What’s the news? We are always eager to receive your news at the Magazine, care of the Class News Editor, University of Chicago Magazine, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, or by e-mail: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. No engagements, please. Items may be edited for space. As news is published in the order in which it arrives, it may not appear immediately. Please specify the year under which you would like your news to appear. Otherwise, we will list: (1) all former undergraduates (including those who later received graduate degrees) by the year of their undergraduate degree, and (2) all former students who received only graduate degrees by the year of their final degree. .

1940's

40John W. ("Jack") Bernhardt, AB'40, a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, was the parade marshal of the Lake Bluff, IL, Fourth of July Parade. From 1941 to 1943, he served on the USS McKean, receiving a Silver Star medal. After completing flight training, he was assigned to an airship patrol squadron. In July 1997, he was awarded the Air Medal for co-piloting, in 1945, the longest over-water flight made by a non-rigid airship. He has been with the Chilton Company since 1962 and is regional sales manager for Electronic Component News. He and his wife, Florence, have four daughters and seven grandchildren. Jeannette M. Hills, AM'40, age 94, published her master's thesis, Kinderspielbild (children's games), in 1957. Written in German, it describes the children's games depicted in a painting by Flemish artist Pieter Breugel the elder. Museum fur Volkskunde (the Museum of Folklore) in Vienna recently acquired the painting and published a second edition of Hill's thesis to mark the occasion. Thailand's Chulalongkorn University has named its computer center of the faculty of commerce and accountancy for Bundhit Kantabutra, MBA'40. Kantabutra, a professor emeritus and former chair of the statistics department, brought the first IBM 1620 computer to Thailand in 1963 for use in education and research at the university.

41In June 1997, Stanley C. Tuttleman, AB'41, went cycling in Colorado. The 91-mile ride ("roughly 31 miles downhill") started at 4,500 feet and went up to 10,900 feet. "It was hot at the beginning of the ride," he reports, "and cold, with snow on the mountains, at the top." This past summer, Tuttleman, of Merion Station, PA, went cycling abroad. He spent a week in Italy, cycling for six days and visiting Venice. He rode about 250 miles, some of which were "climbing rides."

42College alumni-Mary Lucene Price Miller, AB'43, writes: Last September, Joseph P. Belmont, SB'42, and his wife moved to Laguna Hills, CA, and they intend to make this their final home. He writes, "We are active in several clubs including the Chicago Club, Theatre Guild, exercise groups, and bridge, which I am teaching at the 'refresher' and basic levels. I am also producing and directing a variety show to be shown in December. It is not Chicago out here." John H. Donnelly, SB'42, MD'46, writes, "As a gradually deteriorating octogenarian, I find it difficult to 'share' anything interesting except to the diminishing number of former classmates... For them, I: 1) am still alive and kicking; 2) am in reasonably good health; and 3) note that virtually every day, week, month, or year is much like the last. After the obligatory national and international travel following retirement, I've maintained hobbies in collecting stamps and mineral specimens, with club memberships in each, and monthly luncheons with local retired physicians, collectively dubbed the Olf Arts Gallery, Contemporary Antiques."

College alumni, please send your news to: Mary Lucene Price Miller, AB'43, 1019 Glendalyn Circle, Spartanburg, SC 29302-2170. Phone: 864/583-0063 (h).

Other alumni news includes: Roland Stevens, MD'42, writes that he left Chicago in July 1942 to move to Rochester, NY, where he established a general-surgery partnership and taught at the University of Rochester Medical School. After two years in the Air Force, Stevens returned to Rochester and practiced general surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital until 1980. In 1961, he established a medical department for Xerox Corporation. During the 1980s, he established the department of occupational and environmental medicine at Rochester. He has been fully retired since 1991. He writes, "Between 1940 and 1950, my good wife, Mary, and I had six children. Mary died in 1980. I remarried in 1983 to Lois Wendell." They travel, ski, play tennis, and visit grandchildren.

