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'63
Men: Lt. Thσmas L. Stirling Jr.
374th RRC USASSD
4th Inf. Div.
APO San Francisco, Calif.
96278
Out of Harvard Law School with an
LLB last June, Robert N. Weisman promptly
married Aline Jay Massey (Smith '66)
and set forth for Australia and some study
at Melbourne U under a Fulbright grant.
Planning to practice law in New York
when he returns at the end of this year,
his present address is 7/49 Haines St.,
North Melbourne, N. 1., Victoria, Australia.
Lawyer Dave Julian (LLB from U
of Michigan last June) practices in Illinois
out of 919 W. University, Champaign,, but
is currently taking a six-month respite with
the Illinois National Guard. Back in Ithaca,
Douglas A. Dimock works for the Frank
Hanshaw Construction Co. and, having
taken to wife Nancy M. Goodman, took
her to 310 E. Buffalo St. Having "spotted
her at Adelphi U, when I was taking some
courses there," Ed Fraser married Elizabeth
Adamowicz last Dec. 17. The Frasers live
at 35 Willis Ave., Floral Park, where Ed
is a systems engineer on the LM (Lunar
Module) project at Grumman Aircraft.
Kwan T. Mao, who stayed on at Cornell
for an MCE, is a soil mechanics consultant
with Woodward, Clyde, Sherard & Assoc,
1425 Broad St., Clifton, N.J. Blair Savage,
of 111 N. Broadway, White Plains, now
owns a master's in astrophysics from
Princeton.
Cornell Dawson has just initiated pursuit
of an MS in industrial engineering at Stanford,
address 444 Ventura Ave., Palo Alto,
Calif., after two years in the Peace Corps
working in university development (teaching,
curriculum, and lab development,
among other things) in Santiago, Chile. Of
said stint, he says, "It proved to be a very
valuable and rewarding experience and I'm
sure I was able to help in many concrete
ways. While there, I was able to show
Santiago to Doug Eichorn and his friends,
all vacationing from their Peace Corps assignments
in Arequipa, Peru."
Those of us in the War Corps now include
Army Lt. Bob Gellert, who has something
to do with untangling the mess of
supplies that pile up at Saigon's port; address
HHC—506 Fd Depot, Director of
Supply, APO, San Francisco, Calif. 96243.
Also, Lt. John Wagner, Company Commander
of HHC, 79 Engr. Gp., APO San
Francisco, Calif. 96491, in the Long Binh
area just northeast of Saigon. John, whose
wife just had their second girl, recently
went to school in Saigon with the US Mission
at JUSPAO to learn something about
revolutionary development. He comments:
"I really learned a great deal of what is
needed in this country and how little our
effort is compared to the tremendous problems
facing us." He adds that Jim Shields
'65 is in nearby Phu Loi with the 86th
Engr. Bn. Navy Lt. (jg) Lawrence R. Sharp
of Rt. 1, West Hurley, was awarded an Air
Medal with gold star, aboard the carrier
Roosevelt in the Tonkin Gulf, for meritorious
achievement while flying with Attack
Squadron 72 in action over North Viet
Nam. At Chu Lai, Capt. Dick Bardo was
cited for flying Marine Fighter/Attack
Squadron 542's 5,000th combat mission of
the war. Army Capt. Patrick A. Schlenker
of Rt. 1, Cortland, serves with the 85th
Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon. Air
Force Lt. Bob Rakowski, a^ bio-environmental
engineer, is part of a 50-man Air
Force staff charged with turning the world's
first Modular Dispensary into a medical
proving ground. This prefab hospital is located
outside of Bangkok, Thailand. 1374
Dean St., Schenectady, handles mail for
Bob and wife Linda.
But, fortunately, not all of us here attend
to the arts of war. Dick Brown came
out here last month as an agricultural advisor
in a pilot project for USAID. He
will be working with a Vietnamese counterpart,
promoting a program of farming
improvement as closely applicable to local
conditions as possible. To prepare for this
job, he trained for six months, approximately
half the time learning the Vietnamese
language. Jim Linn, who speaks
fluent Vietnamese and who has been in the
country for two years with IVS, has just
moved his own agricultural advisory talents
from Vinh Long, in the Delta, to Nha
Trang, on the Central Coast, where he is
a regional supervisor of some sort. Jim's
address is IVS, USAID, APO, San Francisco,
Calif. 96240, a line that may also
work for Jim Mack, who is now in Nha
Trang on loan to USAID from the Embassy
in Saigon.
There are, indeed, quite a few of us out
here. In addition to those mentioned in this
column, I know that a partial list of classmates
who have been in or adjacent to
Viet Nam in some capacity would include
Jerry Bates, Garry Demurest, Tom Clark,
Webb Nichols, Harry Robinson, George
Hibbard, Mike McGuirk, Paul Scharf, Mike
Gerard, Jim Vatter, Tom Reth, Dick Lynham,
Bill Lage, John Rieke, and John Lutz
(those slighted please inform me)—-a total
of at least 24. More will come. Some will
come back. I can't speak for all of these
—the experience of each is different—but
I think if there is one common denominator,
it is simply that we all become more
concerned, more involved, more committed
in some way. Certainly we are not all like
Jim Linn who, after two years, admits to
feeling more a part of Viet Nam than of
the United States sometimes. But to some
extent, we are all struck by the complexity
of the situation, and become distrustful of
jingoistic slogans, pat answers, and easy
solutions. There are only options. (The
choice of available options is never clearcut,
often painful, always attended by some
doubt as to the consequences.) What is
needed most are some uncommon virtues,
such as imagination, fortitude, patience,
and faith. God help us.
