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Thomas S. Warren '26 #49

As a long time member I want to make a final gift to the Fraternity. I am now publishing a book that is a biography of Dr. James a Blaisdell. He was president from 1910 to 1925. He then was the first president of the graduate school. He created the program that has resulted in a family of colleges in Claremont. He brought Pomona from near bankruptcy to a national reputation.

[Dr. Blaisdell also conceived of Pomona College's unique, local fraternity plan that has enriched the college experience of students who have in turn supported Pomona with increased loyalty bred by their fraternity experience. The intergenerational ties and traditions of Pomona's fraternity plan continue to strengthen alumni loyalty. It was, in fact, Dr. Blaisdell who heartily and enthusiastically approved the Nu Alpha Phi charter because he liked what he saw as its objectives and he liked what he saw in the charter members. --Zibby]

The book was written by Natalie Ward as a thesis for her Doctoral degree at UCLA. I found it buried in the files and am publishing it because it contains a great deal of history that is very important.

The graduate school will give a free copy of this book to every member of the faculty of the six colleges. It will also give a free copy of the book to all the trustees of the colleges. I would like to give a free copy to every member of the Nu Alpha Phi Fraternity. I do not have access to the mailing list but I do want to send a free copy to every person who would like one. Please mail me your name and address.

[It is the editorial policy not to publish the US Postal Service addresses of alumni on the Internet. Send and e-mail requesting Tom's address to Paul Nagai at: Paul Nagai. --Eds.]

That is all I need. Of course you can buy one at the book store, but this is an offer for free home delivery. I think the book will be published in the next thirty days. [Tom's letter is dated May 16, 1997. --Eds.]

This is a wonderful book that every Pomona student will be proud of and I hope every member of the Fraternity will take advantage of and read.

Fraternally yours, Tom

Bobbie Spurgin Daughter of Bob Dozier `23 #3

Daddy has shown me the latest edition of the Oak Leaf. It is fantastic!

I know that you had a great deal to do with the inclusion of Daddy’s letters, Alumni Day talk, and pictures. Your tribute to mother was really nice and much appreciated. Many thanks. Nu Alpha Phi has been a very important part of Daddy’s (and mother’s) life for so many years--and it created friendships that have lasted 75 years! I do hope that the present members will recognize the importance of fellowship and traditions that can make there time at Pomona College very meaningful.

Thanks again for your thoughtfulness and friendship.

Sincerely, Bobbie

Ken Smith `33 #138

Zib has been trying to get more responses from some of our earlier members. So he asked me to check on them when I was traveling around.

Last fall I spent ten days in La Jolla. On the way I stopped to see Irene and Bill Higman '33 #116. He just had a hip replacement but was doing fine and expected to be jumping around again soon.

I talked to John Shelton '35 #135 and he is always enthusiastic about the Fraternity. He had just had his third or fourth hip overhaul, but said he's back on the tennis court again. I am sure he will be around for his 100th birthday.

I had a good visit with Harry Hargreaves '34 #129 who is now in a retirement home in Chula Vista.

One day we went up to Julian to see Gordon '34 #133 and Dunie Pettit. They have a beautiful ranch covered with California live oak trees. Gordon is one of the original Kiva Kids and an outstanding authority on Indian Culture. He is building a museum on his ranch in New Mexico which is located in the red rock country like Monument Valley. The property is the source of many of the Indian Artifacts for the Museum. [See Gordon Pettit's Memoriam elswhere in this issue. --Eds.]

We also saw Helen and Paul '25 #30 Dudley in Rancho Santa Fe. We have kept in close touch with them over the years. Of course we saw a lot of my brother Winton '31 #106 in La Jolla. He is the only Nu Alpha left in the Class of '31.

After returning home for a few days we went to Denver for a week. The next morning we woke up to a beautiful white world on the 27th of September. The rest of the days were bright and sunny so we could enjoy the fall color.

I checked on another of our Geologist brothers, Gordon Dolton '51 #362 who lives in Boulder. He has had a distinguished career with the Government and had just returned from an oil consulting job in Eastern Europe.

I tried to see John's brother, Hal Shelton '38 #171 who lives in Golden, but had to settle for his answering machine.

I did get to see Tiny Barnard '44 #253. You may have seen the article and picture of him in the Pomona College Magazine, summer '94. He is truly Mr. Colorado. Tiny and his wife enjoy the best of retirement with all their hobbies and a wonderful family and plenty of grandchildren. His son Michael '68 #662, a Nu Alpha, is an Orthopedic surgeon. I had met Mike and Susan at one of our Camperoos in 1968 when the actives with their dates joined the Alumni. Tiny and I had a good time reminiscing about all the brothers of the Class of '44.

Tiny told me that Baxter Starbuck '44 #261 has a serious illness. When I got home I contacted the trustee for Baxter's affairs and she told me he has a degenerative nerve disease called Huntington's disease for which there is no known cure. He is in a retirement home where he has his own apartment and full time nurses available.

I contacted five of the brothers in his class--Top Augur '44 #252, Stan Barnes '44 #264, Fred Linthicum '44 #257, Jim Broadbent '44 #254, Slim Barret '44 #265, and Tiny. Baxter was always a thoughtful brother and when we had several Camperoos at Lake Cachuma he supplied us with a generous supply of oak firewood. He also gave rides to the kids and their dads in his power boat.

Over the years I have had the pleasure of getting to know many of the brothers in the 1920s, '30s, '40s, '50s, and into the '60s through various alumni activities. During the '30s and '40s and '50s we held alumni meetings at the old Rosalyn Hotel in L.A. and occasionally in Pasadena. Then during the war we held meetings in various homes. Also for years Memorial Day was the date set for the Annual meeting at the Cabin. All of this strengthened the relations between Alumni and Actives.

Nu Alpha Phi has furnished a generous supply of outstanding leaders in local, state, and national organizations. Many have left Southern California and it is difficult to keep up with them. I hope their brothers from the Fraternity from the same time keep in touch.

Howard Allen '48 #309 is one brother who worked his way through high school, Pomona, and Stanford Graduate School. This left little time for fraternity activities. During high school and Pomona he had a produce stand on the boulevard and he would drive into L.A. at 5:00 a.m. to get supplies from the wholesale market. So you can see what a schedule he kept when he wasn't in class at school! With experience and energy you might expect him to own a chain of markets like Bristol Farms. Not Howard--he chose to teach Law at Stanford for a while and later become CEO of Southern California Edison.

In addition, he has served on many boards of directors of large companies and community organizations. As you know he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College and also a founding board member of the L.A. Olympic Organizing Committee. A few years ago he was named California's Industrialist of the Year. Nu Alpha Phi is proud of you Howard!

From time to time the Oak Leaf has devoted special issues to honor outstanding brothers for their accomplishments. Three names are familiar to all of us for more than sixty years for extra special service to the fraternity:

Tom Warren 1926 #49
Charles Shelton 1935 #144
Walt Zabriskie 1932 #109

I wish one of our Journalists like Lee Clearman '33 #123 or Doug Buckmaster '54 #388 could help do the job. I can be of help with lots of information from the Oak Leafs over the years.

Tom Warren was a big help in promoting a close relationship between the founders and those of the '30s. There was a time when he mimeographed the Oak Leaf and kept it in circulation in the height of the depression. Then for many years following he has always supported the fraternity in every way he could with expert judgment when it was needed--a wonderful fraternity brother.

Charles Shelton was editor of the Oak Leaf for a time and later carried on the spirit of the fraternity through the war years with his interesting letters from wherever he was stationed around the world. He has always thought of ways to help the fraternity.

