1954
Ahh!! Spring, when a young man's fancy turns to ... baseball. And while the TV set is warming up this afternoon let's check in on ... SPRING TRAINING.
In Gainesville, Fla. are Joel and LoisWertheim soaking southern sun. Likewise in the southland but over in the Texas League are Lt. Dick and Ginny Gates. The Gateses are at Parrin AFB, Denison, where Pear is instructing in all weather interceptor school. Since the arrival of daughter Elizabeth at the year's beginning, papa has been priming a back yard oil rig with only time off for a midnight life-and-death tennis battle with Dave McLaughlin.
Also around for the spring festivities is Jerry Goldstein, who is heeling for a Master's in Business Administration at Columbia. Jerry slipped through Uncle Sam's fingers last May after a spin at Erding AFB in Munich, Germany. Similarly academically inclined are Dave Mandelbaum in NYU's Finance course and Ed Winnick at Yale Law.
"This apartment living with real live gal neighbors sure beats rooming aboard ship or in Gile Hall." This bit of sacrilege was uttered by Harvard Lawman Dick Davidoff, who is sharing a Bean Town apartment with fellow Harvardman Mike Spicer. Dick is looking forward to a summer safari to Europe. Bwana Huff and your correspondent will have the green welcome carpet stretched across Piccadilly for Dick and all other comers this year.
George Kingsley, Ray Johnson, Tom Corcoran (recently listed in Tarin, N. Y. ski races with Bill Beck '52) and Bayard Johnson are working in the Crimson grad areas as are Law students Jim Rill and Bob Buchanan. Apparently, Bob has a few extra-curriculas, evidenced by his recent engagement to Wellesleyite Jane Britton of Windsor, Conn. July has been set as the wedding month.
Next a briefing on the military to see who's skipping ... AROUND THE BASE PATHS.
Packing the old kit bag at Fort Bragg, N. C., Sp3 Norm Kasparson moved up to bivouac at Fort Myer, Va. where he should finish out his "military experience."
A newsy message from North Bend, Oregon's Air Force Lt. George Fitzgerald brings us up to date on a flock of airmen. George, after his impending service exit, plans to start in Georgetown Grad School of Government and Linguistics this fall. Fitz reports that Betty and Jim Mannion were greeted by youngster number two in November. Name, Lynne. The first, brother -Mike, is two years old now and already enrolled at the Hanover office. Lynne, most likely, will be a Smithie. Apparently comfortably settled in the Air Force, Jim has established the family household in Cape Cod's Falmouth, Mass.
At McChord AFB, Tacoma, Wash, is MATS "Naviguesser" Tom Campbell, and veiled in the secrecy which envelops the SAC refueling teams is Bob Curtis. Bob, who spends a good part of his air time perched atop a few thousand gallons of high-test fuel, landed long enough to quill an account of North Africa into his travel-log recently.
After turning his Hanover experience to practical use as an Army glee club director, Perry Weston lofted back from Hawaii to take up residence in Springfield, Mass.
In Rome, N. Y.'s Griffiss AFB Lt. George Haskins was jacked up to Commander of the Headquarters Air Development Center (RADC) giving him a virtual life-and-death grip (chow and pay) on 140 innocent but helpless airmen. The appointment put George on the staff of the Headquarters Commander, a Major General, who, it just so happens, is a member of the Class of '25. Thus far George has no complaints.
A hasty survey of the employment picture shows encouraging return, that is, if you are inclined to look favorably upon human toil. At any rate, Cliff and Sue Feakes are residing in Toledo, Ohio, where Cliff is a buyer with the "Lion Stores." The Ron Stillmans are in Great Neck, N. Y., while Ron is with the Publishers of Gentry and American Fabrics. In Van Nuys, Calif., with the Van Nuys News is Don Fetherolf. Cliff Evans is an Industrial Construction Estimator with Clifford S. Evans, Inc. of East Orange, N. J. In Boston, Pete Gutlon is pushing sales for the Modern Curtain Co., Inc.
