1954

Despite its being our shortest month, February provides us with our broadest area of Class notes coverage to date. Six continents reveal Fifty-four's footprints this trip with Australia the only major body of land eluding us.

We'll start at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Mass., where three sculptures by Ned Freedman were on display last October. The pieces, entitled "First Love," "Small Figure" and an unnamed third are shaped from wood and wire and were made while Ned was in Hanover. At present he's in an Air Force lieutenant's uniform.

Thence, to a land of art - Italy, where another Air Force lieutenant, Don Swanson, artfully drops his T-33 trainer onto the runway at the air base at Avian. Don is armament officer and an instructor pilot there. During last summer's baseball season the Swanse batted an "unconscious" .500 while leading the Lowry AFB contingent to the Air Force title and earning the victors a Pentagon-sponsored trip to the World Series. On hand for the playoffs at Scott AFB, Ill., Lieutenants Ed Haertl and Skip Weymouth joined Dan for a brief reunion.

Credited with bringing back first news of life at the bottom of the world in 44 years, was Lt. (jg) Jack Tuck. Jack, according to Associated Press reports, sported "a beard Abe Lincoln might have envied" as he returned temporarily after twelve days on the high, frozen Antarctic plateau. Previous record for duration of stay there, set in 1912, was three days. Jack has been selected to head the team of Navy men who will winter at the Pole itself with Dr. Paul Siple's International Geophysical Year expedition. After the winter of Deepfreezing, Jack plans to return to graduate school to continue his polar studies in a warmer locale.

Also resuming studies is Steve Mullins, who joins a number of Fifty-fours at the Michigan Business School this month. After squeezing leave out of the Army last fall, Steve piled into a brand-new Volkswagen convertible, travelled through the British Isles, Ireland, France and Scandinavia before ending up in Florida for Christmas.

Earlier, while celebrating Bastille Day in Paris, Steve stumbled across Bill Jenkins in similar festive mood in the wee hours of a Montmartre morning. Bill, just out of the Marines, was likewise "celebratin'." For 28 straight hours the two warriors maintained their vigil. Then Bill vanished, was later seen by an acquaintance sipping wine in St. Mark's Square, Venice.

On a sidetrip to Hanover Steve encountered Tom Harrington and Lon Chaikin (both first-year Tuckmen) and Bruce Maclvor. While Steve was on the way to Florida, third-year Georgetown med student Ed McHugh and wife Janice flagged him down. Not long after itinerant soldier Andy Guilliano popped by on his way from Monterey language school to Fort Dix and thence to Germany. Andy and Steve wound up the gathering by losing each other in a Baltimore bar.

Architecturally inclined after a summer trek through the Andes Mountains is VicMahler. Vic abandoned the Navy last June and entered Harvard Graduate School of Design in the fall.

Peering into a Chicago Medical School microscope this year is Art Geller. Art has already completed a year of research in mi- crobiology for the Chicago institution.

Fifth continent this month - Africa. West of French Moroccan dunes lies the U.S. Naval Air Station, Port Lyautey where Assistant Supply Officer Art Rauch plies his trade. After OCS and an August graduation from Navy Supply School in Athens, Ga., Art headed for the sunny but "Dark Continent."

Art reports that Ens. Dan McCarthy had joined a destroyer in Newport, R. 1., and that Bob Levine was shopping about for oriental attire in preparation for the new Asian duty station - Yokusuka, Japan.

Back from the Orient and now thoroughly "civilianized" is Luke Case at Lamson and Sessions Company, Cleveland. Before ducking out on Uncle Sam, Luke saw Lt. (jg) RipCoffin also bidding adieu to the fleet. Lt. (jg) Dick Armstrong is "Student Prince" of the destroyer Henderson. Dick, we are told, informally lounged through 28 weeks of San Diego Navy schools in his first two years of "active" duty. Lt. Bill and Joan Daley were in Mississippi last fall while Bill attended Air Force Observers' School.

Buying furniture? Check first with RogGilmore at the Furniture Corporation of Lisbon in Lisbon, N. H. Rog, wife Beatrice and children, Christopher and Jennifer, are peacefully nestled in their New Hampshire surroundings.

Hopping from base to base - Pensacola, Corpus Christi, Kingsville, NAS Mirama, etc., etc. - and finally to MofEet Field, Calif., is Naval airman Doc Ober. Doc did, however, take time out last April 21 to fly a wedding loop around Jocelyn Lalonde in their home state of New York.

And popping from program to program in the Navy flight series - "pre-flight, pri-flight, instrument syllabus in the stinky-link trainer, form-flying and carrier-quals" - is Lt. Howie Aronson, who was last socked in at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. Returning from Okinawan duty last June, Howie signed the necessaries and headed down for the Florida flying. During the transition period, he decimated thirty leave days (a spree) during which time he quaffed a few with second-year Columbia Business student Tom Clarke. At Milton Howie has crossed contrails with Lt. (jg) Danny Weintraub and fellow Marine Lt. Barry Cox. Danny was instructing in the SNJ and Barry was in pri-flight.

While Santa was late arriving in England for Christmas (he had to come around the Cape), he was right on schedule Christmas Eve in Germany as Hugh Roberts and Inge Christal Sauer of Aschaffenburg, Germany, announced their engagement. Hugh and Inge plan to wed in March or April, depart on a sunny honeymoon south of the Alps, and return to Bavaria in time to pack up and head home for Army discharge in June. Hugh has been in Deutschland nineteen months, is currently in Bamburg after momentary pauses at Ft. Holabird, Md., and Ft. Riley, Kansas. Thoroughly gasthaused, bierstubened and Oktoberfestooned, Hugh boasts "only ten days field duty to my credit in the last seventeen months with a tactical outfit."

Up to the hitching-post in West Englewood, N. J., went Army dischargee Harold Harris and Harriet Sarbone, a Smithie. Impressively cut in their usher's togs were Ed Winnick, Mike Spicer and George Graboys.

Best-manned by Bob Durham, Ens. Bill Garland took the hand of Mary Helen Williamson on October 26 in Orange, N. J.

That's the count for February. Thanks to all who have forwarded material. To those of you who haven't, please drop a line and we'll be looking for you next month.

Donald D. McCuaig '54, finishing his senioryear after Army service, has been named Acting Director of the Dartmouth News Service.He is Undergraduate Editor of the AlumniMagazine and is married to the former JudithCowell.

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