ALUMNI NEWS - eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University

preciation of my interest as a member of the
Board of Higher Education since 1949.
"I am chairman of the Surrogate's Section
of the Brooklyn Bar Assn. and a member
of the Advisory Commission on the
New York State Commission of Decedent
Estates." This is not the entire letter, but
shows a busy person willing to contribute
to the class and Cornell. We might add
that her husband is Benjamin R. Raphael.
Frank C. Wallower Jr., 1512 W. Lexington,
Independence, Mo., was ordained a
priest in the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints on March 11,
1962. Wally had been in the GMC sales
division for some time, with dealers or with
the company, and his areas covered St.
Joseph, Mo., Chicago, and Kansas City.
Our last previous news had him as district
manager, at Kansas City.
Lawrence D. Clark writes that in December
last, he completed 25 years with Eastman
Kodak Co. as a physicist in the research
laboratories. His older son, Mark,
is now in the first year of Harvard Law
School having graduated from Harvard
magna cum laude. His younger son, David,
is a sophomore in Harvard College and a
member of the glee club. Home for the
Clarks is 117 W. Ivy St., East Rochester.
Birny Mason Jr., president of Union Carbide
Corp., was recently elected to the
board of directors of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. He is also a director of Consolidation
Coal Co. and The Fidelity &
Casualty Co. of New York.
'32
Men: Richard H. Sampson
111 W. Washington St.
Chicago 2, III.
With the closing of the Ridgway Operation
of Elliott Co. in 1962, it first appeared
that the knowledge and experience possessed
by members of the engineering department
would become widely dispersed
and to a great extent dissipated. This group
of about 27 represented the "last generation"
of 70 years of engineering progress in
this company. These men had designed
equipment which has been referred to by
other customers and competitors as the
"Cadillac of large rotating equipment."
Two former members of this department
felt there was a need in the industry to
maintain this team and, while neither of
them was financially able to underwrite
this undertaking completely, they decided
to form a nucleus organization with "Associates"
available on a part-time basis until
the business attained a size sufficient to
warrant additional full-time members.
In January 1963, Biggs-Nippes Associates,
Inc., was organized, consisting of Fred
I. Biggs, former engineering manager of
the Ridgway Operation of Elliott Co. and
P. I. Nippes, former manager of the Two-
Pole Synchronous Machine Section, as
principals. Associated with them on a parttime
basis are many former members of the
Elliott engineering department who are
now employed elsewhere in industry and
who have, where required, obtained their
employer's consent to work part-time with
this consulting firm.
Thus, in employing Biggs-Nippes Associates,
Inc., clients secure the benefit of detailed
design knowledge on all phases of
large induction, synchronous and d.c. machinery.
Microfilm of designs and drawings
40
of machinery built by the Elliott Co.'s
Ridgway plant is maintained in their office
for reference purposes. Drafting personnel
is likewise available. With the experience
and background of this organization available
to clients, a means of securing new
designs, reports, development (including
digital computer studies) or solution to
electrical and mechanical problems has
been made available at moderate cost.
Jerry O'Rourk sends the following report
on the class dinner held in New York April
16 at the Cornell Club: "Fifteen talkative
classmates gathered at the Cornell Club
of New York last night, Tuesday the 16th,
for what we hope will now be an annual
class dinner. All were disheartened that
Whitey Mullestein, our tallest Reunion
chairman, couldn't make it over from Philadelphia.
This was the night after he came
out for price increases and he had to stay
close to the home fires. Bob Purcell, class
president, headed the list of notables which
also included Ed Pitzpatrick, Kay Hoffman,
Peter Keane, Herb Heerwagen, Bob
Reidel, Milt Smith, Morris Traub, Pete
Ruppe, Joe Gold, George Dickinson, Al
Green, Ben Falk, Eric Roos and myself.
"The conviction persists that more classmates
will enjoy these annual get-togethers
when they form the habit of attending.
A small committee has agreed to get to
Whitey and urge him not to raise prices
next year at the time of the dinner. Tuesday
night, April 14, 1964, has already been
set as the date. Ben Falk heads a large committee
of large men to arrange some choice
program bits. He was elected because he
had an idea which will be enlarged on at a
later date.
