1954

"Bah! Humbug! ... What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer. ..."

Bearing these sentiments with us, sirs, let us go into the counting-house, shut the door and catch up on the December news. First, we'll make a detour back to Fifty-four at the Harvard game.

Your correspondent was sorry not to have seen more of our members, for there were undoubtedly quite a number on hand to watch the Green give John Harvard a pleasant 26-0 drubbing. Through our limited scope we detected several of our tribe in various stages of participation in the contest. Leaning precariously over the end zone barrier was Bob Clark, equipped with date and fresh up from Hartford, Conn., where he is laboring for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. A little higher up in the stands sat Mike Messore. Barry Levin, currently in second year Boston University Law, was in the cheering section as were the Frank Denietolises and Bob Kenney. Finally, we exchanged quick hellos with Lo-yi Chan. Lo, now attending the Harvard graduate school of design, was married in September to Mildred Wu Wong, a grad of Our Lady of the Lake College in her home town of San Antonio, Texas.

A few weeks earlier we had seen PeteYates, working for Travelers Insurance in Boston, flagging taxi cabs on a dark Hub thoroughfare.

"Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone... a squeezing, wrenching, grasping scraping. ..."

I'm sure you recognize the students. Among their lot this month we have StuStearns, whom your scribe and fellow-student George Brooks caught in a Commonwealth Avenue hash-house. Stu is heeling for education credits at Boston University. He plans to turn to the teaching trade next year. Similarly inclined, but already in the profession, is Bob Kenney, whom we mentioned seeing at the Harvard game. Bob is teaching mathematics at the Holderness School in Plymouth N. H.

Ted Novascone is wielding the post-graduate quill. He's at the Columbia Business School in New York City. While Ray Wolff picks over anatomic bones at the Washington University school of medicine in St. Louis, Mo., Len Beller, in the same state, practices the fine art of bone-wrenching at the Kansas City school of osteopathy and surgery. At Rutgers school of law in Newark, N. J., is student Bill Madden. It'll be a summer Yule for Don Wagner, who is on a Fulbright for a year with the department of town and country planning at the University of Sydney in Australia.

"Are there no prisons ?... And the Union workhouses. ... The Treadmills and the Poor Law are in full vigor, then?"

Aye, sire, there are these... in the military. Taking a jump up to first lieutenantat the ordnance guided missile school atHuntsville, Ala., early this year was Bob McKeever. The Port Chester Item said thatBob was a graduate of "Amostuck" school ofbusiness administration in Hanover. BruceLaFollette, now an M.D., is at the MadiganArmy Hospital, Fort Lewis, Wash., and atLaredo AFB, Texas, is Lt. John Baron, assistant maintenance control officer.

Both Lt. Larry McCurdy and Dalt DuLachave Army post office addresses out of NewYork City, but we don't know exactly wherethey are. On the other side of the continentis Lt. Clif Hayes, working with a search andrescue coordination group at Honolulu, Hawaii. Army reconnaissance officer Ed Hobbieis situated at Fort Devens, Mass., and Lt.Joel Poorman is with the Marines in NewYork City.

"The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond ... was copying letters."

There are now quite a number of thesepoor wretched working folk these days. Actually in the counting-house of the Scott Paper Co. in Sandusky, Ohio, is assistant plant accountant Bob Dean. A shocking addition to the Bryant Electric Co., a Westinghouse subsidiary in Bridgeport, Conn., is manufacturing engineer Charlie Acker.

Another star in the East has attracted a satellite. Last summer the East Hampton (Long Island, N. Y.) Star was joined by Ev Rattray, who along with his editress mother will run the family paper. Ev moved into the Columbia school of journalism this fall. After graduation he'll be back with the Star. Dave Martin was reportedly at the Columbia school of journalism too.

Also taking a day-off from the job this Christmas ("a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December") will be Mike Corcoran, research assistant for the Continental Oil Co. in Houston, Texas, and Larry Chase, a chemist in his home town of Littleton, N. H. Interviewer and staff assistant George Haskins at the Eastman Savings & Loan Association in Rochester, N. Y., will sneak a few days' vacation around the Yule season as will Eastman Kodak's industrial engineer Dean Hildebrandt, also of Rochester, N. Y.

