1954

May of the year finds us still very low on news for this ALUMNI MAGAZINE column, which is somewhat disappointing in view of last month's impassioned plea for same. I know things are happening out there, but unless I hear from you guys there is going to be a serious shrinkage in this important link in our lives. Perhaps, with the coming Alumni Fund Drive under the able guidance of Dave Metz, some of you will be able to communicate with us so that we can keep this column full and interesting.

A few weeks ago I received a pleasant visit from Richard Eaton who personifies, if anyone does, the atmosphere of change that pervades our everyday lives. Since graduation, and up until the end of this past year, Dick has been associated with the family business in Needham, Mass. That business was The Eaton Funeral Home, one of the oldest such enterprises in the United States. Since year end, however, Dick has been working for E. F. Hutton, Inc. and has spent four months in New York City undergoing an intensive indoctrination and training session in preparation for joining Hutton's Boston office in the spring of this year. It's been a rough time, Dick relates, going to school five days a week and racing back to Needham on weekends to catch up with his wife Nancy Lee and their four children. Just the idea of being back at school again is in itself a novelty, and he has found himself playing the role of "sage old man" to some of his younger and more volatile companions. You will have to admit that Dick's change of occupation is about as extreme as they come; but then the stock market of late has not been as alive as it could be either. Dick says that he occasionally bumps into Paul Gahm and Phil Christopfae around his locale.

I also received a note from Dick Barker who unfortunately reported that he had turned over whatever class news he received as a result of the dues solicitation to Fred Alpert for use in the Newsletter. Dick has been collecting voluntary' contributions from the class executive committee for a memorial gift to the College in memory of Doug Smith. Dick wrote that he attended a recent alumni dinner in Boston where some of the '54's were in evidence. Among those present were Charlie and Fran Morrison, Buzz Clarke and Bill Grover and their wives, Frank Carey and Pete Bullis. Pete was planning to relocate to Greater Boston in the very near future in his own architectural firm. From a recent view I had of the changing face of "Beantown," Pete should find ample opportunity to utilize his talents.

Weil, spring is still the time to tie the knot and Robert B. Durham plans to do just that early this month. Bob's bride-to-be is Elizabeth Parket of Falmouth Foreside, Me. In addition to a law degree from Columbia University Law School, Bob holds an LL.M. degree from New York University. He is a member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia and of the Pennsylvania and New York Bar Associations.

Rounding out this month's news is an article from the "Waltham, Mass., News Tribune" "at year end that William Kass had been elected a director of Greenwich, Connecticut-based Consumer plus Technical Industries, Inc. This is a venture capital organization interested in emerging technical, leisure time and asset management companies. Bill, a graduate of Yale School, lives in Cedarhurst, N. Y., and is a partner in the New York City law firm of Kass, Goodkind & Wedsler.

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