1954

Secretary, 56 Ring St., Putnam, Conn.

Treasurer, 251 Crestview Rd., Southern Pines, N. C.

This month we begin with a recap of several personal encounters. Before leaving London in July we stopped by the American Express to check the register and found the barely legible scrawl of Dick Page, who was on his way to Paris as a summer management trainee for the Society of Chemical Manufacturers. This fall Dick returns to resume his role as student at Columbia Law.

At a nearby information window was a familiar physiognomy - that of Joe Lowe (originally Lowenthal). Joe was making the Grand Tour in between sessions of the Columbia biz school, where he is this fall.

Gary Zwart was over a few weeks earlier, having arranged a fee-less leave with military transport. But the salvaged funds burned such a hole that Gary ended up procuring a Volkswagen for himself.

The explanation for "Hazqui's" vicious and uncalled for assaults on the sanctity of bachelorhood was evinced on June 15 when editor (and apostate) Jon Moore deserted the individualist's ranks to take Katie Andres of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Smith as his bride. Best-manning was Pete Geithner while a regiment including Dean Berry, Pete Bullis,Charlie Morrison, Chuck Ennis, Jack Christy, and Skip Weymouth handled the ushering.

A week later the Moores were on the way to Bombay, India, where Jon is working with the U. S. Information Agency. Lee Huff, who is in England studying Britain's peacetime use of atomic energy, Volkswagened out to the London airport in time to squire the Moores onto a plane for Paris.

Later in the summer we encountered MarcSickel in front of Columbia University's Hamilton Hall. Uncle Sam willing, Marc planned to solicit an employer who would send him to South America, where he might put his recently acquired International Relations Master's Degree into practice.

That same evening we found Tom Corcoran, barely recognizable without his ski togs, just outside his residence at the Dartmouth Club of New York City. Tom is training in investment banking with Hayden, Stone & Co. in the metropolis.

A solid group of 'Fifty-fours skipped work to take in the Dartmouth Convocation on Great Issues in the Anglo-Canadian-American Community last month. Among those on the plain were Dan Neiditz, up from Hartford, Conn., where he is handling the insurance end of a real estate endeavor with M. J. Neiditz & Co., and Dan Weidenthal, who has resumed his medical studies at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, O.

Sporting a dark Virginia Beach tan, Lt. jg.Pete Geithner flew in for a few days' respite from duties at the naval air base at Oceana near Norfolk, Va. Walt Clarkson put in an appearance, which wasn't very much of a strain as he is currently serving as assistant to Dean Art Kiendel. Vic Mahler stopped by prior to his return to Cambridge for the fall session of Harvard's School of Architecture.

Sinny Hitchings sneaked in occasionally for parts of the ceremonies while pursuing his duties as representative for the Steinhour Press of Lunenburg, Vt. Hitch is also making a collection of the Ledyard letters which he will publish in the future. Dave Sices was about, having taken up duties as an instructor in the College's French Department.

Also scattered throughout the crowd were Mort Heafitz, Peter Dwight, Don McCuaig and Bill Bullen. Bill is now at Tuck. We probably missed others who attended, unfortunately. Sorry more of you couldn't have made it. It was an extremely impressive and rewarding program, refreshing to be back in Hanover and stimulating to try your hand once again at a Great Issue.

That's all our first-hand news. Next, to catch up on some second-hand material and a bit of hearsay. An info-ladened epistle from Bob Berry was received back in May. After bidding bye-bye to Uncle Sam and Berlin, Germany, where he was stationed with the Army, Bob slipped into a sales department slot with Thomas & Betts in Elizabeth, N. J. He'll be there until next spring. Then it's out on the open road and parts unknown. Bob reports seeing George and Anne Voss with youngsters, Cheryl and Brad, as well as Bob and Barb Boyd and son Stuart.

