1954
We sit down to write this month's column shortly after reading a Virginia Pilot news account describing how Walt Clarkson was rather forceably urged to withdraw at the last minute from the "Military Mile" run in Norfolk, Va., this April. Reason for Walt's withdrawl - the AAU ban on Wes Santee, who went on to win the race in 4:12.6.
Walt, running for the Camp Lejeune Marines, was pegged as Santee's primary opponent in the Norfolk meeting. He had run second to Santee earlier this month at Quantico, Va.
However, prior to the Norfolk race, said the Pilot, Walt received a telegram and a personal visit from representatives of the AAU warning him that future action might be taken against him if he ran against Santee. At the threat to his amateur standing. Walt decided not to run. Bill Gilges '53 did, however, participate in the race.
Also in the athletic line in March we have the winning of the Roch Cup for the Aspen, Colo., combined skiing championship by TomCorcoran. Tom took first in the regular and giant slaloms and tied for first in the downhill to capture the award. In between ski meets Tom picks up his Navy duties at Portsmouth, N. H.
This is our last column until October so it'll be packed tight. Without being partial to the martial we'll commence with a few ...
COMBAT BOOTS Jumping grade to Specialist Third Class is John Parker who's with the 287th Field Artillery Battalion in Germany. Our report said John was assigned to Battalion Headquarters Battery as a "surveyor." On first reading we thought it said survivor.
Capitalizing on Hanoverian winter experiences are Russ Cary and John Pierce at Fort Carson, Colo. Both men are attached to the Fort's Mountain and Cold Weather Training Command as mountain warfare instructors.
Lt. Bob Marres is in the 9766th Technical Service Unit at Fort Detrick, Md. Bob, out of Tuck and Fort Dix, entered the Army last December. Lt. Myles Jacobs checks in to the Ordnance Ammunition Arsenal in Joliet, Ill., while the Army's Bob Perlstein pursues photography work with the 26th Infantry Regiment in Europe. Also on the Continent, in Germany to be accurate, is Hugh Roberts with the 87th Infantry Regiment. Others with APO addresses are Karl Davis and DonBerwick.
Lt. Joe Picarelli, a recent Air Force wingwinner, taxies about the landing strip at Tyndall AFB, Fla., now, and Lt. George Fitzgerald has settled down at McClellan AFB in Sacramento, Calif. Dick Franklin is with the Intelligence section of the 58th Fighter Bomber Company in the Pacific, and Lt. BobMcShane is with the Air Force in Alameda, Calif. Working with the Accounting Division at Kirtland AFB is Paul Wilson.
George Haskins plundered a Rome, N. Y., Community Theater production of The Pirates of Penzance a few months ago. Buccaneer George, who is in the Air Force at Griffiss AFB, disinterred his Glee Club training and played Samuel in the Gilbert and Sullivan production. Through George we learned that Dottie Fitch, wife of Air Force Lt. Dave Fitch who is marooned on Okinawa, left her Greenfield, Mass., residence to visit Dave for a month. We're told that not many people can get to Okinawa, and those who can don't want to take you there. So if she hasn't arrived yet, Dave, this'll let you know she's on the way.
While Lt. (jg) Jack Felter graduated from Navy pre-flight training in Pensacola, Fla., and swooped over to Whiting Field, Fla., Pete Geithner picked up his wings and flew off on fifteen days' leave before checking in to Cecil Field in Jacksonville. Pete says JackChristy was also "winged" and assigned to Naval Air Station, Miramar, Calif., and that Ned Hoban was holding out at the Marianna AFB in Florida.
The officers' board on the USS KentCounty, somewhere in the Pacific, carries the name of Rip Coffin and in Newport, R. I., on the USS Stockham is Jack Reed.
The rumor about the USS Canisteo's gunnery officer, Art Patterson, who will complete his tour of duty this month, is confirmed. Pat is engaged and looking forward to late summer nuptials. We will try to get the details to you next time. Pat, just back from a lengthy visit to the Mediterranean, may head for the U. of Michigan Business School this fall.
Along with a fleet of Navy "Contract" officers Barry Levin walked off the quarterdeck of his vessel for the last time this month. Barry was assistant legal and radio officer on the USS Des Moines.
Lt. Steve Mullins, nestled contentedly in a four-room apartment, of which he is sole custodian, in Baumholder, Germany, plans to ease out Of the Army this summer and tour Scandinavia and Great Britain. If he can break away from the German malt nutriment, he says he may spend a few months at the U. of Paris.