(P.S. In case you don't know--Charles has been in the hospital in Palm Spring since the middle of December as the result of a severe stroke.)

Walt Zabriskie is more widely known than any other member of the fraternity for his constant loyalty to Nu Alpha Phi. He has made a career of trying to perpetuate the bond of friendship which so many of us have enjoyed throughout the years.

Anyway, when you send your dues to Jim Ach '63 #565, it would be nice of you to include a few words about yourself or some of the brothers with whom you are currently in touch.

Fraternally, Ken

Hassan Abdul-Wahid `95 #1047

I graduated from Pomona College with the class of 1995, two full years after everyone I had come to Pomona with had graduated. In a way, it was the coolest thing that ever happened to me. I met an entirely new group of cool kids and it set me up for my current job at Slap Magazine.

After graduating, I moved to San Francisco to skateboard down steep hills, hang out with all of my friends who had moved to SF, and possibly find an interesting job. What I found instead was the dull but lucrative life of the temp. Most of the people I knew were temping and a few people actually lined up permanent jobs as a result of temping. I've never liked wearing a suit and tie while working and so I reluctantly tried to find a "real" job through temping. I can, with all sincerity, say that I hated temping. I didn't like anything I was doing, I didn't like any of the people I was meeting, and I was beginning to think that moving to SF had been a dumb idea. Just when I was beginning to get really depressed my pal Paul Mathus '93 #1045 came to my rescue: a possible job opening at Slap Magazine.

I had always joked about working in the skateboard industry but it was the sort of thing you talked about with your friends after several drinks. Ah, drunken premonitions, how I love them. Over the course of a couple of nights Paul explained how he and another friend of ours, Stryder Thompkins '90 #995 were working in an electronic pre-press shop whose client list included Slap. One of the staffers at Slap had gone to high school with Stryder and had informed him that he was quitting. Well, one thing led to another and Stryder and Paul told the crew at Slap about me and I got an interview. Things got hectic from there as I proceeded to lie through my teeth about my computer prowess but Gunthar Hartwig '92 #1030 and Paul beat me in to computer mastery. It was great, we drank beer and fooled around on my computer up until my first day at work. Now, I'm not necessarily advocating bold faced lies when one interviews but it certainly doesn't hurt to embellish a bit. In the end, I had enough of what the magazine needed to get the job and that's all I really cared about.

It's been two years and a couple of months since I started working at Slap. In that time there have been a couple of major staff changes and I've gone from being the Production Grunt (a position that Pomona alum Kyle Grady '96 now occupies) to Production Manager/Music Editor. I always feel a need to explain the change in titles since it sounds like a horizontal promotion so here's the deal: As Production Manager I keep the magazine on time and under budget. I make sure all of the materials that are going in the magazine come in and stay in one place, track costs, deal with the printer and advertisers, manage the computer system and generally make sure the office and the mag run smoothly. In addition to all this, I'm the Music Editor so I contact record companies and arrange interviews with musicians. Slap is put out by a pretty small staff; there are only three of us in the editorial department. We get by because we share facilities with Thrasher Magazine (they've been around fifteen years compared to Slap's five but it's not about quantity, it's about quality) with the end result being that in addition to my other duties I still get to do layout and design. Life at Slap gets hectic with all of these various responsibilities but I enjoy deadlines and stress, it makes me happy and tense.

The big benefits of my job are that I get a ton of free stuff from advertisers, the music industry, and skate companies. It's nice, I haven't had to buy skateboarding merchandise (equipment, clothes, shoes, etc.) for the last two years. I also haven't paid for a concert in awhile unless it was my friends' gig. Occasionally I get to write stuff that inspires kids to think and makes them proud to be skateboarders. I've also met most of my junior high and high school skate idols and a ton of other people with whom I have become good friends. The down side of my job is that people always want you to feature their riders or music acts no matter what. Spelling mistakes multiply around deadlines and every now and then a design looks like crap once it's actually printed. Anything dumb is immortalized in print and I've decided, based on my mistakes, that I am most definitely an idiot. C'est la vie.

I guess the first part of my adult life is actually shaping up OK. I've always been the type of person who, deep down, sweated the details of life and felt that something bad was right around the corner. It's strange to be making a decent living doing something I love. I've met the perfect woman, Julie Hendrixson (Pitzer '95), and we plan to marry in the summer of 1998. I actually pay my college loans on time and don't worry about where my next meal is coming from. I'm also lucky enough to be surrounded by most of the people I held dear in college. I would list everyone but the list would be longer than this story. Ah, you guys all know who you are and you know I love each and every one of you.

Yep, things are shaping up OK.

Dave Bear `57 #453

The year was 1955, my roommate Ron Zumbrun '57 #475 came back from the L.A. County Fair and told me about something he had seen there that was very interesting. It was a plastic disk that you could throw--and it would hover--return to you--turn right or left if you threw it correctly!

We thought we could sell these things at Pomona, so we bought a bunch of them. It took a while to learn how to make them do some pretty nifty things, but we started throwing them around on the Quad. They sold so well that we bought a gross and spent our Christmas vacation selling them in a couple major shopping centers in L.A.

We got to know the inventor, Fred Morrison, when we kept returning for more "Flyin' Saucers" to sell. "B-Z Enterprises" (Bear/Zumbrun) got to be known around the campus as the Flyin' Saucer peddlers. I.J. Brown '56 #434 probably still holds the distance record for slinging the things discus style. At times, the Quad was filled with Flyin' Saucer aficionados "having it around." Later the next year, Morrison was still having a problem marketing the crazy things, and he asked Ron and I if we wanted to take them on tour around the country. I think Morrison, his wife, and his daughter were getting a little weary of wearing the space suit and bubble helmets! Ron and I had to decline the offer because Graduation was coming up, and we were both scheduled to go in the military. Ron was scheduled for Law School after a brief Army tour. Morrison sold out to Whamo. Whamo changed the name from Flyin' Saucer to Frisbee....And now you know...the rest of the story!!

Lt. Col. Spike Hunter `32 #101

You could not mention the name, Howard Swan, without bringing forth many memories of a Brother who through music touched many lives. As a soloist with the Glee Club when he was a student at Pomona and his serving as director when "Prof" took a semester off. To his sermons and tenor soloist at 1st Presbyterian Church of Hollywood and subsequently as Cantor of the Jewish Synagogue on Wilshire Blvd. Howard brought a message of love and understanding to all who heard him sing. He used music to express his belief in the unknown and to care for the present.

You can't think of Howard without remembering also his lovely Lady "Kas" she was so much a part of everything he thought and did.

Tom Hood `43 #240

I have now been retired from the practice of general surgery for over ten years. Among other things this was brought on by the development of a familial, but entirely benign tremor. Patients have difficulty choosing a surgeon who can hardly get a spoonful of soup from the cup to the lips. For us however, this past ten years has been most enjoyable.

My wife and I have lived in our present residence for 40 years. Elko is quite a rural and isolated area, the nearest larger municipality being Salt Lake City some 230 miles distant. The town has grown considerably during the past 15 years due mainly to the development of large gold mines in the surrounding area. There are many opportunities for the outdoors man including fishing, big game hunting, and bird hunting, even, heaven forbid, sage hen. One of the most interesting times of the year here occurs in the deep cold winter time of January when the snow is usually about a foot deep and the temperature is below zero. At that time cowboys, from all over the west and as far away as Canada, Hawaii and Australia, gather for the annual poetry festival. It lasts for over a week and the place is crowded with handle bar mustaches and tall cowboy hats. The presentations for the most part are quite homespun but most enjoyable with a mixture of humor and philosophy. If one has the time, and the hotel reservations, it is well worth the effort attending.

