1954

If you have ever questioned or been questioned on the merits of your liberal education, I hope you had the opportunity to read two fine articles which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and were reprinted and distributed by the Dartmouth News Service. One concerned President Dickey and his views on liberal education, while the other reviewed an article by Prof. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Chairman of Dartmouth's Sociology Department, about the challenges facing the West. President Dickey has just returned from dealing with certain aspects of that challenge in Poland, where he led a Ford Foundation mission.

But back to Fifty-four . . .

First let me set the record straight and make an apology. Of course it was Dick Davidoff that recently became a partner with Davidoff, Levinson and Davidoff in New York, and not Dick Danforth, as reported last month. The people of Salinas, Calif., would be surprised to learn their city planner, Mr. Danforth, was off joining New York law firms. My apologies to both.

From the military we hear that Marine Corps Captain "Boog" Tayntor has left balmy Hawaii for the dusty joys of Beeville, Texas. No doubt the Captain is now expending flight instructor's charm innocent student aviators. Air Force officer Bill Sherman has recently joined the Squadron Officer School of the Air University, at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Ala. In February, we reported on Captain Mike Messore, also of the Air Force. Now he is Counselor Messore of Higgins, Cavanaugh and Williamson in Providence, R. I.

Larry Russell, probably upset by our chiding him about working in sunny Puerto Rico, moved off to more severe climes and is now with the Ponte Vedra Inn, in Ponte Vedra, Fla. Gordie Nichols is an Assistant Merchandising Manager for the Scott Paper Company plant located at Philadelphia's International Airport. In Rochester, N. Y., George Haskins, only recently appointed as an appraiser, was elected Assistant Secretary with the Eastman Savings and Loan Association in January. George and wife Barb have an eighteen-month-old son named Scott. George occasionally sees Ed Kidd, who works with an insurance firm in Rochester. In a recent column mentioning Fifty-fours serving as officers of area Dartmouth Clubs, we missed Ed, who is the Treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Rochester. Dave Fitch and wife Dottie are settled in Greenfield, Mass., where Dave works with the Rugg Lumber Company. Ned May has been traveling quite a bit in Europe recently for his Cleveland, Ohio, machine tool firm. Ned, wife Mary, and two sons live in suburban Lakewood.

At a recent meeting of the Board, The First National Bank of Boston elected BenBowden as a Loan Officer. Ben has been with First Boston since 1957 and is presently with the Factoring and Commodities Department. With wife Lorna, daughter Linda, and son Ben, the new Loan Officer lives in Beverly. George O'Connor, who has been serving as a consultant with the Chicago Police since last summer, has just taken over as director of the Police Training School in Chicago. George and wife Terry have two children. Sam Bradley, a Keene, N. H„ attorney with the firm of Bradley, O'Brien and Fernald by way of Michigan Law School, was named chairman of the Keene March of Dimes campaign. Sam and wife Lucy have a year-old son, Brian.

Here's news — Jack and Sally Christy have just had their first child, a strapping boy named Andy. Also in the Washington area, Dr. Wes Dingman and his wife Noel are the proud parents of a baby girl named Sara, born in December. The Dingmans live in Bethesda, where Wes doctors with the National Institute of Public Health.

Finally, from Belmont, Mass., come news of the engagement of Neil Hendry to Eleanor Carol Cutting. Neil served as a Marine Corps officer after graduation, and now works with the Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Boston.

What do you look for as signs of spring now? Can you remember such sure indicators of other days as: the doubling of the traffic on the roads to Northampton, Saratoga, New London, and Boston; the spray of brown ooze when some dumb sap stepped on the far end of the duckboard just as you were reaching it; the absurd coincidence of hour exams and warm sunny afternoons? These small frustrations of the season have no doubt been replaced by others. But the pleasures of spring remain, and in Washington it is glorious.

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