1954

March 1951. "Frosh Hockey Tearn Slams KUA 6-1" First unbeaten season in 15 years led by Dick Leary, Seaver Peters, Tom Booth, John Titus, Bruce Haertl, and Dick Gates. Little Green Weekend '54 presented "Stars of the Show" with Max Geldens as producer and M.C., featuring Henry Offterdinger, Bill Donovan, Dave Thielscher, Allen Weisman, Peter Davis, Skip Weymouth, Mike Payson, John Pratt, Gordon Nichols, John Shenefield,Bob Wellman, Ron Dunton, Don Woodworth, and Mike Biggs. Fifty-four's grade average for first semester is 2.079 (no gradeinflation then).

Ed Winnick recently received the 1994 Endowment Achievement Award of the Council of Jewish Federations, which is presented annually to those who have, through their leadership, vision, and dedication, helped in the successful growth of their federation and Jewish communal endowment funds. Ed is the chairman of the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven. Fie and Mary Lou have established the Mary Lou and Ed Winnick Philanthropic Fund. Ed also is chairman of the advisory committee of Jewish Life at Dartmouth, which has established the foundation to build a Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth.

December was a busy mini-reunion month for '54. On December 5 the Goldsteins, BobLevine, Clements, Rauches, Dick David off, Pete Barker, Kasses, Pages, Bastians,Lewises, Robinsons, Chans, Berlins, JohnGillespie, and Judy Steinberg attended an art show at Soho 20 in N.Y.C., "Transcendental Tracks: The Paint of Marilyn Clements 1990-1994." Bob hosted a reception at the gallery; Marilyn gave us insight into her art, and Judy Steinberg told us about the gallery, which specialized in women's art. We all then retired to dinner.

On December 20 the 13th annual New York Holiday Luncheon was held at Gauguin's at the Plaza Hotel hosted by KentKlineman arid Dick Page. Also in attendance were Jerry Goldstein, Bob Vorsanger, Jay Chandler, Bob Levine, TomSayles, Bob Berry, John Heston, SteveMullins, John Gillespie, Don Berlin, Dick Lewis, Harry Robinson, Ron Jabara, Bryce Bastian, Pete Geithner, Bruce Classon, Lo-Yi Chan, Dave Levine, Dick Davidoff, Dave Metz, Art Rauch, Tom Kelsey, RodRockefeller, Hugh Roberts, Pete Gutlon,Dick Grassey, Pete Barker, Dave Mandelbaum, Bill Kass, John Fenn, Wayne Weil,Pete Kenyon, and John Cunningham.

Congratulations to Tom Scott, elected to the West Virginia State Senate last November. Tom is the first Republican elected in his district since 1928. (Also the first classmate to drop me a note.) Tom, a physician, is the founder of United Huntington Industries. He campaigned on the theme "A West Virginian working to keep West Virginians working in West Virginia."

Peter Robinson has been a member of the faculty (Department of Geology and Geography) at the University of Massachusetts since 1962. He has served as the president of the Mineralogical Society of America and has chaired the Geological Society of America. Last November Peter gave the Distinguished Faculty Lecture at U-Mass: "2.8 Billion Years of Earth History in the Amherst Region: A Continuing Detective Story."

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