I recommend it.

Fraternally, Tom

Bob Nigbor `78 #794

[Sent dues, back dues, and a cabin fund donation.]

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Marla Stone `82 #877

[Sent dues and back dues. Marla, keep us posted on the progress of your book! --Eds.]

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Virginia De Friest `48 #S

[S is for spouse. --Eds.]

My mother, Katherine Gilbert Quinby '18, turned 100 last year and has a favorite saying. "All of my friends have moved away, or something." As I read the December issue of the Oak Leaf, I felt somewhat the same. The Oak Leaf continues to make good reading... the Fannie Boyd Dozier Memoriam, the article on women Nappies and the news of the cabin's danger from the San Dimas bushfire....all good reading.

But as for news of Nappies whom Jim or I knew, there was none. If Jim were still alive he would probably continue to enjoy reading it but I really feel that it's not fair for you to waste postage on me. Please accept this small cheque as thanks for the past, I haven't a clue how much dues are, and scratch me off the Oak Leaf mailing list.

With best wishes, Virginia

[The likelihood that Zibby will stop sending you an Oak Leaf is roughly...none. Enjoy this and future issues of the Oak Leaf with no further obligation. --Eds.]

Warren Addicott `51 #329

[Sent a general fund donation.]

Thanks for keeping the Oak Leaf coming. I retired from the Geological Survey 11 years ago and moved to southern Oregon. Best move I ever made! Suzanne and I are really enjoying living in the mountains south of Ashland--lots of wide open spaces, great skiing locally, year-round theatre, a friendly and nicely-textured community, and a good state university where I teach on occasion. We've traveled overseas quite a bit, most recently to India for 3 months last year, and are getting serious about touring/camping with our new trailer.

Chuck Carpenter `54 #389

[Sent dues and back dues.]

A portion of my long overdue dues.

Thanks for all you do!

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James R. Edgerton `49 #331

[Sent dues and back dues.]

Al Hastings `47 #295

[Sent dues (1996), more dues (1997+), and a cabin and a scholarship (in the name of Jim De Friest '46 #292) fund donation. Sorry about the leaving your name off of the 1996 Honorees, Al ... my best guess is that the record of your payment got crossed up in inter-editor mailings.]

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Galen R. Fisher `43 #239

[Sent a scholarship donation in the name of Art Mallette '43 #243.]

Raymond Neutra `61 #547

[Sent dues, back dues, and a cabin fund donation.]

Hey brothers, the webpage sounds like a great idea. I haven't written for a while. Workwise, I have inherited the position of "Acting Division Chief here in the California State Health Department. I have been trying to provide some stabilizing guidance for this 150 person scientific division which deals with birth defects, childhood lead poisoning, indoor air pollution, occupational health, and general environmental investigation. This means more administration, but also a wider range of interesting problems and more contact with talented colleagues in other parts of the Department. We reported the puzzling results of our study comparing miscarriage rates in 500 electric blanket and 900 electric water bed users to 3500 non users this June. The users had a somewhat lower rate of miscarriages even after controlling for confounding factors, this was particularly true for the 300 women using the blanket at a low setting all night long. A small group of 20 electric blanket users who used the blankets at high setting for only an hour had a higher miscarriage rate, and the 13 women who used the blanket at a high setting all night long had no miscarriages. A follow up study we are funding will help us unscramble this complicated picture.

After an invitation to talk to the association of French public health epidemiologists about coping with chemical disasters, my wife Penny (brother Doug Der Yue's '60 #518 sister) and I had driven from Annecy near Geneva to Florence. A high school friend still has a farmhouse on the Fiesole hills which she let us use as home base to take the daily bus down the winding road to the artistic density of Florence. While reading the biography of Michelangelo we retraced his steps and came face to face with the contradictions posed by the vainglorious Renaissance patrons, the newly individualistic and adventurous artists, and the church which claimed to corral their disparate motives to create an art which was religious at least in outer form.

And what forms! Our side trip to Carrara and the coast of Cinque Terre was a contrast to the density of Florence. The Apuan Alps tower like a Yosemite, gray on the outside but snowy white when man slices enormous cuts into the body of the mountains. From afar at the blue Ligurian coast, the white slag coats the peaks like snow. They dominate the town of Carrara, they can be seen everywhere from the canyon like narrow streets. A friend who comes from Carrara had arranged to have us visit the Caro quarries (where at night in the ten story high marble caves one can hear the mountain squeak and settle) and the studio of Carlo Nicoli where for a price you can order a scaled up version of Michelangelo's David. "We are not artists" said Nicoli, "We are like the symphony orchestra, we can play Mozart but we can't write it." The widow of a famous, recently deceased Brazilian artist sends a small abstract clay maquette which Nicoli's technicians will convert into a nine foot long black marble replica. This simple shape is boring for the technicians. They welcome the return of figurative commissions whose reproduction is more challenging. "For them the best sculpture would be a bird cage with a bird inside carved from a single block of marble." Here technique and art are perfectly separated. Imagine our surprise when we cross the street to Nicoli's rented studio and find a dust covered Robe Gove, a long time sculptor friend of Penny's. Here technique and art are closely melded in beautiful translucent ear-like shapes carved from small blocks of marble scavenged from the towering slag piles. We also discover Bay Area sculptor Manuel Neri on his motorscooter and visit his Carrara studio where he paints his totemic large sculptures with swaths of primary colored paints, to the obvious horror of Fabio Caro whose family cuts these blocks from the mountain.

Take care folks.

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Lee H. Clearman `33 #123

The arrival of the last Oak Leaf reminded me that I hadn't been in touch with you for some time, and a primary reason for this letter is to let you and Nancy know that the valley has never been more beautiful than now in the 75-plus years I've lived here. (World War II service excepted.) The grass in the valley is lush and green, and snow in the mountains to the east is packed down to the 6,000-foot level. What I'm hinting at is that you and Nancy ought to pay the valley at least one more visit before you reach 100.

It seems that Nu Alpha Phi is getting more than its share of bad news lately, what with the deaths of Alman and Nimmons, Chuck Shelton's stroke, and Gordy Pettit's relative immobilization. Guess that's the reward for becoming too mature. As a relative youngster, I will be 85 in May and am becoming creakier (not crankier) every day. Right now, I'm having trouble keeping the grass from growing all over the place, and maintaining a feeding ground for some 40 quail and an assortment of other birds who patronize the feeding ground in front of the house.

If you want to get away from the traffic and urban sprawl, come up this spring and maybe we can even invade Giant forest, where the snow is some 9 feet deep on the level and it's so quiet you're afraid to whisper.

Fraternally, Lee

David G. Johnson `81 #890

I hope this check brings me up to date; I have been receiving and enjoying the Oak Leaf since graduation. I thought that Chris Hall's commentary on the "renovation" of the Wash was right on the mark. I visited the campus in 1993 for the first time since graduation, and it seemed to me that the town had more personality than the campus, which is not at all how I remember it. Keep up the good work.

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John G. Popp '78 #793

[Sent generous Wash and scholarship (in the name of Walt "Zibby" Zabriskie '32 #109) fund donations.]

It was great seeing Gina Maranto's '77 #807 piece on the admission of women to NAP. I recall an active/alum barbecue at the Nimmons' residence where we actives discovered that the secret handshake had suffered an unfortunately, or at least insulting, evolution.

