1954
"... My poor big devil of a nose inhales April..."
With Washington, D. C., and a large part of the East coast pinned beneath one of the year's heaviest snowfalls, it is hard to believe that the sap soon will be flowing, the robins presently will be back and spring reluctantly will arrive.
The seasonal thaw seems to have released a few of our number for other things. Bob Rafelson has bid "adieu" to CBS, where he was a publicity director, to take a script writing position on the production side of NTA's "Show of the Week." Dick and Lois Leary pulled up stakes in Medford, Mass., where he was administrative assistant to the City Manager, and moved on over to the town of Brookline to be assistant to the executive secretary of the town's board of selectmen. Ken and Jane Patterson were on their way from western Pennsylvania to Sisterville, W. Va., where Ken is "with the company" - Coming Glass.
Ding Harris was admitted for the practice of law to the Court of Common Pleas and the municipal court of Philadelphia, Penna. Ding graduated from Temple Law School and is associated with the firm of Harris, Hammond and Harris in Philly. Another lawman is Kent Klineman. Kent, wife Jane, and a third member of the family, whose ETA is this month, are in Brooklyn, N. Y., while Kent works with Jackson, Nash, a law firm in New York City. Kent, Dick Davidoff, junior attorney with Eli Davidoff in the same city, Jim Rill, who is in Washington, D. C., Mike Spicer and Bob Buchanan graduated from Harvard in the same class.
Doug Hoskins, noting with regret that the "general public" does not appear to be so easily convinced of the necessity of life insurance, is peddling policies for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company out of Harrisburg, Penna. Doug and wife Joyce and two daughters have taken up residence in nearby Shiremanstown.
Bob and Sue Marrs are in Glens Falls, N. Y., while Bob works as cost accountant for Scott Paper Company, in Fort Edward, N. Y. Bob, keeping company contacts, checks in with neighbors George and Peg Fletcher and their three young'uns who are with Scott also. Ned May is an engineering specialist with National Acme - "not acne" - in Cleveland, Ohio, and Mike Ceriello is a construction engineer with the New Hampshire State Highway Department in Concord, N. H.
Practicing law in Englewood, N. J., is Bob Vorsanger, after pulling a sheepskin from the U. of Michigan law school. Bob says Bob and Sally Sokolski are in Warren, Penna., where they see a good bit of Mary, young Charles, and Hal Connarro. George, Karen, and George III, Kingsley are in Cleveland, Ohio. Big George sells pension and group insurance on his own hook. A Chubb and Sons, Inc. marine insurance underwriter is Tom Kelsey in San Francisco, Calif., and a claims examiner with Farmers Insurance Co. in San Diego, Calif., is Ky Lewis.
"... trailing white plumes of freedom, garlanded with ... deeds for decorations..."
Televiewers and sports-page readers who had half an eye on the Olympics were bound to be following Tom Corcoran. Tom, who at 29 qualifies as the grand old man of the U. S. Olympic ski squad, negotiated Squaw Valley's difficult slalom trail to place ninth in the eighth Winter Olympics, better than any other American has done in that event. Although Cork was regularly described as a grad of "Harvard Business School," some of us pointed out to colleagues that he had taken a few of his early practice runs in Hanover. Tom won the Roch Cup championship in Aspen, Colo., just before heading over to Squaw Valley.
We have had a cryptic and unconfirmed report that Jack Smith and five other adventurers recently completed a voyage from Tahiti to Valparaiso, Chile, in a 48-foot ketch. Jack is expected to land in New York in two months.
Out of the Marines and in Stanford Business School is Irv Sherwood. Dalt DuLac, wife Jane and son as of December i, Douglas, are living in Syracuse, N. Y., while Dalt hits the books in forestry. Rev. Ed and Barbara Keller reside in Bloomfield, N. J., where Ed was ordained in the Christ Episcopal Church in December.
Stan Rosenberg, former surgical resident at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, hangs his shingle outside the officers' club bar at Robins Air Force Base, Ga. Capt. Stan and wife Irene are in the Air Force for a spell, while the doctor acts as surgeon at the base hospital. Jim M. and Sandy Fisher with two sons are in Wallingford, Conn., while Daddy does sales promotion and advertising with Whitney Blake Company, manufacturers of insulated wire and cable, in nearby Hamden. Jim says Chet Gale and Dick Trowbridge are planning to go to reunion with him this summer.
"...and I follow with my eye where some boy with a girl upon his arm passes a patch of silver ..." (Cyrano de Bergerac)
We have no Roxannes this month, but there are a flock of betrothals lining up for spring weddings. In Swampscott, Mass., Sally Smith announced her engagement to Phil Cooke. Sally is a grad. of Bates College and the Boston School of Occupational Therapy. In January Natalie Ann Bosworth of Cincinnati, 0., announced her impending marriage to Chris Rood, and Rosemarie Palmerone of Newburgh, N.Y., became engaged to Air Force Lt. Bill Murane. Rosemarie is an alumna of the State College of Education at New Paltz, N. Y. Bill is with the Judge Advocate General's Department.
Scott Paper's Dave Metz is engaged to Betsey Alden Casey of Coral Gables, Fla. A grad of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va., Betsey is in New York City with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, etc. Frank Hollenbeck and Joan Marie Ueberroth of Easton, Conn., revealed plans for a June wedding. Joan is a grad. of St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Frank is finishing up at the Columbia graduate school of architecture.
Clark Davis celebrated Valentine's Day by giving a diamond ring to Donna Elslager, a senior at Lake Erie College. Clark, who graduated from Allegheny College, attended Western Reserve University School of Law before taking up a public relations job with American Sterilizer Company in Erie, Penna., and Donna will spend their honeymoon in Hanover, by coincidence, on the weekend of reunion.
In early January, Judith Anne Colwell and John Parker were married in Hampton, N. H. Dave Grogan up from New York City was among the ushers. Judy is a graduate of Westbrook Junior College and was employed by Nichols Inc., the firm which "Old Ledyard" will represent for the next two years in Cuxhaven, Germany.
Mike Messore wrote recently: "Wish I could say I've seen some of the boys: it's been too long. Really looking forward to the '5th'." So before we fold this month let me remind you that the reunion is scheduled exactly two months from now.
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