1954

It has been an exciting fall by any standards — whether one speaks of U.S. foreign policy and the neo-Monroe Doctrine, the Sino-Indian border, the Congressional elections, or the Big Green football team. Certain of these concerns are behind us, while others will be around for a long, long time. As the Christmas season approaches, the activity of the last couple of months must make some classmates look forward to quiet Holidays, though some will be gathering their energies for the added festivities. Whichever style of season you desire, the Class of Fifty-four extends best wishes.

Jake Towle has left his teaching job in St. Paul, Minn., to join the Agency for International Development as a program an- alyst in its Mission in Vietnam. AID is the agency within the Department of State which administers United States foreign assistance programs. Before leaving for Saigon, Jake will be undertaking special training for five months at the University of California in Berkeley. Captain Bob McCartney recently completed the Air Force training course for missile launch officers at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Bob, wife Nancy, and their two children have now been reassigned to Plattsburg Air Force Base in New York. Lew Nash is now with the Peace Corps at California Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Larry Kelley is a sales engineer with the Moretrench Corporation in Chicago, and is living in nearby Evanston. Paul Mackey is a systems analyst with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company m Hooke, and Bill Nilli is a systems analyst-accounting with Henry J. Kaiser Company m Oakland, Calif. I imagine they analyze somewhat different systems. Involved in a terrible geographic mix-up is Perry Weston, special agent in Los Angeles with North western Mutual Life Insurance Company. Across the continent in Boston, Dick Moody works as an underwriter for the Employers Surplus Lines Insurance Company.

Academia claims its full share of Fifty four news again this month. George Brooks has completed his foreign studies and joined the faculty of the University of Indiana as an assistant professor. Howie Sloan is an assistant professor in the department 01 Biochemistry of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Bob Spears is the third assistant professor of the month, m his case of Pediatrics,0 in Los Angeles. And m Denmark, Jim Bowers is doing graduate work at the University of Copenhagen.

With the military, Marine Corps Captain Tony Lukeman is working on the Navy postgraduate course in financial management at the School of Government of George Washington University in Washington. Also in Washington, Captain John Herrmann is in the Division of Basic Surgical Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Medical Center. Captain BobDaly is arcing around in the F-100 Supersabres of the 345th Tactical Fighter Wing over Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, in South Carolina.

In Bay Village, Ohio, outside Cleveland, Tim Wagner is teaching at Bay High School. Bill Kass has become an associate attorney with the firm of Olivine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyler in New York City. Lee Huff is off in Bangkok, Thailand, on an assignment with the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense. Bill Pryor is now Assistant United States Attorney for the Federal District of the District of Columbia. Finally, as one of the more exotic class pursuits, JohnTenca is both the owner of and the numismatist for the Indian Coin Shop in Glenbrook, Conn. Does he really deal in Indian coins or is the name a throwback to his Alma Mater?

Those of you who are awaiting acknowledgments for your recent letters can testify that your secretary has been a bit pressed for time of late. Perhaps it will give me cause for a New Year's resolution with the next column. In any case, with one further adieu, adieu.

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

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