As always, the Oak Leaf gives great insight into Pomona Life. Between the loss of the frat room and the Wash problems, it sounds as if the administration is being governed by an unfortunate minority of disaffected students. Get over it. My best to Zib.

Pat Riggs `71 #718

[Updated address.]

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Gina Maranto `77 #807

[Sent dues, back dues, and a scholarship fund donation.]

This will begin to cover the arrears of long years. Cheers.

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Fess Reierson `92 #1033

Landenderry is not as romantic as it sounds, it's the northern (read: frozen and desolate) reaches of the boston suburbs. I'm working for NuMega, a software company that makes debugging tools for Windows PCs. It's pretty enjoyable, especially given that we're poised on the brink of a big growth spurt. Keep an eye out for us in the papers. (We got a Byte magazine award this year!)

Life is fairly secluded in the woods here, so I don't see many Nappies (or fellow Pomonans). I was glad to hear that Aaron Isgar '93 #1046 is having a good time. Recreation in the North Woods is an interesting phenomenon. I'm hoping to climb Mt. Washington this summer, and do a dawn hike up Mt. Monadanock.

Hope all is well on the Left Coast!

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Jim Clark `40 #203

[Sent dues, extra dues, cabin fund, and a donation in the name of Jim Shaw '40 #218. Zibby notes that Jim Shaw, brother of Robert Shaw '38 #170, was a "padre" in WWII and died in a Pacific theater air raid while conducting services. --Eds.]

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Roger H. Soulanille `54 #411

[Sent dues.]

To all of you who contribute your time and thoughts to the production and distribution of the Oak Leaf I express my appreciation and thanks for your unselfish acts.

Jonathan Kott `80 #814

[Updated e-mail.]

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Neville Carter `56 #436

[Sent dues, back dues, and cabin fund donations.]

I am Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophysics, having retired last year after 30 years in academia--great fun working with bright graduate students and post-docs on rocks squeezed at high temperature in the lab, those in Alpine-type mountain chains around the world and those from the moon and meteorites! Along with my wife, Susan, I continue to analyze, occasionally, small salt cores from buried active salt structures in the Gulf of Mexico via Salt Micromechanics, Inc., a small consulting firm whose international headquarters form a small part of our just-completed home on the Pacific in glorious northwest country.

Now that I have finally returned to the golden state (very green up here), I hope to become more active in the fellowship which then ('53-'56) formed a very important part of my life. The Oak Leaf reminds me of that heritage and I thank all of you for that--the new format is great, as is the content, as always.

Dan Armistead `64 #589

[Sent dues and cabin and scholarship donations.]

Thank you for publishing the excellent article by Gina Maranto. We should all be proud that a woman of such obvious talent wanted to join Nappiedom. I'm looking forward to reading her book.

Paul A. Taylor `37 #181

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John Dern `83 #887

[Sent dues and back dues.]

December Oak Leaf was terrific!

2426 3rd W.

Seattle, WA 98119

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Bill Atkinson `55 #417

[Sent dues.]

When I say I enjoyed the Nappie Reunion and Celebration held last Sunday in the Beautiful Blue Room of Fabulous Frank Dining Hall, it is a real understatement!

As a former Head Waiter in Frary, it was especially enjoyable to be seated by Emcee Bruce Prestwich '55 #426 between two former waiters, Rich Hungate '56 #442 and honoree Jack Peck '56 #446, and their wives. Adding a lot of beauty to our "end of the table" was Bruce's wife--the always lovelier Carolyn Tranquada. (She may have added Prestwich at the ceremony, but she'll always be Carolyn Tranquada to me!)

Bob Dozier ‘23 #3 regales the 1997 Alumni Brunch audience with the rousing tale of the Pole Rush.

Hearing the story of the Rush Pole and the tradition of the cane was most interesting. Honoring Jack for his awards for his swimming prowesses (or is it prowessae?) was illuminated by Hungate's attempt to abash Peck. (It didn't work.)

The campus looked beautiful and bountiful with blooms. Speaking of beautiful reminds me that I always considered above mentioned Carolyn and Aune Leckford two of our prettiest coeds. Comments?

Enclosed is a small example of my poverty--I consider it a check for a great cause--Nu Alpha Phi.

P.S. Thought occurred to me--might be fun to stage a get-together at John Thornton's '53 #385 winery in Temecula. That might even attract Bob Harper '53 #395!

Robert Piety `68 #658

[Sent dues and cabin and scholarship donations.]

After many years of work, my wife and I are taking a year off to decide what to do next and do some heavy travelling.

Hello to all in the class of 1968.

Mithril Tyler `92 #1027

[Sent dues.]

Greetings illustrious brethren (sistren?)!

Just got of the phone with Tom Harvey '88 #989. He sends his hellos and may even reveal his address some day.

Thanks Chris and Paul for your mighty and so far successful efforts to get the Oak Leaf out to us all. It was wonderful to hear from Toast '90 #994 in the last issue. Hope you find work. I just did, so here's some cash for those dues I've never paid.

Hope to see y'all at one of these new fangled Northern Washes one of these days.

Kisses.

Steven D. Smith `76 #778

[Sent dues, back dues, and Scholarship donation.]

I know I've missed a year or two. [However, that doesn't necessarily explain his very generous donation to the scholarship fund. Thanks, Steve! -Eds.]

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Eric Riggs `89 #986

From: eriggs@citrus.ucr.edu (Eric Riggs)
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Dick Stott `62 #570

[Sent dues and back dues.]

Your excellent Nappie web site inspired me to break 35 years of appreciative silence. It's been nice to enjoy the hard work of my fellow alums for free all these years, but I guess even the best things must end sooner or later. I've been teaching math at Monterey High School for about ten years after a "career in business" (as they used to call it). Also have written a couple of educational computer programs which I'm letting other people market--no desire for another "career."

Right now I'm madly--take that word any way you want--converting them from Mac to Windows, as Bill Whatshisname begins to suck up the educational market. Both our boys have recently graduated from UC Santa Barbara. A great place to study--cheap and near the beach. One is in D.C. doing good things about hunger in our country. The other is still in SB contemplating the non-surfing life from a safe distance. Teri and I are celebrating our 31st marriage anniversary and our 30th in Carmel. Does time fly or what!

Greetings to all!

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Kenna Feeney `94 #1064

[Sent dues, Wash and cabin fund donations.]

Sorry, I've been a little remiss in sending in dues, etc.

For anybody interested: No, I did not write my thesis yet and no, I don't really have any plans to. What good would a Literature degree do me anyway? I am a programmer at a company that makes computer controlled cutting equipment. Unfortunately, our little company was just bought out by Gerber Scientific and the assimilation into the corporate structure is killing all the fun. So it looks as though I'll be on the job search again soon.

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Dick Strong `54 #413

[Sent dues, back dues, cabin and scholarship (in the name of Norman Poe '54 #407) fund donations.]

Pretty clever idea, the Oak Leaf Challenge. I suggest you add the requirement to also pay the yearly dues, as my enclosed check is covering 1996 and 1997, plus a bit for other causes. Great to read the article on Jack Peck, boy he still looks in great shape--or did you editors touch up the photo?

Great job with publishing--Thanks a bunch.

"Hi," to Gordon Hazlitt '54 #396.

Burdette Boileau `34 #125

[Sent dues and a scholarship donation in the name of John Alman '33 #110.]

Adam Pollock `88 #997

[Sent dues and all of his back dues. Adam sent news in an e-mail and his dues by snail mail. Good e-Nappie. Take note all of you other e-alums!]

