1954

Today finds your correspondent preparing to convert his shillings to dollars and checking his English-to-American dictionary to make sure he remembers that among other things he'll soon be listening to the radio instead of the "wireless," watching TV, not the Telley and switching from "bitter" to beer.

So if this month's column is cluttered with scraps of Cockney rhyming slang (a Londoner's version of the Queen's English which calls a road a "frog," from the phrase frog-and-toad which rhymes with road; or a cup of tea, a "Rosy Lee") we'll try to get back to the accepted lingo next time.

THE GOD FORBIDS.

In Cockney "The God forbids" can mean only one thing - the kids. New addition announcements this month come from Los Alamos, Calif., where Ltjg. Doc and Joyce Ober announced the arrival of daughter Vicki Lynne on 11 April; and from Dave and Rosemary Mandelbaum in New York City where son, Thomas Irving, made his debut on March

We've been expecting a flaming rebuke from Morningside Heights, though fortunately Rod and Barbara Rockefeller's daughter, Meile Louise, whose appellation we badly distorted last month, is probably not yet old enough to dash off a blast to the editor. Rod is working toward his Master's in Finance at Columbia, later plans to enter the "International Basic Economy Corporation," working primarily with businesses in South America.

MAKIN' BEES-'N'-HONEY

"Bees-'n'-honey?" Of course, it's money, andchasing financial interests in New York Cityis Barry Nova with Friend Reiss Advertising,where he is an assistant account executive.Barry and Tom Nixon were sighted in Hanover last fall in Tom's imported, white M.G.

One ... two ... and then ... rockin' aroundArthur Murray's Baltimore dance studio,where he was an instructor last March, wasRollie Engelhardt. (Now's as good a time asany.) Say, Rollo, what's the word on this"pelvis" routine which seems to have capturedthe cats anyway?

Pushing sales for Fred C. Church Insurance,boasting one of the largest agencies north ofBoston, is one of its tallest employees, Jack Reilly. Jack and wife Elaine were situated in Lowell, Mass., last we heard.

On Class business in Hanover in early May was Ltjg. Pete Geithner, attending the Class Officers' Meeting. Pete, now at Oceana, Va., pleasantly near Virginia Beach, crossed swords (these are becoming part of the official Naval officer's uniform) with Ltjg.s Bob Dean and John Musa at the Little Creek Officers' Club in March.

Also among the Hanover Inn-siders were Dick and Muriel Leary of Medford, Mass., in March and Chicago's Pete Davis in late February.

After receiving a citation for his work in the Army's career plans and policy section of the Chief Chemical Officer at the Army Chemical center in Maryland, Paul Sullivan put aside the khaki uniform and joined the Edsel Division of the Ford Motor Company. Paul is in the advanced car's styling section of the car planning department.

Supported by Ted Novascone and Harry Robinson, Paul met Gloria DeStefanis of Sydney, Australia at the altar in Needham. Mass., on February 23. The Sullivans now reside in Dearborn, Mich.

IN THE KATE. ...

In the "Kate Carnie," for some reason, stands for in the army and militarily clad at Fort Sill, Okla., is 2/Lt Endel Raidmetz. At Traux Field, Madison, Wis., Lt. Bill Grover works out with the 37th airborne division. Swept unexpectedly out of New Bedford employment into the Army's Southern "resort" at Fort Knox and sent hastily off to San Francisco, where he was joined by his sympathetic wife Lynn, is Fred Alpert. At both Forts Dix and Knox, Freddy straggled upon Wayne Weil. "By this time," says Freddy, "he has probably driven a tank through headquarters and retired." Fred is a personnel specialist at the Presidio of San Francisco and lives in the big city a few doors from Hap and Harriet Harris.

At Wright Patterson AFB Lt. Dick Pearl received a pair of commendations in connection with the Air Forces B-52 program. Seems Dick pulled off with Boeing Aircraft a few government contracts which turned out to be a pair of the most important contracts of the fiscal year for the Aircraft and Missiles Division. Dick got the commendation from the Federal government... not from Boeing.

