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High School, where she is one of 10 guidance counselors for 3,000 students (who go to school in three shifts). She also teaches one English class. She has had a 16-yearold nephew living with her this year and says she is "seeing the other side of the picture. After working with teenagers all these years, seeing the teachers' side of the picture in class and getting the kids' story in the guidance work, I'm getting the home picture, the parents' side, at first hand now. Believe me, I'm being educated." I also spent a weekend with Phyllis Weldin Corwin and her daughter Becky in Melbourne, where Phyl is teaching and Becky is a high school senior. Phyl (now a blond, by the way!) has turned actress and I saw her in a rehearsal of Tom Jones with the local Little Theater group. Naturally we talked non-stop for two days and two nights. Her son Charlie called from Sunbury, Pa., while I was there to say he had just become a father for the first time—a 7-lb., 11-oz. daughter! Phyl and Becky will drive to Ithaca in time for Reunion and then they plan to take a motor tour "out West." While I was so close to Cape Kennedy I took the opportunity to take the guided bus tour of the NASA testing site. It is fascinating, fantastic, and unbelievable, even after you've seen those launching sites with your own eyes! Dottie Bentley Witherspoon sent Phyl a newsy Christmas letter which I appropriated. Here's part of it: "Bob continues to be busy at the cold storage and freezer plants in Fairport, Webster, Ontario, and Williamson . . . and is still interested in Drew Stationery here in Canandaigua. Last May we attended the National Refrigerator Warehouse Convention in Portland, Ore., then toured the Olympic Forest and the Yakima and Columbia Valleys, and visited Sister Martha Bentley in Santa Rosa, Calif. . . . Daughter Happy graduated from Endicott Junior College last June, now works for Leondaca Inc., couturiers on Newberry St. in Boston, shares an apartment with her cousin Linda Lees. . . . Daughter Dolly wrote from Skidmore where she is a sophomore, that she found it "quite a pleasure to be a wise fool." Art education is her interest. Her roommate is from Jamaica, West Indies. . . . Daughter Ruthie is a freshman at Canandaigua High, plays flute and piano, has numerous other activities such as American Field Service, class politics, dancing, etc. . . . Son Bob is overseas representative for the US National Student Assn. for the second year. His headquarters are in Paris. He makes trips to Middle Eastern and African countries. Since October he has been enrolled at the Ecole Politic, majoring in political science. . . . We were all together on Labor Day weekend, a rare event now! Bob will be married Jan. 2, 1967, to Hilda Ekemerciyan of Istanbul, Turkey. She's an American girl, a translator in the USNSA office in Washington where she and Bob met a couple of years ago." Our Honorary Classmate, Eleanor Simonds, writes that she'll be retiring from her deaning job at Cornell this June. "The days in the dean's office are still mighty interesting and go fast indeed—but on an occasional cold and snowy morning I do think how nice it will be when I don't have to get up and out at an early hour. ... I have not forgotten the '37 Reunion. Much as I might want to get away, I'll be here. I haven't forgotten that last interesting Reunion and there are many of you I want so much to see." (Don't you dare leave town, Eleanor. We can't have a Reunion without you. Wear your PhD hood—the one the '37 gals conferred on you at our last Reunion.) Ruth Lindquist Dales, writes that Mary Ferguson Mills and Bobby Leighton Doughty will be in Ithaca for Reunion. ("Also Bobby's husband, Lloyd, whom '37 gals cannot do without," says Link—a reference to the fact that Lloyd Doughty and Al Hartman and Earl Ohlinger '36 have won our Husband-Who-Has-Done-The-Most-For- Our-'37-Reunion Awards in past years). Link also put in a reminder that Pat Carry was a candidate for alumni trustee, so please re-read the first paragraph of this column. And she sent along a full-page article from the Saturday Magazine section of the Post-Journal of Jamestown, N.Y. of which Margie Kincaid is editor. Written by Margie, this feature story is entitled "A Woman Needs Stamina To Be a Veterinarian" and it is about the career of our classmate Dr. Marie Koenig Olson, who, with her husband Dr. Raymond F. '57, owns and operates the Jamestown Veterinary Hospital. The article was in the Jan. 21, 1967 issue of the Post-Journal, and I'll bring it along to Ithaca so you all can read it, because we've run out of space and have room left only to say: See you at Reunion. '38 Men: Stephen J. DeBaun 2010 Addίson