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 1975
Notes: November 1975
Notes: October 1975
Notes: June 1975
Notes: May 1975
Notes: April 1975
Notes: March 1975
Notes: February 1975
Notes: January 1975

Notes: December 1975

Cale Carson's dues notices have again saved us from submitting a blank page to the YAM. First news, of course, is from Cale himself, who recently moved to Hawaii to embark on a new career, the details of which we will get later. Cale reports having seen John Somerville, who is the tennis pro at the Wailea Country Club on Ohau. Peter Morse also reports from the land of the lei, the birth of a new super-surfer, Daniel Morse, born on March 5.

Dick Lewis who has been Director of the Division of Cardiology at Ohio State University of Medicine since 1973, was recently appointed Professor of Medicine at OSU. Don Rife reports no big news from Vermont other than that he's continuing to practice child psychiatry and preparing for the difficult decisions to be made this winter in Burlington, Vt. regarding which ski slope he should go to. Steve Wagner is living in Chestnut Hills, Mass. and still practicing neurology at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. Even at the ripe old age of 40 he is continuing his education under the tutorial guidance of his two young teenagers.

Would you believe it's been six years since Ink Clark left Yale as Admissions Director to become Headmaster of Horace Mann School? Ink is also serving as a trustee of a number of educational institutions and a consultant to a number of other firms and foundations, which were apparently too numerous to mention specifically. Leonard Katz is living in Williamsville, N.Y. just outside of Buffalo and reports that last April he became Assistant Dean for Student and Curricular Affairs at SUNY's Buffalo School of Medicine. Leonard has been able to continue his clinical and teaching activities along with his new responsibilities.

Bill Keen is wildly excited about his assignment to United Engineer's project at the University of Rochester. Their company is building a highly specialized laser laboratory for some young men who will try to develop a laser strong enough to initiate a fusion reaction to generate electrical power. After being a bridesmaid all these many years, Bill, as project superintendent, is like a kid with a new toy. Also reporting this month from the land of lasers is Tung Jeong, who has received numerous awards and honors in the field of laser holography. Tung recently completed a national lecture tour sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, training 300 physics professor at 13 different universities in the field of laser holography. His most recent award was the "Best Paper Award" by the Society for Information Display in Washington, D.C. last April.

Chuck Kerr moved into private practice in the field of psychiatry in March of this year, but remains as a part-time lecture at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. In a sequel to "What Makes Sammy Run," Chuck decided to take up long distance running after Frank Shorter's marathon victory in the Olympics in 1972. He ran his first marathon race (that's 26 miles and 385 yards) in February of this year and qualified for the Boston Marathon. Chuck reports his weight has dropped from 205 to 170 pounds, his pulse rate has dropped from 88 beats per minute to less than 65 beats per minute, and his wife is about ready to drop him. Chuck has five sons who often run together and in order to break away from the thunderous hooves of the rest of the family, Esther is working full-time as a histologist at a local hospital.

We are sad to report that Peter Fine passed away last September after a long recuperative period following surgery last January. At the time of his death, Peter was a teacher and physician at Gallaudet College in Washington, a college for the deaf. He had lost his own hearing several years ago, after which he learned lip reading and sign, and became deeply involved in the problems of education for the deaf. Bud Trillin attended the memorial in Westchester, where the family had lived before moving to Washington, and reported that everyone there was quite moved by the speech of one of Peter's deaf colleagues from Gallaudet, who said that Peter was the kind of doctor who "leaves his shingle at the door." Mary, who also teaches at Gallaudet, will remain in the Washington area with their two children. Her address is 2013 Pagebrook Road, Silver Spring, Md. 20903.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: November 1975

John Watling sent us a fascinating article from one of the Detroit newspapers on Bob Healy's unique position as an Assistant Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney. While most prosecutors only relate to bizarre crime situations by reading about them in police reports, Healy is a new-style prosecutor working with a new breed of police squad. Bob is with Squad 6, which consists of a team of a dozen police detectives and himself, assigned exclusively to crack the city's narcotics related execution murders. After leaving Yale, Bob joined the Edsel Division of Ford Motor Company and after a start like that there's only one direction to go. He returned to the University of Michigan for a Master's Degree in business administration where he met his wife, after which he ran a family-owned insurance company and attended the Detroit College of Law at night. In 1969 he abandoned the insurance business to practice law on his own, and nine months later, bored with the practice, he joined the prosecutor's office. The role of hybrid prosecutor-cop not only seems to agree with Bob, but also seems to have been effective in reducing the number of execution homicides, while Healy and Squad 6 have won most of their cases.

