1954
Ahoy Mates! Brace y'rself, 'cause to remain in harmony with our environment this month, we're gonna be real salty. So break out y'r sou'wester and foul-weather gear and prepare to get 'er underway.
Already underway is the class memento for Milt Kramer. The committee in charge - BenBowden, Ned Hoban, Dave McLaughlin, JonMoore, Dick Pearl, Pete Geithner, Skip Weymouth, Rod Rockefeller, Bob Nessen '53, Jody Matheson '55 and secretary Betsy Likert - have set forth a plan which will provide a fund in Milt's name similar to the Tucker Fund, for UGC or Palaeopitus to use to better orient incoming freshmen into the college community. The fund one year may help publish a supplement to the Handbook for Freshmen and another year provide a speaker for a Milton Sims Kramer lecture. It will be a flexible fund and a constructive one. Appropriately, it will contribute to those things in which Milt believed. So all hands are advised to be on the lookout for further reports from the committee itself.
We see here in the log where a few of the crew are bearing a hand with the books. BobCanestrari is infecting and curing white rats as part of his lab work at William and Mary grad school of psychology. Also note that Bob picked up a few bruises while giving shock treatments to female mental patients. Another hand mustering in at Flower Med school in NYC is Bob Riggio.
There are some more doctors under instruction. Kehn Schramm is at the UVM Med School, and Jeff Talbot is cleaving cadavers at the Hahnemann Med College in Levittown, Pa. Lloyd Tepper, John Crowe, AI Edmundson, Ed Horton, Dave Lee, John Moran, BurtOnofrio, Bruce Pattee, Frank Weiser and BobOneal all receive their mail at the AKK shack in Hanover (Lord preserve the medical profession). Bob, by the way, recently passed the diamond to Mary Bisgard, a junior at Stanford University.
Another sawbones in the making is DaveReed at the Rochester Med School. TommyThompson, we hear, is planning to perform a series of extractions. That is, he's learning the dentist's trade at Georgetown Dental School. Also believe Tommy has worked out a future deal with the Navy.
On our European chart we plot Len Beller, studying medicine (in German, no less) at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Len claims to have downed a toast or two for '54 in Vienna on New Year's Eve. Understand that Len couldn't speak a word of German when he left Hanover. Another Hanoverian "over there" is Irwin Herrman at Oxford.
The "In Hanover Billet" includes DonnHill and family, Paul Wilson, Bob Woodberry, Bob Dean, Ted Hartshorn, Ed Hayes, and Dean Hildebrandt at Tuck. Ray Freud and John Musa are dabbling at Thayer, and Bill Berno is shuttling between the two grad establishments. Dick Gates is also at Tuck, though scuttlebutt has it that the "Pearshape" was clocked on several excursions to the Midwest where he rendezvoused with a particularly engaging young lady at the U. of Michigan. In his spare time "Pear" is lecturing the Tuck Schoolers on the advantages of summer camp counseling. Seems he met the "lure of the West" that way in Maine.
Out in the Midwest and now believed to be married is Bob Martin, laboring on the law at the Michigan Law School, and RedMollenauer, who is studying German at Indiana U.
Via dispatch, we've received a number of additions to the crew members who have walked the plank. To be taking a keelhauling in a short while are the recently engaged JayChandler to Fleur Elizabeth Varney of Rock River, Ohio. The bride-to-be is a senior at Mt. Holyoke and Jay, conveniently enough, is situated at the Dartmouth Med School. Lt.Scotty Rambach, now with the Army in Germany, "took a sight" on Gail Moore, a grad of Goucher College from Cheshire, Conn. Another engagee is Peggy Streifler to Jerry Barton. Peggy is a senior at Barnard, and Jerry is at NYU and Bellevue Med.
Last Christmas Maryn Oudheusden, at second year Tuck, and Sally Jane Simpson, a junior at Wheelock, announced intentions to chart a common course. Sally hails from Rye, N. Y. Likewise in December, with his eyes fixed on the nuptial knot, Arnie Linsky started dead reckoning a course with Elizabeth Bacon, a Radcliffe senior from Quincy, Mass.
Those really in the brig include the recently married (December) Wes Dingman. Wes spliced the knot with Noel West of Bradford Jr. and the U. of Rochester, at Palmer, Mass. Wes is at the Rochester Med School. On hand were Jerry Van Hook and Brad Hollenbeck. As of December Fred Holland is swabbing the decks for Bette Lon Hutchins of Burlington, Vt. Fred and Bette were married in Derby Line, Vt. He is now at Camp Gordon, Ga.
