1954

June 1955: Serving: Hap Syle and Joe Mesics for preflight graining atMilton Field, Fla.; Howdy Russell, Bill Gmelin and Dyke Ketlehut at Murana AFB; Working: George Csiky as a material control technician at Ford in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Married: Ed Keller to Barbara Ferguson.

FRATERNITIES: I am sure you have all heard the announcement of the future of single-sex fraternities and sororities at the College. Before formulating an opinion you might consider doing the following: (1) While at reunion take a tour of the fraternities, (2) Acquaint yourselves with the history of the fraternities during the last ten years, (3) Wait for the Trustees to announce their final plan for the social options to replace single-sex fraternities. At that point, perhaps, we can form an enlightened opinion. I Keep in mind that the fraternities of today are not the fraternities of the 19505.

WEB PAGE: Thanks to Perry Davis 1954 has a web page on line (). You will find a list of all classmates who have e-mail addresses. If your e-mail address is not listed, please notify me. We have an area for pictures. If you have any pictures of our days in Hanover, forward them to me. We will put them on the web page and return them to you.

REUNION: You still have time to make arrangements to attend reunion. (You can find the schedule on our web page.) We shall be celebrating the 40th from June 14 to June 17. Last-minute arrangements can be made by calling John Gillespie at (603) 646-3326 or .

E-mail brought news of Jerry Smith. Jerry was CEO of Planmetrics, a management consulting firm, which was sold to CSC Index. After a year as a senior adviser and VP at CSC, he retired to pursue his interests and hobbies of traveling, wood-working, photography, and boating.

The board of directors of CBS Corp. has elected Dave McLaughlin as its nonexecutive chairman. Dave has been on the board of Westinghouse, now CBS Corp., since 1979. After retiring as chairman of The Aspen Institute in 1997, Dave was named president emeritus. He also serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Orion Safety Products, a company that manufactures safety flares for boats and highways. Dave also served as a director of Atlantic Richfield Co. and PartnerRE Services Ltd. and is on the board of governors of the American Red Cross and the ethics commission of the American Bar Association.

John Moran reports in the DartmouthMedical School Alumni News and Notes about a trip to the Allagash Wilderness with BenGilson. He also reports that BruceLaFollette has retired from surgery and is teaching an advance trauma life support course and teaches twice a week in the Geisinger-Penn State academic system. I am sorry to report the passing of RuelSmith on February IS, 1999. Ruel had been confined to a nursing home for the past dozen years after a stroke.

If you have not already done so, make Dick Lewis happy and remember the Alumni Fund.

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Winter Carnival statues were elaborate and fun.

DARTMOUTH '54 June 14-17, 1999