1954

The serious surge of late spring seems to have gotten the sap up in more than Hanover's elms. For the activities of Fifty-fours (or at least the reports thereof) are multiplying. From Lome (that's in Togo) to Lowell (that's in Massachusetts) comes intelligence of fellows eight years absent from the Plain.

As a case in point we cite Mike Payson who has been working in the Office of the President (Sylvanus Olympio) of the Republic of Togo (between Ghana and Dahomey on the West Coast). Mike, who received his master's degree from the M.I.T. School of Industrial Management, is working on industrial development studies and economic analysis in connection with foreign assistance planning. The Paysons are now three, since the birth of a daughter, Margretta Willing, in Lome last summer. The Scott Paper Co. has announced the promotion of a brace of Fiftyfours. From the Philadelphia office comes word that Gordie Nichols has moved from assistant merchandising manager to merchandising manager of Scott's marketing services department. Bob Dean has moved from plant accountant at Scott's Sandusky, Ohio, plant to assistant personnel manager at the Company's Fort Edward, N. Y., plant. Bob and his wife Katherine will live in nearby Glens Falls.

Bill Berno is a market analyst with the automotive group at Thompson Ramo Woolridge, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio, and Bill Pierce is an operations analyst with the Research Analysis Corp. in Bethesda, Md. The last of this month's analysts is Al Tirrell, a Minuteman missile programs analyst with the Boeing Ballistic Bird Works in Seattle, Wash. Also in this new space business is Navy Lt. Harry Rockefeller, who gives his address as the Naval Guided Missile School, DAG NEGIC, Virginia Beach, Va. Keep it clean, Harry. Howie Aronson is flying for United Airlines. He reports that life is gay in that trade for a bachelor like himself. (This is hardly the image the sales department likes to get about.) Nonetheless, Howie spent three weeks skiing in the Tyrol and the Swiss Alps, and that sounds pretty gay to us. Rollie Haynes has joined in forming a new data processing firm, Process, Inc., in Portland, Me., and Dick Pearl has become associated with Markus and Stone, members of the New York Stock Exchange. In Laconia, N. H., Bob McGrath has merged his own insurance company with the agency of Munsey and Brazil, Inc. Bob will become General Manager of the new company. Levi Goldrarb, serving with the 6930 Radio Mobile Group, on the island of Crete, has been promoted to Captain in the Air Force.

Columbia visiting professor "Oaky" Collins and wife Diana have expanded the family, they plan to take off to the Sudan this summer. The Collins' third child is a son, Robert Ware. "Oaky" will be in the Sudan on a Social Science Research Council grant. At Dr. Collins' regular though not very well attended beat, Williams College, Dr. BobGilman will be visiting professor of chemistry for two years. Bob received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and has been more recently working as a research chemist with the W. R. Grace Company. Jack Donahue is teaching and serving as director of athletics at the Nauset Regional High School in Orleans, Mass. The admissions counselor at Milwaukee-Downer College is Dave Guthrie.

Two classmates are working as editors in New York and living on Staten Island. PaulMartin is copy editor with the Wall Street Journal, and Larry Martz is an associate editor for Newsweek Magazine. Chuck Westcott is a naturalist with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Ill. Bob Canestrari and wife Sally are the parents of Robert, Lisa and Julia. He has recently received his doctorate in psychology from Duke University and has joined the staff of the Hampton, Va., Veterans Administration Hospital.

Finally, in preparation for the June season, comes news of two engagements. The parents of Arlene Missan, of West Hartford, Conn., announced the engagement of their daughter to Dan Neiditz in March. Navy Lt. and Dr. Mike Finnigan is engaged to Mary Anne Ward of Stamford, Conn. Miss Ward is an alumna of Trinity College in Washington, D. C.

There may be three or four of you who read other than the bold type carefully enough to be expecting some news from Lowell, Mass. I am afraid the other shoe will not drop this month. Anyone in Lowell could make an honest man of me by sending along some news.

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

Class Agent, 251 Plane St., Newark 2, N. J.