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Along with the usual fare of new positions, new wives, and new offspring that comprises these columns, this month we also have a real Fifty-four story of high adventure. For those of you in the Chicago area - or at least those who read the Chicago Sun Times during mid October - this is old stuff, but your correspondent has only recently received an account of the stirring event which began, "A blithe Indian summer cruise on Lake Michigan ended in terror Friday for three men and a woman." Upon opening an envelope from an interested observer, whom I will mention only as Mrs.Steve Fast, out fell a full front page rescue story complete with pictures of Skip Grinton wallowing beside an overturned sailboat in chilly and choppy Lake Michigan. Careful reading of the article indicated another occupant of the boat had rescued a third occupant in rather dramatic fashion. Meanwhile, co-owner of the boat and Chicago lawyer Grinton clung to the overturned hull with the fourth occupant, naturally enough the young lady. All were finally fished out with no serious damage, except to the boat, a total loss. One mystery remains, how they all managed to get away for a sail on a Friday.
This is a tough act to follow but I must turn to the more prosaic pastimes of Fifty-four. We have wisely picked our Newsletter editor Jim Fisher. In January it was announced that Jim had moved from director of the Educational Publishing Division of Koster-Dana Corporation to Doubleday & Company, where he will be a senior editor, responsible for educational books in the fields of economics, history, and political science. From the Hanover plain comes word that Dick Plummer has been named purchasing agent for the College. Dick was formerly an assistant to Dartmouth's business manager. In January, Jack Donahue was named assistant principal of Nauset Regional High School in addition to his other duties as teacher and athletic coach. Lo-YiChan is a member of the New York architectual firm of I. M. Pei. Lo-Yi is architect and designer of the new Alfred T. White Community Center in Brooklyn Heights, where he lives with his wife and two children. Dick Page, legal counsel to the Travelers Research Center and a member of the Travelers Insurance Corporation's legal staff, has also recently been named to the board of directors of the new company, TRC Service Corporation. TRC will provide technological and scientific advice for Hartford area business and governmental agencies. Dick, wife Jane, and their three children live in nearby Wethersfield, Conn.
We have news of the Class Barkers. DickBarker recently accepted the position of director of admissions at Andover Institute of Business in Andover, Mass. Dick was previously data processing co-ordinator at the Itek Corporation in Lexington, Mass. BillBarker is the assistant treasurer of the Sunray DX Oil Company in Tulsa, Okla. TomCorcoran is back in a familiar area in a new capacity. He is assistant to the president of the Aspen Skiing Corporation, in Aspen, Colo. Dan Tatkon is president of Atlas Jewelers, Inc., in New York City. In West Yarmouth, Mass., Bruce Adamson is a sales representative for Cannon's, Inc. With the military, Geoff Talbor is serving as a Navy doctor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, and Captain Skip Abbey is with the Air Force Recruiting Detachment No. 311 in Nashville, Tenn. The Marion, lowa, Junior Chamber of Commerce recently awarded past president George Murdoch with its distinguished service award. George is in partnership with his father, Ken '27, owning funeral homes in Marion, Center Point, and Walker, lowa.
A couple of the stalwarts took a step which should lead them out of the now select ranks of Fifty-four bachelors. In St. Louis, Mo., the engagement of Miss Caroline Clarkson to Roy Coffin was recently announced, and the engagement of Steve Mullins to Miss Carol Rian of Canton, Ohio, also was announced sometime back. A couple of columns back the engagement of John Fairfield was mentioned. In late December the deed was done and John married the former Miss Nora Roelvink of Hengelo, The Netherlands, at International House of Columbia University. Assisting John as best man was Clyde Smith.
That's all for March. Lambish or lionish, it usually beats February. Let's all be lionish a bout Jack Feldman's Alumni Fund campaign.
Secretary, c/o William D. Roesser 8 Lord St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Treasurer, 450 Seventh Ave., New York 1, N.Y.
