1955

It's amazing how quickly Christmas and the holiday season come around. Twinkling lights and visions of snow drifts or palm trees, depending upon your perspective, come to mind. On a page that is strictly black and white, the color will have to be supplied by the perambulations of the following worthies of the class of '55.

Every time it seems the contingent in London is settled in, there is yet another defection back to the colonies. Roy Pfeil has returned to New Canaan, Conn., after living in London for nine years. Roy is with MBI, Inc., the fast-growing $150million mail-order firm. He was vice president, Europe, before being promoted as chief executive of M81's DanbUry Mint Division. Roy's wife, Susan, is an alcoholism rehabilitation counselor at Silver Hill Hospital. Their daughter, Anneliese, is a sophomore at Miss Porter's School.

just to prove that you don't have to be in business to move around, John Barlow, still in the practice of general pathology and laboratory medicine, has recently moved to Rapid City, S.D. That makes a visit to Mount Rushmore all the easier along with the suspicion that gold is out of the hills and into the towns (maybe hospitals, even).

A1 Van Huyck is not only shifting vocations (at least part time) but simultaneously adding to career achievements. He has accepted a quarter-time appointment at MIT in the department of urban studies and planning. A1's academic career coincides with that of his son, John, who joined the faculty of Texas A&M after finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Brown University. (When you live in Washington, anything is possible.) And Bill Lenderking continues to prove that anything is possible. After two years, during which Bill served as spokesman for the State Department Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, he is back at USIA as deputy director for the same area. The East Asian and Pacific area is burgeoning (according to Bill, which means either in our consciousness or with the budget). He does say that "while there are many serious problems confronting U.S. foreign policy, the outlook is basically bullish and much better than anyone would have predicted 10 years ago." (It's always nice to have an upbeat report, which contrasts, it seems, with most of the others received regarding the state of the nation.)

All of which leads to Tom Connor, who wrote that John Vaughan and his wife, Ann, stayed with the Connors in Ashland, Ohio, on John's way to Indiana. John is in the food service business (there's a good man). One contract he currently has is to serve 5,000 cadets at West Point all within five minutes. (With a liberal arts education, you can do anything.)

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