1959

Happy Anniversary! Why? Well we are now one year old as a class and are no longer the fresh young alumni, instead we are the ripe and ready alumni drive backers as many of you have noticed in this past several months. If I may, I would like to interject here that if you have not yet contributed by all means let's fork over a small part of those great savings we have so carefully put away. It does, as you should have read, go to do great things for those at the college now and more for those yet to come.

Again I must report that not much has happened at least that has been brought to my attention this past month, but I did note a few more of our ever dwindling group of bachelors have left the fold.

First on this month's list is Lou Gerber who has taken as his prospective bride Beverly Rae Byram of Richmond, Va. Lou is currently working for Armstrong Cork Company. Next is Bill Pettway who has taken as his fiancee a Bennett College girl, Sue Waldon, and they are planning a September wedding.

Now going way up to Iceland we find that Malcolm Halliday has also fallen and he to a blue-eyed, blonde-haired Icelander (quote Malcolm's letter - "she is not an Eskimo'). It looks like he has been trapped into an early summer wedding. They are planning on spending the summer in Washington, D. C., where Malcolm will manage a community swimming club.

Another shock I had is to find that out of the nine roommates of my junior year there are only four of us still remaining as true bachelors (unless Bob Hellsel, Don Peterson, or Joe Graham have betrayed me). The latest of the group going being John Hessler and Mark Gates. Hess is now engaged to Janet Pratt, his junior year Green Key date and Mark to Betsy Wilson, who I understand is a pretty, vivacious young chick that he never allowed to come to our alma mater. Hess is currently serving aboard the USS Porterfield, a destroyer out of San Diego while Mark is attending Stanford Law School.

Ronald Farnan has also closed the door to freedom but not for an adverse reason as he took Nancy Camp as his fiancee in March and they are planning a fall wedding. Ron is presently working for his Master's degree at Thayer School, and I believe that in view of his 2nd lieutenant's commission will be entering Uncle Sam's service this coming summer. My last engagement to announce is that of Paul Stein, currently "Manager" of the Merrill Lynch information booth in Grand Central Station, N. Y., to Ann Garwood of St. Louis.

Big News is the birth of a boy to Pete and Anne Herz for as far as I know this is the first child born to a '59'r whom I believe was married after graduation. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Pete, and to your new son, Stephen Lancaster.

UNCLE SAM

Ens. Charlie MacVean is continuing his brilliant Naval career with a recent selection to be one of six men chosen from all parts of the country for a special Navy advanced scientific program for junior line officers. He will be leaving soon for a seven-month cruise to the Mediterranean and the only drawback is, oh boy, how does Mrs. Ellen MacVean feel about all this?

Ed Morris after sixteen weeks of pre-flight has obtained his commission as an ensign in the Navy and now has approximately fourteen months before he receives wings. TomBransford, Bill Brigance and Andy Mehalick have just completed their thirty-week officer basic course for the Marine Corps and have been assigned to active duty billets throughout the U.S. On the Army side we find that Ted Robinson has completed the officer basic course at the Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Va.

Al Brown is presently serving aboard the USS Laws as Supply Officer and is lucky enough to have gotten a reserve ship which does not make the long Western Pacific jaunts.

Warren Hughes is the last of Uncle Sam's troops to be mentioned this month and I find that he is presently attending an Artillery Officers Course at Fort Bliss, Texas. Mentioning Fort Bliss which is either in or very near El Paso, I will make the offer that if any of you happen to be there or for that matter anywhere in the vicinity my folks have just moved to El Paso (3116 Taylor Ave. - SKyline 5-0893) and I will be there from May 20-June 5 so please give me a call or just drop over. Back to Warren, after he finishes school in the middle of April he will most likely journey to Greece where he will serve with the Army.

JUST NEWS

Al Ziegler has recently been appointed a representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company and will be associated with the Robert Williamson Agency of Rochester. Prior to joining Conn. Mutual Al was associated with the National Clothing Company also in Rochester. The last news I have concerns Paul Liberman who has been awarded a $400 Medical Student Fellowship from United Cerebral Palsy Association Research and Educational Foundation. Paul is planning on studying at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons this summer and then to attend Harvard Medical School this next year.

As this is the final page for this year (I believe) I wish to thank all of you who have written and kept me so well posted. So long for now and I will be thinking of you all as I sail this summer for the Mediterranean and all its exotic ports.

Secretary, USS F. T. Berry (DDE 858) Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y.

Class Agent, Law School, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va.