While poking through a Thursday night crowd at the Little Creek, Va., Officers' Club we stumbled upon Army Lts. Larry Russell and Charlie Gruning. Larry is stationed in Norfolk temporarily, and Charlie, who was railing the Navy for giving him a speedingticket on the base, was on pass from the Brooklyn Army Terminal, N. Y. The ticket, we expect, went unattended to.
Larry, recently engaged to Marilyn Eadie of San Bernardino, Calif., informed us that MikeCorcoran is at the U. of Michigan Business School and was an attendant at February's Winter Carnival, where he and a few of the boys demolished the back of his new car.
Larry saw Hal Conarro, Bob Vorsanger,Bob Sokolski and Perry Davis in New York City. Sock, a Marine Lt., is back from Korea; Hal, after twice being locked in a bank vault, escaped from his Federal Reserve inspector's job; and Bob was easing into things after a relapse in a case of mononucleosis. Seems the first time he celebrated his recovery, he went at it with such fervor that he had to return to his bed. He is now out on "good behavior."
ALTARATIONS.... On the betrothal list this month is Nancy Naugle of Farmingdale, N. Y., and Green Mountain and AlTirrell USA. Al's at Fort Meyer in Arlington, Va. Donna Beauchaine of Laconia, N. H., announced her engagement to Bob McGrath in March, and Susan Bejosa of New York City and Conn. College was betrothed to Yale Medical student Bill Gould in March.
Walking down the aisle in March were Marty Siegel and Estelle Weinstein of Brooklyn and Hunter College, and on the 16th of this month in Evanston, Ill., Jane Miller, a Smithie and sister of Jim Miller, will marry Reul Smith. Reul is now at Fort Slocum, N. Y.
In this month's bassinet is Peter Laurence Dame, 5-pound, 7-ounce tax deduction of Dave and Marie Dame. Peter was born March 28.
STUMPING.... B.U. law student GeorgeMcLaughlin tossed his hat into the political arena several months ago by announcing his candidacy for Democratic State Committeeman from Cambridge, Mass.
Pete Gunas was a guest speaker at the intercollegiate Christian Fellowship meeting in Enfield, N. H., in April.
Picking up where The Dartmouth left off, The Pontiac Press of Pontiac, Mich., signed Bud Martz to its reporting staff. Another news-paperman is Dick May of the Burlingame (Calif.) Advance-Star.
With Price-Waterhouse & Co. in New York City is Joe Keenan, and partner in the United Audit Co. in the same metropolis is DaveMandelbaum.
Real estate salesman tor the Williams & Co., Inc., of New York City is George Robinson and assistant real estate manager for Cities Service Oil Co. in Boston, Mass., is Chuck (formerly Meyeserian) Myserian.
Norm Ross is with State Mutual Life Assurance Co. in Worcester, Mass., and JohnTenca is agent for Mutual of Omaha in Jamaica, N. Y. In Denver, Colo., Western Division office manager for the Minneapolis-Moline Co. is Paul Wisdom, and assistant manager of the Colonial Manor Motel on the Rockville Pike in Rockville, Md., is HankOffterdinger.
Dick McLean of Livermore, Calif., is employed as junior physicist at the U. of California Radiological Laboratory, and Ray McPhee of Fairless Hills, N. J., slipped out of the Army and into the news-editorship of Station WTTM in Trenton, N. J.
On the payroll of the Ohio Oil Co. is refinery engineer John Scoville, and hopping in with the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co. of St. Paul, Minn., is Pete Ankeny. At Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Va., is BobCanestrari.
Closing up school for the summer vacation are Charlie Davis, working for his Master's degree in Hospital Administration at the University of Iowa; Hsung-Cheng Hsien, working for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford; Bruce LaFollette, studying med at the Colorado U. Medical School; Dave Lee at the Harvard Medical School; John Moran at Cornell Medical School; Bob Vovk at Harvard Law; Don Wagner in Department of City Planning at the U. of Pennsylvania; and PhilTabor, a probationary monastic student of the Vedanta Society of Southern California Ramakinshna Monastery in Trabuco Canyon, Calif.
We'll be back again in October. In the meantime we wish everyone a pleasant summer; and before winding up this month's accounts, make sure your Alumni Fund gift is on the way to Crosby Hall.
Congratulations are exchanged by James S. Miller '54 (l) and Thomas D. Sayles Jr. '54, second lieutenants in the Air Force, who were recently awarded Aircraft Observer wings at James Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Texas.
2nd Lt. Robert T. Collimore '54 was awardedAircraft Observer wings at the James Connally Air Force Base, after a 42-week airborneradar observer course.
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