Stan Clark tossed the life-ring to Charlon Cairns, a Smithie, at the beginning of the year. Charlon hails from Short Hills, N. J. Stan's at Dix. Best man Bayard Johnson and ushers Dave McLaughlin and Tom Malcolm gambled, or rather gamboled, about.
Dick Fowler "shipped over" with Joan Piane in Hanover last December. Last we heard Dick was at Lackland AFB, Texas. JohnPierce, Dick Brace, Al Sbaley and Pete Johnson were among those tippling at reception time.
In the galley for Tommy Sayles from now on will be Patricia Blake of Colby Jr. and Chandler School For Women. Tom and Patricia mustered at the altar in Cohasset, Mass. Bill Rex putted along as best man, and JohnTitus and Seav Peters presented an imposing front line.
There's a considerable amount of Green flotsam and jetsam adrift in our armed services now. Sheldon Wolfe and Wayne Weil are reportedly in the Army. Perry Davis, nowemployed as agent and trainee for the George P. Shoemaker Agency, Providential Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Scarsdale, N. Y. (How's that for a plug, Perry?) informs us that Platoon Leader Tom Morton is in armor training at Fort Knox, Ky. Each tank, it seems (Tom has five), has reserve space for extra men, and, since the Army has no extra "men," Tom, putting first things first, has installed a portable bar in his tank. The antenna, it is boasted, flies a "cocktail flag." Pvt. Tim Wagner and Ed Schadt are also taking their knocks at Knox.
Perry also reports running into Chris Rood soaking in the atmosphere at Maxl's, outside of White Plains, during the Yuletide, and Pete Bullis with elbow aweigh at a Christmas cocktail party. Attempted pixillation was RuelSmith's intentions New Year's Day when a
"few of the boys" tendered him a cocktail flogging before his draft notice became effective.
Proving little at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds are Army men Stearns Martin and Lew Milkey. Lew is about to wind up fourteen weeks of Associate Officers School. Bill Ober graduated from naval pre-flight school and pushed on to Corry Field pre-flight training in January.
Among the "tar-smelling and tattooed" is Dick Armstrong, who pulled in from the Pacific to Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif., aboard the U.S.S. Henderson. Dick expects to head back to the Far East in August. Wandering about in Japan, according to Dick, was BobGluek, now aboard the U.S.S. Wiseman. Bob, also, is back California way now. Dick Rubin, who was about Japan on the U.S.S. Wright, was "red, right and returning" to San Diego in the nick of time, also. Skip Gale (U.S.S.Forrest Royal), another member of the tin can fleet, was in the Far East, as is Dick Davidoff on the U.S.S. Clymer and Luke (LST 1101) Case. Their focus of attention is Formosa.
Joel Wertheim is running fore and aft on the U.S.S. Ticonderoga and after successfully flying through an eye operation which earned him nineteen days' convalescent leave and a trip to Hanover, Pete Geithner returned to Florida to see if the Navy was going to let him earn his wings. Imagine Pete'll be taking his solo shortly.
Aye, there's still a few lubbers trying to gain steerageway in the business stream. GerryPost is a trainee at the Scovill Mfg. Co. in Waterbury, Conn., and Alan Weismann is a sales representative for Boro Distributors out on Long Island. Bill Brooks is choppin' 'em up for the Newill Coal & Lumber Company in Barrington, R. I. From the main office of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Calgary, Alta., Canada, Bill May berry champs his cigar, and down in Stamford, Conn., Bruce Adamson begins accumulating his pile with the Northam Warren Corporation.
Aye, Mates! The barometer indicates that a few of the boys are in for some windy weather - squalls, that is. The Dick Kolbes reported a second tax exemption last December in the presence of their second child, a daughter, Lynn Ann. Stopping in to stay with the David Dames on December 30 was one of the male variety, called Douglas A.
That's about it for now, Salts. Glad to have ya aboard. But gotta double up the lines now and moor for the month. There'll be moor next month.
'53 IN THE NEWS AT NEWPORT: Fifteen '53 men were graduated from the OCS Class inDecember. Eleven are now in Supply School in Athens, Ga.; others in the Civil EngineeringCorps there. Back row (l to r): Jack Koerner, Bob Malin, Gardner Brookings, Tom Unkefer,Bob Callender, Ray Lawrence, Dick Hall. Kneeling: Ron Lazar, Jim Churchill '52, Bob Lambert,John Mitchell, Harlan Fair, Dick Kuhn. Those who missed the picture were Tom Croft, FredWhittemore, John Peterson and Paul Staley '51.
Secretary,USS Basilone (DDE-824) c/o Fleet P.O., New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, 126 Wigwam Circle, Hanover, N. H.
