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Men: Bruce W. Hackstaff
27 West Neck Rd.
Huntington, N.Y.
Most of you will see this column just before
Reunion time and we wish to remind
you that there is still time to make your
reservations and join the approximately 125
who have definitely signed to return. Frank
O'Brien informs me that there will be some
75 wives accompanying their husbands and
that the women's class expects to have 50
return, some of them with husbands, so
prepare to return in June.
Last column we wrote about Jackson
Batchelor and some of his doings down in
North Carolina. We recently received a
page from the Raleigh News & Observer
which had a feature article on holly, with
most of it devoted to Jackson's holly orchard
of some 40 acres. It made interesting reading
but is much too long for this column.
A card from Ralph W. (Bunny) Low, 733
Harden Dr., Pittsburgh 29, Pa., gave us
some information on his daughter, Jean,
who received her AB at Penn State in 1963,
MSc in social work from Pittsburgh in 1965.
She took a four-month trip around the
world after receiving her master's at Yale
in the New Haven Medical Center. His son
Ralph Jr. is an eighth-grader at Shadyside
Academy. "Bunny" did write that he was
going into the eye and ear hospital last Nov.
1 for a cataract operation, with what he
calls a six-week vacation following. He is
manager of the insurance department of
Westinghouse Electric Corp. at Gateway
Center, Pittsburgh.
One of our regular European correspondents
is Oscar G. Michel, Aeussare Reben
240, 4303 Kaiseraugst A.B., Basel, Switzerland.
Oscar has been in the management of
the Swiss Hotel Trust Co. for some years
and is planning to retire from this work at
the end of 1966. Daughter Doris has been at
the hotel school of Lausanne studying secretarial
and accounting work.
Lawrence D. Clark wrote that he has
finally succeeded in having a Cornellian
child after both of his sons had gone to
Harvard. Daughter Mary '69 is in home
economics and is a third-generation Cornellian.
Lawrence is in the physics division
of the research laboratories of Eastman
Kodak and in April 1965 was elected trustee
of the Village of East Rochester for a fouryear
term. The Clarks live at 117 W. Ivy
St., East Rochester.
Dr. Bliss B. Clark, 22 Cedarwood Rd.,
Kensington, Conn., wrote us recently that he
had given up surgical practice to take on the
full-time job as executive director of the
New Britain General Hospital. The hospital
now has 352 beds and has a %9Vi million
program to increase the capacity to 500
beds. He wrote that he was enjoying the
work very much. Apparently it has put new
life in the aging doctor as he had a baby
daughter Alyssa born on Oct. 16, 1965.
It is always difficult to write of the passing
of a classmate. Dr. Louis Court, whom
most of you knew as Louis Olschevsky,
passed away on June 26, 1965. We do not
have any other particulars.
'31 AB - Climaxing a strenuous year as
director of pupil personnel services for Grass
Valley School District, project psychologist
for Roseville City School District, and
guidance consultant for remedial reading
project under the Economic Opportunity Act
for Auburn Union Elementary School District,
Marian R. Ballin (PhD., Stanford
'54), Rt. 1, Box 2205, Applegate, Calif.,
planned to attend the 35th Reunion en
route to Russia for the XVIIIth International
Congress of Psychology in Moscow. After a
cross-country 12,000-mile trip in US and
Canada last summer, she was hostess at her
CORNELLIANS —LAKE NAOMI IS A WAY OF LIFE
More than a second home. Away from the tension, and hustle-bustle of the city. A
charming lakefront or woodland lot, in the heart of the Poconos—from $1,950. A fine
two-bedroom year 'round vacation home—from $4,995. Easy financing for Ivy League
frugality—80% 20-year long-term mortgages conveniently arranged.
• 21 nearby golf courses, including Pocono Manor—and the best skiing in the East.
• 20,000 acres of unspoiled nature. Horses, Fishing, Sailing, Lake undisturbed by
power boating. Private guarded beaches. Supervision of the children. Private Lake
Naomi Clubhouse with Dining Room—Cocktail Lounge.
FROM N.Y.C. AREA:
Route 46 to Route 80, past Delaware
Water Gap to 81E. At
Route 940 turn left and Lake
Naomi is 4 miles away.
Phone 717 — 646-2222
Logan B. Steele, Princeton '51, Pres.
home, Woods and Weeds, for the scholarship
benefit picnic of the Cornell Women's
Club of Northern California. She is a member
of the Secondary Schools Committee in
northern California. Next year, Grass Valley
will employ her full time.
Men: James W. Oppenheίmer
560 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, N.Y. 14202
William E. Mullestein, who joined Lukens
Steel Co. 22 years ago, has been elected to
that firm's board of directors. Currently vice
president and general manager, Whitey
started with the sales organization, was
granted a leave of absence in 1945 to go to
Europe as a member of the US Strategic
Bombing Survey, and has been moving
along steadily ever since.
A resident of West Chester, Pa., Whitey
has two daughters and a list of activities
which include directorships of the Provident
National Bank of Philadelphia, Steel Plate
Fabricators Assn., Downingtown Paper Co.,
and the NAM. His various memberships
are too numerous to list here but they cover
the spectrum of community, business, and
social organizations. The little man in the
stern of the boat is apparently still running
things . . . including our 35th Reunion next
June.
Since many of you are too modest to volunteer
news of yourselves, this column has
had to sniff out a little extra by getting in
touch with classmates. Brainard E. Prescott
responded with word that he went to St.
Croix in April to look over his completed
subdivision of 105 homes. He says that it
was not all smooth sailing and comments
LAKE NAOMI
Pocono Pines • The Poconos • Pennsylvania
a Logan B. Steele Property
Carlisle W. Fiers Jr., U. of P., '50, Exec. V. Pres.
that Bob Purcell, "right as always," anticipated
the difficulties.
Barney is counsel to the Senate Committee
on Education and was former director of
studies of the joint legislative committee to
revise and simplify the education law. He
resigned when the Democrats took over,
but expresses hope that his side will win
back the majority this spring. Barney and
wife Betty have three daughters and six
grandchildren. Two of the former will crew
for him on the "Rana" when he sails from
St. Croix for St. Thomas. When not supervising
his Caribbean property or traveling
on government business, Barney practices
law in East Aurora.
We had to go farther afield to talk to
Jacques B. Crommelin, now living at Smoke
Tree Ranch, Palm Springs, Calif. Jack has
been in Palm Springs since 1943. A real estate
appraiser and counsellor, he is a member
of both the Appraisal Institute and the
American Society of Real Estate Counsellors.
Present interests center mainly on the
Palm Springs SBIC of which he is president
and general manager.
Jack says he has foresaken tennis and
now finds relaxation at his cabin in Jackson
Hole. As to word of other Cornellians, Jack
said that in 1962 he saw Doug Colman, now
head of Blue Cross for the Greater New
York Area. At that time the Crommelins
and Colmans spent five days together in
Arizona. He added that Cornell men of both
more remote and more recent vintage are in
his neighborhood: Eddie Kaw lives near
Cathedral City and Trustee Paul A. Schoellkopf
Jr. has spent part of the last 15 winters
at Smoke Tree.
Jack Hazelwood sent us a clipping from
the Indianapolis Star confirming that Clayt
Root has been elected president of the In-
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