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graduated with honors from Tufts Medical School "cum Honore rebus occultis investigandis," which sounds like a type of security clearance. ... Also from Tufts are Dr. Al Klainer (cum laude). Dr. Dave Quigley and Dr. Summer Savitz. ... As a tip to our doctors, we wish to call their attention to a new medical instrument developed by the Sanborn Company of Waltham, Mass.  It is the Sanborn-Frommer Cell Counter with which a blood cell count can be made easily and accurately in 25 seconds.  An optical-electronic device, it was designed by two M.I.T. men, one of who, is classmate Tom Hayes. ... Roger Griffin was awarded his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester. ... John Stauffer received his Ph.D. last winter. ... Cal Tech granted Ph.D's to Howard Merchant in mechanical engineering and Elliot Pinson in electrical engineering. ... A Sc.D. degree was given buy M.I.T. to Jack Rosenfeld in electrical engineering.  Jack's doctoral thesis was titled "Adaptive Decision Processes." ... Alexis Ostapenko has been promoted to associate professor of civil engineering at Lehigh University. ... Among those at this year's Alumni Day were Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Donlan and Alar Toomre.
    Dick Blieden, who has his M.S from the University of Washington and is working on his Ph.D. from Florida State, was over in Israel this fall rowing in the Maccabee games. Last year Dick went to Rome with the U. S. Crew for the Olympic games . . . Gary Dischel is doing everything imaginable to ensure a maximum turnout at our 5th Reunion. Gary and Judy had an eight pound 10-and-one-half ounce, 20-inch-long girl, Dana Susan, last July 16, and they have promised to bring her to the reunion if you promise not to spill beer on her. . . Please pay your class dues promptly. It is not that I need the money personally (as Salzhauer alleges), but rather that the class needs working capital to provide the deposits which the Reunion Committee must make in advance to reserve facilities for us. Please note my new address. The door is always open (apparently quite literally, too, because I had a burglary in August at the old address). I work in midtown, 44th Street and Fifth Avenue and the M.I.T Club is just around the corner.- Alan M. May, Secretary, 201 East 66th Street, New York, N.Y.; Martin R. Forsburg, Assistant Secretary, 11 Scottsfield Road, Allston 34, Mass.

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Incredible as it may seem, summer has passed and we are in the midst of leaf raking and other more mundane tasks. Although The Technology Review and yours truly take a brief respite during the hotter months, news continues. . . . The California Institute of Technology reports that Robert A. Phinney, who received his S.B. in '58 and S.M. in '59 from Tech, has received the doctor of philosophy degree with a major in geology, and Robert Hecht has received his master of science degree in physics. . . . Other advanced degree information includes Wilbur Hull Highleyman, 2d, recipient of a doctorate in E. E. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. . . . P.I.B. also conferred a master of science in E. E. on Frank Edward Weiser. Congratulations to all you fellows!
   From the clippings I've been receiving it looks as though the number of bachelors in our ranks is fast dwindling. In May Charles Rossiter Kuchner and Miss Elizabeth Anne Castenholz were married in Norwich, Conn. Since graduation Charles has attended graduate school at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Maryland School of Physics. Present plans include medical school at Columbia University this fall. . . . April 29 was the date of the marriage of Timothy Cowles Gillette and Miss Jane Lash. Tim is now employed as an electronics engineer with Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier in Boston while his lovely wife, a Simmons graduate, is a staff member at the Harvard Business School. . . . The wife of one of our classmates, David J. Rachofsky, is successfully combining three full time careers-matrimony, motherhood, and medicine. She has been working under a fellowship in cancer research at a Philadelphia hospital while Dave is an electrical engineer for the Air Force. . . . Received a birth announcement complete in the 18th century Pennsylvania German style from Valerie and Don Wyckoff, heralding the arrival of Michele Ballard Wyckoff in June, 1961, in Santa Monica.
   Toni Deutsh Schuman reports that she ran into Phil Friend at the Western Joint Computer Conference and learned he is now working for Bissett Bernan in Santa Monica as a systems engineer. Prior to that he was a project engineer on the RW400 at Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge. He is married to the former Paula Goldman from Newton, a Wellesley graduate who is now a market analyst at TRW. . . . Tung-Po Lin this fall will be joining the faculty of the math department at San Fernando State College. After three years of industrial experience with the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington he decided that the academic world was the place for him. He also mentioned the birth of his third daughter.- Cornelius Peterson, Secretary, 65 Sweetwater Avenue, Bedford, Mass.; Antonia D. Schuman, Western Associate, Packard Bell Computer Company, 1905 Armacost Avenue, Los Angeles 25, Calif.; Kenneth J. Auer, Midwestern Associate, 760 Mistletoe Road, Akron 7, Ohio; William G Daly, Jr., Eastern Associate, 125 White Street, Waverly 79, Mass.

