1950
Lezzee, April's a month of duckboards and vacation in Hanover, of new spring clothes in the stores, Easter Parades, and baseball openings. Not much to work on there. Guess we'll skip vague generalities and look over infatuations of 'go and then pass on to the mundane matters as usual. You'd be surprised if we didn't anyhow.
The Hitching Post
Paul Van Orden and Barbara Ann Schneider were wed in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, January 14. Barbara Ann is a senior at Bowling Green and Paul is attending the Graduate School of Commerce at Northwestern University.
John Woodward married Jean Enid Kinne January 30 in Austin, Tex. The bride is a graduate of Castleton Teachers College and was employed by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. John's studying for a master's in geology at the University of Texas.
Nev Chamberlain and Vally Taishoff were married in the Church of the Incarnation in New York City on Saturday, February 17. Vally graduated from Southern Seminary Junior College in Buena Vista, Va. Nev, who's with the Bankers Trust Company in Father Knickerbocker's Town, told us he would be back to Gotham after a honeymoon in Key West. A couple of other Fifty-ites got to the ceremony: Dolph Cramer of Altman's, Stan and BarbaraFrederick and Barta Press man Bruce Keating with wife Lois Anne.
Fred See and Rosemary Conwell Leach exchanged nuptial vows the same day in Taunton, Mass. Brother Phil See was best man and Charlie Abbe was among the ushers. JackAvery was also on hand. Rosemary graduated from Briarcliffe Junior College, and Fred attended Bentley School of Accounting and Finance. The couple, who will live in South Dartmouth, strangely enough ran into Vally and Nev on the plane for Florida! Talk about a small world .. .
Walking the Last Mile
Gordie Hood acknowledges Bill Pulley's report that the Roundo and Jo Ann Zeidler finally made it official on New Year's Day. The wedding is set for some time in May.
The impending fate of another classmate is revealed in the following cogent comments from Jim Melville who is working for the Pure Carbonic Company, a division of Air Reduction Inc. of Newark.
"On February 10 I attended an engagement party for Clarke Bassett and Martha Brown in Pelham. Rene Blanc, now in the signal corps, USA, at Fort Monmouth, was there.
"Saw Joe Dey and wife in New Haven a few weeks ago. He's working for a wholesale appliance firm, and he said Kog Frechette is preparing for a baseball spring training trip but Joe didn't know what team. Also saw Ed Poole and his wife in Albany. They have a new addition to their family, James Edward Poole.
"A month or so ago I attended Ken Sutherland's engagement party in New Rochelle. (Ed. note, see March issue for more details.) Really a gala affair with many Dartmouth boys there including GeneMcCabe, Dave Donahue and Jim Burnham. "Regards to the rest of Dartmouth 50's remaining in Hanover."
Bob Mauk relays the information that he and Joan Eaton of Calais, Me., are engaged. He says he'll marry the Colby Junior graduate in July.
Jim Hotchkiss' and Nancy McCoy's engagement was announced February 16 in Winnetka, Ill. Nancy's a sophomore at Smith. Jim and twin Gene are stationed in Washington, D. C., with Naval Intelligence. Older brother Frank is taking graduate work at M. I. T. in city planning.
Phil Gross is engaged to Miss Margaret Thompson Eaton of Hamburg, N. Y., as of February 17. She is a Smith graduate.
Pretty soon a separate department is going to be in order for these new members of Fifties' families. Latest we've heard about is a daughter, Elizabeth Frances, to Jack and Julia Williams on February 24 in Hanover.
The best of everything to all you people, and for the others who may be wondering about the Class Boy, we are too. He ought to be putting in an appearance pretty soon, and we'd like to be sure to herald his arrival with the proper decorum. Remember, his folks have to have been married after graduation.
Grapevine Reports
Oh, happy day! Oh, joyous hour! We have half a dozen epistles from the underground to alleviate the pressure of dwindling news items. The first is from Ted Bamberger who says,
"Wish you could see my membership button in the Expectant Fathers' Club. A local laundry gave me a gold safety pin and instructions on how to change a diaper under water.
"Bill Patten is a school teacher somewhere in Pennsylvania. Vin Hill graduated, got commissioned, married and packed off on a cruiser (the U. S. S. Newport News) before he could play a tenth on the Hanover Inn piano. Jim Farmer is plowing through the medical school of Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Bill Ziegler is minting pennies for his five-month-old daughter at a bank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Skip Fauver, whose ship is in drydock on the coast, will be stationed in Chicago for the next five months.
