1954

November 1955: DAM reported the birth of our "class boy" John Arthur Buffington (now 45 years old), son of Jack Buffington. Also reported was die marriage of Bob Levine to Barbara Rosen, Dick Franklin to Gloria Welch, GeorgeKingsley to Viriginia Stevenson, Pete Ankeny to Margaret Payton, Tony Migliaccio to Paula Biagi, and Mike Biggs to Virginia Perry. Most '54s were still serving their country: George Corbett at Camp Gordon, Ga., BillOber aboard the USS Saipan, and Norm Kasparson at Fort Dix.

I would like to share with the class an email I received from Bud Martz:

"Reporting on mini-reunion. We had been a very tight group, eight guys who grew close and by senior year were a fellowship: Gerry Bregman, Bob Canestrari,Jim Doig, Hank Grebe, Larry Marnlet,Bud Martz, Dick May, and MickeySloane. We all had our individual academic focuses and extracurricular interests, ranging from the Glee Club and the debating society to the Daily D and the Undergraduate Council, but somehow we were tied together. Most of us roomed senior year on the second floor of Richardson Hall. We always had things to say to each other, and nobody got bored. We had cocktail parties to which we invited our favorite professors, to share them with each other, and the professors actually came, and we chewed over what they said. We were also occasionally lawless, in ways that (mosdy) did not hurt anybody. And at graduation we held a party for our parents and we told each other that sometime, any time in the future, whenever we got together, we could resume the conversation without a break. That was at least unlikely, but it actually happened, 45 years later. It was the weekend of June 19-20, 1999, the week after the official class reunion, and seven of the eight of us got together (Grebe could not make it) with wives and significant others, at Dick May's house on the bank of the Hudson River. Some of us had not seen each other for 45 years. The weekend was magical. All of us had things to say to each other, resuming the conversation. Food was marvelous, weather was perfect. We had a private tour of Olana, the wonderful house built by the Hudson River school artist Frederick Church, and the piece de resistance was a parade through town by 20,000 volunteer firemen from the Hudson River Valley. Fire engines, ancient and modern, marching bands of all descriptions, small boys making mischief, balloons, and townsfolk in web chairs lining the route. And all weekend, talk, talk: current politics and international crisis, art collections, new directions in psychiatry, the hijacking of Jack-O-Lantern, road trips to Smith and Mount Holyoke, the pleasures and pains of retirement, children and grandchildren, boats, golf, tennis, the end of history, and the Watergate crisis." This segment of the Dartmouth fellowship is alive and well. Thank you, Bud. That is what the '54 fellowship is about. Our web site has many pictures of our Reunion! Go to www.alum. dartmouth.org/classes/54/ and then to reunion news and photos of the Reunion.

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Dick Barr's Fourth of July bagpipe festival featured him playing on his newly restored pipes. LEON MARTEL '55