Ned Baldwin is now in his tenth year as a resident of Toronto and working on a fascinating project, the Canadian National Tower which he's been working on since 1972 when he finished the Harvard Graduate School of Design's George Gund Hall. The CN Tower, when completed in 1976, will be the world's tallest self-supporting structure reaching about 1,800 feet over Toronto. In addition to being a major aide to communication with a 335-foot needle-shaped transmission mast accommodating antennas for various TV stations and FM radio stations, the tower will be a major tourist attraction with glass-faced elevators giving the rider great thrills up to a level of 1,200 feet, and a seven story pod, housing observation decks, boutiques and a revolving restaurant.

On a clear day you can't see Gary but you can see Buffalo (same difference) where Peter Hare resides. Peter has just been appointed to his second three-year term as Chairman of the Philosophy Department at State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also just published a second book: Causing, Perceiving & Believing: An Examination of the Philosophy of C.J. Ducasse. Peter's wife, Daphne, not to be out-promoted, was also recently appointed Associate Chief of Staff at the V.A. Hospital which is associated with SUNY Medical School in which she is a faculty member.

Alan Carr, being a prudent man, has moved down the street from his former employers, Eaton & Howard, to become Vice President in the Pension Trust Division of the First National Bank of Boston, where there's more money to invest and fewer investors, irate or otherwise, with whom to deal. Alan says it's more fun to deal with the new pension reform legislation than having your customers telling you where to go and the SEC advising when to go and how to get there. For open end investment companies the fun hasn't been too mutual these past few years.

Set aside November 4-6 next year, that's the tentative date of our 20th Reunion, and incidentally, the Princeton game. Suggestions on format and events are welcome.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: October 1975

As usual, the long hot summer produces a raft of interesting and informative news about members of the Class of 1957. Art Diefendorf, never having sent us an ego info in the past, started from scratch and brought us up to date going all the way back to the late 1950's. After leaving the Navy in 1960, Art spent several years with Container Corp. of America in Philadelphia, where he married Dodie Stetson, sister of John Stetson'59. Art then moved on to Connecticut Mutual Life as a part-time salesman for three years. Art said it was a part-time job in that although he was a full-time agent, he was successful only part of the time. Daughter, Elizabeth, came along in 1963 and son, Donald, three years later in 1966. While casting about in 1967 "trying to increase my share of such luxuries as food and shelter" he wended his way back to Syracuse to the family gear manufacturing business where he is now treasurer. Art's also involved with all manner of Yale activities including being a director of the local club, Regional Placement Chairman, on the Alumni Schools Committee, etc. Summers are spent afloat racing a Finn class sailboat all over the map, but seldom first to the finish line.

After a two-year tour in Guam, Al Jerman returns to Wichita Falls, Tex., where he will be an instructor at the USAF School of Health Care Sciences at Sheppard Air Force Base. Al writes also of some very interesting experiences in welcoming Vietnamese refugees to Guam on their way to the U.S.

While Al was coming from Guam, Jim Seymour, a specialist in Chinese politics at New York University, was headed in the opposite direction. He conducted a mission to Taiwan to investigate the political prisoner situation there on behalf of Amnesty International, a human rights organization. Jim has been active for some years in Amnesty International and although the organization is new to the U.S., it is apparently widely known in other parts of the world.

Other elections and promotions include the following: Mike Jordan was just elected to a three-year term as a member of the Executive Board of the Yale Science & Engineering Association. Mike has been actively associated in various capacities with Yale Science & Engineering Association since graduation. Doug Wright recently was elected a Vice President of Hammermill Paper Company at their May board meeting and he retains the title as well. Eddie Meyer is now with Spengler, Carlson Gubar & Churchill, attorneys in New York, and much of his effort is being directed towards making Jimmy Connors a living legend. We will judge Eddie's success not by how rich or publicized Jimmy becomes, but whether or not he can get him to stop giving the finger to the linesman after every disputed call.

