1954
There are many times when we dislike opening the monthly column. This month is one of those times, for in a letter from Mike Biggs we learned of the death of Jim Miller on April 6 in an automobile accident outside of Dublin, Calif. Jim was on his way home from a business visit when the crash occurred. Known by all of us for his athletic accomplishments and respected by everyone who knew him personally, Jim had made a major contribution to the College while in Hanover and since graduation. A few months ago he was discharged from the Air Force and had taken a position with Gerber's Baby Food producers in Oakland, Calif. Mike's words express the sentiments of the Class, I think, when he says: "He was one of the finest men I ever had the pleasure of knowing, and his passing leaves an awful void in the Class." To Jim's wife, Joan, and children, James Scott III, 3, and David, 1, 'Fifty-four sends its deepest sympathy.
Mike also brought us up-to-date on a few of the tribe in California. He says that Pete Ankeny and family are now living in Burlingame, Calif., while Pete toils for the Hamm's Brewing Co. in San Francisco, that Tom and Elizabeth Kelsey have set up shop in Hillsborough, Calif., while Tom works in San Francisco, and that George Hitchcock blew through the state, after leaving the U. S. Naval Air Station in Barber's Point, Hawaii, heading for civilian status in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A March issue of the Goucher College Bulletin which extols the virtues of the woman's college, explodes the "myth of male superiority," assails "male vanity" and denies the existence of the "beautiful but dumb" at Goucher, reveals in its center photo a readily identifiable shot of Jim Adams. The brochure boasts that "statistics show . .. the alumnae ... find husbands as frequently as those of other institutions" and the "Old Dad," summer-clad and tea-sipping with a group of lassies, is proof of the pudding. One of the Goucherites in the cluster — Joan Cass of Denver - became Mrs. Adams last August.
Your correspondent was on hand as John Heston went to the guillotine in Bronxville, N. Y. John and Betty Burch were married on May 3 with a battalion of 'Fifty-fours bearing witness. Ushering for the Hestons were Pete Geithner, Rip Coffin and Dave McLaughlin and looking on were Bud Addis, Norm Veasey, Pete and Audrey Gutlon, Dick and Ginny Gates, Ned Hoban, and Dabo Dabney. The event went off with comparative ease, the only recognizable Hestonism in the ceremony occurred when John momentarily forgot to kiss his bride.
We expect a number of you will be heading for the Continent this month. Don Belcher and his brother Bob leave their studies in a week or so for several months in Europe with plans for a twelve-day visit to Moscow and Leningrad. Art Patterson broke the trail to the Continent in March and April after graduation from the U. of Michigan Business School. His report was highly favorable.
Even when back from the Pole and beardless, Jack Tuck is a hard man to keep out of the news. The Washington Star recently carried a real shaggy dog story involving Dr. Siple's disciple, and before the events of the tale were completed they had involved not only the Secretary of the Navy and three admirals, but also a pair of Senators and flock of others including Jack. Seems Bravo, a part-wolf sled dog which Jack had raised in Antarctica, was among five pooches the Navy was about to sell as surplus property - price $233 - because it was unlawful to discard government property by simply giving it away. Jack wanted the dog. The above mentioned officials intervened, naturally in different places and at different times, and when the red tape was unravelled Jack had the sled dog as a gift from Uncle Sam and both were pegged for honorable discharges at Davisville, R. I.
If Ky Lewis and Joe Gruel showed up for practice in Ann Arbor, Mich., 'Fifty-four almost had a complete entry in the U. of Michigan Softball loop this spring. Dean Berry, Steve Fast, Steve Mullins, Bob Flood, Rip Coffin and a number of other Indians were banding together to represent the Green in the school's league.
Unaffected by the recession were Gib Dyke, sales engineer for Armco Drainage & Metal Products, Inc. in Bayshore, L. 1., N. Y.; Dick Franklin, who is in the promotion and research departments of the F. W. Dodge Corp. in New York City; Serge Maltzoff, who is with the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in New York City; John "Inch" Pierce, who checks in with Guaranty Trust in the City; Westinghouse's Ed Quinn, who is in Lester, Pa.; Dick Shelley, traffic supervising with the C. & P. Telephone Co. in Washington, D. C.; and Sonny Silmore, now assistant to the plant manager of the Hassett Mining Co. in Burnsville, N. C.
Paul Stumf is in sales and service with the Stanley P. Rockwell Co. in Hartford, Conn., and Dick Wheelock is a sales representative for Pan American in Dallas, Texas. Paul Wilson is in the accounting end of Arthur Andersen for Co. in Boston, Mass.; Bill Buckley is a security analyst with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, N. J., and Frank Wright has a shingle hanging in New York City's Hanover Bank. Out of Cambridge, Mass., comes an occasional nationally displayed photograph from cameraman Nick Dean, and down in Smyrna, Del., Tom Tyler, officially titled as Research and Development Engineer, labors for Wilson Refrigeration, a division of the Tyler Refrigeration Corp.
Men, there are Thespians in our midst. Bill Rogers, who is living in the Dartmouth Club of New York City, is acting in the Metropolis, and John Cunningham, who is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in directing at Yale Drama School, is playing the lead role in the Yale Drama's spring musical, "Cyrano."
Bob Higbee has accepted a position with the Armstrong Cork Co. and is currently in the building products sales training program. George McLaughlin was recently admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and will be associated with the family law practice in Boston, Mass. Paul Mackey is an agent for John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in Springfield, Mass. Paul is married to the former Carol Ann Hohenberger of that city. In March Larry Chase became an Ensign, U. S. Navy, when he was graduated from the Navy OCS program at Newport, R. I.
Pete Robinson, who is employed by the Columbia Iron Mining Company of Provo, Utah, as a geologist, received a National Science Foundation pre-doctorate fellowship for the coming year and he will return to the academics this fall to study geology at Harvard. Charlie Morrison, now at Harvard Law, was among the students preparing the winning brief in the final argument of the Law School's Ames moot court competition this year.
Among our engagement notices we find the following: Antoinette Donnan to Lt. Larry McCurdy. Antoinette is from Ardmore, Pa., and a Colby Juniorite. Larry is with the Air Force at Harlingen, Texas. Natalie Einsman of New Haven, Conn., became engaged to John Fenn in April. John is a second-year student at Yale Med. School. In Rochester, N. Y., the betrothal of Barbara Eike to George Haskins was announced in late March. George and Barbara plan a September wedding. Bob Boyd, Ken Zweiner and George Voss ushered as Bob Berry went to the altar with Fay Shaw in Montclair, N. J., on March 8. Fay is formerly of Belfast, North Ireland. Bob is with the Thomas & Betts Co. in Albany, N. Y.
This concludes our column until the October edition. In the meantime let's remember our responsibility to the Alumni Fund, and don't forget that our class news comes largely from you, so drop us a note about yourself or others in the near future. Finally, have a pleasant summer and we'll look for you this fall.
Shown at the finals of the Ames moot court competition at Harvard Law School, March 21, are (l to r) Mr. Justice Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the judges; Jim Venman '55 and John French '55, two members of the eight-man Griswold Club. Venman was one of the two men who argued the case orally before the court.
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