1954
President Dickey, at Convocation this September, said that urgency, chance, and revolt were the watchwords of the age. His implication that Dartmouth men ought to be active in such times seems to have spurred many of our Class, an even decade removed from his listeners in the new class of Sixtyfour. For whether striving toward "the new frontier" or exercising their "proven leadership in troubled times," Dartmouth Fiftyfours spent the late summer and early fall in a most energetic fashion. Much of this activity represented a strong showing in the traditional summer culmination of an academic quest or a courtship.
At the summer commencement ceremonies of the University of Minnesota Don Taylor received a Ph.D. and is now working as a Nematologist with the Department of Plant Pathology at the University. Ron Pickett, at the University of Michigan, was awarded the Dunlop and Associates research fellowship for advanced graduate research in engineering psychology. Another University of Michigan graduate student, Reed Baird, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to continue his study of German comparative literature in Germany. Reed, with wife Hilke, and sons John and Thomas, will spend a year at the University of Mainz. Bob Mollenauer is an instructor in German at the University of Texas and Dave Sices is an instructor in French at Dartmouth. Bob Gilman has received a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada and is now pursuing his studies in Ottawa.
Also North of the border, Ed Scott is an insurance broker with Johnson and Higgins in Toronto. Doug Smith is assistant to the senior partner of E. F. Hutton & Company, stock brokers in Chicago. Jack Buffington, now serving as a planning and development specialist with Grand Central Rocket Company in Redlands, Calif., was recently named assistant to the president. Rod Rockefeller would probably deny any connection with the forementioned "New Frontier." He was named to head a New York State Republican vote drive. Pete Kenyon has been appointed national accounts manager for the Shop and Save Trading Stamp Corp., a subsidiary of the Grand Union Company. Steve Smith started teaching this fall at Brooks Academy in Harwich, Mass.; and in Lowell, JackReilly, who works as an insurance broker for the Fred C. Church Co., was named chairman of the business division of the 1961 United Fund Drive. Lt. Bob Collimore so enjoyed guiding jet interceptors as a navigator (despite one walk-away collision with the ground in Maine two years ago) that he decided he might as well steer, and earned his Air Force pilot's wings at Laredo, Tex., this summer. Pete Yates has recently joined the staff of the First and Ocean Bank in Newburyport, Mass., and Stan Clark has settled in Shreveport, La., where he is a salesman with Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc.
The bachelor ranks of Fifty-four were seriously depleted over the summer. TomNixon married Joan Craugh in Dallas and again a Texas wedding brought out a number of classmates. Both Stan Klippi and DickWheelock served as ushers. Chuck Acker made good the plans mentioned in last month's column and married Christa Weinberger in Lesumer, Germany. After traveling in Europe, the Ackers returned to Fairfield, Conn. Charles is a methods and systems analyst with Westinghouse in nearby Bridgeport. In Millbrook, N. Y., Dr. Pete Caldwell married Susan Yandell Hanes. Pete is a resident physician at the Columbia Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital in New York. Alex Gray married Katherine Berghius in Minneapolis this summer; and, in Bristol, Va., Lt. Burt Onofrio married the former Judith Tyree. The Onofrios returned to Camp Pendleton, Calif., where Burt finished his Navy Medical service. In October, Burt started with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he is the recipient of a four-year fellowship in neurosurgery. Phil Cooke married the former Sally Smith in Swampscott, Mass., and no doubt got able ushering assistance from no less than four Fifty-fours: Sterns Martin, Tohn Pope, Tim Clark, and Bob Kenney.
That's not all. In Morgantown, N. C., Margaret Greenlee signed on with Pete Townsend. Pete is working with the Celanese Corporation in Rock Hill, S. C. With RonDutton on hand, Mike Payson married Martha Willing in Falmouth. Mike returned to the Graduate School of Industrial Management at M.I.T. this fall. In Teaneck, N. J., George Swatek married Joan Larken with Bob Vorsanger as one of his ushers. The editor of the East Hampton (N. Y.) Star, EvRattray, married Helen Seldon in Westport, Conn., in July. Brad Hollenbeck tied the knot with Joan Ueberroth in Easton, Penna. Brad has recently received an architectual degree from Columbia. And finally, in far off Asmara, Eritrea (Africa), Jim Colby married Mary Anne Johnson of Surrey, England. The Colbys are both members of the Red Sea Mission Team working in Eritrea.
Just about everyone who wasn't getting married was planning it. Ron Jabara, recently finished with his hitch as a Coast Guard Officer, became engaged to Carole Merhige on August 20. Now that he has been relieved of the burden of the Class Chairmanship, Pete Geithner felt he could consider other responsibilities and asked for the hand of Deborah Moore, the sister of JonMoore. The next step is planned for late November. The engagement of Marjorie Clark to Al Wigglesworth was announced in Salem, Mass.
Out on the west coast, Jack Buffington has been named assistant to the president of the Grand Central Rocket Co. in Redlands, Calif. He previously had been with the mechanical division of General Mills, Inc., where he was manager of planning and development. In the propulsion field, Jack has already developed several industrial uses for small rockets. He also has developed various industrial torches using small rocket flames and has patented an automatic soldering machine.
I must dispatch this and get back to raking leaves. This always makes me think of Hanover with some nostalgia. Soon raking will be replaced by shoveling for those of you to the North, and this thought will go a long way toward lessening the longing. Still, I'll bet Pete Johnson in Boise, Idaho, and Inch Pierce in Cumberland Center, Me., are both thinking with considerable longing about what sort of wax they will use this year.
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