1954
New England turned on one of her most brilliant displays of autumnal foliage this year, and I hope the lure of the gridiron, business, or a prodding wife enabled many of you to see the fall emblazonries.
Not unlike the falling leaf came Lt. Bob Daly out of the Minnesota sky in September. Bob fell right onto the front page of the Duluth Herald, his parachute atop him. Seems the Air Force pilot's jet fighter lost power and, aiming the craft toward an un inhabited swamp, Bob took to the 'chute. Fortunately, the only damages sustained were those to the "multi-million-dollar aircraft."
The exhilaration of a parachute leap was nothing. A week earlier Bob had taken a bigger plunge. His engagement to Ellen Mullaney of Boston's Katharine Gibbs School and Bob's home town of Concord, Mass., had been announced.
Another Concord engagement was forthcoming, this one from California. Nancy Kistner and John Schreiber, who is at the Cornell School of Business and Public Administration, were affianced in July.
Also on the betrothal list are John Blum and Debra Ackerman of Maplewood, N. J., and Barnard College. John is completing his med studies at Bellevue Medical Center. Lt.Bruce Haertl and Tonya Buzzi of Monticello College and Eastborough, Kan., made betrothal announcements as did Art Keleher and Margarena Tyler, a Skidmorian from Waterville, N. Y. Bruce is at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., and Art is with Scott Paper, though we don't know where.
We do know where Pat and Hap Winslow of Saugus, Mass., the Sam Trocks from New York City, Dr. Jerry Pearlman out of Boston, Mort Galper from Haverhill, Mass., and Chestnut Hill's Dick Gorsey were for a few days in September. All were spied lounging in the lobby of the Hanover Inn.
In mid-June this year Harvard announced quite a string of graduate degrees to '54s. Among them were Bachelor of Law Degrees to Don Berlin, Herb Gidansky, Milne Holton, Ron Lehrman, and Bob Vovk. Also into the professions went Medical Doctors DonBrief, Ben Gilson, John Herrman, EdHorton, Ed Kieger, Dave Lee, Bob Oneal, Chuck Tannenbaum, Lloyd Tepper, Frank Weiser and John Crowe. Dave is interning at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md.
Bayard Johnson and Chuck Reed received Masters in Harvard's School of Business Administration, and recipient of an M.A. in Public Administration was Jon Moore.
The AMA gathered a whole new phalanx of sawbones from other sources. Bob Bastian, who took his M.D. award at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa., moved on to Williamsport Hospital in the same State to do his internship.
At the New York Hospital, after receiving his Degree from Cornell, is intern Burt Onofrio, and following graduation Neil Citron moved into that College's Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N. Y., for his interning. Eugene Aronow and wife, Lee, will be in New York City while he interns at Mount Sinai Hospital. Gene received his Degree at Northwestern.
Back to the legal beagles-George Graboys pulled his June diploma from the U. of Pennsylvania's Law School, and Herbie Jacobs took his at New York University. A Master's Degree was conferred upon Chuck Davis at the U. of lowa last June.
Service men and military expatriates are flashing about like earth satellites these days. Lt. Jim Mannion has decided to make the Air Force a career proposition. Jim was sworn into the regular Air Force in August. He is now stationed at Otis AFB, Mass.
Way back in April we heard where Bob and Barb Boyd were in Kingsville, Tex., while the Marine lieutenant polished off the final phase of fighter and attack training, flying the Panther jet. Lt. Bob Oxford received a letter of commendation before he was separated from the Army in Aberdeen, Md. Again way back, we heard that Lt. BillFox, USAF, was up to Orleans, Mass., for a visit home from duty at Seymour-Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, N. C.
Inflation made tricks or treats a lot easier this year, and a few of the clan profited. In the Skowhegan news column of the Waterville, Me., Sentinel we noted the addition of Tom Morton to the faculty of North Elementary School in Skowhegan. The beauty of linguistic versatility was brandished in the paper's description of Tom's previous training. Having in actuality progressed from one of Hanover's leading "kegmen" to an Army "tankman," Tom's previous experience was euphemistically burnished to read, "practice classroom and field teaching in the U. S. Army."
Speaking of the linguistic-in Townshend, Vt., Bob Wheeler, a Putneyite himself with an M.A. from the U. of Massachusetts, commenced classes in English and French at the Leland & Gray Seminary, where he is a member of the teaching staff. Over at Durham, N. H., Gerry O'Neil, who had distinguished himself as an All-Yankee Conference end in 1954 at the U. of New Hampshire, returned in September for graduate work.
Among the employed are Dick Jennison and family, who are in Dallas, Tex., after Dick's Army discharge, and Bill Pierce, an engineer on the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Dover, N. J. A case writer in the Army Logistics Management Center at Fort Lee, Va., is Sp3 Maryn Oudheusden.
If you're after Pete Kenyon, he's with the personnnel department of the Grand Union Co. in East Paterson, N. J., or if you are looking for John Milnor check in Cheektowaga, N. Y., with Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc.
While working folk like to think of themselves as being busy, we'll tell you of one tribesman who is really occupied. Lt. Don and Freda Hill who at government expense, you may recall, were raising a lot of "little Hills" down on Luke AFB in Glendale, Ariz., added another to the fold on September 7, a daughter, Laura Marie. She was the Hills' fourth successive female addition. Can anyone top that 'un?
Three steps behind the Hills are Ron and Eileen Gold in Cleveland, Ohio. Their first child, a daughter, Kathy Anne, arrived on July 19. Ronnie passed his Ohio State Bar examination shortly after his graduation from Western Reserve University last June.
Way behind either of these two families are our recently-weds, who include Patricia Witty of New York City and John Freund, married on April 13. A week earlier Sheila Ferguson of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Briarcliff and Ed Hobbie recited marriage vows.
In June, altar-goers included Cynthia Basden of Willimantic, Conn., and Barnard College and Bill Madden. Bill's at Rutgers Law. In the same month Jim Rill sealed a permanent nuptial contract with Betsy Laws of Washington, D. C. Jim is at Harvard Law. A week later, the twenty-second, Scotty Rambach and Anne Kingman were at the hitching post. Anne is from Worcester, Mass., and Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Scotty is at Cornell Business School.
On July 6, Jane Britton slipped the nuptial noose over Harvard Lawman Bob Buchanan. Jane is a Wellesleyite from Windsor, Conn. That very same day Gordy Nichols hit the dust when he linked matrimonial forces with Nancy Boyd of the U. of Washington.
A scholarship to the U. of Otago in New Zealand can yield more than academics as was evidenced by the fact that the scholarship winner, Pete Robinson, took Wellington, New Zealand's Arija Stuberovskis as his bride June 1.
Nancy Clark from Augusta, Me., took Paul Tibbetts into permanent custody. Paul, having completed his tour in the Army, returned to finish his schooling at the U. of Maine. Coming back from Army duty in Germany last month with his bride, the former Inge Sauer, was Hugh Roberts. Hugh and Inge were married in July.
At Boston University your correspondent happily located one of our members and wife, George and Mary (Crowley) Brooks. Mary is from Springfield, Mass., and the Rhode Island School of Design. George finished his Army stint and returned to receive his diploma in Hanover last June. Now, like this writer, he is working in conjunction with the African studies program at Boston.
The Brookses have been angling toward the Plain now and then and with good results. Hope some more of you get the same opportunity. At any rate drop us a line so's we can stay in business.
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