumni Schools Committee and an elected delegate to the AYA. Tony is still with Pacific Telephone as an engineering executive, when he finds enough time off from his civic and military activities. After completing a term as President of the Economic Round Table of San Francisco, Tony was elected to his first four-year term as a Councilman for the city of Piedmont and could become Mayor in 1974. He claims to be an economic conservative and a humanitarian liberal, and I hope the people in Piedmont figure out what that means before the mayorality election. Military activities include being a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Reserve Officers Association and spending six days a year in Washington as a Director of 12th District of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association. How is it that an economic conservative can justify flying to Washington six times a year at the taxpayer's expense for a couple of silver bullets and a club sandwich? Tony and Jean recently celebrate their 21st anniversary: they must have the longevity record in our Class, and Jean is quite active as chairman of the Docent Council of the Oakland Museum. Children, Paul, Wiley, Jeanine and Susan are in various stages of declared independence, but at least Tony can look forward to having everybody out of school four years from now.

Ron Ragen writes of enjoying the quiet, backward life in Portland, Ore., but complains that too many outsiders are invading his privacy in the Pacific Northwest. Unlike many, Ron is still enjoying connubial bliss with his first wife. Ron and Lee, along with children, Linda and Ken, recently moved into a new home after dreaming about it and working on it for many years. Ron also is serving as a member of the recently created City-County Arts Commission.

We have finally traced down Tim Towell in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he is serving as the American Counsel. Tim writes of a wife and two children, but neglected to give us the names and ages. That's like a football announcer saying "and now for the football scores', 6 to3, 14 to 7 and 21 to 0.

Bob Rosefsky is another of the group of liberated men who has sought the "new world" and found it. Bob moved to Phoenix, Ariz. from hometown Binghamton, N.Y. in 1967 and after one year as Vice President of the Pioneer Bank of Arizona, he ditched the straight life to try his hand at freelance writer which took a little courage considering a wife and four children were involved. After several years of perseverance, Bob has achieved has most satisfying level of success. As a sort of Dear Abby on financial problems Bob, has published several books and many magazines while building up a syndicated newspaper column which now appears in about 70 papers around the country. Bob reports having seen Bruce Schragger at his 20th Lawrenceville reunion last spring. Bob also reports visiting with Dick Scheinbaum in New York. Ron Bland and family in the Northwest and several enjoyable evenings with Steve Ackerman and his wife in L.A. Bob's most recent book Frauds, Swindles & Rackets describes Snake Oil Sam who is out to get all you poor, uninformed consumers.

Had a nice visit with Dick and Gail Lumpkin at a mutual friends' house in Springfield, Ill. several weeks ago, and we can assure you that Dick has enough anti-freeze in his system to protect him from fuel line freeze up for the next ten winters.

We saw Andy Kner briefly at the Yale Club last week, and he reports that the New York Times, of which he is Promotion Art Director, is holding back most of the information they have against Mr. Nixon out of fairness to the Office of the Presidency and a desire to present the story in a balanced manner. I could swear the king doesn't have any clothes on. Also ran into Randy Heimer at the Yale Club where he was sneaking a few hours off from the ad agency he's with, which name I asked for every time I see Randy and proceed to forget the minute I get back to my officer.

—Peter B. Fritzsche