1953
But two more days until the northern Mardigras officially commences here in Hanover ... and the campus is already blanketed with snow. Yes, for the first time in several years, there appears to be no need for the Carnival directorate to meet nightly this last week to invoke the winter gods, to bless the weekend with at least enough snow to finish the center-of-campus statue. At this moment freshly falling snow is whitening the statues, and prospects are for the best Carnival, weatherwise, in several years. And from reports there will be a large contingent of '53s returning to Hanover to participate in the festivities.
For eleven 's3s this Carnival will serve as their graduation party. According to our records, Stan Hell, El Clark, Albie Collins, BradEdgerton, Dick Giesser, Tom Gill, Jack Patten, Emery Pierson, Pancho Pike and JulieRobinson all qualified for their sheepskins this past semester. All of the new graduates but Tom, Jack and Brad have yet to serve in the armed forces, and their future plans are very uncertain. Jack Patten plans to join the Dow Chemical Co. in Michigan shortly, while Brad hopes to find some interesting work in Alaska and Tom hopes to join one of the big airline companies.
The graduation of these men depletes the ranks of those 's3s still in the undergraduate body to a mere seven. However, apparently several 's3s who left college two to three years ago to join the armed services are returning to Hanover this second semester to resume their studies. The first classmate in this category whom we have seen is Rod Jennings. Rod left school after the first semester of his sophomore year, and he has just been released from the U.S. Army where he served in the Signal Corps for three years. While in the service, Rod married a Boston University student, Patricia Bushnell, a resident of Marblehead, Mass., on December 22, 1951. The Jennings are now trying to get their Sachem apartment looking presentable.
The other day, we bumped into Don Smith of Glen Rock, N. J. Don was visiting Hanover for a few days following the close of first-semester classes at Rutgers University. The former business editor of the Aegis hopes someday to enter veterinary work, but admitted that right now he is more interested in finding a good job and saving a few dollars. Don mentioned that Bob Lynah, one of his fraternity brothers, was doing graduate work at Boston University.
Other news on the academic front EdKlima, a recipient of a fellowship (last spring) for foreign study, finds the people and the customs of Iceland very interesting. Ed is presently engrossed in language studies at the University of Iceland. Across the Channel, Dick Nunley is continuing his English studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. He and Jack Buchanan thus give the class representatives at Oxford and Cambridge, England's two leading educational centers. Here in this country, Chuck Noll Jr. is adding to his knowledge of geology at the Univ. of Oklahoma, while Bob Chaloner is in his second year of medical study at Albany Medical School, and Dick Goodman (of Shaker Heights) is working very hard at Western Reserve Law School. Incidentally, Dick's younger brother Bob is a '57 here at Dartmouth. And lastly, quite the reverse of his above-mentioned classmates who are still studying, Barney Dunnam is teaching at the local high school in Lake Saranac, N. Y. Are there any good Dartmouth prospects, Barney?
Uncle Sam
Because of the long lists of connubial items, we have room for only a few Army and Navy tidbits in this issue. First, Fred Walsh recently visited Hanover prior to his departure for Ft. Sill, Okla., where he will enter officer candidate school. Fred previously had been stationed at Ft. Dix, N. J., and he has been assigned to the artillery division. Johnny Rogers of Marshfield, Mass., was one of the many '53s whom Fred saw while at Dix. Johnny was drafted last November, after deciding to postpone graduate study in landscape architecture until after his tour of duty. He has just been transferred to the Medical Corps at Camp Pickett, Va., and reports that he visited Bob Foster and his wife Doris recently. Bob has completed his eight weeks' basic training at Ft. Aberdeen, Md., and is now at Supply School there.
News about our Newport little-boy-blues is plentiful this month. Johnny Harris, former company commander, has been honored with an assignment to the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington. Gay Jones is now sailing out of San Diego, and Jack Zimmerman likes the Rhode Island location so much that he has returned there for schooling in the technicalities of communication. Two of the more fortunate sea-going ensigns are Bob Purse and Monk Robinson. Bob is flying over to the Mediterranean to join the destroyer U.S.S.Norris, presently touring European ports, while Monk's ship, the destroyer U.S.S. Borie, is about to commence a round-the-world cruise. However, conditions as yet are not quite so rosy for Dick Fleming and DickMorse: they still must undergo another month of schooling before receiving their commissions.
Cupid's Corner
Traveling almost 3000 miles during bis Christmas vacation from Stanford University, Bruce Cole finally caught up with Mary Frances Swain at the altar of the First Congregational Church in Greenwich, Conn., where the couple exchanged vows on December 22. Mary, a resident of Greenwich and a Wells College graduate, and Bruce are now living on the West Coast. Another nuptial effected during the Christmas vacation was the union of two University of Michigan students, Neil Bersch and Blanche Cion. The couple were married at the Plaza in Blanche's home town, Jersey City, N. J., by Rabbi Pilchik, while Irwin Freedberg and Moe Moss viewed the ceremonies as ushers.
Neil Isaacs and his bride, the former Esther Karmazine of Chestnut Hill, Mass., were able to squeeze in a honeymoon in Nassau as well as the actual December 21 marriage ceremonies before classes resumed after Christmas recess at Harvard Law School, and Katherine Gibbs, respectively. The Isaacs new address is 336 Beacon St., in Boston. Following their early January wedding at the Sheraton Plaza, Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Sherm Tratten (Judith Farkas) chose the Virgin Islands for their honeymoon retreat. Judy, a former Colby College student and Brookline resident, is now busy tidying their new Jamaica Plain apartment, while Sherm attends classes at Babson Institute. In a second early '54 wedding in Beantown, Jim Coleman took as his bride Catherine Arlauskas of Boston. The ceremonies were held at the Daniel Marsh Chapel, Boston University. Jim and Cathy are now receiving mail at Camp Gordon in Augusta, Ga., where Jim is attending Signal Corps school.
As expected, the Christmas season took its usual toil on the ranks of those classmates still unattached. Included among those who recently took the first of the two steps leading to man's destruction are: Ens. Bob Longabaugh (now touring various European ports aboard the destroyer Furse) to Mary Beatrice Eberlein of Greenfield, Mass., and Colby Jr.; Ens. Charles Coxoap to Lynn Benoliel of Philadelphia and Mt. Holyoke College; Jack Avril to Charlotte Elizabeth Craig of Pasadena, Calif., and Wellesley College. Jack is presently in his second year at Tuck-Thayer and come June will join the Navy with the rank of ensign; Lt. Dave Ljungberg, USMC - now stationed at Quantico - to Nancy Phelps Plumley of Worcester, Mass., and Garland Jr. College; Don Hoffman to Elizabeth Christine Fischer of Chicago and Bryn Mawr; and Chuck Luker - stationed at Ft. Dix - to Elsa Ann Morgan of Glen Ridge, N. J., and Wellesley College. Installment No. 2 of this subject will I fear, have to wait until next issue.
There are no new additions to the Dartmouth family to report this month, and so we close with a simple request that each of you in the near future put pen to paper and drop us a short note here at Chase Hall. It will improve the quality and the coverage of this column and will also enable me to bring the class records up-to-date. Thanks!
Secretary, 309 Chase House, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 305 17th St., Wilmette, Ill.