From: lightfarm@aol.com
Subject: life news

Leslie Schiller and I married, we have two cats, one dog, one rabbit, and, most importantly, a one-year-old daughter named Maia Charlotte Schiller. I have successfully sustained my lamp design and manufacturing company past the nefarious five-year mark and am looking at great potential in the coming year ahead.

Berkeley remains our home. The multitude of bakeries and cafes makes life worth living and the concept of relocating absurd.

I have enjoyed following the lives of others in the Oak Leaf and applaud the hard work contributed to keeping the tradition alive.

Love and wellness to all.

Zach Solomon `90 #1016

From: <zsolomon@medusa.unm.edu>
Subject: greetings and salutations

Things are well with me. Living in Albuquerque in beautiful NM. Presently doing my third year of post-MD training in psychiatry (as was the plan long ago). Very much enjoying my chosen profession, academic department, girlfriend-Cindy, life, travels, etc. Trying not to think too much about the dismal state of healthcare in this country and how it impacts my personal and professional future.

I've worked hard along the way, but I've been sure to have fun while doing it--a skill carefully honed and refined at PC. Drifted out to NM during my fourth year of med-school (went to the U of Chicago) to be a research associate on a fascinating project investigating the effects of DMT (classical hallucinogen/ "business man's LSD") in a population of "normal" human volunteers. I signed on with the department's residency training program and have been here since. Unfortunately, my mentor on the DMT project left academics last spring and the project died with his departure. Thus, I've found other things to do, presently doing a lot of "political" work within organized psychiatry (the American Psychiatric Association) as one of their "resident leaders" and reps/committee(s) member. This position enables me to travel (expenses paid) frequently and hob-nob with upper echelon types (I have yet to significantly crop my mane and have a swell mountain-man beard, not to fear). Anyway, no trip to the bay on my schedule thus far, but I'll be sure to let you know. I'm off to Italy next month for 10 days to attend a meeting in Siena.

Game of hearts, anyone?

Take care.

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Claude Morest `92 #1070

From: claude.morest@connusa.com
Subject: Net vs. Leaf

I was wondering if it would be possible in the future to not receive the hard copy of Oak Leaf. OakNet is sufficient for me, as long as you keep me on the e-mail list and notify me when a new issue comes out. And you could save some money by taking people off the list who prefer OakNet to Oak Leaf. Just a thought...

[Unfortunately, we have no way of doing this since we are dependent on the Pomona College Alumni Association for our distribution. At some time in the future, we may be able to accommodate this type of request either by taking more control over mailing or by negotiating a modification to their database. Rest assured, any such development will be loudly trumpeted here! --Eds.]

Thanks again for giving us OakNet.

Sincerely, Claude

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Robert "Bongo" Baran `91 #1020

From: "Robert Baran" <rsbaran@ls.wustl.edu>
Subject: Revived Nappie

It has been too long since I have been in touch with my Nappie brothers and sisters. Maybe one day someone will search for me...in case they do here is my address.

Actually, I'm doing research in Japan until December but my wife will forward my mail, I hope.

Keep up the good work!

Nappily yours, Bongo

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Kelly McDonald `89 #1001

From: meridian@qadas.com
Subject: (Fwd) News and Views

Happy to announce a new little acorn! Kelly McDonald (#1001) and Todd Simmerman were blessed with a happy, healthy little girl named Sierra McDonald Simmerman on March 15th, 1997.

Also, many congratulations to Paul and Tori!

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Robert Casady `65 #598

[Updated e-mail.]

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Meg Buck `89 #980

From: "Margaret R. Buck" <mbuck@emory.edu>
Subject: Howdy Kids :P

The Oak Leaf looks great, so does the web site. Nice job and congratulations to everyone who put their time and energies into it. In reference to the editorial in the last edition, alas my golden thread is more silver in color and tarnished for lack of use.

So, for those of you who are interested, here's a catch-up on Meg's World.

After years of negotiating with the Kenyan National Museums and Institute of Primate Research, it seemed clear that I was NOT going to do any research at my chosen field site for some time. Internal dynamics of these organizations are such that it will be some time before I can return to that lovely place with its charming furry inhabitants (the monkeys, sillies!!). In lieu of that, I conducted research at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center right here in Atlanta. I am still living at a graduate student's poverty-stricken level (and you thought NAP was poor!), but by August you can all call me Dr. Buck, as I will be finished with my doctorate by then.

I will then be thrust out into the world of finding a job in a dwindling market of anthropology positions, particularly for primatologists. If I am fortunate, I will be awarded a grant in the fall to conduct more research on my lovely mangabeys here at Yerkes, with the aid of some colleagues here and at Yale University. (Mangabeys are a kind of African monkey, in case you were wondering.) In the meantime, I will hopefully continue to teach anthropology courses at some local colleges here, publish bits of my dissertation, and generally have a good time.

For the real shocker......well.......I am getting engaged! I'll pause while you pick yourselves off the floor from your faints. After my last romance ended, a new one began with a young man I have known for some time and it has turned into something quite serious. I'll not list his many virtues here, suffice it to say the sun shines every day as far as I am concerned. I'll write more details as things become a little more organized.

I hope all brothers and sisters are happy and healthy. My best wishes to all of you. If you are ever in Atlanta and would care to play a game of pool (aha! you didn't know I have been taking lessons!!) or need a friendly haven for a time, don't hesitate to look me up.

Cheers.

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Ed Carrigan `56 #435

From: ED_CARRIGAN@gcccd.cc.ca.us
Subject:  news

Congratulations to Jack Peck on his induction to the Athletic Hall of Fame, and thanks to Rich Hungate '56 #442, for his efficacious documentation and nomination efforts.

I'm planning one more academic year here at Grossmont College (San Diego), and then retirement in June '98. Hoping to do more traveling, flying my Cessna Cardinal, reading, painting, and whatever else one does in retirement, including more activity in alumni activities.

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Spencer Garrett `69 #687

Too many people are afraid of stepping out and learning how to make use of today's technology. In fact, I prepared a web site just to give people a resource for learning more about the internet. That site is

http://www.qhsc.com/internet

This past weekend I gave a presentation at the national convention for our industry (health and sportsclub operators). Too many people have not yet learned how to navigate the world wide web (oops, forget navigating, how about just logging on). While the day will come where virtually all your communication to our brothers will be via e-mail and web postings, that day is still quite a ways off. At least you've made a start--keep up the good work.

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Justin Maxwell `98 #1137

From: Stupid Octave Cat <jmaxwell@pomona.edu>
Subject: Re: :)

My parents live in Washington, DC, but I am currently spending the summer with my significant other in Fort Lauderdale. Aside from being slightly over 9000 degrees out, it seems like a fun place. I would like to end up in LA (Los Angeles, not Louisiana) for employment after I graduate, though. Lastly, I'm the resident NAP synthesizer freak. Moogs, Rolands, Arps, you name it...my dorm room basically had more patch cables than floor space this semester. I make techno, specifically goa and hard trance. My neighbors hate me. (Hey, if any of you alums have any old synths for sale, or want to get together to jam via DIN-sync, email me :) I wouldn't mind working in a studio or something, but I haven't had that experience yet.

Well, that's it! Thanks!

Debbie Sack `87 #971

[Updated e-mail.]

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Ingrid Havneraas `95 #1076

[Sent dues and all back dues.]

The only news that I have is that I am working for a finance company and recently moved to San Francisco. Sorry to hear that you [Ingrid is writing to Zibby, here.] have been struggling with my last name--I think that it's a great name, but it has always caused spelling and pronunciation problems.

