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wood, N.J.; Albert W. Gentner Jr., 2645
S.W. Alta Vista PL, Portland, Ore.; George
A. Goetz, 6061 N. Santa Monica Bldv.,
Whitefish, Wis.; Kent C Hurley, 147**
Eastgate, Winnipeg 1, Manitoba, Canada;
Edward A. Karsten, 616 Park Blvd., Glen
Ellyn, 111.
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Men: Thomas O. Nuttle
223 Hopkins Rd.
Baltimore, Md. 21212
I am starting to receive a good influx of
news as a result of the dues follow-up for
last year and welcome it is, too. Ironically,
as I write this, the thought occurs that the
first notice for the coming year's dues is
now out. This year one hopes the whole
procedure won't experience the trials and
tribulations realized in the changeover of
administrations. Two points might bear
some clarification at this time. The increase
in dues was to help defray the additional
burden of the ALUMNI NEWS. However, a
subscription is sent only to classmates who
have shown an active interest by either dues
and/or Alumni Fund contributions. Dues,
then, do not subsidize non-paying classmates.
Secondly, if you have previously
paid for a life subscription to the ALUMNI
NEWS, a $5.00 dues payment is certainly
acceptable.
I received news from Herve Byron saying
he's now practicing ophthalmology in Englewood,
N.J. and lives at 160 Linden Ave.
there. This struck a note with me and a
quick look back to the November '66 column
showed fellow ophthalmologist, Max
Forbes, also living in Englewood, at 240 E.
Palisade Ave. If you two haven't previously
met, I hope this writing will serve as an
introduction. The Byrons have three children
with number four due this month.
Herve says he has plenty of room so anyone
who doesn't mind a very, very new
baby, come visit them.
Charlie Ray and wife Sue (Pickwick)
circulated a late Christmas greeting which
was just great. A quick description was
enclosed of the two-year-old daughter and
the four- and six-year-old sons. Charlie and
Sue's obvious enjoyment of life was most
refreshing. The Rays now live at 1306
Sonora Dr., Altadena, Calif.
From Miami Beach, the Rev. Walt Dockerill
extends an invitation to all to come
south and soak up the sun. Walt is located
at St. Joseph's there, where he is very
active in Catholic Youth Organization work.
Buzz enclosed a brochure of the golf
tournament he organized in January for
the CYO's benefit. Senator Dick Fincher '50
was one of the winners.
Wisconsin State U proudly sent out an
announcement of a recent publication by
one of its faculty members, our classmate
Watson Parker, now a professor there. The
book, Gold in the Black Hills, like many of
Watson's other publications, reflects his
interest in the territory around Hill City,
S. D., where he grew up. This particular
writing traces the discovery of gold by Gen.
George Custer in 1874 along French Creek
and the subsequent "Rush" centering around
Deadwood Gulch. Just that name conjurs
up all kinds of visions. Watson, his wife,
and three children now live at 846 Franklin
Street, Oshkosh, Wis.
Rockwell-Standard Corp. recently announced
that Don White has joined them as
corporate advertising manager. Don, until
this change, was an account executive with
Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in
Minneapolis. Another news release informs
us that John Leveridge has been named
general agent for the Manchester, N.H.,
agency of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Co. John is currently serving as president
of the Nashua, N.H., Assn. of Life
Underwriters, and is very active in the Boy
Scouts. The Leveridges have two children.
One of our class architects, Jim Ream,
has apparently developed a unique method
of welding joints in a space frame structure.
He is being considered for the Lincoln Arc
Welding Foundation Design Award and we
certainly add our best wishes. Jim's design
covered 6,000 joints locking together 24,000
tubular steel members of a space frame
system enclosing a convention center and
exhibition hall and saves $60,000 over a
conventional bolted system.
Dr. Jim Davidson recently transferred
from the West Coast to his new post of
assistant veterinarian in charge of Animal
Health Division for Connecticut. Jim reports
he's currently busy with activities related
to the new federal law covering the
sale, transport, and humane care of laboratory
animals. Two of the Davidson children
are in high school and the third in grade
school. The new address is 904 Taintor St.,
Suffield, Conn.
'51
Women: Kay Kirk Thornton
Pry or Star Route
Billings, Mont. 59101
Sally Williamson Williams (Mrs. Timothy)
has returned to work recently for the
US Civil Service Commission now that her
children, 6 and 8, are both in school. She
has been able to work out what sounds like
an ideal arrangement in which she works
six hours daily . . . and the children have
been very cooperative by not getting sick
once during the year. Her address is 14 St.
Austins PL, West Brighton, Staten Island.
Mrs. Iris Frumkin Herman is working
for Sports Illustrated. She has a boy, 8, and
lives at 115 W. 16th St., New York City.
