1954
It's count-down time for summer vacations again. Most of us will soon be blasting off with our families toward a host of woodland or seaside resorts. I'm sure that many are planning on going into orbit at the Cape (and I don't mean Cape Kennedy) in the coming months. Quite possibly some of these vacationers will run into Jack Donahue there. Jack is the athletic director and baseball coach at Nauset Regional High School at the Cape Cod town of Orleans. After freshman year Jack was drafted and during this time of crisis served with distinction as second baseman on a champion Army team. After the service, Jack returned to Hanover, graduating in 1957, and became a coach of the freshman hockey team and of Hanover High's baseball team. Prior to assuming his present position, Jack was assistant football and baseball mentor at Barnstable (Mass.) High School. When not on the ballfield Jack may be found at home coaching his future star athletes, sons John 11, David 5, and Mike 2.
Not all vacation orbits lead to the Cape. Certainly one of our favorite summer spots is Hanover. Bob Buchanan is in full agreement, having spent part of last summer there while he and wife Jane were enrolled in Alumni College. Bob, who is a fellow barrister in New York City, intends to repeat the enjoyable and educational experience this summer.
This summer will certainly find DaveGrogan out on the golf links. We hear he's shooting regularly in the 70's these days. But Dave's thoughts now center more on pushing little white pills than on putting little white balls. Dave was recently appointed New Products Director of the Glenbrook Laboratories of Sterling Drug Inc. in New York City. In this position Dave is responsible for the marketing of new drug products. One of the most successful of Dave's current endeavors has been the introduction of a new analgesic by name of Cope. Incidentally, helping Dave to cope with Cope was Donald C. Goss '53, advertising account supervisor for this product. Before joining Sterling Drug, Dave spent five years with a New York advertising agency. One of Dave's better customers might well be Pete Davis who was just named as associate administrator of the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt. For the past nine years Pete has been working at the hospital as an administrative assistant.
Hank and Joan Grebe have returned to their home town of Maiden, Mass., where Hank has been elected assistant vice-president of the Essex County Bank. In this new capacity he will serve as a commercial loan officer for the Bank. After his two-year hitch in the service, Hank went to work for the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. By the time of his recent departure from the Chase he had become an assistant treasurer specializing in loans to defense contractors. In the process Hank was able to earn his M.B.A. from the New York University School of Business Administration.
From Cleveland comes word of another '54 who will have new responsibilities this summer. Bill Piyor, having spent the last three years as chief of the grand jury branch of the U.S. Attorney General's office for the District of Columbia, has joined the legal department of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. Bill, wife Elaine, and sons, William Bruce and Stephen Bruce, have set up housekeeping in Shaker Heights. Before his previous Justice Department stint, Bill, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, served as a member of Judge Advocate General's staff at Ft. Meade, Md.
The Rev. George Fitzgerald C.S.P. was one of four members of the Paulist Fathers Community ordained to the Catholic priesthood on May 8 by Francis Cardinal Spellman in the Paulist mother Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. A week later he offered his first solemn Mass in St. Patrick's Church in his hometown of Jaffrey, N. H. The new priest served three years in the Air Force after graduation, winning his wings, then upon discharge entered the School of St. Philip Neri for Delayed Vocations at Boston. A year later he joined the Paulist Community and entered the community's seminary in Washington, D. C., where he earned a master of arts degree and a bachelor degree in philosophy.
Some of us will be taking on new familial responsibilities this summer. RalphDestino became engaged to Aurora Patti-Sapienza of Taormina, Italy and Forest Hills, L. I., in April. Aurora, who is an alumna of Maria Pia and Albertelli Schools of Rome and attended Queens College in New York, has been working as an interpreter with an export-import firm in N.Y.C. Ralph is executive vice-president of Ralph Destino Ltd., a leading manufacturer of men's jewelry. A director of the American Institute of Men's and Boys' Wear, Ralph is a former winner of the Caswell-Massey award for American Design. The wedding is to be at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
In March, Pete and Sally Peters celebrated the arrival of Michael Seaver. He is number four op the kid parade at the Peters' household.
During the course of the year I have written in this column about the activities of one-fifth of our classmates. That leaves a lot of people and a lot of news not reported. This summer, while lounging on the beach or camping out in the woods or working in the comfort of your air-conditioned offices, won't the other four-fifths of you please take a few minutes to drop me a line about your business and domestic activities. If you should be journeying to New York for the World's Fair in the next few months, be sure to give me a call.
Have a pleasant summer! See you in print in the fall.
Secretary, 331 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y. 10017
Class Agent, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith First National Bank Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.
