1951
REMEMBER REUNION!June 16, 17, 18'51 OUT!
During a recent junket to New York for my employer I had a chance to chat with Bob Leavitt, class chairman for the Big Tenth, and his reports on plans for the reunion are enthusiastic indeed. The meals are arranged, including those cooks from the Inn in red coats for Sunday brunch. The price is set - low. And the schedule is all arranged - full enough to be fun yet loose enough to allow leisure and relaxation.
As an added bonus, Bob, Gary Mansur,Frank Smallwood, Dave Wiggins, and other assorted members of the Class are striving to come out with a full roster of class members, listing the most recent information available about all of us - addresses, wives, children, jobs, dogs, etc. Present plans are to put this together in Hanover and get it in the mail to all of you by mid-May, so you'll have a chance to check up on the whereabouts of your old associates before meeting them again in the class tent.
So make your plans to wander north to Hanover for that weekend in June. As those who were there for our last one know, you'll be sorry if you miss it. A plea - Bob would appreciate it if you'd get your reservations in (on the form mailed to you for that purpose) to Jack Gannon as early as possible, to facilitate the housing arrangements. Jack's address, in case you lost the envelope, is c/o Lord Baltimore Press, 425 Park Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.
Understand the reservations are already close to the 100 mark, and of course there will be many more. Next month we'll try to list for you here the names of those who have indicated they plan to be there.
And now we turn to a bit of news. One item of interest this month concerns Les Viereck who as you may recall is on the faculty of the University of Alaska. As president of the Alaska Conservation Society, Les is currently head over heels in a controversy with the Atomic Energy Commission, which wants to do a bit of experimental nuclear blasting (Project Chariot they call it) at Cape Thompson in Alaska. The Society is. pushing for a halt in the project "until full assurance of the safety of the people and wildlife of the area is given by the Atomic Energy Commission." A scientist who had been working part-time on Project Chariot himself, Les has resigned from the project, protesting that the AEC has failed to prove conclusively that such safety is assured.
It's very pleasing to hear that Bob Damon is riding high in the business world. Bob has. just become vice president and chief executive officer of Bowser Inc., of Ft. Wayne, Ind., after serving as chairman of the firm's executive committee since last spring. Earlier, Bob was general manager of the company's Johnson Fare Box Division in Chicago. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, Bob took his law degree at the University of Wisconsin, and was a legal advisor to the firm for five years before joining it. He has been residing in Glenview, Ill.
And we're happy to hear that it will be a summer wedding for Dr. Joe Lindner. Joe is. sticking to the profession, though, for his bride will be Dr. Doris Beatty of Lake Forest, Ill., a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
And speaking of doctors, we should mention that Stall van den Noort has won a $1,500 post doctoral fellowship in brain research from the United Cerebral Palsy Association. Stan, who has been a teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School since 1958, and a resident in neuropathology at Boston City Hospital since 1959, has been doing his research under Dr. Derek Denny-Brown in the Department of Neurology at Harvard.
Herb Knight has dropped a note to tell a little more about his move from Little Rock back to Chicago, as mentioned here last month. Herb has joined the Chicago management consultant firm of George Fry and Associates, and expects to work mostly in marketing and general management. And he writes, "Recently I spent a couple of weeks in Southern California, and had dinner with Bob and Liz Jackson in their new home. Bob is moving right along with Caldwell Bunker, a property management and real estate firm in San Diego. I also talked with Howie Bissell by phone, and he hopes to be in Hanover on June 16, for the Big Tenth. And I did have dinner with Bob Leavitt in New York and learned of his reunion plans. They sound great - everything is organized for a tremendous time."
And we conclude with these notes from all over: Dave Hilton has been named "Man of the Year" by Northwestern Mutual for selling more than $2 million worth of insurance in 1960.... Stu Johnson is doing research in photoelectric devices for ASCOP division of Electro-Mechanical Research in Princeton, N. J., and living in Hightstown, N. J. ... Brace Foster is on Madison Avenue, in advertising for Pyrofax Gas, living in Stamford, Conn.
When Norm Logan '52 married Dusty Heimbach on December 10 in Sewickley, Pa., threealumni greeted the newlyweds. They included(l to r) Howard Heimbach '30, father of thebride, the bride and groom, Bud Barker '52and Brewster Sturtevant '52.
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