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Paul V.
Nyden
1202 Kanawha Blvd. East
Apt. 1-C
Charleston, W. Va. 25301
After 30
years on the faculty of Michigan State University Donald M.
Johnson '39, Ph.D. is now enjoying the pleasures of southern
California. His wife died two years ago, but he feels fortunate in
that his daughters, grandchildren, and two great grandsons live
nearby and visit frequently. He is in reasonably good health and
has just published a small non-technical book, The Psychology of
Humor and Wit, available from Fithian Press, P.O. Box 1525,
Santa Barbara, Calif. 93102; $9.95.
William
V.P. Sitterley and wife, Catharine, moved in October to a
retirement community, Bentley, a few miles north of Naples, Fla.
Bill's family has a long affiliation with Columbia. Bill's father
was a graduate of the Pharmacy School, Class of 1910; his son, Bill
Jr. is Class of '74, daughter, Meg Pasmantier (recently deceased)
was Social Work '66, and most recently, a granddaughter, Meredith
Pasmantier, is a member of the Class of 2001. Truly a great line of
splendor.
Murray T.
Bloom
40 Hemlock Drive
Kings Point, N.Y. 11024
Wally
Schaap, who had a stroke, asked me to take over as class
correspondent. I talked to Wally recently, and he described his
condition as "coming along." He also asked me to thank several
classmates, including Don O'Connell, Carl Desch and
Hal Marley, for their letters.
Dr. Paul
Kolisch received the New York State Conspicuous Service Medal
in a ceremony at the American Legion Post in Friendship, N.Y.,
where Paul has lived for the past 55 years. In World War II, he
served with the 82nd Airborne in Europe.
Dick
Hess and his wife, Jay B'39, have been living in Willow Run
Manor North in Lancaster, Pa. ("One of the largest life-care
facilities in the country.") He keeps busy editing two publications
for the General Society, Sons of the Revolution. One of them is
Drumbeat, a newsletter for the 5,800 member organization. He
and Randy Seifert had a reunion in Pound Ridge, N.Y., when
the Seiferts were celebrating their 57th wedding
anniversary.
On a personal
note: I was on a one-hour History Channel program, "Vanished," in
early October. It was very historic: An 83-year-old retired writer
being interviewed at length on a 1959 article he had written for
Harper's about the strange disappearance of a New York State
Supreme Court justice, Judge Crater, in 1929.
According to
the most recent alumni records, some 396 graduated with the Class
of 1937. And 215 of us are still around. Actuarially, we're a
reasonably healthy bunch.
A writer who
is working on a book about the '30s asked me if anyone knew what
happened to Bob Burke, our Golden Gloves contemporary who
was expelled for picketing Nicholas Murray Butler's home.
Remember?
Dr. A.
Leonard Luhby
3333 Henry Hudson Parkway
West Bronx, N.Y. 10463
Ralph
Staiger
701 Dallam Road
Newark, Del. 19711
rstaiger@brahms.udel.edu
Our 60th
graduation anniversary was well received. The following class
members attended: John Alexander, N.C.; Robert Banks,
D.C.; John Beeman, N.J.; Richard Cohn, N.Y.;
Grover Connell, N.J.; Thomas Dawkins, Conn.;
Richard Fremon, N.J.; Victor Futter, N.Y.; Roy
Glickenhaus, Conn.; Lawrence Goodman, Minn.; Seymour
Jacobson, N.Y.; Albert Jordan. N.Y.; Pierre
Kolisch, Ore.; Joseph Kuh, N.Y.; Jerome Kurshan,
N.J.; Stanley Lee, N.Y.; Robert Lockwood, Calif.;
David Mason, Maine; John McCormack, Tex.; Julian
Muller, N.Y.; Howard Pack, N.Y.; Franklin
Robinson, Conn.; James Robinson, N.Y.; Bernie
Schutz, N.Y.; Thomas Styles, Md.; H. Lloyd
Taylor, Calif.; Trygve Tonnesen, Conn.; Irwin
Weiner, Fla.; Victor Wouk, N.Y.; and Sidney
Zuckerman, Fla. I am sorry that serious illness kept me from
meeting my classmates.
Rudolph T.
Textor passed away at his home in Whiting, N.J. Following his
graduation from the School of Optometry, he trained at the
Dartmouth Eye Institute; the Army Air Corps sent him to M.I.T. to
become a meteorologist. He served as a captain in Europe with the
406th Fighter- Bomber group and earned five battle
stars.
Jack C.
Wright of Williamsburg, Va., who was captain of the 1939
football team, has a granddaughter who was an All-American high
school swimmer and is now a member of the Class of 2003. He and
Barbara were out of the country during our reunion, but he asks any
member of the class to say "Hi" to granddaughter Christina
Wright.
Seth
Neugroschl
1349 Lexington Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10028
sn23@columbia.edu
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