1954
This month's letter comes after a brief reaffirmation of the old ties with a few tribesmen here in London. Bud Addis slipped into civvies long enough to make a two-week invasion of the Island from his Army headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Having taken a fancy to opera, more specifically to a student thereof, Bud burdened Lee Huff's London mailbox with some fat, perfumed letters from the Continent. However, Uncle Sam has conspired to ship the soldier home this month, to cut short his activities and substitute those coveted discharge papers.
A few weeks back, Italy-based Air Force Lt, Don Swanson, after a flight that had Western European military hairs standing on end (I won't discuss this as some of his fellow flyers may be reading), GCA'ed through the soup and made a whirlwind tour of the city.
Lt. (jg) Bill and Helen Garland send us a colorful account of their wedding reception in once staid West Orange, N. J. Speaking of revellers, John Heston, Bryce Bastian, BenGilson, Bob Durham and Rip Coffin, Bill writes:
Seems they organized a songfest in the parking lot of the reception hall accompanied by a wellfilled punch bowl, which lasted from the time Helen and I left until the very wee hours. We heard about it from many friends...and enemies.
However, apparently the neighbors were incensed, interested and indulgent in that order, for Bill adds: "So many local people joined in that it turned into a pretty big affair!"
While his ship underwent a yard overhaul in Boston, Bill saw Dan McCarthy, Supply Officer of the destroyer Purdy, affectionately known as the "Dirty Purdy" by its Division fellows. In December George and Ginny Kingsley (Harvard Business), Ben and Sara Gilson (Harvard Med) and Don Berlin (Harvard Law) supped together at the Garland's.
Second place winner in the Stanford Law School Moot Court Trials was Bill Murane. According to the Casper Morning Star, Bill, while vacationing in Guatemala, Yucatan and Mexico in December, had a near visit with the Grim Reaper. Having successfully scaled Mexico's Popocatepetl, Bill and several other climbers started down the ice face of the Eastern slope. Suddenly Bill's crampons caught, tripped him and sent him skidding down the mountain. A Mexican climber just below saw the slip, dug in and stopped Bill's motion by allowing him to crash against his own body. Bill was saved from continuing 5,000 feet further down the slope. We heard later, however, that there really was "no sweat" as both Bill and the camera were insured.
In Newfoundland, rifle tucked under his left arm, Ens. Al Terrill takes time out from his duties as Executive Officer for a detachment of Seabees at Argentina to do some relaxing but abortive Moose hunting. In between expeditions Lefty is player-coach of his outfit's basketball and hockey squads. Prior to his departure for the north he toasted Bob Clark's return from the Army and Germany. We have heard via the vine that Bob is working at Hartford (Conn.) for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
Claiming to be "the three most eligible bachelors on the East Coast" Ken Patterson, John Heston and Lt. (jg) Pete Geithner sifted through Philadelphia's Main Liners on a Christmas vacation spree. Ken reports seeing Ens. Tom Malcolm, now plushily stationed in a Washington, D. C., office, at an Alumni dinner in the City of Brotherly Love. On temporary duty to Scott AFB, Ill., came SAC man Lt. Jim Hoeven for some Personnel School work. Jim is regularly stationed at Great Falls, Mont. At Scott was Lt. Skip Weymouth, who makes his exit from the service this month. Skip and Jim Miller were together prior to the Harvard grid contest. Jim works for the American Gas and Electric Co. while attending night engineering session at Columbia.
Dug way down in the Post Finance Office at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, was Rich Collins, and in the Personnel Department was Bob Locklin.
A member of Sixth Fleet Task Force 66 in the Mediterranean is Electrical Officer John Musa of the USS Antietam. Assisting the attack-carrier from his Supply Office on the destroyer Roan is Ens. Dick Lewis. At Yokosuka, Japan, Ens. Bob and Barbar Levine roll out the green carpet for visitors. Bob's there with Navy Supply.
Yale Drama Student John Cunningham had a major role recently in the school's production of "The Way of The World," Congrieve's comedy of manners of the English Restoration. At the U. of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor are Tom Scott, Bruce Pattee and Jay Chandler. Additions to the list at Harvard med are Frank Weiser, Ed Kieger and John Herrmann, while Phil Schwarz books in at Philadelphia's Temple Med School. Pete Bullis grinds through the Harvard School of Design.
Mike Finnegan is surveying internship opportunities from his medical vantage point at the U. of Rochester, N. Y. Mike, having seen neither hide nor hair of a Fifty-four in Rochester for some time, welcomed Tom Nixon home a short while ago. Mike says Ed Kidd, after giving Uncle Sam the slip at last, is now aiming toward graduate business school.
With a year and a half of school to go, Tommy Thompson is boring into the molars at the Georgetown Dental School in Washington, D. C.
To squeeze in as much as possible this month, here's a flurry of brief reports. Don Meltzer is back in New England after six months auditing the books of Guatemalan fruit companies....Jack Feldman and Dick Gorsey were Hanover Injuns in December. ... Air Force Lt. Dave McLaughlin with wife Judy and son Billy are in Great Falls, Mont., where Dave still daily dons The Blue.
Herb and Ann Hillman and newly-arrived daughter Carol Hillman await a Ridgewood, N. J., summer to boost Herb's Ice Cream Company's sales....Gary McKee craftily spends time in the Service Craft Office at the U. S. Naval Station in San Diego, Calif., and Lt. Dave and Dotty Fitch patiently bide Air Force time on remote Okinawa.
Back in Hanover, Pete Robinson was at the Hanover High rostrum recently to describe his trip to New Zealand. Most of the students wondered how it felt to be standing the right way up. What say, Pete? Speaking of the lands from down under gives us chance to mention our only betrothal news. While the only continent we missed last month was Australia, Paul Sullivan, at the Army Chemical Center in Maryland, theoretically was on Aussie soil when he visited the Australian Embassy in Washington, D. C., recently. The result - announcement by Gloria De Stefanis, of New South Wales, Australia, of her engagement to Paul.
A few more quickies - Bill Fox with the Air Force in Goldsboro, N. C....Lt. Pete Johnson at Edwards AFB, Calif....Air Force Lt. Howdy Russell in Columbus, 0hi0.... Lt. (jg) Bud Siqueland aboard the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt....John Milnor in Towson, Md....Ernie Dahl named Prexy of a Peoria YMCA Delegation....There'll be some changes due for the Bob Drawbaughs, who welcomed a male heir last December. Bob is flying multi-engine aircraft for the Air Force.
On January 9 another Kevin I. Sullivan weighed in, this one at a little over seven pounds. Parents - Kev and Ginny Sullivan of Limestone, Me. The announcement added: "Dad is expected to survive." The old Dad, who will be directing our Alumni Fund campaign, will be doing much better when he sees us closer to realizing this year's Alumni Fund goal. Remember, everyone of us has an important obligation toward the Fund and its purposes.
Secretary, 60 Montrose Ave. Welling, Kent, England
Treasurer, 251 Crestview Rd., Southern Pines, N. C.