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Todd Wheeler `96 #1117

From: wheelert@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: hello

So, since I am of the writer's bent, I thought that perhaps Nappies would be interested in my releasing over time some interesting stories. I suppose there really are very many stories to tell. I thought I'd keep 'em around a couple pages at first, poss. longer in the future. Plus, I'd like to make some remarks about Nappieness as a recent alum if that's not out of place. Also, I have some pictures that Oak Leaf might enjoy, esp. one of the Walker Wall painting myself and a few others did for our initiation (S '94). Let me know if you guys would like a copy, although it may take a while for me to get off ass and get a reprint.

[Your editors have begged for these stories and photos to no avail. Send Todd your encouragement. --Eds.]

Okay, I think that's all for now.

Thanks.

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Jeremy Kaufman `97 #1121

From: jeremy@moontribe.org
Subject: Re: hello

Things are well here in oregon. life is so much mellower--which is good and bad--and eugene is beautiful. its great--the weather keeps getting sunnier and the girls keep getting closer to butt nekkid. who can complain? i enjoyed the latest oakleaf (online). the page looks great! i hope todd wheeler '96 #1117 does actually get around to writing his articles. the 'adventures' he mentioned will definitely make a great modern day tale of nappie idiocy. he writes well, too.

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Richard V. Speck `48 #320

[Sent dues and general funds.]

Tully Wiedman `66 #623

[Sent dues and general funds.]

If chaos breeds opportunity, then the last two years has been full of them. We have tried to make the transition from Sacramento to Carmel Valley while selling properties in the former and building in the latter and maintaining a 20+/- member herd of Arabian breeding and show horses, and the results have often been chaotic. At long last, Jacquie and the bulk of the horses are moving this month.

Work continues to be interesting as we [Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, CA] try to provide emergency care for the indigent of Monterey County as well as a large population from Mexico. Our fame is such that people have their diagnoses made in Mexico and then come to us for treatment! Managed care is rearing its head locally and the necessary adjustments are being made while hospitals, physicians, and politicians fight for turf. We missed the 30th reunion but look forward to 2001.

Sincerely, Tully

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Keith Spees `40 #204

Over a half-century since Nappie days! Fifty-seven years!

But the bigger those numbers, the more sentimental I get over news of those ancient times.

Maybe it's just that the Oak Leaf keeps getting better and better. Thanks for all the work and devotion that goes into it.

John Sellman `60 #532

[Sent dues and general funds.]

James D. Clark `40 #203

[Updated e-mail.]

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Gary Gillingham `55 #420

[Sent dues and cabin funds.]

The Oak Leaf continues to amaze and delight, with the exception of the obituaries which occur with increasing frequency, both in the Oak Leaf and Pomona College Magazine.

The latter journal printed a shot of the rejuvenated greek theater which I though grand, and a fitting tribute to Fred Sontag who, while devoted to Kappa Delta, was a friend and supporter of the entire fraternity system at Pomona. Let's not be parochial.

Michele Foster `89 #1009

[The "Aaron" Michele refers to is Aaron Montgomery '89 #1011. Aaron and Michele are the second All-Nappie married couple in NAP history.]

Hello!

Just a quick note in between packing boxes to let you know that we're moving. Aaron successfully defended his dissertation about 2 weeks ago (yea for Dr. Aaron!), and he has accepted a job offer at Purdue-North Central, and we are moving this Thursday (8/14). Our new address is [at the end of this note...]

I will still have this e-mail address, but I won't have easy access to it or any other e-mail address for awhile. Aaron's department hasn't figured out what his address will be, so basically, e-mail is not the best way to reach us for awhile. We'll let you know when and where e-mail is possible as soon as we know.

News in brief:

I just finished teaching an undergraduate child development course last week. It was a 4-week, 3-credit course, which translates into a lot of intense hard work. I learned a lot, and some of it was fun. I'd like to do it again, but not in only 4 weeks. Also, 99% of my students were graduate students getting certified to teach K-6, and they had definite ideas about what they should be learning and how I should teach it. They were an interesting group with lots to contribute to the class, so class discussions were never a problem, but I think they were a bit atypical for your average undergraduate level course. Anyway, overall I'm very glad I did it.

Thatcher is doing OK, but we think he's getting a little freaked out with the move and with the recent stress that Aaron and I were under. He was in daycare for full time during the four weeks I taught, and that was a little difficult, although for the most part he loves the woman and kids he stays with. Hopefully he will adjust well after we get settled. To keep you up to date, Thatcher is now 3 1/2 years old.

I have an interview for an internship in Valparaiso this fall. Hopefully it will work out and I will finally finish this Ph.D. thing in two more years. We'll see.

Gotta go pack some more. Take care!

Michelle (& Aaron & Thatcher)

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Jim Eisenberg `70 #701

[Updated e-mail.]

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Abbe Don `83 #902

Greetings fellow Nappies. Those of you who know me may remember me as a photographer who often reeked of fixer and stop bath and other fine smelling photo chemicals.

Somewhere along the way, I abandoned the dark room for the great promise of the digital domain.

In the summer of 1984, I saw my first AT&T shopping kiosk at the Beverly Center in L.A. In that moment, I had one of those "aha!" experiences (and there were no illicit substances involved). I realized that my ideas about interactive storytelling and this new medium was the answer to how to represent the way my great-grandmother told stories as she weaved in and out of the past and the present, the old country and American, English and Yiddish.

By a circuitous route, I landed in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in the fall of 1986. By summer of 1988, I was doing an internship in the Human Interface Group at Apple Computer. I worked on the Guides project which was investigating the use of characters in the interface to represent information retrieval algorithms. I went back to NYU to work on my thesis; published about the Guides project thru the generosity of my colleagues at Apple; and ended up returning to Apple for a two year stint as a consultant working on Guides version 2 and 3!

I realized that if I called what I did interface design rather than interactive storytelling, I could actually earn a living. Since then, I've had a dual career as an interactive media artist and interface design consultant.

Along the way, I developed an interactive family album called "We Make Memories" that simulates the way my great-grandmother told stories; and I've built 'input kiosks' that enable people to share their own family stories in a public setting. When the world wide web emerged as a viable medium, I transferred my efforts to the web since it's open 24/7/365 and can be accessed from home.

My current labor of love is called Bubbe's Back Porch (http://www.bubbe.com) where I continue to encourage people to share their family stories. Also, my undergraduate thesis, "No Soup, Just Matzo Balls" has found new life as an interactive oral history on the web. You can find it from Bubbe's home page!

Meanwhile, my latest industry stint was as Executive Producer and Design Dominatrix (I was a stickler for quality and attention to detail) for Electric Minds (http://www.minds.com), an online magazine and community founded by Howard Rheingold, author of "Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier." Electric Minds was acquired and I'm back in the consulting business, primarily interested in clients with solid budgets and low emotional overhead!

Drop me some email!

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web: http://www.abbedon.com

John I. Jones `66 #615

[Updated e-mail.]

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Peter LeCompte `84 #883

Ok. so I'm more accessible with the email than any other means these days. Feel free to use it to my heart's content. Nice thing about email. quick, easy, interactive optional. I guess this means that I will at some point in the near future write some slathering piece about some old frat story or some goofy piece about how much I love my work and family. Don't count on it! On the other hand, I hate backing out of a challenge regardless of the source!

So the corporate chairman high above who oversees the vast empire of my company's parent company's, parent company is Roy Disney--Pomona grad. Was he a frat boy? Would he come to a Wash? Would he have fun at the Wash?

What am I doing these years? I'm working in an office as the Buyer for an organic foods company, Cascadian Farm, Inc. in beautiful downtown Sedro Woolley, Washington. You can find the fruits and veg of my labors in various freezer sections around the country--mainly the natural foods set.

