1950
Having departed Hanover post haste to get away from the duckboards we find ourselves with a minimum of news to pass along and a maximum of space to fill, but at least by the time you've read what there is, you'll realize that Cupid is still doing his work in our ranks. For example ...
The Hitching Post
On Saturday, February 3, Charles Martin and Sara Louise Mitchell were married in Beaver, Pa. Mrs. M. attended Pennsylvania State College and is now a student at Geneva College while hubby is working for Morrow Motors, Inc.
Tom Ruggles wed Miss Janet Peter of Bayport, L. I, in Appleton Chapel, Harvard University, March 4. She's at Radcliffe; Tom's in the Army.
Miss Martha Brown and Ensign Clarke Bassett spliced the nuptial knot in Pelham, N. Y., March 3. The bride is an alumna of Skidmore. Clarke's ship is the U.S.S. Barton stationed at Norfolk.
Bob Fowle married Nancy Todd in Montreal March 17. Since Bob lives in Bermuda, the place of the honeymoon seems obvious. Are we right?
Andy Oliver and Mary Lucille Jones of Dansville, N. Y., were wed March 24. Knuckles"Bob Wilson was to have been best man, but a small dose of virus pneumonia decked him for a week in Boston.
In Akron, Ohio, Charlie Abbe married Joan Alexander ("Dodie") Rowell. The date was April 3, and we expect that reports of those attending will be great when we're back in Hanover. By the way, Charlie's reclassification as 1-A prompted the earlier date than originally set.
Walking the Last Mile
George Schreck's engagement to Miss Elaine D. West of Paramus, N. J., was announced December 29. The future bride attended N. Y. U. George is working for Schreck and Waetly in Jersey City.
A phone call to Bob Krom supported the rumor we'd heard that he too is looking forward to a June wedding. The gal is June Arone, who's working for the Benton and Bowles Advertising Agency. March 10 was the day of proclaimment.
Another White Plains, N. Y., '50 is engaged. Ed Sutton, now in the Air Force in Texas, and Patricia Anne O'Neill of Overbrook, Pa., announced the happy fact March 17. She attended Edgewood Park Junior College.
On the same day in Hanover, Mary Neidlinger, daughter of the good Dean, and BobKilmarx were engaged. Mary's a Mount Holyoker of '49 and Killie's at Harvard Law.
Dave Reier and Miss Beverly Jane Reigner of Cranford, N. J., announced their engagement March 25. She's a graduate of Southern Seminary and Junior College and is employed by Mercantile Stores in New York. Dave is studying for his master's at the Institute of Local and State Government of the University of Pennsylvania.
Latest addition to the growing family of '50 is a daughter for Jim and Nancy Gaylord. The bundle of joy, Barrie Elizabeth, weighed in January 22 at 6 pounds, 8 ounces.
Grapevine Reports
Marv Kohl caught us up on his activities and mentioned several other classmates in the process when we heard from him.
"Since graduating I've been entrenched at New York University Graduate School, majoring in physiology. Naturally it was hard getting accustomed to attending a co-ed school, but I managed to overcome the ordeal. I bump into Howie Leventhal frequently (he's attending NYU Law School). He has an apartment in the village' and is doing well . . . both in and out of school. Frank Kerr, another future ambulance chaser, is at Columbia Law School, and we get together now and then for a session of earnest beer drinking. I've run into Warren Cox and Bob Wilkinson at the NYU College of Medicine where they're learning the finer points of anatomy."
Warren, by the way, says he may have to go to summer school if the Army starts needing many more doctors. No rest for the weary.
Paul Rouillard continues to supply the column with tasty tidbits. The latest goes like this:
"A week ago last Saturday my gal and I went out making the rounds of local taverns in and near Glens Falls. At La Cabana we saw Bob Farrell.Jerry Smith (a resident of the New York Dartmouth Club penthouse, we hear) was also there . . . seems a fair Skidmore lassie lured him up from Gotham. Dave Beeman was there earlier this year looking just as 'proportioned' as ever. He likes the outside world and was dragging a mighty fine looking tall blonde around by the hair."
