Class Notes

October 1966

by David Sherman

There was a little less fun in “Fun City” this summer than there might have been. The Mets weren’t much fun — fewer gaping errors to chortle over — yet still the lousy won-loss record. It wasn’t fun to watch the Yankees die. Wall Street didn’t have much fun. The politicians, gearing up for a gubernatorial race, made an effort to show the electorate that campaigning sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, is quite a lot of fun. The teenagers probably had the only real fun. Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones camped here for a while. Their presence caused the Avenue of the Americas to become Carnaby Street, and if New York sets the styles for young America, by Halloween the country will be crawling with polka dots, hip-waisted bell-bottomed trousers, girl-length hair on all genders, and anguished faces. Summer in New York is not like summer in most places.

Gene Van Loan married Judy Ammon on June 11. George Covington was an usher at that event. Gene and Judy will live at Cambridge while Gene finishes his last year of law school at Harvard. George Covington also served as an usher at the wedding of Joe Wishcamper and Carol Heifetz.

Alan McFarland and Ellen ‘Nell’ Michel were married in August in Southampton. Syd Lea, J. T. Smith, and Bob Semisch were ushers. Also at the wedding from our Class were, among others: Gordon Davis, Chris Getman, Lawton Calhoun, Bill Fischer, and Angus Macbeth.

Also in August Jethro Lieberman and Susan Vucker were married. The wedding was in White Plains, New York. Ted Brewer, Marsh Louis, and I were ushers. Betty and Joe Lieberman, Van Lanckton, Rich Patterson, Tom Vichi, Gary Saxonhouse, and Angus Macbeth were also present. Jethro recently had a book published called Court in Session which is an introduction to the workings of the American Legal System. The book was dedicated to Susan.

It was learned that Roger Swaybill recently became engaged to Marion Phillis Lear, Wheaton ’63. The wedding will be on December 18 in Great Neck, Long Island.

Dean Vanderbilt has spent the last two years in Los Angeles where he has been going to school at UCLA on a Work-Study Fellowship with the Hughes Aircraft Company. He received his M.A. in June. He and his wife will now go to Cambridge where he begins work on a Ph.D. at M.I.T. Lanin Gyurko received an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature this spring at Harvard. He will go on for his Ph.D. in the same area. Dick Dauphine will go into his third year at Georgetown Medical School. David Elliott is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

John Bermon, who has been attending the Union Theological Seminary on a Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship, was awarded the William H. Hudnut Award last spring. It is awarded annually to the second-year student who has made the best preparation for the preaching ministry.

After having been in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica for two years, Chip Levengood will enter Columbia Business School this fall. Also in Costa Rica with the Peace Corps was Church Carey. Church and Chip took a vacation south and ran into John Davol, who is working in a Peace Corps Credit Union in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Bob Kuehn begins his third year at Yale Architecture School this fall. This summer he worked in Hawaii and roomed with Sam Low, who is just finishing up with the Navy. Egils Melbardis has been in Korea with the U.S. Army since September of 1964. Richard Auchincloss is an ensign aboard the U.S.S. Guadalcanal. He is assistant to the Gunnery Officer. Wayne Cooper is in Arico, Chile with the Peace Corps serving as a community development leader. Charles Lutz is in New York City working toward a career as an actor.

Tom Hout writes: “I have recently completed my two years active duty as a naval officer aboard the U.S.S. Hornet. Serving as public affairs officer to the embarked Admiral I traveled over the Far East with him and value highly my experiences. This coming year I will be taking a Rotary International Fellowship at the University of Manchester in England, studying economics.” Bill Lear has also completed his naval officer obligation and will be at Harvard Business School this fall.

After getting his M.B.A. from Harvard, Bob Downing joined the firm of Rohm and Haas in Process Engineering. I. Edward Price has been promoted to junior actuarial assistant in the Prudential Insurance Office in Newark, N.J. Edward is married to the former Diane Miller of Englewood, N.J. and they have a 14-month-old son. Bill Moeller got his M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School last June. He is working for the First National City Bank in New York. Mark Larratt-Smith received an M.A. in history from Columbia this past June. He is now serving as special assistant to the Minister of Labor in the Canadian Government.

Our Class will have a tent at the Princeton Game on November 12. Last year we had a good turnout. Make an effort to get there this year.