1954
Appropriately, reverberations of that November clamor, "On Vixen! On Nixon! On Dixon and Yates!" blends in with the Christmas season. The chances are those "livers" in Hanover have their skis waxed and are descending from the hills (probably just ahead of a snowstorm) for the Christmas vacation.
Unfortunately, we have tragic news this month. On October 25 Bill Tibbits took his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning at his home in North River, N. Y. Co-captain of last year's varsity ski team, Bill was, from a national and international viewpoint, one of our most outstanding athletes. A great skiier and indefatigable athletic competitor, winner of the Men's National Giant Slalom Championship in 1953 and second in the Chilean National Giant Slalom in 1952, Bill helped to place the Dartmouth name at the top of the American skiing listings.
Not only was Tib a great skier, but also he was a great friend and sportsman. Quiet and reserved most of the time, he could assume easily a skier's social spirit. Liked by everyone who knew him, Bill was himself a loyal and devoted friend. Skiing, Dartmouth, and all who knew Tib will miss him greatly.
Despite almost half a year's absence from Hanover, a '54 copped first place in the Eleanor Frost Prize for the best original undergraduate play of the year. The contest, postponed last spring, was won by Bob Rafelson for his one-act play entitled A Grand Fellow. Rafe's prize-winning entry portrayed the unfortunate and immature transition of the young, strictly-disciplined prep school student to the freedom of college life. Bob Wool '55 and Stephen Perlman '56 took the second and third place awards.
PEDDLERS of Christmas cheer are increasing in numbers. Word has arrived warning us that Dave Lewin is now heeling in haberdashery. Dave is working for Varsity-Town Clothes in Cincinnati. The Mercury (Medford, Mass.) newspaper reports that DickLeary turned out the largest Town Report (about thesis length) in the town's history.
Caught wassailing near his home in Illinois was Steve Mullins. Steve, who is preparing to don the khaki, passed along word that Bob Kirkpatrick was working for Scott Tissue in Philadelphia. Bob, too, is destined for the Army. Bill Daly, also Army bound, is currently working in the sales department of a Cleveland printing concern, and Bill Sherman is on the roster of the electro-plating department in General Electric's Euclid, Ohio, plant. Bill expects an Air Force summons soon.
In the advertising field at South Bend is Ted Weldon, and drawing an employe's sal- ary from the Chase National Bank in N.Y.C., is Wally Anderson. (-Understand that Wally's roommate in the metropolis is one TomSayles). George Corbett is toiling for New England TeL & Tel. at home in Walpole, Mass. George, too, can feel the draft on his back.
Up in Hanover this fall a group of '54s kept the athletic teams in trim. Bayard Johnson and Dave McLaughlin helped Tuss get the boys in shape, and Bob Drawbaugh was the right-hand man of Tommy Dent down at Chase Field.
Speaking of athletics brings forth a story. There are those of us who are unable to keep off the casualty list even though we are safely stored in the stands. Hence Cometh the tale of 's4's only Harvard game infliction - that of Don Swanson. Seems Swanny checked in at the Cambridge stadium and found that his seat was on the Harvard side of the gridiron. Unabashed by this unexpected reversal, which might have upset a less resolute fan, Swanny, aroused by the early possibilities of a Green victory, proceeded to cheer and demonstrate vociferously.
Behind the fanatical Indian sat the date of a particular, and peculiar, "Hahvad" undergrad. The young lady, it seems, found the Swans' zeal a bit annoying, and, when Don rejected her tender importunations to "Shut up or go over to your own side," her annoyance turned to downright hostility. So, while the Swans passionately urged the Green onward, that Harvard date calmly procured a beer bottle (it might have been her own), raised it slowly over her head and brought it down forcibly upon the noggin of the unsuspecting Swans. Here endeth our tale. Whether Swanny made an "agonizing reappraisal" or countered with "massive retaliation" we do not know.
In HEROD'S LEGIONS or entering those legions this Christmas season are a multitude of the host. Hugh Roberts voluntarily offered his hand to Uncle Sam and he is commencing a three-year hitch, now training in Baltimore, Md. We also hear that Tom Kelsey and OnConlin have been scooped up in khaki uniforms via the involuntary route. Loring Yates ventured his name and he has served the beginning of his sentence at Fort Dix, N. J.
Frank Hollenbeck and Dick Miller were also "camping out" at Fort Dix. Dick, incidentally, had been working with the BeckDiener Corporation in N.Y.C. Ed Berg graduated from the Army's Information School at Fort Slocum.