I invite your comments.
'64
Women: Merry Hendler
515 E. 85th St.
New York, N.Y. 10028
Jeanne Kowalik was married to Michael
H. Payne in September. The Paynes are
now living at Ramapo Towers, 30 S. Cole,
Spring Valley. Jeanne writes that Eileen
Wilson Harvard became the mother of
Jeffrey Carl last November. Kristine Blixt
Gaisek is teaching home economics in the
South Orangetown School District in Rockland
County. Thanks for the information,
Jeanne, and the check.
Richard M. '63 and Patricia Michaels
Altman became the proud parents of Elizabeth
Jane on Dec. 16. The Altmans may
be reached at Bldg. 5, Apt. D-l, 5 Rose St.,
Oceanside.
Joan (Kather) and Bill Henry '60 also
became parents recently. Son William Patrick,
was born on Jan. 5. The Henrys live
at 580 20th Ave., San Francisco, Calif.
Nancy Taylor Butler wrote telling us
more of her doings. She is still working for
General Electric, while Ed '63 continues
toward his PhD in EE at Cal-Berkeley. He
has completed all course and language requirements,
is now spending full time on
research, and hopes to finish in a little over
a year. "We managed a trip East in September,
and although we missed Homecoming
by a few weeks, we were able to spend
one day in Ithaca (it was raining!). The
Butlers have a change of address: 517 Stannage
Ave., Albany, Calif.
Joanne Herron, 333 E. 66th St., New
York, is still living with Susan: McLaughlin
'65 and is working as the assistant to the
advertising director of Peck & Peck Stores.
Richard and Joyce Payne Church had a
lovely Christmas present last year. Their
daughter, Sheryl Beth, was born Dec. 23.
Dick is busy managing their 400-acre dairy
farm and is active in community affairs,
now serving as president of the local Jaycee
chapter. Joyce has naturally been busy at
home taking care of the new arrival, although
she has found time to be active in
4-H work at the local and county level. The
Churchs may be reached at RD 1, Moravia.
Lynda Gould is now living at 170 E.
83rd St., New York, and is working for
Skill Advancement, Inc., an anti-poverty
program involved in job upgrading. A fellow
staff member is Susan Braterman Taylor.
Prior to working at Skill Advancement,
Lynda was with the casting department at
McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency.
Donna Gellis Grushka and husband Eli
are in the Cornell Graduate School and
are hoping to finish this June. Donna writes
that they would love to have Ithaca visitors
stop in to say hello. Their address is
422 Wood St., Ithaca.
Alice Anderson's note relates that she
has left J. Walter Thompson where she had
been a media research analyst for two
years, and joined IBM's retail office as a
systems engineer. Alice's new address is:
401 E. 81st St., New York.
Other Cornellians living in New York
are: Patricia S. Knack, 131 E. 61st St.;
Barbara Bresnick, 418 E. 77th St.; Barbara
Jo Lauter, 77 E. 12th St.; Neysa Post, 433
W. 21st St.; and Joan Messing, 165 West
End Ave.
Virginia Mai, after receiving her MS in
organic chemistry from MIT in September,
is now struggling through her PhD exams
in same at MIT. Betsy Moll is teaching
junior high school in Lexington while living
at 18 Frost St., Cambridge, Mass. Ginny
also writes that E. Marie Low Hanson
(wife of Ken) is well along in her PhD in
inorganic chemistry, also at MIT.
Received a nice note from Julia Cowan,
who wrote that she taught English to Japanese
adults at ELEC, the English Language
Education Council, in Tokyo from January
'65 to January '66. Since September of
last year, Julia has been attending Katharine
Gibbs Secretarial School in New York,
and hopes to find one of those highly-paid,
executive-secretary jobs about which she
has been hearing so much. Good luck.
Julia may be reached through her Ithaca
address, 107 Hanshaw Rd.
Have two new roommates since the first
of the year, Abby Stolper and Steffi Schus
'65. Abby is working as a food chemist for
Stauffer Chemical Co. while completing her
MS in nutrition research at Columbia.
Needless to say, I have been eating very
well. Steffi is an assistant in the educational
service department of Donahue
Sales Corp.
Cynthia Fulton has returned to the US
after two years of work and study in Germany.
Although she lived mostly in Wiesbaden
and in Marburg/Lahn, she was able
to do some traveling to several other European
countries. Cynthia returned last fall
in order to do graduate work at Indiana U,
where she plans on getting her MA in German
in April '68. Her address: GRC Box
341, Bloomington, Ind.
Ruth Ann Peterson, 117 N. Gill St.,
State College, Pa., is still taking courses
and working in the plant pathology department
at Penn State College.
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