The seasonal shopping surge should be a boon to Dick Lederer, assistant buyer of men's furnishings at Bloomingdales' in New York City, and Phil Pendleton, furniture salesman for the Hamilton Shops in Branford, Conn. By thoughtless inversion we came to believe that Bob Price was "anchorhocking" (a rare profession indeed) in New York City. However, the truth is that Bob is with the Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. as a salesman.

Brandishing a deadly dental drill at his office in West Hartford, Conn., is Dr. Bill Downes; flashing a surgeon's scalpel at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., is Dr. Chuck Tannenbaum. At the Boston City Hospital in the Hub is Dr. Frank Weiser. Another professional man with Richard, Layton & Finger in Wilmington, Del., is lawyer Norm Veasey.

A Christmas bonus this month will come from the Royal-Globe Insurance group of New York City to special risk underwriter Bob Clements and from the Federal Textile Corp. of New Haven, Conn., to salesman Jerry Goldstein. Alex Gray is probably in line to catch a rake-off from Pan American World Airways; he's in their sales training program in New York City.

This rapidly rising tide of employment is destined, it seems, to increase rather than "decrease the surplus population." The new additions to Fifty-four's family include Carol Craven, a Wellesleyite from Cohasset, Mass., who tossed the marriage loop around Air Force escapee Harry Robinson on September 7. On hand to render honors were Gary Zwart, Dix Bain and Dave Dame. A week later Steve Smith, who had earlier taken a gander at Barbara Drake of Bradford Jr., met Barbara at the altar in Chatham, Mass.

Harvard lawman Charlie Morrison won his case with Frances Hall of Pine Manor and Jamestown, N. Y., in September as witnessed by best man Pete Bullis and usher Hap Winslow. Eugenia Nicholson will be around the Christmas tree with George Corbett this month. Eugenia, a grad of Mount St. Mary's Academy from Norwood, Mass., and Corky were married September 14. Under the mistletoe with Chicago med student Art Geller is Toby Rader. Toby, a West Orange, N. J., and Roosevelt U. of Chicago grad, and Art were married on August 31.

That's all we could learn from the Spirits of Christmases Past and Present. Next month, we'll begin with the Christmases Yet to Come. In the meantime, season's greetings!

