1953
Ed Boyle and his Glacier are presumably on their way to the South Pole, leaving this space for the next publication year to the mercy of a correspondent whose style is going to look awfully familiar to you, before you're through. Ed must realize that the class newsletter has hopelessly spoiled me, and that the 1500-word limit here is going to be cruel and inhuman punishment to me; otherwise he wouldn't have flattered me the way he did at the end of his last column. Well, let's you and me have an agreement: You keep those long letters coming in to my New Haven address, and what Charlie Widmayer lops off here I'll put in the Newsletter. One way or the other, you ought to be the newsiest class on the face of the earth!
And now [tersely] we begin.
Jim Penny reports from Korea that he and Nancy became proud parents of a baby girl on June 24. Also passes on the information that Dave Ljungberg and his Nancy expected a new addition momentarily (this was July 7). Dave s plans bring him to Cornell Business School in the fall. Bob Yates working now with the Binghamton (N. Y.) Press after, receiving his Master's in Journalism at Northwestern. Ens. Henry H. Learned, we are told,
"completed his first solo flight in the Navy's SNJ 'Texan' trainer at the Corry Field, US Naval Auxiliary Station, Fla., and 2d Lt. AlBrewster is just out of the Infantry School's basic infantry officer's course at Ft. Benning, Ga." Pfc. Frank O'Reilly, doing his patriotic duty, is operating a sterilizing machine in Tokyo, where he is a laboratory technician.
Barlow Goff writes that the "little scene that appears on the top of each issue [of '53 Out] is not totally inaccurate, since we occasionally run a little 'short' in Korea!" Barlow is there, coaching the Korean Marine Corps; he's served as advisor to their tank battalion since last February. He reports that during the lulls in his work (which come in between the spurts and after the monsoons) he has seen a few Dartmouth men. Al Fiertz '52 is flying with the 1st Marine Air Wing: every once in a while he wings over Japan to break the monotony. Wally Ashnault was attached to an Army unit near Barlow, and was soon due to return Stateside, where rumor reports his impending entrance into Cornell Law School. Rog Warner is "all alone in a nearby village." And Barlow reports a new addition to his family, too: Susan, born June 27. He hopes to be back here around November.
A Hanover Inn registration card informs me that Jack Hall checked into the old town, June 21-23. Pfc. Tom Kohler was a winner in the All-Army Talent Contest, and earned a certificate of achievement from Special Services for his trouble, in Western Korea. Av. Cad. TomDuke graduated in June from primary pilot training at Stallings Air Base, N. C. He's now at Vance Air Force Base, Okla. In twenty weeks come the silver wings.
Latest June word had Pfc. Gene Gabianelli in Alaska, far away from the New York heat wave. A stale news item had Fred Fideli in basic at Ft. Bragg, N. C., but no new item on his whereabouts. Don Smith, just back from a year in Korea, was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned in California as an embarkation officer.
To leave the Services, Ed Condit and BillKing at that alleged school of law in Cambridge both prepared winning briefs in the quarterfinals of the Ames Competition, both writing on the subject of Admiralty law. Also at (you should pardon us, please) H * * v * * d, Fred Stephens, Tom Bloomer, Paul Arenberg,Curt Bury, John Corcoran, Richard Dosik,Rex Schirmer, Fred Stephens, Prasong Sukhum, and Warren Yetter received degrees from the School of Business Administration. Fred won himself a direct commission in the Army Finance Corps, and Tom's plans are still classified.
Paul Arenberg was married to Ann Lawton (Wellesley '55) at the beginning of the summer, and Curt Bury took the same step with Judith Grace Mills of Bridgeport on June 4. Judy is an alumna of Mt. Holyoke; Curt begins with I.B.M. immediately.
Word has it that Bob Nicholson, whose parents just moved to Gulfport, Fla., from New Jersey, is stationed at New Bedford, Mass. And word of a different sort informs that DickCollins was one of two "former star athletes at East Providence High School" [quoting from the Providence Journal] named to teach at that school beginning this fall. Dick will rule the history classes.
Along the marriage front: Dick Thomas wed Louise Priscilla Pierce of Fairfax, Va., on May 21. Louise graduated from Bennet Junior College. Dave Donovan married Cynthia [So I was right - Ed.] Ann Hillery of Manchester, Conn., and St. Lawrence University, in the beginning of May. The wedding and honeymoon were in Southern California. Dave is stationed at the Naval Air Station in San Diego. GeorgeDavies stepped to the altar June 18 with Dorothea Davis of Upper Montclair, N. J. George is now with Eastern Industries in Hamden, Conn. His wife is an alumna of the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in New York City, and also, according to the Albany TimesUnion, a provisional member of the Montclair Junior League. The two will live in Cheshire, Conn.
Jim West and Margaret Gay Carver of Chestnut Hill, Mass., were married in Newton in June. Jim and bride are probably now en route - or arrived - in Germany, where they will live while Jim finishes his remaining year's service time.
