1954
The thaw allowed us to get down to the mail box early this month and dig out quite a few scraps of Fifty-four news. Up from Beaufort, S.C., came a note from Marine pilot Howie Aronson, an August wingwinner, who is now operating with the Marine "Checkerboard" Squadron there. In January Howie plopped in on Marine Lt. Tony and Mary Lou Lukeman and daughter at their home at Parris Island.
About 40 of the crew, including wives and young ladies, turned out for the Fifty-four cocktail party held at the Dartmouth Club of New York City in late January. Perry Davis and Dave Mandelbaum handled the arrangements for the affair, though Perry was sidelined with the flu on the big evening. The check room attendant filed skimmers for:
Jerry Barton, Don Berlin, Gerry Bregman, Luke Case, Bill Cohen, Bruce Classon, Paul Dabney, Jay Davis and Don Descombes.
Doug Dodge, Jim Grady, Tony Kossov, Dave Martin, Mike Morrissey, Barry Nova, Ted Novascone, Bob Rafelson, George Robinson and Dune Roberts were around for the sipping, as were Stu Roth, Dick Rubin, Marc Sickel, Dick Steinberg, Glen Wesselman, Bob Woodberry, Bill Rogers, Tony Migliaccio and probably a few others whose names we did not get.
The New York City group has more activities planned for this year, so, if any of you are in the area, we hope you will check in on the Class doings there.
Your correspondent took his voodoo dolls over to the Harvard gym in January to make sure of the outcome of the Big GreenHarvard basketball game. We trounced 'em, of course. As we sat there punching needles into Crimson effigies we found ourselves assisting Ben Bowden, who was running the squad from a secure position back in the stands. Dick Davidoff, Mike Spicer, Donand Beth Brief, Charlie and Fran Morrison, and Jim and Betsy Rill were camped among the tribe in the stands. Between halves we heard that Ned Hoban had recently joined Loomis Sales in Boston, Mass., that PaulWilson was in Boston also and Ted Hartshorn in Milwaukee, Wis. Both of the latter are with Arthur Andersen Company.
Lest the old traditions fail, we trucked along behind George and Mary Brooks when they turned their dog-sled toward Hanover for Winter Carnival and some slope-work last month. The Hanover Inn register indicated that Bob Higbee had somehow secured a rack there for the weekend. The MikeMorrissey's were also on hand. A fine Carnival ... plenty of snow ... no place to eat. A few of the "old timers" noted signs of decay, however. Outdoor Evening was held in the hockey rink. Some of the young whippersnappers attended the showing incoats and ties, no less. George wrapped itup on Sunday afternoon by fracturing afibula, closing down his board work forabout six weeks.
Tom Corcoran is setting the pace amongFifty-four skiers at Kitzbuehel, Austria. Inthe Hahnenkamm ski races Tom finished inan eighth-place tie with Francois Bonlieuof France in the men's slalom.
In December and January there werequite a few Hanover Inn-mates. Bob McCartney was on the Plain just before theNew Year. Jack Tuck, Dick Gorsey, EdMoore and the Dan McCarthys were in Hanover in January. Jack was aboard for a brieflecture on his Polar experiences.
Jim B. Fisher was discharged last fall afterspending a rather erratic sixteen-month tourin Europe with a cloak-and-dagger outfit onthe Berlin-Frankfort run. He is now back inHanover and has assumed the rather imperious title of Assistant Editor of this very ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Jack and Martha Lee Mullen and daughter are in Hilo, Hawaii, where Jack is in charge of the retail activities of the Union Oil Company of California. The Mullens are literally "right at home" on the Islands, but Jack says they'll be back in California before long.
As this issue is dropped into your mail slot, a curious barnacle-bottomed scow is being hauled alongside a New York pier. Properly perched on the fo'castle, pinching black umbrella and doffing bowler hat to bedraggled dockhands is Lee Huff, who is rediscovering America after a year and a half at the London School of Economics. A twentieth century Samuel Slater, Lee has scribblings for a doctorate manuscript on the British peace-time program for atomic energy tucked away in his brief case.