"Bud Deetz married last October and is finishing up some courses at Baldwin-Wallace before being inducted (he thought) in March. The Chuck Gardners are expecting. Quite a promotion for the new J. Walter Thompson man. Pete Holmes is in there pitching with Pickands-Mather Great Lakes Shipping Company. Joe Hendrich and Don Daniels are currently working the graveyard shift in G. M.'s Management Training Program in Elyria. Joe always was a night owl. Grant Gilbert is working in the wall paper cleaner business in his native North Olmstead Falls, Ohio."
Here's some info we got from the guest cards left at the Inn: Joel Leavitt, whom we also saw, was in town for about a week at Carnival time enjoying Hanover before being inducted in Uncle's army the first week in March....
Mr. and Airs. Dick Petersen were also around for the weekend.
Part of Nob Hovde's letter clarifies a few points:
"I am now on (not off as stated a couple of months ago) the coast of Florida. Since October I've been fooling around here waiting for a gram from the Naval Reserves. I'm presently working at the pool of a large hotel.
"Of the gang at home: Bill West is working in his dad's company (West Rubber Goods), and Stew Young is selling printing and folding machines. Best of luck to everyone in Hanover."
Scott Peters unhappily revealed that he was drafted January 10 and is in training with the 40th infantry at Camp Cooke, Calif. He says Dick McSorley is there too.
A note from Peirce Udall tells us he's at the Dental School at the University of Pennsylvania "learning the various tortures of the trade. Rumors have it we're soon to be painless! Right now I'm spending most of my time just poking around in 'Sebastian,' my cadaver, trying to find a means by which we can hold more beer. I also added another fraternity to which to owe allegiance ... Xi Psi Phi... commonly known as the ZlP's." George Nugent writes:
"Don't know what you've heard from some of our other ROTC graduates, but in case the news hasn't reached Hanover yet, Bill Williams, Leo Appel and Jack Morton are also now 'c/o FPO San Francisco.' Their respective ships (the destroyers Kennedy, Fiske and W. R, Rush), which, incidentally, make up the other half of my squadron, are somewhere in the Pacific. I still don't know how the Johnston escaped the deal, but we're headed for Florida ... wintering in the South you might say."
And here's part of a letter from Uncle WillD. Wallace, postmarked Northampton: "At present I'm enjoying a ten-day delay en route before reporting to O. C. S. at Fort Sill, Okla. Have just finished an eight-week Leaders Course at Fort Riley, Kan., and now they're going to fashion me into an artillery officer. By the way, I met Don J. Hall in the casual barracks at Riley."
By the way yourself, Bill, Bill Carp was last heard of at Sill. He'll be in the casual barracks there unless we miss our guess.
Inkadental Intelligentz
Rennie Brighton is with Diesel Publishing Company in N.Y.C.. .. Johr Knapp is working in the auditing department of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust of Buffalo. ... EdLawton is studying law in Cleveland.. .. LouNarua is retailing shoes for Morton Shoe Stores in New Bedford, Mass.... Richard W. Wallace is with W. R. Grace and Cos., in their N.Y.C. Cocoa Department. ... Jim Stevens is a commodity analyst in the procurement department of Standard Brands.... Brad Richardson is adjusting for Motors Insurance Company (a G. M. subsidiary) in Denver Rod Stinehour's association with the American Institute of Graphic Arts paid off in the managership of the Lancaster, N. H., Bisbee Press....
Dale Christopher is a trainee with Motor Freight Transport in Springfield, Pa.... DickCutler's a paint production assistant for Hancock Paint in North Quincy, Mass.... CarrollHuntington is doing commercial art work for the Donnelly Electric and Manufacturing Cos. in Boston.. .. Jack Sickman is a test supervisor for RCA in Philly... . And here are a few guys still at school: Sherm Hoyt at the University of Minnesota med school; Robert D.Wilson in B. U. for the same purpose; HowieRichmond, getting forestry knowledge from Michigan, and Galen Jones assisting the Williams biologists.
And that, guys, is that. A few post cards in the next month will be very much appreciated. In the meantime, give us a stroke a hole and we'll join on the links any day this spring.
Secretary, 301 Woodbury Hall, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, Lawyer's Club, Ann Arbor, Mich. Class Agent, 3552 Brookside Rd., Toledo 6, O.