Ann McKeown Mattison (Mrs. William),
who lives at 118-83rd St., Brooklyn, has
sad news—her husband died several months
ago. She is planning to take a nursing refresher
course at Beth Israel Hospital in
the evenings and is hoping to return to
nursing after an eight-year respite.
Jean Anderson reports that she has been
asked by Doubleday & Co. to edit a major
cookbook. Her address is 11 Bank St., Apt.
4, New York City.
Joan Peterson Sgouras with husband
Thomas, who is an artist, and two children,
4 and 5, is spending a year in Greece where
Tom is painting. News from Joan indicates
that she is pumping water by hand, but
otherwise everything is splendid.
Frances Goldberg Myers (wife of Nathaniel
'49) is student teaching in the home
economics department of White Plains
Junior High School. Fran got her master's
in education from Columbia last June and
is now looking forward to certification. Her
address is 2 Reynal Crossing, Scarsdale.
Over Christmas, the Myerses, with Kenny,
11, Pam, 9, and Chipper, 6, and the
Akabases, with Myles, 11, Seth, 10, and
Miriam, 6, vacationed together at Negril
Beach in Jamaica. Each family rented a
house on a truly magnificent and absolutely
deserted beach. They had to travel
20 miles to do their shopping in a native
market, but the swimming, the weather,
and the company were all superb.
We seem to have quite a group of artists
in our class. Sabina Ball Schmidt, Phyllis
Fein Bobrow, Mary Anne Doutrich, Rhoda
Ratner Barr, Margie Tucker Sablow, Fran
Goldberg Myers, and Shelley Epstein Akabas
were among those who exhibited at a
champagne party-art show at the Westchester
Women's Club.
Margie Tucker Sablow (Mrs. Eugene)
had a two-man show of her paintings in a
Westchester gallery recently. The other
artist with her was the wife of Lenny
Steiner '50. Margie has sold several of her
paintings and expresses great amazement
that anyone would like a painting of hers
well enough to buy it. An even bigger
surprise to her is the music business. She
writes lyrics for (believe it or not) rock and
roll records and even has had some recorded—no
million sellers, yet. She is also
busy with her two children, Marc, YΣVi,
and Barbara, lOVi; her husband is still with
R. H. Macy's in New York; they all live
at 143 Darling Ave., New Rochelle.
Susy Brown Entenman (wife of Robert J.
'50) has written that the past fall was very
busy. She was in a group that started a
YWCA branch in Hudson this fall. She
helped paint scenery for the local little theater
fall production, has been the "fill-in"
mother for Girl Scouts, and has done some
substitute teaching in the elementary
school. She is another of the '51 artists and
also finds it hard to believe that some of
her watercolors have been bought by other
people for money. In January she began
teaching arts and crafts to fourth, fifth, and
sixth graders at the YWCA branch, and
also resumed teaching swimming to the
Girl Scouts one night a week.
Edie Martin Dodd, whose address is 11
Pembrooke Ct., Rockville Centre, highly
recommends a cruise for a vacation with
children. She, Bill, and their four children
went on a Christmas cruise to Nassau and
had a wonderful time. She is teaching junior
high English in Garden City and English
composition at Nassau Community
College at night. Bill is also very involved
in education as assistant to the superintendent
in Garden City and as assistant
professor at Hofstra U.
Phyllis Harvey Larrabee is now stationed
at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y.,
with career AF husband Carl '50 and four
children.
Terri Novotny, who received her divorce
a year ago, asks that all mail be addressed
to her at 16 Magdalen Rd., Delmar. Data
processing and automobiles are her major
interests, with the writing and driving that
are connected with them. Last April she
said good-bye to the NYS Dept. of Public
Works and hello to the State University.
She is manager of information processing
for the central administration. She attends
many sports car meets and is editor of a
sports car magazine. A particular interest
is the Terlingua Boys Ranch Foundation.
A group of automotive enthusiasts have a
big ranch in Texas and are going to use it
as the basis for founding a vocational high
school for needy boys—to give them an
education and to teach them skill in the
automotive field.
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Men: Peter A. Berla
Carl Ally Inc. Adv.
7iι Third Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10017
By now, you should have completed your
plans to return to Reunion, packed the golf
clubs, and hired the baby sitter, and we
look forward to seeing you on the Hill.
You might want to take note, in particular,
of one of the more enterprising *52ers
—Jim Gash, shown here interviewing
Yvonne D'angers, one of San Francisco's
top topless dancers. Jim, who is local news
editor for New York's WNEW, seems to
be having a little trouble keeping his eyes
on the mike, but I imagine he can give you
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