1954
It is a sad coincidence that two of our classmates, Rog Stuart and Dick Echard, were recently killed in separate airplane crashes continents apart. Both Rog and Dick were with us only for freshman year and roomed together for that one year. The third roommate Dick Butera now works for McGraw-Hill Publications in San Fran- cisco, Calif., where he is district manager for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. Dick reports that he often sees and plays golf with Joe Mesics who is do- ing very well as district sales manager for Piper Aircraft Corp.
From "Big D" comes good news concern- ing one of our D-men. Don Swanson has been elected president of the Dallas Junior Bar Association. A member of the firm of Storey, Armstrong & Steger, Swanny says that he enjoys the practice of law tremen- dously. He and wife Nancy have a double cause for celebration next month when daughter, Susan, turns four and her brother, David Donald, reaches his second birthday. The Swansons see Dick and Anne Wheelock every month or so. Dick is associated with Tobin Realty Company in Dallas and, when not on the golf course, is busily engaged in the sale of commercial real estate.
Dick Trowbridge has also won high community acclaim. Business manager for the Southern New England Telephone Co. in Norwalk, Conn., Dick was recently named the recipient of this year's Distinguished Service Award by the Norwalk Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dick heads Norwalk's United Fund campaign this year and is active in the YMCA, Kiwanis Club and Norwalk Chamber of Commerce.
Upstate New York is the source of much of our news this month. George Haskins has been promoted to assistant vice-president by the Eastman Savings and Loan Association in Rochester. In addition to assuming the new duties of this position, George will continue to serve the Bank as senior appraiser. George, wife Barbara and two children reside in the Rochester suburb of Webster where he is starting his second year as chairman of the Webster Zoning Board of Appeals. George reports that he reads about Dr. Mike Finigan in the newspaper occasionally as a participant in the local squash league. Seems like Mike is having a fairly successful season.
Also from Rochester we hear that Edand Gill Kidd have a new candidate for the Class of '86, Edmund L. Kidd Jr., born on January 18, 1965. Ed (Sr. that is) has just completed his term as president of the Dartmouth Club in the Rochester area. He is vice-president of the insurance firm of Bailey, Potter, Kidd, Inc.
The Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company of Buffalo has recently named Kevin Sullivan assistant vice-president and assigned him to head the Branch Personnel and Operations Division. The Bank has 48 branch offices in Western New York. Previously Kev was in charge of a Buffalo branch located in New York's first enclosed, mall-type shopping center. However, Kev does not confine his activities just to "bank- ers' hours." He is serving as director of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York, president of the Williamsville Methodist Church Men's Club, president of the Branch Managers and Officers Club at the Bank, president of the Boulevard Mall Merchants Association and member of the Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce. On the home front Kev and wife Ginny keep busy raising sons, Kevin, age 7, and Keith, age 5.
Things have been looking bright for AlWeissman for quite a while now as vice- president of Allen-Franck Co., Inc., a Sarasota, Fla., lighting firm. Al has developed a unique system of illumination for the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. This sys- tem, described as the only one of its kind in the world, combines fluorescent and incandescent lights so as to illuminate each painting in the museum with the same kind of natural lighting that existed in the country in which it was painted. Thus Spanish and Italian paintings are bathed in warm lights while paintings from northern countries are provided with cool lights. Al's firm has previously designed lighting systems for Princeton and Stetson Universities and several libraries and banks in Tampa and Jacksonville.
The long, cold winter has had its effect on those remaining bachelors among our ranks. On February 27, 1965, Bill Rex married Judy Freyermuth at the San Francisco home of her parents. Judy is a graduate of La Chatelainie in St. Blaise, Switzerland; attended Wellesley College and graduated from Duke University. Bill is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice- president of Clark Dodge & Co., Inc., investment bankers.
Dr. Bob Riggio and Dr. Maureen Anne Relland were wed in New York City on January 31, 1965. Both bride and groom graduated from New York Medical College. Maureen is interning at New York's St. Vincent's Hospital while Bob is a resident in internal medicine at the Flower and Fifth Ave. Hospital.
Dick Moody has become engaged to Holly Ann Willard, who teaches French in the Newton (Mass.) public school system. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and earned a master of arts degree in teach- ing at Johns Hopkins University. Dick re- sides in Boston where he is associated with the Employers' Group Insurance Company.
Jay Davis and Martha Jeanne Glenn should be Mr. and Mrs. by the time this issue reaches them. They announced their engagement early in February and set their wedding for later in the month. Martha attended the University of Michigan. Jay acquired a master's degree from New York University Graduate School of Business and at last report was a research account exec, with Young & Rubicam in New York City.
From Maine to California '54's are on the move! Rollie Haynes has been appointed assistant treasurer of the South Portland, Me., firm of Hannaford Bros. Co. Previously, Rollie spent four years with IBM, primarily in data processing sales. Then he went to work for a Portland data processing service bureau before joining the accounting firm of Ernst and Ernst as a data processing consultant. Dr. Lyon Greenberg has just been appointed clinical instructor in otolaryngology at the Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. Scrabble anyone? John Schreiber has moved to Armonk, N.Y., after his appointment as associate product manager for Beech-nut Life Savers in New York. Frank Carey has been named an assistant director of agency for the Employers Life Insurance Co. of America in Boston. Prior to this appointment Frank had spent more than five years with John Hancock Life as a regional supervisor. Oakland, Calif., is the new home of AlanSullivan who has gone to work there as an actuary for the California Life Insurance Company.
David Wang '55 (r) hosts Delmer Daves,producer-director of "Youngblood Hawke"at Madame Wong's Cuisine in Los Angeles. Mrs. Ray Milland is shown at left.
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