Great organic ice cream! Better fix than B & J and getting better all the time. The work has had some exciting adventures in South America, Central Florida, Central Valley, central Sedro Woolley WA (five dives, one convenience store, four barbers--one still with the blue and red swirling cylinder and a chain saw festival. It's the real thing.

More fun has been the family--2 kids, two cars, two cats, two parents and NOW a deer fence so that I can get something from the blueberries, cherries, pears and garden we've planted.

So I am a little behind on the Wash update. I guess the actual Wash is now a KD memorial Pomona glitz. I always figured the Wash had no long term prospects for natural conservation. That real estate is just too valuable. So much for the Board of Directors respecting the wishes of donors too, eh?

Where is the Friday Wash now? How restrictive is it? How well attended? [The Washes I've seen have been extremely well attended. Since the completion of the renovations in November 1996, the Wash has returned to the Wash. During construction, it was held just across the way at the gazebo near the KSPC broadcast antennae. --Paul.]

Remember, the spirit of the Wash was always more important than the publicity. Send it back to the quarry if it works to keep the security, the insurance and the regulation fiends away!

You guys are doing a nice job on the newsletter. Reading it even compels me to send dues or cabin money, or Wash money (kegmeister responsibility) or something...... we'll see So I will send a flowery expose sometime. In the mean time, I believe I have scribbled enough scrawl to qualify as having "met the challenge."

Chris Totten '83 #844...you're on the "challenge" list too. I don't know if you are getting this newsletter or not. If not, I'm sure Chris Hall will see to it to locate you.

Peter and Dorothy

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David S. Holton `53 #375

[Sent dues.]

Your March 1997 issue was outstanding, and I wanted to respond immediately. As you can see, time-shifting applies to retired folks, too, and "immediately" turns out to be about four months later.

I still want to respond to some specific articles, in addition to the overall fine quality of the issue. Your "Golden Thread" editorial describes marvelously my experience, too. A sidebar--I've occasionally tried to convey to the College administration the idea that the fraternal golden thread could benefit the College as well if they could find a way to tolerate, work with, or even support the constructive aspects of fraternities instead of seeming to look for ways to harass the fraternities out of existence. But I digress...

I commend your offer to build a NAP library or archives. I don't have much to contribute--living in 21 homes in 43 years of marriage makes you pretty selective about what you take along and pay for by the pound! Maybe it would help if you printed information about where things could be sent now or in the future.

[Archival and historical donations and loans may be sent to Paul Nagai. The address is now and will be printed on the dues page. Please indicate whether an item is to be entrusted to the NAP Archives and Library or if it is to be returned.]

I'm also responding to your challenge that you need current letters as well as golden oldie material from past issues. I don't have anything startling to report, but here's my contribution. Living in the Sierra foothills is perfect for Marilyn (Hendrickson '55) and me, and retirement is wonderful. It's great to be able to spend your time and effort on the things you enjoy and find worthwhile. I do volunteer work (Emigrant Wilderness, Tuolumne County Museum, Sheriff's Dept.), hiking, watercolor painting, reading, etc., and Marilyn has her own interests and activities. We've also enjoyed quite a bit of travel and have found Elderhostel programs in the US and Europe very worthwhile. Our only problem is finding enough time to do the things that appeal to us.

Finally, I hear your message about dues and NAP Alumni Association costs. Enclosed is a check to apply wherever is most appropriate. And please keep up your good work!

Fraternally, David

Gerald E. Kelly `64 #583

[Sent dues. The following is excerpted from a note to his Zibbiness. --Eds.]

Thanks for your nice note. Ward Heneveld '64 #588 (we used to call him "Henny") and I did have a great time together. Actually, I was president of the Nappies in our senior year of 1964. But, probably our most famous Nappie was our classmate and Treasurer that year, Robert Price '64 #591 or "Pri" (some, like Ward, called him "Fuzzy" because he was so hairy). Robert, as he is now called, went on to found the famous retail discounter, The Price Company, which is now Price/CostCo. He also became a Pomona College Trustee. I talk to him from time to time and even had a business deal with him when he was expanding in the east. A beautiful success story for such an unassuming and considerate guy. He proves that nice guys can finish first.

Ward is trying to get us all to come up to his summer home in Northern Vermont over the 4th of July weekend. He got me to commit and now he is working on Fuzzy and some Sig Taus?! The Nappies and Sig Taus were very close in those years.

It's such a small world. It turns out that Ward is sending one of his sons to little Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Well, my grandfather, Robert L. Kelly, was president of Earlham College and know Carolyn and E. Wilson Lyon whose family had, I believe, a department store business there! Ward sent me the college history book that had a whole chapter on my grandfather. I had never seen it before! My grandfather retired in Claremont along with his two daughters, Lois and Agnes and my uncle, Roderick Scott who was an educator missionary in China. They lived on 8th Street and in Pilgrim Place. Their brother and my father, Robert H. Kelly, was killed in the Normandy Invasion. I grew up with my mother and my brother (who got a perfect math score on the SAT and is an internationally prominent nuclear physicist in San Diego--you can see where God put the brains in our family!) at 455 University Circle in Claremont where my mother, a second Lois Kelly, still lives today! Hopefully, this doesn't explain more than you want to know about the Kellys.

You are to be congratulated for doing such a wonderful job in keeping the Nappies alive and well. Being a Nappie was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my college life. And, as you can see, we still get together in true life long friendships.

Enclosed please find a dues check and I'll try to keep in touch a little more regularly. We just bought a Marriott time-share in Palm Desert and should be getting out to California toward the end of Winter each year.

Sincerely yours, Gerald

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Diane Decker `91 #1019

[Updated e-mail.]

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Steve Zetterberg `38 #177

[Again, a note to Zibby...]

Sorry to disappoint you. Was my granddaughter there? She is a NAP.

[Steve's granddaughter is Johanna Zetterberg '97 #1147. I have no idea she was there, but I traded e-mails with her this year and surprised her with the news that Steve's brother, her grand-uncle, who died in the war, Arvid Pierre '44 #270, was a Nu Alph. --Paul]

Connie was co-chair of the class of 1937 (Pomona, not NAP!) and I helped her with numerous tasks. We had house guests of the class of '37, and we did spend some time with a classmate of my brother (he was killed in Battle of the Bulge in 1945). She was kind enough to come to our home and cover fifty years with us. She and my brother were engaged at the time he was killed.

Yours, Steve

Gina Maranto `77 #807

[Again, a note to Zibby...]

What an unadulterated pleasure it was to see you again and hear you raise your voice for Nu Alpha Phi. I was glad to be able, too, to join in that heartfelt round of applause for you, which was only a dim echo of what I imagine to be your due from the collected Nu Alphs of past, present, and future. It was also such fun to meet Bruce Prestwich '55 #426 and some of the other elder brothers, and to glimpse some of the camaraderie that has clearly characterized Nu Alpha Phi from the beginning.

I am so very grateful to you for having arranged that book signing--and touched. One never knows, upon writing anything, how it will be received, and it was especially gratifying to receive such support from a group of people for whom I feel such affection.

Rick [Counihan '78 #804], of course, was far more generous and gracious than I deserved; but, then, he is generous and gracious by nature, and, like you, a brother who works hard at keeping us all together.

Los Angeles was so obliging with its weather that I may just have to wend my way out that way again next year around the time of alumni weekend, to partake of the good cheer of old Nu Alpha Phi.