Bill Barlow married Laura Mocksfield of Orange, N. J., in May, and the two are now living in East Orange. Bill is employed by the N. Y. Central R.R. Stan Westberg wed Patricia Ruth Wilson, of Darien, Conn., on June 18. Stan and wife passed through Hanover June 25-26 [according to the Hanover Inn] and will eventually return to Detroit, where Stan works with Russell, Burdsall and Ward Co.
Turner Austin fell by the wayside, too. On June 18 (O fatal day!) he and Margaret Waugh of Mansfield, Ohio, were married in Manhasset, L. I. Margaret graduated from Tobe-Coburn School in New York this year. Carl England and Joanna Cornell of Boston were married May 27 by Prof. Roy B. Chamberlin in the Church of Christ, Hanover. Carl and Joanna, who was graduated from New England Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing this year, travelled the Bermuda route the week after, and the Valley News photographer apparently followed behind. (They look like a sunny time.) Dave Halloran (Lt. jg) and Julia Ann Boehringer of Yonkers and Sao Paulo, Brazil (she's from BriarclifE Jr.) took vows, also in May. The two will live in Pensacola, where Dave's stationed. And EmilFrohlich, on June 29, married Helen Van Liew at St. James, L. I. She's from the Hill School in Pottsdown, Pa., and will be stationed with him in Aberdeen, Md.
As for engagements: Without pretending to be up-to-date, here goes: Fred Wolf, July 7, to Jean Forbes Spiro of Upper Montclair, N. J. She's from Green Mt. Jr., and a member of the staff of the American Museum of Immigration in N.Y.C. Fred at the time of the announcement was stationed at Ft. Meade, Md. EliotRobinson to Elaine Osband, Smith '54, of Quincy, Mass. Dick Geisser, June 24, to Constance Silverman of Connecticut College for Women and Boston. Lt. "Smiley" Schoder to Virginia Owen, of Decatur, Ill., and Smith '55. Virginia was with the Smith group to spend junior year in Switzerland. "Smiley's" stationed on the west coast. John Alger engaged to Nancy Crapo of Onset, Mass., and Vassar. Alan Echikson to Barbara Gross of Maplewood, N. J., Wheelock College, and a junior at the Child Education Foundation in N.Y.C., affiliated with Adelphi College. Wally Bass to Margaret Latto of Yalesville, Conn. And, EmilSchnell, April 13, to Lois Leifsen of Flushing, N. Y., and Wood Business School. Emil's at Camp Lejeune, N. C.
Late Bulletins: Just before publication time, comes a late shipment of items, which are hereby appended, with no pretense of rhyme or reason:
Receiving Master of Arts degrees at Harvard were Don Hoffman, Lowell Holway, EdKlima, and Len Johnson, all last June.
Phil Metzidakis now engaged to Pauline Jansizian, of Springfield, Mass.; Harvey Mason wed in the middle of August to Pat Pozzi, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pembroke; GeorgeHigh, about to enter his last year at Columbia Law, plans to marry Elizabeth Codman of Boston next January; George spent the summer as a member of the office of Legal Affairs at the U.N., in an interne program. Bob MacNally had marriage plans for June for Helen Weeks of Garden City, L. I.; Don Bingham now engaged to Dorothy Buracker, of Mt. Holyoke and Waltham, Mass.; Doug Perkins married Nancy Jean Barnhart of Johnstown, Pa.; and Pete Bridges was married in July to Mary Jane Lee of Chicago and Northwestern.
Ed Boyle reports the following: Lt. j.g. TimThomas married Judy Evans in Cleveland, August 27. Judy is Smith '55. Lefty Leavens wed Doris McCartney, a Cleveland school teacher and Bowling Green graduate, on the same day. Diz Derzon was scheduled to be best man, and Paul Paganucci was to be among the ushers. A "second marriage ceremony" was to take place the morning of the 28th at sunrise on top of Seneca Rocks, W. Va., where Lefty gave Doris his fraternity pin a few months ago. Lefty is now working for Thompson Products, Cleveland, as a work-simplification expert. Bob Schuelke, Tuck-Thayer '54 graduate, working for Warner & Swazey in the training program. Diz Derzon is training at a Rhode Island hospital for a career as a hospital administrator; last year he attended the hospital course at Minnesota. Bob Douglas now stationed as a medical technician at an Army Hospital close to Pittsburgh. And, BillCrotty was married June 14 to Alice Blomquist in Minneapolis.
Reporting from personal knowledge: PaulPaganucci spent the summer on the president's staff at Grace Line, and living with BobNessen. Bob, together with Mike Zarin and this writer, spent the season as law clerks for the United States Attorney in New York. Last item: Perry Free on his way to Camp Pendleton, Calif., after finishing artillery school at Ft. Sill.
See you next month.
Acting Secretary, 2513 Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
Treasurer, 305 17th St., Wilmette, Ill.