Tom Rohner, who has been on the faculty of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University since 1970, has recently been awarded the rank of professor of surgery. He continues also to serve as Chief of Urology. Dave Sawyer has been recently appointed President and CEO of Sugarland Properties, Inc., a community development company located in Houston, Texas. Dave continues to be active as a Board Member of the Rice Center of Community Design Research, the Houston Housing Services Corp., and is a member of the executive committee of the Urban Land Institute. Denny Bates has been appointed Assistant Dean at Drake University's College of Liberal Arts in Des Moines, Iowa. Denny has been at Drake since 1970 and most recently was Director of Institutional Research. Denny and Sally have three sons, Chris (9), Timothy (5) and Jerome (4).

Also from the academic world comes word from Dartmouth that Carroll Brewster, Dean of Dartmouth College since 1969, announced his resignation effective July 1 to become President of Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. There must be some significance to the fact that Carroll is becoming president of the oldest women's college in Virginia just after the graduation of Dartmouth's last class to matriculate as an all-male class. At the climax of their class day, the Dartmouth Class of 1975 inducted Carroll into their fellowship, thereby completing his transformation from a Yale man to a Dartmouth man, and now on to being a Hollis person.

Hank Conlan came through last June and brought us up-to-date after many years of silence. Hank is now with Meltzer, Aron & Leman, an advertising agency in San Francisco. I'm sure he gave me lots of other news but I've forgotten it all except I do recall a long and laughable discussion about the experiences and encounters our respective wives have had to endure with their respective Irish mothers-in-law. Only those of you with Irish mothers can fully appreciate the inventive and humorous put-downs that are aimed at our spouses.

The Class Council, at its meeting held in New York in late June, made a decision to have our 20th Class Reunion in the fall of 1976 rather than the spring of 1977. The decision was based on the belief that attendance would be greater at a fall Reunion when the University is in full swing, than in the early summer when the atmosphere is considerably less dynamic and family vacations and other activities seem to reduce participation. In any case, our attendance could hardly be any worse than it was at our 15th Reunion so a change is in order. Full details on dates and activities will be forthcoming shortly.

Finally, we are sad to report the recent passing away of Dr. Larry Perlman in May 1975. He is survived by his wife, Maria, and children and the address is 5302 Westminster Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15232, for those who wish to express their sympathies.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: June 1975

Dick Munn who has been with Itek Graphic Products since March 1973 has been named Vice President of this division of Itek Corporation. Dick, Judy and children, Tracy, David and Julie, have been living in Wellesley, where Dick has long been active in community affairs as a town meeting member, but we assume that they will have to move shortly to Rochester, N.Y., headquarters for the division.

Ed Sherako has recently been appointed Assistant Director--Dental Claims for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Ed's corporate home since he left Yale in 1957. Ed and Barbara have three children and will be living in Hartford, Conn., after living in Long Island since 1968. Don Roberts was recently appointed Senior Vice President of First National City Bank in New York. Don has been responsible for a commercial lending division of the Bank, which among other things covers such industries as energy systems, extractive and process industries, and surface transportation, all fairly critical areas these days. Don was selected a Visiting Fellow in 1974 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and as a result spends a week a year in residence at small liberal arts colleges to bring an outside perspective to these campuses. Don and Sally live in New York City with their daughter.

We ran across Paul Eisele and his wife, Karen, at the Yale Club the other day and we had a nice chat. Paul has recently become Vice President--Marketing for a subsidiary of Time, Inc., after having spent the better part of last year totally immersed in Governor Carey's campaign. Despite Carey's win, Paul seemed a little turned off by the political scene. It seems that if you're a winner but not interested in a job with the new administration or benefiting in some commercial way from the connection, the clout and credibility disappear rather quickly.

Saw Jay Inglis briefly on a recent visit to Geneve Corporation here he's wheeling and dealing and pushing around about 20 million dollars in venture capital.

Two very creative announcements arrived simultaneously in our mail last week. A 3½ foot fold-down mailing arrived announcing a showing of the sculpture and drawings of Bill Reimann from April 5-24 at the State University of New York's College at Cortland Fine Arts College. The announcement itself was a work of art on black glossy paper, consisting of a photographic progression of 48 sculptures or drawings. I'm afraid I couldn't tell which. Perhaps Bill will drop us a note and give us his professional description of the work. Marcia and Peter Morse announced the arrival of Daniel Morse in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 5. The announcement was a beautiful circular blue copper etching of young David midst various animals, fishes, sky and sea. Truly a beautiful and interesting birth announcement.

