1954

It seems you have spared a moment from putting new fittings on the "Lightning" or patching the leaks in the air mattress to glance at another sure sign of summer — the last edition of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for this publishing season. Though having to deal with the calendar year, the fiscal year, the tax season, and the Alumni Fund schedule, I am sure no calculation of the days impinges more directly on the existence of all class secretaries than that required by the deadlines for this copy. The publishing holiday until October is welcome. Let us thank all of you who have sent along notes on the activities of Fifty-fours and ask for no holiday from correspondence during the summer.

Tom Campbell has recently graduated from the Air Force Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Tom, Patricia, and young Geoffrey will now be off to New Jersey where Tom will be stationed at McGuire Air Force Base. Another couple of Air Force Captains, JimMannion, who is with the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing, and Howdy Russell, who is with 8th A and E Squadron, must both be overseas as they have given APO addresses, east and west coast respectively. The last Air Force Officer to make this month's column is Captain (Dr.) Lyon Greenberg, who has been transferred to Westover Air Force Base Hospital from Goose Air Base in Labrador. Lyon, who received his M.D from Johns Hopkins in 1958, interned at Montreal General Hospital and received specialized resident training in otolaryngology in Canada before joining the Air Force. He will continue to work with the aerospace medical service at Westover.

Dick Buffington is now with the Aluminum Company of America in Akron, Ohio. In Worcester, Mass., Norm Kasparson has joined the legal staff for financial operations of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America. Norm joined State Mutual in the title department in 1960. We note that Dick Trowbridge of the Southern New New England Telephone Co. has been giving a lecture on all-number-calling to New England groups. Trowbridge, that's 76581632. . . . Also engaged in public service lectures is Pete Johnson, across the continent in Idaho. Pete, who is with the MacGregor-Triangle Construction Co. of Boise, dis- cussed business leadership before business administration classes at Idaho State College.

After a year as manager of program development for the American Broadcasting Company, Bob Rafelson is going west to work for Revue Studios in Universal City, Calif. Bob is going on a writer-director-producer contract and expects to be there for a number of years. Pete Geithner is leaving Columbian Carbons in New York to work with the U. S. Agency for International Development Mission to Southern Rhodesia. Pete, Deborah, and young Tim will be leaving for Salisbury early this summer.

Tom Corcoran has been traveling north - from Los Angeles, where he works for J. Barth and Co., to Squaw Valley - where he seems to have won a ski race on just about every weekend. A recent newspaper account indicates that he had won twelve of sixteen races entered last winter. In mid-April Tom capped his season by winning the McFadden Memorial Meet, which he had previously won in 1958.

Here is the mystery of the month: LonChaikin is working in Plainview, N. Y., for Quoizel, Inc. Do you add it, apply it, or guzzle it? And in Plainview?

Two new offspring to report: to Dave andMaxine Davidoff, a son, Andrew Michael, and to the Ron Golds, a daughter (their third), Abigail Lynn.

We were greatly saddened to hear of the untimely death of Dick Raphael in an auto accident in North Carolina. There will be an item about Dick in the In Memoriam section of this or the next magazine.

Let me end the year with the most important (if also the most frequent) pitch made in these columns. Don't forget Jack Feldman's and his agents' appeals for this year's Alumni Fund. There are 78 class agents this year (Jack's method of assuring these contributions) and we appreciate all their efforts.

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

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