Greetings from the Recorder's desk! It is always a pleasure to be able to send best wishes to you all by means of the Alumni Bulletin. May I take this oppor- tunity to wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year?
Once again we are about half-way through another school year, and the stu- dents have faced with fear and trepida- tion the awesome "final exams" (you re- member!) And now the Recorder's task becomes hectic- or perhaps a more ac- curate term would be MORE hectic.
It has been pleasant to hear from so many of you, and to know that a goodly number of you are reading the Bulletin- wi tness the fact that you are taking time out to send us some news, or make correc- tions on errors we may have made- and so now I shall make my perennial plea that each of you write to me, so that we may share your "news" with your class- mates!
And so, without more ado, here is news of the
Class of 1907
Dr. Charles A. Eller, 403 Pine, S.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico, writes, ''Alumni announcement came today . . . . Sorry I can)t attend) I fell' down and hurt my back and am grounded for awhile. In the hospital ten days. Home now but not very ambulatory yet.))
Class of 1909
We received from Mrs. D. W. Mont- gomery, 1722 Bimney Drive, Fort Pierce, Florida, the sad news that Dr. D. W.
Montgomery passed away May 1, 1963. He had retired from practice in Lafayette, Indiana in June 1959 and moved to Fort Pierce, Florida.
Mrs. Cleona Harvey) Recorder
Class of 1917
We r ceived a beautiful Christmas Greeting from Dr. and Mrs. Carl A.
Frech, Gary National Bank Building, Gary, Indiana.
Mrs. C. H. Spencer, 2109 Ewing Street Road, Seymour, Indiana, writes us of the death of her husband, Dr. C. H. Spencer.
She reports "Dr. Spencer graduated with the class of 1917) practiced first in Ham- mond and then 43 years in Seymour. He was in the office 212 weeks before his death March 6) 1963. The cause a per- forated ulcer and complications.))
Class of 1922
Dr. Richard C. Leonard, 1607 The Terraces, Baltimore 9, Maryland, writes,
"I found the Alumni Bulletin on my desk this morning and because it was incorrect- ly addressed) I am moved to carry out my often repeated and never consummated intention of writing a short note.
"As a 1922 graduate) I have noted with interest two things in the last issue. First) regretfully) the report of the death of Frank Hughes) and second) that other than that report none were in reference to 'Glassel prior to 1940. In contrast with an old-timer such as I) all these reports are concerned with 'youngsters.) (Recorder's note- what we don't receive, we can't present- so please write often!)
"However) to prove I do read the Bul- letin) let me note that I read with satis- faction that one recipient of the OKU honor is also a 'Leonard.) I will scan the next American Dental Association Di- rectory ( 1964) to find out more concern- ing his postgraduate location.
"] also found the pictures of my friend Lon Morrey) Editor-Emeritus of the J.A.D.A. He and I are "sort
of
cousins.And I noted mention of a few other names familiar to me . . . .
"Of myself there is little to report. I am still (as since 1929) Chief) Division of Dental Health) Maryland State Depart- ment of Health. I no longer hold an in- structorshijJ in the local dental school) having resigned that jJosition in June) 1962. I am still married to my first (and only) wife) Margaret. Our hobbies are trying not to talk about Dick) Jr.) his wife) Nancy) and their three children (who are the sweetest grand-children ever) and of our son) Ralph) who last June 30 married a girl named (guess what! )-Nancy. We differentiate by using the names) 'Nance) and 'Nan/
"Before I forget let me ask that your present wrong address for me be changed to that of my residence: 1607 The T er- r aces) Baltimore 9) Maryland. Sometime in the next few years I may retire and a residential address then-or even now- seems jJreferable. The Bulletin will al- ways be welcome.))
Class of 1927
Dr. Theodore E. Lilly, 710 Fidelity Bldg., Dayton, Ohio, (Class of 1923) sent us a clipping reporting, "Dr. Hobart Aley Cress) 67) of 24 West Parkwood Drive) Dayton, was found in the basement of his home by Patrolman B.
J.
Cox. His family had called police shortly before 9 a.m.when they found two suicide notes on the kitchen table. Cress was found against a basement wall with a shotgun between his legs.' He had been despondent since his wife's death in September."
We are sorry to report this, but knew you would all be intkrested and shocked to hear this.
Class of 1929
Dr. and Mrs. James Sakurai, 1186 Fort Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, sent Season's Greetings.