Having just returned from a ten-day vacation (?) in the Smoky Mountains with the whole family, I have the following comments. People who are not mechanically-minded should not rent mechanical things such as a recreational vehicle. People who rent recreational vehicles should not spend most of their time driving them. People who spend most of their time driving them should get their wife to share the driving. A wife who does not share the driving should be dismissed. A husband who does not dismiss his wife under the circumstances deserves what he gets. What I got was an unintended trade school education. Friday was muffler repair day, Saturday the electrical engineering seminar. Sunday a plumber's apprenticeship, Monday was metal stamping day, Tuesday sewage tank welding day and finally a recess until Friday which was a lecture on the art of tire repair. Our spare tire looked like chipmunks had been chewing on it so we brought a used tire. For $15 what you get is a spare spare. The Smoky Mountains are beautiful at that time of year and the temperature was at least 30 degrees warmer than Chicago, where unfortunately it was 5 degrees. Oh well, the kids had a helluva good time and look how much space I just filled up talking about it. I was talking with Guy Palmer today and he said nobody in their right mind would take a vacation like that. He's right.

Have a great summer and don't forget to get your Alumni Fund contribution in prior to June 30, if you haven't already done so.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: May 1975

Turben and Fritzsche have found that athletic competitions after the age of 40 can be downright embarrassing. Competing in a Member-Guest tournament in Chicago last January, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the first round of the paddle tennis tournament and after defeating several patsies in the first consolation round, were successful in duplicating their lack of success against lesser competition. They were heard muttering something about a repechage as they left the court with heads bowed on that snowy Sunday. Ah well, can the seniors tournaments be far away?

Garson Heller is Project Manager with Data Dimensions, Inc. in Greenwich, Conn. and has been assigned to design and install an automated news editing and distribution system for United Press International. Wife, Val, is teaching reading in Westport and Gar has been a member of the Westport RTM for four terms. Randy (14), David (11) and Julie (8) all are growing like weeds and enjoying skiing on the East Coast whenever possible.

Joe Mesics, he of the round face and law degree from summer sausage country in Lebanon, Pa., writes of skiing in Vail last February with wife, Sandi, Chip (14) and Laura Anne (12). If he talks to those mountains the way he used to talk to his roommates they wouldn't dare inhibit his trip down the slopes. Speaking of Joe's roommates, we notice from our recent Alumni Fund mailing that John Poinier has recently moved to Seattle, Wash., still with Smith, Barney, but he has yet to report in with his observations on a different life style between the Pacific Northwest and the Atlantic Northeast.

George Vojta was recently named Executive Vice President at First National City Bank. After serving in Singapore, the Philippines, and Kuala Lumpur as manager in the late 60's, George moved on to resident Vice President for Malaysia in late 1968, the same position in Karachi, Pakistan the following year, and then Vice President and Senior Officer in Japan and Korea in 1969. George returned to the United States in 1972 to serve as head of the Corporate Planning Department and was named Senior Vice President and General Manager in charge of International Banking Group in the fall of 1973. George, Sue and their two children live in Bronxville, N.Y.

Had a delightful letter from Lou DeLuca, whose creative juices seem to be running as quickly as a Kentucky thoroughbred. Having informed Lou some time ago that I was of the Ruckelshaus-Richardson school of political philosophy, he snapped back that his own persuasion was towards the Abbott & Costello school of political thought and we must agree that there aren't enough laughs either of Yale, Washington or any other places these days. Apparently there are a lot of laughs at Avenstoke, Ky., but just try and find that somewhere on a map.

Lou is writing again, both commercially for Golf World Magazine as the reporter on Kentucky golf, and also creatively with a planned short story about Earlee Wristcock, that young-at-heart golfer from Avenstoke, U.S.A. Having read some of those previous daily themes Lou concocted 20 years ago, I'm not sure the literary world is ready for this output. Lou is currently fertilizing, cutting and otherwise manicuring the green he has put in on the pond by his country home and he expects to come out of relative golfing obscurity to snatch the Kentucky Amateur this summer. Lou reports that Don Miller is doing well in Lexington and that he looks fat, but good, or was it good and fat? Either way, Don likes the Kentucky life, with his only complaint being the high prices of Early Times and other favorite libations. Don's son, Caleb, continues to run like the wind and is not only being sought after by the local high school track coach, but has had even a nibble from the college coaching fraternity.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: April 1975

Charlie Abuza notifies us that after eight years of "brownstoning" in Brooklyn Heights, he, Suzy, Zachary (6) and Alexandra Cutler (1½) have moved to the Big Apple on Park Avenue where we assume they are whitestoning it. Charlie is still practicing law in New York and specializing in estate litigation. We understand that Charlie, George Dunn and John Watling recently exceeded their annual depletion allowance for Scotch while reminiscing at the Yale Club about old times.

