1954
Spring anywhere is an especially welcomed spectacle. With the recently announced curriculum changes which are to be implemented next year spring was probably especially well received on the Plain. The magnitude of the alterations and innovations, the adoption of a three-term system, makes most Fifty-fours feel like old timers.
May will probably be greeted gleefully by some of our three-year servicemen who will be completing their stint and officially donning the civvies this month. Don Belcher falls into this category. After a year of the sea-going Navy, Don braced the old sea legs for a landlubber's tour as Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer with the Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif. During off-hours Don occupied an apartment on California's Capistrano Beach. Shortly after the return of the swallows, Belch packed up for his release. He is, we believe, planning to train for the medical profession.
On the other hand, some of our tribesmen formally begin careers with the military this month. In Topeka, Kan., navigator-bombardier, radio-operator (all this is labelled "Observer") Bob McShane boards SAC B-475. Bob and wife, Jeannie, and their new daughter are to be permanent members of the Air Force family.
There are several more additions to the '54 family to record this month. Sandy and Jim (M.) Fisher were joined by a son, Drew, last summer in Sacramento, Calif. They have since pushed on to a comfortable site on the edge of the desert at Edwards AFB in Boron, Calif.
A strong Dartmouth bias was given to the birth of Ronny Alan, son of Sue and Chuck Tannenbaum, on January 21. In the Green receiving line were obstetrician Crawford Hinman '41 and anesthetist John Brooks '47. Chuck was around somewhere ... devouring cigarettes.
Perhaps some of you will know the whereabouts of Lake Charles. Frankly, I'm lost and without an Atlas. Nevertheless, "The Lake," as it is called, is the location of Carolyn and Rollie Haynes. Rollie is squadron Electronics Countermeasures Officer and, we're told, he is boasting the best knowledge of the subject in the Air Force, accepting "prove-it" challenges from Thayer electrical engineers. Rollie is planning to go back to Tuck upon release from the service in September.
After a January Air Force discharge Dick Buffington eased into the classroom at Wharton at the U. of Penna. Also there are Dave and Mary Dyke and Norm and Sue Veasey.
Following ski expeditions into the Bavarian Alps and the Black Forest Lo-Yi Chan packed his army togs for the last time and left Heidelberg, Germany, for the U. S. Lo-Yi is heading back to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Here we have a project for the Class wives. If any of our women-folk have an "old, single roommate in Hawaii," they are urged to contact Lt. Stan Klippi by the next mail. Permanent arrangements are not only possible, but preferable. Stan's at Hickham Field in the Islands.
Also in the procurement line is Lt. Ned Hoban, now in Baltimore, Md., with Air Force Procurement. I'm not exactly sure what these fellows do. Comfortably settled in Levittown, L. I. is Mitchell AFB Lt. Deke and Betty DesCombes. The Dekes were sighted at the Hanover Inn in early February.
A Washington, D.C. party in honor of Katie Andres, bride-to-be of the U.S. Information Agency's Jon Moore, turned up a flock of Fifty-fours. At the shindig were Lt. Gary Zwart, recovering from an attempt to hastily refurbish Camp Kilmer to accommodate a group of incoming Hungarian refugees; and Dick and Posie Fowler, who are with the Air Force at Andrews, AFB. Dick, we're informed, plans to amble back to Hanover to get the Co-Op organized for the September Frosh influx. Also on hand were Steve Fast, National Security Agencyman, and Cpl. Norm Kasparson, who was boasting something about an "important job in the Pentagon."
Skimming along the nation's Northern borders in his sleek Convair interceptor is AF Lt. Bob Daly. When not patrolling the border from his base at Duluth, Minn. Bob takes time out to coach the base hockey squad.
At the Ordnance Guided Missile School Bob McKeever picked up his First "Louie's" bars and moved in as Management Analyst in the Office of the Comptroller at the school.
The lilt of folk melody emanating from the Baker Library last December had a Fifty-four source. Bill Briggs was giving an evening concert of American Folk Songs in the Tower Room. The concert was sponsored by the Dartmouth Folk Singers, a College organization which Bill helped establish two years ago.
Over in Crosby Hall Don McCuaig assumed his new duties as acting-director of the Dartmouth College News Service. The job comes in addition to his ALUMNI MAGAZINE Undergraduate Editorship so we can still look for him lounging in his Undergraduate Chair. Don and wife, Judith, are Sachem Village dwellers.
Perry Davis, sales supervisor with the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York City, writes that the Dartmouth Club of New York is offering an employment clearing house service for men who are seeking employment in the big city. So anyone who wants to dump his corner pencil-selling post for some legitimate work might contact Perry at 143 Waverly Place there. Perry also mentioned plans for a Fifty-four dinner to be held in the metropolis earlier this month. Hope a good many of you were able to put in an appearance.
Taking the first step down that last long mile are recently engaged Lt. Giff Wigglesworth, USMC, and Ann Latimer of the U. of Maryland and Washington, D. C. Giff graduated from Babson Institute of Finance at Wellesley, Mass. and moved in with the Marine Corps at their Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii site.
Hood Collegiate, Meredith Sorensen sunk the engagement talons into Ding Harris. Ding is now at Temple Law School. And from West Orange, N. J. comes announcement of Upsala student Toby Rader's betrothal to Art Geller. Art is on a Public Health Fellowship at the Chicago Med. School.
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