1954

Let's take a moment from foreign ministers and Berlin to catch up on 'Fifty-fours and Hanover. We'll do a bit of spring cleaning on the column this month. As you may have noticed, we had a hassle with the proofreader in April.

Skip Weymouth, our reunion co-chairman, warns the faint of heart of a class picnic coming up on Tune 6 somewhere in the vicinity of Evanston, Ill. For those of you who can attend contact Gordie Nichols at 1400 Wesley Ave., Evanston, or GReenleaf 5-4601 for the location and, if desired, a sack.

Lt. Bob Daly, a bit plumper than in June '54, dipped his wings to the Air Force in March and headed back to Concord, Mass., from Duluth, Minn., where he was with the 11th fighter interceptor squadron and coach of the Air Base hockey team. Bob plans to go into business with his dad in Concord.

Also just out of the service was Navy Lt. jg. Al Terrill, who with wife Sally is now living in Boise, Idaho, where he is laboring with Morrison-Knudsen Company, one of the largest construction companies in the world. In Salem, Mass., Jim Clark was named assistant treasurer in the corporation of Clark & Friend, a well-known clothing store. Jim worked for Woodward & Lothrop in Washington, D. C., before returning to join his father in their Salem business.

Member of the Florida Bar Association and graduate of the U. of Miami law school, Bill Stern associated recently with the law firm of Frederick N. Barad in Miami Beach, Fla. A Singer Manufacturing Co. administrative assistant in New York City is Bryce Bastian.

In the wee hours of a Sunday morning in late March roisterers Bill Murane and Dan Neiditz, wedged in the phone booth of a New York City restaurant, roused Dr. Dan and Judy Weidenthal from the pad in Cleveland, Ohio, with a long distance shot for old time's sake. Friendships reinvigorated, insurance and realty salesman Neiditz shuffled back toward Hartford, Conn., Air Force legal man Murane paddled off to the base, and the Weidenthals tried to figure out just what had transpired.

Next month the East Hampton Star, East Hampton, L. I., N. Y., newspaper, mastheads a new editor - Ev Rattray. Ev, who has been an associate editor (his mother is publisher) represented the paper at the annual meeting of the New York Press Association in Syracuse and waltzed home with four awards for the weekly, one for the best news story in a New York weekly for 1958, a series of articles on Eastern Long Island and the Future, written by the future editor.

Briefly on our service personnel, we find Lt. Bill Fox with the Air Force in Goldsboro, N c.; Capt. John Moran with the USAF Hospital at Otis AFB, Mass.; Dr. Phil Swartz interning at the Navy Hospital in Oakland, Calif.; and Dr. Dave Reed at Travis AFB, Calif.

Jim Hoeven is at Harvard Business School and Ed Moore at the U. of Virginia Law School. Media Buyer for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne in New York City is Al Donahower.

Boasting "something to crow about" are Betty and John Heston, Philadelphians, now living with a daughter, Cynthia Graham, born March 23.

February 14-15 were wedding days tor a trio of 'Fifty-fours. In Glen Ridge, N. J., New York City, and Barrington. Ill. Fred Page, Stuart Roth and Bob Collimore went down in that order. On the fifteenth Fred married Miriam Jones of Penn State and Columbia, while Schering Corporation's Ed Kidd beamed on. Fred is a NYU graduate student. Bob, Air Force Lt. stationed at Presque Isle, Me., where he is a radar observer, walked the last mile with Georgia Ann Kuffel of the U. of Wisconsin. Stu, a Dickinson College grad joined forces with Sandra Jampole of the Fashion Institute of Technology on the sixteenth.

Harvard law student Kent Klineman and Wellesley senior Jane Peters were married in Hanover on January 8. Kent will work with a New York law firm when he graduates from Harvard. Attorney Jim Gentile and Maribeth Ann Gilbert of Danbury Teachers College were wed in Bridgeport, Conn., on April 25.

A few brief notes before closing up Bob Levine is an accountant in New York City; Lee Lane, an accountant for the American Trading Co., Inc. on Wall Street; Ned Hoban, an investment counselor with Loomis, Sayles & Co., Inc. in Chicago, Ill., and DickGorsey, a Beacon St. ball bearing salesman in Boston. Mass., residing in nearby Framingham.

Don't forget the Capital Gifts Campaign. The Class Agents are rounding up the stragglers now by mail, and we hope each of you will file a return with them. See you again next month.

Secretary, 2457 39th Place, N.W. Washington 7, D. C.

Class Agent, 81 Lehn Springs Drive, Williamsville 21, N. Y.