The Mayor of the City of Piedmont, Tony Loughran, writes that he is in danger of being impeached, not by the voters but wife, Jean, who is considering it due to the amount of time spent away from home on behalf of the good citizens. Daughter, Jeanine, is at the University of California Davis, son, Paul, is a Corporal in the Marine Corps, who wants to reenlist, 16-year-old daughter, Susan, is gearing up to row in the 1976 Olympics on the U.S. Girl's Crew, and Tony is envying the wild freedom of his son, Wylie, who took a year off from the University of Utah and managed to get all the way to Costa Rica before the mayor intervened.

Phil Richards has moved back to Wilton, Conn., after eight years with the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Illinois. Phil has taken on the new job as Technical Director--Electronic switching systems for ITT in Stamford, Conn. Phil and Ann are both active in barbershop quartets, but international travel requirements of the new job may put a crimp in the harmonizing.

After 12 years with the Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York, Dick Sheinbaum recently joined Republic National Bank as Senior Vice President in charge of New York City and National Lending. After living in New York City for nine years, the family, including Andrea (7) and Peter (4), has moved to Westport, Comm. Rabbi Alan Lovins writes that inflation is tough on one who is just finishing a Ph.D. Nevertheless, he answered Cale Carson's dues notice in the affirmative. After six years with the Ford Foundation in North Africa, Dick Roberts and family have returned to the US for their first prolonged stay in nine years. Dick will be taking a year off to be a fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs.

Paul Rosenstein is still with the Landsdale Medical Group, a multi-specialty medical center in the Philadelphia suburbs. Paul became board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in November and plans to teach one day a week at one of Philadelphia's medical schools. In addition, he is the planning commission chairman for his local township and anticipates running for supervisor for Montgomery Township. Wife, Wanda, still works full-time as an operating room supervisor in Philadelphia, and the whole family, including five daughters, is still very active in raising and showing Saint Bernards under the Saintwood Kennels label.

Colin Jensen and wife, Pokey, were in town last week attending a construction equipment trade show and we had a chance to visit with them briefly at the Drake Hotel. Despite the depreciating effects on the family's road construction business from ever-increasing oil, and therefore asphalt prices, things apparently still look bright in Sioux City, Iowa. Colin cast one vote for the 20th Reunion being held in the fall of 1976 rather than the summer of 1977 and we admit to agreeing with that idea.

Jack Turben and "Fasthands" Fritzsche are vying for the member-guest platform tennis championship this weekend at Skokie Country Club and we'll report on the success or lack thereof in next month's notes. Jack is now a Vice President of Geneve Corporation, a closed-end investment company and venture capital firm located in New York City, but still manages to spend several days each month in Cleveland and Stuart, Fla., where there are many pies (some peachy, some sour grapefruit) in which to put his fingers.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: March 1975

Nancy Mongillo wrote us a nice letter informing us of Frank's recent election as President of the New Haven County Bar Association for 1974-1975. With 1,200 members throughout New Haven County this is quite an honor. Nancy and Frank had hoped to see more members of the Class at their usual open house during the football season as they are just "50 yards from the 50-yard line." Of course, this means that their open house was being held either on the goal line or the men's room outside of Section 16, and it's a wonder they'd get anyone at the open house at those locations.

Jon Breslav is one who did show up as well as Tom Henderson, a rather corpulent fellow from the Class of 1955, who once labored in the trenches between the guard and the end. Breslav, the fleet lessor with the fleet feet was thought to be in Missouri doing his rental routine, but we find that he has now returned to Stamford, Conn., where he's in charge of the leasing division of Ford-Lincoln-Mercury.

Reports of new jobs come from John Kohler, who recently became plant manager of Kohler Company's Spartanburg, S.C. manufacturing facility, and Ed Ingalls who left ALCOA Building Products, Inc., to become Vice President of Commercial Service Company, a wholesaler of building products. You will recall that Ed was the one who unloaded a few car loads of aluminum siding on the unsuspecting peasants of Dubrovnik last spring.

