1955
Due to a change in Air Force plans, I linger yet in my Hondo hovel - hoping again that this will be the last epistle to originate in these inimitable surroundings. It's pleasing to know that I am not alone in my misery (which, incidentally, isn't so bad as I say it is). On a recent cross-country flight to points south your reporter ran across Pete Dromeshauser currently settled in the verdant Rio Grande Valley - Mission A.B. to be exact where he's undergoing his primary pilot training. "Kraut" passed on the following news items of note. Don Hummel graduated from the Michigan U. Grad. school last June and married Katy Hodson. He's now working with the Northern Trust Bank of Chicago. Mary and Jody Matthewson became proud Pa and Ma in February as did Patty and John Dell Isola. (Ed. Note: details will be forthcoming.) Pete himself plans to don the yoke of matrimony this June—the party of the second part being Miss Donna Wray — Colby Junior College. Ross Ellis will be best man at the affair. By the way, according to Pete, Ross missed being late for his own wedding by four slender minutes, arriving at 8:26 for an 8:30 service.
Bill Hudson writes from Whidley Island, Wash, where he is in charge of the base Commissary. Bill's using his Tuck School background to advantage in this "Super Market" business and apparently enjoys it. After receiving his commission as an Ensign, Bill went to the Supply Corps school in Athens, Ga., and then to school in Brooklyn where he specialized as a Commissary Store Manager. Whidley, by the way, is a Naval Air station that is currently undergoing "rapid and important" expansion, according to Bill. Bill's wife Joan presented him with an 8 pound 5½ ounce baby girl on December 3. According to her dad, the young lass — Holly Jean by name - is growing like a weed.
John Levitas has joined the Dartmouth parade that sends so many Fifty-fivers through old San Antonio. John is now stationed at Fort Sam Houston at the Brooke Army Medical Center.
Charlie Hulsebosch sends word from Dearborn, Mich., where he's working with the Ford Motor Company as a Cost Analyst. Charlie's engaged to Betsy Ferguson of Cedar Crest College, and plans a June wedding following her graduation. Dick Morris, who's now stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, with Uncle Sam's Army, is engaged to Carlyn Darrah of Mary Hitchcock. Charlie sends more details oil Tom Kinnamon's wedding last month. Among those present were Johnny Baldwin (usher), Bernie Siskind, Jed and Sue Isaacs, Pete Sarni, and Bruce Alexander.
Bruce Gardener and his wife, Barbara now have a small mouth to feed (as of last July) - "Scott" by name. Bruce is now at Laredo AFB, completing his pilot training in the T-33.
Jim Wechsler has found the lure of the Hanover Plain irrepressible and has ventured northward to become sports editor of the Valley News in White River Junction for the next few years. It's my personal opinion that Jim ventured to Hanover to help "Doggie" squeeze the "Big Green" cagers into the NCAA tournament as Ivy League Champs, but apparently luck wasn't with us this year despite a fine team and a good record. Jim writes that Lee Spelke is working with the Manufacturer's Trust Company in New York while completing his studies towards a Master's degree at Columbia night school.
Woody Goss and Norm Kasparson '54 have been assigned to the Headquarters Company, U.S. Army, at Fort Myer, Va. - duty unknown at present. Elsewhere in the military, Dick Du-Boff was recently graduated from the supply clerk course of the Army's General Supply School, Fort Knox, Ky., after receiving instruction in administrative and storage procedure. Lt. Earle Sensing was recently graduated from the Army's Finance School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Earle took a six weeks' course to familiarize him with basic military subjects. Pvt. First Class Paul Hollenbeck is stationed in Germany where he's a member of the Fourth Chemical Battalion.
Charlie Friedlander who received his Master's Degree in Business Administration at Columbia last June, was married to Judith Meyers of New Rochelle and Skidmore College early last month. Charlie is a private in the Army at present.
Ken Harvey is engaged to marry Virginia Doerr of Rochester this coming June. Ken and Virginia plan to settle in Rochester where he is employed by the Haloid Company.
Bob Alvord, who's currently a student at the Columbia Law School, will marry Mary Hamilton of Short Hills, N. J., after her graduation from Smith College in June. Bob graduated from Haverford College prior to his entering Columbia.
Jack Provaznik, who is now in his third year at Harvard Med School, is engaged to Eunice Symonds of Contoocook, N. H. A graduate of Mary Hitchcock, she is now on the staff of the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. Norm Fine is engaged to Marilyn Sochin of Newton, Mass. Marilyn is a 1956 alumna of the Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists, associated with Tufts University. Norm plans on a June wedding.
Thornton Brooks Barrett is engaged to Carolee Jahn of Dorseyville, Pa. Thornton is now a senior at Dartmouth, after serving two years in the army. Carolee is a graduate of Pine Manor Junior College and is doing post graduate work there.
John Rocray and Winifred Strock of Saratoga Spa, N. Y. were married on January 30 in "Toga" Town. Winifred, a junior at the University of Michigan, will complete her studies at Cornell where John is currently a junior in the Cornell Law School. John and Winifred have settled in Ithaca after a 10 day wedding trip to Nassau.
Air Force Lt. Lester Henderson is engaged to Mary Eleanor Ann Fitzgerald of Norwich, Vt. Eleanor is a 1955 graduate of Castleton State Teachers' College and is now teaching in Burlington, Vt.
Sadly enough my news supply has reached its limit, so comes my monthly appeal for information on your expanding families and pay checks and any news of Dartmouth folk of fifty-five - in groups or singly, at home or abroad. Along with my personal plea comes one on Sky Hill's behalf. The Alumni Fund Drive is just around the corner once more, and once more Sky needs as much help as we can muster to put Fifty-five on top of the heap where we rightfully belong. Besides contributing bountifully from the hoards we have saved since that rainy day in June, let's pitch in with a little more physical effort to help put the drive over as quickly and as efficiently as possible. The fine work that Sky does deserves our backing—loo% plus.
Secretary. Class 57-T, Box 693 Hondo Air Force Base, Texas
Class Agent, 37 East 39th St., New York 16, N. Y.