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The warmest greetings from Cambridge. Your old secretary is out of the Army, temporarily at least, and is attending Harvard. I hope in the next few issues to catch up on all the news of our class that has occurred during the last few months... Several months ago I received a letter from Hal Laeger. Sorry for the delay, Hal. After receiving his M.B.A. at the University of California, and a short tour in the Army, Hal went to work for Grey Advertising Agency. This is one of New York's top ad agencies.... Hal also writes that Ed Friedland is working for the Systems Development Corporation in Los Angeles. Thanks, Hal.... Congratulations to the family of Glenn Zeiders. Glenn and Suzi have taken on a new dependent: Glenn Wilson Zeiders, 3d. The Zeiders now live in Malibu, Calif. Your secretary has moved with a fellow '59'er, Al Oppenheim. Al is working on his Ph.D. at Tech. He is also working as a Course VI instructor.... Met the Widnalls in town the other day. Both Bill and Sheila are still at M.I.T., harpsichord and all!

Attention all Fijis! There is now another fraternity on the Fenway. Three doors down from the Phi Gam house is the new S.A.M. house. Honest, I had nothing to do with it!... Due to all my moving about during the past six months, some news sent to me may have been lost in transit. If so, please sit down and let me know. Please note my new address. I'm hoping to hear from everyone during this next year; let's keep this column alive. 

From Assistant Secretary John J. [[McElroy?]] come the following items: Heard from Adul Pinsuvana about a week too late for the last spring issue. Now a first lieutenant in the Royal Thai Air Force, Adul says AFROTC training comes in handy. Adul is considering marriage as soon as he tires of bachelorhood and hopes then to honeymoon and study in England. The parting statement in Adul's letter was "If I can write out class secretary all the way from Thailand, what the-is keeping all the other '59'ers from doing the same?" ... Jerome Schooler, now a vice-president of the Flush Metal Partition Corporation, sent me a [[fact-filled?]] letter. Jerry runs the Class of '59 luncheons at the M.I.T. Club in Manhattan on the Wednesday of the first full week of the month.... Howie Ziff, who is studying at Colombia Law School, attended the August luncheon.... Roger Blaho stopped in at the New York Club in a peaceful spirit. He was then at Rutgers being indoctrinated for Peace Corps service in Columbia, South America! Jerome has also lunched with Bill Burke, Edward Hyman, Russell Larsen, Joe Paulonia, Michael Gordon, Mrs. Grace Chin, and Alex Rose.

The sound of wedding bells has been ringing for many of our classmates lately. Steve Kaye married the former Rosalie Ann Swartz of Newton Centre last July. He is now in his final year of Harvard Business School.... During July John Swenson tied the knot with Eva Valencia of Forest Hills, N.Y. John received his master's degree last June from NYU and is now a candidate for a doctorate in mathematics there.... Jim Schattinger took the big step with Joan Meyers of Cleveland. He is now on leave from the Standard Oil Company of Ohio to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration ... M.I.T.'s Chapel was the scene of Paul Silverman's marriage to Ruth Gesmer in July.... George Provost and the former Joan McCallin of

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Transcription Notes:
first word partially cut off on page but I transcribed full word as 'graduated'