43College alumni-Beata Hayton, AB'43, writes: Donald Cronson, AB'43, JD'48, is now a retired lawyer based in Switzerland. He comes to the U.S. to visit New York and Palm Beach in late autumn each year, and goes to South Africa in the winter. Franklin B. Evans, AA'41, AB'43, MBA'54, PhD'59, taught at the GSB for nine years. He went on to teach at the University of Hawaii, with the U. S. Air Force in Japan, and at Northwestern University. Now professor emeritus, he retired with his wife, Barbara Both Evans, to Florida and then Hawaii. She died last year, and he is moving back to the Midwest. Martha Siefkin Gordon, AB'43, joined the Navy after graduation, married a naval aviator, and settled in southern California, where they spent 20 years "raising avocados and five boys." When they moved to Australia, she earned an M.S.W. degree at Flinders University of South Australia and began a career in family therapy. In 1980 they divorced, and Gordon came back to Chicago to work. In 1993, she retired to Colorado, where her second son lives with his family. Her other sons live in Australia, California, Texas, and Connecticut. Frank D. ("Nick") Kenney, AB'48, JD'49, left college for service with the Army Signal Corps in the China-Burma-India theater. He was an associate and partner at Winston & Strawn in Chicago until his retirement in 1992. He and his wife, Virginia Banning Kenney, PhD'44, have four children and six grandchildren and keep busy with family, dogs, horses, and Republican politics. William R. Oostenbrug, SB'47, and his wife, Elizabeth Headland Oostenbrug, AB'44, had "some good Florida time" last winter with George T. Drake, X'43; his wife, Janet Wagner Drake, AB'43, AM'46; John B. Angelo, AB'48, JD'49; and Suzanne Adams Huffaker, AB'43. They report, "Basically, we're all amazed we're still here and in good shape." Audrey Collinson Small, AB'43, met Philip L. Small, X'43, in Professor Bentley's Shakespeare class and married him secretly when he was a cadet in the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy. She worked after graduation at the Thomas Y. Crowell Company in New York, and later at the University of California, Berkeley's library. She still volunteer teaches, writes poetry, gives demonstrations of string figures (cat's cradles) at schools and libraries, and travels with her husband, who has retired as manager of sales training for Kaiser Aluminum. They had three children-their son, Peter; their late son, Christopher; and their daughter, Lindsley-and have three granddaughters.

College alumni, please send your news to: Beata Hayton, AB'43, 1020 Grove St., Evanston, IL 60201-4235. Fax: 847/475-5969.

Other alumni news includes: David R. Krathwohl, SB'43, AM'47, PhD'53, reports that the second edition of his book Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach, was published by Longman. A new appendix describing how to prepare a research proposal appears in this edition.

44The Class of 1944 celebrates its 55th reunion June 4-6, 1999. V. Jeanne Osborn, AM'44, was recently included in Portraits in Cataloging and Classification: Theorists, Educators, and Practitioners of the Late Twentieth Century, composed for the 25th-anniversary issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

47College alumni-Norman L. Macht, PhB'47, writes: My own enjoyment of a family get-together in August and notes from two classmates are reminders that campuses are not the only sites for reunions. Joan Frye Yoken, AB'47, held her fourth annual family reunion in July after visiting her youngest son, a music teacher, in Finland. Ruth Johnstone Wales, AB'47, traveled to Maui for an April reunion with Kelly Hall roommate Sally V. Raisbeck, AB'47, at Sally's home in Wailuku. C. Lamar Wallis, BLS'47, received the 1998 Intellectual Freedom Award from the Tennessee Library Association. Wallis retired as director of the Memphis-Shelby County Public Library and Information Center in 1980. Marilyn Forb Zimmerman, AB'47, and her husband of 51 years, Mortimer W. Zimmerman, MBA'45, work as a volunteer team with Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic in Boca Raton, FL. Werner S. Zimmt, PhB'47, SB'47, SM'49, PhD'51, is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona and a research associate at the Arizona State Museum. Douglas E. Thompson, Jr., AB'47, retired as CEO of Fearn International in 1989, and raises hunting and polo horses and bird dogs in Barrington Hills, IL.

College alumni, please send your news to: Norman L. Macht, PhB'47, 226 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601. Phone: 410/770-4539 (h).

48 College alumni, please send your news to: Marilyn Corliss Durst, PhB'47, 17 Stonewall Way, Falmouth, ME 04105. E-mail: thedursts@aol.com. Phone: 207/797-5987 (h).

Other alumni news includes: On December 16, George W. Wetherill, PhB'48, SB'49, SM'51, PhD'53, received the National Medal of Science in a ceremony at the White House. The award honored work rooted in his research at the U of C. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in April. He is a scientific staff member in the terrestrial magnetism department at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, where he was director from 1975 to 1991. While a student at the U of C, he married Phyllis Steiss Wetherill, PhB'47, AM'50, who died four years ago. On July 15, he married Mary Bailey, a recently retired editor at the Bureau of National Affairs and a former president of the Washington, DC, chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

49The Class of 1949 celebrates its 50th reunion June 4-6, 1999. Clifton H. Johnson, AM'49, the founding director emeritus of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, acted as a consultant on Steven Spielberg's movie Amistad. Johnson, who has has worked for 40 years to make the story of La Amistad more well known, says he felt the movie overemphasized John Quincy Adam's role and underemphasized abolitionist Lewis Tappan's. In April, the American Philosophical Society elected Marshall N. Rosenbluth, SM'47, PhD'49, into its membership. Rosenbluth is a professor emeritus and research physicist at the University of California, San Diego. Charles B. Tinkham, PhB'49, a Purdue University Calumet faculty member since 1955, received Purdue University's President's Medal for outstanding achievement and service to the university at the May commencement exercises.