1954 Fund, Contributors

510 Gifts (Participation Index 82) Total Gifts: $5,382.59 (107% of Objective) KEVIN I. SULLIVAN, Class Agent

Abbey, Edward F. Acker, Charles E., Jr. Adams, T. James Addison, Colborn M. Adnopoz, Robert Alpert, Fredric Anderson, Walter E. Ankeny, DeWalt H., Jr. Armstrong, Richard E. Aronow, Eugene M. Aronson, Howard A. Austermann, Donald J. Bain, L. Dixon, Jr. Baird, Reed M. Bander, Norman R. Barker, Richard D. Barker, William G., Jr. Baron, John C. Bartlett, David B. Barton, Jerome Bassett, Robert D. Bastian, Bryce F. Bates, Herbert F., Jr. Bean, Robert H. Belcher, Donald W. Beller, Leonard B. Benjamin, Russell P. Berg, Edward H. Bergesen, John M. Berlin, Donald L. Berno, William H. Berry, Dean F. Berry, Robert V. Berwick, Donald C. Bialosky, Alan M. Biggs, Michael H. Blacksher, David W., Jr. Blum, John A. Bonneville, William W. Borden, Bradford P. Bowden, Benjamin J. Bowers, James W. Brace, Richard G. Brackley, A. Lewis, Jr. Bradley, Homer S., Jr. Bregman, Gerald M. Brief, Donald K. Briggs, David G. Briggs, William M. Brooks, F. B., Jr. Brooks, George E., Jr. Bryan, Wilfred B., Jr. Buchanan, Robert M. Buffington, John W. Buffington, Richard L. Bugbee, Stuart J., Jr. Bullis, Peter E. Caldwell, Peter R. B. Canestrari, R. E., Jr. Carey, Frank J., Jr. Carroll, James C. Cary, Russell S., Jr. Case, Lucien H. Caswell, Francis P. Chaikin, Lionel E. Chan, Lo-Yi C. Y. Chandler, James J. Chase, Laurence C. Chase, Samuel B., II. Christophe, Philip A. Christy, John G. Citron, Neil N. Clark, James N. Clark, Prescott M. Clark, Robert C. Clark, Stanley P., Jr. Clarke, Thomas K., Clarkson, Walter L., Jr. Classon, Bruce D. Clements, Robert Coffin, Roy R., Jr. Cohn, William M. Coit, Rodney D.1 Colby, James G. Collimore, Robert T. Collins, Richard J. Collins, Robert O. Conarro, Harry W., Jr. Conlin, James E. Conrad, James L., Jr. Conway, John P. Cooke, Phillips C. Cooley, Arthur L. Corbett, George W., Jr. Corcoran, L. Michael Corcoran, Thomas A. Corwin, Raymond S. Cox, Barry H. Cunningham, John W. Curtis, Robert P. Dabney, John P. Dahl, Ernest W. Daley, William F. Dalton, Paul Dame, David A. Danforth, Richard S. Davidoff, Richard S. Davidson, James S. Davis, Charles G., Jr. Davis, Joseph L., Jr. Davis, Perry J., Jr. Davis, Peter L. Dean, Robert M., III Deaner, Richard M. Denietolis, Frank DesCombes, D. R., Jr. Destino, Ralph R., Jr. Dickerson, Charles S. Dingman, C. Wesley, II Dodge, Douglas W. Dougherty, Ronald W. Drawbaugh, Robert E. Dulac, Dalton D. Dunton, Ronald K. Durham, Robert B., Jr. Dwight, Peter H. Dyche, David B., Jr. Dyke, Gibson V. Eaton, Richard W. Edmundson, A. B., Jr. Edwards, Peter H. Ellms, David P. Engel, Jay G., Jr. Engelhardt, Rolf A. Evans, Clifford S., Jr. Everett, Edward F. Fairfield, John M. Farrell, Neal J. Fast, Stephen H. Feakes, Clifford R. Feldman, John J. Felter, John F. Fenn, John E. Fetherolf, Donald M. Finigan, Michael M. Fisher, James M. Fitch, David H. Fitzgerald, George R. Flathman, Gerald M., Jr. Fletcher, George D. Fowler, Richard Fox, William H. Franklin, Richard G. Freedman, Edward W. Freud, Raymond P. Freund, John H. Fuller, Edward L. Gahm, Paul K. Gale, Raymond N., Jr. Galper, Morton Garcia-Romero, F. J. Garland, William H. Garneau, George H. Gasteyer, T. H., II Gates, Richard C. Gaylord, Clinton R. Geithner, Peter F. Geller, Arthur J. Gentile, James J. Gidansky, Herbert L. Gillespie, John L. Gilman, Robert E. Gilmore, Roger Gilson, Benjamin J. Glasgow, Douglas A. Gleason, David M. Gluek, Robert K. Gmelin, William Jay2,3, 4 