1954
By now the icebound environs of the Hanover Plain have been defrosted by April's waft and shower. The sun once again is rising before eight o'clock classes and duckboards are obsolete until next year.
However, only a few Carnival reports have thawed out, but those that have dribbled this far are extremely favorable. Perry Davis called the festival "magnif," though he implied that there was need of more Indians of the "Fifty-four" variety. They were all in Houston that weekend for the '54 Carnival reported by Bob Curtis on the preceding page.
Two days after the Texas kegs were drained, a particle of the class slipped into a New York City party. The triumvirate of AlStaley, Perry Davis, and Bill Cohen had the cup at the lip as they joined in on the '54 reunion sponsored by the New York Alumni Club. Understand that these reunions are excellent and held quite frequently (there'll be one in early May), so hope quite a few of you in the Metropolitan area will look in on next month's.
George Fitzgerald brings us up to date on some of our defenders of democracy. George encountered Army Pvt. Norm Bander as Norm was emerging from a hotel elevator in San Antonio. Norm's now up at Fort Sam Houston. Dick Major went on through the AF basic training at Lackland AFB. DickFranklin takes "his snaps" (not pronounced, his naps) at Photo Reconnaissance School in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Bob Gillespie is doing time in a Mechanics' School in Colorado.
Hear that Sam Trock is Med-schooling-it in New York somewhere. Don't know the school, however. On the other hand, we know where Brooks Lyle and Bill Madden are, but we don't know what they are studying. Brooks is at Colgate and Bill is at Rutgers. Teaching associate and student at Indiana U. is DonWoodworth.
Out at Stanford Law is Bill Murane. Bill, by the way, circumnavigated the globe last summer. Some graduation present! FreddieAlpert, Pete Ankeny, Bill Barker, and PresClark are all "biz" at Tuck. Likewise making the daily run along Tuck Drive are "J. P."Conway, Ted Hartshorn, Pete Kenyon, JoeKeenan, Phil Kaiser, Leman Lane, Bob Levine, Bob Marrs, Don Meltzer and MikePapantones. John Moderwell is working the Tuck-Thayer shuttle. John was among the fatalities Friday night of Carnival. Inside info reveals that he lost his pin to a young Syracusian.
Rev. Ev Murphy, church pastor in Talcottsville, Conn., has gotten himself into a hassle in the Hartford Courier over capital punishment. Unfortunately, we have no details. How'd you come out, Ev?
Under lock and key is Hal Conarro, a bank examiner for New York State. Hal, who recently moved to Queens, was really in "safe keeping" last January when, it seems, he locked himself in a vault in Syracuse. Anyone gotta pick?
If anyone does have one, I'll clue you, it'll probably be George O'Connor. George and wife Terry are in Berkeley, Calif., while George sleuths about the University of California School of Criminology.
News releases from Europe indicate that Johnny Titus is still wielding a potent and prolific hockey stick. On a solo drive in the first minute of play John scored the first goal for the U.S. hockey aggregation as they tied West Germany 2-2 before 3,000 spectators at Fuessen, Germany. John was playing with the Boston Collegians earlier in the winter and is believed to be an A.F. man by now.
Running down the abducted, or preferably, inducted, we see Don Swanson (he was at the Texas Carnival), who is taking pre-flight at San Antonio, and Skip Weymouth, who angled for Scott AFB, Ill., this month. Skip made a whistlestop tour East before parting. Just for kicks last Christmas time "Sambo" was tickling the ivories to the musical edification of "gigs, Marlon Brandos and syndicate men" in a little place north of Chicago.
In the Adjutant General's Corps at Wright-Patterson AFB is Dick Buffington, and a clerk typist at Camp Kilmer is Tom Kelsey. JoeMigley is a company commander at Fort Bliss, Wash., and Joe Picarelli, after a brief spin in the Irving Trust Co., has hit the airways with the A.F.
Down at Lackland is Bob Higbee, EdMoore and Dick Fowler and out at Camp Chaffee, Ark., is Rudy Thielscher. After a whirl with the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motors in Detroit, Paul Sullivan stormed off to Fort Dix to begin active duty as an Army corporal. Recent Army timber is Lt.Bill Brooks, who heads for duty in France, and, already in the army too long, BeaverNash, who is in Germany. Beaver is making preparations for discharge and return to Hanover to complete what Uncle Sam interrupted.
In between flying lessons John Fenn is doing research on cardiovascular disease at the Yale Medical School in New Haven. John, Dan Weidenthal (Western Reserve med) and Ed Kieger (Dartmouth med) exchanged shop talk during a blast at the Kieger estate at the beginning of the year.
Newly found in Newfoundland is Jean Grant. Discoverer, Bill Bullen, in the town of Corner Brook. Bill and Jean were engaged January 31. Bill, attached to the Office of Investigators in the A.F., plans to return to Hanover in the fall of '56 for his final semesters. Bring your tennis racket when you come, Bill.
Jack Christy sends us an enlightening description of conquest. Bachelors, lend your ears.
"This Christmas," says Jack, "I brought a ring home with me and day after day dangled it before Sally Roesser. (She's serving her final semester in the Colby Jr. med course.) Finally hypnotized by its meager glow, she reached for it and before she could break the trance I phoned the press and told them to 'roll 'em' on a previously prepared article. Now I hope to be able to think of a means of tricking her into marriage next fall."
Jack, claiming that he has his flying beyond the "controlled crash" stage, is now taxiing about Milton Field, Fla.
Also lately engaged are Nets Putnam and Lucia Roraback of Barre, Vt. Nels is at Camp Gordon, Ala., and Lucia is winding up her senior year at Conn. Coll. Ens. John Pope jumped ship with Virginia Starr, a senior at Mt. Holyoke from Kenneth, Pa., and Pvt.Jon Bugbee, at Army Engineering School, Fort Belvoir, Va., cast the ring about Barbara Zeigler of Quinnipiac Coll.
Among the altar-goers were Dorothy Ann Phillips of Scarsdale and Mt. Holyoke and Herb Hillman in January. Egging Herb on were Ed Hayes, Dick Krimm and Jim (B.)Fisher. Jim, incidentally, is at Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. Saw him at the YaleHarvard football game last fall, his date defiantly sporting scarf of green and white. Herb and Ann set up shop in Paterson, N. J.
Dave Dame received "altarations" with Marie Bellefeuille before heading for Dix, and John Steel, who has soloed for the Navy at Whiting Field, duo-ed with Kathleen Noble a few months back.
Kev Sullivan caught up with Ginny Darling during a Colby Jr. vacation on March 26. Ginny is now Mrs. Sullivan. On the same day over in Rhinebeck, N. Y., Dave McLaughlin and Judy Landauer sealed vows. Judy is a U. of N. C. grad. Dave is finishing up at Tuck with an Air Force stint ahead.
That's all we have this month. Thumb back through your February Hasqui and read John Moore's run down on the Milt Kramer Memorial. It will be a fund of wide aspects which will allow us to make a constructive contribution to the yearly College program and under a deserving name. The committee has done an excellent job. Also check to ascertain that your Class Agent is on this month's mailing list. When opportunity permits, scale us a message, and for those who have an entry for the "Class Boy," let 'er come.
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