1955

Secretary, Box 871, Bryan AFB Bryan, Tex.

Treasurer, Ship's Office, USS Yosemite, AD-19 Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y.

Two days ago, Pilot Training Class 57-T - alias of world renowned Hondo by the Sea - had its first annual get-together here at Bryan, and John Demas and myself got a chance to "reunion it up" a little. "Greek" just completed the basic multi-engine course at Goodfellow AFB at San Angelo, and will report to Warner-Robins AFB in Macon. Ga., September 13- John will be flying C-124's for the Air Materiel Command — a sort of "Around the World in So Ways" deal. As for your scribe, he will proceed to Craig, Ala., for Basic Instructors School and thence to Bryan to complete his military obligation as an instructor in the T-33.

Like Will Rogers, almost everything I know, I read in the newspaper, but there were a few pen-faithful fifty-fives who sent a line or two this way over the summer months. Joe Herring wrote from Germany where he put in his tour as a Lt. in the Army. Joe was lucky enough to spend some time in England, Germany and France as an "escort officer" for 23 American college students — intertainers known as the "Kids from Home." He traveled through Paris, Heidelberg, Cologne and London during their tour, and while in the British Isles, ran into Tom Januzzi who's studying at the London School of Economics. Joe has also served as an interpreter-liaison officer between the American and German staff officers. He will leave the ranks of bachelorhood this month when he marries Pat Jacobson of Radcliffe and will begin studying theology shortly afterwards at McGill U. in Montreal.

Dick Hopkins has completed his six-months tour at Aberdeen, and is now back at Warner-Swazey in Cleveland. He's a salestrainee there, and will soon be "on the road." (If anyone's in the market for a turret lathe be sure and give him a ring!) Dick and his wife Martha are now living in Cleveland Heights, but expect to be transferred as soon as he completes the program.

Tom Roulston and his wife Lois send news from Alaska of a new resident in the Roulston Igloo. Scott Davies, a nine-pound, eightouncer arrived on the chilly scene last July 30. (This is probably about as good a time to arrive as any if you're going to arrive in Alaska.)

Ken Harvey and Virginia Ann Doerr of Rochester were married this summer at a ceremony in that metropolis. After a wedding trip to the Adirondacks, Ken and Virginia settled in Rochester where he's currently employed by the Haloid Company. Lt. (jg) Ed Chapman married Mary Tewksbury of Derry, N. H., in a September ceremony. Mary is a member of the Wellesley Class of '57.

Eliot Smith married Patricial Mullen of Winchester, Mass. The June bride is a '96 graduate of Middlebury College. LarryBlades and Beverly Jones were married in the Church of Christ in Hanover last May. Beverly's a junior at Skidmore, and will accompany Larry next year when he enters the University of Michigan for graduate work.

Lt. Thomas T. (Tuck) Creamer married Christiana Fey Pinay of Honolulu this past June. Tuck is on duty at the Naval Air Station in Honolulu as a member of the Marine Air-Ground Forces. Christiana, whose mother is a native of France, completed her schooling there and in Hawaii. Tuck finishes his tour of duty August i, and is planning to return to New York where he and Christiana will make their home.

Dick Reading was married to Martha Ann Seward of Jamestown, N. Y. Martha Ann is a grad of Katherine Gibbs of Boston and Bradford Junior College. Dick and Martha Ann will live in Panama City, Fla., where he's stationed at Tyndal AFB.

Phil Reilly and Joan Murphy were married late this past summer. Joan is a graduate of the Rhode Island College of Education, and Phil is now in his third year at Boston University's Medical School.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the setting for Horton Conrad's marriage to Georgia Slocum. Georgia's a graduate of the Wyoming Seminar and Wellesley College. Horton has completed graduate work at M.I.T. and the University of Texas and has served his tour as a Lt. in the Army. Jim Cavanaugh married Linda White of Green Mountain Jr. College in a ceremony held at Norfolk, Mass. After the wedding Jim and Linda headed west for Kansas City where he's employed in the Electronics Division of General Electric.

"Brooks" Barrett and Carolee Jahn were married in Pittsburgh this past July. Brooks and Carolee, a native of Fairfield, Conn., and a Pine Manor graduate settled in Fairfield after a wedding trip to the Virgin Islands. Dick Le Boeuf and Clarita Coudon are engaged to be married this autumn. Clarita, who studied at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, is a native of Port Deposit, Md. Dick graduated from the University of Southern California last year.

Now for a few miscellaneous bits of information about fifty-fivers here and thar'. First let me give a verbal recreation of a picture recently seen in the Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Argus. Picture, if you can, white sands running into turquoise waters with Bermuda's famous Elbow Beach Surf Club in the background. In the foreground, picture two young "lovelies" of no mean proportions tossing the ever-present beach-ball with none other than Leo H. (Deals) Bombard - occasionally known as "Bud." Bud, who's currently stationed at Laredo, Tex., in the basic pilot training program was on the Island to participate in the Prince of Wales Trophy yachting series. The results of the races are unavailable at present, but obviously, the trip was not in vain - regardless of their outcome.

Drifting silently away from our tropical isle, we turn our heads toward that fortress of learning along the Charles River where several Dartmouths of fifty-five are continuing their studies in one field or another. Joe Eigner studying Chemistry at Haavud, has just been elected to an associate membership in Sigma Xi, a national honorary fraternity of science. Also in Crimson territory, Dick and Bill Blanchard and Jim Smith received their MBA's from Harvard "B" school last June. A little farther to the south in the Ivy Circuit, Dick Dwyer received his Master's in Public.Affairs at Princeton.

Al Van Huyck received a Sears-Roebuck Foundation Fellowship for study in city planning at the University of North Carolina. Al completed his service commitment this September and plans to enter the University in the fall term. Ted Voorhees was graduated from West Point with the Class of '57 this past June. Ted went to the "Point" after completing his freshman year at Dartmouth.