1950

Class Correspondent
Kenneth Hubel
2562 Oak Circle N.E.
North Liberty, IA 52317
(319) 626-6562
E-mail: khubel@inav.net
Because responses to my letters to classmates have been infrequent this trimester, I asked contributors to Then and Now for permission to use the information published for our 50th reunion as well as any additional notes they wished to add. The following responded with permission and, occasionally, with additional information.
Doug Baird obtained a master’s degree in math from Cornell, married Martha Schwardt, and started a family (two boys, two girls, and seven grandchildren). During the Korean War, his work with IBM was interrupted by a rewarding assignment that was useful in his later work in helping to design what became the IBM System/360. Before retiring, he was lead architect on a project that defined significant components of the IBM9370, AS400, and the Power PC. He and Martha retired in 1987, moved to Asheville, N.C., and stay busy with travel, work with their local church, and some programming for nonprofits. (1 Muirfield Circle, Arden, NC 28704; dpbaird@sprynet.com.)
Mary Lee Monroe Birmingham’s undergraduate year in Peru brought fluency in Spanish, an abiding interest in archeology, and an expanded view of what life had to offer. After graduation, she studied at Columbia University Teachers College and earned a master of education degree from Florida Atlantic University. She has explored familial and historical links to the past in tracing her genealogy and belongs to more than 30 societies that facilitate those interests. She had a son and daughter from her first marriage, another son and daughter from her second marriage to John Birmingham, and has two grandchildren. Her younger son was killed in a tragic auto accident in 1997. She writes, "I have led a full life with my share of happiness and sadness, which . . . is life’s experience and makes us what we are." (301 Malley Drive, Apt. 115, Northglenn, CO; mlmb@earthlink.net.)
Dorothy (Dottie) Hill Crim ’51N worked as a registered nurse at Strong for a year before she married and then moved to Michigan. She continued to work in teaching hospitals in Michigan until 1954, when raising a family of two girls and a boy took precedence. After a refresher course in 1969, she added responsibilities as a public health nurse to those of wife, mother, Girl Scout leader, church helper, and worker with the Michigan Nurses Association. She and her husband, Bill, are retired and now travel and enjoy their granddaughter and two grandsons. (6040 Saline-Ann Arbor Rd., Saline, MI 48176.)
Norman Drake was a radar observer in night flights during World War II and was recalled to active duty in 1951. He earned an M.S. in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and, until 1979 when he retired from the Air Force as full colonel, he was assigned to research and development, operations, and operations analysis. He wrote, "I lived some Air Force history. My first flights were with goggles, a leather helmet, and a white scarf. My last were in a full pressure suit ready for the moon. I earned a Mach III pin for high altitude/high speed work." Since retiring, he has worked as a management/engineering consultant. He and Adelaide have been married for 57 years, have three children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. (1119 Bayshore Drive, Niceville, FL 32578; nadrake@ webtv.com.)
Gisela Cloos Evitt married a University geology instructor soon after graduation and worked with her husband in his geology lab. They moved to Tulsa in 1953 and later, with their three boys, went to Palo Alto and Stanford University, where they have stayed. In 1965, she "made a new acquaintance"with a handweaving loom"that changed my life forever."She learned to weave and to spin and "developed a burning interest in textiles." She "taught handspinning and demonstrated at county fairs, sheep shearings, historical reenactments, and the like, always with enthusiastic responses . . . My training as a biologist and the nurturing of my ‘scientific curiosity’ at Rochester have been fundamental to my endeavors." (882 Cedro Way, Stanford, CA 94305; evitt@pangea.stanford.edu.)
Priscilla Winchell Podlich wrote to tell me of the death of Matilda (Tillie) Bramble Bender in July in Carmel, Calif. If you wish more information, you may write Tillie’s daughter, Catherine B. Wheeler, at 5157 Independence Dr., Pleasanton, CA 94566. And with additional regret, Charlie Wadhams wrote that Jeanne Cramer Armstrong told him her husband, Tom, had died on July 29, 2002. (C. Wadhams, 2977 W. Brompton Ln., Fresno, CA 93711; Jeanne Armstrong, 120 Upland Way, Haddonfield, NJ 08033.)
The notice of the death of Giles Hobin ’51E in the spring-summer issue recalled his stirring tenor voice in the 1949 Quilting Club production, Make It Fast. He sang Mad for the Sea, a rollicking romantic waltz composed by Arthur Satz ’51 (who also wrote the comical Love Flew Out the Window When You Walked in the Door). Noting Giles’s death, I wrote Art and asked about his (Art’s) life in the 52 years since we had last talked. He wrote that he had done graduate work at UC Berkeley and USC, then had two years as a Fulbright scholar in Munich, more graduate study for an M.F.A. at Princeton, and later teaching positions at Vassar and Yale. He moved to New York to teach at the New York School of Interior Design, which he later led as president. He is now retired (33 Sandpiper Lane, Greenport, NY 11944-3111) and occasionally has lunch in Manhattan with classmate Dick Helmkamp ’51.

