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MEMBERS of the Class of '63 present at the meeting of the Association of Class Officers<br />
in January: Seated (from left), Reunion chairman Anne McGavern Heasley; Marijane<br />
Beattie; Sara Mills; vice president Mary Dunn; secretary Linda Peterson Grant; and<br />
Nancy Ruby McGuirk. Standing (from left): president Mark Landis; Assistant <strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Secretary Garret Demurest; Jules Kroll; Bruce Binder; and treasurer Neil Kochenour.<br />
bought a house at 63 Old Farm Rd., Roslyn.<br />
Vivian is taking courses at Queens College<br />
toward a master's degree in library science.<br />
A brief note on the Christmas card from<br />
John '60 and Helen Zesch Ward mentioned<br />
that they, too, had bought a house and<br />
planned to move Jan. 1. Helen promised<br />
more details later, which I'll hope to pass<br />
along next month. The card from Scott,<br />
Katie (Simmons), Theresa, and Christopher<br />
Roberts indicated a "new" return address:<br />
12232 Witt Rd., Poway, Calif.<br />
New address for the John Hax '61 family<br />
(Elizabeth O'Connell) is 74 Oriole Lane,<br />
Trumbull, Conn. John was discharged from<br />
the Marine Corps in May and joined Sikorsky<br />
Aircraft as an operations analyst. He<br />
planned to begin work on his master's in<br />
February. Liz and John welcomed a new<br />
daughter, Carolyn, their fourth girl, last Dec.<br />
5.<br />
"David has a brother!" proclaimed the<br />
birth announcement from Stephen L. and<br />
Joanne Hirsch Shapiro. Jonathan Edward<br />
weighed in at 8 lbs., 10 oz. on Dec. 1, joining<br />
David, 2 in April, in the Shapiro nursery.<br />
The family has recently moved to Upton,<br />
where their mail goes to Bldg. T117,<br />
Brookhaven National Laboratory. Steve is<br />
working toward a PhD in physics, and they<br />
hope to hear from any of you who may<br />
live in the vicinity.<br />
From Mill Valley, Calif. (519 Montford<br />
Ave.), comes announcement of the Dec. 20<br />
birth of Dana Rand to Dr. David H. '61 and<br />
Gail Wlodinger Bliimin. Dana has a big sister<br />
Cynara, VΛ, and together they are conspiring<br />
to keep Gail busy. David is a firstyear<br />
surgical resident at the US Public<br />
Health Service Hospital in San Francisco.<br />
Also celebrating the arrival of a new<br />
daughter are John and Amy Smith Yancey,<br />
1360 Peabody St., NW, Washington, D.C.<br />
Amy had been a caseworker in her field of<br />
psychiatric social work, but has retired to<br />
care for Cheryl Denise, who was born Nov.<br />
15. A long (seven pages!) and most welcome<br />
letter has just arrived from Margaret Sandelin<br />
Benson (wife of Thomas W., MA '61).<br />
The Bensons and daughter Daisy, 3, live at<br />
205 Voorhees Ave., Buffalo, where Tom is<br />
on the faculty of the State U of N.Y. Both<br />
he and Margaret received graduate degrees<br />
from that institution last September: Tom<br />
his PhD and Margaret her master's. She has<br />
been teaching nursery school under an OEO<br />
program for the past year and a half. Margaret<br />
wrote that Bill '63 and Marcia Goldberg<br />
Greenbaum have just purchased a 200year-old<br />
house in Gloucester, Mass. (8 Atlantic<br />
St.). They recently took time out from<br />
their respective jobs as reporter for the Boston<br />
Herald and as apprentice arbitrator under<br />
Sol Wallens for a trip to Europe. Also<br />
from Margaret's letter is the news that<br />
Lewis, MS '63, and Ruth Opler Perry '63<br />
have moved to Buffalo. He's in the history<br />
department at SUNY at Buffalo and she<br />
works part-time at the university when not<br />
busy caring for 20-month-old Curtis.<br />
'62 MS, PhD '65 - Harry E. Hardebeck,<br />
formerly a research associate with the Center<br />
for Radiophysics & Space Research, is<br />
now an assistant professor of electrical engineering,<br />
Moore School of Electrical Engineering,<br />
at the U of Pennsylvania.<br />
Men: Lt. Thomas L. Stirling Jr.<br />
347th RRC, USASSD,4th Inf. Div.<br />
APO San Francisco, 96278<br />
Bill Kidd wrote in to say that he's been<br />
working since May 31 for The Morgan<br />
Guaranty Trust Co., 23 Wall St., New York,<br />
and living at 251 E. 51st St., New York. The<br />
Fleet Home Town <strong>News</strong> Center was kind<br />