Also in the metropolis are doctors Bill Gardner and Bob Riggio, who are interning at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital. Over in South Orange, N.J. Bud Addis and Jack Feldman are sharing an apartment while commuting to Newark's Howard Savings Bank. Jack was promoted recently to assistant vice-president.
In December Army Lt. Endel Raidmets graduated from primary flight training at Camp Gary, Tex. Prior to entering the Army Endel was a draftsman with Sprout and Waldrow in Muncy, Pa. Lt. jg. Dick Echard is at Saufley Field, Pensacola, Fla., and Dick Collins is at Mitchel A.F.B., N.Y. Last we knew Dick Major was with the 341st Bomber Squadron at Biggs AFB, El Paso, Tex.
If you run into legal difficulties around Bridgeport, Conn., contact Jim Gentile, who is now a partner in a Main Street Law firm there. Jim went to U. Conn. Law and passed the state exam and was admitted to the Bar last year. Last December in Fitchburg, Mass., Rev. Dave Ellms was ordained into the priesthood of the Episcopal Church. Dave graduated last June from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. George Fitzgerald is a Seminary student in Boston, Mass.
In the employed categories is Dick Raphael, a budget and cost analyst for the R.C.A. Service Co. in Camden, N.J. Louis Poitras is a flight test analyst for Lockheed Aircraft in North Hollywood, Calif.; Skip Gale is still salesman with the Charles Bruning Co. in Devon, Conn.; John Tenca is teaching mathematics at Terra Alta High School, Terra Alta, W. Va., Dr. Dave Levine is interning at the City Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and Bob Woodberry is training with the First Boston Corporation in New York City.
In Milford, N.J., with Riegel Paper are Hugh Nolin, wife Deborah and daughter Lisa. In between his putterings in production work, Hugh is getting in a few flying hours. He reports encountering civilians Dick Kolbe and Dick Trowbridge at last fall's Princeton game.
Cupid has loosed his share of arrows these past few months. Barbara Gordon of Michigan State and Joliet, Ill., felled Army Lt. Myles Jacobs. They were married December 22. Another Army Lt., Bill Barker, is receiving his orders from outside the chain of command. Bill and Judy Schortemeier of Indianapolis, Ind., and Miami U. of Oxford, Ohio were married in November. Bill was instructing at the Army Finance School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., while on leave from his Price Waterhouse & Co. job in New York.
On December 28 in New Orleans, John Steel, now a Tulane Med. student, and Joycelyn (Sue) Scheuer, a Tulane grad, said "I do's," and over in Houston, Tex., Lt. jg. John Felter and Priscilla Thorpe of Mount Holyoke met at the altar on December 31. John, a Navy pilot, is stationed in Jacksonville, Fla. Irv Sherwood held up the Fifty-four banner at the ceremony. On December 14 Elizabeth Murray and Dalt Dulac were married in Montreal, Canada. Dalt is with the U.S. Forestry Service now. A week later Ed Freedman and Debra Koff of Mount Vernon, N.Y., forsook their freedom and moved into their new residence in South Hadley, Mass. Dan Neiditz attended the Freedman wedding. On the fifteenth of the month Lasell Junior's Judith Kesslen of Haverhill, Mass., and Mort Galper went down the aisle. Mort is with Krondite Co. in Macedon, N.Y.
Recent engagements include Dr. Dave Lee and Rosemary Lum of New Rochelle, N.Y., in December. Dave is interning at Johns Hopkins. Rosemary is a Vassar and Radcliffe grad. In Hanover in December President and Mrs. Dickey announced the engagement of their daughter Christina to Stu Stearns. Tina is a Smithie. Stu is working for a Master's in education at Boston University. In Braintree, Mass., Bob Mower and Virginia Keith of Colby Junior announced plans for a future marriage and on Thanksgiving Day last Pete Yates and Alice Reardon of Newburyport, Mass., became betrothed. Pete is in Boston with the New Amsterdam Casualty Co.
Attending the annual meeting of the '54 Executive Committee, held December 21 at theDartmouth Club of New York City, were: standing (l to r) Lon Chaikin, Don Belcher, KevSullivan, Skip Weymouth, and Ben Bowden: seated (l to r) Perry Davis, Bill Mansfield, JohnHeston, and Dave McLaughlin, The photographer was Class President, Pete Geithner.
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