At that time (May) Jack Feldman was still handling the funds at the Howard Savings Bank in Newark, N. J.: Bud Addis was back from the Army in Germany; Ken and SuzieZwiener and son David were residing in Evanston, Ill., where Ken is in the oil business and Bob and Sally Sokolski had thrown a blast in their Queens apartment which attracted such all-nighters as Hal and MaryConarro, Ed Berg, Bob Vorsanger, Mike Corcoran and Perry Davis. Bob is at Michigan Law.

Perry, by the way, added a sidecar to his motorcycle on July 3, when he and Lou Ellen Orr rode down to see the parson in Bartlesville, Okla., where they were married. Perry is destined to face some pretty stiff business competition as Lou Ellen is a Broadway actress and a potential authoress.

Gerry Bregman, another one of those metropolitan carpetbaggers, switched his affiliations from Goldman, Sacks & Co. to Reynolds & Co. in the Chrysler Building, where he will be a sales trainee in the security department.

After departure from the Air Force in Florida last June Tom Birgit and son PeterMyers forded the Atlantic for a summer of rest and relaxation in Sweden, Birgit's homeland. They were back this fall in time for Tom to start classes at Harvard Business School.

As the servicemen begin to evacuate, our working class is beginning to increase. Briefly we'll reveal that Chuck Myserian, wife and two children are with the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston, Mass., that Bob Mower has been promoted to account executive with Eddy-Rucker-Nickels Co. of Cambridge, Mass., and that John Donahue, wife Antoinette and son Jon moved on to Hyannis, Mass., where John has accepted a teaching post at Barnstable High School. John will also coach football and baseball.

Dave Ellms was appointed assistant to the Rector at Christ Episcopal Church at Leominster, Mass. Dave attended the Episcopal Theological School after Dartmouth. Real estate editor of the Van Nuys (Calif.,) News is Don Fetherolf, and with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Springfield, Mass., is Perry Weston.

There were a flood of marriage licenses out this summer, and it'll take us several months to get them all to you. Here's the beginning. In Philadelphia, Pa., August 10, Ltjg. DanaLow USNR and Anne Esheiman met at the altar. Anne's a Smithie. On June 22 in Baltimore, Md., Lt. Howdy Russell, USAF and Margaret Hunter took their vows, and on August 17, Kathryn Kirkland became the bride of Dean Berry in Owensboro, Ky.

Before shoving off for Georgetown Dental School Tommy Thompson and bride Prudence Jackson of Palos Verdes, Calif., made a brief invasion of the Cape. The Thompsons were married July 25. Al Edmundson was seating guests when Lloyd Tepper and Kathryn Leverage of Seaford, Del., and Vassar tied the marriage knot June 2. The Teppers are living in San Francisco, Calif. In Katonah, N. Y., on June 22 Tom Harrington and Margaret Taube walked the last mile together. Margaret is a Tufts grad.

In the engagement column last April were Helen Bundonis of Moore Institute and Ens. Tom Malcolm. Debra" Koff of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Mt. Holyoke fastened the be- trothal coupling to vice-president of Springfield's Keystone Plumbing Supply Co., NedFreedman in May.

Smithie Lois Wolpert of Fall River, Mass., announced her betrothal to George Graboys in June. George was at Penn. Law School. National Airline's hostess Betty Lester buzzed Marine pilot Irv Sherwood into submission. They were engaged last July, when Irv was stationed in Miami, Fla.

In the baby carriage is Richard Carter Eaton, born May 31 to Dick and NancyEaton. Hitting the bottle at Alan and SandyWeissman's is son Michael Hugh. Mike was born on June 4. Alan is a Stony Brook, L. I. house builder. Lt. Jack and Jean Godfrey announced the birth of "leur fille" Mary Kristen, born in Paris on May 8. Jack is a career Marine officer now stationed there. Two days later one of the female variety, Wendy Bel, arrived for Lt. Dave and JudyMcLaughlin, USAF, who are in Great Falls, Mont.