Procter has taken another Gamble. In Cincinnati, Ohio, Bill Petty recently wrangled a place on the company's payroll, and, aided and abetted by wife Carrie and son Brent, has settled down to luxuriant civilian existence.
General Electric's payroll lists Ted Fuller. Ted and wife Pat have settled down in Pittsfield, Mass. Schuy Grey has completed the initial phase of his training for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s sales management training program and has pushed off for the Dewitt Jones Jr. agency in Denver, Colo, for three years of field work. Previously, Schuy spent two years as a Marine Lieutenant followed by four months of insurance work in Hartford, Conn.
John Heston flashed us a list of the tribe who attended the Philadelphia Christmas cocktail party. Among those who pow-wowed were Pete Geithner, Rip Coffin, Bob Dean, Bob Fitzpatrick, Sandy Scull, Mitch Kramer, Tom Malcolm, Skip Gale and John. Skip came complete with fiancee, Carolyn Kredell, a Hood Colleger from Sea Girt, N. J. Skip is laboring for the Charles Bruning Co., Inc.
Pete was up to Patuxent River where he was one of twelve aviators conducting the Fleet Introduction Program on Grumman's new day fighter, the Fiif-1. He angled back to Jacksonville last month and next expects to go on to the Naval Air Station in Oceana, putting him back in active East Coast circulation. Rip is in New York, staying at the Dartmouth Club with Tom Kelsey and Jim Adams while working at a brokerage firm.
Practical-joker Heston had a backfire a few weeks later, when he fraudulently informed a group of the boys that he was having a party to celebrate his engagement. The informed, sensing the opportunity for a good hearty leg-pull, passed the word. John was startled when congratulatory telegrams began pouring in and he received "best-wishes" calls from as far away as Montana. Both John and the uninformed but implicated young lady turned manifold shades of red, especially since the real occasion for the party was to celebrate his twenty-fifth birthday.
We've two Hanover Inn-mates to list this month. Dick Gorsey was on the Plain last January (Dick is out of Chestnut Hill, Mass. now) and earlier that month White Plains, New Yorker Dick Wheelock checked in for a day. Also in Hanover, but winding up after an Army tour disrupted graduation, is George Brooks. We've also a strong contingent this month on the ... FARM TEAMS....
Getting up to his plate in Orinda, Calif, is Timothy Nathaniel O'Connor, son of Terry and George O'Connor. Tim was born on January 19. With a pretty effective bawl at the home of the Rod Rockefellers is son Peter Clark, born February 5. Peter has a year old sister Merle Louise.
On Christmas Day a son, Stephen James, took up permanent residence with Bob and Dorothy Adnopoz. We have the belated announcement of a son, Alan, to George and Peg Fletcher. The Fletchers were living in an apartment over Tom and Kay Tyler and family in Aberdeen, Md., though we suspect that George is a civilian now and receiving checks from Scott Paper Co.
Concluding this month's diamond survey is a survey of the diamonds passed out by Dick Deaner to Beverly Ross of the U. of Mass. and Natick, Mass. in December, 1956 and by Gerry Smith to Marcia Bailey of Choctaw, Okla. and the U. of Okla. also in December. Dick, who looks to a spring wedding, is at Tufts Med, and Gerry is with the Navy aboard the USS Calcaterra.
Philadelphian Eleanor Alexander, a senior at Mt. Holyoke, nailed Marine Lt. Joe Poorman to the betrothal list in December. Joe is stationed at Long Beach, Calif.
Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons couldn't prevent Irene Kaplan of Douglass College from capturing student Stan Rosenberg in a recent engagement announcement.
April's scoreboard reveals the mid-December marriage of Susan Bejosa of New York City and Conn. College to Yale Medman Bill Gould. Decked out in his usher's regalia was Mitch Kramer.
To the West Coast went Helen Jones Menges on December 15 to throw a nuptial knot around Tom McCrea. Helen is from Bradford Jr. With his two year hitch in the Navy completed, Tom and bride settled down in Oakland, Calif, while he works at East Bay.
That's it for this month. We'll see you in May. In the meantime let's push for the fulfillment of Fifty-four's Alumni Fund aims.
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