Si Morand adds to the social notes from all over. Out at Ann Arbor Professor Ransmeier (on sabbatical) entertained Smiley Chambers,Doug Menu and Si at his home. "A slight but wonderful reunion complete with Kodachrome movies of the campus."
Dave Grinnell reports that since leaving Hanover in February things are going well. "My job as a book designer (with McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.) and living in New York are rolling along fine so far. If you can make it to New York, be sure and drop in, up four flights of swaybacks."
Don Cummings picked this merry morsel up in Washington: Bob Sisk is currently enjoying the services of a "house boy," tennis courts and other "niceties" in Hawaii. Sisko also spent several days in Sun Valley skiing before he departed from the in February. Ah, for the life of an Ensign. Hmmm, just wait, kiddo, just wait.
Subtitle on these two particulars is "Navy Noise." Vin Hill says, "At present I'm en route to Vielle France for a 12-day stay. As you probably know, I'm serving on the Newport News (CA-148), a magnificent ship, and have been touring the Mediterranean since November on a good will schedule. By the way, I bumped into Charlie Hamilton in Beirut."
Fizz Nichols writes from U. S. Fleet Activities in Yokosuka, Japan. "I don't know what you know about my travels ... me and Gulliver . . . so I'll give a brief. First came a grand (!!!) fourday Toonerville Trolley ride to San Diego. Then I had a glorious ten-day wait in San Francisco for a ship to cart me out here. We pulled into Yokohama March 2, the same day went to Yokosuka, and the next day we boarded a train for Saseba. Since then we haven't moved an inch." Fizz's ship is the Bayfield while the Commander of Transport Squadron One is aboard since our classmate has been attached to his staff.
Recent Hanover Inn-dians: Mr. and Mrs.Harry Hall, and Ray DeVoe, all in late February.... Frank Lion discloses that Uncle Sam "has seen fit to tap me on my anemic shoulders." He's off for Camp Hood, Texas JohnHintermeister was among the February grads; he dove right back in and began studying for his master's at Columbia. .. . Phil Chase taught skiing last winter at the Jug End Barn in South Egremont, Mass Bob Burrill is a salesman for the U. S. Gypsum Cos. in Jewett City, Conn. ... Paul Keetz is at Stanford Biz 5ch001.... Dave Kinney's v.p. for Colonial Laundries, Inc. in Pawtucket.. .. Sam Rogers is a med student at George Washington University.... Milt Diemer is selling, what we don't know, in St. Pete, Fla. .. .Art Lee gets his medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville Socony-Vacuum is training Gene McCabe.
The class was well represented in the Annual Alumni Hockey Game by Hugh Brower, last year's captain Walt Crowley, Bobby Gray,Joe Magoon, Arnie Oss, Billy Taylor and "Sveri" Tom Warner. Inkadentally, Johnny Brower put his brother on crutches for a couple of weeks with a nice board check.
While talking about more or less sports, there's a picture floating around these pages of some of the Tuck Terrors. It was taken after the Alpha Delts had squeaked past the aggregation by 17 points. Earlier in the season, however, our grand troupe of scintillating scorers had whomped their dorm opponents in the finals, 71-70, so it was really a pretty good season.
Tom Doxee, one of your assistant class agents, wrote for some addresses and revealed that he's selling auto insurance for the sixcompany combo in Syracuse that calls itself Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company. It was good to hear from you, Tom, and it gives me a nice lead into a closing thought. If any of you want addresses, I'll be happy to give you the latest I have, but meanwhile, make it easier on the boys who are trying to contact you and elicit contributions for the Alumni Fund. Listen to their story, give them all you can, and let's show our predecessors that '50 realizes its obligations by winning the Little Green Derby!
DORM BUCKETBALL CHAMPS: 1950 Whiz-Kids waiting for their bribe money for throwing the finals. Back row (I to r): Herb "Hemo" Ray, "Dutch" Frenzel, "Saboni Bonomi" Van Zoeren, "Big Deal" Myers, John "Oaks" Oakley. Front row: "Crash" Mcllwain, Enders Van Benschoten, and "Needles" Edelson. No investigation about the scandal has been started as yet by the Tuck authorities, though Ray's hat wou'd seem clue enough for such a probe.
Secretary, 301 Woodbury Hall, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Lawyer's Club, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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