1952
Whatta place this New England! The first weekend in April it was, and Saturday the temperature was 70 degrees outside our apartment window. Sunday it was snowing; only a couple of inches here, but the ski areas are really optimistic. Seventeen to twenty-two inches between Brattleboro and Mt. Washington that Sunday. Most of the skiers never got home that night and the resorts say that when the papers stop printing ski reports, to come anyway. They plan to stay open until the first of May.
Couple the weather with the news - Matsu and Quemoy and what to do, the Churchill rumors (we hate to see him go), G.A.W.- maybe but probably not, strikes, Murrow off on another trip, the passing of Pulitzer and McCormick, plus just plain New England - 'Bout a week more " 'fore the sap quits," ice out of Mascoma by the 15th, frost heaves the worst in fifteen years (try and make the Smith run in three hours this spring), train wreck in Albany, a couple of shows that might be worth seeing, and the New York Times still weighing more than any other two papers on Sunday.
In short, par for the course hereabouts. Despite it all a usual spring - though most people won't admit it until next year.
But there is news of '52 besides bringing you up to date on the seasons. For example, Whitey Dunlap and John Grocott made up part of the Alumni Team that managed to put the Varsity Hockey team on the weak side of a 15 to 4 score last March 12. In the same vein, sports that is, Pete Burnside is being optioned to Dallas. I note that the grapefruit circuit writers peg him as a comer in the fast-ball southpaw department.
This season of the year is an important one for many of the group who are finishing up graduate study work. Those '52s who become M.D.s in another month or so have, for the most part, received their assignments by now, and I have a partial report on who will be where from those in the Boston area; but I could use such data from those of you who are elsewhere and from whom I have not heard. That goes for the LL.D.s and all the others, too, incidentally; we're not partial to budding surgeons and GPs. Here's the list as I have it; Dave Abrahams, medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Ray Alexanian, rotating, King County Hospital, Seattle; LesBauer, medicine, Ann Arbor; Dick Carleton, medicine, Boston City Hospital, Boston; JoeDobos, Roosevelt Hospital, New York; HowieGeist, surgery, Barne.s Hospital, St. Louis; EricGunderson, surgery, Mass. General, Boston; Ray Jankowich, rotating, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn; Herb Muller, rotating, Penn. Hospital, Philadelphia; Bill McAndrew, rotating, Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia; Bill Fletcher, rotating, Boston City Hospital, Boston.
I am informed that there are occasions when I am dealing with a group that I neglect to mention one or two therein. It is not intentional but due rather to the reporting network which while amazingly efficient, considering its makeup, sometimes drops a name or two in the process of gleaning items of interest from here and there. I find for example that I am able to add another name to the list of '52s who are 3rd-year men at Harvard Law School, in the person of Dan Gutterman. I might add that Dan has traveled a bit during his post Dartmouth career. Last summer saw him attending the international law sessions at the World Peace Court in The Hague, Netherlands. He plans to further his studies at Cambridge, the Sorbonne, or Geneva next year and is at the moment concerning himself with the task of preparing for the New York Bar exams. He is also associated with the Shawnee Leadership Institute, an organization devoted to the furtherance of good will among the youth of all countries, having been elected a director recently.
Turning briefly to the military, I am informed that Len Larrabee received his silver bars at Camp Kilmer last March 11. He is assistant finance officer at that establishment.
And a Hanover source reveals that DaveSunderland and wife were in town early this Spring. They can be found in Washington where Dave is stationed with the Navy.
Out in California this past winter Al Fiertz found himself playing a role not usually accorded Marine pilots, of which he is one. He was one of 100 pilots and air crewmen who lived for three days equipped only with the usual flight gear and parachutes worn by Marine pilots during cold weather flights. He was participating in "Operation Snowbound" in the High Sierras near Bridgeport, Calif. This was an operation designed to familiarize those concerned with the problem of survival under such conditions. I gather that the only thing that made it really rough was the shortage of Hot Toddies after the day's work.
From the Big City comes news that WheelsIncorporated, automotive and marine distributors, has expanded their activity to include an industrial department under the sales direction of Tank Creamer, recently returned from duty as an officer in the Marines. The new department was created to handle poweractuated equipment of the type used in the garden and agricultural fields.' Needless to say, any of you who are looking for such equipment just might do well to look him up if you are in the market for a lawn mower, power saw, or the like; understand he's really hustling the line.
And on matters even more domestic a note from one Charlie Blakemore announces that he and his wife Kathy became the parents of a girl. March 18 was the date and the name is Martha Ann Blakemore.
THE MATRIMONIAL PICTURE....We need another June in this department, but the coffers are not yet empty. First a belated announcement dating back to December and from the West Coast to boot. Concerns a gal by the name of Leah Mackay known only to that group that ranged far enough afield to be embraced by the campus of Bennett Jr. College. Lee Coulter and Leah plan their wedding for September. Lee is finishing up his first year at Stanford Law. Last February 10, Ralph Lynch and Judy Follansbee announced their engagement. Judy is a Vassar graduate and lives in Chapel Hill, Pa. Ralph will be graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in June. On February 24 Ann Safford and Steve Mandel announced plans for an April wedding. Ann graduated from Smith where she was editor of the college newspaper, and she has until recently been connected with an advertising firm. Steve attended the University of Geneva and recently received an M.B.A. from Leland Stanford University. He is presently associated with Owens-Corning Fiberglas. On March 13 Dave Springer and Georgia Cary Smith made known their wedding plans. Georgia is a graduate of Wheaton College and is with the National Broadcasting Company at the present time. Dave is stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va., with the Army.
As for weddings, only one to report as of this writing. Bob Haycock and Judith Ann Jennings were married on January 14 in Nashua, N. H. She is a graduate of Ohio University and Bob has served with the Army as a first lieutenant. They make their new home in Hartford, Conn.
So be it for this month. The final installment of the year comes up in June, provided it's raining some afternoon and I've lost all those Christmas golf balls. Tips, short cuts, easy things to remember and a sure way to play the game in the high seventies would be most welcome. Whose for 18 and 1?
SERVING IN JAPAN: Pvt. Christopher B.Fuller '51 U.S.A. is at Camp Zama, Japan,where he is an auditor in an intelligence section's fiscal division at Headquarters, ArmyForces Far East and Eighth Army.
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