Larry Kramer filled us in on the full particulars of that alfresco luncheon held in the Central Park Zoo last year to honor Bud Trillin upon the publication of his book American Fried. Joining in the fun and, according to Larry, "gorging themselves without surcease" were Marshall Dodge, Gerry Jonas, Henry Geldzahler, Eric Pace, Peter Wolf, Andre Schiffrin and Kramer. Can't you just see the tremendous envy and jealousy of the Central Park hippopotamus' seeing all that gorging without surcease going on 'midst some of Yale's finest in the arts, humor, journalism and philosophy.

Larry also reported that he and Roger Samet got lost driving to Brooklyn Heights to attend the recent surprise 40th birthday party given for Jay Inglis by his wife, Judy. There was some more gorging going on at that one too as there were apparently 12 birthday cakes and a few other familiar faces including Joe Clayton (whose cheesecake was adjudged the best by Kramer), Scott Cannell and Andy Kner. Judy and Jay were appearing at the time in a production of The Gondoliers. By the time you read this Kramer will have had his first play opening off-Broadway, but the original working title of Sissies' Scrapbook was about to be changed. One of the producers is John Halpern, and we hope the show is not about food or the patrons will leave without surcease.

As so often happens, just when this article seems to be dragging from our persistent poor mouthing, a few items come in which clear out our complacent cobwebs and jog our journalistic juices. Appropriately two items arrived just prior to and just after Christmas from Pixie Pendergast and Bob Pelton. Pixie writes of an exciting year in which she, Jack and their six children have been totally and joyfully committed to St. Patrick's School & Parish community in Providence, R.I. In addition to moving into the community from a wealthier and more homogeneous neighborhood and spending a great deal of time as pastoral leaders of the parish, Jack and Pixie are very involved in the Charismatic Renewal movement within the Catholic Church. If one could summarize this movement, it is the sharing with others of a search for a fuller expression of a Christian life through prayer. As a result of the enthusiasm of those like Jack and Pixie for Charismatic Renewal and the unique closeness and sense of sharing of everyone in the parish community, CBS TV has filmed a documentary on St. Patrick's, which by the time you read this will either have just been shown or will be coming up the next Sunday or two on the program Look Up & Live.

Bob Pelton received his Doctorate from the University of Chicago on December 13th in the field of history of religion, but he reports that the best thing that has happened to him has not been academic but rather his association with the Madonna House Apostolate which he joined in 1957 and for which he was ordained a priest in 1963. The Apostolate is unique in several aspects in that it is one of the very few which includes both men and women and which still exists under promises of poverty, chastity and obedience. Their work is directed to service of the poor in very simple ways, not so much with the emphasis on doing things for people but rather being with them and friends to them. The Madonna House is located in Combermere, Ontario, Canada and is a training center for the staff, many of whom serve in one of 12 missions, as well as a house of hospitality for thousands, as well as a house of hospitality for thousands of priests, nuns and young lay persons who come every year.

Although Bob does not pay class dues due to his promise of poverty, he did send us his share of the expense for YAM because "since I made the decisions that have given my life its shape while I was at Yale, the University and all those who shared my time there have a most special place in my memory and my prayers... I haven't much contact with Yale, but the grace that I received there has created another, deeper bound." Oh, that we all could have Bob's strong commitment to others, peace of mind, and such kind and generous thoughts of those days when the seeds were planted and nurtured. It's not our function to proselytize for religious orders or movements, but what could be more newsworthy and refreshing than to hear of classmates' successes and rewards stated in terms of simply sharing with others, not just in terms of job promotions or secular awards?

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: February 1975

Here's a news item that unfortunately is a few months old and was cut out of one of our previous newsletter due to space constraints. Peter Davis, after ten years of hard knocks on Wall Street, has cheerfully resigned from the Street although he still has a few shekels invested in the market. Peter continues to write songs and hopefully is going to get all 16 he has written published. His most encouraging news to date was an endorsement from Pete Seeger who especially likes the satire on Wall Street called "Capitalist Blues" and "Dow Jones Special." Peter hopes to have a record out soon, although the music business rivals Wall Street for having its own private depression.

