Slater Society
All Post-50th Reunion Classes
October 10–12, 2003

1937
Lillian Benz Congdon ’44 (Mas) has coauthored the book For the Love of Skiing. She writes, “It covers a special time after World War II when our returning veterans threw themselves into those wonderful years of development in all aspects of American life.”

1938
65th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1938

1943
60th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1943

1948
55th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1948

1950
Kenneth Hubel, class correspondent, writes:

Joan Osborn married Gordon Brown soon after graduation. They have two children and three grandkids living in Ohio and Tennessee. Tiring of routine volunteer work she trained to be a Braille transcriber and became fascinated with the skill and transcription of writing for college students and adults. Sometime after starting she discovered that her classmate, Carol Ernst Hopkins, was also a transcriber. Joan worked many years as a volunteer librarian at the headquarters of the National Braille Association in Rochester and for 15 years assisted the blind editor of a national magazine. She retired from library work and now restricts her work with Braille to that which she can do on her home computer (47 Winding Creek Lane, Rochester, NY 14625; jeobrown@aol.com).

Marshall Tyler initially entered the University in 1937 and after attending navigation school in 1942–43 was assigned to the 8th Air Force in the European theater in August 1943. He was a prisoner of war from November 1943 until May 1945, and when he returned to Rochester he studied for a year at the Rochester Institute of Technology before joining our class at Rochester in 1948. After graduation he worked for 30 years in quality control of the water supply for the City of Rochester, and for the four years before his retirement in 1984, he was laboratory supervisor for the Monroe County Water Authority. Since then he has been heavily involved in church and community activities and in particular with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (65 Nunda Blvd., Rochester, NY 14610-2838).

Glenn Berggren obtained an M.S. degree at Chrysler Institute of Engineering in Detroit, was in the service for two years, and married Diane Hamp in 1953. He worked in electronics for General Electric, and while in their management training program, earned an M.B.A. at Syracuse University. He moved to Kollmorgen Corp. and became director of commercial sales that included research and development of lenses for movie theaters. Glenn has since received six technical awards from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for his initial work with Kollmorgen and for the later development of innovative lenses and projection technology at four other companies. Trying not to retire, he began a consulting partnership and continues to work with major firms like Kodak (1495 Upland Hills Drive North, Upland, CA 91784; SigmaGB@aol.com).

—Contact: Kenneth Hubel, 2562 Oak Circle N.E., North Liberty, IA 52317; (319) 626-6562; khubel@southslope.net.

1952
Chesley Kahmann’s performance of An American Mass, recorded at the Central Presbyterian Church in Summit, N.J., with the combined choirs of Christ Church, Central Presbyterian Church, and members of the group The Interludes, has been produced on CD and video. . . . David Kearns, senior trustee of the University, received the Inspiration Award from the University’s Wilmot Cancer Center in May. Kearns, a cancer survivor, is former CEO of Xerox Corp. and former deputy secretary of education in the first Bush administration. . . . Ty Martin has authored the book Constitution Close Up: Minutiae for the Artist and Modeller, an illustrated compendium of information from primary sources concerning the evolution in appearance of the frigate Old Ironsides through her first six decades.

1953
50th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1953

1955
Stuart Platt ’70S (MBA) has joined Electronic Identification’s board of directors. He retired as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. . . . Cynthia Stevenson has been named to the board of directors of Home Aides in Syracuse, N.Y.

1956
Donald Messina ’57 (Mas) writes, “I have been studying orchestra conducting at the Hochstein Music School in Rochester and led the Hochstein Chamber Ensemble in a concert in June and the Penfield (N.Y.) Orchestra as a special guest conductor for Rossini’s La Gazza Ladiza Overture, also in June.”

1958
45th Reunion
October 10–12, 2003
www.rochester.edu/alumni/classes/1958
John Rathbone, class correspondent, writes:

Diane Morrell Jenkins writes to say that several of our classmates attended a “kickoff” for the Reunion 2003 event this autumn. With Diane was Liz Culp Moody, Jim Alrutz, George and Kitty Braddon ’59, Don Culley, Dick D’Amico, Gene LeDoux, Ed Przybycien, and Dick VanDermeid.

Herb Gliick dropped us a line to say that he sold his publishing businesses in 1996 and 1999 and has been substitute teaching in the Wellesley and Needham, Mass., middle schools and freelancing for Offshore, the magazine Herb founded in 1976.

Joe Steinman writes from Hanover, Germany, where he just finished teaching a course in international marketing for an executive M.B.A. group (mainly Germans), many of whom are technically trained to the Ph.D. level. Joe tells us that his Rochester engineering credentials were very valuable. Joe then returned to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He is still teaching finance as a visiting professor at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Joe and his wife have kept their place in Switzerland and spent the summer there.

John Rathbone and Val Evans Rathbone ’60W (Mas) were off again on a trip to Eastern Europe in early spring.

Please don’t forget to mark your calendars for our 45th reunion in October. Send your photos from our undergraduate years to Dick Vidale, 74 Overbrook Drive, Wellesley, MA 02482-2248; (781) 237-3576; rfv@bu.edu.

Dick is making a “then and now” CD for us, and he needs lots of photos from you. Any photos from past reunions also would be useful. He will accept them in any format: prints, slides, .jpg, .gif, or .tiff files by e-mail or CD, ZIP or floppy disk—you name it. It doesn’t matter if the photos are faded; Dick will restore them and will return your original and restored “hard copies” to you, too!

Dick is also collecting biographical information and written memorabilia that you submit to him. He will put these on the CD. Everyone at the reunion will receive a copy.

—Contact: John Rathbone, R.D. 2, Box 55, Hamilton, N.Y. 13346; jrathbon@dreamscape.com.

1959
Cathryn Leland Braddon (see ’58).