1954

You begin to appreciate how rapidly tempus really fugits when you recall that five years ago this month we were together in front of Baker Library for graduation. A year from this month we will be there again for reunion.

Since this is our last column until fall we will bring you up on all the news we have at present and hope that you will drop us a line this summer with more info, on 'Fifty-four.

The New York Times reports on a few of the boys. A March article describes a four-month tour of South America recently embarked upon by Ron Dunton, Mike Payson and friends. Trombone and drums went along too as Ron, a U. of California law student, and Mike led a group of musicians and athletes on a thirteen country South-of-the-border junket to improve U.S.-Latin American relations.

Rod Rockefeller, credit analyst with the American Overseas Finance Co. in New York City, was named to the Westchester County Board of Health in February. Another member of the family started his public service in exactly the same manner - Rod's dad, Nelson '30.

We have a few corrections to make in our April report. Contrary to what we reported Bob Wheeler is teaching in the English Department at the U. of Mass., and Jim Doig is a Princeton M.A. recipient now working for a Ph.D. at that institution. Jim is writing his thesis on political conflict in New York City's metropolitan area with a grant from the Metropolitan Region Program at Columbia University. Jim, wife Carol, and year-old daughter will head for Washington, D. C., in the fall where Jim is scheduled to join the staff of the Brookings Institution. Jim reports seeing New York City's Hanover Banker Doug Dodge practicing the breast stroke in preparation for the closing of his commuter's conveyance - the renowned Weehawken Ferry.

A department fellow at the U. of Massachusetts, Dave Dame, was lately elected treasurer of the Fernald Entomological Club at the institution. Dave is working for his Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Entomology. Ray and Alice Corwin are living in East Lansing, Mich., where Ray is an instructor of Human Genetics in the Department of Zoology. Ray and Alice Hadley of Fremont, Ind., were married on June 22, last year. The Corwins spent Thanksgiving with Cal and Jane Wygant and new daughter on the Wygant farm in Connecticut.

Betty and Shelly Woolf and two-year-old daughter Marjorie Linda took up residence in their new home in Dedham, Mass., close by Shelly's Boston office at United Utilities, Inc., a nationwide houseware, hardware chain. Over the past few months the Woolfs have been together with the Pete Gutlons, Dick Gorseys, Mike Spicers, Aaron Margolises, George Grafooys and Ed Winnick.

In the engagement column are Bill Pitney, recently out of the Navy, and Elizabeth Hill, a Mount Vernon Junior College grad. A step further along are Herb Bates and Marie Joyce of West Roxbury, Mass. Herb and Marie were married on April 5. Herb is associated with the M.H. Bates Co. of Brockton, Mass. And in the children's department we have Harry and Carol Robinson in Sudbury, Mass., with son Harry Otis III, born on April 6.

Terry Goldstein is a registered representative with Bear, Stearns & Co., Wall Street brokers; Don Wagner, an associate planner with Clark-Coleman & Associates in Seattle, Wash.; Howie Sloane, a psychology instructor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.; John M usa, an electrical engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories in Whippany, N. J.; Bill Buckley, a security analyst in Newark, N. J.; and Louie Poitras, a flight test analyst at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif.

In April New York City lawyer Chuck Ennis and wife Ann parleyed in Washington, D. C., with Assistant for the Senate Minority leader Jon and Katie Moore; the Defense Dept.'s Lee Huff; the Bureau of the Budget's Rip Coffin, and your correspondent, who recently signed on with the Foreign Service.

Lee Harris is the federal government representative for IBM in the nation's capital and Red Wilkins is with the Mechanics National Bank in Worcester, Mass. In New England are Converse Rubber Co. sales representative George Nimitz of Cambridge, Mass., and in Boston, building material salesman Bill Norcross. Also in Beantown is Dr. John Herrmann, resident in surgery at Mass. General Hospital. Interning at the University Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., is Dr. Tom Scott.

Ron Wagner is an architecture student at Yale, and Bob Higbee, resident salesman for Armstrong Cork Co. in Kansas City, Mo. Sailing off the Pacific coast aboard the USS Talladega (APO 208) is Lt. Mike Freedman.Fred Page is with the Schering Corp. in Bloomfield, N.J., and President of Signet Sales in Oswego, N.Y., is Joel Lasky.

That is all we can squeeze into this issue. Drop us a line before next fall and best wishes to all for a fine summer.

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