Class of 1932
Dr. and Mrs. Seiya Nakamori, 908 North King, Honolulu, Hawaii, sent us a card telling of their visit to Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan. They reported that the mountain scenery was beautiful but that it was getting cold (his card was dated September 13, 1963) and they were getting homesick to return to sunny Ha- wan.
Class of 1935
Dr. and Mrs. M.
J.
Bean, 224 Elm Avenue, Hackensack, N~w Jersey, sent Christmas greetings with the following note: "It was such a delight to visit with you this past summer when I dropped in with my son) Richard, to say 'hello.' Now that all three of our children are on cam- pus I am looking forward to seeing you more often. I don't have to tell you what a warm feeling it is to get your 'Hoosier' welcome . . . . Hope this note finds ;1ou looking ahead for a Happy and Healthy New Year."Class of 1940
Dr. F. K. Etter, 80 Arch Street, Red- wood City, California, sent the above change of address, with the note, "The change was brought on by my coming retirement from the Navy, August 1963.')
Class of 1946
Dr. Charles C. Alling, U.S. Army Com- mand and General Staff College, Trues- dell Hall 221, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote some time ago, "The first five months of 1963 I've been a student, grad- uating on May 10, at this the senior tac- tical school in the Army's educational sys- tem. It has been a tough and challenging course. My next assignment, beginning in June) will be as director of dental re-
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search, U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. I'll have privi- leges at Walter Reed General Hospital so I'll be able to remain active in clinical oral surgery, and I expect to continue my teaching and lecturing efforts in oral sur- gery and dental education." (Recorder's note . . . we have since received a new address for Dr. Alling, which is U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington 25, D.C.)
Dr. and Mrs. Joe Gordon White, 4340 N. Arlington Ave., Indianapolis 26, Ind., announced the birth March 3, 1963 of a son, John Gordon, and then at Christmas time they sent Greetings with the note
«We are looking for ward to a happy Christmas season, especially now that we are a family of three."
Class of 194 7
We received Season's Greetings from Dr. Marvin A. Tuckman.
Class of 1948
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Muhler had the nerve to send me a card from Hawaii when they were there last June, and told me ((we know now why Hawaiian vaca- tioners are so enthusiastic." This I could have-and probably did- tell them!
Class of 1949
Dr. and Mrs. Ernst Rosenthal, 1266 Oliver, Indianapolis, Indiana, sent Sea- son's Greetings.
Class of 1950
Somehow we failed to get this change of address in our last bulletin:
Lt. Col. Robert D. Youmans, Dental Surgeon's Office, Medical Division, Hdqr.
USAREUR, APO 403, New York, New York.
Dr. Jack M. Vorhies reported a change in address to 901 Hume Mansur Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Class of 1951
Dr. James T. Hanrahan, 6502 Anthony Avenue, Garden Grove, California, re- ports/(Greetings from sunny California.
I've heard that the weather has been quite cold there so I couldn't resist offering to send fresh California oranges to a dentist friend of mine in Bedford for any patients of his suffering from scurvy. Except for the smog, the weather has been beautiful here. . . . If you ever roam out this way I wish you'd stop in and say hello."
Class of 1954
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Clarke, 2930 Burnside Drive, San Antonio, Texas, re- port that they have a new baby son, born April 16, 1963, named Gregory Bruce.
Dr. Clarke reports he is teaching full time in the Department of Medical Sci- ence Medical Field Service School, in the training of dental assistants and lab-' oratory assistants. This is also an orienta- tion point for all new dentists and physi- cians entering the Army Service.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson, 1445 Norma Road, Columbus 24, Ohio, added a note on the Christmas Greeting they sent as follows, ((After five and a half years in sunny Florida we are now back in the Midwest. Bob is attending Ohio State University here in Columbus, Ohio.
He is in a Prosthodontia Residency and is really enjoying it.
((Since the boys have spent all their young lives in a warm climate they can hardly wait for a nice deep snow."
Class of 1955
We received Christmas greetings from:
Dr. and Mrs. Waldo Scales and family, 411 Exchange Bank Building, St. Augus- tine, Florida.
Dr. Ursula and Dr. Werner Bleifuss, 18786 San Quentin, Lathrup Village, Michigan.
Dr. and Mrs. David Amos, 5201 West 22nd Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Everard, 1405 Inglewood Court, Falls Church, Virginia, sent a Christmas greeting, with the follow- ing note:
"Good news this year. I have been back in my office since late in June and paralysis all gone. Limited hours are very nice and perhaps more of us should look at our work schedules before we get hit over the head to make us.