Godfrey, Edwin J. Gold, Ronald A. Goldstein, Jerome R. Gould, William M. Graboys, George Grady, James H., Jr. Grassey, Richard R. Gray, W. Alexander, Jr. Grebe, Henry L. Greenberg, Lyon M. Grey, Schuyler E. Grinton, A. Edward, III Grogan, David F. Grover, William A. Gruel, Grant J., Jr. Grundman, V. Rock, Jr. Gruning, Charles H., Jr. Gunas, Peter J., Jr. Guthrie, David B. Gutlon, Peter J. Haertl, E. Bruce Harrington, Thomas B. Harris, Arthur M. Harris, Harold C., Jr. Harris, Lee S., Ill Hartman, Frederic C. Hartnett, Walter G.5 Hartshorn, T. D., Jr. Haskins, George A. Hayes, Clifton E. Haynes, Rollin F. Heafitz, Morton H. Hendry, Neil A. Herrman, Irwin M. Herrmann, John B. Hessler, Hugh B., Jr. Heston, John C., Jr. Heyn, John J. Higbee, Robert W. Hildebrandt, F. D., Jr. Hill, Donn E. Hillman, Herbert J., Jr. Hitchcock, George H. Hitchings, Sinclair H. Hoban, Edward M. Hoeven, James A. Holton, W. Milne Hooper, Charles F., Jr. Hopkins, N. R., II6, 7 Horton, Edward S. Hoskins, Douglas Hsieh, Hsung-Cheng Huff, Lee W. . Hume, George A., III Itabashi, Masao J. Jacobs, Myles L. Jameson, John B. Jarrett, Edwin B., Jr. Jennison, Richard P. Johnson, C. Bayard, Jr. Johnson, Peter T. Johnson, Ray B., Jr. Kaiser, Philip W., Jr. Kasparson, Norman L. Kass, William A. Keleher, Arthur M. Keller, Donald M. Kelley, Lawrence G., Jr. Kelsey, Thomas V. A. Kenney, Robert W. Kenyon, Peter M. Ketelhut, Dwight H. Kidd, Edmund L. Kieger, Edward F., II Kingsley, George M., Jr. Kirby, Murray E. D. Klineman, Kent M. Klippi, Stanley E. Kolbe, Richard L. Kong, Thomas Q. KorjefF, Michael G. Kossove, Anthony B. Kramer, Milton S.8, 9, 10' 11, 32, 33, 14, 35, 36 Kramer, Mitchell A. Krimm, Richard W. Kvalnes, D. Lee LaFollette, Bruce F. Lane, Leman G., II Lasky, Joel D. Lee. T. David, Jr. Leffler, Walter H. Levin, Barry M. Levine, David B. Levine, I. Robert Levy, Robert G. Lewin, David H. Lewis, Carlisle C., Jr. Lewis, Richard D. Liebman, Peter T. Lindenauer, Martin Loew, Joseph B. Love, James R. Low, Dana E.. Lukeman, Anthony Lyle, Brooks W. Lynch, Hilary G. Lvon, David B. McAllister, Bruce D. McCarthy, Daniel J. McCarthy, T. J., Jr. McCartney, Robert R. McConnon, Thomas J. McCurdy, L. T., Jr. McGrath, Robert H. McHugh, Edward D. McKeever, Robert W. McLaughlin, David T. McLaughlin, G. A., Jr. McShane, Robert A. Mahler, Victor C. Major, Richard, III Maicolm, Thomas O. Maltzoff, Serge Mamlet, Laurence N. Mandelbaum, David J. Mannion, James J. Mansfield, W. H., III Margolis, Aaron N. Marrs, Robert S. Martin, Charles W. Martin, David K. Martin, Donald W. Martin, Robert A. Martin, Stearns L. Martz, Lawrence S., Jr. Marx, Michael Matheson, Bruce May, Edward L. May, John D. Meltzer, Donald R. Mesics, Joseph E. Messore, M. B., Jr. Metcalf, F. Mead Meyer, J. Kenneth Migely, Joseph G. Migliaccio, Anthony J. Milkey, Lewis H. Miller, James S. Miller, Richard E. Milnor, John C. Moderwell, John C. Moore, Jonathan Moran, John M. Morrison, Charles A. Morton, Thomas H. Mower, Robert E. Mullen, John W. Murane, William E. Murdoch, George F. Murphy, D. Clark Murphy, Everett A. Murphy, Leo C., Jr. Musa, John D. Myers, Thomas K. Myserian, Charles R. Nash, Lewis H. Neiditz, Daniel M. Nichols, Gordon A. Nimitz, George T. Nolin, Hugh T. Norcross, William D. Nova, Barry J. Novascone, Edwin H. Ober, William E. O'Connor, George W. Orchard, Robert W., Jr. Osmond, Robert W. Oudheusden, J. Maryn Oxford, Robert N., Jr. Page, Frederick W., III Page, Richard M. Pallatroni, Robert P. Papantones, Michael Parker, John, Jr. Pattee, Bruce