1954

April 1954: Larry Martz wins Rotary International Fellowship for foreign study; Dartmouth Mountaineering ClubJournal published with articles by Bill Briggs and Peter Robinson; RobertSokolski and Harry Conarro win 1954 National Intercollegiate Contract Bridge Championship (and still partners); Richard Watt plays and comments on Bach's "The Mattheus Passion" at Germania meeting; Richard Rogin wins memorial writing contest and is awarded a Reynolds Scholarship for graduate foreign study; Milt Kramer named 1954 valedictoriner and speaker; Don Swanson, Pete Geithner, Jon Moore, and Bill Walls elected 1954 marshalls Don Belcher, Skip Weymouth,John Heyn, John Heston, Ken Patterson,Ben Bowden, Clint Gaylord, Kev Sullivan,Bill Mansfield, and George Fitzgerald elected to the classes' first executive committee to lead us into the wide, wide world.

Joe Mesics appears in recent issue of Sunset Magazine wearing his western ranch hat with a pueblo-style adobe oven and a sunset chair. "The oven I built has provided me with crusty loaves of delicious bread over the years. The sunset chair was an irresistible project." Can you picture Joe sitting in his chair, washing his bread down with his wine, watching the sun set in the west over his vineyards at the Timbervine Ranch?

Tom Sayles' smiling face was seen at the Summit Speech School's eighth annual spring benefit. Among Tom's many voluntary activities he serves as president of the Summit Speech School's board of trustees.

Saw John Cunningham on Broadway in Titanic (Captain E.J. Smith) and had an opportunity to review John's career. On Broadway: The Sisters Rosensweig, Six Degreesof Separation, Anna Karenina, Cabaret, Zorba,Company, 1776, The Good Doctor, CaliforniaSuite, Father's Day, Rose, Sunday in the Parkwith George, The Devil's Disciple. Off Broadway: Sylvia, Cheever Evening, TheNaked Truth, Quartermaine's Terms (John was awarded an Obie Award), The PerfectParty, Love Letters, The Fantasticks, Campingwith Henry and Tom. Film: Roommates, MysticPizza, Dead Poets Society, School Ties, For Loveand Money, Last Dance, Nixon, and In andOut, Jackal.

Ross Tucker found that the joys of retirement are outweighed by the joys of practicing medicine. After retiring for five days in Boca Bay, Fla., Ross is back practicing at the Boca Grande Health Clinic. After graduating from McGill University Medical School, he practiced medicine at the Mayo Clinic until 1980 when he moved to Sarasota, where he specialized in internal medicine for ten years. In 1990 he joined the Mayo Clinic's facility in Jacksonville until his short retirement.

I am sorry to report the death of BruceAdamson on December 22, 1997, in South Harwich, Mass.

Don Berlin, 7 Hamilton Drive, Washington Valley, Morristown, NJ 079603311; (973) 267-8122;

Picture Joe Mesics washing homemade bread down with wine, watching tile sun set over his vineyards at the Timbervine Ranch. DON BERLIN '54