"It was a pleasure to visit you all last March and to see the new addition to the school. I was extremely sorry to miss you personally as you were ill with the flu.
With more leisure time I shall look for- ward to another postgraduate course in
future years. My regards to everyone."
Class of 1956
Dr.
J.
Paul Bunch, Country Club Building, 1515 South Glenstone, Spring- field, Missouri, writes, <<We have a newly organized U.S. Army Hospital outfit of 300 bed capacity here in Springfield. I have been asked to join and take over the Dental Department. . . . My luck would be that it go active the day I join.If this doesn't happen I will enjoy the night of lectures each week plus the two weeks active duty each summer."
Dr. and Mrs. Lou D'Angelo, P.O. Box 12, Williamsville 21, New York, sent Christmas greetings along with this change of address.
Dr. George T. Jancosek, Fairleigh Dick- inson University, School of Dentistry, Tea- neck, New Jersey, writes, "Many thanks for your work in recording the alumni notes. Since my graduation in 1956, I have read the Alumni Bulletin with much interest. The <Alumni Notes' portion has served as an invisible link between old classmates who are widely separated geo- graphically, but never fraternally.
"I would like to extend, through you and the <Alumni Notes,' a very happy
New Year to all friends, faculty and classmates I have known. I wish them good health and prosperity in 1964. As for my activities since graduation, I can truthfully say that they have been hectic.
I spent my two service years in the Far East (Japan and Korea). Professionally and socially, those two years were very rewarding. Fallowing my separation from the Army, I joined my brother Thomas in private practice in Whiting, Indiana, my home town.
"In July 1962, I decided to take up the specialty of orthodontics. I was ac- cepted here at Farleigh Dickinson Uni- versity and am happy to say, now that the 19-month course is nearing comple- tion, that the graduate orthodontic pro- gram here is excellent. The graduate orthodontic faculty is composed of ten orthodontists representing teaching philo- sophies of such schools as Illinois, North- western, Tufts, Pennsylvania, Columbia and others. Karl Glander and I are class- mates once again here at the University.
It was such a surprise seeing an old friend on the first day of class.
"I finally got married on December 29, 1962. The strange part about it was that, after I had traveled around the world, I find the girl to marry living one block away from the house I was born in.
I never knew she existed until she became a patient of mine. I put on thirty pounds since our marriage day, so there is proof that I've really settled down. She spends most of her day teaching high school English, but when she does find time to cook, she does it so well, I can't help but put on weight.
((Graduation is scheduled for January 30th, the end of this month. I plan to return to the Lake County area. My two offices will be located in Hammond and Whiting. School I liked, but setting up new offices is such a chore. My new home address will be 839-119th Street, Whiting, Indiana 46394."
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We received such an interesting Christ-
mas greeting from Dr. Young Ok Lee,
College of Dentistry, Seoul National Uni- versity, Seoul, Korea.
Class of 1957
Dr. and Mrs. Pedro G. Colon, Box 36, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 00718, sent Christmas and New Years Greetings.
Class of 1958
Dr. Alegria C. Zita, 1357 Felina Street Baco, Manila, Philippines, sent Christ- mas greetings "extending my greetings to all my friends there.))
Dr. Hala Zawawai Henderson, P.O.
Box 849, Kuwait, Arabia, sent a lovely Christmas greeting with this note,
"Walter joins me in sending you and all our friends at I. U. School of Den- tistry the Season)s Greetings. We)ve had a pretty hectic year) with my decision initially to resign from my Government post) but fortunately the Health Ministry refused my resignation and gave me the promotion and the authority I demanded to run the School Health Dental Section in Kuwait. We have over seventy thous- and children in the schools and the con- dition of their teeth is shocking.
''Hope we shall get to see you again in 1964 when we plan on visiting the States again.))
Dr. W. Joe Hilton last year sent us a change of address to Miramar Professional Building, 6855 Hallandale Beach Boule-
vard, Miramar, Florida.
Class of 1959
Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Modlin, 1009 North Baldwin Avenue, Marion, Indiana, wrote us a short note in which he said,
"Hello from Marion and the Modlins.
We are just fine and enjoying private practice very much. Our family is grow- ing to four next spring.')
Dr. Donald R. Noelke, Capt., D.C., 92nd Med. Det., APO 165, New York, New York, wrote a most interesting letter to Dr. Johnston, who has given us per- mission to "lift" the "meatiest" news items as follows:
"After leaving l.U.S.D. in 1959, I took a short vacation in Florida. I spent every cent I had there and finally joined Dr.
