1954

March 1955: Class secretary Bill Mansfield serving aboard the USS Basilone, class agent Kev Sullivan serving at Scott Air Force Base. Also defending democracy: Norm Bander at Ft. Sam Houston, Dick Major at Lackland Air Force Base, Dick Franklin at the Photo Reconnaissance School in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Dick Buffington at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Still schooling: Brooks Lyle at Colgate, Bill Madden at Rutgers. Studying along Tuck Drive: J.P. Conway, Leman Lane, and John Moderwell. Either engaged or married: Nels Putnam Starr, Jon Bugbee to Barbara Zeigler, HerbHillman to Ann Phillips, Dave Dame to Marie Bellefeuille, Kev Sullivan to Virginia Darling, and Dave McLaughlin to Judy Landauer. On the athletic front: John Titus scored the first goal for the U.S. hockey team as it tied West Germany before 3,000 fans at Fuessen, Germany.

Tom Sayles received the New Jersey Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives Award as Outstanding Volunteer at the Newjersey Conference on Philanthropy in November. Tom was nominated by die Summit Speech School, where he serves on the board of trustees. Tom also serves Drew University, Papermill Playhouse, The National Conference of Community and Justice, and the Newjersey Commission on Higher Education as trustee. He previously served the following non-profit boards: Overlook Hospital, Independent College Fund of New Jersey, Urban League, Interracial Council for Busness Opportunity of New Jersey, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, American Paralysis Association, Early Childhood Learning Center, and Eastern Union YMCA. Tom did all of this while running Summit Bank. Rumor has it that he also found time for an occasional round of golf.

E-mail from Phil Cooke: "All three offspring married, three grandchildren. Broadened ourselves (we think) by going to two Harvard graduations in a row as son and daughter-in-law received successive graduate degrees (master's and Ph.D.). We are traveling some this year: Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, Britain, and Norway."

Director's Alert, a newsletter for Fortune 1,000 chief executives and directors, has assembled a list of America's top ten directors, based on opinions of more than 100 other directors. Among the top ten was Dave McLaughlin. All ten won high marks for the advice they gave. Dave was instrumental in the 1996 merger of Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank that eliminated IS directors from their boards, including Dave.

As reported by Pete Barker in his January newsletter, '54 holiday luncheons were held in Boston and New York in December. Sixty-eight classmates (12 percent of the class) attended one of the luncheons. Dick Page, Bob Berry, HarryRobinson, John Heston, John Gillespie,Steve Mullins, Bob Adnopoz, and DonBerlin caught a double dose of holiday cheer and attended both. John Heston has volunteered to arrange a third holiday luncheon in Philadelphia next December. Anyone for triple cheer?!

Congratulations to Shelly Wolfe, who was presented with the Class of '54 Award at the holiday luncheon in Boston. Another reminder: '54 gathers for our 45th Reunion in Hanover—June 14 through June 17. Make plans to join us.

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DARTMOUTH '54 June 14-17, 1999