1954
We open our column this season with a reminder that 'Fifty-four will be reuning this coming June in Hanover. So make plans now to fold up the shop, herd the delinquents into your paddy-wagon and head for the Ledyard Bridge. After that it's no strain.
You will be getting information on the reunion very soon. Excuses for absences are unacceptable, so plan to be there.
'Fifty-four get-togethers have been more frequent in the past few months, and this year's gridiron schedule encourages more gatherings this fall.
Lee Huff rustled up a number of the tribe last May in Washington, D. C. The Huffer produced surroundings not unlike the old days at the frat lodge, e.g., there was a kegtapping ceremony and beer mugs, but age had tempered the free-wheeling "hairy-chested vandals" of yesteryear and a cocktail party resulted. On hand from the D. C., area wereDick and Sue Wright, Pete and Joan Sullivan, Bill and Elaine Pryor, Rip Coffin and your correspondent from 'Fifty-four, Dick and Helen Barnes '5l, Marion and Judy Gribble '56 and Peter and Mary Jane Bridges '53.
Bill, a Georgetown Law grad, is a trial attorney in the tort section of the civil division of the Justice Department; Sully is toiling on a Ph.D. at Georgetown and the Wrights are with the Atomic Energy Commission.
Gary and Ann (Townsend) Zwart were brought to the city in August by the Army. Gary, who is working on his Architectural degree at M.I.T., was serving out his twoweek summer reserve term.
We encountered Lt. Bill Murane, Dick Shelley and Pete Geithner in the course of the summer. Bill is with the Air Force working on Capehart housing contracts. Pete was job-hunting after his graduation from Johns Hopkins' School of advanced international studies and return from Europe, and Dick, who is with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in northern Virginia, was preparing to head for Long Island for a vacation with wife Ann and children.
Milne Holton worked in the nation's Capital this summer for the National Education Association and will return to Yale to work on a Ph.D. in English.
Up in New England Bob Daly spent the summer on Cape Cod where he was merchandising manager of "Lobster in the Rough," a West Yarmouth, Mass., restaurant. In New Haven, Conn., Chet Edlund is with the Connecticut Commercial Travelers Insurance Company. Dave Lyon ran away with training course honors last May at General Electric's Pittsfield, Mass., plant. Dave lives in Lenox, Mass.
Pete Kenyon is working in labor relations in Virginia with the Grand Union Co., one of the fastest moving supermarket chains, and Joel Lasky has opened an advertising and public relations firm in Rochester, N. Y.
George Fletcher, wife Margaret and children Alan, Ruth and Paul hauled out of Winslow, Me., for Glens Falls, N. Y., where George will be assistant chief consumers' representative at Scott Paper Company's Fort Edward plant.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, last June Dave Lewin peacefully celebrated his fifth consecutive year with The H. A. Seinsheimer Company, manufacturers of Varsity-Town Clothes. Credit analyst with the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co. in Philadelphia, Penna., is Chuck Dickerson.
A recent member of the bar is Bill Walls in Atlantic City, N. J., where he served his clerkship with the law firm of Kirkman, Mulligan, Bell and Armstrong. Recently Bill Stern was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He has been practicing law in Florida.
Dr. Jerry Barton was named the outstanding intern of the year at graduation ceremonies at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City. Jerry and wife Peggy are living in Scarsdale, N. Y., while Jerry does his residency in Orthopedics.
John Gillespie was released from active Air Force duty in August and has begun graduate work at Cornell. In all John spent five years with Uncle Sam, four years in Europe, the last of which were as supervisor of aircraft maintenance at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin where he shared the excitement of Berlin tensions.
Ernie Dahl, who classifies most '54s as "dismal letter writers," received his M.A. from the U. of Denver and is now teaching high school in Thornton, Colo., a Denver suburb. Ernie says Dan Weintraub is shooting for a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the U. of Illinois.
Bob Collins, who received his Doctorate in June at Yale, has accepted an instructorship at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. In August Rod and Barbara Rockefeller motored in Norway after attending a family wedding in the town of Sogne.
A son, Keith Franklin, took up residence with Ginny and Kev Sullivan on July 10. Dave and Rosemary Mandelbaum announced the arrival of a son, James Cecil, on April 27, and the Ronnie Golds were joined by a daughter, Debra Sue, on May 25.
The casualty rate among the bachelors continues to increase. Bill Bonneville handed his freedom over to Nancy Eberhardt of Allegheny College in Summit, N. J., in August. Rick and Audrey Hartman, Dane and Ann Lowe, Cleveland businessmen Bill Robbins, and Bill Berno, Jack Feldman, Dick Pearl and Lee Huff gave Bill moral support at the ceremonies.
Pete Geithner, Bob Flood, Rip Coffin, and Jake Towle were on hand to ease Art Patterson down the aisle as he wedded Mary Carpenter in Ann Arbor, Mich., on July 10. Army Pfc. Jim Bowers, stationed at Frankfurt, Germany, journeyed up to Copenhagen to marry Jytte Hoist of Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Jytte graduated from Bispebjorg Hospital Nursing School in Copenhagen. Previously Jim had spent a year of graduate study in Denmark.
Margaret Sue Koehnline, of Manchester, N. H., and Skidmore and Al Brackley were married in June. Al is with the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank in New York City. BU Law graduate Barry Levin and Jill Anne Mendelsohn of Hewlett Harbor, N. Y., and Emerson College, Boston, were married on July 12. Barry Nova and Susan Henick were wed on May 27 in Woodmere, N. Y. Susan is a Smithie.
That's all we have room for this month. Please drop a line to bring us up on your summer activities and check the Green gridiron listings so you can join us at a few of the games this fall.
Shown in the railroad station in La Paz, Bolivia are: (1 to r) Ron Dunton '54, Donn Chickering '59, Mike Payson '54, and Ted Briggs '56. The first three were members of a six-man, privately sponsored "Sports and Music" goodwill tour through South and Central America. Host Ted is with the United States Embassy in La Paz.
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