1954

Looking up from my portable typewriter I can watch the Indian countryside slide past. The train will reach Lucknow for breakfast in a couple of hours. We are passing through the central part of the State of Uttar Pradesh where extreme poverty is not so evident. It becomes more evident further to the east. The rabi (winter) crop is well along; the fields are nicely kept, reflecting the industry of the people in this area; and the farmers are already in the fields behind their bullocks at this early hour. In the ponds alongside the tracks there are many white lotus and small white cranes. The latter are easily distinguishable from the former only as the train passes and they take to wing. I will have to forget the lotuses for awhile and display the industry of the peasants if I am to get my copy into the November issue of the MAGAZINE.

I promised to catch up on all the nuptial news with this month's column. The first of the last is Dick May, who married the former Judith Anne Vanish in Pound, Wis., this summer. The new Mrs. May is a graduate and postgraduate of the University of Wisconsin and also studied in Bristol, England. Both Dick and Judith are instructors at the University of California. Dr. HarryVan Hook married Edna Corkery of Lowell, Mass., recently. Harry did his graduate work at Penn State after leaving Dartmouth and is now working on solid state physics with the Raytheon Research Division in Waltham, Mass. In Ticonderoga, N. Y., Mike McDonald married the former Mary Burleigh. Mike served in Germany in the Army and received his bachelor of laws from Albany Law School. He is now an associate with the firm of Helmer and Shaffer in Utica, N. Y. Assistant D.A. for New York Bob McKeever also recently decided to settle down. His engagement was announced to Martha Wickes of Montreal, Canada. Just to illustrate where this all leads, we have the pleasure to announce the birth of the second son to the Parker Caswells. Parker is a member of the faculty at Lynn High School, in Massachusetts.

Dr. Ross Tucker has become a Captain in the Air Force medical service. Ross will be stationed at Glasgow Air Force Base in Montana. In Buffalo, N. Y., Kev Sullivan has been named manager of the Boulevard Mall office of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. Another class banker, Dick Gates, has recently been promoted by the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company of Norwich, Conn. Since leaving Tuck School and serving for a while as a jet instructor with the Air Force, Dick has also found time to work with the American Instrutor of Banking and is now attending the Williams College School of Banking. The Gateses, with their two tads, live in Gales Ferry, near Norwich.

John Shenefield was recently a co-winner of the national urban renewal design contest, as part of the Fourth Annual Architects' Competition. John graduated from the Harvard School of Design after leaving Dartmouth. Dick Kolbe has earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in politics. Dick began teaching this fall at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa. The American Oil Company has announced the appointment of Ken Zwiener as administrative executive. Ken was previously supervisor of control reports with the parent company. Standard Oil of Indiana. In Cleveland, Al Bialosky, formerly the sales manager, has been named vice-president of Ontario Printers, Inc. Al, wife Peggy, and their two children live in University Heights. Don Hill, of five daughters' fame, and incidentally a CPA, recently opened his own accounting practice in Rochester, N. Y. Pete Ankney has forsaken the pleasures of San Francisco to become advertising supervisor for the Theo. Hamm Brewing Co. in St. Paul, Minn. Though remaining with the same firm, it seems Pete has succumbed to the attractions of the land of the sky blue waters (an unpaid commercial). Finally, Jack Buffington has taken a new position as Director for financial operations with the Lockheed Propulsion Co., in Redlands, Calif.

Let me end with a brief reminder of Dave Mandlebaum's new class dues campaign. An early contribtuion, negating the need for expensive second and third mailings, would be an additional financial contribution.

Secretary, c/o William D. Roesser 8 Lord St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Treasurer, 450 Seventh Ave., New York 1, N. Y.