1954

This is the month of Thanksgiving when the air is usually crisp and the leaves are on the ground, and perhaps there is a slight trace of wood smoke to make the casual stroller think of firesides and hot drinks. Unfortunately, as I write this, it is still September and a rough spell of Indian summer has the temperature nearing ninety and the humidity staying close behind. Nevertheless, it is nice to look forward to the changing season and I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy turkeyday.

William M. Cohn, M.D., wrote me on May 5 that he had given up the fight for survival in New York City, or Baghdad on the Hudson, as he calls it, and moved clear across country to Seattle, Wash. Bill, wife Jean, and their two-year-old child find Seattle a "place where the air is clear, the scenery is lovely, the people are pleasant and not unsophisticated" (a great compliment from a New Yorker), and the living is easy. If there are any '54's in the area Bill would be happy to renew contacts, that is, if it can be worked into the schedule of his neurosurgery practice which he reports is thriving.

Some of us still find the big city a way of life, however, and manage to eek out an existence despite the encroachment on our daily lives of the problems of the metropolis. Sometimes there are even rewards that seem to make the whole thing worthwhile. Take, for instance, Thomas D. Sayles Jr., who has found life in a big city bank not without its compensations. Recently, Tom was elected a senior vice president of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company and has been named administrative officer of the bank's metropolitan division. Formerly in charge of the branch in the Time-Life Building, Tom now is headquartered at 350 Park Avenue, the bank's uptown main office. Having some knowledge of the general slow progression usually prevalent in banking circles, Tom's promotion can only be viewed as truly unusual and undoubtedly a measure of meritorious performance.

In the spring of the year Rev. George R.Fitzgerald was named a Fellow of the Danforth Foundation under its campus ministry grant. Presently a teaching assistant in the political science department of Tufts, as well as a visiting lecturer on the Theology faculty of Boston College, Fr. Fitzgerald will take his fellowship at the University of Chicago where he has designed a field of study within the Divinity School on "Religion and Society." The fellowship is awarded to those who have shown "exceptional potential for leadership in campus ministry" both in "professional growth, intellectual promise and quality of commitment to their religious traditions." It would seem that this is another fitting reward for meritorious achievement and is particularly significant in view of current de-emphasis of religion on most campuses. Fr. Fitzgerald, in addition to his degree from Dartmouth, holds an M.A. in humanities and religion and a Ph.B. in philosophy from St. Paul's College, Washington, D. C., and a M.A. in Political Science from Tufts University. He was a delegate to the International Convention of Pax Romana, a world-wide student organization, was elected a delegate of the Paulist Fathers General Assembly in 1968, and was a co-founder on the International Campus Ministry Institute in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1969. A major in the USAF reserve, he also served as staff member of the National Campus Ministry Institute held at Harvard Divinity School this past year.

Recent word from Boston is that DickPage has joined Fairfield & Ellis, insurance brokers, as executive vice president and general manager. He had been with the Travelers Insurance Companies for some years and was second vice president of the executive department when he left. Dick was named Dart- mouth Club President of the Year in 1964 and has recently been helping Dartmouth with the Third Century Fund as a member of the area executive committee. He and Jane have four children and live in Weston, Mass.

As if to re-emphasize the point that all the good things in life are not by any means dead, word has reached us that David K.Thielscher was married this summer to Mary Clark Whitford of Wakefield, R. I. The new couple will make their home in Boston where Dave will establish a New England office for his new employer Paper Sales Corporation, while his wife will be an assistant to the Director of Admissions at Babson College in Wellesly.

Selling a different kind of paper (news variety) will be the job of J. StephenBuckley who, in June, was appointed promotion manager of The Morris County Daily Record. Stephen received his A.B. degree from Rutgers and did graduate work at Penn State before joining the Parsippany Daily Record where he had extensive experience in service, sales, and marketing/ circulation. He too, seems to have balanced his job with his avocation very well by marrying his hobby of hunting and fishing with writing the outdoor column for the Record.

We'll wind up this issue with the doings of another '54 banker, John J. Feldman. In April, Jack was promoted to the executive vice presidency and cashier in charge of the operations division of the Bank of the Commonwealth, Detroit, Mich. He joined the bank in 1965 after serving as assistant vice president of the Howard Savings Institution, Newark, N. J.

The flow of news has been improving and I am most gratified and not feeling too much like poor Charlie Brown. Keep it up.

Secretary, 58 Birchwood Lane Hartsdale, N. Y. 10530

Treasurer, 30 Juniper Ave., Wakefield, Mass. 01880