St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19146 Well, it's will-I-or-won't-I-make-the-deadline time again, so I'll move ahead past haste (ha!) Johnny Pisfor (picture), a director of motion picture sales development with Eastman Kodak, has been named international director of the company's motion picture and education markets division. John, wife Alice, and two sons live at 14 New England Dr., Rochester. EBS Management Consultants, Inc., has just appointed Gil Rose its principal consultant in the manufacturing and operations department. Up-to-date word comes from Hale Cook, now back in the US after 10 years of missionary work in Vadala, India. He and his family expect to be here for the next fivesix years, since Hale says "we have been led to feel that right now our mission is much more likely to be to the people of the United States on behalf of the people of India (and elsewhere), than to the people of India in India." Hale is currently commissioner of health for the city of Newton, Mass. His oldest son, Steve, is a sophomore at Swarthmore; second son, Tim, is in 10th grade at Newton High; Miriam is in seventh grade; Danny, "a live wire," is in fifth; and Jonothan "is, by contrast, a bit quieter." Hale, wife Margit, and the clan live at 380 Waltham St., West Newton, Mass. Bob Gaffney, head of Nalii Fashions in Honolulu writes: "Thought you might be interested in what the local press is saying about me." However, the newspaper story accompanying a photograph of Bob receiving a gavel from a distinguished-looking man is in Japanese, so we'll probably never know. Another picture of two gargantuan Japanese wrestling, he labels "Gus Reyelt's new dance act!" Bob's address is PO Box 67, Honolulu. News hot and cold, old and new ... I had lunch with George Stothoff recently when he was in Philadelphia on business. He's in the marketing end of McGraw-Hill, living with his wife and two children in Riverside, Conn., playing year-round tennis, singing with a male vocal group, and leading the life of (he insists) "a second-rate dilettante." I had dinner with the George Mores, the Pete Boses, and the Warren Tubbses in Buffalo last week before the performance of my latest U of P Mask & Wig show, which was on tour there. And just to complete the "I's," I have left the advertising agency of N. W. Ayer after 11 good years and plan to take off the next year and see if I can really write that Great American Musical Comedy I've always wanted to try. It's a cinch I won't do it when I'm on Medicare, so why not now? I'll be around for money when it's ready for production! Treman Smith's older son Bob graduated from the U of Rochester. His younger son is Dick '70. Treman is still with the Stanford Seed Co. after more than 20 "wonderful years in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and northern New York." He and his family live at 38 Monument Ave., Glens Falls. Charles Kotary is teaching general science and biology at Little Falls Central High. Daughter Karen is married and teaching school at RusseΠ. Son Patrick is in the Marines. John Riggs writes: "Have moved from Franconia, N.H., to the Syracuse area, where I have acquired a hunk of radio station WOLF." That's all for now. See you around the pool room. '39 Men: William S. Page P.O. Box 871 Kinston, N.C. 28501 Justin J. Condon (picture), formerly vice president, personnel, of Whirlpool Corp., Benton Harbor, Mich., was named vice president of Rex Chainbelt, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., effective Feb. 1. "Rus" holds a master's degree in industrial relations from the U of Washington and also did graduate work in the personnel field at Harvard School of Business Administration. He joined the St. Joseph division of Whirlpool in 1956 and was appointed vice president, personnel, in 1962. Prior to 1956 he was a personnel executive with Continental Can Co. in New York. Rex Chainbelt has over 7,500 employes throughout the world. An announcement has just come from Cornell that Martin W. Sampson, associate professor of industrial engineering and acting director of the Division of Basic Studies in Engineering, is spending the spring term in Trinidad on a Fulbright lectureship. Sampson is on the faculty of the social sciences and management studies program at the U. of the West Indies. He will lecture on industrial management. Martin has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1940. His most recent teaching assignment was at the Middle East Technical U, Ankara, Turkey, last year. Walter E. Gregg Jr., 157 Oval Rd., Essex Falls, N.J., reports that Brud Holland will speak at the Cornell Club of Essex County annual dinner at Mayfair Farms, West Orange, N.J. on May 10. Any '39ers in the area will be welcome. You might check with Walt for further details. A letter from Ralph McCarty, Jr., PO Box 282, Westport, Conn., encloses a clipping about Joseph (Dan) Tooker, Jr., 41 E. 42nd St., New York. Dan was named a national leader and "Man of the Year 1966" by the Equitable Life Assurance Society which cited him for not only maintaining his position as national leader but also hold- 62 Cornell Alumni News