A. Patterson, A. K., Jr. Payson, Michael H. Pearl, Richard A. Pearlman, Jerome T. Pemberton, John W. Pepin, William R. Perkins. Richard W., Jr. Peters, Seaver Petty, James W., III Picarelli, Joseph J. Pickett, Ronald M. Pierce, John K. Pierce, William L. Pitney, William N. Pitzner, Alfred G. Plummer, Richard W. Poorman, Joel S. Pope, John D. Pulley, Kenneth M. Putnam, Nelson B. Quinn, Edwin L. Rafelson, Robert J. Rambach, J. Scott Ransom, David P. Raphael, Richard E. Rattray, Everett T. Rauch, Arthur I. Reed, Charles M., Jr. Reed, David E. Reed, John A., Jr. Reilly, John F., Jr. Renner, John H. Rex, William E. Riggio, Robert R. Robbins, William T., Jr. Roberts, Duncan R. Roberts, Griffith M. Roberts, Hugh L., Jr. Robinson, George, Jr. Robinson, Henry 0., II Robinson, Peter Rockefeller, Harry C., Jr. Rockefeller, Rodman C. Rogers, William Rogin, Richard M. Rood, Christopher T. Roos, Peter E. Rosenberg, Stanley E. Rosenthal, Gary Ross, Norman T. Roth, Stuart C. Rowland, R. E., Jr. Roxborough, Howard K. Rubin, Richard C. Russell, Howland S. Russell, Lawrence B. Sayles, Thomas D., Jr. Schreiber, John S. Schurman, John P. Scoville, John A., Jr. Shaw, George G. Shelley, Richard H. Sherman, Herbert J. Sherwood, Irving F., Jr. Short, Theodore J. T. Shrader, E. Fenn. Sibley, David N. Sices, David Sickel, Marc F. Siegel, Martin R. Silmore, Stanton P. Silverberg, Robert I. Siqueland, Herman S. Sleigh, Robert C., Jr. Smith, Clyde C., II Smith, Douglas F. Smith, Gerald H., Jr. Smith, Jackson L. Smith, Ruel S., Jr. Smutnik, Joseph C., Jr. Snow, David F. Spears, Robert L. Spicer, Michael F. Staley, Alan A. Stead, James L. Stearns, Stewart P., Jr. Steinberg, Richard A. ' Stillman, Ronald M. Stumpf, Paul A. Sullivan, Alan R. Sullivan, John M. Sullivan, Kevin I. Sullivan, Paul R. Swanson, Donald A., Jr. Swartz, Philip K., Jr. Talbot, Geoffrey A. Tannenbaum, Charles S. Taylor, Donald P. Taylor, Horace F., III Tenca, John F. Tepper, Lloyd B. Terrill, Alan A. Thielscher, David R. Thompson, Ferris P. Tibbits, William H.11, 17 Tiihonen, Desmond J. Tirrell, Albert K. Titus, John W. Tofias, James B. Towle, John M. Townsend, Peter M. Trock, Samuel Trowbridge, Richard K. Tuck, John, Jr. Tucker, Ross M. Tumeniuk, Walter Tyler, Thomas L. vanAalst, Frank D. Van Hook, H. Jerrold Veasey, E. Norman Vorsanger, Robert M. Voss, George D. Wagner, Donald Wagner, Ronald Watt, Richard A. Weidenthal, Daniel T. Weinreb, Stephen L. Weintraub, Daniel J. Weiser, Frank M. Weissman, Alan R. Weldon, Theodore T., Jr. Werner, Theodore M. Werthan, George B. Wertheim, Joel L. Wesselmann, Glenn A. Weston, Perry C. Weymouth, Clark, Jr. Wheelock, lan W.1, 18 Wheelock, Richard S. White, Sheldon D. White, William H. Wilkins, Maurice, Jr. Wilson, Paul C. Winnick, Edward B. Winslow, Ralph M. Wolfer, John A. Woodberry, Robert L. Woodworth, Don W. Woolf, Sheldon M. Wright, Frank C., Jr. Wright, Richard E. Wygant, James C., Jr. Yates, Loring T. Zwart, Gerrit W. Zwiener, Kenneth V.

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Anonymous.

2 James C. Carroll '54.

3 Father, William J.Gmelin.

4 Roger A. Thomas '43.

5 David J. Mandelbaum'54.

6 Parents, Donald B.Hopkins '26 andMrs. Hopkins.

7 George W. O'Connor'54.

8 Lewis V. Wolf son

9 John C. Heston '54.

10 Clark Weymouth, Jr. '54.

11 Jonathan Moore '54.

12 Richard A. Pearl '54.

13 Dean Berry '54.

14 John F. Steel, Jr.'54.

15 Kevin I. Sullivan '54.

16 George A. Haskins'54.

17 John C. Heston, Jr.'54.

18 Michael H. Biggs '54.

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