After giving you brief news of Norty Wright submitted on the back of a dues notice several months ago, we recently received a long letter expounding on his work with the Children's Television Workshop. If you were watching ABC-TV on December 10 you saw a very enjoyable variety special entitled Out to Lunch, which blended the stars of Sesame Street and the Electric Company with the great talents of Barbara Eden, Rita Moreno, Carol Burnett and Elliot Gould. Norty said the Muppets were for mom and the kids. Rita Moreno was for me and Barbara Eden for thee. He's been with CTW for five years, and is now director of their domestic and international TV programming. In addition to the domestically produced edition of Sesame Street, now in its sixth season, and the Electric Company now in fourth, he also set up original productions in Brazil (Vila Sesamo), Latin America (Plaza Sesamo), France (Bon Jour Sesamo), and Germany (Sesamstrasse).

I understand that there is some interest being shown from the Arab world in CTW's production and research capabilities and they're looking around for Turhan Bey to recreate his immortal Ali Babba and the Forty Thieves routine. They may have trouble finding the original Ali Babba but the 40 thieves should come easily. Norty's wife is actress Susan Watson, who is presently appearing in The Rivals in New York and who over the past several years has starred on Broadway including roles in Bye Bye, Birdie and No No Nanette. Seven-year-old son, Robert, is reported to have a very natural left jab and punches to the body better than Dick Lumpkin (that's an inside joke).

Norty also reported on other classmates including Andy Kner and wife, Carol, who are back in New York City after their latest vacation in Europe, and Ray Lamontagne, wife, Judy and family, who are living in London, just barely managing to hold up the world of international finance. Also, Gerry and Nan Snyder are back in the East and enjoying life on a patrician farm in Millerton, N.Y.

A very handsome picture of Franz Gimmler arrived from the Department of Transportation announcing his appointment as Regional Director for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's Region III as of last September. Franz has been in the federal Urban Transportation Program since 1967. Region III UMTA is headquartered in Philadelphia and serves Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Franz will be heading up a pilot program to evaluate the best means for delivering capital and planning assistance grants to various localities, authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. The rest of the news release from the UMTA was longer than an elephant's trunk so we won't go into it. Franz's wife, Madeleine and children, Christine (9) and Christopher (3) are living in Havertown, Pa., just outside of W.C. Fields' most favorite town.

Rolf Sandvoss has moved his law practice from New York City to Chappaqua and Yorktown Heights in Westchester County. He reports that being a country boy is a great experience including the opportunity to know your clients better, the lack of commuting and the good clean country air.

Ruth and I were in Boston last November for the Yale-Harvard game among other things, and while sharing a tailgate picnic with a few Harvard people along the Charles River, who should saunter by and join us but John Stockwell. He brought us up to date on all of his activities but unfortunately I didn't write it down and having ingested several quarts of a thing called Bloody Bull, everything was a bit hazy. I hope John will write in and refresh our memories as to what's going on. The only other classmate we saw, was a fleeting glance of Binky Davis as he went whizzing by on the Storrow Drive on the way to the game but unable to get his window down to tell us where we could meet him after the game.

—Peter B. Fritzsche

Notes: January 1975

The back of a Cale Carson dues card is the greatest boom to news reporting since Deep Throat spilled the beans to Bernstein & Woodard. Phil Pillsbury is back in the U.S. after a long absence, having returned from a two-year assignment in Tehran, Iran. In Tehran, Phil directed a large cultural center for the U.S. Information Agency, one of the biggest in the worldwide system. He writes of the tremendous changes in Iran over the past three years brought about of course by the historic changes in oil prices set by OPEC. Wife, Nina, and two children, one Philip III born in Tehran, March 1974, will now be living in Washington for the next three years while Phil is on another assignment for the USIA.

John Newbold is now living in Singapore, where he's with the First National City Bank and says "selamat datang" (I hope that's not an Asian expletive deleted) to anyone coming through the Far East. After attending the Harvard Business School's advanced management program last fall Peter Smith returned to Brussels, Belgium to be home in time for Christmas and to resume his duties as President of Twin Disc International.

David Mininberg was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Urology and Pediatrics at New York Medical College in New York City. Don Rife is still located in Burlington, Vt., where he spends most of his time searching truths in the Green Mountains while shussing out of control, or boating in Lake Champlain in the summer. When time permits he also practices child psychiatry. A fire recently destroyed the building which had housed his offices for the past four years, but apparently they saved his couch. Charles Debrovner was recently appointed Director of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the French & Polyclinic Medical School & Health Center in New York City. John Bussard writes that his wife, Betsy, presented him with daughter, Anne, born last September 12, 1974. Betsy is currently on leave of absence from her position as staff anesthesiologist at Hunterdon Medical Center, where John was recently appointed director of the Department of Anesthesiology.