ing the top spot in sales as monthly leader for the entire year. Dan also serves as president of the Cornell Club of New York. Ralph writes that he has lived in Fairfield, Conn, ever since graduation. Daughter Margaret, 21, will graduate from Laurence U, Appleton, Wis. in June, and son Kendricks, 23, will graduate from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, also in June. Noah E. Dorius, 100 Harte St., Phillipsburg, N.J., has been named to the management staff of the Sherbrooke, Quebec plant of Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Co. He had been manufacturing superintendent of the turbo products division at the firm's Phillipsburg plant. Noah joined Ingersoll-Rand in 1939 at the Painted Post, N.Y., plant. In 1949 he became division superintendent there and in 1956 he became superintendent of the welded products division at West Easton. He moved to Phillipsburg in 1958. The George Pecks have moved back to Newton Square, Pa. after a six-year stint in Elmira and Darien, Conn. He is with Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Co., 225 S. 15th Street, Philadelphia, and reports that the family is further reduced with only Candy at home. Eldest daughter Sue is married and living on the West Coast. Number 2 gal, Polly, is spending her junior year in Bregenz, Austria. Number 3 daughter, Margo, is a freshman at Green Mountain College. George reports he saw Tom Johnston, 27 Hillcrest Rd., Manchester, Conn., at Green Mountain last fall. Tom also has a daughter there. '39 AM, PhD '54—Charles B. Wheeler, now a professor of English at Ohio State U, is the author of The Design of Poetry, recently published by W. W. Norton & Co. The publisher describes the book as a "concise guide to the understanding and appreciation of poetry." Wheeler has taught the introductory poetry course at Ohio State for 10 years. '40 Men: John L. Munschauer Placement Service 122 Day Hall Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 Our December 1966 dues collection has turned up a lot of news including information about quite a few offsprings now attending college. Hamilton White reports that Ham Jr. is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. Bob Litowitz, DDS, MS, 5189 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, Fla., says, "Our son Arthur is enjoying his freshman year at Cornell." Jim Frank 5445 Darlington Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa., writes, "My daughter Linda entered Cornell as a freshman September '66. My wife is Ruth (Ohringer) '43, and my father William K. was Ml. So Linda is third-generation." If you haven't seen Ithaca College lately, ask Al Reffler about it. They have a brandnew campus on South Hill and it's worth seeing. AΓs son Jim is a freshman there this year. Rod Lightfoote of Geneva writes, "Still farming. Son Bob is a sophomore at Cornell. President of Ontario County Magistrates Assn. this year. Preached in 14 different churches as Presbytery lay preacher this year." And one classmate is still studying at Cornell. Dean Towner, whose address is St. Stephen's School, Austin, Texas, spent the summer at Cornell where he "renewed" the Greek which he first studied in 1937. While he studied Greek, his wife Bert studied the pipe organ with the university organist, Donald Paterson. BiH Gay is in England (Gaddesby, Leicestershire) for two years, posted as general business manager of the Cascelloid division of Bakelite-Xylmite Ltd. Cascelloid makes plastic containers (tubes, bottles, etc.) and Bill says he is working with a wonderful group of chaps and they're getting used to the weather. Daughter Peggy '69 spent Christmas with them. From South Miami, Fla., Armand Droz writes, "My wife, Margaret Mary Fegley '41 and I have been in the South Miami area for 22 years. We have four daughters. The oldest, 18, is in Florida State U, next daughter, 17, will enter in late '67, and our 16-year-old will probably follow in 1968. The "baby" is Peggy, 10. I do quite a bit of traveling in South and Central America and the Caribbean in my job as superintendent of commissary, South America, for Pan American World Airways, based in Miami, Fla. Current outside activities include chairman, Advisory Personnel Board for the City of South Miami." And to conclude, here is a Cornell family with one getting out and one entering this year. Art Galston of Orange, Conn, reports, "Son William '67 is president of Telluride, daughter Bet '70 is in Arts & Sciences, and wife Dale (Kuntz) '41 is working as a psychologist examiner in an Operation Head Start project in New Haven." Art will be on sabbatical next year and has just been awarded a science faculty fellowship from the National Science Foundation. A class dinner in the New York area is scheduled for May 24. Notices with more details will go out to both men and women of 1940 in the greater metropolitan area. Chairmen for the aίfair are Ruth J. Welsch, 200 Seton Rd. ? Stamford, Conn., and Peter T. Wood, 12 Colt Rd., Summit, N.J. '40 PhD - Claude Bissell, president of the U of Toronto since 1958, was the subject of an article in "The Canadian," the magazine section of The Gazette. Accounting to the article, Bissell views universities as "custodians of the excellent." "University campuses are producing a generation of pocket Leonardos . . ." On student radicals: "Such students are often confused and occasionally arrogant, but better this than apathy or cynicism." But radical romanticism, he says, can lead to "a denial of intelligence, to an emotional anarchy that in the past has been the prelude to political and social darkness." '41 Men: Robert L. Bartholomew 51 North Quaker Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06119 I prevailed upon Bart to let me do a column because there is something I would like to say about him and about several other wonderful guys. But first: Word comes from Seeburg Sales Corp. that Bud Finneran (picture), who has been a regional vice president for the past seven years, has been promoted to vice president. To add to that, he recently married Ann Ohmsen of Hannover, Germany. Bud, Ann, and the six kids have pulled up stakes from Hopewell Junction, and are now located in the Chicago area. Here's a note from Bob Simon of Sherman Oaks, Calif, that he is registrar and director of the Los Angeles College of Medical & Dental Assistants. Bob and Marie have a girl and two boys. Former Class President Jack Antrim sent in some very complimentary notes to Reed on the great job Reed did on the 25th Re- Quality Vacation Homes The pinnacle of quality in vacation homes. Enjoy maintenance freedom, beauty, and styling. Naturally, our quality is reflected in our price. AMERICAN TIMBER HOMES, INC. ESCANABA 3, MICHIGAN "GET AWAY FROM IT ALL" Vacation cruise in the Bahamas aboard your private charter sailing Yacht. Our 12th year. Write air mail for ref. & folder. Cruising Club Ltd., POB 22, Nassau BAHAMAS Study year abroad in Sweden, France, or Spain. College prep., junior year abroad and graduate programmes. $1,500 guarantees: round trip flight to Stockholm, Paris or Madrid, dormitories or apartments, two meals daily, tuition payed. Write: SCANSA, 50 Rue Prosper Legoute, Antony Paris, France union. Very timely and we all agree. Jack says he is still in the sand and gravel and land development business. Three girls and a boy fill up the household. Nick Mazza reports that he, Howie Du»μ bar, Walt Sickels, Walt Scholl, Hal McCuIlough, Bill Murphy, and Walt Matuszak attended the dinner for Doc Kavanagh (honorary class member) in New York last December. He reports it was a very fine tribute to Doc. Nick is now a partner in the law firm of Melvin & Melvin in Syracuse. From Ashtabula, Ohio, Bob Graham tells of son Chris who is a United Press International correspondent in Cleveland, Ohio, and daughter Kathleen, a junior at the U of Arizona. More on kids—this time from Millard Brown. Brownie has four of them; his namesake in Viet Nam, son Jere at General Electric, daughter Mary at Hartwick College, and daughter Amy at George School. Now we hear that "Swifty" Borhman is in Memphis with a group which builds and operates dormitory buildings for schools and colleges over the country. Can't keep track of that guy! Now for what I wanted to say. During the very enjoyable and only occasionally hectic five years as president of this noble class, I had the pleasure of working with some grand guys and I want to take this opportunity to make known my appreciation of their cooperation. First of all comes Bart Bartholomew, a dedicated and inspired guy who literally singlehandeclly brought this great class up to the position it now enjoys. Then Ken Randall and Craig Kin*- ball, without whose help all would have been for naught. Ken's assistance in my work and Craig's handling of the sometimes serious, but usually solvent, money matters certainly deserve mention. And then, of course, Reed Seely, who did such a grand job at our 25th. I've never known such an ambitious guy. My most sincere thanks go to these men who did so much during those five years to make my job the May 1967 63
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