1954

A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing this column. I became a proud father for the second time. Shortly before the close of the 1964 fiscal year, my wife, Maxine, presented me with a bouncing, bawling, beautiful deduction by name of Jennifer Ann. All are doing well.

Another happy occasion for us was the wedding of my roommate Jerry Goldstein to Dorothy Lee Friedman at the Regency Hotel in New York City on December 27. Dorothy is a graduate of Barnard College and works as an advertising copywriter. After his Air Force hitch and after obtaining a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Jerry joined the stock brokerage firm of Baer, Stearns & Co. and is now with its institutional sales department. On hand with Maxine and me to welcome Jerry into the ranks of the happily married were Dave and Rosemary Mandelbaum, Tony and Barbara Kane, Jerry and Peggy Barton and Danny and Arlene Neiditz. The Goldsteins plan a quick trip to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands followed by a more leisurely honeymoon in Europe later in the spring.

From California comes news of several '54's. In November, U.S. Air Force Capt. Tom Campbell participated in an eventful launching of a Minuteman ballistic missile from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. This launching marked the first time that Strategic Air Command missile combat crewmen actually fired a Minuteman. Tom is commander of a SAC missile combat crew at Minot AFB in North Dakota. He resides on base with wife Patricia and three children.

Paul Dabney has moved to Daly City, Calif., where he hopes to apply the knowledge which he acquired on the streets of New York (and also at Columbia graduate school). Paul is a social worker and is now associated with the North San Mateo County Mental Health Association. From Vacaville, Calif., comes word that JohnBuffington has been named vice president of Basic Vegetable Products, Inc.

Again a number of our classmates are making news in the academic field. DanMcCarthy has been named professor of business management by Northeastern University in Boston. After graduating from Tuck School, Dan earned his doctorate in business administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business and became assistant comptroller at Tufts University.

Bob ("Oaky") Collins, an assistant professor of history at Williams College, has been on the lecture circuit in Western Massachusetts. His talks deal with current trends in world history and emphasize African problems. Bob is quite an authority on Africa. He has obtained a master's degree from Balliol College at Oxford and a Ph.D. from Yale. He has travelled widely in the Nile River Valley and East Africa, residing for a while in Sudan. The author of several books, including "The Southern Sudan" and "Americans in Africa," Bob has taught African history at Columbia University's program of studies on Africa. If our Secretary of State for African affairs doesn't watch out, those old jungle drums are going to be beating out the message, "Oaky, si! Soapy, no!"

News from a tropical locale closer to home comes to us from Lakeland, Fla., where Dave Guthrie has been appointed an admissions counselor by Florida Southern College. Dave will concentrate on the Chicago area and shortly will be conferring in the Windy City with students and advisers from some 150 different schools.

Hsung-Cheng Hsieh, formerly on the Iowa State University faculty, has been appointed visiting associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan's electron physics laboratory.

Bill Buckley has been named as a senior analyst in the direct placement group of Investors Diversified Services, Inc. with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn. For the past seven years, Bill has served as security analyst for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. in Newark, N. J.

I wish I could report that the brevity of this column results from my washing the diapers or walking the baby, but it just isn't so. The long and short of it is that we've been short on news for a long time. C'mon now and send me something to read while giving that 2 A.M. feeding.

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