"Fred Biggs, Stan Hubbell, Fred Clark,
and Nicky Rothstein reported in but sent
regrets because of prearranged trips. Fellow
diners and raconteurs are urged to save
their stories and pennies for next year's
dinner."
'33
Men: Robert H. Wainwright
1314 Sixth Aυe.
Beaver Falls, Pa.
Charles S. Tracy was chairman of a New
York area reunion dinner at the new
Cornell Club in New York City on April
2. Those present included: Al Roller, Harold
Sidenius, Halsey Cowan, Junior
Thompson, Ford Penny, Al Captanian,,
Treasurer Dick Wells, Bill Geary, Ted
Wolkof, Walter Wallace, President Bart
Viviano, Secretary Dick Vanderwarker,
class Fund Representative Ed Bleckwell,
Phil Finch, and Larry Coleman. John G.
Detwiler, our Reunion chairman, told the
Jroup about our plans for the 30th Reunion,
une 13, 14, and 15, 1963. Wilford B. Penny
was appointed chairman of a nominating
committee for a new slate of officers to be
elected at the class dinner at Reunion in
June.
Chicago Area Chairman Fred Wendnagle
scheduled a May 13 meeting for the Midwestern
members of the class to be held at
the Union League Club of Chicago.
Howard M. Williams, 40 Adeline PL,
Valley Stream, is director of building consultation
and supply service for the Boys'
Clubs of America. The manual he sent me
was excellent. John P. Carver, 8 Elm St.,
Clinton, is now vice president, director,
and general counsel of Mohawk Airlines.
He was one of their first pilots.
'33—Dorothy Hvass Prince, wife of actor
William L. '34, has established a teenage
employment service, Summers Unlimited,
at Westport, Conn. With a friend
as co-director, Mrs. Prince spent weeks
looking into summer employment opportunities
for young people, and soon after
opening their service had registered 300
youngsters for paid or volunteer work. Inspiration
for the project came last year
when Nick Prince, 15, took pride in his
work (unpaid) as town sailing instructor.
'34
Men: Thomas B. Haire
111 Fourth Avenue
New York 3, N.Y.
Albert H. Bright, 526 Windwood Rd.,
Baltimore 12, Md., has completed 28 years
in the US Army Reserve
and transferred
to the Retired Reserve
with the rank
of lieutenant colonel.
He is a civilian engineer
with the US
Army Engineer District
in Baltimore.
After graduating, he
worked briefly for
the Ithaca Water Department. He then became
a civilian employee with the Army
Corps of Engineers in 1936. He worked
with the Corps' district offices in Binghamton
and Syracuse before joining the Baltimore
Engineer District in 1946. Al is in
charge of the civil works construction
branch for federal flood protection projects
in the Susquehanna and Potomac River
basins. His wife is the former Ann F. Kennedy.
Stephen H. Sampson, Brunswick Hills,
Troy, has been elected president of the
Cornell Club of the Capital District (Albany,
Troy, etc.). Steve's daughter Sandre
(Grinnell '62) was married recently to
Norton Sloan, a Harvard graduate. Steve's
son David is a sophomore at St. Lawrence
University and received his letter in soccer
last fall.
Edmund C. Sulzman, 18 Fielding Rd.,
Short Hills, N.J., operates his own business,
Cummins Diesel Metropolitan, Inc., at
Routes 1 and 22 Newark. Ed's son Bob
was married to Catherine Sand of Glens
Falls and expects to complete his college
course at Seton Hall at the end of June.
Ed's youngest son, Don, is in his freshman
year at St. Francis College in Loretta, Pa.
Dr. Norman J. Lampert, 3367 Austin
Ave., Wantagh, has a daughter, Susan '66,
now in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Carlton B. Hutchms Jr., Douglas, Mich.,
writes that his son has been accepted by
Michigan State University for the fall.
Carleton III was captain of the Howe
Military School football team.
Albert A. Fleischer, 54 Woodridge Circle,
Trumbull, Conn., is head of the science
department of Central High. His daughter
Karen was accepted at Cornell, while his
son is doing graduate work at the University
of Connecticut. Al plans to spend the
summer at Cornell as a Shell Fellow.
Rabbi Kenneth E, Stein, 1 Chiltern Hill
Dr., Worcester 9, Mass., has been the spiritual
leader of Temple Sinai since 1959.
He has been appointed to the National
Board of Adult Jewish Education of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Cornell Alumni News