With a former Dartmouth ROTC instructor as base commander, Lt.s Jim Hoeven and Dave McLaughlin nest in at Great Falls, Mont. Squadron Adjutant Bill Grover is stationed at Madison, Wis.

At the U. of Miami's Law School at Key Biscayne, Fla., is Bill Stern. After departure from the Marine Corps in California on a "Grapes of Wrath"-like trip through the Southwest and a short educational stop in Georgetown, Jake Towle has moved on to the U. of Minnesota campus where he is working toward a Master's degree in History and a teacher's certificate.

Not far from Cayuga's waters at the Cornell Med school is Tommy Kong. In February Steve Mullins and Ron Pickett joined the already bulging band of Hanoverians at the U. of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ron, just out of the Army, is enrolled in the Rackham grad school doing psychology work, and Steve is in Biz School.

New Yorkers spotted at Dartmouth Downtowners' dinners in the metropolis have included Gerry Bregman, who's with Goldman, Sacks & Co., and Bob Sokolski, now with J. M. Mathias & Co., advertisers. Also in the city was Hal Conarro, now working at the New Process Co. in his home town of Warren, Pa. RipCoffin is working for Fahnstock & Co., an investment house on Wall Street, and "Dabo"Dabney and Mike Cochran are job hunting, we're told. Bob Berry was also scouting for a niche in the booming economy. Bob just left the Airborne Infantry where, it is said, he was provided with a specially tailored parachute made to lower him gently, an acute problem because of his increasing horizontal expansion.

.THE TROUBLE AND STRIFE

In Cockney rhyming slang the "trouble and strife" is, who else but, the wife. This month's casualty list includes Lt. Ace Taylor, USAF, who was smitten by Ann Thompson of Manchester, lowa, last December 30. "The plates and dishes" (the Missus) is from Colorado Woman's College. (Incidentally the old man is called "the pot and pan.") Ace is due out of the Air Force this month, and we expect the Taylors will take up residence in White Plains, N. Y.

The engagement list is bulging. In Denver, Colo., Goucher College grad Joan Cass announced her betrothal to Jim Adams, now with H. N. Whitney, Gradby & Co., a New York brokerage firm. Bob Flood, who is at the U. of Michigan Business School (despite our insistence on calling him Jim several months ago) became engaged to Barbara Love of Colby College and Grosse Pointe, Mich., in March.

From Pound Ridge, N. Y., came word that nuptials are due for Patricia Witty and John Freund. John is with Askin Stores, Inc. in New York City. Seems Jim Rill's attraction for the Law extends beyond his work at Harvard. He'll soon be getting the law from Betsy Laws of the U. of Alabama and Washington, D. C.

Air Force Lt. Howdy Russell and Margaret Hunter of Fort Worth, Tex., and the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterey took the first steps down the last mile recently. The prospective bridegroom is now at Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio.

A Londoner, Joan Briggs working for the New York Telephone Company has Naval AO-2 Jim Greenwood's number. Joan and Jim were engaged in February, while Jim was at the Naval Air Station in Sanford, Fla.

As summer wafts over the Northern Hemisphere, Jack Tuck and his band of merry men weather the Antarctic winter. Lowest temperature as of March was 81 below, which came on the first day of their fall. Jack expects to be relieved next summer (December) and return home by March next year.

This will be our last column from England. Your correspondent will move his drums and voodoo dolls into the Boston University African Studies and Research department in the autumn. A word of warning - I'll be pushing pins into miniature effigies of non-contributors to the Alumni Fund starting the first of next month, so those of you who are delinquent in making your contribution had better get hot. But luckily you still have a few days grace and for the time being I'm going down the frog-and-toad (road) to the rub-adub-dub (pub) for a pig's-ear (beer).

Secretary, 56 Ring St. Putnam, Conn.

Class Agent,: 226 Brookley Ct., Loring Air Force Base Limestone, Maine