1951

At an exhibit at the home of University Trustee Larry Bloch ’75 in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., of Ansel Adams’s photographs, Charles Cochrane ’56M (MD) found an image of himself as a young medical student. The photograph became part of the booklet Creative Change, commissioned by the University to mark the 1955 merger of the men’s and women’s colleges into what is now the College. 1952

Richard Bakemeier ’57M (MD) is serving his second term as chair of the University Faculty Council of the University of Colorado. He previously served as chair of the Faculty Assembly of the university’s Health Science Center, where he is professor of medicine, associate dean for continuing medical education, and associate director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The first medical oncologist in Rochester, he was professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry and associate director of the University’s Cancer Center until 1986.

1953

50TH REUNION
OCTOBER 10-12, 2003

1955

John DePalma ’57 (Mas) and his wife, Marie, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 26. John retired from his work as a laboratory head at Eastman Kodak and now is a member of the Clarkson and Rochester alumni associations.

1957

Paul Fine ’61M (MD), ’65M (Res) received the 2001-02 James M. Steward Award from the School of Medicine and Dentistry in recognition of distinguished clinical teaching. . . . Kay Hatton Ryder writes that she received a Susan B. Anthony Award from the YWCA of Vermont. Given to reaffirm the YWCA’s commitment to the rights of women, the awards are presented to outstanding Vermont women for their contributions to their community, state, and country.

1958

45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 10-12, 2003

Class Correspondent
John Rathbone
RD 2 Box 55
Hamilton, NY 13346
E-mail: jrathbon@dreamscape.com

Dick and Joan DeBrine write that they have enjoyed their second careers as bed and breakfast hosts at Maplehedge, but they are hoping to sell the inn this year. As Dick writes, "Then the fun begins! Second or maybe even third childhood."

Val Evans ’60N (Mas) and John Rathbone had lunch with Paul and Joan Willert Casterline in Utica at a favorite Cal-Mex restaurant when Joan and Paul stopped for a while en route home to Rochester from their Cape Cod getaway.
Credit must be given to the sharp eyes of Barbara Willsea Harper and Nancy Festa Brown for their good detective work with the photo of the Class of ’58 Frosh Camp in the last issue of the Rochester Review. Nancy had a good idea about using that photo for our upcoming reunion. Can any of our readers identify any more of the women of ’58 in that photo? Nancy also writes that she is recuperating from a total knee replacement. She took medical leave after Easter and now reports that she is recuperating "ahead of the curve" and getting her energy back, "Rarin’ to go back to teaching second grade in the fall!" Nancy and Don were planning a visit to their son, Jerry, in Michigan.

Margie Taylor Adams writes that she and Doug have a new e-mail address. (Contact your correspondent if you want it!) Margie writes that she is playing a lot of tennis, and her 3.5 Super Senior Team went to the state championships at the end of June. "My golf is totally schizophrenic, with one nine in the low 40s and the other in the mid 50s, but I have fun!" Margie is looking for more Rochester classmates in her southwest Florida area.

Dick and Margaret Vidale took a tour through the West and sent the best photos I’ve ever seen of Lake Louise, Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone, to name a few of their stops. They also had a nice visit in Rhode Island with Bob and Sue Reed.

There was a small reunion of Theta Delts on the occasion of that fraternity’s receiving a "re-chartering" from its national office. Dayton Vincent had the idea, and Dick Vidale spread the word to meet for lunch. On August 9, Dayton and Lola Vincent, Dick and Margaret Vidale, Pat Shea and his friend, Cate, and Val and John Rathbone had a fabulous lunch at the Spring House. None of the men had changed too much, but there were some "You look just like your father" remarks. After a few hours of reminiscing, bringing each other up to date, and discussing plans for the future, the brothers parted to meet again—sometime. The next day, Lola, Dayton, Val, and John took in a Bavarian Festival in Gates and went to the TDC Convention where they met up with Larry Palvino ’59 and John Parrinello ’60.

Pete Tarrant missed that reunion because he spent the previous weekend getting married to his Russian love of the last nine years. Pete wrote that he had a full slate for the next few weeks, attending to "in-laws, INS documents, announcements, and all the accouterments of the ancient art of marriage."

Bob Rufe wrote to say that, although the flames came close, he and Joan had been spared the ravages of the Colorado fires. Bob sent a photo of them both. Ben and Maureen McGuigan Baldwin suffered a bad flood in their home, but they took their annual trip back to Moe’s home territory and their camp in Galway, N.Y. John and Val Rathbone were planning to meet them there on Labor Day. ("We were hoping to meet up with any classmates who were ‘passing through.’ ")

Dayton and Lola Vincent took a Rochester-sponsored cruise on the Danube last spring and enjoyed it immensely.

When not "re-uning" with old friends, John and Val Rathbone appear to have given in to the wanderlust. Following their river cruise from Vienna to Amsterdam last spring (1,100 photos, film and digital), the two drove again in September to Fallon, Nev., to visit their grandchildren, with stops at Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, and other scenic spots along the way ("and Cabela’s, too!" adds John). Later in the autumn, they had planned to visit Dayton and Lola Vincent in Cologne, Germany.

1959

A jazz quartet performed to mark a book signing for Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce, by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald ’70E. The Red Wierenga Unit, which has links to Eastman, performed at the August signing in Pittsford, N.Y.

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