With fraternal affection, Gina

Ed Crittenden `38 #164

[Sent dues, cabin, wash, and scholarship funds.]

Francis M. Wheat `42 #234

[Sent dues and general funds.]

Dear Editors,

Sorry to be so delinquent, but put this to work where it is most needed.

Bill Irvine `57 #465

[Sent dues.]

Still teaching and doing research in astronomy at University of Massachusetts. Hope you all saw comet Hale-Bopp!

Gordon H. Clarke `54 #414

[Sent dues.]

I write for three reasons:

1) To give you my dues check.

2) To disclaim the statement on page 21 of the Oak Leaf that I was on the '55 swim team with Peck, Garrettson, and Baird that set the Pomona 4x400 freestyle record. That would have been difficult since I graduated in '54. The man who deserves the honor is named Clark (without the "e"), and I believe he was in Jack's class. [NAP records contain four Clarks (no "e"). They are James '40, Walter '42, Steven '72, and James '87. We have a mystery! --Eds.] All I can remember about my swimming prowess was backstroking on a Nu Alpha Phi intra-mural team that beat the KDs. Incidentally, I recall Jack Peck and both the Garrettson brothers with great esteem.

3) To let you know that I have complied with your request to correspond with the Golden Oldies named on p. 23. In fact, last year I exchanged dinners with Blackwell (Blackie) Smith '25, and found we had much in common: four years in glee club and Blue and White Quartet, student government, Mountain climbing in the Sierras, law school in New York and practice on Wall Street, government service in Washington D.C., and finally retirement in North Carolina just a few miles apart.

Keep the Oak Leaf coming. It's great.

E. Thomas Williams `57 #473

[Updated address.]

Alex Calhoun, III `85 #911

[Sent dues and cabin and wash fund donations.]

I live in San Francisco with my wife Katie (Balou) '87 (Scripps) #970. We have two gorgeous children, Natalie (2 3/4) and Henry Walker (9 months). Life is hectic. See John Mills occasionally (Hi, John), ran into Dave Vinokur '86 #933 recently, and consort with the likes of Jeff Mills (AGS) ... anyone remember WedNite? and Mark Moran (KD) and Lorri Hamilton (KQE) ... anyone remember the Pub?

[Some of us remember the Pub. No one remembers WedNite. --Eds.]

Ward Heneveld `64 #588

[Sent dues and back dues.]

Last year I moved from working on improving education in Africa to a similar role for Brazil at the World Bank. Cheryll (Overin '65) and I live in Washington, D.C., but I'm traveling about half the time. A highlight in the last year was a talk I gave on Africa with Barber Conable, ex-World Bank President, in Buffalo at the invitation of Jerry Kelly '64 #583. Besides this talk at his church, he took me to two football games (SUNY Buffalo and the Bills) where he exhibited the enthusiastic passion as a supporter that he'd already developed at Pomona. With this note I demonstrate that I'm a bit more responsive than other Nappies from the early sixties. Where are you all!?

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Gary A. Thompson `66 #651

[Updated e-mail.]

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Sabine Brebach `90 #998

[Sent dues and cabin fund donation.]

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Blackwell Smith `25 #47

[Sent dues and a scholarship fund donation in the name of Eva Crittenden. By the way, if Blackie can find the time and energy to write between Model U.N. sessions, the rest of you can certainly find the time, eh? --Eds.]

At age 93 my avocation is Model U.N. Two one-man exhibits of my Junk Board Art were well received.

Hayden H. Jones `43 #241

[Sent dues and cabin and wash fund donations.]

I'm staying close to home these days. I do get in tennis three or four times a week but spend part of each day with Jonie who is in a nursing center as a result of a series of paralyzing strokes.

Wish I could be with you at the reunion.

Conchita Werner Stuhl `84 #910

[Sent dues.]

Busy raising two wonderful children (5 years and 16 months) with husband Hal. Still working but thoughts do drift to the Friday Wash and relaxing in the sun.

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Ed Bulmahn `53 #370

[Sent dues and back dues.]

Jack Dwan `41 #211

[Sent dues.]

I see a fair amount of Bob Warfield '41 #221 and Jack Keating '51 #337. Warfield could also be one of your "Corona del Mar correspondents" and Keating is in nearby Newport Beach.

Fraternally, Jack

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Thomas J. Phalen `77 #790

[Sent dues and a Wash fund donation.]

Dear Nappies,

I'm pleased to pay this infrequent (unprecedented?) dues amount. Gina Maranto's wonderful piece about the days in the late 1970s when we struck a blow for distaff equality and admitted women to the fraternity caused me to well up with nostalgia. Can she write or what?

I am, however, disconsolately perturbed at the absence of any mention (written or photographic) of my having been the first Nappie across the finish line at last year's Acorn Amble. For one whose early adulthood was fervently devoted to cigarettes, whisky, chemical toxicity, and sloth, my middle age transformation to mediocre (but dedicated) athlete deserves all the attention it can get. I know Zib has pictures of my breaking the tape (I actually finished second to my non-Nappie significant other, swift Stacie, but she wins everything anyway and was a ringer to boot) so how come I never got the free publicity I so desperately require?

Alas, I'll not be able to repeat this year as I'll be running the Big Sur Marathon on April 27. Perhaps the Oak Leaf would see fit to make some passing note of my 1996 victory when it chronicles the yet uncrowned 1997 champion.

Peace and Posters!

Laura E. Bailey `82 #865

[Sent dues and scholarship fund donation...via US Postal Mail.]

From: Laura Bailey <102257.2420@compuserve.com>
Subject: news and dues

Can't remember the last time I wrote to you or the Oak Leaf...surely sometime during my two-year sojourn in Indonesia? It's been a wild but wonderful ride and I'm hard pressed to pick out my favorite part...scuba diving throughout these amazing islands, searching for sea horses and sea snails...the torture and elegance of a three-day traditional Javanese wedding ceremony...talking iodization with subsistence salt farmers on the coast...rampaging far and wide through the archipelago on handicraft sprees...it's been fantastic. Work has been interesting enough to carry me through to what will now be a bit of a transition; I'll continue consulting internationally but will spend more time in the U.S., maybe teaching, and definitely writing. After some final adventures in the Australian Outback (my "alone with myself" trip for this year), I'm moving to Montana (pause for requisite Frank Zappa musical tribute) and will be taking up residence there on September 26. Y'all write, or call, or e-mail, or visit!

P.S. dues and contribution to NAP Memorial Scholarship Fund sent snail mail.

Rick Venne `69 #679

I am approaching my fifth year in Washington after 44 years in Southern CA and I love it here, weather included. I live close to the water in a place called Gig Harbor, have a boat which my wife and I may decide to live on someday and enjoy visits from my 5 grown children and 3+ grand kids. I am an MIS Director for a manufacturing company and enjoy my job.

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Stewart Cox `49 #312

Greetings and a bit of news from that long lost "Frenchman," Stewart Cox '49.

Recently the March issue of the Oak Leaf was forwarded to me bringing with it a flood of faraway names and references and memories.

Since I live so far away, I virtually never make it to Claremont. Through the years I have occasionally had the pleasure to receive Dick Gist '49 #315 here in France. Last summer we had the happy surprise to see Roger Wheeler '50 #321 and his wife striding down the gang plank of the lake steamer from Lausanne.

We passed a very pleasant day together. But my visits with Pomonans and Nappies indeed are few and far between.

Let me point out that Evian is just 30km down the lake shore from Geneva and I would be happy to go to town and pick up the lunch tab to passers through that city and send my best wishes to those of you who through so many years continue to give your time and interest to the college and the fraternity.