1954
Spring finds a lot of our bachelorhood thawing out into what will certainly be a busy summer at the altar. In January Mary Ellis of Foxboro, Mass., and UNH announced her betrothal to U; of Wisconsin grad student Charlie Martin. On the last day of the same month Barry Nova and Susan Henick, a Smithie from Woodmere, N. Y., were engaged. Barry is with Lennen & Newell, Inc., New York City advertisers, [agency.]
Uncle Sam appears to be a conspirator in the case of Army Pfc. Jim Bowers, who is stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. After a year of Divinity School at Yale, Jim trekked to Denmark for [some] more academic exercises. His recent return to the Continent was followed by an engagement to Jytte Hoist of Lyngby, Denmark and a graduate of Bispebjerg Hospital Nursing School in "wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen."
From Atlanta, Ga., we hear that Mary Geller of Wellesley and Harvard Ed. and Ed Winnick, Yale Law School senior, are affianced, and from Needham, Mass., the announcement of Nathalie Towne's betrothal to Jim B. Fisher, a toiler with this MAGAZINE in Hanover. Nathalie holds Lasell Jr. and UNH diplomas.
Undergoing altar-ations on February 14 were Georgia Kuffel of Rollins College and the U. of Wisconsin and Bob Collimore. They were married in Barrington, Ill. Dick Wheelock, Pan American representative in Dallas, Texas, took off for a wedding flight to Hawaii after his marriage to Anne Ivie in Atlanta, Ga., on January 10. Anne is a SMU lass. Tying cans onto the tail-assembly of the DC-7 was usher Stan Klippi.
Ray Freud snapped out of his reverie when your correspondent billed [labelled] him with two jobs in our February issue. Ray says he belongs to Alcoa and not the Hanover Bank. The latter happens to be Dune Roberts' outfit. An industrial engineer at the Edgewater, N. J., plant, Ray is sharing New York City quarters with Nels Ehinger '52. Ray has seen Bob Woodbury (recently sent to Boston by the First Boston Corporation), Ralph Destino, Doug Smith, Bob Clements and the Bill Whites around the City. Bill and Lois, Ray says, have purchased a new residence in Hohokus (as in a hearty laugh), N. J.
Just north of NYC at Stewart Air Force Base is a Judge Advocate General's man, Lt. Bill Murane. Bill moved up north after a summer as "closing attorney" on Capehart housing contracts in Washington, D. C. In his peregrination he has encountered Bob Curtis, who is studying dramatic art in NYC, and John Fenn, Hugh Nolan and Tom Harrington at the Yale football game last fall.
If you want to check into the overseas oil prospects contact check with Mike Corcoran, international petroleum economist with the Continental Oil Company in Houston, Texas. Avowedly a member of the "woman haters club of 'Sin Alley,'" his own little corner of suburbia, he confesses to "several narrow escapes" [from the fair sex.]
With the Juke Box investigations going full swing we expected to see Ronnie Gold on our TV screen. Apparently Ron is on the level in [with] his Executive Manager's post with the Cleveland Coin Exchange in Ohio for he wasn't called up. Dick and JoanWright, who are being supported by the Atomic Energy Commission, Lt. j.g. TomMalcolm, a Navy courrier and Georgetown Law student, and Jon Moore, back from the Dark Continent to bring some light to the Senate Republican Policy Committee on Capitol Hill, were all at the Capital Gifts kickoff exercises in Washington, D. C., in February.
On the academic side Jerry Van Hook latched onto his Doctorate in geochemistry at Pennsylvania State University in January before moving into the research division of Raytheon Manufacturing Co. in Waltham Mass., where Mort Galper occupies a desk in the marketing research department. Rev Dave Ellms passes the gray walls of the university of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is studying New Testament and theology on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, and TimDoig added an A.B. sheepskin in "Arts in Politics from Princeton at mid-semesters Kent Klineman and Mike Spicer are at Harvard Law, and Reid Pepin is a fourth-year Dental School student at McGill in Montreal, Canada.
A few of the boys still exhibit the old athletic prowess, but it would appear that this NATO business is going too far. Lt. JohnTitus, who is with the Air Force in France and who was a member of the U.S. National hockey team which toured Europe in 1955 and 1957 and the U.S. sextet which competed for the World's Championship in 1955, has been so successful on the ice in Europe that a Canadian Air Force group is trying to neutralize his "hatsmanship" by drafting him onto their team.
Olympic skiers Tom Corcoran of the Eastern Slopes Ski Club and Brooks Dodge V, '51 of the Mt. Mansfield Ski Club were clocked in a total 1:40.8 time for the annual Fisk Trophy race at Woodstock, Vt., in February. Both Tom and Brooks were on the U.S. Olympic squad.
Bob Wheeler picked oif his U. of Mass. Bachelor s in Education and wheeled up to Orange, Mass., where he accepted a slot as English teacher at the Mahar Regional School. In January a California newspaper depicted the send-off of the world's largest warship, the USS Ranger, with a photo of Ens. Larry and Ada Chase and their son Mark. Larry was on his way to join the Seventh Fleet around Taiwan. Ada and Mark were sitting tight in Alameda, Calif. Larry was at the UVM Medical School before entering the Navy.
At the IBM laboratory in Kingston, N. Y., is engineer Al Staley and in Newark, N. J., at the Celanese Corporation of America is staff personnel supervisor Pete Townsend. Before we check out this month we remind you to peek into the Tuck and Thayer School notes, a few pages further on, where you will find more news of 'Fifty-fours. See you next month.
Bob Binswanger '52 at a Russian nursery school during his recent travels abroad.
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