1954
As we were sitting down to write the first line of this month's column we received the tragic news of the death of BillOber in a plane crash in California in late February. Bill was flying for the Navy. After his commissioning he went through the Naval flight training program in Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Lately, Bill, his wife, Joyce, and daughter, Vicki Lynne, had been at Los Altos, Calif. All of us who knew Doc - Classmates, his friends in the Band and Handel Society - extend to his family our deepest sympathy. He was one of us and we will miss him.
We received a short and frantic message from Bill Murane just before he was dispatched to Lackland AFB, Texas and a few years of military service. Sporting a Stanford Law degree, Bill fortunately was shuttled into the Judge Advocate General's Department, where he'll have a chance to keep his hands in matters legal. Bill ran upon MikeBiggs in his wanderings. Mike is a second year biz school student at the University of California in Berkeley. Al Woodell, we find, is in his third year of Stanford Law.
While we are probing into legal affairs, we'll announce Don Berlin's association with the law firm of Stevenson & Willette in East Orange, N.J. Incidentally, if any of you legal beagles are sniffing for business you might look to George O'Connor for leads. George is at the Law-Medicine Center at Western Reserve U. in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is a clinical instructor in Criminology on the University Law school staff as well as an investigator for the Cuyahoga County Coroner's office.
Lew and Nancy Milkey and children, David (born October 6, 1956) and Pamela (December 17, 1957), are living in Wellesley, Mass., where Lew is toiling in the Harry Lee Buick, Inc. It's a brand-new outfit and Bill invites anyone in the area to stop by to say "hello," or, if you are in the vicinity for a while, to join in the activities of a very active "Charles River Dartmouth Club."
On the other side of the Charles on February 13 a host of our tribesmen besieged the Hotel Statler and pow-wowed with four hundred or so Indians at the annual Boston Alumni Dinner. Among those present were Bill Norcross, just out of the Marines and soon to enter the building material business with his Dad's Norcross, Inc., Stearns Martin, a Marblehead retailer, Ben Bowden, Boston First National Banker, John Hancock's Frank Carey, Jim Clark, who is retailing in Peabody, Mass. and Harvard Lawmen Charlie Morrison, Kent Klineman and Jim Rill. Charlie and Bob Kenney have been spotted schushing Belknap this winter.
Also at the Beantown banquet were Jim Adams, Dick Armstrong, Dick Barker, Ned Hoban and George Fitzgerald. George caught Gary Zwart and Mas Itabashi withdrawing funds, legally, from a Boston bank shortly after the Alumni shindig. Gary and Mas are rooming together in Cambridge while studying architecture at Harvard.
The Hartford, Conn. Alumni Club's publication "Smoke Signals" reveals that Lee Lane is somewhere in that area, and a Stevens Hat Company of St. Joseph, Mo. letterhead warns us that Gary Rosenthal is checking chapeaux in the Middle West. Gary, you recall, tied up at the hitching post with Nancy Krauss of San Francisco, Calif, last June. Dick Rubin and Hap Harris looked in on the Rosenthal wedding.
The Ann Arbor, Mich, contingent is indefatigable. Skip and Connie Grinton tossed a tight one in February which lived up to its billing - the "Valentine Massacre." Skip brewed up a concoction, which he passed off as "tea punch," but which had a lot more punch than tea. Skip Weymouth, who remembers a bit of what happened after the punch was distributed, said that he thought the last of the debauchers came down off the wall and pointed toward home as the rosy-fingered dawn was breaking. Fifty-fours in tow were "Shadow" and Sybil Addison,Joe and Mary Ann Gruel, Kathy and SteveFast, Benny Davis, Bob Vorsanger, MadgeScott ("Tissue" was away at a wedding of all things) and Skip.
On that same evening, before memories dimmed, Joe and Mary Ann rolled out blueprints for a May 17 "melee" in their mansion at 9906 Galatian, RFD #1, Whitmore Lake, Mich. (Tel.: ACademy 7-5792). Everyone in the Class who can get there is invited. The Gruels have mapped out a grueling program consisting of swimming, beer and "games" (a feature of this category will be a drag race) for the athletic, and chow and a band for those out of training. The tariff is only five dollars a couple, so any of you who thinks he can make it, please contact Joe before May 10. It looks like a whopper!!
