1954
We have just overthrown your government. If you haven't noticed the change it may be partly because we haven't done anything else yet and partly because we have been most happy with the efforts of our predecessors and hope to continue in a similar fashion. Perhaps the best way to launch the new regime is by offering our sincere thanks to the last slate of officers and the executive committee which guided '54 through the first six years of alumni participation. From all reports, they and the reunion committee should receive special plaudits for efforts well done in making the first reunion of the "flatulent 'Fifty-fours" a grand affair. And we particularly respect the efficient and expeditious manner in which the Geithner crowd managed the "election" of their replacements.
But to the news ...
This June Sam Chase broke away from his job with the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City long enough to dash out to the Uni- versity of California for a week, and take his final examinations for a doctorate in economics. The aforesaid University is still reeling from the blitz of two '54s in the quest of Ph.D.'s in political science. In a bare four semesters Dick May took his master's, passed Ph.D. written and oral exams, and is now finishing his dissertation. AlbieDixon is only a bit behind this pace because he elected to write his master's thesis on the French executive in France. Rumor has it that most of the writing was done before he got there but that he kept amused until his return last spring.
A number of classmates have transferred to new positions. George O'Connor has moved from police training instructor at Western Reserve University to serve as a civilian consultant to the Chicago Police Department in their reorganization program. Bob McKeever was appointed assistant district attorney for New York County in May. Another attorney, Chuck Ennis, has moved to the Washington area to serve with the National Labor Relations Board. In Cleveland, AI Bialosky has taken a new position as sales and manufacturing coordinator with Ontario Printers, Inc. John Cunningham spent eight very interesting summer weeks touring Russia with the musical "My Fair Lady." In August, when the show opened in Washington, John got an opportunity to play the lead and was a smashing success. Wife Carolyn and their four-months-old tad are traveling with him. The celebrated show is scheduled to play several U.S. cities this winter; you should have as much fun watching the show as he is having playing it. Bill Dutton is a consumer's representative with Scott Paper Company in Chester, Pa., and lives with wife Patricia in nearby Swarthmore. Larry Russell is an assistant manager of the San Juan Intercontinental Hotel in sunny Puerto Rico. That's right, it's his job.
A few '54s have been doing everything at once. Tom Osborn received his master's in business administration from the University of Minnesota in June, started work in the European operations section of Economics Laboratory, Inc., and, in August, married Indiana graduate Penelope Francis in Crawfordsville, Ind. Don Swanson married Nancy Mock in February, down Dallas way - a ceremony heavily weighted with '54s. In attendance were Stan Klippi (now with Union Carbide in Houston), Joan and Tommy Nixon,Ann and Dick Wheelock, and assorted other Dartmouth types from lesser classes. Swanny received his L.B.J, (excuse me, that's LL.B.) from Southern Methodist University Law School where he was president of the legal fraternity and recipient of the annual Student Bar Association Award. This June he joined the Dallas law firm of Storey, Armstrong and Steger. Dick Armstrong pocketed his MBA from Cal and settled into San Francisco suburban bliss, but not until he had become engaged to Jane Anderson of Hillsborough, Calif., in May. Jane is the sister of Forrest Anderson '53.
Bill Mansfield, late of this column, lays claim to the honor so deflowered by John Heston of "the bachelor's bachelor of '54." If he holds out until the start of his two-year African safari with the State Department, he is going to be tough to catch. This spring several potential aspirants fell by the way. Chas Acker is engaged to Miss Christa Weinberger of Wilbraham, Mass.; Jim Tofias is engaged to Joan Kaplan of West Englewood, N. J.; and in May two Dartmouth cum Harvard Med School doctors were engaged: John Herrmann to Mary Gaiser of Buffalo, N. Y., and Ed Kieger to Elizabeth Ann Smith of Cleveland Heights. Ed will be married when he returns from Navy doctoring duty on beautiful Okinawa.
Some went even further. In East Hartford, Conn., Bob Clark married Irene Blake, and in Harrisburg, Pa., Dick Krimm married Mary Ellen Schimmel. Chris Rood lost his freedom in Terrace Park, Ohio, to the former Natalie Ann Bosworth, while in Barrington, R. 1., the same fate befell Brad Borden. The Bordens settled in Cambridge, Mass., after a wedding trip to Bermuda.
Carrie and Bill Petty moved to a new house in Cincinnati with another family addition, Loren Elizabeth, who happened along just in time to hamper the Pettys' reunion plans.
Many of us missed a fine time by not being able to get back to Hanover for the Fifth. We also missed seeing how hefty you other guys are getting. So, whether for laughs or for consolation, we will print all reasonable, glossy photos we receive. The reunion should have produced some gems.
Secretary, 1385 'North Illinois St. Arlington, Va.
Treasurer, United Audit. Co., 450 Seventh Ave. New York 1, N. Y.