Kent Wilson and we reported to the Army at Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio) Texas. After completing a very short stay there I was sent to Germany. I have spent the entire time since then here in H anau) Germany. Hanau is more or less a suburb of Frankfurt. It is centrally located and very convenient for travel in Europe.
"My first commanding officer was Col.
Arnold W. Kirchoff) who is an J.U.S.D.
graduate. His older son) Al Kirchoff is graduating this year. Col. Kirchoff was a very patient man and he helped me grad- ually adjust to Army life. ,Jt was very difficult for me to understand wh·y Col.
Kirchoff seemed upset with me when I would show up for work in pegged) char- treuse pants and multicolored sport shirt) instead of my uniform. But as time wore on) and the Quartermaster Laundry ruined my chartreuse pants) I fell into the military pattern. Col. Kirchoff l,eft us in )61.
"My present commander is Col. Henry B. Fitch. He is a board periodontist and a man of the highest caliber. He has instituted bi-weekly professional meetings with guest speakers who usually really have something to say. An interesting note here is that Col. Fitch holds these meetings only in Officers Clubs and we always have our private bar.
"I have just glanced over what I have written and I am getting ahead of myself.
I arrived in H anau on the 6th of August) 1959. On the 7th of August) 1959) I met a young lady who interested me very much. After a three-and-a-half-year courtship) we finally got married. 1 hope
that I will be able to show the Medical Center and Dental School to my wife, Linda, in the near future.
"After my year in crown and bridge, I was given the opportunity to take over the surgery section. I have been doing the surgery here now for the past year.
·I have instituted, among other things,
the use of autoclaved body and head drapes, disposable needles, and autoclaved gloves for every case. We still have dry sockets, but nothing like we did before we adopted our present methods.
"This brings me to the present. My wife and I are now preparing for a trip through Italy, France, Austria, Switzer- land, Yugoslavia, and Greece. This will be our last trip before leaving Europe.
We will leave Europe on 17 October of this year. We do not know where we will be going, but I am trying to get as close to Indiana as possible. We lost my mother this past April and my wife and I would like to be as close to my father as possible and aid in his resettling.
"Oh, yes, I joined the local Sky-Diving Club and have made five jumjJs to date.
I plan to continue when I return to the States. I realize that this is a rather un- usual hobby, but it is one of the few things that appeals to me.
''If at all possible, we shall see you in
October or November of this year."
Class of 1960
We received a Christmas greeting from Dr. and Mrs. Richard Elzay, Department of Oral Pathology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Johnston, it seems, is helping me publish my column this time!
Last year he received a letter from Dr. H~rvey G. Levinson, 13320 River- side Drive, Sherman Oaks, California, and he has' given us permission to use some of it:
"How are you- I hope well and in good spirits. Sorry I haven't written, but
there hasn't been much to write. I heard the bad news about Dr. Hughes, which I was sorry to hear.
"A few weeks ago at the May Meeting here I met Dr. Lester Furnas at a Delta Sig luncheon. We talked a good deal about the school.
"Stuart Ewbank jJassed the boards here a few months ago; he is going into prac- tice in the Long Beach area. I hope that things will work out for him.
"Not too long ago Eskew came out for a visit~ we took a drive out to Blythe, California and saw George Von Mohr and Tom Tolnay. They both look good and are feeling fine.
"They are both working very hard, both fiave good practices.
"I received a letter from Chris Nikias, he has a practice in New York City.
His wife just had a baby girl; he seems to be an unusually proud father.
"In a few weeks I plan to take a short trip. There are so many places to go out here, it's hard to decide on just where to go. I would have liked to come back to Indiana for the May meeting but it was not possible this year, maybe in 1964 or 1965 for sure.
"Well, that is about all I· can say for now, except I am now a partner in this office. My practice has grown very nicely.
I don't work too hard because I like the easy life, I like taking courses and doing other things!"
We were pleased to receive a Christ- mas greeting from Dr. Pechara ( Sidhisun- thorn) Techakumpuch, Dental School, Sannamah Road, Bangkok, Thailand.
Class of 1961
Received a nice Christmas greeting from Dr. and Mrs. James Hornberger, 17266 Via Rincon, San Lorenzo, Califor- nia, and Dr. Howell just recently received a nice letter from them, and gave us per- mission to quote from it:
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