In the "Ball and Chain Club" this month we find Don Austermann and Sallie Ann Cunning of New York City. Don's at McGraw Hill Publishers in the City; Sallie is a Tobe-Coburn grad. They were married on January 4. Joy Sandell was bride of ChuckKoivun in Chicago, Ill. in January. Joy is at the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing and Chuck is at the U. of Chicago Medical School.
Art Keleher and Margarena Tyler of Skidmore were married in Waterville, N.Y. on January 18, and on January 25 Pete Roos and Suzanne Hiss went down the aisle in Syracuse, N.Y. In ranks were ushers NormBander and Ace Taylor. Suzanne is a Bryn Mawr and Syracuse U. lass. They will live in Cincinnati, Ohio. MATS pilot Bob McCartney taxied up to the altar with Nancy Sterling at Dover, Del. in January. Nancy is a U. of Delaware grad. On February 15 in Lakewood, Ohio, Elizabeth Sessions, a Smithie, attached the nuptial leash to TomKelsey as usher Ray Freud smiled on.
Our engagements include Joe Migley and Donna Haider of Winnetka, Ill. on December 27. Donna is a Newton College grad; Joe is in business in the Windy City. Susanne Smith of Hood College, Md. and Norwalk, Conn, announced her engagement to Bob Marrs in January, and Fay Shaw of Belfast, Northern Ireland and now Montclair, N.J. was betrothed to Bob Berry. Bob is with Thomas and Betts Co. in Albany, N.Y.
"Blessed Event" announcements came from Peggy and Alan Bialosky, who tell of the arrival of a son, David Louis, on January 10 at University Heights, Ohio. A new shipmate reported aboard with LTJG Don and Jo Ann Keller in Norfolk, Va. Don bails out of the Navy next month, hoping to track down an accounting or financial analysis position somewhere in the civilian world.
Also preparing to abandon the fleet are LTJG Clint and Jane Gaylord and young daughters, Judith Lydia and Beth Louise. Clint served a year's duty aboard a minesweep and now is instructing in torpedoes and explosive ordnance disposal work in Indian Head, Md. Clint will be poking through the employment columns in a couple months. He reports that Jake Towel is teaching history and coaching football and hockey at St. Thomas Academy in St. Paul; Minn., where his athletic aggregations have rolled up an undefeated season and a championship his first time out; that Ken and Joan Pulley are with IBM in Endicott, N.Y. and that Bill and Joan Daley left the Air Force and SAC last month.
Charles Palmer '23 writes: "If you have the same trouble I used to have getting enough material for class notes every month, the enclosed clipping on Bax Ball might be useful." Thanks, Charley. It was a terrific spread showing Ball dousing a cigarette, while pausing thoughtfully before answering candid query about price wars ("Price wars hurt everyone and that General Petroleum deplores"). This during a press interview in the Portland conference; the first annual dealer convention to be held later in San Francisco was the topic of conversation. You looked real impressive, Bax, and no doubt got your points across to the press. (That leads me to express a thought so typical of the press, telling a part of the truth only, which makes for a bigger falsehood than avoiding the truth, as has been the case with our own (Macomb, Ill.) Western University President vs. the local and national press. Time Magazine fell for these half truths, hook line and sinker, and is, because of its prominence, the biggest offender of all.) Baxter is general sales manager for General Petroleum and your friendly Mobilgas dealers!
From Manchester Center, Vt. recently-wedded Dalt and Jane DuLac took a minute off from U.S. Forestry Service tasks to tell of life in the North. Dalt plans to work for a Master's in Forestry beginning in September. Somehow in his peregrinations, he says, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and "Hazqui" have failed to catch up with him. This is no April fool's joke, and if any of you ever have such difficulty, don't hesitate to contact your correspondent or write directly to the MAGAZINE'S office in Crosby Hall.
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