Air Force enlisting officers were likewise on the rampage. Jerry Goldstein threw his hat in as an Airman Third, and after training at Sampson and Atterbury Air Force bases, wound up at the School of Public Informa- tion and Relations at Fort Slocum, N. Y., not far from his home.
From Lackland A.F. Base in San Antonio, Texas, comes word that the Dartmouth contingent is rapidly multiplying. Ron Dougherty, Bob Curtis, and Bob McShane were on the roster there recently. Understand that the boys have been doing a bit of campaigning for the Alma Mater with the Houston Alumni Club. Good job, men!
Also with the airmen is Colb Addison, who is taking his Observer's training at Harlingen, Texas. We hear that some of the Texans ran into Captain Brown and Major Vega, former instructors of Air Science in Hanover.
Rumor has it that Bart Jameson and AndyGuilliano have checked in with the Marines. "Shootin' it up during the day and Livin' it up at night" is Second "Louie" Joe Migley at Fort Benning, Ga.
Ensigns John Heyn, John Bergesen and Don Belcher were cutting it up a few days in October at the Charleston Navy Yard. Yours truly was forced out of his cozy corner at C.I.C. School, in Glenview, Ill., to walk the plank aboard the U.S.S. Basilone at Norfolk, Va.
WISEMEN from the East include quite a list of the Class. Larry Russell, after a graduation-present trip to Europe, has settled down to a two-year course of Hotel Administration at Cornell. The U. of Pennsylvania has George Graboys on its listings, and ArnieLinsky skipped across country to the U. of Washington to continue his studies for a Socy Master's. Nat Hopkins was busy on the books at Columbia last summer, and there is a grind at the Michigan Business School called Ned May.
Doug Smith has traded Hanover's casual atmosphere for the hustle and bustle of city life. He's studying Law at Northwestern in Chicago. Another one of them thar Law fellas is Bill Garland, who is "all books" at Columbia.
UNDER THE MISTLETOE for the last time are a group of the recent newlyweds. On the Hanover Plain Don Berwick led Constance Bushey to the altar. Connie is a nurse at Mary Hitchcock; Don is in business with his dad in Hanover. Another nurse - from the New England Deaconess Hospital this time - was captured by Dick Barker. Her name, Barbara Joan Cree of Arlington, Mass. After a Bermuda honeymoon Barbara and Dick (the Army's got him now) settled, temporarily at least, in New Jersey. Taking tickets at the Barker wedding was Ensign NealFarrell. Neal, last we heard, was aboard the U.S.S. Perry.
Another couple on a Bermuda honeymoon trip was Carol and Ron Dougherty. Diana Merle Messenger, a Wellesleyite and Katy Gibbs grad, cast the hex on John Renner. They were married in Auburn, Ind. John has forsaken clothes for cadavers. He is at the George Washington University Med School in D. C.
In his Christmas stocking Dick Lederer finds Judith Feuerman of Great Neck, N. Y., Syracuse U. and N.Y.U. The Lederers, too, were aboard the Bermuda boat. Also in Great Neck, Miriam Kahn hooked the ball and chain to Pvt. Art Harris, USA. Miriam is from Skidmore.
We'll never get caught up on our "recently engaged" notices, but here are a few more. Tuck-Schooler Dick Lewis is engaged to Audrey Maass. Dick finds it very handy since Audrey is at Green Mt. and home in Upper Montclair, N. J. Marine Lt. Mike Biggs in Quantico spends too much time away from his wife-to-be, Virginia Perry of High Point, N. C. At present Virginia is a senior at Smith.
A senior at Wellesley, Elizabeth Elliot has been taken in tow by John Scoville. Elizabeth is from Minneapolis; John is finishing up at Thayer School. Clif Feakes has elected Sue Paley of Skidmore (she's a junior) and New Brunswick, N. J., as his future bride. And, a senior at Simmons, Elaine Miriam, has agreed to the engagement for a future bout at the altar with Jack Reilly.
There's no more room under the Christmas tree this month. In your spare time take a few moments to drop some Christmas cards to your former Hanover friends. And before December is gone, roll out that old Yule Log and get a bit of wassailing in for '54. MerryChristmas and the best for the New Year.
Secretary,USS Basilone (DDE-824) c/o Fleet P. 0., New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, 126 Wigwam Circle, Hanover, N. H.