In the academic world, Bob West writes from Temple University where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Bob was co-editor in 1973 of Reader in Research Methods, published by Random House. Sarah also teaches at the University, and they have three children, Jim 8, Dan 7, and Caroline 4, all living in Philadelphia. Bob Barton recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as publications editor after two and a half years as copy and special projects editor at the Detroit News. Peter Robertson is a financial analyst at the Bank of the Commonwealth in Detroit, Mich. after obtaining his M.B.A. from Wayne State University last June, and Arthur Gibb is now permanently settled in Annapolis, Md., while teaching at the Naval Academy having received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan last spring.

Tom Carleton sends some interesting news from Baton Rouge, La., where Maureen and three sons, Lewis 10, Michael 7, and Mark 5 reside. Tom's an Associate Professor of History at LSU, a member of the Council of Economic Advisor to Governor Edwin Edward, an author of an award-winning history of the Louisiana State Penal System, and the star of a 30-minute film Prison which included as supporting cast a rapist, a murderer and a grand larcenist. That must be what they call method acting. Glen Harris, after many years of relative intellectual quiescence, has spent part of his spare time in the last few years continuing the study of mathematics. He received an M.S. in mathematics from Trinity College at Hartford in 1972 and since then has been pursuing the abstract topics of homotopy groups, homology theory and some combinatorial topology. Go look it up in the dictionary. Some of our most interesting news always comes from lawyers and this month is no exception. Last fall the Wall Street Journal reported that the oil barons had smiled on George Dunn and promoted him to Vice President and General Counsel of Standard Oil of Ohio. Ron Sharp reports that he's partly responsible for the huge influx of lawyers in Connecticut since he is a partner in the Connecticut bar review course. Ron is a partner with Brody & Brody in Bridgeport, but has been doing a lot of traveling around the U.S. and Europe acquiring and selling companies (unfortunately, sometimes the same companies) for clients. Sue and Ron have two children, Nancy 8 and Greg 5, and a large refrigerator which is always open to any member of the Class of 1957 who gets stuck on the Merritt Parkway on Exit 46.

Leon Chemlen recently authored a book Something Stinks in Bedford, but he didn't indicate whether he was referring to the water pollution, the fish or the politics. Leon also made legal history in Massachusetts District Court pulling off a great reverse plea bargaining caper and allowing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to drop charges against him in exchange for a public apology.

Other bits and pieces of news trickling in this month come from Peter Greer, who has moved from Ohio to Louisiana to pursue his career with Union Carbide. Any passing alumni are invited to partake of some gumbo and crawfish pie the next time they're in the New Orleans area. Robert Yale has recently been appointed director of marketing of Easco Tools, Inc., in Windsor Locks, Conn., and just down the street in Hamden, Sam Guy was recently elected GOP town chairman, which must have been about the only win the GOP had in Connecticut last fall.

Walt Livingston is a physicist at the Naval Research & Development Center in Carderock, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. and Lt. Col. John Miller is currently writing speeches for the commandant of the Marine Corps, even though he remains a "grunt" (that's infantry officer to the uninitiated). John married Susan Bailey Starr last October, who worked for the House of Representatives prior to their marriage. From one grunt to another, Jim Ferris now is living in La Canada, Calif. since joining Signet Laboratories, subsidiary of Marion Labs, last year as president. The animals outnumber the people at Jim's house where there is one wife, two boys, three dogs, two cats and a goat. There is a barn but no horse, of course. Otis Graham, Jr. writes of C. Graham Tebbe, but we didn't understand the note so we will quote it, "I'm sure he won't mention it so I will note that C. Graham Tebbe applied to me for permission to take a two-year leave of absence from Santa Barbara to head his law firm's office in Washington, D.C., where he will sell the Penn Central, or something. I granted permission and they left in August, but only after leaving their hot tub with me for safe keeping. Reports from Bethesda, Md. tell of Tebbe in the back yard trying to heat his fish pond." The hot tub writes separately that Otis is treating her well.

—Peter B. Fritzsche