enough to add that Bob Morgan "has been<br />
graduated from the US Naval Officer Candidate<br />
School at Newport. While in a 16week<br />
program of academic and leadership<br />
curriculum, he studied both naval sciences<br />
and leadership essentials equipping him to<br />
assume his responsibilities as a Naval officer.<br />
Within a month of his graduation, he<br />
will report to assigned duties either afloat or<br />
ashore."<br />
Not to be outdone, the US Air Force<br />
Home Town <strong>News</strong> Center countered with<br />
the news that 1st Lt. William P. Lage Jr.,<br />
has graduated from their F-4C Phantom II<br />
pilot course and has been assigned to fly<br />
same out of Ramstein AB, Germany, for our<br />
NATO forces. Bill is married to the former<br />
Martha Moses and can be reached through<br />
his parents at Boston Post Rd., Madison,<br />
Conn.<br />
Bankers Trust Co. press information followed<br />
shortly with the announcement that<br />
John J. Fennessey Jr., of 12 Rosemont Ave.,<br />
Madison, N.J., has been appointed an assistant<br />
treasurer of Bankers Trust. He joined<br />
the bank in 1963 and has been with the<br />
New York division, serving large corporate<br />
customers headquartered in New York City,<br />
for the past year. John and his wife, the former<br />
Deborah Ann Bremer, are the parents of<br />
two children; Scott, 4, and Lisa, 3. Leonard<br />
P. Adams, completely unaided by any PR<br />
types, provided his address. To wit, c/o<br />
Shapiro, 144-40-73 Ave., Flushing.<br />
In case you haven't guessed, there hasn't<br />
been much news filtering up here to the Central<br />
Highlands. Less'n some of you people<br />
send in a few squibs, I'll have to sally forth<br />
from this sandbagged bunker of mine and<br />
interview some local VC and a few of the<br />
neighborhood montagnards.<br />
'63<br />
Women: Dee Stroh Reif<br />
111 RorerSt.<br />
Erdenheim, Pa. 19118<br />
Aija Purgailis Thacher writes that she<br />
and husband Philip, PhD '65, and their<br />
daughter, Nara, born Aug. 22, 1966, are<br />
living at 6609 Arroyo del Oso, NE, Albuquerque,<br />
N. M. Philip is employed by the<br />
Sandia Corp. Jerry and Susan Lev Casid and<br />
daughter Jill Helene, born April 4, 1966,<br />
live at 411A Myrtle Ave., Albany. Jerry is<br />
doing a mixed medical internship at Albany<br />
Medical Center Hospital.<br />
Ellen Grau Filler and her husband (sorry,<br />
I don't have his name) announced the birth<br />
of Andrew Lawrence on Dec. 1, 1966. Dr.<br />
Filler is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology<br />
at Mt. Sinai Hospital; their address<br />
is 1200 Fifth Ave., New York.<br />
Mari Biπgham was married to Rolf Juergen<br />
Wesche of Kaltenkirchen, Germany on<br />
Dec. 21 in Gainesville, Fla.<br />
Sorry about the short column this month -<br />
please try to send me some news.<br />
'64<br />
Men: Barton A. Mills<br />
310 Beverly Dr.<br />
Alexandria, Va. 22305<br />
Two of our class's envoys to Viet Nam,<br />
Charlie Sweet and Tom Sturdevant, have extended<br />
their enlistments. Both are working<br />
with Vietnamese civilians for the US State<br />
Department: Tom as assistant province representative<br />
for refugee affairs in Pleiku,<br />
Charlie as head of the youth and student<br />
program, office of civil operations.<br />
In the beginning of his tour, Tom worked<br />
with monΐagnard farmers to build an agricultural<br />
training center. He designed the curriculum<br />
and planned farm demonstrations.<br />
He is proud he has helped teach the villagers<br />
"to become agents of change, agents who<br />
will survive and affect the Vietnamese countryside<br />
long after we Americans have departed."<br />
Charlie has had a more glamorous job<br />
working with Viet Nam's volatile youth. He<br />
works with the Vietnamese Secretary of<br />
State for Youth, a cabinet official, to develop<br />
programs channelling young energy into<br />
nation-building activities. In his three years<br />
of travels from Hue to the Mekong, he has<br />
seen the mood of youth shift from nonconstructive<br />
political demonstrations to participation<br />
in civic action programs. More<br />
than 12,000 young Vietnamese lived and<br />
worked in rural hamlets last summer, he reports.<br />
In fact, Charlie may be the second of<br />
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