1954

"April-May 1958: At the Boston alumni dinner: Bill Norcross, out of the Marines; Ben Bowden at Boston First National Bank; Frank Carey at John Hancock; and Jim Clark retailing in Peabody, Massachusetts. Employed: Dick Raphael at R.C.A. in Camden, New Jersey; Lou Poitras at Lockheed Aircraft in California; Skip Gale in sales at Charles Bruning Co. in Connecticut; and John Tenca teaching math at Terra Alta High School in West Virginia. Dick Collins at Mitchel A.F.B. Married: John Felter to Priscilla Thorpe, Myles Jacobs to Barbara Gordon, Ned Freedman to Debra Koff, Don Austerman to Sallie Ann Cunning, Peter Roos to Suzanne Hiss and Tom Kelsey to Elizabeth Sessions.

Sheila and Don Belcher left home in December for three months of volunteer work in Ghana, where Don is a visiting scholar at the medical school.

Since John Heyn retired from his home inspection business, he has given his time to volunteer work. He is a consultant with the Maryland Home Improvement Commission and is a volunteer with the Baltimore County Department of Agings Home Team Program. Through this program trained volunteers are matched with older people who need assistance to remain independent in their own homes John received a certificate of appreciation for his work as part of the Governors Volunteer & Service Awards.

Don Brief has been elected president of the New Jersey State Golf Association (a six handicap). Don is chief of the department of surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. He gave up vascular surgery some time ago but stays involved with general surgery, mostly endocrinology and oncology.

Pete Barker appeared on the Metro cable channel in the feature length movie Jingle Hell as Seamus Fitzgerald, a retired pub owner of Irish extraction. (No accent, says Pete.) Perhaps Pete can bring a video to a class gathering.

Seen at the Dartmouth alumni seminar in Princeton were Eleanor and Walt Anderson, Barbara and Don Berlin, Bob Durham,Brenda and Ed Hayes and Marilyn and John Musa.

John Crowe received the Distinguished Service Award of the Massachusetts Medical Society. John recently retired from practice after 18 years as chief of surgery at Goddard Hospital and at Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts. He has been very active in the Medical Society, chairing its finance committee for 10 years.

As these notes are being written about 20 classmates and their wives are loosening their golf muscles to attend the third annual 1954 Golf Outing at The Plantation Inn in Crystal River, Florida. Others are joining the March ski trip in Aspen.

Keep in mind 1954's 70th birthday parry September 18-20 in the Hudson River Valley. Jerry Goldstein has organized a great party, a trip to Hyde Park, lunch at the Culinary Institute of America, a visit to West Point and dinner at the Goldsteins'. Side trips to the Rockefeller Estate and the homes of Jay Gould and Washington Irving and Philipsburg Manor can be planned. For more information, contact Jerry or your secretary.

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